Borg ships doesn't necessarily mean Cubes and Spheres, they could be referring to some sort of Borg assimilated designs of more conventional ships. I don't think Cubes and Spheres would be practical anyway, they are just way too big. To be honest I would be seriously disappointed if they made the most visually uninteresting ships in the game playable, it would turn the game into a farce. Flying around in giant boxes and giant bowling balls? This is Star Trek, not Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Online.
They could do the renegade borg ship from Descent..... It's a borg ship, but not a basic shape.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
Why would you have a Borg ship...and how would you fly it?
I mean it doesn't exactly have LCARS joypads or flight sticks. You have to...plug in.
Thanks BranFlakes for posting that chat, the Drozana I ended up in was a warzone and I couldn't even join in.
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[8:44] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: RE: Borg ships - that could be sometime later this year
Wait is he talking about playable Borg ships? Or new Borg NPC ships?
Because if its playable Borg ships, I hope its assimilated faction ships, like the assimilated Negh'Vars you see in STF's, and not playable Borg Cubes. I think the Borg are cool and everything, but I don't think I could bear warping into ESD and having to navigate around a mile-wide chunk of steel someone has parked there.
I'm confused by dstahl's declaration that the Galaxy would get saucer separation. What was that a response to? Doesn't the Galaxy already have saucer separation?
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We can already get that effect by getting the Borg equipment from STFs and enabling visuals. No profit for Cryptic to sell that in lockboxes.
See, I think they ran out of Mirror Ships as gimmick consolation prizes and the next 6 rounds of consolation prizes will be Borg Assimilated Patrol Escort/Advanced Escort, Assault Cruiser/Star Cruiser, DSSV/Recon SV.
Probably with nacelles/hull etc. that display the Borg set. Maybe inverted so that equipping the actual Borg set gives you a symmetrical Borg set look.
They need a new round of cheap "You didn't win!" ships now that they've offered all the free ships in Mirror form and I'm betting Assimilated variants of RA ships will be the new Mirror ship gimmick.
First to comment on this, but his comments on localization made me go
Portuguese is the top contender? Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the world! It would open STO to all of Central and South America, apart from Spain itself. Most of those countries have just as rabid a fanbase, too, especially when it comes to TOS and TNG.
I think now that Dan has given us his e-mail adress, Cryptic should upgrade his mail account by a few more Gigs of space...:D
Anyway, maybe it would be a good idea to create a "Bugs and Errors" Thread here on the Board and Bran sends this once or twice a week directly to Dan, and not to one of the Devs who is already overcharged with work.
So Dan would have much more oversight and could coordinate his team and resources.
First to comment on this, but his comments on localization made me go
Portuguese is the top contender? Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the world! It would open STO to all of Central and South America, apart from Spain itself. Most of those countries have just as rabid a fanbase, too, especially when it comes to TOS and TNG.
He did say contender, which means it's not the only consideration.
with all this new stuff coming to sto it is making the game one of the best if not the best online game to play at the moment .Theres a few things i would like to see we have plenty of ships to choose from story lines to die for.
I am fed and i used to have a klingon but i found i did not like it theres far too much red and because of this it made my eyes always feel heavy when playing as i know it proberly does the same to others.
what klingons need on there behalf is that fixing.but the main thing for them is the lack of costumes in the c store.
now as a whole for all us gamers we need more on the lines of social activity ok we have dabo that we can play at the stations but we need some more games that we can take part in. tri chess could fit in but not many like chess.
there could be card games and other things to do.
also to have these on our fleet stations so fleets can run games at there stations.
we dont all fight 24/7 so we need that bit of something to have a break from all the fighting and still have fun.
on earth it would be cool if we could get shore leave and have places to visit.just see whats across the other side of the river.and venture on our own planet .
another idea would be to have new small craft that take on a bomber role where there is ground missions where you take a bomber and particapate in small fighter and bomber missions on planets taking on the large turrets that we have seen on missions like the romulan mission where you call for the orbital strike to destroy these turrerts there could be bunkers to take out the list could go on and on with this concept.
ideas that everyone adds to keep you devs busy added up theres a lot some are great some not so but as a whole theres still content that can keep this game running for years to come.
i very seldom post anything on forums but when i do i like to make it good and give great ideas to help with all of our game play.
theres far much more i could add but lets take things at a steady rate so you guys dont get over croweded with info .
have fun guys keep up the good work .
He did say contender, which means it's not the only consideration.
