While I'm as curious as the rest of the players waiting for the upcoming expansion, my questions are about what we have currently available in game.
First off I'd love to see a few sleeveless options for Federation uniforms, and more options for Klingon attire. And maybe a few sleeveless options for the upcoming expansion too. =^.^=
Crafting, I used to craft items before you needed to purchase unreplicatable items which has put a serious dent in crafting enjoyment. Especially if one needs prizes such as an Aegis set to hand out for fleet events.
What happened to the idea of unifying the NPC crew member's uniforms to match the Captain and Bridge Officer's uniforms? While running around in TOS uniforms is fun and the TOS Constitution bridge does just that by forcing the NPC crew to wear TOS era uniforms... there is no option for setting the crew uniforms.
[Nit pick]And the text that pops up when someone gets a new shiny ship from one of those lock boxes. While its nice to have some recognition, it would be shnazzy to have that pop up in the chat box instead of on the screen while on a mission or sitting back in our command chairs watching our ships fly in sector space.
Also with lock boxes... In the ones I've opened I've had nothing but so called consolation prizes, once I've opened up a lock box and snagged a freighter, but nothing else. And one or two random purple items. We all see these ships and would purchase Atar... err... Cryptic poi... err.. Zen on the spot to purchase them from the Zen store if they were available there. Would there be any way to work out something like that for players who don't have energy credits coming out their warp cores to purchase these ships outside of the exchange and getting lucky with a lock box?
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I noticed in one of the "Ask Cryptic" you mentioned that you had MAC client in the works. Is there any thought on a native Linux client? Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as bench. Valve with STEAM going native Linux as shown there is a demand for native Linux.
thanks for the romulans...
i was wondering do you think we could ever see a return of captain sisko on ds9 or maybe even odo visiting like q does on esd ?
thanks for the romulans...
i was wondering do you think we could ever see a return of captain sisko on ds9 or maybe even odo visiting like q does on esd ?
sisko is with the prophets, and odo is with the great link in the gamma quadrant...very unlikely to see either of those characters in the game, but you never know; i never thought tasha yar would ever show up either
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"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
I am trying to find a way of removing a grease spot from my shirt, I have tried bleach and washing detergent but it still remains, any suggestions?
No but seriously... Is there a way of implementing foundry missions to allow voice acting? Is this something that could be planned? I am pretty sure that some expert foundry authors would be willing to have voices added to their missions...
I guess most of my questions all boil down to these five subjects:
1. What will be unique about Romulan-faction gameplay? How will it be different from playing as Federation or as KDF?
2. How does this update change the Federation gameplay experience?
3. How does this update change the KDF gameplay experience?
4. How do you see these three factions interacting together in PvP, STF's, FE's, etc.?
And in a non-related subject...
5. STO has been criticized as being "Escorts Online" and favoring Tactical Captains in Escorts -- Do you have any plans to address this perception? How do you plan to make Engineers and Science Captains, and Cruisers and Science Vessels compelling alternatives without "gimping" Tacscorts?
I'd like to see better synergy between the different careers and ship classes. What can we expect to see along these lines in the future?
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sisko is with the prophets, and odo is with the great link in the gamma quadrant...very unlikely to see either of those characters in the game, but you never know; i never thought tasha yar would ever show up either
yes but it would be a wonderful thing to happen when the gamma quadrant opens up for us just think the return of sisko welcoming us into the quadrant and telling us of things that he has seen maybe warning us of new dangers that lerk ahead and as for odo maybe he returns in order to help us survive what is around the corner
there are extra buildings in starfleet academy do you plan on adding things there say like federation council with a rep from each of the federation planets there even ambassadors from worlds that are trying to gain membership . it would be a great place for star trek lore or diplomatic missions to take place,with different outcomes based on choices . this would make fun dailies
Does a Tholian reputation system mean we're going to get another currency? Wasn't the point of the dilithium transition to eliminate having loads of collectable items/ currencies/ marks? (And definitely not just to monetize it AND make people grind)
sisko is with the prophets, and odo is with the great link in the gamma quadrant...very unlikely to see either of those characters in the game, but you never know; i never thought tasha yar would ever show up either
STO precedent already exists for chatting with both the Prophets, and the Dominion (courtesy of various missions in the 2800 arc). If the Cardassian plot is ever advanced, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility to see either (or both) again.
My apologies first, if my question has been asked - after a couple of pages, I started glossing - after a few pages, well - here I am.
Given the unlikelihood of seeing 60-80 Romulan ships, outside of certain special ships (or even including those); are the Romulans going to be a test bed for more modular ship design? We've heard in recent interviews about various customization methods for ships (warp cores, computers, secondary deflectors, armor slots, etc) - will that be something that we see with the Romulan ships?
