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Your Questions for Al Rivera's Priority One Interview!

broodwynbroodwyn Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Your Questions for Al Rivera's Priority One Interview
This week we will have the joy of once again speaking with Captain Geko himself, Al Rivera, Lead Designer for Star Trek Online!

With Season 6 approaching at warp speed, we have more questions for him and we are sure you do to.

Please post your questions for Al here. We will be compiling them on Saturday morning PDT, so if they get in much after that, they probably won't make it :(

The interview will air on Monday, June 25th at our new site:WWW.PRIORITYONEPODCAST.COM

Check it out!

We are aware that some users are unable to post on the forums for varying reasons, thats why for this week only we'll also be taking questions on the following:

The Facebook topic: Here
PriorityOnePodcast.com: Via this Form

We look forward to hearing from you!

Alex
Priority One Production assistant
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Production Assistant & Art Director
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  • havamhavam Member Posts: 1,735 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    What steps are you taking to improve QnA, why is tribble no longer used to balance items before they go live?More importantly what are you smoking and can I have some??
    Joined 06.10
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  • tanith1989tanith1989 Member Posts: 109 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    can we expect to see added variant of current ships in game such as a new look for the Odyssey or Atrox carrier any time soon??
    Ketan Merious
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    Explorers Fleet, Senior Member
    We want an Odyssey variant give us it
  • vonbonvonbon Member Posts: 126 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    When are the KDF going to see more actual content? the Feds have had 2 new ships in a small space of time and the KDF have seen nothing since the flagships, when will you show the Klingons some love.

    Are you going to stop with time gated content? the feedback about it isnt positive.
  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    will we see the sovereign refit launched before season 6 comes out or is it going to be part of the fleet starbases? Also what else are you planning to do for season 7?
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  • mikec1013mikec1013 Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Is there a plan to revamp Crystalline Catastrophe?
  • sosolidshoesosolidshoe Member Posts: 174 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Oops, I forgot to include on the form that I was asking a question for this particular event, my bad. To reiterate:

    Why was the website update not publicised in advance, and why were there no staff on hand to interact with the community after the update had taken place? Would you or PWE care to apologise for such a complete failure of communication?

    EDIT: Oh yes, and if you decide to avoid that topic for some reason, an alternate question:

    Will we be seeing a Venture-style update to the Nebula, and if yes, are you more likely to include it in the existing RA-level cstore Nebula OR make it part of the new fleet system?
    We are PWE. Your forums and game accounts will be added to our own. Your community will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
  • dant158#3249 dant158
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         Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Why don't you give a **** about balance for pvp?
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  • broodwynbroodwyn Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    dantrainor wrote: »
    Why don't you give a **** about balance for pvp?
    fulleatherjacket wrote: »
    Simpler than that, dude:

    Why don't they give a **** about pvp?

    How about we approach this politely:

    "Players feel very strongly as though you don't care about the PvP aspect of the game, Can you explain why nothing has changed with PvP since launch?"

    If we start throwing ****s into our questions we might loose an eye (like Martok!),
    so please try to be civil in future questions :)

    -Alex
    Priority One Production Assistant
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Production Assistant & Art Director
  • dant158#3249 dant158
    dant158#3249
         Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    broodwyn wrote: »
    How about we approach this politely:

    "Players feel very strongly as though you don't care about the PvP aspect of the game, Can you explain why nothing has changed with PvP since launch?"

    If we start throwing ****s into our questions we might loose an eye (like Martok!),
    so please try to be civil in future questions :)

    -Alex
    Priority One Production Assistant

    That's not what I asked.
    But if you wanted to get all PC, how about:

    The situation (re: lack of pvp dev time) is understandable, but why are there a seemingly endless stream of major changes with large balance rammifications pushed into the game with minimal or no time for public testing. Aldditionally, when something with implications such as these are released for testing periods, why are balance concerns summarily ignored, time after time. One would think you are trying to drive away the current pvp population.

