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Ask Cryptic: April 2013 - Submit Your Questions, Please!

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited April 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Hello Captains!

Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Daniel tomorrow.

Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that should be released before the end of the month.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=
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  • mattmiraclemattmiracle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    After the "Legacy of Romulus" is live, what features might "season 8" have that are mostly set in stone (if at all)?
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  • partizan81partizan81 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Hello Captains!

    Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Daniel tomorrow.

    Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that should be released before the end of the month.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Will there be any new STFs added to the game, that will include either Romulan Marks, or the new Tholian/Nukara marks?
  • antrenosantrenos Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will Season 8 focus on either PVP, Crafting or Exploration? Or none of the above?
  • mirrorseacatmirrorseacat Member Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    May we have Skants as well as undershirtless and cropped jacket options for male characters?
    -Seacat
  • cehuscehus Member Posts: 179 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will Romulan STF gear have an exclusive appearance or will it be recycled fed/kdf gear?
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  • ceekayzeroceekayzero Member Posts: 411 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Any chance for more canon Star Trek characters as unique/handcrafted DOFFs?
  • ghost2448ghost2448 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Oh Great and powerful Dan Stahl (Ok, I'll cut the brown-nosing here lol)

    With the Romulan legacy becoming live, I have one or two questions:

    1) Will be moving from 2409 to 2410?

    2) Will season 8 have a new sector block, perhaps we could have access to Tholian space or perhaps we discover that the Tholians are being terrorised or have been in the past by the same beings that have caused chaos for the Undine?

    3) Will the Undine and the other factions ever get a long?

    4) Finally what about V'ger any closer or is it like its not so namesake stuck in the Delta Quadrant?
  • androphorosandrophoros Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will there be any way to get Nukara marks besides Nukara and queued missions, such as a patrol daily?

    The Romulans will launch and have there own faction Rep which gives Rom themed purple XII gear, any plans for Fed and KDF Reps so our other characters can equip high level faction appropriate gear and correct this imbalance?
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  • kirimuffinkirimuffin Member Posts: 695 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will Romulans have access to their allies' C-Store ships and consoles? When a Romulan character opens a console reward pack from a lockbox, what (if anything) will she get?
  • sirapple55sirapple55 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will there be another lifetime subscription sale soon? If yes when will it be?
  • starfleetdanstarfleetdan Member Posts: 47 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Hi, you added the Klingon TOS uniform, what about the "Klingon TOS skin face"? Will you add this in the charachter creator?
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,162 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will Romulan race players get a romulan themed stf set or will be get the same junk the feds & kdf have?

    Any Pvp news?

    Can we have the Mirror Tpyhoon? :P
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    Thank you for the Typhoon!
  • polie05polie05 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will there be fleet versions and/or lock box versions of the pre-launch ships currently for sale?

    How will you re-balance the current ships to be competitive with the Romulan ships?
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  • syberghostsyberghost Member Posts: 1,711 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will there be any Rommunist-related special goodies for Lifetime subs?

    Will the next Season after LoR be Season 8?
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  • oasusoasus Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Are you willing to provide any details as to any additional rewards to Lifetime Subscribers that may come as a result of the Legacy of Romulus release?
  • khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2013
    Could you please introduce a system with the new UI to monitor how many fighters we have launched when using carrier ships? It would also be nice if you could include the status of these vessels, even in a minimal way and perhaps expand it to include the likes of the MVAM Prometheus and saucer separation vessels. It's pretty much impossible to keep track of these vessels when you're in combat, especially a group combat area where there are dozens of ships.

    Further, could you please give the ships with separation a little more control over the 'pet' sections, similar to the launched fighter wings from carriers, it would be nice if we could tell them to attack our targets, intercept etc. Currently, they serve little purpose other than getting you killed.
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  • captainbmoneycaptainbmoney Member Posts: 1,323 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Any chance KDF/Rom can have Access to Overcharged Plasma Sniper Rifle and Personal Covariant Shield?
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  • alchemistidalchemistid Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    With customization options being created for purchased/unlocked Reman Player Characters, and the Romulans now being playable, will the Cloaked Intentions Reman Bridge Officers finally be customizable? Will the Mol'Rihan Embassy Romulan Bridge Officers be customizable?
  • oasusoasus Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    khamseenair wrote: »
    Could you please introduce a system with the new UI to monitor how many fighters we have launched when using carrier ships? It would also be nice if you could include the status of these vessels, even in a minimal way and perhaps expand it to include the likes of the MVAM Prometheus and saucer separation vessels. It's pretty much impossible to keep track of these vessels when you're in combat, especially a group combat area where there are dozens of ships.

