When the eventually Duty officer pack with a galor shows up, any chance of spiral wave weapons of differing types/rank showing up as a very rare drop from it? (same way the reinforcement pack does MK XII consoles)
Q: Our starbases have holodecks. Isn't that a good opportunity for some user-generated content? Are there any plans to better integrate the Foundry with newer systems as we go forward?
(Explanation of question: It seems like the doff system is getting some nice integration, while the Foundry remains a step-child sent to the kid's table, and the devs don't seem to know what to do with it. What's the long-term vision, Dan? Or, is the whole thing destined to be isolated from the "main" stuff?)
Q: Can you give any specifics about what types of rewards players will get for playing spotlighted Foundry missions?
Q: So far the code transition for the Foundry has been rather smooth. Now that this task is complete, what can authors expect, specifically from the STO team?
Also, suggestion: A "Base Commander" story line for once you hit level 50, basically you are assigned command of a Starbase somewhere in deep space and must deal with whatever challenges it faces. (Idea similar to the DS9 series)
Would you ever consider allowing Foundry authors to submit KDF missions to become "official content" with XP rewards in order to flesh out the KDF side and create a 1-51 PvE level progression like the one Cryptic created for the Federation?
Great Question. Please Answer. We will AMAZE you and flesh out the KDF faster than the team ever could. You'd just need somebody to approve and do the tech. How's that for finishing the KDF, Dan?
In fact, as a Boff he's proven of little value - I don't take him on away missions because he'd break up the eye candy, and all my engineering skills that I need are on my amazon preorder Borg boff. - and I don't use him in space, because again the engineering skills i need there are already in my set up. at best his only usefulness to me is as a Doff department head
Now I would use him in a heart beat for everything IF - he was a she, and she was something that wasn't an engineer.
I've seen talks in other threads that Dev's have promised us that we will be able to customize it in both gender and discipline. is this true and if so will we be able to change the one we have, or will we have to drop that one and reclaim.
Also too -
now that you have added content to drive people into being more active in fleet's, can we expect to see some Fleet Vs. Fleet PvP options sometime in the near future.
What are the odds of getting free furniture in Federation Star Bases similar to the amount that the KDF Star Bases have at Tier 0 or Tier 1? Or a mess hall added to Federation bases?
First off, the games is great and love how it is coming along...
1. I like to know what happened with a lot of the customization options? since the new season I have seen less of these option, like now not able to add combadges or command pips to the uniforms, that was the best parts of the game.
2. Lately it has been noticed that some bugs are going on in the game, and many have pointed out in this Ask Cryptic session. Even I have some that I reported, but it is hard to make a report, if having problems in the game and not able to report it, only choice is going to the website to report the bug, but since the Cryptic and PWE account linking it is hard to access the support page and make a report, at times I have to find an old email and write in. Will some of these bug get worked on before the start of the new Season?
3. Talking about customizations, I have some ideas on customizing ships option, like being able to choose transporter styles? (for example: the current style is from the Voyager series, how about choosing TOS, Next Gen, or either of the Movie Series style for transporting) it would be nice to see. Also how about interior customization besides the bridge or size of the corridors? Maybe even having a choice on the Red Alert alarm when under attack (like from either TOS, Next Gen, DS9 or the Movies sounds and visuals)?
4. Will there be a story line for STF on the Iconians?
5. On BOFFs, is there anything in the working for placing the BOFF on the bridge where it the player feels suitable (like First officer chair, conn officer, etc.)? we see this when working on the DOFF screen when assigning DOFF tasks, you are able to choose who is first officer, tactical, security and so on.
with all that has been done for season six i was wondering what happened to the combadges and ranks in the costume creator ? heard we will be charged for them if we want them back per charecter that is yet some of us our life timers and paid for the uniforms and badges now it seems we loosing things we bought just to buy them again can you please honestly explain to us if this is true why this would be done to life timers ...granted play for free they should pay big time for everything but all of us that paid 300 dollars dont deserve this
Q [Psi'a Meese]: Some player's may have noticed a lack of Legacy Unlocks being offered from C-store purchases since the merger with PWE and the free-to-play transition. What is Cryptic and PWE's opinion of offering Legacy Unlocks with C-Store purchases by player's going forward?
