What additions will be coming to the Lobi store, and what future would you like to see it have?
Will we ever see a way to win a ship with out paying $3 for each chance, that isn't lockbox related?
How long will it be before you guys cave and give us more Klingon content. I know we sound like whining little babies, but if you have to keep answering this very question, how long will you keep running away from it and act like we don't need it?
When will we see season 6 on the shard? We are on Developer blog post #8 now, and not even an announcement on a time frame. Can we at least get a paper launch, or a day when you will paper launch?
Can you guys release more STFs? Now that your owned by PWE, and your charging american prices for things still, can you guys outsource content creation to them? This will be win win and protect your precious ROI.
Dstahl, are the rumors true, are you really ferengi? I know I am.
What's with explore strange new worlds/chart the b'tran cluster being on a 24 hour timer when other dailies like defera, traelus, and investigate officer reports are on a 20 hour timer?
Why can't we pool lobi crystals from various characters across the same account in the account bank?
You've said in the past a big obstacle to adding Romulans is the fact that the Klingon side isin't fully developed. Now you seem to give indication that you don't intend to fully develop Klingons, opting instead to add new high level content. What does this mean for a Romulan faction? I'm only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't mind paying for an expansion pack if it meant we got a Romulan faction, you could even add Cardassians too if you so desired.
Why isn't there a character select screen so we don't have to keep entering our passwords to select a different character
Any chance we'll ever see more long hair options for men?
Will the KDF Marauding Bridge officers ever be customizable? I get it doesn't make sense for them to be in their Starfleet uniform, but they could wear KDF stuff couldn't they? At least let us change skintones and facial features.
How about some love for races from Enterprise like the Suliban, Tandarans, etc?
Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
Season 6 looks like a immense improvement on the fleet system from what i've seen and hears kudos really, but... i dont care about fleets/ guilds in general. so basically what are the players who choose not to be in fleets getting out of season 6?
how are the PvP revamps coming along?
Have you though about Doff rank powers? lets say T4 military and you get a passive damage buff, T4 espionage and get, i dont know, the ability to identify ships from further away (i.e. not just enemy/ ally)
Does cryptic have the rights to the jellyfish? it's in the countdown books like red matter and the super nova (both of which are in game)
Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Dan tomorrow afternoon.
Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that will be released in the beginning of July.
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What are the plans for after Season 6 Launch and before Season 7? In other words, can we expect to see additional features released then (and if so what)?
As for a specific question, when can we expect modular kits?
When the "Into the Hive" STF finally comes, could we see its special item be a kit module for ground, and a universal console for space (both adding a 4 piece set bonus to their respective sets)?
With Season 6 about to come out there must be ideas on what Season 7 will hold. Will Season 7 contain the long awaited Romulan and Cardassian factions and will the Iconians finally be making an appearance after all this time?
Hello there i just want to ask you a question here it is:
In Season 6 Under Siege will they be any chance of any Fleet linkage where you can link with your allies fleets and do stuff togeter and have the fleet roster merge?
I was wondering if build/spec switching has ever been brought up in STO? I am pretty sure it has not been brought up in any other Ask Cryptic before. Several MMO's do this as a means of having one person able to fill roles for a group/team that others can't or don't wish to do at the current time, or even go solo; such as a healer, tank, DPS, and other roles. As for the way it would likely and best be done in STO, something like PVE build and PVP build would most likely be what most would use it for. Also this might a a good reason to drop the cap on space and ground skills, as people could also do a space build and ground build to switch around with. CO already has a switching system, so why not STO?
I know I've kept pestering about seeing the old-style Gorn back in the game, but a friend of mine reminded me of something:
In The Needs of the Many, two different types of Gorn existed, both being physically different from one another. Drawing from that, could the Retro Gorn appearence be reintroduced into the game as a story driven KSF arc, like the Gre'thor arc, and have an obtainable accolade that unlocks the old syle Gorn as a costume option upon completion?
This would also give the KDF more content to flesh out the faction.
I know I've kept pestering about seeing the old-style Gorn back in the game, but a friend of mine reminded me of something:
In The Needs of the Many, two different types of Gorn existed, both being physically different from one another. Drawing from that, could the Retro Gorn appearence be reintroduced into the game as a story driven KSF arc, like the Gre'thor arc, and have an obtainable accolade that unlocks the old syle Gorn as a costume option upon completion?