    Further, could you please give the ships with separation a little more control over the 'pet' sections, similar to the launched fighter wings from carriers, it would be nice if we could tell them to attack our targets, intercept etc. Currently, they serve little purpose other than getting you killed.

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  • redshirtthefirstredshirtthefirst Member Posts: 415 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I would love to see stronger STF that look more like what we call 'raids' in other games. Why not 25 man 'raids' set in normal and elite with a true boss progression?
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  • kekvinkekvin Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    -When r we going to get the ability to send ships from our drydick (Shiplist) on assignments like we can with DOFF's?
    -When will we get the Niagra, Freedom, New Orleans classes of ships?
    -Is cryptic willing to purchase any additional rights to startrek material via something like Kickstarter? (Comics, Books, Games)
    -Will we get our hands on a 2409 version of the Oberth, Miranda and Excelsior?
    -Will the Galaxy X get Monarch parts?
    -Will the nebula ever get the Venture parts?
    -When are we going to be able to promote our BOFF's to Captain rank?
    -When Will we see the Sona in game?
    -Will the T5 Galaxy get access to the the T4 Galaxy Varients?
    -Will we see more TMP era ships added to game like the Akula?
    -Any detail on the Next Future epsoide series?
    -When will we get additional sectors?
    -Will we get an alternative skin for the Odessay?
    -When will the federation get a full 2 bay carrier?
    -Will we get any STF's baised around other Races like Dominion, Romulian, Iconion, Sona, Voth, Gorn, Tholion?
    -Will we ever get the ability to assign Targets to our Fleet reinforcement? AS in Defend this target, Attack this target, ect
    -Will we see ships added from other ST games? As there is presidant as the TMP Apollo Refit Appeared in SFC 1 + 2, Legacy and Shattered Universe
    -Will we get vulcan cruiser seen in "Future Tense" as youve said before "if its in an epsoide its fair game". If / When will we see this ship
    -Ship Tier revamp?
    -Sectors for Breen and tholions?
    -Computer Cores for ships?
    -Space Adventure zone when??
    -Will we ever get bonus objective baised on what ship we have? (eg if we play the dominion Series with either the buy, Dread or Escort Carrier)
    -More Dev interaction in game? (Playing along side playes maybe as cryptic Characters?)
    -When will Cryptic Characters turn up in STF's?
    -You said Delta would come b4 gamma. Is there an ETA on this?
    -Will we see the NX Refit ever come into game?
    -Exploration revamp?
    -Can we have the Jem'Hardar Battleship please.
    -You said in a Q/A "Old Fleet Actions will return when they have been remastered" Any ETA on this?
    -When will the Typhoon and Jupiter Class be added into game?
    -We have a Defiant, A Enterprise. Will we see a Voyager NPC?
    -Will all the sectors be redone to be on par with the patrols from Tau Dewa?
    -Every Time i go into Tau Dewa RA its epty. Any way u can improve this?
    -When are we going to be able to capture NPC ships as we go through missions?
    -When are we going to get more 'trek' Style TNG / Voy weapons?
    -Are there any plans to Add Luna Colony or Montana?

    -What races will we be able to buy / unlock for the new romulain faction?
    -Will there be a fed / kilingon rep to go alongside the rom rep?
    -will the new Enemy be for all factions or are they rom centric like the farkli
    -Will there be fleet ships for the roms at launch?
    -When will we get the list of ships that the Roms will come with?
    -will the roms get additional sector space?
    -Will we get a Path to 2409 for the Roms?
    -How much VO work will Denise Crosby be doing for the new faction?
    -Will we get a 1000 day vet ship for the roms?
    -Will there be lots of story missins for KDF 1 to 50 and Rom 1 to 50 so will there be some grind
    -Will roms get Carriers?
    -Will there be a FE to go with the new faction?
  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Dan, any details on the list of Romulan Sience/Support Vessels?
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Unlike Klingon ships, in The Original Series we actually did get a good look inside Romulan vessels during the episode "The Enterprise Incident". Is there any chance of a Romulan TOS bundle that would have a TOS interior for Romulan ships, with a bonus costume and special weapon? Something similar to the TOS or DS9 package for Federation players?

