21% of the participants is not equal to 21% of the active players. Just like I wouldn't say that after introducing a Romulan faction there will be 28% playing it permanently.
HAH! It's up to 29% now!
More Feature Episodes 451 16.80%
More KDF Content 564 21.01%
More Fleet Missions / STFs 194 7.23%
More Foundry Improvements 44 1.64%
More Rare Ships 68 2.53%
Playable Romulans 780 29.05%
Improve PVP 244 9.09%
Improve Duty Officer System 51 1.90%
Improve Crafting 72 2.68%
Improve Exploration 217 8.08%
Honestly I'd be happy to play as Romulans even if there were only three ships/races to choose from.
Q: (akrilon) It?s been mentioned that featured episodes will be returning ?in a big way? in Season 8. Can you give us any preliminary details on how you forsee this being rolled out?
Dstahl: The development team loves making feature episodes, as is evident with Dominion series that finished in March. Up until recently, our development staff has been small enough that we?ve had to constantly juggle what we were working on at any given moment. This meant a toss-up between Feature Episodes, Fleet Actions, STFs and other max-level content, PvP maps, or anything else that involves creating missions and new maps. As we?ve staffed up, our ability to tackle more of types of content simultaneously has increased. Season 7 will be our next big push for max-level content and then we plan to shift the majority of the resources back to other content types. This includes focusing on Feature Episodes for Season 8. While the details are still being ironed out, the early indication is that there will be at least one new series at launch of S8 and maybe even more than that. Once we get closer, I?ll share more details.
This is a great question and answer, however since we have the foundry why not put out the criteria to the community for the foundry people to create a series of episodes, which in effect would take that burden off of the devs in order to create new episodes. It wouldn't be to hard to do give the community the guidelines and criteria of the episodes. I think if iam not mistaken something along these lines is being done currently. The Foundry Challenge; http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=661741 (Great example)
Commander Shran - You tell Archer, that is three the pink skin owes me!
You see the posts like the one above me and you wonder why Romulan fans hate Klingon fans? It's not just that our respective factions hate each other, it's that they're more then willing to deny us an equal playing experience to make their experience better. Any time one group denigrates and opposes another for their own gain the ones being denied are going to strongly dislike those opposing them.
sorry you took it the wrong way but I'm really not opposed to having a romulan faction... in fact, I'd play one as well as my klingon (more often than my starfleet engineer).
Back in "Klingon Academy", our fleet organized a PvP event called the "Map game". We've set up a star map divided in sectors (squares) and would send our moves (build ships, make them move to conquer territories, attack enemy ships) and when we'd have a starship fight, we'd play it in KA. Capulet and I were playing romulans.
I do not hate any factions... I keep my hatered for real world issues. I simply want Cryptic to finish the job they started before working on a new faction, that's all.
It's not about denial to others, it's about making things right. Back when the game was only a beta, we (players who wanted to play KDF) were promised more than only a PvP faction. While we've seen many changes, good changes, there's still things to be done.
Let me ask you this, kadieras, how would you feel if the only way to level your romulan was to perform the same quest over and over ? (Kill 30 <faction> starship squadrons)
In all honesty, Exploration and PvP is something that is going to make this game legendary...
They of course should Revamp Crafting, KDF and Add a FULL Romulan Faction, being to start and choose between 3 full factions will make the appeal of the game skyrocket.
OH!! and since there is currently no actual episodes of Star Trek out, those FEs were so awesome in the fact that they were released each week like an episode, and allowed you to be apart of it.. FEs are going to play a major part as well. Like watching a saturday morning cartoon and just can't WAIT for next week!
I love the fact that the Devs are working toward greatness!
Keep it up guys! You are doing a great job!
PS: This reputation system is something I have been waiting for, nice!
PPS: Poker and Please add Departments to Fleets XD
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
In all honesty, Exploration and PvP is something that is going to make this game legendary...
They of course should Revamp Crafting, KDF and Add a FULL Romulan Faction, being to start and choose between 3 full factions will make the appeal of the game skyrocket.
OH!! and since there is currently no actual episodes of Star Trek out, those FEs were so awesome in the fact that they were released each week like an episode, and allowed you to be apart of it.. FEs are going to play a major part as well. Like watching a saturday morning cartoon and just can't WAIT for next week!
I love the fact that the Devs are working toward greatness!
Keep it up guys! You are doing a great job!
PS: This reputation system is something I have been waiting for, nice!
PPS: Poker and Please add Departments to Fleets XD
Exploration and beyond in regards to making the universe large, not how small it currently is nor expanding it out will do that. What needs to happen is an overhaul and realistic universe size, perhaps even along the lines of what Eve has in regards to its Universe.
