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Season 5 Dev Blog #30

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edited March 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
We've picked up a subspace communication containing a Personal Log from Captain Kurland and posted it in this entry of the Season 5 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the news article.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    By tomorrow the station will be ours again, or we will lose it forever.

    Pretty obvious that it'll be ours again. :rolleyes: :p

    Sort of kills the point of these little messages...we know the outcome already.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Pretty obvious that it'll be ours again. :rolleyes: :p

    Sort of kills the point of these little messages...we know the outcome already.

    ....... or do we?

    :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    ....... or do we?

    :p

    Guess it's just me then that knows the outcome. :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Guess it's just me then that knows the outcome. :p

    Nah, I was just ... hoping? ... I guess :D

    At least we all get another bone to chew on for a bit :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    My prediction: we attempt to retake DS9, fail, so we plant charges on critical sections (EVA part), somehow manage to wipe out the Dominion Fleet when DS9 goes. The prophets, grateful for our protection of Bajor, provide a new Orb (of Possibilities), which is used to bring over a duplicate DS9. The sheer size if the station brought over shatters the orb, and we all get shards :)

    Least that's my prediction.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Not like losing the battle means Feds would just throw up their hands and give up on DS9.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    " life on a Defiant "

    A Defiant? Was this supposed to be "the Defiant" or "a Defiant class starship"? Because it looks a little wrong to me.

    That said, I liked the personal log. Really liked the Karen NPC too. I'm curious how this will play out in the end. Naturally I can't wait to see how we get onto the outside of the station.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Why does Cryptic keep teasing us this this ..
    Poker night at Vic's won't be the same without her.

    There is no Vic and there is no Poker :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Sardoc wrote:
    My prediction: we attempt to retake DS9, fail, so we plant charges on critical sections (EVA part), somehow manage to wipe out the Dominion Fleet when DS9 goes. The prophets, grateful for our protection of Bajor, provide a new Orb (of Possibilities), which is used to bring over a duplicate DS9. The sheer size if the station brought over shatters the orb, and we all get shards :)

    Least that's my prediction.

    Except for the fact that the Orb of Possibilities isn't new. Getting a shard doesn't have to mean the Orb has been destroyed or anything either.

    One way or the other, I can just about guarantee you that they won't be destroying DS9, even if they would be potentially replacing it with an exact duplicate.

    Though I don't deny there's a strong possibility of the first part of your prediction - the planting of charges part. I mean, I kinda doubt it, but there's still a strong possibility - but those charges won't be detonated if they are planted I'm betting.

    Besides, it's stated pretty clearly that we're being sent over with the changeling to negotiate for the transfer of the station back to Federation control. I'm expecting the current occupiers simply are in denial of the current reality enough that they refuse anyone entry to the station, locking out the airlocks and such. Thus necessitating EVA suits to board the station.

    Realistically though, I just thought I'd offer my best guess; I'm not trying to make a solid prediction here, I have no interest in doing such a thing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    jannus wrote: »
    Except for the fact that the Orb of Possibilities isn't new. Getting a shard doesn't have to mean the Orb has been destroyed or anything either.

    One way or the other, I can just about guarantee you that they won't be destroying DS9, even if they would be potentially replacing it with an exact duplicate.

    Though I don't deny there's a strong possibility of the first part of your prediction - the planting of charges part. I mean, I kinda doubt it, but there's still a strong possibility - but those charges won't be detonated if they are planted I'm betting.

    Besides, it's stated pretty clearly that we're being sent over with the changeling to negotiate for the transfer of the station back to Federation control. I'm expecting the current occupiers simply are in denial of the current reality enough that they refuse anyone entry to the station, locking out the airlocks and such. Thus necessitating EVA suits to board the station.

    Realistically though, I just thought I'd offer my best guess; I'm not trying to make a solid prediction here, I have no interest in doing such a thing.

    My whole post was kind of a joke, just pointing out that there could be a "plausible" (as in star-trekky science-sounding made up excuse to just make things work out)reason we destroy DS9, and still get to keep it in game :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Sardoc wrote:
    My whole post was kind of a joke, just pointing out that there could be a "plausible" (as in star-trekky science-sounding made up excuse to just make things work out)reason we destroy DS9, and still get to keep it in game :)

    Kinda like that patrol you do on the federation side when you first start when that freighter explodes but its still there... prolly same deal same mistakes and nothing learned from said mistakes LOL. On the same token make sure after DS9 explodes at the end to make sure to go back to it and collect your stf rewards :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    life on the defiant...

    life on the defiant....right after how he says hes sick of staying on bajor?

    it concerns me that whoever wrote that can't keep a consistent story going in that small amount of text
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Rhodes85 wrote: »
    life on the defiant....right after how he says hes sick of staying on bajor?

    it concerns me that whoever wrote that can't keep a consistent story going in that small amount of text

    Gonna be nice now and hope they do the right thing and put some effort into what they do.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Rhodes85 wrote: »
    life on the defiant....right after how he says hes sick of staying on bajor?

    it concerns me that whoever wrote that can't keep a consistent story going in that small amount of text

    "No offense to the good people of Bajor, but I'm glad to be back on the Defiant. It's not DS9, but …

    These past weeks have been rough on the crew. Half of my security team is still in sickbay and everyone else has been working double or triple shifts. People are on edge, petty disagreements are turning into fights … life on a Defiant has never been easy, but now more than ever I need to get these people back to DS9."