    Better?
  • broodwynbroodwyn Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    dantrainor wrote: »
    That's not what I asked.
    But if you wanted to get all PC, how about:

    The situation (re: lack of pvp dev time) is understandable, but why are there a seemingly endless stream of major changes with large balance rammifications pushed into the game with minimal or no time for public testing. Aldditionally, when something with implications such as these are released for testing periods, why are balance concerns summarily ignored, time after time. One would think you are trying to drive away the current pvp population.

    Better?

    Very, thank you, I'm glad we cleared this up its an excellent question!
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Production Assistant & Art Director
  • phyrexianherophyrexianhero Member Posts: 768 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    What can you tell us about the way story content will be delivered in Season 7, as it looks like feature episode series are out (i.e. will the episodes just be more one-off, like "Alpha"; or will there be less emphasis on new systems but still have a chain of episodes?).

    What goodies can we look forward to inbetween the launch of Season 6 in July and the launch of Season 7 later this year?
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  • drudgydrudgy Member Posts: 367 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Any plans to expand the available STF missions? More simply put, any news on the "Into the Hive" STF and when we may be able to expect it?
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  • suricattasuricatta Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Hmm, I have a few :-)
    1. In the past you mentioned having issues about what stats to give new ships, it seems apparent that the tier system is bloated and unfriendly when adding new ships, have you seen the proposal on the forums by Suricata that gives a potential fix for these issues http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=257999
    2. The itemisation in the game seems wierd with 2 mk's per level, would it not make sence to revamp the itemisation (by removing the odd mk's effectivly, upgrading them all to the mk above for transitions sake), this would mean we'd only have 6 mk's as opposed to 12, which would streamline the system and make altering items in teh future far easier.
    3. Any word on the Andorian ship? The escort tier is still missing ther Fed alien race ship.
    4. Any word on when the DS9 FE will be fixed and make a return to the game?
    5. The Ambassador class has been quite verbally asked for since the game launched, do we have an estimate of when this ship will enter the game?
    6. Will the Miranda class ever be added to the ship store for those of us that dismissed it years ago without realising we'd be able to get her back again?
    7. Dstahl recently talked about BoFF's commanding other ships in your fleet at Admiral rank, with season 7 been aimed at storyline, does this mean we may see a level cap increase with that season?
    8. Any word on the Departmental heads system been implemented more fully by Heretic? He seems to of been pulled of that?
    9. I understand marketing concerns, but why are new ships not getting but on the test server (maybe with a fake name and skin if thats an issue). Also isseus with the ship skins on new ships are making it past QA into the live game as well, is this recurring issue going to be addressed with C-store releases?
    10. Any word of the Exploration revamp?
    11. The crafting system in the game is sorely lacking and the last update to it all but broke the system entirely, are there any plans to revamp the crafting system to makie it useful again and actually get players to use it? (This is chicken and the egg I suppose, they won't assign resources to a system no one uses, but no one uses it because they assign no resources to fit it, like the KDF)

    I'll ad more as i think about them ;-)
  • bawj4wsbawj4ws Member Posts: 102 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Dear Mr Rivera,

    Do you understand the concept of balance?

    Kind regards,

    Dork
    Dork - I.K.S. WeeBugger
  • doubleohninedoubleohnine Member Posts: 818 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Al, The Sovereign was to get a visual refit after the damage at the end of Nemesis. Will the Sovy refit represent the original designers refit look that wasnt able to make it to film? If another design has already been done thats something new, would you consider working with that designer and selling that skin to go on our refit?

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  • worilworil Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Are there any plans to change class specific accolade tied optional objectives in featured episode missions to use commendation expirience levels instead of classes as requirements?
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  • midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Q) What has been your contribution to Season 6?
    Q) Is there anything not going into Season 6 that you wanted to have included?
    Q) Post Season 6 what do you have on your schedule?
  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    dantrainor wrote: »
    That's not what I asked.
    But if you wanted to get all PC, how about:
    Its not about being PC, its about being Polite. I don't know why there are some adults out there that don't understand Polite.

    EDIT: With Question.

