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Ask Cryptic: January 2013
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In this brand-new edition of Ask Cryptic, Executive Producer Daniel Stahl delivers answers to player submitted questions.
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This is a typo, I hope?
Yes, obviously it was a typo :P It was fixed earlier if you refresh.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Track their damage/healing output (which is already done in some of the PvE bouts). Keep the information of "how much it take to be not considered AFK" a secret so the lazy players cannot figure it out and then just try to contribute the *absolute* minimum. This "minimum" line to be considered not AFK would varied from PvE bout to bout and varied between normal and elite modes as well.
Dans been jumpin' around in His Time Machine again...
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As a really huge TOS fan..,
I'm not sure whether to squeee or pass out about this.
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cool maybe it will be a Futurama update
Could we have the image at the top of this month's Ask Cryptic in a full-sized wallpaper please?
Number two: 22nd Century Excursion Jackets
Number three: Handheld communicator animation for non-combadge uniforms
With the klingons so lacking in content, or other concerns like changing species... why not simply unlock TR:Unrestricted or make species traits buyable (or C-Storeable) and respec everything based on customization?
The only theoretical answer is so that players will make multiple characters, however, Making it impossible for one player to acquire items as well as the absurd amount of Bind-to-character items that have been showing up kills that concept entirely.
...that said, there's absolutely NO reason why you'd restrict costume content (even such as maco or omegaforce) within the foundry. While a gorn head with tholian legs might not match up visually, KDF and FED parts are certainly interchangeable, as are Maco, HG, OF, and Off Duty outfits. All the different heads (Saurian, Gorn) obviously work on all bodies... so this seems rather silly.
That would pretty easily get rid of any AFK player behavior if they had to fear to not get any matches.
And if at all possible prioritize getting queued with players on the friend list?
That would increase the quality of pve matches A LOT.
More Dominion Ships in the next lockbox... ok, nice i guess, but when can i finally get a proper Jem'Hadar Captain for my Jem'Hadar Ship(s)?
Or, when will the promote First Officer to Player Captain ability finally be released?
Trait Respec in Season 8? finally! i bet half my chars didn't even know what they are going to do at Endgame.
Species Respec.... if you get me that Jem'Hadar and Breen Captain that i need for my Alien LockBox Ships (and maybe a Tholian?!) i'd totally pay 2000 Zen for that!
i also met some Players that intentionally used the Alien Creator to create different alien species in different costume slots and have written in their Bio that they are Shapeshifters. Think about that one for a bit
(how cool would it be if there was a Changeling morphing FX when you select a different Costume?)
aaaalso... we have seen:
Picard, Data and Troi as Romulans
Sisko, O'Brien and Odo (while Human!) as Klingons
Kira as Cardassian
...
plastic surgery like that seems pretty easy in the Star Trek future, i don't see a reason to restrict these things more than absolutely needed because of tech reasons.
(time limited GPL holograms are NOT what i am looking for)
TRIBBLE the future Factions that may never appear, i want "Monsterplay" and i want it now!
If i can have the Ships, why not the fitting Species?
When a Jem Hadar or Breen Faction arrives in 5 - 10 years, you can still sell me the option to import my Char to that Faction later
Introduce rep-style projects, accessible at the Drozana transporter room at a special Ferengi NPC who is a transporter accident researcher:
Corrupted Pattern Buffer Log: Personal (Species) (Gender)
Corrupted Pattern Buffer Log: Bridge Officer (Species) (Gender)
These generate an item which is redeemable for a special bridge officer or species respec that is one quality level above the inputs.
The project requires something like: Two BOs, 25k dilithium, 50k in commodities.
Combine two purple Vulcan BOs? Get an Elite Quality Vulcan BO. Combine two blues for a purple. Combine two greens for a blue. Combine two whites for a green. Ala the DOff grinder.
The reverse also works to split BOs out, again like the DOff grinder.
A Corrupted Pattern Buffer Log: Personal project (aka species/gender respec) requires two Elite BOs of a species, 100k dilithium, and 500k in commodities.
What this does is mean that you can only respec to species you can get four purple BOs of. This is how you disqualify androids/Borg. Because you can only get one at a time of each. (You could get playable Fed/KDF Romulan this way. And BO/Marauding species respec options could open up if you added KDF Ferengi/Fed Gorn etc. BOs to other commendation categories, fleshing out their rewards. And if somebody wants a Jem'Hadar or Breen, you'd need to add three more places to get purple Jem'Hadar or Breen BOs.)
This creates a BOff sink as BOs are, generally, getting way too cheap relative to other items of similar value.
Additionally, you could add special Corrupted Pattern Buffers via DOff assignments, reputation, DOff packs, and lockboxes. For example: a Bynars ground grand prize lockbox awards a Corrupted Pattern Buffer: Personal (Bynars) which changes your character into a pair of Bynars. Meanwhile, you offer Bynars bridge officers as more common rewards which can be upgraded in quality to provide a Corrupted Pattern Buffer: Personal (Bynars).