This would also give the KDF more content to flesh out the faction.
I would like to see the old Gorn skins return also as well as the skin color options. Considering the faction lacks so much in comparison to the Fed side. Taking content away from it, regardless of what it is, was a bad move!
Will you be putting out some new ships that don't need to be bought with C-points. i know there there lots of people that would love to see some new ships for sale that don't cost c-points. Being able to buy ships with the in game currency and not real would money.
1. Has there been any discussion of releasing elite versions of some of the upcoming content- ie the 15 man Fleet defense, or the colony invasion? I have not found these challenging and would love to run more challenging versions of these missions. The fleet marks awarded could be the exact same, and I'd still want to play the harder versions!
2. With the account bank, is there a chance of tagging the Lobi as bind on account?
1 - In the future, Crypt/PW have plans to make differences about the Lifetimers, Gold accounts, Silver accounts with some history of punchases in the C-store and the silvers that never spend a dime in the STO?
In many MMOS, if you spend a certain value, you become "premium", getting some promotions or other things to gift you and keep spending money, in comparative with the F2P common player
2 - Crypt/PW have plans to expand the Dilithium store in the S6, using the starbases?
1. Would it be possible, either as an unlock for starships or even starbases for that matter, for a room designated as a "barn/zoo" I am an avid collector of non-combat pets. And i think it would be cool to have a room where we could slot/store our minipets which would then reflect this by adding possibly a mini-environment, Targ bed like on kdf ships, mastiff bed or even sehlat rocks, and have a few wander in the room. That way we could view our pets and have them interact in a homelike environment.
2. Would it be possible to allow Fleet Actions(SB24, Temple, Klingon Scout Force etc) to be started privately with less then 5 players even as small as one player. I know these are not designed to be solo'd, however I used to enjoy going in by myself and making a day of completing one. Makes me feel like a real captain battling impossible odds.
Are there any plans to expand the selection of free ships at all tiers? (like adding carriers, frigiates, and dreadnoughts to lower/upper tiers)
Is there any plan to revamp the existing free ships?
Any chance of making the hybrid reward weapons more standard issue? Or adding a mk XII version to the mission rewards? Or making more hybrid weapons?
Will you make me a sandwich?
Are there any other fan requested ships in the pipeline? And if so, how long till we see them available?
Any plans on expanding the powers available? Especialy at ensign?
As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
-Are there any plans to look into the responsiveness of powers? right now it is sereneness to click powers (like hypos, Beam-overload etc ) multiple times before they will work, which is quite distracting meow.
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Now that players in the banned regions are unable to post on these forums or even update/change/remove their billing info, what will happen to them next? Will they get swept under the rug while Cryptic/PWE hopes no one notices?
Now that players in the banned regions are unable to post on these forums or even update/change/remove their billing info, what will happen to them next? Will they get swept under the rug while Cryptic/PWE hopes no one notices?
Question: Why do you have factions in the first place?
Problems....
I cannot team with my KDF Friend.
I won't be able to team with my Romulan/Whatever friend
Non-federation has less content
Federation feels low on content and it has 5 times as much.
Romulan Faction waits til after Klingon Faction is complete.
Solution: Merge KDF + Federation factions
Make Some FED/KDF Missions Race-specific
Ferengi-specific mission has you meet the grand nagus
Klingon-Specific Mission = Batleth Tournament, Barge of the Damned
Romulan Specific = Confront Sela?
Human Specific = Rescue Admiral Quinn's dog from Mars
Vulcan Specific = Return to Vulcan High Command to report on your status in starfleet.
Re-enforcing this ideal by squashing complaints.
then there will be klingons in my Starfleet FLEET
Fix this the same way you limit the level of a character. Restrict to only humans/Vulcans etc.
Some Purists still use the constitution, TOS Uniforms and TOS phasers at level 50.
I like my Red/Yellow interface! (okay, so let people choose interface colors, or simply bind them to your character's race. Ferengi = green/orange)
A Starfleet Crew in a Klingon Bird Of Prey is not Canon
Like in Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home?
...okay! So What about homeworlds?
Qo-nos restricted to Klingons only... with guests. or for missions
Vulcan Restricted to Vulcans only.... with guests, or for missions
Bajor... Open to certain races? Oopen only to Bajorans? To those with certain Diplomatic Missions Complete? Congrats. You have another reason to grind Diplomatic missions....