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1. What are the chances of scaling projects determined by fleet size, to help both larger and smaller fleets?
2. What are the possibilities of adding more bundles, in particular KDF bundles or cross faction bundles with unique items for both factions?
3. I know this has been asked numerous times, but when when will the KDF get a full campaign, (without the Federation designed Featured Series) will season 7 feature this perhaps?
4. When will the Career Officer title and access to the Captain's Table be fixed, pretty unfair for us who have forked out big dollars for a LTS.
5. Can at some point in the future change the character creator so traits aren't forced but all are optional with particular traits made as exclusive to particular species? Eg, Seductive, Leadership etc Also can species abilities be just powers that for species rather than traits, seems a bit of a waste for us non Role Players.
6. Will the NPC KDF ships seen in the Federation campaign be made available as free level up ships or C-store ships, perhaps a bundle considering the models and most the work for them already exist?
7. When will KDF Maraudering Bridge Officers (aka Federation officers on the KDF side) be fixed?
8. Can red alert that hangs around for so long after combat be reduced to like 2 seconds instead of the 7-9 seconds that it seems to be?
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Why isnt the Excalibur/Vesper/Exeter in the fleet store? We all know you can lock out ship skins so CBS not allowing a T5 connie has nothing to do with it.
Echoing the question I'd like answered as well. I understand it has been stated there will be no T5 Constitution, but the Excalibur, Vesper and Exeter and all 25th century ships. I'm sure we all would LOVE to see these designs added.
Will their ever be a possibility to bring back the old STF's on like a limited week run, or even introduce another STF to incorporate both space and ground? On that note, would it ever be possible to include an accolade for like 250 or so STF run's that can get you a one time Mk XII STF Ground or Space Req for those missing like that one piece?
1: Will we be seeing a frigate hanger pet for the Atrox? It would be nice to have pets that don't go boom in a stiff breeze. Perhaps the Miranda or NX, to give those models a use since they won't be seeing T5?
2: How about adding a new equipment slot to all ship puppets, call it Special Equipment or whatever.
For the Galaxy-X and the Garumba it would be the lances of course, this gives you the ability make the Fleet versions of them without giving away the lance as well. It could even have the added benefit of putting different energy type lances in the D-Store for those that would rather do something other than phaser / disruptor. Restrict these lances to the X / Garumba only, and any future ships that you may decide to put a lance on.
For the Excelsior it would be all the transwarp abilities, and since that is a non-combat ability, just go ahead and open that special piece to any ship. The bonus here is it makes buying the Excelsior a little more appealing, for those that want the transwarps but don't necessarily want to use the Excelsior itself.
This would also open up more possibilities for new ships in the future, so instead of *just* consoles, you have a new slot to play with.
Alternatively, you could just restrict the ability to buy Fleet and refit versions to those that have already unlocked the prior version in the C-Store.
3: Since the T2 cruiser isn't being made into a fleet ship for already discussed reasons, how about using the Chris Madden entry for the Enterprise F contest in its place? Assuming Cryptic has the rights to all those designs still.
1. Will we ever see the species options open up across factions? This isn't WoW.
2. Will we ever see Gold subscriptions receive anything that makes them undeniably superior to Silver subscriptions?
3. Is the Zen store going to further devolve into wildly greedy per character, non_reclaimable binds?
4. Will we see little things added to STO which have no quantifiable reward but instead might add valuable social interaction? Team snowball fights on Andoria for instance?
5. Will we get to see Genocide oriented titles and rewards for murdering piles of Federation species? I want a title for killing as many annoying Bajorans as possible.
Why has the Fleet Advanced Escort got the same bridge officer stations as the MVAE and not the Advanced Escort? The Advanced Escort has a superior layout.
And will the two sections you are not flying still sit next to an exploding cube and suicide themselves. Perhaps maybe add some commands for them? Like return to owners position?
Will we ever be able to customize the stations that our BOFFs are at when we visit our bridge?? For example will I ever be able to always have the BOFF I have as a first officer in the correct chair or can I place my chief medical officer in sick bay or my chief engineer in main engineering??
4. When will the Career Officer title and access to the Captain's Table be fixed, pretty unfair for us who have forked out big dollars for a LTS.
