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    i8472i8472 Member Posts: 225 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    So what's up
    with a bunch of the Foundry missions all having approx same name, same details, same author, and exact same objectives???
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    morkargh117morkargh117 Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will the Romulan faction, new UI, and other upcoming content be available to test on the Tribble server soon?
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    derrico1derrico1 Member Posts: 281 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Those who fought beneath the raptor's wings = Romulans, New faction = Romulans. I don't know how much more clarity you need.

    no need to be a - - - - .. but will this new faction tell the story when romulans and vulcans once shared the same planet before the romulans went off into space and found a new home called romulas /. so my question once again so it is easier for say you to know will it tell the story from the begining of how they started as a people like what was stated in episode 8 of season 4 of enterprise
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    tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    derrico1 wrote: »
    no need to be a - - - - .. but will this new faction tell the story when romulans and vulcans once shared the same planet before the romulans went off into space and found a new home called romulas /. so my question once again so it is easier for say you to know will it tell the story from the begining of how they started as a people like what was stated in episode 8 of season 4 of enterprise


    No that happened 2 thousand years prior to the current trek year.

    This will tell the same time period. Possibly it will involve fleeing the Star Empire and defending New Romulus, but that is just a guess.
    Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
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    wolfgar2wolfgar2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    When will new crafting for high end characters come out? High end meaning minimal Mk XI level gear.

    Still waiting for coalitions between Fleets to come out like basically every single other MMO game out there. And idea when we can expect this?
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    ghost2448ghost2448 Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will the Romulans be allies with the Federation and the Klingons or will they be at war with both?

    Will lifers be given anything in this expansion?

    Any chance of the dilithium stipend being increased?

    Any possibility that we could have an energy credit exchange?

    Will there be an update to "The road to 2409", what year are we in any case?

    Are there any new sectors being opened up in the next update?

    Any plans to allow captains to be able to create new characters based on Breen or Tzenkethi designs?

    Is Sto still trying to get William Shatner to do a voice-over?

    How about Michael Anthony "Marc" Alaimo for a mission involving the Cardassians, we need an update! :P

    Is the new enemy someone we know from the series/books or something new created solely for STO?
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    luvsto1701luvsto1701 Member Posts: 64 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Since we are excluded from ever getting a new movie ship ever again due to licensing. Can we hope for a lvl 50 Kirk Enterprise with 4 fore/aft and way more bridge slots?

    Excelsior has this
    Enterprise D has this
    Future Entertprise from All Good Things is bound to see a fleet version with saucer sep lance and cloak

    Cannot forget Enterprise A to be in line with end game fighting.

    There are so many time travel things going on, you can easily make a reason to get this in the Zen store. Surely people will buy the ship that started it all.
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    centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    What sort of things are Romulan Fleets going to have access too? What are Starbases going to look like? How are fleet ships and projects going to be handled?
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    athourstathourst Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Are there any plans on adding in the Maquis raider with a 2409 Style to it?
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    aderonzaderonz Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Now that we are expecting to have 3 complete factions by the may's update, is there any plan for a serious pvp with fleets invovled in, and that decides the supremacy of each faction over the quadrant ?
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    a3001a3001 Member Posts: 1,132 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    does the support system even work?
    Rejoice JJ Trek people....

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253

    Why are you not rejoicing?
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    ufpterrellufpterrell Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will there be changes to PVP? Will we be able to have Red vs Blue vs Green? My fleet has pvp events and it would seem strange to mix up the factions plus 3 way TDM would be pretty sweet.
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    borthaniusborthanius Member Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    With the introduction of the Romulan faction I'm sure this issue will come up... cloaking has been broken since the patch of 01-11-11. You are not supposed to get uncloaked/unmasked because a comm window of any kind pops up, ever. We have been begging now, for years, that this issue be resolved once & for all. Cloaking is supposed to be an advantage, not a disadvantage because of any communications interaction in game. Uncloaked because of sensor scan, ok. Tractor beam, tachyon detection or gravity well, fine, but not because a comm window pops up, ever. Be nice to have this issue resolved after over 2 years now with this bug.
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    tatterdemalion1tatterdemalion1 Member Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    1) Can we please address Fleet Starbase requirements for fleets without 500 members ? May I suggest you make the requirements scale with fleet membership, and to prevent abuse, make it so that if you change fleets, you lose accumulated fleet credit. That way we may actually be able to hit a tier 5 starbase before Zephram cochrane invents warp drive.

