The old Risa map will now be where the galactic poor go to play, too poor to get into the resort. :P
I did NOT appreciate being taunted by that tiny red bikini I see in the background on one girl that we wont get to wear on our female captains. :mad:
So that catamaran is an actual starship? I was just expecting a speedy shuttle craft mainly for space races Tom Paris would be proud of. Meh. Wont grind for that then.
Thank You for leaving the new Risa in place. A logical decision. The jetpack race sounds cool. Can you consider leaving that race in place, and whatever activities are there, to keep Risa fun year around and just pay out some EC for wins instead of the big summer event prizes?
Risa.Needs.Hoverboards. I mean, you guys dont mind going off canon and ripping other things off ::COUGH STAR WARS COUGH::
STO: @AGNT009 Since Dec 2010
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
You people are rediculous! You get a brand new shiny ship, which by the way should be able too be rediculously evasive, and all you say is "Oh boy, another escort." LOOK AT IT! It looks ten times better than the bug ship, and looks like it could rival it in firepower to. It's certainly better than the bug ship in terms of defense. I should also point out the .25 impulse modifier. That is FAST. Nutty insanely fast. Like ludicrous speed fast. That will easily outstrip the bug in subwarp space. Hitting evasive will turn this thing into a blur.
In fact, I think I'll spec my new tac captain into a speed demon.
I AM THE HARBINGER OF HOPE!
I AM THE SWORD OF THE RIGHTOUS!
I have a request too: Make the ship package Bind to Account.
I have a lot of alts. A lot of alts. And a hard time figuring out which of those alts, if any, I could see use a ship like that. So there is some sense of pressure right now (one I don't intend to give into one way or the other) to run the event on each candidate. It makes more sense to me to just go head and let people do it on one or two characters, and be free to change their minds as to where the ship has to go halfway through. (Also a lot of the people who have the amounts of Lobi required to buy the ship outright, might not have that lobi on the character they want to buy the ship for.) Right up to the moment they unpack it.
Sorry for the delay in getting these questions answered - been a busy day!
Here's a quick FAQ that should address most of the questions that've been raised in this thread:
Q: Will the Floaters work on other maps (like ESD, e.g.)?
A: No. The Risian Floaters are only able to be activated while on the Risa Resort event map. We have no plans to allow personal flight on any other maps, using these devices.
Q: Will we be able to put the Subspace Wake Console on other ships?
A: No. This console is restricted to Risian vessels.
Q: I will not be able to log in enough to complete the Ship Project. Can I still get the Ship?
A: For players that cannot participate in the daily "Flying High!" mission sufficient times during the event, there remains the option of buying out the Event Project and obtaining a Risian Corvette.
As stated in the Dev Blog, additional Lohlunat Pearls can be purchased using Lobi Crystals, at the price of 5 Lobi for a pack that contains between 2 and 6 Pearls. This puts the cost of the Risian Corvette at between 835 and 2500 Lobi Crystal. However, every single day that you can complete the "Flying High!" mission, this cost is drastically reduced by earning a lump sum of 40 Pearls.
For example, if you only participate 18 days out of the 25 required, you will have earned 720 Lohlunat Pearls. Purchasing the additional 280 will set you back as little as 235 Lobi Crystals.
Q: Will this overhauled Risa map remain accessible after the conclusion of the Lohlunat Festival?
A: Our current plan is to allow this map to remain active after the Lohlunat Festival ends. All of the associated Summer Event activities will stop being available, as will free access for Klingons, but the destination can still be used as a social map by Federation and Fed-Romulan captains.
* NOTE: This may change, and isn't currently set in stone.
Q: Does the Risian Corvette have a custom bridge/interior?
A: No. It will come fitted with Federation or Klingon interiors, depending upon your faction (or choice of ally, for Romulans).
Q: Will there be special doff missions that reward items like during the Winter Event?
A: No. There are no Summer Event Duty Officer Assignments.
Q: Will there be a Starbase Project?
A: It will not be available at the release of the Summer Event, but there will be project made available soon. The exact release date of when this Special Project will become available is not yet finalized, but we hope it will be in the next couple of weeks. It will cost Lohlunat Favors to complete.
