Now that the Starfleet Academy is out, raises the question whether there's more to come? I am thinking for example of the Palais de la Concorde, the seat of the President of the Federation, or the location where the F
Now with the Borg invasion coming and after the revamp of them on the ground when will we see a rework of them in space? There is already a picture of the new cube floating around (it looks awesome) but no matter how much you improve the visuals to fight a cube is still no more than fighting any other mob.
So is there any chance (in the near future) you will make fighting a Borg cube something really special? Harder to kill or maybe not even possible to kill them alone (have to run away, survive a certain time to get reinforcements), more unique borglike abilities (e.g. the cutting beam), and most important for me less frequent.
We now got the new Enterprise but when will we get a new Kling flagship? There is already a thread about it in the forum but until now there is no official word we will get one. So have you spoken about it in your team and can you give us an answer? (If at all and when?)
Hargh'Peng... yeah I guess you know what I want to ask. First when will Klingons get them? And second there are some balance issues with them (unlimited stack of the proc, proc to often, can be fired to often so you can't protect against the proc effectively). Have you talked about it internally and did you plan some some balance tweaks?
PvP... the last Engineering report is full of good news. And probably you can't hear it any more (:D) but can you give us some kind of timetable?
We had the Foundry in Season 3, we got a Ground rework with Season 4 and the Doff-system is just around the corner. So what is the next big system update? Exploration?
As a Federation player mainly, I noticed us feds are very spoiled when it comes to content, when does cryptic plan to add a more stable pve content table for the KDF to provide a viable leveling source? since PVP at lower levels is almost non existent. I am sure none of the KDF players like doing repeatable missions over and over day in and day out just to get to end game.
Edit: I knew this before, but thought there might have been more added then there was since I last leveled a KDF player to BG.
Will we be getting any new in game music like we did with the remastered Stranded in Space mission and the side missions around the Devidian FE series and will they be incorporated into more of the game than just the handful of missions their currently in?
It was mentioned in June that Ground turrets were being revamped as part of Ground Combat weapons such as phaser and disruptor variants with different firing modes. Will that include "set to kill" and "overload" (a.k.a self destruct) on certain Ground Combat weapons in future seasons?
One of the elements, I feel, is missing in STO are events that actually take place inside a player's ship. Whether it be intruder alerts, murder mysteries, diplomatic crisis, personal issues with the crew, medical or scientific side effects, or just random encounters. What is the possiblitiy of STO seeing events like these, where players will be spending time in their ship's interior playing out these sorts of missions? If it's a feasible idea, realistically, when could the STO community see this aspect ingame?
I agree. This would add flavor to each ship, and provide something that has been missing.
1: When do we get Realistic Ship Damage (example: A cut out of the saucer section or a hole in saucer section or a blow off warp nacell wich reduces our warp in sector space by half)
2: When do we get the same treatment used for SFA to redo Planet Risa
This is the first time I've ever asked some questions for the Ask Crypic thread, so here goes
1.Will we ever be able to visit the Starfleet Museum (as mentioned by Captain Picard in Relics), so we can see classic ships such as the Constitution class (maybe the Lexington?) or even the Enterprise NX-01, and let us visit the interiors, perhaps with different items on display in each room?. Or even visit the Phoenix from First Contact (where ever it is, back in it's silo at Montana?)
2. We have a briefing room in the TOS bridge pack, and we can visit the briefing room during the diplomatic missions, so is there any chance we can visit the same room when we visit our interiors when not in a mission? Maybe even let us display trophies, like we saw on the Enterprise-E in First Contact (and no, I don't want to smash the models like Captain Picard did)
3. Speaking of the Enterprise- E, if it is being decommissioned, why is this the case? There are still Miranda and Excelsior class ships in service, and they are alot older then the Sovereign class. If it has been destroyed, please don't kill Captain Data, as his return was a pleasant surprise in the STO/Countdown comic. Please either make him the commanding officer of the Enterprise-F, the commanding officer of another ship (another Odyssey class?) or promote him to Admiral, and have the Enterprise-F as his personal flagship (like Admiral Riker had the refit Enterprise-D in All Good Things)
4. Will we ever see more classes of shuttle for Starfleet, as either pets or flyable ships? Especially something like the Argo shuttle, or the type 11.
