Ask Cryptic: November 2012 - Submit Your Questions, Please!

pwebranflakes

Hello Captains!

Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Dan tomorrow.

Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that should be released before the end of the month.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

partizan81

Will there be another Junior Officer Appreciation Week coming up in Season 7, and if so, when?

midniteshadow7

Can Gold Pressed Latinum, Dilithium, Lobi and standard white, green, blue and purple weapons, kits, consoles etc please be made account bound instead of character bound?
To stop people abusing the system on special rewards like lobi from completing say the Friday 13th mission, make those rewards of lobi etc character bound, but keep everything else account bound... like when you get a new DOFF that has hypos that are bound compared to the standard hypo.

ooiue

Will the KDF get more ships within the next 6 months? If not, can you at least give us the canon ship the 'K'vort Battlecruiser'? It's an awesome KDF ship that I'd like to fly

Will the KDF get ships that have equivelent values to the new Fed ships?

Will the KDF get more T5 ships that have unique stats, layouts and/or consoles?

Will the KDF get more exclusive content in Season 8?

ethoir

Will we be seeing the K'vort class "battlecruiser" for the KDF? Or an actual KDF science vessel that isn't appropriated from one of their "member species"?

How long until we see Ambassador now? Or the Constellation (Chyenne Heavy Cruiser doesn't count)? Norway class?

Story content takes a lot of time to develop. We get that. But ignoring FE series, what are the odds of us getting new story mission content for either faction?

At this point the Federation has TWO new vessels (technically 4: the Vesta trio and the Steamrunner). Will there be counterparts for the KDF? And what about fleet variants for these?
* Speaking of, Will these ships ever get their own unique bridge? They use the default Miranda bridge right now. (So do the Armitage and Atrox for that matter)

Will we see the return of STF loot bags for general loot drops (white to purple "standard issue" items and consumables)?

midniteshadow7

A few of months ago it was mentioned about trying to figure out a way to have better QA on new items such as ships, weapons and the like and how just putting it on Tribble did not always help as you got too much feedback returned that was not helpful.
Have you thought about having a QA Shard where gold members can apply to be part of a QA team?
Rules about how feedback should be provided could be part of the agreement on the application.
Rewards could also be given for a QA tester, say an extra 1,000 dilithium refinment per day.
Access and rewards could be withdrawn if user has not signed in X amount of days/months etc.

midniteshadow7

Will refer a friend ever return?

herbie1966

Will there be another chance to get the Special Rewards from the FE's anytime soon?

midniteshadow7

Will we ever be able to select which sector block our Starbase shows in?

wackywombat

Is there any truth to the rumor that a 'Fleet Assault Cruiser Refit' is getting added to the store at a later date? I heard rumblings when the refit was first released but nothing since.

kitsunesnout

Could an extra level of difficulty be available as an unlock for the very most hardcore of elite STF players? This should add even more aggressive borg and meaner ships to tackle in existing STF's with higher reward.

midniteshadow7

Can we have the ability to save Fleet Uniforms that contain Z/C-Store items?
If a user wants to use that uniform a message stating the amount of Zen required could appear and would give the ability to buy the items at that point so the uniform could be used.
Might increase sales!

kirimuffin

When can we expect to see playable Romulans, and will that entail more unique story content?

michaelp1989

Will KDF get more fleet ships and c store ones?

captaindsterling

When might we get customizable male/female Holographic Boffs???;)

sean2448

with account bank could we get a depository section for dilithium
also last year holiday event unveild a GPL console
could we see one for energy credits and then have that as fleet special project
because fleet bank fills up quick with white or green stuff I would think this would helpp that when you recycle you don't get fair value in energy credits

midniteshadow7

Social media integration... from what I have heard from podcasts and fleet members who were around at Beta, there used to be integration of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
The chat command /twitter still launches the window even though it cannot be used.
Can this return?
The ability to share our achievements and game play automatically would be great.
If this is brought back, have the ability to connect to Fleet Twitter accounts and Facebook pages would also be fantastic - having the system post when the Starbase is upgraded, projects completed, members joined, events created/starting etc would be a big plus and a good way to promote the game and fleets.

castsbugc

Since the dark times of the separation from Atari forward, the number of costumes and ships added to the game has proceeded forward fairly well, but the addition of these resources into the Foundry has not. It has been explained before that it takes time to put an object into the Foundry and while i can appreciate this, I have to ask why it has not been carried forward recently. When can we expect to see the Foundry editor caught up to 'current' releases of costumes and ships, let alone maps. (this includes when we will see access for Foundry authors to Tau Dewa)

Additionally to that, is there a timeline in which we will see more maps come into the editor?

drogyn1701

The Foundry has had very few individual assets added to it over its nearly two-year history. There are numerous ships, costumes and objects missing, including assets that were in-game before the Foundry was developed and those added after. Some have even been taken away. We were told at some point these would be added and that we should make a list in the forum for the developers. We have done so here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=330721 and in several other places. Can you shed some light on why this work has not been done and if you plan to have it done?

midniteshadow7

If you go to your personal bank, you have a tab for the account bank. but if you go to your account bank there are no tabs.