Floaters - fine
Console - fine
Lobi for pearls - assuming that someone is lucky enough to get max pearls each purchase...
Overhauled map available forever...ok...banning kdf and rom-kdf after event...not cool
No Custom Interior - lazy and not cool
No Doff Missions - fine
Starbase project - meh, just something else to cause trouble during fleet gatherings.
No info on what marks the bird pets give - boring...
No clarification on why you can't make sunglasses for different facial geometries - lack of communication with devs, or lack of creativity from designers...
I wonder if mailbox will also be accessible there, since, bank and exchange will.
And I hope the map stays... Who'd dare telling captains when and when not take their holiday.
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
1. I think it would be nice if the post-event Risa map were left all faction, and the Sirius block left the way it is pre-event. That way it would only be those captains who can access Sirius block who could visit Risa, but they would be able to do so, which would be nice.
2. It would also be nice if the Corvette could get one of the slipstream boosts. This would be in keeping with its description as an exceptionally fast ship, and should not be overly difficult to achieve, since there are already several ships which have one of these (the Vesta 2 piece bonus gives Chroniton Integrated slipstream, while all Odyssey variants and both 1000 day veteran ships have Advanced slipstream). This would also be a start towards addressing the fact that the KDF is at a disadvantage both on number of ships with upgraded slipstream and on Tour the Universe more generally due to layout issues, and it would give Romulan characters their first chance to acquire a ship with upgraded slipstream.
Summer event???? I'd call it summer GRIND... 25 days of grinding for a ship... no thanks, give me a call when you release some REAL content like new 10-player team STFs or something like that. No more useless ships and no more useless grinds please, just playable and fun content that is not time-gated, do it and i'll spend MONEY, otherwise i will just keep skipping as many grind events as posible until i'm bored enough to quit the game... again.
My advice to cryptic is simple, stop rolling out time gated content, make reputation account wide and release fun PLAYABLE and NOT TIME GATED content to play. STOP THE GRIND FEST!!!!
Nukara rep, New Romulus rep , Omega rep , Event rep, Fleet Starbase, Fleet Embassy, Accolade system, DOFF system and Dilithium... Am I the only one who hates all those grinds???
We got rid of exploration marks and badges to simplify currencies and get... Gold Pressed Latinum, Energy Credits, Dilithium, Nukara marks, Romulan marks, Omega marks, Fleet marks, Lobi crystals and now (for a limited time!) Lohlunat Pearls ... this is nonsense (and I did not include ZEN). :eek:
By the way... i'm LTS since BEFORE closed beta... my LTS is one of the first batch. Real Forum Join Date SUMMER 2009 (I've been following this game since 2007 when PERPETUAL ENTERTAINMENT was developing STO... and i can say with enough experience the game is not getting better, it has improved somewhat but it is loosing all the fun)
I am a little afraid. I want that ship on all my characters. So any of them and I have to rush to make my additional characters now?
...so sad that this is time limited, I get why but I have to wait another year for next opportunity?
Risa looks btw beautiful.. I hope that map at least stays even if the summer event rewards does not. And that you can keep using that jet pack to float around on Risa after the summer event.. that would be great.
That is to much.. this is the summer for a reason.
- 25 days is also enough time to loose patience.
I was never able to get the winter ship because it was to time consuming. Please devs, please change this to 14 days or something more reasonable. Or at least have smaller waiting time between.. say 3 opportunities per day instead of one.
If there's one thing Cryptic does do really well, it's a seasonal event! The past Crimbo ones were really good fun, and they never gave the impression they were bleeding you for cash!
I promote MORE seasonal events! They're awesome
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] @Aquitaine985 Lag Industries STO PvP Fleet - Executive
A Sad Panda of Industrial calibre. 2010: This is Cryptic PvP. Please hold the line, your call is very important to us...
That is to much.. this is the summer for a reason.
- 25 days is also enough time to loose patience.
I was never able to get the winter ship because it was to time consuming. Please devs, please change this to 14 days or something more reasonable. Or at least have smaller waiting time between.. say 3 opportunities per day instead of one.