5. When Betazed becomes somewhere we can visit, will we be able to meet Barin Troi, Lwaxana Troi's son? Or even Lwaxana Troi herself?
Now that we have Starfleet Academy, any plans to expand into Starfleet Headquarters?
Also, is there anyway to add tech to have a customized dedication plaque on our ships? The only thing we would need to edit is the quote associated with the ship. Then when a visiting captain clicks on the plaque on the bridge it brings up the template with all the info.
Now that Ground Combat 2.0 is here,
when will we see Space Combat 2.0?
I don't think that Tab Targeting needs any changes in Space but we could use some better filter options or key binds vs. pet UI Spam.
The Ability FX and Weapons FX could use some serious touching up,
and they could look a lot more TREK like (please ...PLEASE... get rid of all those MMO circles and icons!
You dont want Spaceships to fly on their heads, because it would look stupid, but you make my Ship glow PINK on Brace for Impact... you can do better then that! )
The A.I. of Prometheus / Galaxy-R pets could use some updates, not to mention the Space PvE enemy A.I. ...
Cloaking Devices still do not work reliable (drop cloak on BOff Popups etc.)
The UI could use more updates... (Season 4 only made some *baby Steps*).
that should include finally proper Ship Icons, a better Minimap (3D minimap RADAR ?), opening up Sectorspace...
more Hide Buttons and individual UI scaling Options -> like bigger Minimap but smaller Powertray.
Space PVP needs new Maps and MODES
+ new Rules to make people actually play like it is intended.
Last but not least, many Ships need a huge visual overhauls, some should be started over from scratch.
But the real question for this is:
When will CapnLogan finally get another Dev assigned to the Ship-*Team*?
CapnLogan is awesome sauce, but one Dev can only work so many hours a Week and a one man Team just isn't enough to fight all the fronts at once.
We need a [CapnLogan x3] buff!
*************
another idea that keeps spinning rounds in my head:
Can we get some cooperation / cross promotion with the Ships of the Line Calendar going?
There are allways these new and awesome Ships in the SOTL Calendars.
Yet they only end up on some wall posters, or as jpegs on DrexFiles.
How AWESOME would it be if we could get those ships into STO, as a package, once a year when the Calendar is released and run a cross promotion between STO and SOTL?
Buy the Calendar, get a C-Store Code
Buy the C-Store SOTL 2012 pack (with all the ships + ship skins included), get a Amazon code for a price reduction on the calendar.
...something like that. You work out the Details ;P
since the SOTL calendar is a official licensed CBS product already, CBS had to agree with their Ships already (i would assume?), so half the battle is done.
Maybe for the SOTL 2013 calendar a deal can be worked out if it's to late for the 2012 one?
(but it would be realy realy cool if the 2012 could be made... after all the Andrew Probert version of the Ambassador Class is in there! *hint hint*)
Im here to suggest an idea about some fleet event settings that should be added. I was talking to my fleet at about fleet meetings to discuses stuff about the fleet. and we thought it would convenient to have a conference room on the bridge of our star ship. to host a meeting there. and it would also be cool if we could select the setting of having an event or a meeting. (Event could stay the same as it is now. no changes necessary.) (Meeting: Have it where you could choose a setting to have a meeting at. Ex. A star ship bridge conference room.) but on the front page where you create the event just add create meeting.
With new feature series coming on a regular basis is it going to be possible to get some currrent star trek authors like David mack and others and try to add some of there ships and species like the ones seen in the books
Over the past few months our fleet has been sending in tickets to try and get the events tab fixed. The issue arises when a recurring event is created as the owner is changed to no owner and cannot be changed or deleted.
This is filling up the event tab with items that cannot be replaced or fixed. Can this be fixed to default to the Fleet Admiral of the Fleet? Or at the very least allow the fleet admirals to take ownership of these events like the permissions say.
