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Season 7 Dev Blog #32

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited January 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Content Designer Charles Gray shares details about the upcoming 3-Year Anniversary event in this entry of the Season 7 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    time for some reading me thinks , be right back with comments
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  • tehjoneltehjonel Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    *facepalm* where's the stats?
  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    So much for getting stats on these ships...

    Is it really so difficult for you guys to put out all the details on something at once, as opposed to dragging out blogs over three days?
  • thegalaxy31thegalaxy31 Member Posts: 1,211 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Woot! Good job, Cryptic!
    I would love to visit this star in-game...or maybe this one!
    Won't SOMEONE please think of the CHILDREN?!
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2013
    This sounds so good.
    Thank You.
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  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    tehjonel wrote: »
    *facepalm* where's the stats?

    THIS. Seems more like a troll post.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Support Cruiser.

    Okay, so one takes a look at the types out there looking for a Support starship. One finds the KDF Support Vessels.

    In looking at that, one might be tempted to start looking at the Nebula...

    Hrmmm... oh, how the speculation will continue!
  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Just my opinion, but I would of combined this dev blog with the one for tomorrow(?) with the ship stats. The picture is nice though.
  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer Member Posts: 1,328 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    THIS. Seems more like a troll post.

    Maybe ... maybe not.

    It was nice to learn how we are getting them but they know we all are dying to know the stats. ... So they are stretching it out.

    It's expected. Its what they do.

    Lockbox gets announced one day and the stats for the ship comes out the next.

    Same in this case. ... and so we continue our waiting.
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    So am I interpreting this right:

    The mission and tier 3 ship reward are permanent, but the tier 5 is only during the event?
  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    So am I interpreting this right:

    The mission and tier 3 ship reward are permanent, but the tier 5 is only during the event?

    Yep, Branflakes confirmed this over here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=530651&page=3.
  • c0nd1t10nr3dc0nd1t10nr3d Member Posts: 638 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    So am I interpreting this right:

    The mission and tier 3 ship reward are permanent, but the tier 5 is only during the event?

    Yes.

    Question to Capt. Fiber (aka Branflakes) :D - When can we expect the blog with the stats of the ships? Thanks. ;)
  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    So am I interpreting this right:

    The mission and tier 3 ship reward are permanent, but the tier 5 is only during the event?

    That's what it looks like to me. I can get behind a free iconic ship for newbies even if hey will only use it for a few days before they move on.
  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Yes.

    Question to Capt. Fiber (aka Branflakes) :D - When can we expect the blog with the stats of the ships? Thanks. ;)

    You must be new here. Noon PST tomorrow you will get the stats - they day after the announcement post, just like always.
  • c0nd1t10nr3dc0nd1t10nr3d Member Posts: 638 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    jaturnley wrote: »
    You must be new here. Noon PST tomorrow you will get the stats - they day after the announcement post, just like always.

    If 1 year is considered new then, yea! lol... Thanks for the info jaturnley! ;)
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Intriguing. I have two questions:

    1) Will the story be the same for Fed and KDF, or will the latter faction have their own unique mission involving a Kamarag class battlecruiser?

    2) Will the Ambassador and Kamarag ships be going in the Foundry?
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  • zulisvelzulisvel Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    "Support Cruiser Starship." Hmmm... And the audio interview said "lots of Phaser firepower." The former sounds sciency and the latter sounds tac-heavy. Dare I hope the Ambassador is a somehow equally balanced between tac, eng, and sci?

    Edit: Thinking about it. The Ambassador class was canonically the first Fed starship class to have beam arrays. So a Scicelsior boff layout with a phaser variant of the Romulan heavy plasma array?
  • ravinravin Member Posts: 509 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    So much for getting stats on these ships...

    Is it really so difficult for you guys to put out all the details on something at once, as opposed to dragging out blogs over three days?

    Is it really so difficult for people to not complain about things for the sake of complaining? I mean we're getting two free ships. This is how they always present news like this, it builds suspense, gets us excited. They want us to speculate.
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  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    ravin wrote: »
    Is it really so difficult for people to not complain about things for the sake of complaining? I mean we're getting two free ships. This is how they always present news like this, it builds suspense, gets us excited. They want us to speculate.