Commander Shran - You tell Archer, that is three the pink skin owes me!
Exploration and beyond in regards to making the universe large, not how small it currently is nor expanding it out will do that. What needs to happen is an overhaul and realistic universe size, perhaps even along the lines of what Eve has in regards to its Universe.
i would soooooooooooo love a eve like sector space would give up my frist born child to have one but as ive been told by alot of other the CO engine could not handle that it made me cry when i frist herd it for i played eveonline to get the likeness of a space mmo boy was i sad to see what sto sector space looked like compared to eve's
You see the posts like the one above me and you wonder why Romulan fans hate Klingon fans? It's not just that our respective factions hate each other, it's that they're more then willing to deny us an equal playing experience to make their experience better. Any time one group denigrates and opposes another for their own gain the ones being denied are going to strongly dislike those opposing them.
Equal to whom, kadieras? Equal to Klingons? That's not saying much and I know you won't settle for that. Are you stating you will be satisfied with monster play and having a half-finished faction just for the sake of having it? Equal to Fed? KDF lacks parity with Fed.
So you want to deny the existing players the gaming experience KDF was promised then shortchanged over two years ago and continues to lack? Why are you so eager to deny KDF gameplay parity with Fed just to start an entirely new faction from scratch for the sole benefit of your experience? Any gameplay denial accusations you make can readily be applied the opposite direction.
sorry you took it the wrong way but I'm really not opposed to having a romulan faction... in fact, I'd play one as well as my klingon (more often than my starfleet engineer).
Back in "Klingon Academy", our fleet organized a PvP event called the "Map game". We've set up a star map divided in sectors (squares) and would send our moves (build ships, make them move to conquer territories, attack enemy ships) and when we'd have a starship fight, we'd play it in KA. Capulet and I were playing romulans.
I do not hate any factions... I keep my hatered for real world issues. I simply want Cryptic to finish the job they started before working on a new faction, that's all.
It's not about denial to others, it's about making things right. Back when the game was only a beta, we (players who wanted to play KDF) were promised more than only a PvP faction. While we've seen many changes, good changes, there's still things to be done.
Let me ask you this, kadieras, how would you feel if the only way to level your romulan was to perform the same quest over and over ? (Kill 30 <faction> starship squadrons)
srodney, you are spot on. We KDF players have only requested what was promised and then pulled back. Only as a result of being fans of the faction the Executive Producer disdains we have been forced to play the part of Tantalus, watching as Cryptic continually recedes the waters of content out of reach for another year.
Unlike the Fed forums, you don't see hordes of KDF players asking for every class of ship conceivable within the Star Trek universe now. You don't see KDF forums filled with Mary Jane ship configurations and specs. What you do see is the same bug reports that go unanswered. What you see is the request for what we were promised: "Starfleet and Klingon. Yeah. So two factions, full PvE content."
It is the most vocal of Romulan fans and the hardcore Feds that wish to deny gameplay.
Jack Emmert: "Starfleet and Klingon. ... So two factions, full PvE content." Al Rivera hates Klingons Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert All cloaks should be canon.
as mucha as i love the idea of a romulan faction i think the klingon faction needs to be more developed before they come up with a romulan faction because if they do a romulan faction now it would probably have the same issues as the klingon faction
This describes the Romulan experience in practically every Star Trek game ever created. So I'd be perfectly fine with it. Did you ever play Star Trek Command 3? Cause that's basically what you just described, yet as a Romulan it was more difficult then as a Fed or a Klink because we were heavily outnumbered, and you know what? It was fun!!
Let me ask you this, kadieras, how would you feel if the only way to level your romulan was to perform the same quest over and over ? (Kill 30 <faction> starship squadrons)
Like the Romulan Alliance System? Of course you do, it sounds fine to you because you aren't Romulans, you're FED or KDF who are going to make a Romulan alt, it makes a HUGE difference in perspective.
Romulan fans have no expectation to be equal to the Federation, we never have in any game and to expect to be so now would be ridiculous. The Federation is the big dog in any Star Trek game featuring other factions. To expect otherwise is delusional. We are not denying you any game play, after all you can currently play as a Klink and a member of the KDF, we can not play as a Romulan in the RSE. There is a big difference between what we are arguing and what you are arguing, but I'm not surprised you don't see that. You are Klingon after all.
Equal to whom, kadieras? Equal to Klingons? That's not saying much and I know you won't settle for that. Are you stating you will be satisfied with monster play and having a half-finished faction just for the sake of having it? Equal to Fed? KDF lacks parity with Fed.