After you've moved from your TOS starter BoP to a ship - you'll start with "base" gear for it. As you level, you'll have the option to upgrade to new "base" gear or purchase improved refit/retrofit gear. While each ship will maintain certain base stats, will it be akin to having three packs-in-one for each ship? You can get the free "base" Tac/Eng/Sci gear or purchase refit/retrofit Tac/Eng/Sci gear (cores, computers, bridges, etc, etc, etc)...?
sisko is with the prophets, and odo is with the great link in the gamma quadrant...very unlikely to see either of those characters in the game, but you never know; i never thought tasha yar would ever show up either
Actually, Sisko has since returned from the Prophets through the novels. Soft canon, I know, but some things in STO to refer to soft canon.
Actually, Sisko has since returned from the Prophets through the novels. Soft canon, I know, but some things in STO to refer to soft canon.
if you're talking about the vesta, that's the ONLY part of destiny in the game, and only because so many players kept begging for it; it took cryptic a long time negotiating for the rights to put even that little bit in the game
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
I was glad one of my questions was brought up in the last round however the host did not read my question but rather summarized and interpreted it...and this meant the answer I received was not to what I asked.
So I will ask it again:
1) Lobi. If cryptic is unwilling to bind it to acount could to prevent farming of the once a year freebie event... could you please at the very least provide an alternate means of shifting the lobi items?
For example:
Lobi items already purchased (aka, ferengi rockets) can be packaged up in a bound-to-account box through the ferengi collector at a high cost in dilithium as well as having the option to have them refunded through the collector at a very high cost in latinum.
This would enable players to at least be able to make use of this currency item for the characters that need them. There would be no farming this way since there is a high cost in two different currencies to do it plus it would allow players to finally use the lobi that is left idle in multiple characters and use the lobi items in the characters that need them.
Other questions:
2) B'rel Fleet vs Cstore B'rel. Will there be any modifications to the cstore B'rel? Cstore purchasers are getting shafted as fleet version purchases has everything the b'rel cstore has and more.
Suggestion: Add a console to the cstore b'rel. Synergize with the enhanced cloak: During ambush (de-cloak effect) the B'rel will have no shared timer between its torpedoes and mines. This enables a quick fire of torps and removes issues like lag, 'lost packet' clicks where you click to fire but it doesnt and it makes the B'rel cstore worthy of purchasing and transfering its console to the fleet version.
3) Could we please have the saucer model of the Venture class (if you own it) available for the Nebula class starships?
4) Will the low tier KDF ships like the K'tanco be given a fleet version? When?
5) If anything, answer #1 and this question: Is there the possibility of cryptic making a 'submit your idea' contest where cryptic selects the topic (for example, 'interface improvement') and players can submit modified screenshots/artwork or written descriptions which can potentially be included into the game?
Think of it as crowdsourcing solutions while at the same time getting feedback and finding out issues you may not have been aware of.
if you're talking about the vesta, that's the ONLY part of destiny in the game, and only because so many players kept begging for it; it took cryptic a long time negotiating for the rights to put even that little bit in the game
As extremely excited I am about the new faction, I just finished the Fed missions and I want to know what happens next. Will we see new Federation and Klingon missions?
yes but it would be a wonderful thing to happen when the gamma quadrant opens up for us just think the return of sisko welcoming us into the quadrant and telling us of things that he has seen maybe warning us of new dangers that lerk ahead and as for odo maybe he returns in order to help us survive what is around the corner
Klingons have enslaved races. Any chance Klingon players can get this added? I picture raiding a capitol with alot of fighting with the end result some alien race surrendering and swearing allegiance to the Klingon Empire.
In the end we could get a special doff or at least a special doff mission when we enter that particualr nebula again.
Having missions taking place on our ship would be great since that's how it has been done on tv. Like a diplomatic mission, but not, we give out orders to our bridge crew during a conflict or treking through an uncharted nebula then having to deal with the unexpcted issues. I imagine being attacked and having explosions, smoke and fire around my captain while I keep my cool and order full photon sweep or something like that.
Can we start having special events to mark the anniversary of say the final episode of DS9 or the other shows? A cool episode or special releases in the store would make me pay.
So big news is the big expansion in may, so Im basing a few if not all my questions on that...
1) Will romulans have the same "milestones" as the feds/kdf in terms of veteran rewards, spanning from 100 days to 1000?
2) Will romulans have their own STF ground armor set? If so can we see pics?
3) How will romulan ships work. I base this question on the fact it seems romulans will only be able to pilot a certain amount of ships and mostly warbird class vessels? Do their ships have a fully universal bridge officer slot selection to allow classes to select how the vessel will run/operate?