Along the same lines.... When will the Captain's Table be someplace worth going to? Currently there is nothing there that can't be done at DS9. Shouldn't we actually GET something (special missions (DOFF or Otherwise), special access to special Bound items (Bound on Pickup or hopefully Bound on Account) Maybe even special foods in the bar) Something other than a Map people will see once or twice. Since you can get access via veterans status and not have to have a LTS I don't see any problems with that (seeing as you know those people have paid you at least X amount)
I would like to know if you have/would consider putting damage from gravity/atmospheric entry? (eg. If you get to close to earth it starts to tax your shields)
When are you going to give us back the ability to finish off the Story Defense Accolades? I want to finish them, give them back.
When can we expect new items added to crafting? New sets, MK XII items and Warp Cores. Don't give me the STF speach and don't tell me that you're turning crafting into the complete joke that you have in CO.
2) Add traits to auction house to make searching for weapons and doffs with certain traits easier and faster. Also ability to search all doffs per dept (Tactical, engineering, etc..)
I'd like to see this too especially for Doff's, namely in regards to faction. I hate having to look through one factions's duty officers to get to another.
Hi I was wondering if the devs have any plans to put something exclusive in to the capitans table as there is nothing in there that you can't obtain in a fleet base?
This makes the capitans table a little redundant and no longer a selling point to become a lifer.
Keeny, England U.K.
I'd like to see the Academy Lore Missions added, would this be a possibility?
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Or for that matter, Dr. Zimmermans lab coat?
Why is it that the Featured Projects are listed in Special and not in Upgrade? Aren't they actually upgrades to the starbase?
(Explanation of question: It seems like the doff system is getting some nice integration, while the Foundry remains a step-child sent to the kid's table, and the devs don't seem to know what to do with it. What's the long-term vision, Dan? Or, is the whole thing destined to be isolated from the "main" stuff?)
Q: Can you give any specifics about what types of rewards players will get for playing spotlighted Foundry missions?
Q: So far the code transition for the Foundry has been rather smooth. Now that this task is complete, what can authors expect, specifically from the STO team?
Also, suggestion: A "Base Commander" story line for once you hit level 50, basically you are assigned command of a Starbase somewhere in deep space and must deal with whatever challenges it faces. (Idea similar to the DS9 series)
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Great Question. Please Answer. We will AMAZE you and flesh out the KDF faster than the team ever could. You'd just need somebody to approve and do the tech. How's that for finishing the KDF, Dan?
We would need better kdf sets and props though.
Please, please, please.
In fact, as a Boff he's proven of little value - I don't take him on away missions because he'd break up the eye candy, and all my engineering skills that I need are on my amazon preorder Borg boff. - and I don't use him in space, because again the engineering skills i need there are already in my set up. at best his only usefulness to me is as a Doff department head
Now I would use him in a heart beat for everything IF - he was a she, and she was something that wasn't an engineer.
I've seen talks in other threads that Dev's have promised us that we will be able to customize it in both gender and discipline. is this true and if so will we be able to change the one we have, or will we have to drop that one and reclaim.
Also too -
now that you have added content to drive people into being more active in fleet's, can we expect to see some Fleet Vs. Fleet PvP options sometime in the near future.
Me playing UT2k4 (red guy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz0DnP7wXnU
1. I like to know what happened with a lot of the customization options? since the new season I have seen less of these option, like now not able to add combadges or command pips to the uniforms, that was the best parts of the game.
2. Lately it has been noticed that some bugs are going on in the game, and many have pointed out in this Ask Cryptic session. Even I have some that I reported, but it is hard to make a report, if having problems in the game and not able to report it, only choice is going to the website to report the bug, but since the Cryptic and PWE account linking it is hard to access the support page and make a report, at times I have to find an old email and write in. Will some of these bug get worked on before the start of the new Season?
3. Talking about customizations, I have some ideas on customizing ships option, like being able to choose transporter styles? (for example: the current style is from the Voyager series, how about choosing TOS, Next Gen, or either of the Movie Series style for transporting) it would be nice to see. Also how about interior customization besides the bridge or size of the corridors? Maybe even having a choice on the Red Alert alarm when under attack (like from either TOS, Next Gen, DS9 or the Movies sounds and visuals)?