So you want to deny the existing players the gaming experience KDF was promised then shortchanged over two years ago and continues to lack? Why are you so eager to deny KDF gameplay parity with Fed just to start an entirely new faction from scratch for the sole benefit of your experience? Any gameplay denial accusations you make can readily be applied the opposite direction.
srodney, you are spot on. We KDF players have only requested what was promised and then pulled back. Only as a result of being fans of the faction the Executive Producer disdains we have been forced to play the part of Tantalus, watching as Cryptic continually recedes the waters of content out of reach for another year.
Unlike the Fed forums, you don't see hordes of KDF players asking for every class of ship conceivable within the Star Trek universe now. You don't see KDF forums filled with Mary Jane ship configurations and specs. What you do see is the same bug reports that go unanswered. What you see is the request for what we were promised: "Starfleet and Klingon. Yeah. So two factions, full PvE content."
It is the most vocal of Romulan fans and the hardcore Feds that wish to deny gameplay.
Like the Romulan Alliance System? Of course you do, it sounds fine to you because you aren't Romulans, you're FED or KDF who are going to make a Romulan alt, it makes a HUGE difference in perspective.
This describes the Romulan experience in practically every Star Trek game ever created. So I'd be perfectly fine with it. Did you ever play Star Trek Command 3? Cause that's basically what you just described, yet as a Romulan it was more difficult then as a Fed or a Klink because we were heavily outnumbered, and you know what? It was fun!!
I loved SFC3, i was part of some of the largest modding teams under that title and the Romulans were always outnumbered but it was in fact fun.
i would soooooooooooo love a eve like sector space would give up my frist born child to have one but as ive been told by alot of other the CO engine could not handle that it made me cry when i frist herd it for i played eveonline to get the likeness of a space mmo boy was i sad to see what sto sector space looked like compared to eve's
Ah, i would so love it as well. It is unfortunate to hear that, but i wonder to what extent they could expand it, even if it is through instances for example.
The Romulans need to be an independent faction, however how and in what way is the question that needs to be asked. As well, what about the Remans and can or does this open the way for a Romulan/Borg faction as in STO Romulans are working with the Borg. I also want to bring up another faction that could be aligned with the Romulans, the Hirogen have also made a pack with Selia which is de-facto leader of the new Romulan Empire on Rator III.
As well, what about the Cardassians, Breen and Alpha Q Dominion?
Commander Shran - You tell Archer, that is three the pink skin owes me!
Honestly, the thing I want most isn't on here, but it's simple...
Make rewards for Foundry missions equal to regular missions.
I've played the regular missions over and over and over again, and I'm simply bored with them. Even the Feature Episodes. But in terms of character advancement, it takes almost 3 times as long to get the same reward from the much more interesting Foundry missions.
Yes, some people will make easy, farmable missions, but really, who cares?! If people want to farm the same mission over and over and reach level 50 in a week, it doesn't impact the way I play.
I can get a level a day from doing Duty Officer missions, so what does it matter if I get the same reward from an interesting player-created mission as I do from playing one of the developer-created missions that I've already played more than 10 times each.
Give us better rewards for Foundry play and a more robust search engine to find the kind of Foundry missions we want (search by era, RP vs. Combat, primary location or enemy, etc.). I've taken 10 officers to level 50 and everyone has gone through the exact same missions and blown up the same ships over and over. The Foundry has story-based missions that give me a break from feeling like I've slaughtered more enemies than Khan, but I shouldn't have to choose between good stories and good loot.
Give us better rewards for Foundry play and a more robust search engine to find the kind of Foundry missions we want (search by era, RP vs. Combat, primary location or enemy, etc.). I've taken 10 officers to level 50 and everyone has gone through the exact same missions and blown up the same ships over and over. The Foundry has story-based missions that give me a break from feeling like I've slaughtered more enemies than Khan, but I shouldn't have to choose between good stories and good loot.
Thank you.
Another great idea, which i suggest Cryptic to the Foundry people to create and give guidelines of what type of stuff to create, even episodes and the devs are off the hook and are allowed to create and expand. My quote from earlier post i made in this thread - below.
This is a great question and answer, however since we have the foundry why not put out the criteria to the community for the foundry people to create a series of episodes, which in effect would take that burden off of the devs in order to create new episodes. It wouldn't be to hard to do give the community the guidelines and criteria of the episodes. I think if iam not mistaken something along these lines is being done currently. The Foundry Challenge; http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=661741 (Great example)
Commander Shran - You tell Archer, that is three the pink skin owes me!
This is already in development. The Foundry Spotlight feature should be released sometime between September and November.
That is awesome, however what is the possibility of getting Cryptic to put out a set of guidelines on criteria to create new updated STF's? Not to take away from the devs, but it would allow them to create and work on other areas which allowing the community to provide that which is needed?
Commander Shran - You tell Archer, that is three the pink skin owes me!