1. Now that Season 4 has been rolled out, and you've got a steady flow of content coming our way over the next few months, Where do you see the game in the year to come?
2. Why, oh why, the limit on the number of times we can increase inventory and banking space, if we're paying for it even as a one off payment, why put a limit?
3. I the latest engineering report, you make reference to "Lore" and "Trivia" missions coming some time down the line. Could this please be a lecture like mini-game based at Star Fleet Academy and the Klingon Defiance Force Academy.
4. U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F, Who will be captain? Might we be so lucky to have say Capt. Data Soong, as seen in StarTrek:Count Down or would we get a new IP approved NPC for the role?
5. Now that CO has player housing, might we see this feature come to STO soon? even if in a limited beta
6. Have you all ever considered doing a "WOW" style Cinematic for each season, something that can showcase the epic content with would be in the season. it would be a lot of fun I think.
Now that we are starting to get so many uniforms, costumes etc in the C-Store will there be any updates that identify the colour codes that are used on the screenshots for the sake of those who want to role play or like the colours.
Would you consider replacing the extra damage chance that Borg Ground Weapons example [Antiproton Bolt Rifle - Sniper Rifle Mk X [CrtD] [CrtH] [Borg]] do with an auto re-modulation ability so that after every 3-5 shots the weapon automatically re-modulates, taking only 1.5 seconds instead of 3? Or more preferably, in exchange for a slightly slower rate of fire (an increase of .5 seconds between normal shots and an extra 2 second cool down for secondary fire) make weapons the Borg cannot adapt to period with the BORG perk on them? Wesley Crusher made chips in the episodes, The Best of Both Worlds, that re-modulated hand phasers after every shot.
In the July Engineering Report, you mentioned new variants for a few ships, including the Galaxy. Does that mean that the Nebula will get a new variant as well, since the T5-Galaxy and Nebula already use the same parts more or less (Nebula variant uses Galaxy parts, Magellan variant uses Celestial parts)?
When will we be able to customize our Bridge and Ship Interior with regards to where our Bridge Officers sit/stand?
I would love to be able to place specific BOffs at specific stations on the Bridge and around the Ship (Engineering, Sick Bay, etc), so that when I visit my bridge, I'm not wondering why my Chief Engineer is flying the ship, instead of working on the Warp Drive, etc. :-)
Can you give us a couple of alien races that you would like to see added to the game as non player factions? Such as Talarians, more ferengi, or Sona. And are these things that we are most likely to see coming to us in a featured episode or a Season 6 "Expanding the Universe" type release?
1.) When will we finally see some more story-based, non-STF/Fleet missions for higher-level players?
2.) Will we ever, ever see diplomatic missions in our active mission log?
3.) When will Linnea (the girl in front of the admirals office at ESD) STOP giving us secret Section 31 missions that don't exist?
4.) Will we ever see open sectors of space (even if it's relegated to one area) where players must 'pass at their own risk' ie. a form of open PvP. Eg. Player A (UFP) decides that he wants to explore a part of KDF controlled space. En route he gets gang-banged by a couple BOP's. PvP queues are so incredibly artificial, that it really discounts immersion for some players.
5.) With rumors of fleet bases, will opposing-faction fleets ever be able to attack a fleet's base? Could be fun if it forced a fleet to make base repairs after...or if it took really a special combo of fleet classes in order to perform some sort of damaging act.
1. why does each item you create for the players comes out on the c-store. Many players feel its wrong
2. You created the academy which is cool for guilds recruiting members but why do they have to pay 240 cedits to dress as a cadet. dont you feel thats wrong?
3. why cant you use your own foundry to make cryptic format short stories for add on content to further the STO story?
4. for the future will each item the players ask for come out on the c-store including the Enterprise F?