2 min every day isn't time consuming ... it's not like you have to stay online for 25 days and collect Lohlunat Pearls ALL the time ...
If you're not patient enough though, you still can spend Lobi on Pearls ...
Patch Notes : Resolved an Issue, where people would accidently experience Fun.
All reputation projects except event reputation are once slotted can be cancelled. I accidently slotted one for the CE event and have never been unable to cancel this project. Once the new event is live, will be event projects possible to cancel?
Wow! All the colours....they are beautifull!
We really need special pet inventory devs., even if it's purchasable from the C-Store. I can't stress how much needed this is, you're introducing cool new pets all of the time and we need more space to keep them.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
Summer event???? I'd call it summer GRIND... 25 days of grinding for a ship... no thanks, give me a call when you release some REAL content like new 10-player team STFs or something like that. No more useless ships and no more useless grinds please, just playable and fun content that is not time-gated, do it and i'll spend MONEY, otherwise i will just keep skipping as many grind events as posible until i'm bored enough to quit the game... again.
My advice to cryptic is simple, stop rolling out time gated content, make reputation account wide and release fun PLAYABLE and NOT TIME GATED content to play. STOP THE GRIND FEST!!!!
Nukara rep, New Romulus rep , Omega rep , Event rep, Fleet Starbase, Fleet Embassy, Accolade system, DOFF system and Dilithium... Am I the only one who hates all those grinds???
We got rid of exploration marks and badges to simplify currencies and get... Gold Pressed Latinum, Energy Credits, Dilithium, Nukara marks, Romulan marks, Omega marks, Fleet marks, Lobi crystals and now (for a limited time!) Lohlunat Pearls ... this is nonsense (and I did not include ZEN). :eek:
By the way... i'm LTS since BEFORE closed beta... my LTS is one of the first batch. Real Forum Join Date SUMMER 2009 (I've been following this game since 2007 when PERPETUAL ENTERTAINMENT was developing STO... and i can say with enough experience the game is not getting better, it has improved somewhat but it is loosing all the fun)
It was stated after update on the 27th so that's tomorrow.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
No clarification on why you can't make sunglasses for different facial geometries - lack of communication with devs, or lack of creativity from designers...
Because of clipping. Duh. That thing is EVIL!
All jokes aside, it does seem to be rather, well, lazy on their part. But hey, at least STO has devs to release new content and costume packs and cool events and everything else.
Don't care about the ship, but I will be going after those sunglasses and clothes for at least 2 of my characters. I hope they can be put on boffs as well, like the winter stuff could.
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I did NOT appreciate being taunted by that tiny red bikini I see in the background on one girl that we wont get to wear on our female captains. :mad:
So that catamaran is an actual starship? I was just expecting a speedy shuttle craft mainly for space races Tom Paris would be proud of. Meh. Wont grind for that then.
Thank You for leaving the new Risa in place. A logical decision. The jetpack race sounds cool. Can you consider leaving that race in place, and whatever activities are there, to keep Risa fun year around and just pay out some EC for wins instead of the big summer event prizes?
Risa.Needs.Hoverboards. I mean, you guys dont mind going off canon and ripping other things off ::COUGH STAR WARS COUGH::
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
In fact, I think I'll spec my new tac captain into a speed demon.
I AM THE SWORD OF THE RIGHTOUS!
I have a lot of alts. A lot of alts. And a hard time figuring out which of those alts, if any, I could see use a ship like that. So there is some sense of pressure right now (one I don't intend to give into one way or the other) to run the event on each candidate. It makes more sense to me to just go head and let people do it on one or two characters, and be free to change their minds as to where the ship has to go halfway through. (Also a lot of the people who have the amounts of Lobi required to buy the ship outright, might not have that lobi on the character they want to buy the ship for.) Right up to the moment they unpack it.
Floaters - fine
Console - fine
Lobi for pearls - assuming that someone is lucky enough to get max pearls each purchase...
Overhauled map available forever...ok...banning kdf and rom-kdf after event...not cool
No Custom Interior - lazy and not cool
No Doff Missions - fine
Starbase project - meh, just something else to cause trouble during fleet gatherings.
No info on what marks the bird pets give - boring...
