test content
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc

Ask Cryptic: September 2012 - Submit Your Questions, Please!

1246711

Comments

  • rtk142rtk142 Member Posts: 613 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    What's with explore strange new worlds/chart the b'tran cluster being on a 24 hour timer when most every other daily is on a 20 hour cool down?

    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? As it is now, they look like they belong on cheesy guys from the 70s with beer guts.

    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, Denobulans, Xindi, and others? I'm talking playable species and bridge officers.

    Why do npcs every so often briefly beam out then back in or whatever it is they do?

    Can we please get a dedicated trasnporter room beam in point for the academies so we can end the game of "guess where on the grounds we'll beam into"?

    Any chance there will be reruns of the starbase special projects from time to time? And what about the Fleet Week event, are there chances it will be rerun again sometime in the future?

    When will we get the variety for the 700 Day Android bridge officer? I want a female tactical, not a male engineer.
    bridges.jpg
    Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
  • starkerruiserstarkerruiser Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    A couple of quick questions. First one is what sort of Vessels are being planned for the next few updates? Anything specific that the team is particularly excited about?

    Second question is what is the possability of including a few new options for some of the packages purchased. For instance with the TOS package including the Retro Transporter effects for each time the players beam to and from a landing zone? And if theirs a possability of seeing the Laser Pistols from the TOS Pilot "The Cage."

    Thanks. :)
  • starcommando101starcommando101 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will the Galaxy-X every get some kind of boost to be able to compete with the other Fleet ships? Like a Galaxy pack or a TNG bundle?

    What about the Romulans?

    KDF getting finished?

    Would it be possible to get the ability to add or remove Fleet Ranks and also create division or departments for our members? Like a Militay Dept. Science Dept. So forth
    The Average PvP player
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    1) Teamwork and timing is #1
    2) You cannot "Kirk It" in every ship
    3) You are going to die, just get back up
  • naharikajalnaharikajal Member Posts: 232 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Do we see the Enterprise-F again in the near future?
  • woerligenwoerligen Member Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Any chance to see Benzite bridge officers and playable Aenar within the year? And: Is the Andorian starship still planned, or currently not on schedule? Thanks!
    Leipzig University, 1409-2409
  • sharevsharev Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Are there any plans for the old fleet actions to be added/reworked to the new fleet content? Will those that have been removed such as DS9 Under Seige and Starbase 24 Ground return? Also, any plans for Terradome?
  • wanito1wanito1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Are there any plans in the future for a major expansion such as The Lord of the Rings Online's "Riders of Rohan?" Possibly including another playable faction/class?
    "Logic is only the beginning of wisdom" - Spock.
    'I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" - Leonard H. McCoy.
    "I'm a hologram, not a commando!" - The Doctor.
    "Good to meet you, Mr. Vulcan!!" - Neelix.
  • lostusthornlostusthorn Member Posts: 844
    edited August 2012
    Can we get a status report, plans for the KDF?

    See my sig,
    you know you want it :)
  • athourstathourst Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Are there any plans on adding the USS Dauntless any time soon, seen in the 26th century?
  • commanderkassycommanderkassy Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will you be adding the off-duty clothing to the KDF faction? Likewise is there a chance of proliferation of species specific costumes between the various KDF species (such as Nausicaan armor, Orion bikinis, Klingon bolted eye patches, etc.)? KDF would greatly benefit from such things.

    Have plans to make LSRV and BoP animations optional been discussed recently? This would be well received by a lot of people.

    It was mentioned before by one of the devs that every few months, the Mk XII random drop STF gear would be moved to the store for EDCs and replaced with new gear as random drops. This has yet to happen. Is this still the plan? It would certainly keep the end game fresh and allow those of us who have a very unfortunate relationship with the RNG to finally complete our Mk XII sets.
    ♪ I'm going around not in circles but in spirographs.
    It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
  • woerligenwoerligen Member Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    athourst wrote: »
    Are there any plans on adding the USS Dauntless any time soon, seen in the 26th century?