    2) Are we getting more endgame content ? More STFs ?

    3) Terradome is an awesome, even if glitchy mission. Can you give it some decent rewards, fix it's little issues, and do more like it ?

    4) Will the Romulans get their own starbase ? Or when making a romulan character will you be able to select which faction you side with, and join the appropriate fleet ?
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    gazurtoidgazurtoid Member Posts: 423 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Can you please add a fight with a Gorn (or a crazed Vulcan) into the mission Colisseum?

    Gotta make full use of the 'Amok Time' music
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    drxylordtaodrxylordtao Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    1 With this major release coming up, can you break down the numbers dealing with the ships?
    For example...
    How many ships are going to each faction?
    How many are Z-store?
    How many are headed for Lobi sales?
    What ratios are we looking at for fleet vs non fleet ships per faction?
    Well you get the feel of what I'm saying.

    2 Are we going to see a merger of the off duty clothes and the duty uniforms as was promised way back?

    3 Will you have a way for non fleet people to be able to trade in / sell these bound fleet items that you keep giving to us in your promos and/or lockboxes?
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    zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Same old questions:

    When we getting more KDF ships.

    When are we getting the ritual and combat weapons such as the Mek'leth, Qutluch, D'k tahg, etc (as well as K bar for feds and Romulans will they be getting the Teral'n it was shown on the 2009 star trek movie but is suppossed to be their kind of melee weapon).

    Its stated in the teaser that there will be romulan playable faction/playable romulans and all factions will start toons at level 1 so we will be getting the KDF fleshed out or is it just starting the KDF at level 1 with an unfinished faction?

    Will there be any curve or reduction in starbase costs for KDF or romulan fleets being that they will be a minority in the game next to feds? It seems to me that most ppl on the KDF are forced to join large fleets just to obtain starbase items from their vendors and is a big draw back for minority factions.

    When will we get a fix to the KDF STF uniforms since they are not working in tailor atm for all of their options?

    Also the federation side has several 5 tactical console ships and now with andorian pack 5 forward weapons slot ships are the KDF going to be getting anything along the lines of that mold for either bops or raptors?

    There are two ships I would enjoy playing more if they could be adjusted to where their main function/attraction worked more so like it did in the franchise such as the intrepid and its ablative armor and the b'rel with its enhanced battle cloak. So my question here is these two ships would they be revamped possibly in the future so that they can function more like they should be to keep the integrity of these ships as torpedo/mine boats if someone wanted too? My view on them right now is that they are not really valid and they don't keep up with the cannon and beam builds out there is why I was surprised that the b'rel was featured a few weeks ago because it really needed some more love before featureing it and odds are you gained a lot more negative mindsets when people bought them during that time.

    The bridges is one big thing a lot of them look really nice but there is almost no use for them besides roleplaying and more than half of them aren't even available in the foundry. So is there going to be any new type of revamp on them as far as how they function?

    Is there any possibility that the KDF can get some kind of fleet event where we are raiding something. I really love the bops and they are truly meant for raiding but we have very little to raid besides pi canis sorties bravo and the low level mission where you do the raid on that one shipyard place near EE so is it possible we could possibly get something to use our bops more to their function with?