    Vague statements and lack of specifics have cause all manner of kerfuffles between the dev team and players, ranging from simple misunderstandings at best to flat out falsehoods at worst. Not to mention it's quite annoying to be told repeatedly "stay tuned for that one piece of information you actually want while we keep talking in circles without actually saying anything".

    Playing the "I know something you guys don't know" game with the playerbase is never, ever the right move.
  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    why are we getting two?
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • tehjoneltehjonel Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    ravin wrote: »
    Is it really so difficult for people to not complain about things for the sake of complaining? I mean we're getting two free ships. This is how they always present news like this, it builds suspense, gets us excited. They want us to speculate.

    Dev Blog #32: Backstory on Anniversary ships.

    Dev Blog #33: Anniversary ship stats.

    Dev Blog #34: Anniversary ship console configuration + backstory.

    Dev Blog #35: Backstory about the backstory.

    Dev Blog #36: What flavors the Anniversary ships come in.

    ...please.
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'll definitely get it with my FED. Not so sure it fits my KDF slot but... well, I might get it anyway while it's there to be had.


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  • drudgydrudgy Member Posts: 367 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    No lie, I was totally hoping that the story would go something like this:

    In 2409, the rescue vessel U.S.S. Enterprise F is dispatched to answer a distress signal received from the Enterprise C, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Narendra III, sixty five years prior. Captain Va'Kel Shon and his crew are joined for the mission by the Enterprise C's designer Dr. William Weir. Dr. Weir briefs the crew that the Enterprise C was built to test an experimental gravity drive which generates an artificial black hole to use the immense gravitational power to bridge two points in spacetime, greatly reducing travel time over astronomical distances.

    Lol. Too bad we didn't have to go recover it from a decaying orbit around Neptune.
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  • tuskin67tuskin67 Member Posts: 1,097 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Its like you people have forgotten how the Dev blogs work. They've always come in pairs.

    One Dev Blog on the Ship, then the next Dev Blog is the stats.

    Its been like that for nearly every ship released. It hasn't changed any, not sure why you are complaining.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    She looks great, and I look forward to seeing the specs.
  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    tuskin67 wrote: »
    Its like you people have forgotten how the Dev blogs work.

    1 Dev Blog on the Ship, then the next Dev Blog is the stats.

    Its been like that for nearly every ship released. They've always come in pairs.

    They haven't forgotten. If it's not exactly what they want, they'll complain. And if it's exactly what they want, they will complain about why they didn't have it at launch. Trolls gotta troll, and whiners gotta whine, it's the Internet.
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited January 2013
    tehjonel wrote: »
    Dev Blog #32: Backstory on Anniversary ships.

    Dev Blog #33: Anniversary ship stats.

    Dev Blog #34: Anniversary ship console configuration + backstory.

    Dev Blog #35: Backstory about the backstory.

    Dev Blog #36: What flavors the Anniversary ships come in.

    ...please.

    You forgot #37: backstory about the flavors.

    Joking aside, stats will be out tomorrow UNLESS THE WORLD ENDS BECAUSE I WON'T BE HERE TO POST IT IF IT DOES. ERMAHGERD!!! SDFSDFSDFFHD :eek:

    :P

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Yes. I've updated my signature to properly represent the joys of this place.


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  • captainmikeccaptainmikec Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    You forgot #37: backstory about the flavors.

    Joking aside, stats will be out tomorrow UNLESS THE WORLD ENDS BECAUSE I WON'T BE HERE TO POST IT IF IT DOES. ERMAHGERD!!! SDFSDFSDFFHD :eek:

    :P

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    oh noes!!
    i didnt know there were still mayans in the 25th century hehe
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  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    oh noes!!
    i didnt know there were still mayans in the 25th century hehe
    :D

    That would actually be a great foundry mission. I mean why not, Star Trek had native American planets more than once. A "Mayans didn't die out, they got on a UFO and live in the Oompa Loompa Expanse now and have their own planet" works.

    Tempted to do this myself now that I think about it...


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