This is already in development. The Foundry Spotlight feature should be released sometime between September and November.
What kind of rewards can we expect? And since October is the only thing "between September and November", does that actually mean this will happen in the month of Oct, or what?
This is already in development. The Foundry Spotlight feature should be released sometime between September and November.
Pretty decent if it could some how detect the amount of npcs and types being killed and auto-diagnose the average time it takes for a player or players to complete the mission rewarding expertise and dilithium.
It would also be nice if there were a lot more Klingon things in the foundry there are a lot of federation objects, a few romulan, but not so much with the Klingon ones. I have been working on a new mission but its going to be tough not making it look generic on the Klingon side being there isn't much to work with.
How about this, simply scrap the existing game, redevelop the engine, spend extensive time testing and not rushing with level design or content to make sure there is a real Star Trek feel, maybe get some of the people who worked on TNG, DS9 and VOY to give you ideas for a real Star Trek experience.
- Use "Phasing" Technology, as you progress, the boundaries of space change considering on the situation with the players of the 3 factions (Klingon, Romulan and Federation) are able to attack installations, do border incursions. So it actually feels like a "War"
- Redesign ground completely to work more like Mass Effect with you being about to take cover and return fire effectively.
- Flesh out ALL factions so they start from Lt 1 so that people can get invested in recurring characters or the story of their particular race.
- Provide people with actual CONTENT and not Lockboxes, Ships, Costumes and Shineys. If you need to make money, release an expansion pack and provide more customer support. For either general commercial release or digital download.
- Make more music for the game.
- Make Fleets able to own certain systems and fight other Fleets for control of those systems.
- Expanding the Galaxy and make it a GALAXY, Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma Quadrants!
- Rework the entire game and hire DECENT voice actors, not just somebody from the local pub.
- Make it so your Lieutenant and Lieutenant Command ranks allow you serve on "Fleet" vessels instead of having your own ship in specific roles.
- Add new careers such as "Command" for leadership, split Science and have "Science and Medical" Careers and introduce new powers for different abilities.
Basically, just scrap all this now, take the servers offline for 5-6 months and totally rework the game so its better. You have more then enough feedback Cryptic.
I found it a hard choice to pick between playable Romulans and more KDF content, but in light of how the KDF content already present's been handled, it doesn't quite give me confidence that playable Romulans wouldn't come across as a seeming afterthought fanservice addition especially if it goes as has been mentioned around of being their own group for X amount of levels before going over to either Starfleet or KDF.
I ended up going with more KDF content whether it's just a start of more costume/ship options or a mix of that with more missions. Once there's more KDF content on par with the Starfleet options, then I'll feel more hopeful for a proper third faction of playable Romulans.
why do we only get to choose one?
I'd say fix the KDF and add other factions,
In order of things I would like to see:
1. Fix the KDF completely add all the levels and add more KDF things to the C-store
2. add more to the foundry (like building custom interiors, and add everything to the NPC builder)
3. add full factions, that would let everyone play whatever play style they wish
4.and if it wasnt to much to ask...a boff to toon system, like your captian can promote a boff to a full ship captian...of course they would have to have the open toon slots
Remove the "Leveling" from the "Rank" bit. Ranks should be based on player achievement, not handed out based on "leveling". Every mission you do, should award various kinds of "XP" in a similar style to the DOff system (Diplomacy XP, Colonial XP, Trade XP etc). When you've made x amounts of "First Contacts", you gain the achievement unlocking the rank of "Captain".
Ships should be made more integral to the character. Allow players to hold onto, and retrofit existing ships to bring it up to "semi-par" with more modern ships. "Admiral Riker" loved his Galaxy Class Enterprise, despite it by STO standards, being far-outdated compared to the likes of the Sovereign or Odyssey Classes.
Allow Bridge Stations to level up alongside your character. If you have an officer that is the rank of Commander, then no matter what ship you fly, that officer should be at a "Commander station". Obviously you don't want people flying around in 5 x Commander setups, but you could easily impose a strict limit that your stations will "max out" at 1 Commander, 2 Lt Commanders, 2 Lieutenants and 1 Ensign. Equipping 2 Lt Commanders would automatically "disable" the Ensign station.
So, Might I ask again...since it seems to be overlooked...what more does the kdf want? Im all ears.
You keep asking for more content and to be equal to the federation mission wise. I understand this demand but dont understand the result...as I had stated before so you want 1 more day tacked on to your leveling for months of development work am I to understand this correctly?
I enjoy the constant reminders certain KDF members bring to attention...the since beta we were promised...
