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Subspace Radio Interviews SalamiInferno

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited September 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
In a recent interview, Subspace Radio sat down to talk with Producer Steve "SalamiInferno" Ricossa, Jr. Listen to the recording, and read the transcript, here.


Link to the interview.
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Was a nice read since I can't hear too well. Was great to be able to enjoy the podcast in this form right off the bat.

    I think some of the issues being that I am mostly a KDF player but overall a STO player is that its not the level 1-20 content that bothers me in some way I think Cryptic did the right thing on accident there with that because usually in defined Klingon hierarchy rules of engagement on becoming a captain of a ship it would either be serving under someone for an extended period of time or either seizing an opportunity to slay your captain to become captain in Klingon Lore.

    The real issue is you have you STF's and now Fleet Events surrounded your Empire either be the Federation or the Klingon Empire. Only thing I would add to those is that the KDF should be attacking an enemy type of starbase's freighters in the blockade or either a choice between joining a defense or offense of freighters. The real issue is end game and that there are no faction specific story que missions for example the vault after the Reman/Romulan series is great because its something to do making the story feel more involved. My suggestion is they have an STF style thing for each story arc and as time goes by that the mission changes as story changes and either have a mini mission or featured episode bridging them together. So the only other thing besides playable end game missions for each faction is the mission ship areas which the KDF is lacking more so than the Federation because the Federation side pretty much has the vast majority of ships seen in Star Trek. Where as the KDF and the races that make it up are only a faction of what could be made even if half of them would be vetoed by CBS. For an example in the game siphon pods are nausicaan technology but no nausicaan designed ship can launch these, the ferasans and letheans have no ships of their own design or any kind of mercenary ship that would fit them as being one not of a specific enemy faction. There are just a lot of areas that could be explored on that but yet not counting Fleet ships because those are copy and paste of what was already in existance the last ship to hit the C-Store for the KDF was the bortasqu' and countless federation ships have hit the market since then but yet nothing for the KDF.
  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I think the one thing that bothers me about these interviews, is there never seems to be any thing PVP Related. It's almost like all of the interviewers just completely, and utterly ignore PVP In STO as a whole and have no desire to discuss PVP in Star trek. As if it doesn't exist. :mad:
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  • chronoblitz66chronoblitz66 Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    i have no clue what creamy meant when he asked that and yes i do like the defiant but what other ship was he referring to? :mad:
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    We had talked about making a holodeck pack, you know a pack for people who want foundry missions, cowboy stuff from, fistful of data, or Dixon-nell hat or Tommy gun inside of a violin case, just cool, kinda, rocky things that don?t fit in the star trek universe, but would make really cool holodeck missions for foundry authors.

    WANT.

    I'll add, I wouldn't pay for Foundry stuff typically. I get qualms about that.

    But a pack of assets THAT far out from standard development would earn my money.

    If I may suggest in terms of getting those items into players' hands, my suggestion would be:

    Add the ability for Foundry authors to place vendors in their mission as a special contact type. Stuff like bartenders, melee weapon merchants, EV suit merchants.

    And have some vendors that can only be found in Foundry missions.

    And if someone picks up the Holodeck pack (heck, I'd rather assets themselves be free), included with that are vendors who sell the Holodeck items for dilithium.

    So in a sense, buying the Holodeck pack is like buying advertising for authors.

    I buy the pack. I get to place special vendors in my missions who sell special items. This draws people to my missions because they may want, say old west gear. And they can only get it through an author's mission who has the pack.

