You have mentioned a couple of times that "Reputation" will be used to obtain certain things from special vendors, among them abilities.
Abilities? What kind? Captain Abilities? Boff Abilities? Kits? Improved/Changed Abilities that already exist? Or entirely new ones? If the latter, (Or both) what will they be like?
1. I posted in one of the 'Fix KDF/Create Romulan' threads out there that using the foundry to generate new STO Cannon content would be a good way for Cryptic/PWE to recruit new devs. Wondering if there's a public stance on community recruitment this way?
2. Low priority but is there a way in the future for more internal ship customization? AKA Choose our quarters and ready room decorations? Along with ship crew uniforms and makeup? AKA Some would want an all andorian crew other's all vulcan. Some would want an all Female Klingon crew
3. Along the lines of 1, will there be more uniforms for KDF anytime soon? I know it's been said ships are on the way.
Lastly as a newer player I'd like to add my compliments about the game. I've been disappointed in other MMOs IP or none (they will remain nameless) and compared to one's I've enjoyed I have to say that STO over all is in a good state for being at 3 years.
1. You say you will be working on the kdf side of things so that you can make pvp better what sort of things do you have in mind regaurding this? And how is a strong kdf going to improve pvp as most pvpers que for fed v fed, I'm sure you are aware the pvpers are very disappointed from the lack of content pvp has received . The pvp community would really like to see some action even a new map would be great . We would like to see things implemented and less things about you are talking about around a table ,, we would also like to see devs in the ques so you can see how balance works in pvp compared to pve,,,,
1) In a recent post you state that you and the team have concerns for the leveling speed of the fedside of gameplay and wish to possibly change it, How SO? What ideas are you looking at?
2) You mention that having the KDF and fed leveling to be more aligned in speed is a factor, does this mean that we KDF players may see more low-level PvE content to fill our mission ranks before the Devs focus back on endgame agnostic content?
3) Has the idea of KDF flavored STFs for endgame been discussed and do you think they are possible?
4) In the last of your postings you also state that you and the team where worried a third faction would disrupt the gameplay, fleets and possibly friends of the players. Such a fear was a reason you said that a third faction may not be implemented.
Why do you feel that a third faction would cuase this trouble instead of grow the game through offering another level of play?
Would it be possible to turn off the annoying animation prior to warp out that makes your ship come to a deadstop (if not already stationary) and execute a 90, 180 or 270 degree turn to port OR starboard! It TOTALLY breaks immersion and in some instances (Try warping out at DS9) means you warp right through other ships!
Or at least could we get an option to turn it off? I'm tired of apologising to other captains at DS9 about scratching their paintwork!
I know in the great scheme of things this is minor but it bugs the hell out of me.
Can we get the future imperfect com badge with scaling rank as part of a vet reward? very little work would have to be done to make this a reality.
I have not seen many costumes made from the costume request thread, such as the yesterdays enterprise military tng uniform with phaser belt and optional shoulder srap, tng admirals uniform for seasons 3~7 any chance?
1. Are there any plans of getting the "Ship costume" part of C-Store having actual costumes in it. Can we get old ones back (now used for Fleet Ships) or new ones if you plane them? I hate the fact that I can not customize my ships beyond the three free options.
2. Do you plan, at all, fixing the science space abilities.
3. What is the current standing of PvP updates.
4. Is there any chance of getting the low leve "Federation vs Klingon" PvP queues disabled/removed (as there are no low level Klingons)?
5. What is the standing of STO among other MMOs and what are general plans of PWE for 2013.
6. Can we get some PvE mixed level missions like those pre-F2P "Patrol System X" missions or perhaps you could get back the "clean sector X from Klingons/Feds" missions back - you know, so that you can get players of various ranks doing mission together without the need of teaming and so.
1) When will armor and/or kit appearances finally be moved to the tailor?
2) Will I ever be able to outfit my BOffs with my hard earned Omega Force and M.A.C.O. tailor uniforms?
3) In regards to heavy escorts and heavy carrier escorts, only the Akira's hull displays fleet emblems. Neither the new Thunderchild heavy escort or the Armitage heavy escort carrier allow a captain to display his fleet emblem. Will this ever be fixed?
4) What plans, if any, are in the works to finally unify the BOff and DOff systems? It would be nice to have a single crew system.
5) We really need more stuff to do on our own ships. Is there any content coming down the pipe which will make me want to spend more time in my ship's interior?