4. Will there be a story line for STF on the Iconians?
5. On BOFFs, is there anything in the working for placing the BOFF on the bridge where it the player feels suitable (like First officer chair, conn officer, etc.)? we see this when working on the DOFF screen when assigning DOFF tasks, you are able to choose who is first officer, tactical, security and so on.
Thanks
1. What are the chances of scaling projects determined by fleet size, to help both larger and smaller fleets?
2. What are the possibilities of adding more bundles, in particular KDF bundles or cross faction bundles with unique items for both factions?
3. I know this has been asked numerous times, but when when will the KDF get a full campaign, (without the Federation designed Featured Series) will season 7 feature this perhaps?
4. When will the Career Officer title and access to the Captain's Table be fixed, pretty unfair for us who have forked out big dollars for a LTS.
5. Can at some point in the future change the character creator so traits aren't forced but all are optional with particular traits made as exclusive to particular species? Eg, Seductive, Leadership etc Also can species abilities be just powers that for species rather than traits, seems a bit of a waste for us non Role Players.
6. Will the NPC KDF ships seen in the Federation campaign be made available as free level up ships or C-store ships, perhaps a bundle considering the models and most the work for them already exist?
7. When will KDF Maraudering Bridge Officers (aka Federation officers on the KDF side) be fixed?
8. Can red alert that hangs around for so long after combat be reduced to like 2 seconds instead of the 7-9 seconds that it seems to be?
Echoing the question I'd like answered as well. I understand it has been stated there will be no T5 Constitution, but the Excalibur, Vesper and Exeter and all 25th century ships. I'm sure we all would LOVE to see these designs added.
Thanks.
@roshido
2: How about adding a new equipment slot to all ship puppets, call it Special Equipment or whatever.
For the Galaxy-X and the Garumba it would be the lances of course, this gives you the ability make the Fleet versions of them without giving away the lance as well. It could even have the added benefit of putting different energy type lances in the D-Store for those that would rather do something other than phaser / disruptor. Restrict these lances to the X / Garumba only, and any future ships that you may decide to put a lance on.
For the Excelsior it would be all the transwarp abilities, and since that is a non-combat ability, just go ahead and open that special piece to any ship. The bonus here is it makes buying the Excelsior a little more appealing, for those that want the transwarps but don't necessarily want to use the Excelsior itself.
This would also open up more possibilities for new ships in the future, so instead of *just* consoles, you have a new slot to play with.
Alternatively, you could just restrict the ability to buy Fleet and refit versions to those that have already unlocked the prior version in the C-Store.
3: Since the T2 cruiser isn't being made into a fleet ship for already discussed reasons, how about using the Chris Madden entry for the Enterprise F contest in its place? Assuming Cryptic has the rights to all those designs still.
Link to the entry I'm asking about: http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk280/hravik/ent-f_final_small.jpg
2. Will we ever see Gold subscriptions receive anything that makes them undeniably superior to Silver subscriptions?
3. Is the Zen store going to further devolve into wildly greedy per character, non_reclaimable binds?
4. Will we see little things added to STO which have no quantifiable reward but instead might add valuable social interaction? Team snowball fights on Andoria for instance?
5. Will we get to see Genocide oriented titles and rewards for murdering piles of Federation species? I want a title for killing as many annoying Bajorans as possible.
Thank You.
And will the two sections you are not flying still sit next to an exploding cube and suicide themselves. Perhaps maybe add some commands for them? Like return to owners position?
Along the same lines.... When will the Captain's Table be someplace worth going to? Currently there is nothing there that can't be done at DS9. Shouldn't we actually GET something (special missions (DOFF or Otherwise), special access to special Bound items (Bound on Pickup or hopefully Bound on Account) Maybe even special foods in the bar) Something other than a Map people will see once or twice. Since you can get access via veterans status and not have to have a LTS I don't see any problems with that (seeing as you know those people have paid you at least X amount)
When can we expect new items added to crafting? New sets, MK XII items and Warp Cores. Don't give me the STF speach and don't tell me that you're turning crafting into the complete joke that you have in CO.
I'd like to see this too especially for Doff's, namely in regards to faction. I hate having to look through one factions's duty officers to get to another.
I'd like to see the Academy Lore Missions added, would this be a possibility?
I'd like to see this but as a Lethean or other species ship, maybe a new species like Suliban or Sona?