He said top contender. And that's not even how you write "Portuguese"
[10:21] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: We are looking into additional localizations for STO in 2013 - we haven't confirmed which languages yet, but I've heard possibly Portugeuse as a top contender
[8:47] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: There is an update in May but I've stopped calling it Season 8 - it is something different
[8:49] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: We aren't talking about what is in the May update yet. Sorry but no spoilers allowed (yet)
[10:14] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: KDF updates are coming this year - not going to share details yet
[10:41] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: Refuses to be baited by KDF trolls - I said my peace earlier
Looks like the KDF promises won't be fulfilled in the may update.
:eek:
First to comment on this, but his comments on localization made me go
Portuguese is the top contender? Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the world! It would open STO to all of Central and South America, apart from Spain itself. Most of those countries have just as rabid a fanbase, too, especially when it comes to TOS and TNG.
That makes me think of playing Need for Speed world. That MMO was stuffed with Russian hackers and Central/ South american players. Unless the set up south american server get ready for lots more lag
A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
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They could do the renegade borg ship from Descent..... It's a borg ship, but not a basic shape.
We can already get that effect by getting the Borg equipment from STFs and enabling visuals. No profit for Cryptic to sell that in lockboxes.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
I mean it doesn't exactly have LCARS joypads or flight sticks. You have to...plug in.
Thanks BranFlakes for posting that chat, the Drozana I ended up in was a warzone and I couldn't even join in.
Wait is he talking about playable Borg ships? Or new Borg NPC ships?
Because if its playable Borg ships, I hope its assimilated faction ships, like the assimilated Negh'Vars you see in STF's, and not playable Borg Cubes. I think the Borg are cool and everything, but I don't think I could bear warping into ESD and having to navigate around a mile-wide chunk of steel someone has parked there.
With three specific mentions of KDF stuff inbound a little hope my be ok, though caution is always wise.
R.I.P
I'd like any scimitar those things just look vicious.
See, I think they ran out of Mirror Ships as gimmick consolation prizes and the next 6 rounds of consolation prizes will be Borg Assimilated Patrol Escort/Advanced Escort, Assault Cruiser/Star Cruiser, DSSV/Recon SV.
Probably with nacelles/hull etc. that display the Borg set. Maybe inverted so that equipping the actual Borg set gives you a symmetrical Borg set look.
They need a new round of cheap "You didn't win!" ships now that they've offered all the free ships in Mirror form and I'm betting Assimilated variants of RA ships will be the new Mirror ship gimmick.
I think it looks like a lionfish. :P
It shall be usable only by Liberated Borg Captains.
Portuguese is the top contender? Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the world! It would open STO to all of Central and South America, apart from Spain itself. Most of those countries have just as rabid a fanbase, too, especially when it comes to TOS and TNG.
Anyway, maybe it would be a good idea to create a "Bugs and Errors" Thread here on the Board and Bran sends this once or twice a week directly to Dan, and not to one of the Devs who is already overcharged with work.
So Dan would have much more oversight and could coordinate his team and resources.
Just my 2 Cents..
I am fed and i used to have a klingon but i found i did not like it theres far too much red and because of this it made my eyes always feel heavy when playing as i know it proberly does the same to others.
what klingons need on there behalf is that fixing.but the main thing for them is the lack of costumes in the c store.
now as a whole for all us gamers we need more on the lines of social activity ok we have dabo that we can play at the stations but we need some more games that we can take part in. tri chess could fit in but not many like chess.
there could be card games and other things to do.
also to have these on our fleet stations so fleets can run games at there stations.
we dont all fight 24/7 so we need that bit of something to have a break from all the fighting and still have fun.
on earth it would be cool if we could get shore leave and have places to visit.just see whats across the other side of the river.and venture on our own planet .
another idea would be to have new small craft that take on a bomber role where there is ground missions where you take a bomber and particapate in small fighter and bomber missions on planets taking on the large turrets that we have seen on missions like the romulan mission where you call for the orbital strike to destroy these turrerts there could be bunkers to take out the list could go on and on with this concept.
ideas that everyone adds to keep you devs busy added up theres a lot some are great some not so but as a whole theres still content that can keep this game running for years to come.
i very seldom post anything on forums but when i do i like to make it good and give great ideas to help with all of our game play.
theres far much more i could add but lets take things at a steady rate so you guys dont get over croweded with info .
have fun guys keep up the good work .
He said top contender. And that's not even how you write "Portuguese"
[10:21] [REDALERT] <Dev> Oaks@dstahl: We are looking into additional localizations for STO in 2013 - we haven't confirmed which languages yet, but I've heard possibly Portugeuse as a top contender
Looks like the KDF promises won't be fulfilled in the may update.
:eek:
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
That makes me think of playing Need for Speed world. That MMO was stuffed with Russian hackers and Central/ South american players. Unless the set up south american server get ready for lots more lag
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.