4) Will we see new romulan ships come out as time passes? And to add to this is the dev team capable of handling a 3 factioned game now?
5) Will we be seeing new veteran rewards span past 1000 days?
6) What other new features are we going to be seeing on May 21st? There was talk of a tailor customization/character editor update. Will we see new features, clothing options, maybe even something you "dan" talked about before getting done "hair revamp".
With the new romulan faction, will the rep system be expanded, i know you plan to add Tholians, but i was woundering if each faction will gain an enemy rep, i.e KDF get Fed and
Rom rep, Fed get KDF and Rom, and Roms get KDF and Fed. the rewards adding to pvp game play.
All as well as the Omega and Tholian rep.
so each faction has 4 reps to work though.
Also what level do you plan to make the D'deradex class warbird for the romulans? please make it endgame 50+, i want that ship more then say a scimitar.
When will we get playble Romulans? (sorry, I had to)
What is the likelyhood that some of the older character-bound items - specifically the gifted/boxed ships, lobi, and XP enhancement items - will be made account-bound instead?
Any plans in the works that would allow additional customization to ready rooms or captains quarters?
Any reason why the Dilithium event allows for a free transwarp, but the mining claims do not?
Can you please mega-nerf the KDF so that they have something legitimate to continually complain about?
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First off I'd love to see a few sleeveless options for Federation uniforms, and more options for Klingon attire. And maybe a few sleeveless options for the upcoming expansion too. =^.^=
Crafting, I used to craft items before you needed to purchase unreplicatable items which has put a serious dent in crafting enjoyment. Especially if one needs prizes such as an Aegis set to hand out for fleet events.
What happened to the idea of unifying the NPC crew member's uniforms to match the Captain and Bridge Officer's uniforms? While running around in TOS uniforms is fun and the TOS Constitution bridge does just that by forcing the NPC crew to wear TOS era uniforms... there is no option for setting the crew uniforms.
[Nit pick]And the text that pops up when someone gets a new shiny ship from one of those lock boxes. While its nice to have some recognition, it would be shnazzy to have that pop up in the chat box instead of on the screen while on a mission or sitting back in our command chairs watching our ships fly in sector space.
Also with lock boxes... In the ones I've opened I've had nothing but so called consolation prizes, once I've opened up a lock box and snagged a freighter, but nothing else. And one or two random purple items. We all see these ships and would purchase Atar... err... Cryptic poi... err.. Zen on the spot to purchase them from the Zen store if they were available there. Would there be any way to work out something like that for players who don't have energy credits coming out their warp cores to purchase these ships outside of the exchange and getting lucky with a lock box?
██ ██ U.S.S. Protos Heis ██ ██
Lieutenant General - Scheherazade - Honorable warrior of Sto'Vo'kor's Rising
██ ██ I.K.S. Protos Heis ██ ██
i was wondering do you think we could ever see a return of captain sisko on ds9 or maybe even odo visiting like q does on esd ?
sisko is with the prophets, and odo is with the great link in the gamma quadrant...very unlikely to see either of those characters in the game, but you never know; i never thought tasha yar would ever show up either
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
No but seriously... Is there a way of implementing foundry missions to allow voice acting? Is this something that could be planned? I am pretty sure that some expert foundry authors would be willing to have voices added to their missions...
1. What will be unique about Romulan-faction gameplay? How will it be different from playing as Federation or as KDF?
2. How does this update change the Federation gameplay experience?
3. How does this update change the KDF gameplay experience?
4. How do you see these three factions interacting together in PvP, STF's, FE's, etc.?
And in a non-related subject...
5. STO has been criticized as being "Escorts Online" and favoring Tactical Captains in Escorts -- Do you have any plans to address this perception? How do you plan to make Engineers and Science Captains, and Cruisers and Science Vessels compelling alternatives without "gimping" Tacscorts?
I'd like to see better synergy between the different careers and ship classes. What can we expect to see along these lines in the future?
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yes but it would be a wonderful thing to happen when the gamma quadrant opens up for us just think the return of sisko welcoming us into the quadrant and telling us of things that he has seen maybe warning us of new dangers that lerk ahead and as for odo maybe he returns in order to help us survive what is around the corner
STO precedent already exists for chatting with both the Prophets, and the Dominion (courtesy of various missions in the 2800 arc). If the Cardassian plot is ever advanced, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility to see either (or both) again.
Contract and IP issues aside of course.
Given the unlikelihood of seeing 60-80 Romulan ships, outside of certain special ships (or even including those); are the Romulans going to be a test bed for more modular ship design? We've heard in recent interviews about various customization methods for ships (warp cores, computers, secondary deflectors, armor slots, etc) - will that be something that we see with the Romulan ships?