And since beta...with a limited staff, constant company changes, a f2p change..they kdf has recieved a decent amount of stuff..far be it a great amount but any is better than none...for 2.5 years we Romulans have been sitting, waiting, and quitting in mass droves while we watch update after update with no Romulan faction to become playable...
Klingon count (my numbers might be slightly off) but I count 34 klingon vessels to run around in, with an additional 10 non klingon ...gorn orion nausican vessels...we romulans have...0
Let me repeat this...0...costumes...we have 0...race...we have 0....starbase..0..an intact community....this sadly is 0 as well...
someone mentioned earlier that they think there is still a romulan fleet ingame...there is...
The IRF...Imperial Romulan Fleet...no one can say we havent been kicked from one side to the other and have the most people leave a fleet...we gain 3 new members a month...and lose twice that each month..with the general response...will come back when the faction is playable...
You know how bloody hard it is to build a starbase with like 6 active members because no one wants to play as federation or klingon to begin with?
So ...to my esteemed boistorous KDF community...I humbly ask you all to sit back down and let us have our half thought half loved half produced faction...because when we can finaly have our warbirds...we will support the game in full and ask what everyone else ask for and thats endgame/pvp/finish the kdf...
I gladly accept cryptic giving me 3 romulan ships a couple costumes and no unique missions to a faction that we believed would happen after the first poll we won with almost 70% of the vote 2 years ago.
I gladly accept cryptic giving me 3 romulan ships a couple costumes and no unique missions to a faction that we believed would happen after the first poll we won with almost 70% of the vote 2 years ago.
It is good that you will gladly accept that, because that is just about all you will get. But the question isnt whether you or I or even a small die hard group of Rom fans will accept a barely existent Rom faction. The question is whether the majority of people who are interested in playing Romulan will accept what you just described. That would be a great subject for a new poll. "How little content will you actually accept for a Romulan faction?"
Like the Romulan Alliance System? Of course you do, it sounds fine to you because you aren't Romulans, you're FED or KDF who are going to make a Romulan alt, it makes a HUGE difference in perspective.
It is interesting to see all of the responses in this thread about the feature options for 2013. It is clear that the game has a lot of room to grow and over the next year it is going to be our goal to tackle as many of the features on that list as we can.
When it comes to "factions", one concern I share is that when it comes to Star Trek fans, it is predominantly made up of "Federation" fans. No matter how many other races or factions we consider, the Federation will always be the most popular because they have the "leading role" in the TV shows, Movies, and most Games/Books.
There is also the concern that players have put a lot of effort into their existing characters and fleets. It wouldn't necessarily be a healthy choice to introduce a 3rd faction that has its own fleets, duty officer system, ships, and bridge officers because it would be disruptive to the fleets and friendships you've made in game.
All of this is above and beyond the question of whether or not there would be enough "missions" for a faction to have a solid game experience.
Whenever I think of Federation and KDF mission equality, it reminds me of the challenges we had before we launched the game. There was a drive to get "X hours of mission gameplay" into the box before it shipped. This resulted in a decent amount of episodes and a large amount of lesser quality patrol missions.
Since then we recognized that we wanted to make higher quality episodes AND add KDF as a full PVE faction. What we've been doing over the last two years is adding premium new high quality episodes playable by either faction because it was hitting two birds with one stone.
Add in all of the STF changes, the new Fleet Actions, the DOFF system and now we have a situation where there is almost TOO much leveling content on the Fed side and a decent amount on the KDF side. After looking at a lot of data, it is clear that Fed characters that use the duty officer system and run queued event outlevel the patrol and episode content to the point where most players hit max level before completing the Romulan episode series. In our goal to introduce more quality episodes, we now have a leveling curve that is very fast for the FED side.
When I think of creating "Parity" for the KDF, the goal would *not* be to get KDF to the same place as the FED, because the fact is, the FED curve is too fast. In addition to adding just a few more Episodes for the KDF, we need to weed out some of the less important FED patrols from the leveling path. That is what will get both factions to 1-50 leveling curve parity.
When it comes to a Romulan faction, the question still remains, would it be healthy for the game to introduce an entirely new faction that is now in the situation we just worked to solve? More than likely, if we were to add the ability to play as a Romulan, we would want to make it so that they could have their own experience, but ultimately fit somehow into the confines of our two faction game. Whether or not this means Romulans ultimately having to choose between which faction they support or something else entirely, the idea that Romulans would be a 3rd unique faction unto itself is a road STO may not take, if only to ensure the future health of the game.
Please don't mistake any of this as the "plan of record" but instead me sharing my thoughts on the poll results and what it might mean for STO in 2013. Anything can happen and plans can and do change, but it is fun to discuss and get your feedback when it comes to these ideas.