    Awesome idea, Athourst! :cool:
    Leipzig University, 1409-2409
  • hondix84hondix84 Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Is there any possebility that the costs for fleet upgrades and fleet advancement is more apropriate to the size of the fleet?

    My fleet is just 5 Members big and we dont want to get more members because we are all friends who life in the same village. But for our little group its nearly impossible to get a tier 5 Starbase sometime without farming all the time for the next year or years... there is no fun in that when you nearly cant see any progress.

    So why dont make it more on size of fleet based what the upgrades and so on cost.
    Maybe every 20 members get it more expensive or more cheap... With a size of 20 members and below it would cost that much and with 40 - 60 that much, 60 - 80 that much and so on...
  • jtmarshjtmarsh Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    1100 Vet? You dont have to tell us what it could be. Just is the 100 vet program going to continue.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    How are things coming with the Andorian ship (Kumari)?

    I couldn't help but notice that Wells-class ships are popping up everywhere. Comments?

    Will the Tholians be making more appearances in missions?

    How are things coming with putting the ability to make patrols in the Foundry?

    When the Terran Empire ships were redesigned, a bunch of their ships were added to the Foundry. With season 6, those ships have been removed again. Why?

    Can you give us a tease about some upcoming story content?
    NJ9oXSO.png
    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • jdalton1jdalton1 Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Any news on the Romulan Faction?

    Will there be more content for KDF?
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • captainoblivouscaptainoblivous Member Posts: 2,284 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    is there a way you can fix the colony invasion so that players on the team will stop running ahead and leave other behind to get kill so make everyone move together maybe insert some force feilds that certain goals need to be finished.

    i'm getting tired of 2-3 running ahead cause they think its they only way to do it and just won't listen or read the release notes

    A 2/3 split in the group is actually the quickest way to do it. It allows you to get all the colonists, all the data and all the diplomats before any of them fail i.e. colonist dies, data gets stolen etc.
    The pair will run ahead, 1 being a tac with a cloak and the other being a tank to drag aggro away from the tac. The tac will run to the objective while the tank grabs the npc aggro and kites them away from the tac so they can get the objective with no interference. Once they have all the objectives other than the mugato they drop back and rejoin the other 3 players, taking the enemies from behind and dealing flank damage.
    The other 3 will be fighting their way through the mobs as normal while the pair do their stuff.
    I would imagine that to do it as a group of 5 would require such high dps as to be unachievable by most private groups let alone pug games. I have never seen a group make a decent run by staying as a group of 5. Colony invasion is all about having the right setup and being clever about NPC aggro.

    Anyway:


    Cryptic, on a few occasions I have seen disputes in zone chat and on doing so I have stepped in only to find that a few minutes later I have been flagged as a spammer and silenced for 24 hours. Would it be possible to add a way that we could let everyone around us know at a glance that we have been silence? An emote or perhaps a temporary title forced on us?

    Also, could we please have a means of having false flaggings resolved? I have contacted the GMs each time this has happened (3 times since feb) and I have never had a response. Hell, it would be nice even to have the GMs do something. I have never seen one in my time with this game!

    Thanks be to Q!

    PS. More Q please? :D
    I need a beer.

  • kekvinkekvin Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    1) since we now have most of the lower Tier ships playable at T5 will we see more variants of these in the future?
    2) when will we see 2409 variants of the excelsior and the Nebula?
    3) When will we see the delta quadrants and Gamma Quadrants added?
    4) when can we have the Vesper, Exeter and Excalibur ships at T5??
    5) When will the DOFF system be expanded
    6) When will we see STF's on other races i.e. the dominion
    7) will we see more Fleet actions?
    8) when will we see the sona?
  • robdmcrobdmc Member Posts: 1,619 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    If you have purchased certain ships you get a discount on fleet ship modules. 3 of the ships that qualify for the discounts are also VA ship token ships. Will there ever be an option for those who already have the ship via VA ship token to receive the same benefits? It seems weird that a person with a 600 day vet reward can find it cheaper to buy the ship in the c-store that they already received as a thank you gift for subscribing for 600 days for a discount on the fleet modules at 500 zen each.
  • kekvinkekvin Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    9) now the vesta is almost in game are there any plans to bring other soft cannon ships into game (Typhon, Fbb (Yomatto class), Archiels, Huket ect)
  • starfleetfcstarfleetfc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Mr. Stahl, can you comment of the Vesta/Korath/Wells leaks in Holodeck?