No clarification on why you can't make sunglasses for different facial geometries - lack of communication with devs, or lack of creativity from designers...
Can we get pictures of the two outfits please? Just asking so I can do some planning on who gets what.
Myself and a friend were discussing this, and hoping the Explorer outfit at least gets a Plith hat...
And I hope the map stays... Who'd dare telling captains when and when not take their holiday.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Edit:
Just read that it doesnt, that bums me out
1. I think it would be nice if the post-event Risa map were left all faction, and the Sirius block left the way it is pre-event. That way it would only be those captains who can access Sirius block who could visit Risa, but they would be able to do so, which would be nice.
2. It would also be nice if the Corvette could get one of the slipstream boosts. This would be in keeping with its description as an exceptionally fast ship, and should not be overly difficult to achieve, since there are already several ships which have one of these (the Vesta 2 piece bonus gives Chroniton Integrated slipstream, while all Odyssey variants and both 1000 day veteran ships have Advanced slipstream). This would also be a start towards addressing the fact that the KDF is at a disadvantage both on number of ships with upgraded slipstream and on Tour the Universe more generally due to layout issues, and it would give Romulan characters their first chance to acquire a ship with upgraded slipstream.
Just a bit of food for thought.
My advice to cryptic is simple, stop rolling out time gated content, make reputation account wide and release fun PLAYABLE and NOT TIME GATED content to play. STOP THE GRIND FEST!!!!
Nukara rep, New Romulus rep , Omega rep , Event rep, Fleet Starbase, Fleet Embassy, Accolade system, DOFF system and Dilithium... Am I the only one who hates all those grinds???
We got rid of exploration marks and badges to simplify currencies and get... Gold Pressed Latinum, Energy Credits, Dilithium, Nukara marks, Romulan marks, Omega marks, Fleet marks, Lobi crystals and now (for a limited time!) Lohlunat Pearls ... this is nonsense (and I did not include ZEN). :eek:
By the way... i'm LTS since BEFORE closed beta... my LTS is one of the first batch. Real Forum Join Date SUMMER 2009 (I've been following this game since 2007 when PERPETUAL ENTERTAINMENT was developing STO... and i can say with enough experience the game is not getting better, it has improved somewhat but it is loosing all the fun)
...so sad that this is time limited, I get why but I have to wait another year for next opportunity?
Risa looks btw beautiful.. I hope that map at least stays even if the summer event rewards does not. And that you can keep using that jet pack to float around on Risa after the summer event.. that would be great.
That is to much.. this is the summer for a reason.
- 25 days is also enough time to loose patience.
I was never able to get the winter ship because it was to time consuming. Please devs, please change this to 14 days or something more reasonable. Or at least have smaller waiting time between.. say 3 opportunities per day instead of one.
I promote MORE seasonal events! They're awesome
@Aquitaine985
Lag Industries STO PvP Fleet - Executive
A Sad Panda of Industrial calibre.
2010: This is Cryptic PvP. Please hold the line, your call is very important to us...
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Bad news: no special interior for that ship. So just another escort.
And yes, I know all ships behave like that, but this one seems to get an additional bonus to speed-based defense.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
2 min every day isn't time consuming ... it's not like you have to stay online for 25 days and collect Lohlunat Pearls ALL the time ...
If you're not patient enough though, you still can spend Lobi on Pearls ...
Holy cow you are a whiner. 25 x 2 minutes = 50 minutes. 50 minutes per toon for a brand new, totally free ship. You don't like it? Go back to ESD.
There is going to be.....DABO!!?! :eek: I love dabo!
I support this idea! Would love to have the Horga'hn it as desk ornament or trophy if possible.
Wow! All the colours....they are beautifull!
We really need special pet inventory devs., even if it's purchasable from the C-Store. I can't stress how much needed this is, you're introducing cool new pets all of the time and we need more space to keep them.
Tomorrow after update.
STO usually do updates (today - UK time) within a few hours .. no I guess it will come on Friday then?
Because of clipping. Duh. That thing is EVIL!
All jokes aside, it does seem to be rather, well, lazy on their part. But hey, at least STO has devs to release new content and costume packs and cool events and everything else.
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