While I would love to see more Space STF's and the Ground engine have a better 1st person/3rd person mode (yes, a revamp), the biggest thing would be PvP. Why? That would force a re-assessment of EVERYTHING, and would widen your audience for both ground and space. Bigger audience = bigger market = more sales for ground and space.
How about giving us a poll on what we'd like you to fix in the game?
I'm still waiting for cut scenes of my toon walking down the ramp to a new ship I just purchased, or a shot of my new ship coming out of a repair dock at Utopia.
Or one just as good... Don't release a new ship without an Interior for it... Look how many people bought the Interiors off the C-store! Heck I bought the new Voyager ships JUST for the interiors.... (the ship is a hearty little ship too!)
This game isn't just about the Play it's about the Emersion you get when you play!
How many players out there when they first get a ship visit their Bridge or invite others to their bridge? Almost all until they hear there is nothing there!!!
Even a simple choice of a Cut scene or not when we visit ESD showing are ship being tractored in by docking control! Or the Launching of our shuttles from the launch bay! Those are controlled sequences....
And speaking of ESD... Open up the Hanger area and let us run around like Idiots!!! Give us an Airlock to Climb out on to run around the surface of ESD.... I guess I'm asking for a Sandbox to play in and go where we'd like on a map.
And Lastly... Thank you for the uniform updates on our crew... But How about letting US choose the uniforms for our ship... Use the standard uniforms if you must... and dare I say it... you can even put a Cost on it of X amount of zen or EC and you can change the uniforms of your WHOLE Ship to any of the standard uniforms.......
We all love missions and new challenges... But we'd love to see the simplest of things Fixed more that annoy us while we play. REMEMBER... EMERSION is what keeps your Veterans!!!!
Why bother adding the PVP Option into the Poll? Unless it won the majority, And even if it did, nothing will change. I no longer see it as a glimmer of hope, instead its like Dangling a Carrot infront of the horses mouth. Forever forcing PVPers to chase that carrot called hope.
You think that your beta test was bad?
Think about this: American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
You can at least put some sort of splash about the poll on the main web page to let more players know about it.
Well it looks like its up to us (the players) to spread the word in Zone chat about the player poll.
Dam Cryptic DON'T BE SO LAZY. if you want to know more about something don't just bury it in the forums where over 90% of the players have no clue of where or what it is.
How about giving us a poll on what we'd like you to fix in the game? (...)
Have a hackathon, Cryptic. Give yourselves a few bugs to squash, have the community vote on which ones they'd like fixed the most (based on your list), then hold an event to report on how it's progressing.
I think you'd see a LOT of happy players who feel STO is getting better attention/love. Great customer service. Have a contest to offer an LTS to one lucky voter, too.
I want to see more customization options. I want the game to go back to being about MY ship, MY hand-selected crew and MY story, like it was originally intended to be. Not the crew YOU selected for me.
I want the unique Boff clothing options that the default Romulan boffs get to be made universal instead of solely usable on those four (largely crappy and TOTALLY UNWANTED) boffs. I want the doctor's coat and medical bag on my character and/or the boffs I want to use.
I want to go back to picking MY OWN crew rather than having you give me the crew you want me (and every other player) to have.
I want to murder Tovan Khev. I don't care about the story, I don't care about what it'd take. I want to get rid of him. I want him to stop taking off that boff slot, I want him to NEVER EVER EVER appear on my bridge, at the very least.
I want more options for existing ships, especially Romulan ships.
I want you to go back to the customization-first company that you used to be, rather than the "We want you to play guest-star in our obviously superior story" company that you are now. You guys have reverted to the City of Heroes days, where Statesman was the star of the show and the players were merely his sidekicks. Worse, you're back in the "it's all a Nemesis Plot!" writing habit: everything in the game happened because Nemesis--I mean, the Iconians--wanted it to happen. Stop that, you're better than that and I hate to see you regressing.
On a different note:
I want the dilithium refining cap raised. Everything meaningful costs Dilithium now, far and away more than when the system was first introduced. 8k a day is no longer enough for a player to get the gear she needs in any reasonable amount of time. It's past time the cap was re-evaluated, with the current state of the game in mind. 8k was fine years ago, it is no longer sufficient today.
I can't say it enough, though. The unique boff uniform options for those Romulan Boffs NEED to be available to ALL Boffs and ALL player characters. Stop arbitrarily limiting our customization options!!!
Exploration Missions seems good but first do specialization system for t5u ships.