Corrupted Pattern Buffers could also provide hybrid BOs and hybrid species respecs. For example, half-Romulan, half-human BOs with inputs requiring half of one and half of the other.
The whole thing is vaguely dark from a roleplay perspective but you could have the Ferengi and supporting text address this somewhat so that the Captain doesn't know the outcome even if the PLAYER does.
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retrait options >>>always wanted some space traits for my 3 year old toon wich no space traits.
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The other thought that occurred to me is that they might try giving us a T-3 version of these ships (KDF and the Ambassador) with us having to pay for the T-5 version.
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All well and good, but what about if a Foundry Author wants to revisit a world he's created and give players another reason to go back? Or base a series arc of missions around that one planet?
Please take that into consideration when you build out this feature.
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all new kdf design for the anniversary, as in not kvort, confirmed
my poor very old characters with TRIBBLE traits are finally going to get accurate and elusive!
all sounds good, the future looks bright!
New features would be much more appreciated than a summer event. Sure it would be interesting but not as much as new queues and new reps (as long as it's not a pvp one).
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
*chants*
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I would definitely want to see options for fleet alliances.
The notion of fleet mergers leaves me a bit nervous, though, especially considering the number of times forum posters have complained about fleets being raided or harmed by people they thought they could trust. The widely-publicized Guiding Hands take-down in EVE is an eye-opening cautionary tale highlighting what STO shouldn't allow to happen.
I think having the option to merge is a good idea, but there should be some checks and balances and some way for fleet members to opt-out of the merge.
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How come we can't go through the DS9 wormhole?
When will we get to play as the Romulans?
when will we be able to mont single cannons and duel beam bank arrays on the aft?
Except most of the KDF can't get to Risa! Risa! Risa! . :rolleyes:
:eek: You piqued my interest!
Though I'm betting that Enterprise-Era ship, one is likely the Andorian ship. But the TOS-Era, so many possibilities.
Didn't think this was still going to happen, haven't heard anything about this for years. I could easily see Warp Core slots being added and it changes the nacelle design.
Be nice if we could restructure the rank system where end-game is Captain and save Admiral for unique cases like Fleet Leaders.
While I never saw it as a player ship, I really doubt the claims on the size causing gameplay issues. The Enterprise-J is no bigger than ESD (Diameter-wise at the docking level).
So I could easily see the Enterprise-J showing up in a future time travel episode.
But the other Enterprise G, H, and I, now thats interesting. Though I'm nervious about the can of worms this might open up with the community after the DTNE.
I still have doubts about a PvP reputation system, due to the possibility of adding buffs to PvPers, when PvErs don't want to PvP. Not to mention widening the gap between new PvPers and long-term veteran PvPers.
Crafting, I could see it opening new receipes and such.
Just hope you fix Fast and Flurious with the bugs, like the DQ at that one turn. And getting rid of the farming bot piles.
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Definitely would be nice for ways to help smaller fleets.
Could easily see a cooperative where Small Fleets need to complete projects, while Large fleets have members looking to find a project to contribute so they could earn fleet marks.
This way you don't have small fleets falling apart for members who want to join T4 or T5 fleets.
While I don't mind the option to merge fleets, I rather would like to see a type of cooperative system. That way small fleets who want to stay small, can stay small and not be forced to join a collective.
Not to mention some small fleets have worked hard up til this point and if the large fleet splits apart, that small fleet can't return to where they were, they would have to start over.
We've confirmed this many times
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I think a one-time change of race wouldn't be out of line, or maybe a limit on how many times you can do it.
Likewise for career changes.
And while we're on the topic of Traits... is there any chance that we might see the whole Trait system revisited?
It's always galled me that
A) BOFFs get superior traits, but we don't. AFAIK, Traits don't scale up with level/rank.
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My question about the TOS ships, is what is left? Its been a while since I watched those, but I'm pretty sure that the Enterprise and the rest of her class were about it for the Feds, and the D7 is the same for the KDF. So what would be left?
A DY-100 sleeper ship? KHAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
The Aurora (The space hippy ship)?
Old Style Romulan Bird of Prey? That might be kinda cool, but I doubt it.
If you really stretch the point, the old one nacelle Destroyer/Scout class from the Star Fleet technical manual? It did appear in the movies in the background.
Same for Enterprise era, what's left? There's that other star fleet design witht he arrow head. Some cargo ships, and ships from races that would become federation members, but we're getting an Andorian ship and we already have a Vulcan ship that look like those (hopefully in the case of the Andorian ship). Maybe Xindi ships? That might be cool, but I think they're hitting the bottom of the barrel shooting that far into the past.
Eh, guess we'll find out sooner or later.
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But Q could get anyone to Risa! Risa! Risa!
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