...start a race on their normal homeworld.
Vulcan - begins on vulcan. goes before the counsel, may choose to enroll in starfleet. You can use those badges you guys are planning to give us. Imagine a Vulcan, in a vulcan ship, in a vulcan uniform, teaming with a human/SF ship to do an away mission. TOO COOL.
But a Klingon with Starfleet colors? (hint: you can buy this in the cryptic store now)
But not a Gorn on a Galaxy class Ship (...you haven't done diplomatic missions)
Other races?
Deferi - I know a guy named Rauno who runs www.defera.org. He's crazy about the Deferi. The Deferi are likely to never get a faction. However! Merge Fed/KDF and simply bind deferi-style options like he uses for himself and his boffs and start him on the planet Defera with a single generic "we are the deferi, we like balance" mission and suddenly you have a crapload of happy players who buy extra account slots so that they can have a deferi character and you didnt waste time.
...how to handle merging is simple. If they own it on KDF, they own it on Fed. I guarantee the outcry against this will be less than the one for merging Cryptic/PWE accounts, or about this new authorization system you guys cooked up. For 2 months you'll get that very TOS looking captain who absolutely HAS GOT TO BE USING THE KAR'FI. But really. When you're in a ship, you don't see the captain.
So my question once again, "Why do you have factions in the first place?"
Merging the factions and letting players decide what to do with them has several gigantic plusses, and really No actual minuses... For Players OR for Cryptic/PWE.
You suddenly have a massive amount of content for everyone who plays the game without exceptions.
You no longer have to worry about players complaining about one faction being treated better than others
People who are Fed-Loyal simply because they cant play with friends or fleetmates while on KDF will now buy every KDF ship too.
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Now onto another issue. Bridges.
For the love of god, Pease just let us customize the interior as a foundry mission, and I mean from scratch. Blank map, placing walls, NPCs, Etc. Not.. here's a hall. Switch this room to ready room.. make us have 6 decks. My Mission "Starchaser - Recruit" is almost exactly this, and I'd kill for that to be my bridge.
or almost as good.. give us the exact interior from that KDF mission that's really well layed out. Sad that the best FED interior is on a KDF mission.
If there is a Future Level cap, what will this mean for the Ships that have been currently, and will be released between then and now?
Will there ever be new ships released (other then the Defiant-R, Galaxy-R, Nebula-R, Voyager-R, B'rel-R, Kar'fi, etc..) that will be claimable with the VA free Token given for the Vet Reward? And if the Heavy Escort Carrier was being described as a Refit of the Akira, why wasn't it included in that reward if the VA token allows for Retrofits to be claimed only?
Is there any plan on when we might see Scheduled Fleet Starbase PVP Raids? (Instead of the normal Alert on the Starbase, it would be a Scheduled Fleet PVP challange instead assigned to either a Space assault, or Ground raid)
Will we be able to capture enemy resources to use on our ships? (For example, Captured Advanced Danube Runabouts for Vor'quv Carriers, or Recovered Reinforced Siphon Drones for the Akira Battle Carrier)
Are there any PVP plans for Story related maps to be brought into the game?
What is your desired result for PVP 1 year from now? 2 Years? etc..? And where do you see PVP in the future? Also, what Features do you want PVP to have by then?
Why did you, and the rest of Cryptic allow PVP to go stagnant for so long? And what is Cryptic going to do to bring PVP out of the Dark Ages that it currently is still in?
Do you, or any of the Development team activly PVP Currently in STO? If so, do you Pug or "Premade"? And, which do you prefer: Space or Ground?
If you PVP, what type of Ship/Captian do you prefer to use, and why?
What is your favorite part about STO both Currently, and looking foward to Season 6?
You think that your beta test was bad?
Think about this: American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Other races?
Deferi - I know a guy named Rauno who runs www.defera.org. He's crazy about the Deferi. The Deferi are likely to never get a faction. However! Merge Fed/KDF and simply bind deferi-style options like he uses for himself and his boffs and start him on the planet Defera with a single generic "we are the deferi, we like balance" mission and suddenly you have a crapload of happy players who buy extra account slots so that they can have a deferi character and you didnt waste time.
Like that Idea... Though... well... Can I be one of the Breen renegades ? (One of the Breen who didnt want to attack defera)
Comments
What additions will be coming to the Lobi store, and what future would you like to see it have?
