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Season 6 Dev Blog #30
pwebranflakes
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Lead Content Designer Scott "Goatshark" Shicoff shares details about the seventh Starbase Featured Project in this entry of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.
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but 200K dilithium....for a table and chairs?
Does the table fly? Do the chairs magically conform to the body of whoever is seated?
If not...200k? for a table and chairs?
I'm getting a headache.
Its not quite table and chairs. there are gold ships for the feds, and the klingon ones has some nice extras.
and thats still not quite worth 200K, either. Seriously, these projects are incredibly overpriced.
The table, chairs and gold ships are a nice touch.
I'm with boglejam on this one. Tired of seeing largely "cosmetic" upgrades to the base, cost 200'000 Dilithium. Why can't you use Energy Credits for cosmetics (with an appropriate increased numerical value) ? Energy Credits is largely unused, since everything cost Dilithium these days.
they probably are although it depends on the size of your fleet. for large fleets its next to nothing if everyone chips in.
but this is the 7th one now. the price should not be a shock for anyone at this point and probably is not going to change anytime soon.
Would a dev do that in their house ?
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Aside from that, everything in this starbase already existed, they are just chopping down premade fleet bases and selling them at 1 piece at a time. Too bad they'll never listen to us and give us something... useful, a table and chairs is "useful" but it is the laziest table and chair design I've ever seen. Don't get me started on these out of place gold ships
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10 seconds? i cant find a sheet of paper in 10 seconds and you expect someone to model 3d objects in that time?
To my knowledge those chairs (both fed and kfd) and table to not exist anywhere in game. they look unique and have to be made from scratch. the fire has logs under it and is clearly designed for a fireplace and the bone skull and mugato rug has to be made either from scratch or at least use some use of the existing model as a starting points.
the only thing that might be a copy and paste is the gold ships.
As a graphic designer, I've done 3D modeling, 10 seconds is an exaggeration obviously, but not by much. Pretty sure you can find that rug and fire/logs on KDF maps. But are we really making the argument that chairs and a table, and a bunch of logs is difficult and challenging to make? Really?
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Actually, those chairs are from the Prometheus style bridges so they are basically a copy and paste. Fed wise... complete waste of time. KDF side though, I am finally happy to see a fire go in that fireplace.
If only all limited time projects were as good...
Which leads us to another point, 200k for Fire......... If I ever thought of a definition for the word scam, cryptic would probably be the first to come to mind.
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If you don't think the price is worth it, don't buy it. My fleet didn't think the Security Guards were worth it, so we didn't even queue it up.
I will be queuing this up for my fleet, since it happens to be the exact item they were specifically wanting. With the Dilithium they saved by not investing in the security guards, it should be less painful on their reserves too.
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i know for certain you cant find that rug anywhere. the mugato was only introduced in season 6 and there have been no klingon missions since then and ive played the ones we have enough time to know. im almost certain you cant find the chairs or the fireplace anywhere but if you can find them let me know. im happy to be proven wrong about it.
no im not making that argument at all, as i clearly never said that it was difficult or challenging as i assume the artist is a very good one and knows what he is doing but you said 10 seconds. you admit its an exaggeration which it obviously was but even now you say 'not by much'. so how long using all you expert knowledge of graphics design would it take to make all of that stuff? an hour? 6 hours? a day? 2 days. what?
how long does it take to bug test, and hook up, to add any seating animations, to link to the project start window?
But it's soon going to reach a point where we want PRACTICAL extras. We're well into Tier III now and dilithium is beginning to dictate project times. The necessity of a bang for our buck needs to be addressed Cryptic. Give us things we can use.
Also please don't neglect the exterior of the starbase. Give us things actually happening and changing. For fleets that will have spent hundreds and hundreds of potential pounds/dollars on their bases thus far. I think it's time you used that to make proper decks like the Science, Engineering & Tactical floors that are custom made, not just copy-n-pasted rooms from already existing areas. It's plain to see the Engineering deck is actually Cap's Table, it's obvious the Tactical deck was used for a couple of missions involving the Klingons and the less said about the sci deck that is in fact a deck from your ships jumbled up, the better.
Fleets are putting a lot of time, organization and resources into these grind fests of yours. The LEAST you can do it make it worthwhile. Get Tumorboy to get off his TRIBBLE and give us a starbase, not just an "Ops" deck.
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I defintely agree but it is something I have wanted since originally seeing that fireplace. Worth 200k DL... Definitely not! However, I am glad it is finally being added.
It is very nice to see more opinions reflecting on the massive cash grab Cryptic/PWE has turned this game into. Sadly, there are still way too many payers willing to just throw moeny in Crytpic/PWE's direction every time they copy and paste something into a new location or think up some sort of lame excuse to put it in a lock box. It's nice to see I'm not the only one around here who doesn't have my head stuck up Cryptic/PWE's TRIBBLE to the point of being delusional!
You are over analyzing this, I said how long it took to create them, not how long it took to implement them. Which again, if you consider the fact that there are already animations for sitting, the answer is probably just the same ;p
As for the chairs for KDF, if they added more ( which I am assuming ) they just copy and pasted the chair next to it, that was already there. Someone already verified that the fed chairs were from Prometheus layout, I'll have to go back to my MVAM to verify that.
The table is a transparent slab held up by white bars... :P
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i concede the fed chairs are a copy and paste job. thats fine.
you still have not told me how long it would take to create one kdf chair with its little details, one mugato rug, the bone skull, the table (however basic), the fire and logs and do his copy and pasting. i still want to know how much time we are adding to that initial 10 seconds.
and the implementation part is still important to whole the process, and i dont think that can be ignored. i respect the guy who sits down and codes it all in and does the boring bit as much as the artists who makes them.
I think you misunderstand me, implementation is irrelevant, I'm complaining about lack of detail and effort. And again... the chair was already there, it was just copy and pasted. I should make an effort to go about KDF maps and see if I can find these other things. Speaking of effort, according to the screenshot the whitebars of the transparent slab stick out beyond the transparent slab..
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What about some crew performing actual tasks instead of wandering like idiots in the starbase? Would definitely pay dil for that!
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
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