Comments
More Feature Episodes 451 16.80%
More KDF Content 564 21.01%
More Fleet Missions / STFs 194 7.23%
More Foundry Improvements 44 1.64%
More Rare Ships 68 2.53%
Playable Romulans 780 29.05%
Improve PVP 244 9.09%
Improve Duty Officer System 51 1.90%
Improve Crafting 72 2.68%
Improve Exploration 217 8.08%
Honestly I'd be happy to play as Romulans even if there were only three ships/races to choose from.
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This is a great question and answer, however since we have the foundry why not put out the criteria to the community for the foundry people to create a series of episodes, which in effect would take that burden off of the devs in order to create new episodes. It wouldn't be to hard to do give the community the guidelines and criteria of the episodes. I think if iam not mistaken something along these lines is being done currently. The Foundry Challenge; http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=661741 (Great example)
Back in "Klingon Academy", our fleet organized a PvP event called the "Map game". We've set up a star map divided in sectors (squares) and would send our moves (build ships, make them move to conquer territories, attack enemy ships) and when we'd have a starship fight, we'd play it in KA. Capulet and I were playing romulans.
I do not hate any factions... I keep my hatered for real world issues. I simply want Cryptic to finish the job they started before working on a new faction, that's all.
It's not about denial to others, it's about making things right. Back when the game was only a beta, we (players who wanted to play KDF) were promised more than only a PvP faction. While we've seen many changes, good changes, there's still things to be done.
Let me ask you this, kadieras, how would you feel if the only way to level your romulan was to perform the same quest over and over ? (Kill 30 <faction> starship squadrons)
They of course should Revamp Crafting, KDF and Add a FULL Romulan Faction, being to start and choose between 3 full factions will make the appeal of the game skyrocket.
OH!! and since there is currently no actual episodes of Star Trek out, those FEs were so awesome in the fact that they were released each week like an episode, and allowed you to be apart of it.. FEs are going to play a major part as well. Like watching a saturday morning cartoon and just can't WAIT for next week!
I love the fact that the Devs are working toward greatness!
Keep it up guys! You are doing a great job!
PS: This reputation system is something I have been waiting for, nice!
PPS: Poker and Please add Departments to Fleets XD
[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
Exploration and beyond in regards to making the universe large, not how small it currently is nor expanding it out will do that. What needs to happen is an overhaul and realistic universe size, perhaps even along the lines of what Eve has in regards to its Universe.
i would soooooooooooo love a eve like sector space would give up my frist born child to have one but as ive been told by alot of other the CO engine could not handle that it made me cry when i frist herd it for i played eveonline to get the likeness of a space mmo boy was i sad to see what sto sector space looked like compared to eve's
system Lord Baal is dead
Equal to whom, kadieras? Equal to Klingons? That's not saying much and I know you won't settle for that. Are you stating you will be satisfied with monster play and having a half-finished faction just for the sake of having it? Equal to Fed? KDF lacks parity with Fed.
So you want to deny the existing players the gaming experience KDF was promised then shortchanged over two years ago and continues to lack? Why are you so eager to deny KDF gameplay parity with Fed just to start an entirely new faction from scratch for the sole benefit of your experience? Any gameplay denial accusations you make can readily be applied the opposite direction.
srodney, you are spot on. We KDF players have only requested what was promised and then pulled back. Only as a result of being fans of the faction the Executive Producer disdains we have been forced to play the part of Tantalus, watching as Cryptic continually recedes the waters of content out of reach for another year.
Unlike the Fed forums, you don't see hordes of KDF players asking for every class of ship conceivable within the Star Trek universe now. You don't see KDF forums filled with Mary Jane ship configurations and specs. What you do see is the same bug reports that go unanswered. What you see is the request for what we were promised: "Starfleet and Klingon. Yeah. So two factions, full PvE content."
It is the most vocal of Romulan fans and the hardcore Feds that wish to deny gameplay.
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I loved SFC3, i was part of some of the largest modding teams under that title and the Romulans were always outnumbered but it was in fact fun.
Ah, i would so love it as well. It is unfortunate to hear that, but i wonder to what extent they could expand it, even if it is through instances for example.
The Romulans need to be an independent faction, however how and in what way is the question that needs to be asked. As well, what about the Remans and can or does this open the way for a Romulan/Borg faction as in STO Romulans are working with the Borg. I also want to bring up another faction that could be aligned with the Romulans, the Hirogen have also made a pack with Selia which is de-facto leader of the new Romulan Empire on Rator III.
As well, what about the Cardassians, Breen and Alpha Q Dominion?
Make rewards for Foundry missions equal to regular missions.
I've played the regular missions over and over and over again, and I'm simply bored with them. Even the Feature Episodes. But in terms of character advancement, it takes almost 3 times as long to get the same reward from the much more interesting Foundry missions.