Will we ever see a way to win a ship with out paying $3 for each chance, that isn't lockbox related?
How long will it be before you guys cave and give us more Klingon content. I know we sound like whining little babies, but if you have to keep answering this very question, how long will you keep running away from it and act like we don't need it?
When will we see season 6 on the shard? We are on Developer blog post #8 now, and not even an announcement on a time frame. Can we at least get a paper launch, or a day when you will paper launch?
Can you guys release more STFs? Now that your owned by PWE, and your charging american prices for things still, can you guys outsource content creation to them? This will be win win and protect your precious ROI.
Dstahl, are the rumors true, are you really ferengi? I know I am.
Why can't we pool lobi crystals from various characters across the same account in the account bank?
You've said in the past a big obstacle to adding Romulans is the fact that the Klingon side isin't fully developed. Now you seem to give indication that you don't intend to fully develop Klingons, opting instead to add new high level content. What does this mean for a Romulan faction? I'm only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't mind paying for an expansion pack if it meant we got a Romulan faction, you could even add Cardassians too if you so desired.
Why isn't there a character select screen so we don't have to keep entering our passwords to select a different character
Any chance we'll ever see more long hair options for men?
Will the KDF Marauding Bridge officers ever be customizable? I get it doesn't make sense for them to be in their Starfleet uniform, but they could wear KDF stuff couldn't they? At least let us change skintones and facial features.
How about some love for races from Enterprise like the Suliban, Tandarans, etc?
Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
how are the PvP revamps coming along?
Have you though about Doff rank powers? lets say T4 military and you get a passive damage buff, T4 espionage and get, i dont know, the ability to identify ships from further away (i.e. not just enemy/ ally)
Does cryptic have the rights to the jellyfish? it's in the countdown books like red matter and the super nova (both of which are in game)
As for a specific question, when can we expect modular kits?
When the "Into the Hive" STF finally comes, could we see its special item be a kit module for ground, and a universal console for space (both adding a 4 piece set bonus to their respective sets)?
Will PvP get its upgrade?
Will the space map be made to be more in line with the real ST universe?
Will the number of currencies be reduced? Lobi, vault, dilithium, EC,...
Is there a plan to allow item that are "broken down" to produce crafting materials?
Thank you.
In Season 6 Under Siege will they be any chance of any Fleet linkage where you can link with your allies fleets and do stuff togeter and have the fleet roster merge?
In The Needs of the Many, two different types of Gorn existed, both being physically different from one another. Drawing from that, could the Retro Gorn appearence be reintroduced into the game as a story driven KSF arc, like the Gre'thor arc, and have an obtainable accolade that unlocks the old syle Gorn as a costume option upon completion?
This would also give the KDF more content to flesh out the faction.
I would like to see the old Gorn skins return also as well as the skin color options. Considering the faction lacks so much in comparison to the Fed side. Taking content away from it, regardless of what it is, was a bad move!
2. With the account bank, is there a chance of tagging the Lobi as bind on account?
Directive 010
In many MMOS, if you spend a certain value, you become "premium", getting some promotions or other things to gift you and keep spending money, in comparative with the F2P common player
2 - Crypt/PW have plans to expand the Dilithium store in the S6, using the starbases?
3 - Any plans to make new player or ship devices?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
1. Would it be possible, either as an unlock for starships or even starbases for that matter, for a room designated as a "barn/zoo" I am an avid collector of non-combat pets. And i think it would be cool to have a room where we could slot/store our minipets which would then reflect this by adding possibly a mini-environment, Targ bed like on kdf ships, mastiff bed or even sehlat rocks, and have a few wander in the room. That way we could view our pets and have them interact in a homelike environment.
2. Would it be possible to allow Fleet Actions(SB24, Temple, Klingon Scout Force etc) to be started privately with less then 5 players even as small as one player. I know these are not designed to be solo'd, however I used to enjoy going in by myself and making a day of completing one. Makes me feel like a real captain battling impossible odds.
Is there any plan to revamp the existing free ships?
Any chance of making the hybrid reward weapons more standard issue? Or adding a mk XII version to the mission rewards? Or making more hybrid weapons?
Will you make me a sandwich?
Are there any other fan requested ships in the pipeline? And if so, how long till we see them available?
Any plans on expanding the powers available? Especialy at ensign?