Similar system as for boffs, for example really is shame i love my undine nicor but i cant use new inteligence or command skills. Just do Inteligence/Command specialization requistion token for another 1000 zen. PWE still be profits and everybody wins.
You can at least put some sort of splash about the poll on the main web page to let more players know about it.
Well it looks like its up to us (the players) to spread the word in Zone chat about the player poll.
Dam Cryptic DON'T BE SO LAZY. if you want to know more about something don't just bury it in the forums where over 90% of the players have no clue of where or what it is.
If only they had an ingame bulletin system in place...oh, wait.....
Why bother adding the PVP Option into the Poll? Unless it won the majority, And even if it did, nothing will change. I no longer see it as a glimmer of hope, instead its like Dangling a Carrot infront of the horses mouth. Forever forcing PVPers to chase that carrot called hope.
it got old long ago, didn't it? ... let's hope for the best, like we did for years lulz :mad:.
Episodes are literally the only good thing on this list.
Exploration missions! Really? You all know this is a crappy MMO right?:mad:
PvP is absolutely the worst in any game other than an FPS. give me a break losers. quit trying to balance PvP and make the PvE (which everyone plays BTW) better, by removing all that lose if you don't complete something TRIBBLE in advanced. :mad:
Look at the facts, the only Ques in the entire game that get filled regularly are Crystaline Catastrophe (Advanced), Infected: the conduit(Advanced), and Khitomer Vortex(Advanced)
Make more missions like these. and quit giving the new enemies super exploitative abilities, that stupid invincibility shield that the voth have is pure BS:mad:, and so is the undine rift and super healing.
I want PvP, we all do. Adding more queues will not fix the inherent problem. It needs a new mechanics (check SWTOR for ideas, maybe? Like PvP gear and ships via ladder, to make it competative and fun, not constant, endless gear farm....
As it stands, the better option is Exploration, besides its missing in its entierty atm. UFP is all about exploration, very star trecky, and a massive failure this game missing that layer. I vote Exploration.
My 2nd vote, would be to work on PvP, but not on queues, on whole new mechanics instead, that will make it fun again.
We needed Cardassians, years ago, where are they ? Romulans need more story for other factions (UFP/KDF) they are a great Alpha Q power, and yet they feel weak and almost irrelevant. UFP as it stands now, is a sole Galactic Superpower, and im not sure thats very Star Treky ether. KDF needs more work still.....
But, yes, please Add the exploration layer! There is no genuine U.F.P. gameplay wthout exploration, just a shooter, and thats more of a KDF way to explore the stars.... UFP is missing its soul, while having alot of toys, that other 2 factions could use.... As usch, all 3 powers, been treated unfairly.
I enjoy the game, very much, having said that, and hope to see the game grow and remain a good place of entertainment for years to come. Please go easy on the gring, devs! Alllow ppl to have fun, not constant grinding. We have so much of it now.
Cheers
P.S. sorry for terrible spelling. Please give some more maps for space & ground Queues, while u at it. We got so many new toys, over past year, and not that many new places to play with them at.
Also, i have almost all the ships for U.F.P including T6s, but, it would be maybe wise? to give F2P folks uptodate t6 to get from a shipyard, outside of special events, they could always get once they reach lvl 60 ? If only, couse, they may invest into game. Give F2P players some love and gear. Vaadwaur home world, is exellent for more ground mission Queues as is Iconia, some thing masterious in irradiated ancient land scape, ruined cities. Be creative ! U can make something SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Fun on ether one of those planets for PvE crowd! Think about it, ruined city, with multiple layers (like floors of buildings, and ancient enemies or Iconian agents, or whatever) Ether one of those planets have endless potential to give exellent groud combat PvE Queue setting. Space, it too can get more fun, like maybe combat inside a wormhole? something fun and bright, with kewl effects! U can do it!
You created this new account just to vote twice didn't you? You will have to do it another 450 times for PvP to win. That should keep you occupied for a while...
I would like to see more open world sandbox type content, like the Dyson Sphere. A level 60 Space & Ground open world sandbox Dyson Sphere type thing set in the Delta quadrant would be awesome. You could definitely expand upon the Kobali stuff or do something totally different....but I'm definitely missing the Dyson sphere stuff....I love wandering around in my ship doing small missions and fighting the bad guys. I think we need more of that.
I also miss having Enemy Signal Contacts. I've always enjoyed wandering around and randomly encountering stuff to do. There's a ton of dungeons to do if you queue up for them, but I think this game needs more open world sandbox stuff...in my opinion.