Can we not have tabs along the top for Personal/Account and Fleet banks no matter which one you start on?

Can options of transfer to account bank/personal bank be added to the bank to transfer items between the tabs without having to go via your inventory?

ceekayzero

What sort of changes are being considered for the (more-or-less) revilved [DMG] modifier?

rtk142

Why are Explore Strange New Worlds and the now largely pointless Chart the B'Tran Cluster (Vice Admiral) on a 24 cool down when every other daily in the game is on a 20 hour cool down?

cbp4964

Will we ever be able to send out bridge officers off on separate missions, or have them accompany us to battle in ships we assign them from our own selection? And do you think you might consider adding a feature so that we can opt to share certain of our ships with fleetmates? That might help in co-op missions.

a3001

Archived Post wrote: »

Pre-Branflakes Answers:


(5:20:20 PM) dstahl: RE: D'deridex in a lockbox: That ship will be part of any future plan for a playable Romulan species and not a lockbox

This is just to the record straight, or at least firmly crooked: will there or will there not be a "Romulan lockbox"?

midniteshadow7

Have you ever thought of deploying a system like UserVoice where we can vote on items we want to see in game the most?
This could help you better set your priority lists and schedules?

havam

Why don't you have anything to show for, after 2.5 years of "we care about PvP." What are you doing to make it better?
Where did all those new hires go, and why is QnA unaffected, they do a miserable job.
Why can't we have Fleet Marks for PvP its fleet content?? Why no omega marks for kerrat, we kill borg in there! Will you ever stop pretending that PvP is even on the to-do list?

pacoesie

Now that Season 7 is out and New Romulus is off and running. When will we be able to play as Romulans as promised when the game first came out??

captainwallis84

Greetings All,

First off, many thanks for season 7. It is defiantly more Trek and I'm loving it.

Ok my question is this. With the detail and effort Cryptic put into the Vesta class, I was wondering if we will get some improvements added to current ships like the Galaxy class etc. I noticed the Vesta has its own hull material with extra detailing. I would love a Galaxy class hull material with a proper orange/brown deflector dish. Is this a possibility. Oh while I'm at it...are there still plans for a Galaxy class interior pack.

Cheers

jmitchell76

Question 1. If we get playable Romulans, as its own faction or as Federation or Klingon factions, will players get more character slots in case all of ours are full?

Question 2. Now that we have both a science 3 ship set and a cruiser 3 ship set, will we ever see a 3 ship escort set?

Question 3. Since the Tholian lockboxs contain ships from the mirror universe and future/alternate time lines, any chance we could see the 2009 Abrams Constitution class ship as a lockbox or c-store item?

meurik

1. Will there ever be a "Vote-Kick" system added, especially for use in Special Task-Forces (STFs) ? I'm sure i'm not the only one who has occasionally experienced the random player who just sits there AFK, and doesn't contribute anything to the completion of the STF, sometimes even costing the "Optional" rewards. There -is- a "Kick" system, but it doesn't work for auto-teams (teams via PVE queue).

2. Will there be additional "packs" of ships/shuttles/bridges added to C-Store in the near future, and will existing packs be "split" for people who only want 1 or 2 pieces of said pack? Obviously the "pack" cost would be lower than the cost of buying each part individually.

3a. Season 7's "Reputation System" will be adding 2 new factions from the start: Omega Force, and Romulans. Will you be adding additional factions from time-to-time such as Starfleet, Cardassian, Deferi etc, even if you don't include special rewards/passive powers for them?

3b. Will the Reputation System ever be "lowered" in level requirement, to allow lower level players to start gaining Reputation with a specific faction, and will all lower level content be retrofitted to provide reputation rewards, depending on which faction is being benefitted during the mission?

4a. Exploration Revamp. Any word on the future of this idea? When will we finally get to "Seek out new life, and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before." ? Getting a bit tiresome running to specific Exploration Clusters, running the same "3 random missions" and you're done.

4b. Navigation via Galaxy Map. Will you ever add the ability to set a course to a specific system/sector via the Galaxy Map, and simultaneously bypass the "Traffic NPCs" when crossing from one sector block to another? I'm not looking for a "1 galaxy" type map, since apparently the tech isn't allowing such large maps, but I would prefer not having to talk to the Traffic NPCs every time I change sector block.

4c. Will there be more "quality-of-life" improvements in terms of moving from sector block->system->station/planet, and vice versa? I'd like to be able to exit to Beta Ursae directly from DS9 station, without having to first re-visit the DS9 system. Likewise, i'd like to be able to beam directly to Starfleet Academy from outside Sol while inside the Sirius Sector Block.

5. When will Foundry missions be given "proper" rewards compared to similarly detailed Episodic content?

midniteshadow7

Are there any plans to work on the XMPP access?
After updates the XMPP Fleet chat channels can quiet often become unavailable and functionality is not restored (in some cases) for weeks.
Being able to access chat channel outside of the game is very useful when trying to support fleet members in-game even when we are not.