5. When will loyal players who support cryptic get better items for the vet reward. just getting a name and skin is not very appreciative for your player base?
its cute but does not give you any addition feature in the game. I say this because I can gain an advantage from the c-store as a beginner player but as a vet i dont get much unless i pay extra for it as well.
please be honest in your answer and dont give them as can good "generic and full of non answers"
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So is there any chance (in the near future) you will make fighting a Borg cube something really special? Harder to kill or maybe not even possible to kill them alone (have to run away, survive a certain time to get reinforcements), more unique borglike abilities (e.g. the cutting beam), and most important for me less frequent.
We now got the new Enterprise but when will we get a new Kling flagship? There is already a thread about it in the forum but until now there is no official word we will get one. So have you spoken about it in your team and can you give us an answer? (If at all and when?)
Hargh'Peng... yeah I guess you know what I want to ask.
PvP... the last Engineering report is full of good news. And probably you can't hear it any more (:D) but can you give us some kind of timetable?
We had the Foundry in Season 3, we got a Ground rework with Season 4 and the Doff-system is just around the corner. So what is the next big system update? Exploration?
Edit: I knew this before, but thought there might have been more added then there was since I last leveled a KDF player to BG.
I agree. This would add flavor to each ship, and provide something that has been missing.
1: When do we get Realistic Ship Damage (example: A cut out of the saucer section or a hole in saucer section or a blow off warp nacell wich reduces our warp in sector space by half)
2: When do we get the same treatment used for SFA to redo Planet Risa
1.Will we ever be able to visit the Starfleet Museum (as mentioned by Captain Picard in Relics), so we can see classic ships such as the Constitution class (maybe the Lexington?) or even the Enterprise NX-01, and let us visit the interiors, perhaps with different items on display in each room?. Or even visit the Phoenix from First Contact (where ever it is, back in it's silo at Montana?)
2. We have a briefing room in the TOS bridge pack, and we can visit the briefing room during the diplomatic missions, so is there any chance we can visit the same room when we visit our interiors when not in a mission? Maybe even let us display trophies, like we saw on the Enterprise-E in First Contact (and no, I don't want to smash the models like Captain Picard did)
3. Speaking of the Enterprise- E, if it is being decommissioned, why is this the case? There are still Miranda and Excelsior class ships in service, and they are alot older then the Sovereign class. If it has been destroyed, please don't kill Captain Data, as his return was a pleasant surprise in the STO/Countdown comic. Please either make him the commanding officer of the Enterprise-F, the commanding officer of another ship (another Odyssey class?) or promote him to Admiral, and have the Enterprise-F as his personal flagship (like Admiral Riker had the refit Enterprise-D in All Good Things)
4. Will we ever see more classes of shuttle for Starfleet, as either pets or flyable ships? Especially something like the Argo shuttle, or the type 11.
5. When Betazed becomes somewhere we can visit, will we be able to meet Barin Troi, Lwaxana Troi's son? Or even Lwaxana Troi herself?
Thankyou
Also, is there anyway to add tech to have a customized dedication plaque on our ships? The only thing we would need to edit is the quote associated with the ship. Then when a visiting captain clicks on the plaque on the bridge it brings up the template with all the info.
when will we see Space Combat 2.0?
I don't think that Tab Targeting needs any changes in Space but we could use some better filter options or key binds vs. pet UI Spam.
The Ability FX and Weapons FX could use some serious touching up,
and they could look a lot more TREK like (please ...PLEASE... get rid of all those MMO circles and icons!
You dont want Spaceships to fly on their heads, because it would look stupid, but you make my Ship glow PINK on Brace for Impact... you can do better then that! )
The A.I. of Prometheus / Galaxy-R pets could use some updates, not to mention the Space PvE enemy A.I. ...
Cloaking Devices still do not work reliable (drop cloak on BOff Popups etc.)
The UI could use more updates... (Season 4 only made some *baby Steps*).
that should include finally proper Ship Icons, a better Minimap (3D minimap RADAR ?), opening up Sectorspace...
more Hide Buttons and individual UI scaling Options -> like bigger Minimap but smaller Powertray.
Space PVP needs new Maps and MODES
+ new Rules to make people actually play like it is intended.
Last but not least, many Ships need a huge visual overhauls, some should be started over from scratch.
