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Ask Cryptic: September 2012
pwebranflakes
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In this brand-new edition of Ask Cryptic, Executive Producer Dan Stahl delivers answers to player submitted questions.
Link to the Ask Cryptic.
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The poll from the last question of the Ask Cryptic can be found above.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Link to the Ask Cryptic.
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The poll from the last question of the Ask Cryptic can be found above.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
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Edit: nvm, it's linking to the September one now.
(UFP) Ragnar
/em reads
PS: When we DO get more KDF Content, could we also get a Klingonese Dictionary item in-game?
The main issue here is not communication coming from outside the ship, say from Qo'noS, decloaking the ship repeatedly that irritates people the most even though this itself should not force a vessel to decloak. It's the intraship communication between the Captain and the Bridge Officers decloaking the ship, which it definitely should not, that really bothers people.
Incoming extraship communication should not decloak the ship, merely make it increasingly possible to locate the ship should there be anyone who might notice or be looking. Intraship communication, no matter the reason, should never decloak a vessel. This isn't The Hunt for Red October where Seaman Jones can be heard piping Paganini. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Al Rivera hates Klingons
Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert
All cloaks should be canon.
And speaking of the cloaking device... my first officer, sitting in a chair a few yards away from me on my Defiant should not decloak the ship.
First Officer: Cap-
Me: shhh!
First Officer: But ca-
Me: SHHHHHHHH!
first Officer: Captain, you decloaked us because you shushed me too loudly.
So, instead of asking for the cloak to be fixed, we need to find missions where this situation can kill, and list them. But, where should we put this list? Will there be a thread here in the forums for this, or should we create in-game tickets for it?
The Armada
Original join date: Feb 5, 2010
Twitter: @davejl_99, & @STO_BBArmada
Feel free to list them in here -- the team is watching this thread.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
The Armada
Original join date: Feb 5, 2010
Twitter: @davejl_99, & @STO_BBArmada
The probelm is, you are oversimplifying the issue. Whenever a Contact pops onto your screen which contains a button to click, this action causes the cloak power to turn off. If a content designer wants that NOT to happen, then they need to use a mini-contact that slides in with no button, and then it won't decloak your ship. So the fact is the behavior is working as designed in the editor, but designers could be doing a better job to communicate in the mission if there is a concern about decloaking. Without an understanding of the editor, this might not make sense, but that is why I'm urging that if you find a mission where you feel a contact can communicate via mini-contact instead of a full contact with a button, then send that in as a suggestion if you think that cloak is critical to that mission's gameplay. You can either submit a ticket, or post in this thread.
but nice to see KDF actually getting looked at seriously ( for a change )
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
All. Of. The. Above!
The Armada
Original join date: Feb 5, 2010
Twitter: @davejl_99, & @STO_BBArmada
Kerrat.
It is so annoying to decloak when the zone resets because my BOff wants to tell me something through word of mouth.
And by the way Cryptic, the solution is NOT to just remove Kerrat altogether.
EDIT: dstahl, I saw your post above... and I maintain my request, do NOT make us decloak in Kerrat.
We will take a lookt at Kerrat and see if the mission will allow us to communicate the map reset differently so that you don't de-cloak when the contact pops up.
KDF Content
Playable Romulans
Featured Episodes
With a combined 68.75% of the vote.
It's a bit early to call it, but I feel confident in saying...
...You have your orders, now carry them out!
I Support Disco | Disco is Love | Disco is Life
Unless plans change, November for both.
if the plans change , hit someone for me
please :P
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
I hope Cryptic knows that this means less people will have a fleetbase; thus, the majority of their player will not be able to build one. I don't call that having fun.
I would like to see Playable Romulans, providing they give unique gameplay and not just another costume.
Foundry Improvements are widely needed and welcome.
Featured Episodes always adds new technology to the game.
Improved Crafting system is needed since it's practically useless.
STO needs REAL exploration, not some random mission generator that repeats.
Only thing with the DOFF system I like to see is more 8,12, 16 hour missions so I can do other things I want in the game.
Rare ships, most likely end up in lockboxes and costing massive ammounts of money (that I don't have), this is very low on my list.
Fleet Missions and STFs, I'm tired of grinding. Therefore low priority.
PvP - just please put it out of it's misery.
At least it seems Cryptic don't want to do a rush job on those missing levels, and that is a good thing.
You do realize that developing the KDF is essential to making the RSE faction, right? As I said before, I don't want a moldly and half baked RSE cookie throwing at me that's more useful as a ball and chain.
While you are it, why don't you guys look into adding a second warp-in point. The fact that both factions warp on top of each other at map reset is one of the goofiest things in the game, IMO.
yes... the other thing that desperately needs looking into. That's the root of the spawn camps. But I'm not sure the devs heard me...
-pulls out megaphone-
*Make the factions warp in at their appropriate spawn points!*
the poll was hard to choose (i literally want all of them developed) but the question was what do you most want to see and what i want to see most is a romulan faction. ive wanted it from the start.
i certainly want more KDF content, more FE etc but these are things we do already have and im sure will continue to be added naturally throughout the life of the game.
the romulan faction is something we dont have so id like to get them in. i fully accept and expect that they will be quite a small faction or somehow will get integrated into the other factions but for nearly 3 years all ive wanted is to fly a d'deridex. once they are in then they can develop the klingons or pvp or whatever to their hearts content.
Here's a simple idea - have a list of all the things that are "on the table" listed by sections such as ships, maps, PvP, KDF etc. it can be color coded in a way that us trekkies would understand... Green=things that are currently being worked on for release in the near future. Yellow=things in the early stages of development. Red=Things that are NOT currently being worked on but on the table for future development... simple and with a disclaimer that all things are subject to change.
But WHY is it built this way? What is the fundamental reason?
If you want examples of groanable moments in cloak fail: pretty much any cluster mission that involves initial combat. I will warp in, get a ping from some one who needs help because of raiders, boom raiders appear. I clean them up, go to cloak. DING! Admiral So-n-so calls to tell you it's cool to engage the Alien raiders X, but that drops your cloak.
Same thing happens before you face the "final" Alien raider X in that same mission. You just finish off the 4 or 5 group and go to cloak- PING! Captain BadFace calls to tell you, you are toast... as your cloak is dropping.
I'm pretty sure cloaks didn't need to go down to send communications in the movies or shows.
Interacting with an object makes sense, but are you saying that the issue is that interactable objects/scans and communications are treated the same way? If so, can't one be flagged differently? I mean if you guys are even discussing a ROmulan Faction, then this kind of thing needs to be cleared up if you are expecting a whole ton more of cloaking ships in the game, IMO.
Side note- is it a bug or a feature that I can't see the interactable nodes in Kerrat when I'm cloaked? I have to drop cloak to see them eve before I can interact with them.