    (i'm just asking, not against any rules correct?)
  • wry1wry1 Member Posts: 117 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Why is it that the Type 1 Phaser reward from " Past Imperfect" doesn't scale to your level? Can we make it a scalable weapon?
  • masterguidamasterguida Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I have a few questions

    1. Has there been any talk/planning on introducing the Gamma/Delta Quadrants? Maybe some Kazon enemy's as well?

    2. Any plans to introduce a Omega directive mission?

    3. Any other ships being introduced soon?
  • captainoblivouscaptainoblivous Member Posts: 2,284 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Are there any plans on the horizon for a means of getting user made content (meshes for misc props etc) into the game?

    Perhaps a quarterly contest with dilithium and seeing their creations in game/foundry as prizes?
    I need a beer.

  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Please give us some solid foundry details. Thank you.
    [NW foundry promo vids in mind]
  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Any plans about a Fleetmarks-energy credits exchange similar to the dilithium for zen one? Many players don't want to join a fleet and have fleetmarks they can't or don't want to use on projects.
    Lenny Barre, lvl 60 DC. 18k.
    God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
  • mjaymor78mjaymor78 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    1.) Will we ever get a Retrait, Respecies, Resex, and Recareer Tokens?

    2.) Will we ever get the old version combined STFs back?

    3) Will terradome ever be fixed?

    4.) Playbable Romulan Faction?

    5.) Fleet actions revert back to open instances?
    Join Date: Dec 2009
  • ltcmdjamescoreltcmdjamescore Member Posts: 423 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Hi, some new questions some from last month...

    1) When we can expect the return (if it'll return) of the DS9 Under Siege fleet action?

    2) Will be preorder items available in Store? When?

    3) When will be deep space encounters accolades available to complete? Will this encounters return as regular daily mission (or in other form)?

    4) What is the situation about Into the Hive? My fleetmates are eager...;)

    5) When will be Crystalline Entity fleet action improved and available?

    6) When will be Gekli Feeding Grounds fleet action improved?

    7) Will be Terradome revamped like Borg STFs?

    8) Do you plan Tholians in ground/space Borg-like STF?

    9) I noticed that end bosses in the Colony Invasion have names. Do you plan to create an accolade for killing all bosses from different species?

    One day I got an idea, when playing Tholian ground incursion during Fleet event. It isn't so smooth to get team into one instance with limit of 15 players, so how about ability to create a private instance or ability to create an empty one at least?

    Thanks for answers and your time.
    Have a nice day. :)
    izNBNFT.jpg
  • betanembetanem Member Posts: 122 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Would you put in the keldon starship in tier 5 shipyard for people who own a bug or a galor ship? That way theirs more interest in tier 5 shipyard for more people like myself. As for the cost of the ship maybe 4 fleet modules and 500,000 fleet credit.
  • mailman650mailman650 Member Posts: 159 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will we ever get some new music tracks? perhaps more sound effects from the tv shows/movies or more VO's in the future.
  • derekslidederekslide Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will PVP get fleet marks attached as a reward?
    Everyone should be able to play the way they want and have the ability to contribute to their community base.

    Also, is it possible that we could get a PVP Starbase Assault map? 2 Starbases facing off, first one that gets destroyed loses!

    All the best, and thank you for your hard work!
This discussion has been closed.