Yes, some people will make easy, farmable missions, but really, who cares?! If people want to farm the same mission over and over and reach level 50 in a week, it doesn't impact the way I play.
I can get a level a day from doing Duty Officer missions, so what does it matter if I get the same reward from an interesting player-created mission as I do from playing one of the developer-created missions that I've already played more than 10 times each.
Give us better rewards for Foundry play and a more robust search engine to find the kind of Foundry missions we want (search by era, RP vs. Combat, primary location or enemy, etc.). I've taken 10 officers to level 50 and everyone has gone through the exact same missions and blown up the same ships over and over. The Foundry has story-based missions that give me a break from feeling like I've slaughtered more enemies than Khan, but I shouldn't have to choose between good stories and good loot.
Thank you.
Another great idea, which i suggest Cryptic to the Foundry people to create and give guidelines of what type of stuff to create, even episodes and the devs are off the hook and are allowed to create and expand. My quote from earlier post i made in this thread - below.
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This is already in development. The Foundry Spotlight feature should be released sometime between September and November.
Does this include adding a Di reward to story missions?
That is awesome, however what is the possibility of getting Cryptic to put out a set of guidelines on criteria to create new updated STF's? Not to take away from the devs, but it would allow them to create and work on other areas which allowing the community to provide that which is needed?
How about the "room by room" feature? Buildings walls, floors and ceilings individually is a major drag. Not to mention excessively tedious.
What kind of rewards can we expect? And since October is the only thing "between September and November", does that actually mean this will happen in the month of Oct, or what?
Pretty decent if it could some how detect the amount of npcs and types being killed and auto-diagnose the average time it takes for a player or players to complete the mission rewarding expertise and dilithium.
It would also be nice if there were a lot more Klingon things in the foundry there are a lot of federation objects, a few romulan, but not so much with the Klingon ones. I have been working on a new mission but its going to be tough not making it look generic on the Klingon side being there isn't much to work with.
- Use "Phasing" Technology, as you progress, the boundaries of space change considering on the situation with the players of the 3 factions (Klingon, Romulan and Federation) are able to attack installations, do border incursions. So it actually feels like a "War"
- Redesign ground completely to work more like Mass Effect with you being about to take cover and return fire effectively.
- Flesh out ALL factions so they start from Lt 1 so that people can get invested in recurring characters or the story of their particular race.
- Provide people with actual CONTENT and not Lockboxes, Ships, Costumes and Shineys. If you need to make money, release an expansion pack and provide more customer support. For either general commercial release or digital download.
- Make more music for the game.
- Make Fleets able to own certain systems and fight other Fleets for control of those systems.
- Expanding the Galaxy and make it a GALAXY, Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma Quadrants!
- Rework the entire game and hire DECENT voice actors, not just somebody from the local pub.
- Make it so your Lieutenant and Lieutenant Command ranks allow you serve on "Fleet" vessels instead of having your own ship in specific roles.
- Add new careers such as "Command" for leadership, split Science and have "Science and Medical" Careers and introduce new powers for different abilities.
Basically, just scrap all this now, take the servers offline for 5-6 months and totally rework the game so its better. You have more then enough feedback Cryptic.
I ended up going with more KDF content whether it's just a start of more costume/ship options or a mix of that with more missions. Once there's more KDF content on par with the Starfleet options, then I'll feel more hopeful for a proper third faction of playable Romulans.
I'd say fix the KDF and add other factions,
In order of things I would like to see:
1. Fix the KDF completely add all the levels and add more KDF things to the C-store
2. add more to the foundry (like building custom interiors, and add everything to the NPC builder)
3. add full factions, that would let everyone play whatever play style they wish
4.and if it wasnt to much to ask...a boff to toon system, like your captian can promote a boff to a full ship captian...of course they would have to have the open toon slots
Quoted for truth, except for ONE bit:
Remove the "Leveling" from the "Rank" bit. Ranks should be based on player achievement, not handed out based on "leveling". Every mission you do, should award various kinds of "XP" in a similar style to the DOff system (Diplomacy XP, Colonial XP, Trade XP etc). When you've made x amounts of "First Contacts", you gain the achievement unlocking the rank of "Captain".
Ships should be made more integral to the character. Allow players to hold onto, and retrofit existing ships to bring it up to "semi-par" with more modern ships. "Admiral Riker" loved his Galaxy Class Enterprise, despite it by STO standards, being far-outdated compared to the likes of the Sovereign or Odyssey Classes.