6) Could our sickbay please have a doctor capable of healing wounds and replicating regenerators? It's always seemed so incredibly silly to me that I can't heal my wounds in my own sickbay.
1) Any chance of getting a fix/revive option in space combat (just like ground) rather than the straight respawn. Might be a little more realistic than your whole ship being magically regenerated 100% intact 20km away.
2) Having just created my first KDF toon I am starting to see the reason behind the much maligning of the costume and hair options. Four hairstyles!? Really? Damn! Adding my voice to the many asking for a bit of work here.
Does Cryptic have the resources, and is it possible to add a Romulan Faction as fleshed out as the KDF Faction? Many Romulan Faction fans including myself find the idea of a major faction, such as the Romulans, being glued onto the Federation or KDF a no go proposition.
Every community poll about the Romulan Faction has indicated that it would be more popular than the KDF faction; plus including your own polling!
By the way, this is a pointed question, but what the hell happened to the Cryptic Studios that we knew pre-launch of Star Trek Online that touted how they could generate content quickly? What happened to you guys? You developed Star Trek Online so quickly but obviously you guys slowed down into a decline in development. What is different then and now that you guys seem unable to continue serious development of this MMO? So yeah, what was different then and now?
I agree with you on the Romulan faction and think Cryptic should add a campaine mode to it! it should be at a low level for all to access it i.e. level 13.
Commander James
26th Fleet
Task Force Avalon - CO USS Intrepid
Any chance of gaining the ability to buy extra fleet bank tabs or expanding the capacity of the current tabs?
We currently have only 7 ranks for fleet officers, any plans to increase the number of ranks or to introduce a way to set permissions individually for every member?
I noticed that elite fleet space weapons are not listed as fleet holdings anymore. Why is that?
Star Trek Bridge Commander has an entire modding community which is doing some fantastic ship building; has Cryptic looked in to adding any of those modders to the staff?
"Live Long and Prosper but always carry a fully charged phaser, just in case!". Arrr'ow
Does Cryptic now believe they were a bit heavy-handed in all the nerfs to crusiers/Sci/Beams/Healing and have any plans to re-look at these professions/powers/weapons?
Are there any plans to make APs viable again or are they planning to just take them out of the game?
Will fleet starbases/holdings ever be anything other than a new interface over old content? All of the DOFF contacts are identical to those already in game, the "new" ships are just database modifications of existing ones (same for the "new" fleet equipment), and all but the Ops level is reused graphics. It just seems to me that for an upgrade to be worthy of being a season it should be more than a rework of old content. In addition, many of the things are still broken (and unlikely to be fixed before you come out with your next season of bugs) even though one would think they would not only be easy to fix but also that they should have been found in the "testing" phase and should never have made it into the holodeck version of the game.
Related to that... do you plan to
A) use tribble as an actual test server instead of a glorified preview server, and do something about quality control in the future
Can we please buy the new Fleet uniform with Fleet Credits after what it takes to unlock them it's a let down when you have to spend Dilithium/Fleet marks to buy them or can we have something to make it account unlock
1. Can we get "Commodore" and "Fleet Captain" added to the vanity titles, unlocked upon reaching Rear Admiral Lower Half?
2. Any chance we could get a way to cycle the "walk" animation? The adjustment to Walk last year, made the walk a bit too slow. Possibility of using the "brisk walk" animation?
3. Any plans for some escorts that have a more "traditional" Starfleet ship look? Right now, all the escorts have very unique looks, but some escort captains (myself included) would like to see an escort that looks more in line with a Sovereign or other traditional Starfleet cruiser.
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
I?m not into the Starbase grind and I burned myself out on STF?s months ago.
I?m currently on a 2 month Brake from STO so my question for (Dan) is:
What (if anything) that you know of is coming to STO in the very near future that might give me a reason to sit down an play the game that once played for hours on end again?
In a recent 'ask cryptic' discussion a question about the discount for fleet ship upgrades to KDF players was asked, and it was pointed out that currently there aren't any KDF c-store ships that qualify for the upgrade discount. DS replied that they were discussing a revamp of the upgrade price structure for KDF and/or possibly introducing more ships to KDF that would qualify for the discount.
Is it possible to inform the KDF players where Cryptic is in the discussions, and when the KDF players could expect the change in pricing of those fleet upgraded ships ?
Dan, when will the Season 6 bugs be fixed, like the Fleet Mark Dailies where there are perfect Klingon cadets with no flaws? Incursion bugs where sometimes scripts don't happen, or in Colony Invasion where Diplomats don't count?
