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Outpostgamez Interviews dStahl

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Executive Producer Dan Stahl recently sat down to talk to Outpostgamez. Check out the interview here.


Link to the interview.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Huh. It seemed like half of the answers were "no plans at this time". I guess they asked the wrong questions :o
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    That was the most uninformative interview I've ever read.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Interview gammer for that group is terrible. 90% of the material listed as questions was so garbled it made no sense. The remaining 10% was just asking the same question in multiple ways. Future recommendations.... Don't talk to that group Mr. Stahl.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Huh. It seemed like half of the answers were "no plans at this time". I guess they asked the wrong questions :o
    KaneCabal wrote: »
    That was the most uninformative interview I've ever read.
    cdnwerefox wrote: »
    Interview gammer for that group is terrible. 90% of the material listed as questions was so garbled it made no sense. The remaining 10% was just asking the same question in multiple ways. Future recommendations.... Don't talk to that group Mr. Stahl.

    For real that almost made me feel bad for the guy and more so Dstahl.:rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    I can bet all my latinum that cryptic will require cold hard cash for un-customizable fleet bases that will do very little or nothing...

    Just like the Captain's Table
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Why interview Stahl at all these days,the only answers you get are:

    "After Season (insert number)"
    "No plans at this time"
    "TBA"

    Yeah....very 'informative':rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    cdnwerefox wrote: »
    Interview gammer for that group is terrible. 90% of the material listed as questions was so garbled it made no sense. The remaining 10% was just asking the same question in multiple ways. Future recommendations.... Don't talk to that group Mr. Stahl.

    No kidding. The IP address of that site says it's from the US, but the interview reads like it got shoved through Google Translate from English to Arabic and then back to English.

    EDIT: ROFL... on the top banner menu... The plural of "Beta" is not "Beta's" :eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    wrote:
    Why interview Stahl at all these days,the only answers you get are:

    "After Season (insert number)"
    "No plans at this time"
    "TBA"

    Yeah....very 'informative':rolleyes:
    Well, knowing it won't be coming for Season 6 is at least knowing it won't be there for Season 6. If it was ipmortant to you, you know that's an update you can "skip" (e.g. cancel a gold subscription and/or play something else).

    And every other time they talked about stuff beyond the next season, weren't we disappointed anyway in the end. There are so many things that can or need to be done - and I doubt that they know which will be done before they start actively working on the season that will introduce it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    This interview was shockingly bad.

    It is easy to blame Dan for giving the answers that he has, but frankly these are questions that have been asked over and over in other places.

    Dan's enthusiasm last year was infectious and turned out to be dangerous. We all felt let down by his willingness to share intentions and long term development goals. Now that bit wiser he doesn't make any claims he can't deliver on soon. If interviwers haven't picked that up yet then the fault is with them.

    From my perspective the fault here lies with the interviewers asking the questions that they did. I could have written those answers for Cryptic. The questions could have been much better.

    More sensible questions might have related to new vault event, or asking for more detail on things Cryptic have declared they are working on. Like, "So when are we going to get a picture of a Tholian"?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    I found this interesting :
    Q: When will we eventually be allowed to group with feds outside of STF and vise versa ?

    Any cross faction grouping is happening on a per mission basis. For Season 6 we plan to introduce a new PVP mission that allows cross faction teaming.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    I'm no expert. But why does a different engineering room, captains quarters or crew deck require a redesign of how ship functions work? If I want to have a different engineering room on my ship I don't expect increased functionality just a different design.

    I always wanted a warp core with 3 power couplings for my galaxy-x ;-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    cdnwerefox wrote: »
    Interview gammer for that group is terrible. 90% of the material listed as questions was so garbled it made no sense. The remaining 10% was just asking the same question in multiple ways. Future recommendations.... Don't talk to that group Mr. Stahl.
    Actually the questions were fine, shame you didnt see them for what they were. This interviewer wasnt a fanboi. He asked the tough questions and Dan side stepped the largest majority of them.
    Nothing wrong with the Interviewer.
    A lot wrong with the interviewee, what Dan stated was this simply "No Comment"
    For real that almost made me feel bad for the guy and more so Dstahl.:rolleyes:
    why? Cause he asked real questions that need real answers. Understand something gang, that person who asked the questions has been around a bit, they knew some of the BS/Whitewash/Smoke and mirrors that Cryptic has pulled in the past. Unlike other interviewers who ask the "fluffy" questions, he lobbed serious questions, which Dan avoided.
    Chronicle wrote: »
    I can bet all my latinum that cryptic will require cold hard cash for un-customizable fleet bases that will do very little or nothing...