    Last question here is there are quite a few races that have race only skills and because of tactical initiative works is there anything in the works for our non tactical characters to use the powers as efficiently as tactical officers can in form of consumable or what have you so they can be just as useful?
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    wilsonfrontierwilsonfrontier Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will the ability to change our characters species ever be added?
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    velquavelqua Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will we finally get an extra bank/inventory tab for our non-combat pets?
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    mattachinemattachine Member Posts: 505 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    When will we get Skants for males to wear as uniforms?

    When will we be able to not wear shoes for Caitians?

    When will we get digigrade legs and paws for feet for Caitians/Ferasans?

    When will we get a Kirk/Sulu shirtless option for males on Fed side?

    When will KDF females get long skirts like the Duras' sisters?
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    jumpingjsjumpingjs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Are the feds getting more content? (pllease!)
    Hopefully I'll come back from my break; this break is fun; I play intellectual games.

    I hope STO get's better ...
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    deusemperordeusemperor Member Posts: 136 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will the Romulans get their own timeship and destroyer class from the temporal lockbox? And along that same line will Romulans be able to get consoles from the cross faction boxes?

    Thx
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    khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2013
    1: Can you please make ships with separation more useful? The MVAM escort is a waste of time, as is the Galaxy class with saucer separation. We need to have more control over the 'pets', like with Hanger pets, it would be nice if we could tell our 'pet' sections to attack, retreat, defend etc.

    2: On the same subject, it would be nice to have a display on our HUD which indicates how many fighters/saucer sections etc we have launched and possibly what condition they are in. When you're in a big battle, it's impossible to tell if your fighters are still alive or not.
    Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
    True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
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    docboudreauxdocboudreaux Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    1) In one of the interviews you did prior to the announcement you mention that there would be new gold member perks, but the announcement did not have any details. Can you tell us what they are?

    2) Is there any plans of running a lifetime membership sale before the May update?

    3) Any news on a Mac client for STO?

    4) With the new faction being added any chance we might get a few extra character slots?
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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    atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I've got another question.

    I understand why the Reputation set items cost so much Expertise; You're trying to make a good sink for it since old characters have built up millions of it. However, new characters don't have any, and 64,000 Exp per item is a bit staggering. So much so, That I have to grind a completely separate part of the game (the Mirror Universe Incursion Event) just to have any hope of getting items in a timely manner.

    Could you guys add a way to increase Boff XP rewards from doing the Reputation content so new characters don't have to play extreme catch up? Maybe add an option to turn in Marks (and Borg Neural Processors) in for Expertise?
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    avertyoureyessavertyoureyess Member Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Currently we can monitor who deposits/withdraws items from a fleet's fleet bank, this allows fleet leadership to keep an eye on items as well as keep an eye out for potential abuse. However there is no system in place to monitor fleet provisioned assets (weapons, shields, ships, etc.). It is possible to put one in place? Even one similar to the fleet bank system. It seems odd that we can keep track of "standard" items, but ultra rare fleet items which cost the fleet time and effort to provision have no way of being tracked.
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    mirrorseacatmirrorseacat Member Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    May we have Skants and Cropped/Undershirt-less Jackets for Males?
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    general1devongeneral1devon Member Posts: 298 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Hey Dan good old buddy old pal, We're friends ingame, well your on my friends list at least. I was wondering with the new stuff that will be coming in may, is there any chance we can get an enterprise era Featured Episode or two, and maybe a Proper Ent Era bundle? Pweaseee?
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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    gavroche12gavroche12 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I was wondering if there was anyway to have fleet credits transferable between alts if they are in the same fleet. I have two toons in the same fleet, and a lot of unused fleet credits on my main one, but wish to buy some fleet weapons on my alt. Would it be possible to make fleet credits account bound to make this possible?

    or if this is not possible/logistical to have items bought from fleet store account bound, instead of just bound to character

    p.s
    excuse spelling/grammar mistakes, am dyslexic
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    landshark535landshark535 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    For awhile now we have heard how the tech that will be added after the release of Neverwinter will expand what can be done with STO. I was wondering if you would be able to "spill the beans" on a few of these planned improvements (possibly native Linux support)?
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