    What I took from this...they'd been living on Bajor for roughly three weeks, recently moved back to the Defiant, and are now starting to get jumpy. He didn't say anything about having been on the Defiant for weeks, just that they were now on the Defiant. Nothing wrong there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Rhodes85 wrote: »
    life on the defiant....right after how he says hes sick of staying on bajor?

    it concerns me that whoever wrote that can't keep a consistent story going in that small amount of text

    I interpreted it to mean that he was glad to be back on the Defiant because it felt more like home to him. Home can be cramped and spartan and otherwise not the best of places, but we still have our emotional attachments to it. Accommodations on a Defiant-class ship are similar to a present-day submarine (i.e. just barely adequate for several dozen people to be stuffed into for weeks on end), compared to the more spacious ones on big starships, which is why he's saying that "life is never easy" on one of them--crews on them are meant to endure them for much shorter spans than with ships like the Galaxy class that are meant to be semi-self-sustaining communities.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Pretty obvious that it'll be ours again. :rolleyes: :p

    Sort of kills the point of these little messages...we know the outcome already.

    If Cryptic were smart, they'd make sure the Feds DO lose DS9 in this Featured Episode.

    Possibilities:
    • New Dominion Fleet Action set in the space around DS9 (replace DS9 Under Siege)
    • NEW GROUND INVASION of Bajor (could be an event like Defera)
    • New crafting/redemption store on Bajor for some Dominion items (cool DOffs, weapons, consumables, gear like those shadow mines)
    • Move the Borg stuff to a small outpost in Gamma Orionis (ending the silliness of Klingons on DS9 during wartime and replacing Battle Group Omega in one fell swoop)
    • Future access to a Gamma Quadrant sector via the wormhole (can tie a future FE to this)
    • A new Starbase in a nearby Sector Block for Feds
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    If Cryptic were smart, they'd make sure the Feds DO lose DS9 in this Featured Episode.

    Possibilities:
    • New Dominion Fleet Action set in the space around DS9 (replace DS9 Under Siege)
    • NEW GROUND INVASION of Bajor (could be an event like Defera)
    • New crafting/redemption store on Bajor for some Dominion items (cool DOffs, weapons, consumables, gear like those shadow mines)
    • Move the Borg stuff to a small outpost in Gamma Orionis (ending the silliness of Klingons on DS9 during wartime and replacing Battle Group Omega in one fell swoop)
    • Future access to a Gamma Quadrant sector via the wormhole (can tie a future FE to this)
    • A new Starbase in a nearby Sector Block for Feds

    Only problem with that is, it would kill all the missions that involve DS9.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Decaf, people. Decaf.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Really been enjoying the FEs and will be sad when this one ends. It's had great maps, loot and some excellent cutscenes. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    jkstocbr wrote:
    Why does Cryptic keep teasing us this this ..



    There is no Vic and there is no Poker :rolleyes:

    There is a Vic's when I was scanning frequencies Vic's bar on Ds9 came through asking me to leave a message for Vic lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    jkstocbr wrote:
    Why does Cryptic keep teasing us this this ..



    There is no Vic and there is no Poker :rolleyes:

    I can still hold on to my hope that we'll be entering DS9 through Vic's Holosuite when we're done with our spacewalk.....at least I can for a few more hours. Regardless I look forward to an epic battle!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I can still hold on to my hope that we'll be entering DS9 through Vic's Holosuite when we're done with our spacewalk.....at least I can for a few more hours. Regardless I look forward to an epic battle!

    I'm just hoping it will be an epic battle only problem was first character I wanted to do it on happens to use a brel that recently got broken *again* so it may not feel so epic :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Only problem with that is, it would kill all the missions that involve DS9.

    Yeah there is that. Ah well, one can dream.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I think it would be cool if there were a couple possible ways for taking DS9, diplomacy and force. Make it random, so you never know what's going to happen. Wishful thinking is all. :) But I have a feeling that it's going to be a double cross with Kurland yelling, "IT'S A TRAP!!"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    jkstocbr wrote:
    Why does Cryptic keep teasing us this this ..



    There is no Vic and there is no Poker :rolleyes:

    Not for the unwashed playable masses, no.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I reckon we can't take DS9 by force (somehow), so we sneak onto it by EVA and take Ops by storm. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Poker night at Vic's won't be the same without her.

    So.. Vic's lounge + Poker in next game update? :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    If DS9 is destroyed maybe Starfleet intends to take Empok Nor or whatever its called, that would make an awesome base, yet no wormhole....nah I am for keeping DS9!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Brigadoom wrote:
    Not for the unwashed playable masses, no.

    I'm intriged by this word picture you've painted, that somewhere there must be a "washed playable mass" by corollary. :p

    Race1 wrote: »
    If DS9 is destroyed maybe Starfleet intends to take Empok Nor or whatever its called, that would make an awesome base, yet no wormhole....nah I am for keeping DS9!

    Starfleet doesn't take. The Klingon Empire takes.
    Starfleet would kindly request that they be allowed to put their STF vendors on another station before the captains TEAR STARBASES APART looking for them. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Well if they used Empok Nor it would do away with that awful Under Cover of Night, the Cardassian mission line is the longest of them all and now this FE will undoubtedly be merged in, we could afford to lose a Cardassian mission or 2 lol
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