    And Cryptic makes money through authors who buy the "special vendor" pack. And indirectly through players spending dilithium at the vendors.
  • zorbanezorbane Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    webdeath wrote: »
    I think the one thing that bothers me about these interviews, is there never seems to be any thing PVP Related. It's almost like all of the interviewers just completely, and utterly ignore PVP In STO as a whole and have no desire to discuss PVP in Star trek. As if it doesn't exist. :mad:

    It may be simply that the people who runs the podcasts aren't PvP players? Maybe you can try and drum up interest in the PvP forum to have a PvP related podcast. Not sure what you guys would talk about other than how terrible it is though :(
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    webdeath wrote: »
    I think the one thing that bothers me about these interviews, is there never seems to be any thing PVP Related. It's almost like all of the interviewers just completely, and utterly ignore PVP In STO as a whole and have no desire to discuss PVP in Star trek. As if it doesn't exist. :mad:

    I'm disappointed as the next person about them not talking about PvP but I understand a few things that are holding them back. First one is Dstahl has mentioned and admitted how the federation will always be the majority playerbase although not stated in relation to PvP so it would never be a balanced faction system. Any future factions will be along side the KDF as minorities.

    Another thing is there are so many areas of space, worlds, installations, etc that are not in the game that really for what I want and what I have heard what others want for the Star Trek PvP experience to be as Grand as we want its going to take a massive undertaking. Although I believe the starting point is that before any additional factions are made that the Federation and the KDF should have organizations with daily mission system setup that define a character as one that never goes into PvP, Casual PvP, or Hardcore PvP. So some areas some people would not have to worry about PvP issues and then with places where its PvP no matter who you represent that you get great prestige rewards *possibly depending on your luck* where its Open Season on anyone not in your team or whatever.

    I do think they need all the Core Federation planets/stuff we all know and love as well as KDF equivalent made to fit something like this before they can make it where it needs to be. Which I know is more than likely what they are aiming for is to possibly get away from the unpolished look of the game. Although last thing they most likely need because I'm an avid believer of fellow players and including myself when it comes to PvP playing legit if you beat me fair and square having the same deck of cards I can get then I deserve it if you beat me but if you go and find some way to never take any damage and just wipe people out without skipping a beat then thats the only real big worry I have with them not discussing how they would solve that type of issue but a possible solution with this post has been laid out for them and hoping they may take it into consideration.

    Edit: Odds are the not asking PvP questions came from not being on the short term agenda from Dstahl, not feeling comfortable talking about it, or pretty much what I laid out that to make this game true to its brand for Star Trek its going to need a lot of work. Not saying death matches aren't okay to a point but thats what they are and a lot of people just don't like how some people as one guy I know put it... "Becoming a PvP Scientist" they go in and just get stomped but thats why there needs to be different degrees of PvP and so many numerous places to go to PvP in STO that it makes it that much harder to run into people you may not want to be fighting against or fighting at all. In the end though we are all STO players regardless if we like human or non human interactions :)
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    i have no clue what creamy meant when he asked that and yes i do like the defiant but what other ship was he referring to? :mad:

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  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Sorry about the b'rel snafu that has been fixed.

    As for not asking any questions about pvp - It actually had zip to do with him liking pvp or not liking pvp...honest answer is no one asked any pvp questions in the "Ask Salami Inferno a question" thread that was posted ;)
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    askray wrote: »
    Sorry about the b'rel snafu that has been fixed.

    As for not asking any questions about pvp - It actually had zip to do with him liking pvp or not liking pvp...honest answer is no one asked any pvp questions in the "Ask Salami Inferno a question" thread that was posted ;)

    It was asked... don't they have letheans to read our minds? :P
  • captainbaldycaptainbaldy Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    askray wrote: »
    Sorry about the b'rel snafu that has been fixed.

    As for not asking any questions about pvp - It actually had zip to do with him liking pvp or not liking pvp...honest answer is no one asked any pvp questions in the "Ask Salami Inferno a question" thread that was posted ;)

    This right here. I actually really enjoy pvp (honestly, I enjoy all of the content types in STO...I consider myself a well-rounded player) amongst my friends and would really like to see the fleet system make use of it. And since the ask cryptic just came out and addressed some pvp concerns, I opted to steer clear of the topic from my own questions.

