Priority One Podcast Episode 148 -- What Kate Did

kraft4406 · November 2013

Greetings, Captains! Welcome to the 148th episode of the premier Star Trek Online podcast record live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday October 31st and published for download on Monday, November 4th at PriorityOnePodcast.com!

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We have an exciting show this week, so James, Elijah and Tony decide to skip Trek it out and get right into STO news because there is a BUNCH of it: The new Obelisk Carrier, Featured Episode Replay event, Dev Blogs up the wazoo, Free Lobi, Season 8 official release date, Dyson Joint Command reputation and so much more! If that wasn't enough STO goodness we then sit down with Cryptic Content Designer Kate Bankson to go behind the scenes of the just-released Featured Episode ?Sphere of Influence.? before finally opening Hailing Frequencies and listening to your incoming messages!

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bitemepwe · November 2013

was Katie naughty??

giggidity giggidity

tacofangs · November 2013

Who's Katie?

centersolace · November 2013

Katydid?

darkelipse04 · November 2013

Hehe nice LOST reference.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/What_Kate_Did

zeuxidemus001 · November 2013

This is just my opinion but I've had enough grind to where I do not want to ever do a romulan or nukara mark mission ever again Ive grinded them so much based on what has been done. Yet they think by this sponsorship token TRIBBLE that it changes anything is totally bogus. I most likely will just do my main characters from now on and not make any new characters when an expansion comes along they just do not listen to the real problems. So in retrospect the whole less grindy statement is misleading and untruthful.

pwebranflakes · November 2013

tacofangs wrote: »

Who's Katie?

Fixed it for them

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

kraft4406 · November 2013

Gosh darn it Branflakes you tasty yet fiberous cereal. It was meant to be Katie:

1) An allusion to Cryptic Kate;
2) It works as a LOST reference;
3) It's a set of children's books, popular in the UK, certainly heard of in Canada if not widely popular (incidentally where LOST got their episode title from); and
4) Profit???

We've decided to change the title of our episode to What Kate Did though, due to REDACTED.

trhrangerxml · November 2013

I have a Nvidia 3D Surround set up with 3x 27", while I love the game across 3x screens, the 3D part is not so great because of issues with shadows and anti-aliasing which if left on can be quite headache inducing. Also, the UI is not "flexible" in terms of adjusting to multiple resolutions like notebook 720p, desktop 1080p with 1 display and desktop with 3x displays. All I can save is 1 HUD so I just find myself setting it up for the 1080p display and leaving it at that and than not playing on the 3 display set up.

I don't mean to go off on a rant, but the game has issues in terms of 3D and HUD flexibility and its been this way since launch. Fixing the AA, Shadows and explosions so they are not 2D FX on top of 3D models would help the game be more enjoyable in 3D. And making it so we can safe multiple HUD setups with names and load them on demand would be nice. The game engine has been upgraded multiple times and still look really pretty, space battles no longer look like a bunch of ships attached by strings as it did with the pre-beta and early days and ship models have improved a lot (except my beloved Sovi).

azurianstar · November 2013

What I think of the new Reputation system?

On one side, we don't have to go through the hassle of unlocking stores now. And it's faster to level up your reputation. On the other, it really doesn't answer the problem that people had with the reputation system. While Cryptic did focus on the needs for "weekend warriors" so they can stock up on reputation so they don't have to play every day. But it doesn't solve the problem of players whom has multiple characters and have to play every single one of them daily, which is a massive burden.

Though some might say that the new Reputation Donation system solves that, but it requires you to reach Tier 5 in a given Reputation and sacrifice 100 marks for every reputation boost token. Which makes it useless for those who have multiple characters. Because if you have 6 or 8, that means your main has to save up on 600 or 800 marks in order to donate to each of your characters. And again, it's after you maxed out reputation.

So in the end, it's a worthless system.

Sphere of Influence:

I really enjoyed the episode with the new tech that was brought to the game and of course Mr. Dorn reprising his role as Worf.

Only complaint I had with the episode, well really it's a nitpick, was with the map room. Earth had ESD above Southeast Asia when ESD is geostationary above the North American West Coast. And ESD was see-through (where Tacofangs commented it was due to a software situation). Also, Qo'nos is lacking Praxis. (Tacofangs commented on this as well saying it was hard due to all the pieces of the moon. Though I thought maybe Praxis could've been put far enough that the asteroids that they could've used a gas cloud.?) And too bad the planet maps wasn't improved.

Overall, it was enjoyable as a storyline mission.

drake122svk · November 2013

azurianstar wrote: »

What I think of the new Reputation system?

On one side, we don't have to go through the hassle of unlocking stores now. And it's faster to level up your reputation. On the other, it really doesn't answer the problem that people had with the reputation system. While Cryptic did focus on the needs for "weekend warriors" so they can stock up on reputation so they don't have to play every day. But it doesn't solve the problem of players whom has multiple characters and have to play every single one of them daily, which is a massive burden.

Though some might say that the new Reputation Donation system solves that, but it requires you to reach Tier 5 in a given Reputation and sacrifice 100 marks for every reputation boost token. Which makes it useless for those who have multiple characters. Because if you have 6 or 8, that means your main has to save up on 600 or 800 marks in order to donate to each of your characters. And again, it's after you maxed out reputation.

So in the end, it's a worthless system.

Sphere of Influence:

I really enjoyed the episode with the new tech that was brought to the game and of course Mr. Dorn reprising his role as Worf.

Only complaint I had with the episode, well really it's a nitpick, was with the map room. Earth had ESD above Southeast Asia when ESD is geostationary above the North American West Coast. And ESD was see-through (where Tacofangs commented it was due to a software situation). Also, Qo'nos is lacking Praxis. (Tacofangs commented on this as well saying it was hard due to all the pieces of the moon. Though I thought maybe Praxis could've been put far enough that the asteroids that they could've used a gas cloud.?) And too bad the planet maps wasn't improved.

Overall, it was enjoyable as a storyline mission.

Yes, the new rep system is just as useless and annoying as the previous one. The devs basically wanted to keep it the way it is, but created a false illusion of it being less time consuming.

It is still an artificially gated system by 20 hr cooldowns that you are compelled to grind in order to stay competitive.

So, all in all, same grind as before.

Also, "weekend warriors'... lol.

ravin · November 2013

Hey Tony, been meaning to post this, but do you still need the installer for Neverwinter? I have the old non-arc installer and can email it to Priority One if you'd like. But then again, it looks like Arc will be mandatory anyways.

Priority One Podcast Episode 148 -- What Kate Did

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