After you've moved from your TOS starter BoP to a ship - you'll start with "base" gear for it. As you level, you'll have the option to upgrade to new "base" gear or purchase improved refit/retrofit gear. While each ship will maintain certain base stats, will it be akin to having three packs-in-one for each ship? You can get the free "base" Tac/Eng/Sci gear or purchase refit/retrofit Tac/Eng/Sci gear (cores, computers, bridges, etc, etc, etc)...?
Actually, Sisko has since returned from the Prophets through the novels. Soft canon, I know, but some things in STO to refer to soft canon.
Centurion maximus92
12th Legion, Romulan Republic
12th Fleet
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if you're talking about the vesta, that's the ONLY part of destiny in the game, and only because so many players kept begging for it; it took cryptic a long time negotiating for the rights to put even that little bit in the game
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
So I will ask it again:
1) Lobi. If cryptic is unwilling to bind it to acount could to prevent farming of the once a year freebie event... could you please at the very least provide an alternate means of shifting the lobi items?
For example:
Lobi items already purchased (aka, ferengi rockets) can be packaged up in a bound-to-account box through the ferengi collector at a high cost in dilithium as well as having the option to have them refunded through the collector at a very high cost in latinum.
This would enable players to at least be able to make use of this currency item for the characters that need them. There would be no farming this way since there is a high cost in two different currencies to do it plus it would allow players to finally use the lobi that is left idle in multiple characters and use the lobi items in the characters that need them.
Other questions:
2) B'rel Fleet vs Cstore B'rel. Will there be any modifications to the cstore B'rel? Cstore purchasers are getting shafted as fleet version purchases has everything the b'rel cstore has and more.
Suggestion: Add a console to the cstore b'rel. Synergize with the enhanced cloak: During ambush (de-cloak effect) the B'rel will have no shared timer between its torpedoes and mines. This enables a quick fire of torps and removes issues like lag, 'lost packet' clicks where you click to fire but it doesnt and it makes the B'rel cstore worthy of purchasing and transfering its console to the fleet version.
3) Could we please have the saucer model of the Venture class (if you own it) available for the Nebula class starships?
4) Will the low tier KDF ships like the K'tanco be given a fleet version? When?
5) If anything, answer #1 and this question: Is there the possibility of cryptic making a 'submit your idea' contest where cryptic selects the topic (for example, 'interface improvement') and players can submit modified screenshots/artwork or written descriptions which can potentially be included into the game?
Think of it as crowdsourcing solutions while at the same time getting feedback and finding out issues you may not have been aware of.
And the Luna class...
Centurion maximus92
12th Legion, Romulan Republic
12th Fleet
=\/= ================================ =\/=
This is something I'd really like to see :cool:
You know those ships that are in the purgatory called visual effects?
Any plans to offer longer range weapons? IE: 15km beam arrays? Might help fix those pesky cruiser issues...
In the end we could get a special doff or at least a special doff mission when we enter that particualr nebula again.
1) Will romulans have the same "milestones" as the feds/kdf in terms of veteran rewards, spanning from 100 days to 1000?
2) Will romulans have their own STF ground armor set? If so can we see pics?
3) How will romulan ships work. I base this question on the fact it seems romulans will only be able to pilot a certain amount of ships and mostly warbird class vessels? Do their ships have a fully universal bridge officer slot selection to allow classes to select how the vessel will run/operate?
4) Will we see new romulan ships come out as time passes? And to add to this is the dev team capable of handling a 3 factioned game now?
5) Will we be seeing new veteran rewards span past 1000 days?
6) What other new features are we going to be seeing on May 21st? There was talk of a tailor customization/character editor update. Will we see new features, clothing options, maybe even something you "dan" talked about before getting done "hair revamp".
Rom rep, Fed get KDF and Rom, and Roms get KDF and Fed. the rewards adding to pvp game play.
All as well as the Omega and Tholian rep.
so each faction has 4 reps to work though.
Also what level do you plan to make the D'deradex class warbird for the romulans? please make it endgame 50+, i want that ship more then say a scimitar.
With 3 factions putting their stuff there would be no way to find certain things like faction specific officers and so on.
What is the likelyhood that some of the older character-bound items - specifically the gifted/boxed ships, lobi, and XP enhancement items - will be made account-bound instead?
Any plans in the works that would allow additional customization to ready rooms or captains quarters?
Any reason why the Dilithium event allows for a free transwarp, but the mining claims do not?
Can you please mega-nerf the KDF so that they have something legitimate to continually complain about?
Thoughts on expanding the Vet rewards?
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