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
Occidere populo et effercio confractus
-Are there any plans to look into the responsiveness of powers? right now it is sereneness to click powers (like hypos, Beam-overload etc ) multiple times before they will work, which is quite distracting meow.
This is the fake account of: '@Shinji_Yonazaki' Joined: JAN-2010. (Thanks a lot PWE!)
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Yes, what about those banned regions/customers?
2) When can we get the not star fleet uniform costumes on the kdf side? Merc, 7of9 etc?
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Galor_class,_weapons_array,_forward.jpg
Will other ships get fixed too like the Defiant (nose correction, warp nacells, impulse engines, flash lights......)
http://drexfiles.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/g2.jpg
Can we have more canon textures for the ships so they look like in the show?
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/gus/1701d-gus-top.jpg
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/christies/galaxy-christies4.jpg
Question: Why do you have factions in the first place?
Problems....
Solution: Merge KDF + Federation factions
- Make Some FED/KDF Missions Race-specific
- Ferengi-specific mission has you meet the grand nagus
- Klingon-Specific Mission = Batleth Tournament, Barge of the Damned
- Romulan Specific = Confront Sela?
- Human Specific = Rescue Admiral Quinn's dog from Mars
- Vulcan Specific = Return to Vulcan High Command to report on your status in starfleet.
Re-enforcing this ideal by squashing complaints.- then there will be klingons in my Starfleet FLEET
- Fix this the same way you limit the level of a character. Restrict to only humans/Vulcans etc.
- Some Purists still use the constitution, TOS Uniforms and TOS phasers at level 50.
- I like my Red/Yellow interface! (okay, so let people choose interface colors, or simply bind them to your character's race. Ferengi = green/orange)
A Starfleet Crew in a Klingon Bird Of Prey is not Canon...okay! So What about homeworlds?
...start a race on their normal homeworld.
Other races?
...how to handle merging is simple. If they own it on KDF, they own it on Fed. I guarantee the outcry against this will be less than the one for merging Cryptic/PWE accounts, or about this new authorization system you guys cooked up. For 2 months you'll get that very TOS looking captain who absolutely HAS GOT TO BE USING THE KAR'FI. But really. When you're in a ship, you don't see the captain.
So my question once again, "Why do you have factions in the first place?"
Merging the factions and letting players decide what to do with them has several gigantic plusses, and really No actual minuses... For Players OR for Cryptic/PWE.
---
Now onto another issue. Bridges.
For the love of god, Pease just let us customize the interior as a foundry mission, and I mean from scratch. Blank map, placing walls, NPCs, Etc. Not.. here's a hall. Switch this room to ready room.. make us have 6 decks. My Mission "Starchaser - Recruit" is almost exactly this, and I'd kill for that to be my bridge.
or almost as good.. give us the exact interior from that KDF mission that's really well layed out. Sad that the best FED interior is on a KDF mission.
Will there ever be new ships released (other then the Defiant-R, Galaxy-R, Nebula-R, Voyager-R, B'rel-R, Kar'fi, etc..) that will be claimable with the VA free Token given for the Vet Reward? And if the Heavy Escort Carrier was being described as a Refit of the Akira, why wasn't it included in that reward if the VA token allows for Retrofits to be claimed only?
Is there any plan on when we might see Scheduled Fleet Starbase PVP Raids? (Instead of the normal Alert on the Starbase, it would be a Scheduled Fleet PVP challange instead assigned to either a Space assault, or Ground raid)
Will we be able to capture enemy resources to use on our ships? (For example, Captured Advanced Danube Runabouts for Vor'quv Carriers, or Recovered Reinforced Siphon Drones for the Akira Battle Carrier)
Are there any PVP plans for Story related maps to be brought into the game?
What is your desired result for PVP 1 year from now? 2 Years? etc..? And where do you see PVP in the future? Also, what Features do you want PVP to have by then?
Why did you, and the rest of Cryptic allow PVP to go stagnant for so long? And what is Cryptic going to do to bring PVP out of the Dark Ages that it currently is still in?
Do you, or any of the Development team activly PVP Currently in STO? If so, do you Pug or "Premade"? And, which do you prefer: Space or Ground?
If you PVP, what type of Ship/Captian do you prefer to use, and why?
What is your favorite part about STO both Currently, and looking foward to Season 6?
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Like that Idea... Though... well... Can I be one of the Breen renegades ?