Why did the dilithium values of duty officers get slashed across the board by a minimum of 90%? (I'm aware there was an exploit where the cost-free doffgrinder could quadruple the value of a very rare duty officer, but even the worst actual solution for that problem did not require cutting this deep, or cutting into the very rares' value at all. Why did you go further?)
What is the Dev Team going to do about the massive increase of Trolls and Moochers in the public Fleet Mark Events that purposely do nothing?
Personally, this is really a major factor why I'm no longer interested in doing Fleet Starbases. And I don't have others interested in doing them as a team, since they are tired of grinding.
Any chance you can talk to Mr.Citter and ACTUALLY GET a Fleet K'Tanco and Fleet Cruiser Retrofit. WITH THE T2 CONNIE SKIN. no questions asked. Make it cost 6 Fleet Modules if you have to. I don't care. IT NEEDS TO BE IN GAME. I DON'T CARE ABOUT TIMEFRAME. I HAVE A WHOLE ARMY BEHIND ME OF T5 CONNIE LOVERS. no TOS connie. Only TMP CONNIE and Alternatives + Exeter. CAN YOU MAKE THIS HAPPEN EVEN IF YOU CHARGE MORE MONEY AND MORE FLEET CREDS?
1: You said that you were planning on adding better rewards for replaying episode missions. When will this be happening?
2: What is the status of adding a T5 excalibur to the fleet store?
3: It has become evident that many people who voted for "playable Romulans" in the poll thought they were voting for a full faction, not a sub-faction like some of your recent posts have discussed. How can the results of the poll be used when people misunderstood what they were really voting for?
4: When will you start making better use of the foundry to solve the content disparity problem between the factions?
5: What types of rewards can players expect with the updated Foundry Spotlight feature you said was coming in October?
Hey look, they missed all 5 of my questions. I guess its pretty easy to do when they are the very first reply in the thread...
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You have mentioned a couple of times that "Reputation" will be used to obtain certain things from special vendors, among them abilities.
Abilities?
Don't you think it's about time these were added to the STF vendor for EDC?
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2. Low priority but is there a way in the future for more internal ship customization? AKA Choose our quarters and ready room decorations? Along with ship crew uniforms and makeup? AKA Some would want an all andorian crew other's all vulcan. Some would want an all Female Klingon crew
3. Along the lines of 1, will there be more uniforms for KDF anytime soon? I know it's been said ships are on the way.
Lastly as a newer player I'd like to add my compliments about the game. I've been disappointed in other MMOs IP or none (they will remain nameless) and compared to one's I've enjoyed I have to say that STO over all is in a good state for being at 3 years.
1. You say you will be working on the kdf side of things so that you can make pvp better what sort of things do you have in mind regaurding this? And how is a strong kdf going to improve pvp as most pvpers que for fed v fed, I'm sure you are aware the pvpers are very disappointed from the lack of content pvp has received . The pvp community would really like to see some action even a new map would be great . We would like to see things implemented and less things about you are talking about around a table ,, we would also like to see devs in the ques so you can see how balance works in pvp compared to pve,,,,
Thank you
Kinetic
-Coup de Grace-
1) In a recent post you state that you and the team have concerns for the leveling speed of the fedside of gameplay and wish to possibly change it, How SO? What ideas are you looking at?
2) You mention that having the KDF and fed leveling to be more aligned in speed is a factor, does this mean that we KDF players may see more low-level PvE content to fill our mission ranks before the Devs focus back on endgame agnostic content?
3) Has the idea of KDF flavored STFs for endgame been discussed and do you think they are possible?
4) In the last of your postings you also state that you and the team where worried a third faction would disrupt the gameplay, fleets and possibly friends of the players. Such a fear was a reason you said that a third faction may not be implemented.
Why do you feel that a third faction would cuase this trouble instead of grow the game through offering another level of play?
R.I.P
Would it be possible to turn off the annoying animation prior to warp out that makes your ship come to a deadstop (if not already stationary) and execute a 90, 180 or 270 degree turn to port OR starboard! It TOTALLY breaks immersion and in some instances (Try warping out at DS9) means you warp right through other ships!
Or at least could we get an option to turn it off? I'm tired of apologising to other captains at DS9 about scratching their paintwork!
I know in the great scheme of things this is minor but it bugs the hell out of me.
Other than that....LOVE THE GAME!