    I know some people are tired of STFs, Borg Especially, but when are we getting Into the Hive? And could we get a new set piece with it? Say a Universal Console for Space and a Kit Module* (Yay Modular Kits!) for Ground? And have a 3rd Set Power if you have all 4 pieces?

    *For Clarity, I mean a single module for the 4 slots you'd conceivably have (1 slot per power).
  • dant158#3249 dant158
    dant158#3249
         Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    atatassault wrote: »
    Its not about being PC, its about being Polite. I don't know why there are some adults out there that don't understand Polite.

    Not to beat a dead horse (or derail), but polite has been tried between the pvp community and the devs. Many, many times.
  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    dantrainor wrote: »
    Not to beat a dead horse (or derail), but polite has been tried between the pvp community and the devs. Many, many times.
    Think about in an alternate scenario. You're going to say, LEGO Group, and you want a specific set that they don't make. You and your friends show LEGO the money they could make. They say no. This goes on 5 times. Do you think then resorting to bordering on uncivil is going to change their minds? No, Of course not. It doesn't matter if you got a collective million dollars to throw at them, they wouldn't want to deal with heathens. If you want to be persistent on an issue (that isn't about life threatening danger), you must be courteous as well.
  • dant158#3249 dant158
    dant158#3249
         Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    atatassault wrote: »
    Think about in an alternate scenario. You're going to say, LEGO Group, and you want a specific set that they don't make. You and your friends show LEGO the money they could make. They say no. This goes on 5 times. Do you think then resorting to bordering on uncivil is going to change their minds? No, Of course not. It doesn't matter if you got a collective million dollars to throw at them, they wouldn't want to deal with heathens. If you want to be persistent on an issue (that isn't about life threatening danger), you must be courteous as well.

    I'm not buying lego though.
    I'm trying to find out why the people in ownership of the game that I love try so hard to TRIBBLE it up.

    EDIT: And they are taking my money.
  • mirrorseacatmirrorseacat Member Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    What happened to the Bird of Prey varients?

    D'Gavama BoP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPgFAtfbcQ&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

    and

    MChar BoP http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/4614/screenshot2011061510550.jpg
  • bladeofkahlessbladeofkahless Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Will we be able to have a traditional Galaxy class cruiser without that 3rd ensign engineer station?(Retrofits/T5/T5.5/T5+1, etc...) Perhaps with the new Fleet Starbase thing?
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  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Do you plan to force the marketing team to watch star trek over and over until they become true fans and are able to understand what a fan (which is, as you said before, your target) really want ? :biggrin:

    And a more serious one : any plan to make serious updates on the game engine at some point ? I don't want to be rude, but 3D and less instances is a must have in today's games. It's a bit weird to sit on a bridge in a ship that isn't in space anymore, with a screen and windows being just wallpapers, you know.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    In the light of the news that some vessels are going to recieve a buff pass to hull and turnrate, can we expect a future pass of all vessels in STO as to keep things balanced?
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  • shapeywhelmshapeywhelm Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Ask why we are forced into using a sub par "new" forum, compared to the old one.
  • aaronh42aaronh42 Member Posts: 291 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Your doppleganger from a parrallel universe appears, what do you do?
  • zulisvelzulisvel Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Ships, ships, and more ships:

    With the +1 Sovereign coming, can you tell anything about its Boff layout or console/special power (assuming it has one)?

    Now that we have the Multi-Vector Advanced Escort and the upcoming Sovereign+1 will the four remaining base T5 ships (Fleet Escort, Star Cruiser, Recon Science Vessel, and Deep Space Science Vessel) receive +1 versions down the road?

    Will we ever see a T5 science ship with a Lt. Cmd tactical station?

    Any news on new KDF ships?

    Can you tell us anything about which lower tier ships will be available as retrofits through fleet star bases?

    One non ship question:
    To date, no licensed Star Trek property has ever had more than 7 seasons. Once we get season 7 (story content, finally!) will future major updates continue to be called "seasons" or are you going to start calling them something else? :)
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