Allow Bridge Stations to level up alongside your character. If you have an officer that is the rank of Commander, then no matter what ship you fly, that officer should be at a "Commander station". Obviously you don't want people flying around in 5 x Commander setups, but you could easily impose a strict limit that your stations will "max out" at 1 Commander, 2 Lt Commanders, 2 Lieutenants and 1 Ensign. Equipping 2 Lt Commanders would automatically "disable" the Ensign station.
You keep asking for more content and to be equal to the federation mission wise. I understand this demand but dont understand the result...as I had stated before so you want 1 more day tacked on to your leveling for months of development work am I to understand this correctly?
I enjoy the constant reminders certain KDF members bring to attention...the since beta we were promised...
And since beta...with a limited staff, constant company changes, a f2p change..they kdf has recieved a decent amount of stuff..far be it a great amount but any is better than none...for 2.5 years we Romulans have been sitting, waiting, and quitting in mass droves while we watch update after update with no Romulan faction to become playable...
Klingon count (my numbers might be slightly off) but I count 34 klingon vessels to run around in, with an additional 10 non klingon ...gorn orion nausican vessels...we romulans have...0
Let me repeat this...0...costumes...we have 0...race...we have 0....starbase..0..an intact community....this sadly is 0 as well...
someone mentioned earlier that they think there is still a romulan fleet ingame...there is...
The IRF...Imperial Romulan Fleet...no one can say we havent been kicked from one side to the other and have the most people leave a fleet...we gain 3 new members a month...and lose twice that each month..with the general response...will come back when the faction is playable...
You know how bloody hard it is to build a starbase with like 6 active members because no one wants to play as federation or klingon to begin with?
So ...to my esteemed boistorous KDF community...I humbly ask you all to sit back down and let us have our half thought half loved half produced faction...because when we can finaly have our warbirds...we will support the game in full and ask what everyone else ask for and thats endgame/pvp/finish the kdf...
I gladly accept cryptic giving me 3 romulan ships a couple costumes and no unique missions to a faction that we believed would happen after the first poll we won with almost 70% of the vote 2 years ago.
It is good that you will gladly accept that, because that is just about all you will get. But the question isnt whether you or I or even a small die hard group of Rom fans will accept a barely existent Rom faction. The question is whether the majority of people who are interested in playing Romulan will accept what you just described. That would be a great subject for a new poll. "How little content will you actually accept for a Romulan faction?"
When it comes to "factions", one concern I share is that when it comes to Star Trek fans, it is predominantly made up of "Federation" fans. No matter how many other races or factions we consider, the Federation will always be the most popular because they have the "leading role" in the TV shows, Movies, and most Games/Books.
There is also the concern that players have put a lot of effort into their existing characters and fleets. It wouldn't necessarily be a healthy choice to introduce a 3rd faction that has its own fleets, duty officer system, ships, and bridge officers because it would be disruptive to the fleets and friendships you've made in game.
All of this is above and beyond the question of whether or not there would be enough "missions" for a faction to have a solid game experience.
Whenever I think of Federation and KDF mission equality, it reminds me of the challenges we had before we launched the game. There was a drive to get "X hours of mission gameplay" into the box before it shipped. This resulted in a decent amount of episodes and a large amount of lesser quality patrol missions.
Since then we recognized that we wanted to make higher quality episodes AND add KDF as a full PVE faction. What we've been doing over the last two years is adding premium new high quality episodes playable by either faction because it was hitting two birds with one stone.
Add in all of the STF changes, the new Fleet Actions, the DOFF system and now we have a situation where there is almost TOO much leveling content on the Fed side and a decent amount on the KDF side. After looking at a lot of data, it is clear that Fed characters that use the duty officer system and run queued event outlevel the patrol and episode content to the point where most players hit max level before completing the Romulan episode series. In our goal to introduce more quality episodes, we now have a leveling curve that is very fast for the FED side.
When I think of creating "Parity" for the KDF, the goal would *not* be to get KDF to the same place as the FED, because the fact is, the FED curve is too fast. In addition to adding just a few more Episodes for the KDF, we need to weed out some of the less important FED patrols from the leveling path. That is what will get both factions to 1-50 leveling curve parity.
When it comes to a Romulan faction, the question still remains, would it be healthy for the game to introduce an entirely new faction that is now in the situation we just worked to solve? More than likely, if we were to add the ability to play as a Romulan, we would want to make it so that they could have their own experience, but ultimately fit somehow into the confines of our two faction game. Whether or not this means Romulans ultimately having to choose between which faction they support or something else entirely, the idea that Romulans would be a 3rd unique faction unto itself is a road STO may not take, if only to ensure the future health of the game.
Please don't mistake any of this as the "plan of record" but instead me sharing my thoughts on the poll results and what it might mean for STO in 2013. Anything can happen and plans can and do change, but it is fun to discuss and get your feedback when it comes to these ideas.