    Just like the Captain's Table
    no bet. Odds too much in your favor
    SHARKFORCE wrote: »
    Why interview Stahl at all these days,the only answers you get are:

    "After Season (insert number)"
    "No plans at this time"
    "TBA"

    Yeah....very 'informative':rolleyes:
    Exactly. Dan avoids the tough questions. plan and simple. That is fine if he wants to do that, but understand team, when dan left we had hoped things would of gotten done. If he made the promises or not his first go around with STO, he is the EP, and like that or not he is the person responsible. I stop worrying over the dev's, you want someone to hold accountable for the butchered state of the game, Gozer stated it best. Dan and Jack both have to ok any changes.
    that is just plain and simple fact. so any changes you do not like, is not a dev fault team. IT IS the fault of the EP and CEO who approved it, that is their job, whom we pay as subscribers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    bad interview :rolleyes:
    bad questions (i facepalmed at least 3 times because it wasn't even proper english and just made no sense and was repeating the same question again and again)

    all i thought while reading the questions was that this person had not played STO in at least 6 - 12 months.


    lets put all the info of this interview together:

    - Fleetbases = Season 6

    - No, this is not Bridge Commander

    - teaming works as intended (no surprise... if you want a proper answer ask if we can have a FED+KDF team up mechanic for the Defera Event, Borg Red Alerts and have FED+KDF join the same Fleet please... dStahl probably had no idea what the interviewer was even getting at here *sigh*)

    - Account Bank will happen *yay* (but we knew that already, and again no Details on it)

    - new PvP mission ( probably the Horde mode one Gozer is working on )
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Wow, not even the Interviewer could get any strait answers from him. In true politician fashion he dodges

    almost every question except for the softballs. LOL Is the Interviewer a player of the game? or a forum user

    because this treatment seems really familiar. I hate to say it folks but when a popular game sight like

    Outpostgamz can't get anything productive out of a top Cryptic designer like dStahl then i feel this game

    and the companies who run it are a lost cause.

    Any thoughts gents and ladies? :confused::(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    The interview sucked because they were asking Dan the same questions every other interviewer has been asking him since he got back. Ive seen these questions asked over and over so i wasnt surprised the anwsers were consistant with what ive seen in the past.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    Yeah, typical Dan Stahl interview. They should really stop interviewing him if he never has anything worthwhile to say.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2012
    I don`t see how this is DStahls fault.

    Second question is about fleet spin offs and how this giant fleets can work on their starbases...who cares? The answer to this question is relevant for less then ten fleets...What do they expect? That Cryptic is focusing all menpower to make it happen, that two different fleets could work on one space station? Are they serious? There are much more important things to do...
    Third question: fleets and mimimimimimimimim...
    ...

    It`s okay for me not always ask for the topics you get thrown, but why not do some questions about starbases? DStahl is giving hints all the time (and this is not the first interview in this manner) but all questions are about fleets+mimimim, klingons+mimimimim and bank/inventar to small-mimimimimi....

    Will there be different parts for starbases?
    Which materials will it need?
    Will we have to harvest those materials or will we get it as reward for fleet missions?
    What could be done on a starbase?
    How could they be attacked?
    Will it have defense weapons?
    Will there be any upkeep costs?
    How much time will we need to build a starbase?
    Will there be different rooms?
    Will we be able to outfit those rooms?
    How can we attack an other starbase?
    Will they be instanced?
    Will we be able to pick a location for our starbases?

    So...less mimimimim...and more information. plz!
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