    EDIT:

    And derp...forgot to mention that this is DJ Creamy *waves*
  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    It was asked... don't they have letheans to read our minds? :P

    *shrugs* I hope not, people don't wanna be in my head :p
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  • emperorandyemperorandy Member Posts: 102 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    It is really frustrating and confusing to read read two Dan Stahl Q&A's in a row where he practically promises the KDF will be expanded to full faction status and gets my hopes all up, and then in this Salami interview it is just "an option" they might do.

    Make up your minds :(
  • jnohdjnohd Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    It is really frustrating and confusing to read read two Dan Stahl Q&A's in a row where he practically promises the KDF will be expanded to full faction status and gets my hopes all up, and then in this Salami interview it is just "an option" they might do.

    Make up your minds :(

    Agreed. Single unified message, please. No matter how leading the question or interviewer.
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  • allyoftheforceallyoftheforce Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Nothing on crafting?
  • blagormblagorm Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Was a nice read since I can't hear too well. Was great to be able to enjoy the podcast in this form right off the bat.

    I think some of the issues being that I am mostly a KDF player but overall a STO player is that its not the level 1-20 content that bothers me in some way I think Cryptic did the right thing on accident there with that because usually in defined Klingon hierarchy rules of engagement on becoming a captain of a ship it would either be serving under someone for an extended period of time or either seizing an opportunity to slay your captain to become captain in Klingon Lore.

    The real issue is you have you STF's and now Fleet Events surrounded your Empire either be the Federation or the Klingon Empire. Only thing I would add to those is that the KDF should be attacking an enemy type of starbase's freighters in the blockade or either a choice between joining a defense or offense of freighters. The real issue is end game and that there are no faction specific story que missions for example the vault after the Reman/Romulan series is great because its something to do making the story feel more involved. My suggestion is they have an STF style thing for each story arc and as time goes by that the mission changes as story changes and either have a mini mission or featured episode bridging them together. So the only other thing besides playable end game missions for each faction is the mission ship areas which the KDF is lacking more so than the Federation because the Federation side pretty much has the vast majority of ships seen in Star Trek. Where as the KDF and the races that make it up are only a faction of what could be made even if half of them would be vetoed by CBS. For an example in the game siphon pods are nausicaan technology but no nausicaan designed ship can launch these, the ferasans and letheans have no ships of their own design or any kind of mercenary ship that would fit them as being one not of a specific enemy faction. There are just a lot of areas that could be explored on that but yet not counting Fleet ships because those are copy and paste of what was already in existance the last ship to hit the C-Store for the KDF was the bortasqu' and countless federation ships have hit the market since then but yet nothing for the KDF.

    Now, as you may know, there has been a lot of talk about the KDF thing and I agree it needs work. The interview said that they are somewhat just not gonna work on it. You say we should be greatful but we shouldn't. Newest Ship in May: Borstaqu'. FEDs got a ship there and about 6+ after that. Then are newest content is Race: Fersasans and thats all since EV suits is both factions. Also, doing the Romulan Faction will destroy the point of KDF getting anything. Think about all the things you could do to fix KDF with that profit than getting a new faction. KDF is "some what" treated as the Empire would say, dead gagh. They barley got anything in the year 2012 but by what I know 1 mission, and 1 thing in about ships and cosmetics. Cross-faction dosen't matter to me. FEDs had a large streak of taking up most of the news. You had to search for "meteforic miles" to find a KDF news article. They are probally knocked out of the history now. I can argue about this but it gets tiresome and I am just doing this for the people. Mostly I'm a little canidate trying to convince you understand about this problem. It seems irrelivent but I think not. I even made a post about this KDF "ignorance". You can find this in KDF Gameplay folder on fourm. Find my name and next to it my post and look at it. Id say more but im getting tired of typing this annoying problem that should be dealt with. It just is so annoying when you see SO much Federation stuff taking the KDF Faction out thy window and you haven't seen anything for a while. Think of KDF as your hero in life with support and helps you like a parent and suddenly dies. This is KDF content. I spent 80$ on Zen and used it on Keys because the KDF had nothing of value. Fix this before you break someone.
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