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  • gespensterjaegergespensterjaeger Member Posts: 157 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    question 1:

    Romulans are the cloak and dagger people of the star trek era.
    Will cloak bugg be fixed for all ships capable of cloaking?

    everytime the messages pop up the same thing happens DECLOAK.
    its annoying.

    it ruin the game.

    its seariously been here for 3 years when will it be fixed?

    question 2:

    What ships are the candidates for veteran romulan faction ship ?

    question 3:

    solo fleets for solo people when will the price reducement for fleet uppgrades be done ?

    question 4:

    when will we see that we can use our bridge officers to pilot our starships we got in the hold as combat help in missions ?

    question 5:

    Why was the dreadnaught hangar bays locked to the jem hadar attack ship.

    its rediculus cost of 2000 usd to get the frigate jem hadar attack ship hangar slots.
    why was this great injustice done ?
    90 pages of forum posts and no cryptic answers.
    this has never been done before why was this done now?

    will more of this unfair treatment be done ?

    question 6:

    will pets and other combat fighters be smarter to avoid warp core explosions ?
    multi vector assault parts and carrier fighters desperatly need this.
    If only they fix Cloaking bugg :( *new message BOOM decloacked.
  • castsbugccastsbugc Member Posts: 830 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will someone give Foundry authors with an update to the Roadmap for the Foundry?

    Are there plans to have assets available for authors to use in the first days of the new expansion to create with in the Foundry, including costumes and new assets?

    Are there any plans to continue 'catching up' the cstore assets that remain outstanding in the Foundry editor?
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Got a few here...

    Is there going to be some kind of update of content where the melee weapons of various races like andorian and klingon that are not in the game yet?

    Ships like the intrepid class and b'rel class sort of are both a type of projectile advertised type ship but both their functionalities do not really work for the game... so my question is there any plans in the works to revamp their functionality so they aren't some kind of gimmick that can't compete with your new mold of ships?

    My other issue is that being as you stated once in one of these Ask Cryptics that the federation faction will always be the majority based on that every series was based on the federation andd I can agree with it but with story and the sake of fleets especially since it has turned the KDF into a faction where you must deal with noobs and unsavory characters just to get a decent progession with them. So my question here is has Cryptic thought about making Fleets factionless but still appear like they do for the different factions when you beam in or do starbase qued missions?

    Any ETA on when the KDF STF XII costumes will be fixed?

    Last question I have is that the federation has 5 tactical console escorts but the KDF does not have one of the same weight class as far as escort/bop/raptor. So my question is the KDF going to get one in the form of the raptor or bop? (It puts the KDF at a disadvantage since those consoles no longer have diminishing returns in events like the Crystalline Catastrophe.)
  • captainwallis84captainwallis84 Member Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Do you have plans to update the ship customization to add more
    ship parts and new textures to current ships. Also tng bundle pack with updated Galaxy class model. ;)
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  • gornman47gornman47 Member Posts: 146 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    A few questions....

    #1 Will there be a 1000 day Romulan ship for LTS and gold subscribers in the near future?

    #2 To add to the first question, will there be Romulan counterparts to all the LTS and Gold Sub rewards, ie; costume parts like the klingon shoulder pads and the starfleet AGT insignia?

    #3 Now that we are getting Romulans whats next?

    #4 Since we have 7 seasons and now the Romulan Expansion is it safe to say that STO has moved into it's "Movie" time period or are there more seasons to come?

    #5 Tribble Qustion! When will we be able to test the Romulan faction on TRIBBLE?

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  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    kekvin wrote: »
    SNIP

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  • mreeves7amreeves7a Member Posts: 499 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Are there any plans to introduce new ship weapon types to shake up all the current wisdom on ship builds? Things such as dual torpedoes or heavy beam arrays?
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