Can we get the future imperfect com badge with scaling rank as part of a vet reward? very little work would have to be done to make this a reality.
I have not seen many costumes made from the costume request thread, such as the yesterdays enterprise military tng uniform with phaser belt and optional shoulder srap, tng admirals uniform for seasons 3~7 any chance?
2. Do you plan, at all, fixing the science space abilities.
3. What is the current standing of PvP updates.
4. Is there any chance of getting the low leve "Federation vs Klingon" PvP queues disabled/removed (as there are no low level Klingons)?
5. What is the standing of STO among other MMOs and what are general plans of PWE for 2013.
6. Can we get some PvE mixed level missions like those pre-F2P "Patrol System X" missions or perhaps you could get back the "clean sector X from Klingons/Feds" missions back - you know, so that you can get players of various ranks doing mission together without the need of teaming and so.
2) Will I ever be able to outfit my BOffs with my hard earned Omega Force and M.A.C.O. tailor uniforms?
3) In regards to heavy escorts and heavy carrier escorts, only the Akira's hull displays fleet emblems. Neither the new Thunderchild heavy escort or the Armitage heavy escort carrier allow a captain to display his fleet emblem. Will this ever be fixed?
4) What plans, if any, are in the works to finally unify the BOff and DOff systems? It would be nice to have a single crew system.
5) We really need more stuff to do on our own ships. Is there any content coming down the pipe which will make me want to spend more time in my ship's interior?
6) Could our sickbay please have a doctor capable of healing wounds and replicating regenerators? It's always seemed so incredibly silly to me that I can't heal my wounds in my own sickbay.
2) Having just created my first KDF toon I am starting to see the reason behind the much maligning of the costume and hair options. Four hairstyles!? Really? Damn! Adding my voice to the many asking for a bit of work here.
I agree with you on the Romulan faction and think Cryptic should add a campaine mode to it! it should be at a low level for all to access it i.e. level 13.
26th Fleet
Task Force Avalon - CO USS Intrepid
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
We currently have only 7 ranks for fleet officers, any plans to increase the number of ranks or to introduce a way to set permissions individually for every member?
I noticed that elite fleet space weapons are not listed as fleet holdings anymore. Why is that?
Star Trek Bridge Commander has an entire modding community which is doing some fantastic ship building; has Cryptic looked in to adding any of those modders to the staff?
Co-Leader of Serenity's Grasp
Are there any plans to make APs viable again or are they planning to just take them out of the game?
Related to that... do you plan to
A) use tribble as an actual test server instead of a glorified preview server, and
1. Can we get "Commodore" and "Fleet Captain" added to the vanity titles, unlocked upon reaching Rear Admiral Lower Half?
2. Any chance we could get a way to cycle the "walk" animation? The adjustment to Walk last year, made the walk a bit too slow. Possibility of using the "brisk walk" animation?
3. Any plans for some escorts that have a more "traditional" Starfleet ship look? Right now, all the escorts have very unique looks, but some escort captains (myself included) would like to see an escort that looks more in line with a Sovereign or other traditional Starfleet cruiser.
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
I?m currently on a 2 month Brake from STO so my question for (Dan) is:
What (if anything) that you know of is coming to STO in the very near future that might give me a reason to sit down an play the game that once played for hours on end again?
In a recent 'ask cryptic' discussion a question about the discount for fleet ship upgrades to KDF players was asked, and it was pointed out that currently there aren't any KDF c-store ships that qualify for the upgrade discount. DS replied that they were discussing a revamp of the upgrade price structure for KDF and/or possibly introducing more ships to KDF that would qualify for the discount.
Is it possible to inform the KDF players where Cryptic is in the discussions, and when the KDF players could expect the change in pricing of those fleet upgraded ships ?
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Dan, when will the Season 6 bugs be fixed, like the Fleet Mark Dailies where there are perfect Klingon cadets with no flaws? Incursion bugs where sometimes scripts don't happen, or in Colony Invasion where Diplomats don't count?
Working as intended! (Tee hee hee...... :P )
What is the Dev Team going to do about the massive increase of Trolls and Moochers in the public Fleet Mark Events that purposely do nothing?
Personally, this is really a major factor why I'm no longer interested in doing Fleet Starbases. And I don't have others interested in doing them as a team, since they are tired of grinding.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me.
In many ways, these Fleet Mark Events really need to be redone. But that's me talking.
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Hey look, they missed all 5 of my questions. I guess its pretty easy to do when they are the very first reply in the thread...