But the real question for this is:
When will CapnLogan finally get another Dev assigned to the Ship-*Team*?
CapnLogan is awesome sauce, but one Dev can only work so many hours a Week and a one man Team just isn't enough to fight all the fronts at once.
We need a [CapnLogan x3] buff!
*************
another idea that keeps spinning rounds in my head:
Can we get some cooperation / cross promotion with the Ships of the Line Calendar going?
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/index.php?s=sotl+2012
http://www.amazon.de/Star-Trek-Ships-Line-2012/dp/1449404642/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311325914&sr=8-1
There are allways these new and awesome Ships in the SOTL Calendars.
Yet they only end up on some wall posters, or as jpegs on DrexFiles.
How AWESOME would it be if we could get those ships into STO, as a package, once a year when the Calendar is released and run a cross promotion between STO and SOTL?
Buy the Calendar, get a C-Store Code
Buy the C-Store SOTL 2012 pack (with all the ships + ship skins included), get a Amazon code for a price reduction on the calendar.
...something like that. You work out the Details ;P
since the SOTL calendar is a official licensed CBS product already, CBS had to agree with their Ships already (i would assume?), so half the battle is done.
Maybe for the SOTL 2013 calendar a deal can be worked out if it's to late for the 2012 one?
(but it would be realy realy cool if the 2012 could be made... after all the Andrew Probert version of the Ambassador Class is in there! *hint hint*)
Read: will NPC ships ever get tougher by being 'smarter' instead of just more hitpoints and hitting harder?
This is filling up the event tab with items that cannot be replaced or fixed. Can this be fixed to default to the Fleet Admiral of the Fleet? Or at the very least allow the fleet admirals to take ownership of these events like the permissions say.
2. Why, oh why, the limit on the number of times we can increase inventory and banking space, if we're paying for it even as a one off payment, why put a limit?
3. I the latest engineering report, you make reference to "Lore" and "Trivia" missions coming some time down the line. Could this please be a lecture like mini-game based at Star Fleet Academy and the Klingon Defiance Force Academy.
4. U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F, Who will be captain? Might we be so lucky to have say Capt. Data Soong, as seen in StarTrek:Count Down or would we get a new IP approved NPC for the role?
5. Now that CO has player housing, might we see this feature come to STO soon? even if in a limited beta
6. Have you all ever considered doing a "WOW" style Cinematic for each season, something that can showcase the epic content with would be in the season. it would be a lot of fun I think.
I would love to be able to place specific BOffs at specific stations on the Bridge and around the Ship (Engineering, Sick Bay, etc), so that when I visit my bridge, I'm not wondering why my Chief Engineer is flying the ship, instead of working on the Warp Drive, etc. :-)
2.) Will we ever, ever see diplomatic missions in our active mission log?
3.) When will Linnea (the girl in front of the admirals office at ESD) STOP giving us secret Section 31 missions that don't exist?
4.) Will we ever see open sectors of space (even if it's relegated to one area) where players must 'pass at their own risk' ie. a form of open PvP. Eg. Player A (UFP) decides that he wants to explore a part of KDF controlled space. En route he gets gang-banged by a couple BOP's. PvP queues are so incredibly artificial, that it really discounts immersion for some players.
5.) With rumors of fleet bases, will opposing-faction fleets ever be able to attack a fleet's base? Could be fun if it forced a fleet to make base repairs after...or if it took really a special combo of fleet classes in order to perform some sort of damaging act.
2. You created the academy which is cool for guilds recruiting members but why do they have to pay 240 cedits to dress as a cadet. dont you feel thats wrong?
3. why cant you use your own foundry to make cryptic format short stories for add on content to further the STO story?
4. for the future will each item the players ask for come out on the c-store including the Enterprise F?
5. When will loyal players who support cryptic get better items for the vet reward. just getting a name and skin is not very appreciative for your player base?
its cute but does not give you any addition feature in the game. I say this because I can gain an advantage from the c-store as a beginner player but as a vet i dont get much unless i pay extra for it as well.
please be honest in your answer and dont give them as can good "generic and full of non answers"
thank you