....you could do a open world pvp zone too, that run's 24/7...it could be sandboxy as well....maybe a combo of pvp and pve together...maybe a League of Legends or Dota type thing...but pvp....but yeah...less instancy stuff and more open world sandbox stuff...I think that would be a winner. I'm not sure how popular that kind of stuff was in the past, but I love it.
TLDR: Less Queues, more Open World Sandbox stuff. (Dyson Sphere ground and space)
give me a break losers. quit trying to balance PvP and make the PvE (which everyone plays BTW) better, by removing all that lose if you don't complete something TRIBBLE in advanced. :mad:
Look at the facts, the only Ques in the entire game that get filled regularly are Crystaline Catastrophe (Advanced), Infected: the conduit(Advanced), and Khitomer Vortex(Advanced)
Make more missions like these. and quit giving the new enemies super exploitative abilities, that stupid invincibility shield that the voth have is pure BS:mad:, and so is the undine rift and super healing.
If these idiots can't see that PvP is the number one thing people want to see fixed, it's pretty clear they just don't care, all 50 of these pages in this thread are 90% pvp related. My question would then be how can people pay for such total and complete broken garbage? I dont want to be sold more tools for 5 playable missions. I want more missions to play the 1000000 tools we already have purchased.
many would come back if there was any postive movement crypticside for pvp.
indeed any vote/statement for pvp in here can be multiplicated by a much higher mod than 1,0.
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More Episodes - unless they're just bundled patrols.
Less Grinding
Less Nerfing
Less Dilithium Spending.
Just saying.
Fleet Defiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support | Fleet Manticore Kinetic Strike Ship | Tactical Command Kinetic Siege Refit | Fleet Defiant Quantum Phase Escort | Fleet Valiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support
Turning the Galaxy-X into a Torpedo Dreadnought & torpedo tutorial, with written torpedo guide.
"A good weapon and a great strategy will win you many battles." - Marshall
I knew using Kinetics would be playing the game on hard mode, but what I didn't realize was how bad the deck is stacked against Kinetics.
I'm still waiting for cut scenes of my toon walking down the ramp to a new ship I just purchased, or a shot of my new ship coming out of a repair dock at Utopia.
Or one just as good... Don't release a new ship without an Interior for it... Look how many people bought the Interiors off the C-store! Heck I bought the new Voyager ships JUST for the interiors.... (the ship is a hearty little ship too!)
This game isn't just about the Play it's about the Emersion you get when you play!
How many players out there when they first get a ship visit their Bridge or invite others to their bridge? Almost all until they hear there is nothing there!!!
Even a simple choice of a Cut scene or not when we visit ESD showing are ship being tractored in by docking control! Or the Launching of our shuttles from the launch bay! Those are controlled sequences....
And speaking of ESD... Open up the Hanger area and let us run around like Idiots!!! Give us an Airlock to Climb out on to run around the surface of ESD.... I guess I'm asking for a Sandbox to play in and go where we'd like on a map.
And Lastly... Thank you for the uniform updates on our crew... But How about letting US choose the uniforms for our ship... Use the standard uniforms if you must... and dare I say it... you can even put a Cost on it of X amount of zen or EC and you can change the uniforms of your WHOLE Ship to any of the standard uniforms.......
We all love missions and new challenges... But we'd love to see the simplest of things Fixed more that annoy us while we play. REMEMBER... EMERSION is what keeps your Veterans!!!!
What happened to the ONE MAP TO RULE THEM ALL???
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
You can at least put some sort of splash about the poll on the main web page to let more players know about it.
Well it looks like its up to us (the players) to spread the word in Zone chat about the player poll.
Dam Cryptic DON'T BE SO LAZY. if you want to know more about something don't just bury it in the forums where over 90% of the players have no clue of where or what it is.
I think you'd see a LOT of happy players who feel STO is getting better attention/love. Great customer service. Have a contest to offer an LTS to one lucky voter, too.
Why do players have to choose?
When players voted for the Kazon, Cryptic gave everyone dinosaurs with lasers.
I think all of the choices in the poll are important.
I also think all of the choices are well overdue.
I want the unique Boff clothing options that the default Romulan boffs get to be made universal instead of solely usable on those four (largely crappy and TOTALLY UNWANTED) boffs. I want the doctor's coat and medical bag on my character and/or the boffs I want to use.
I want to go back to picking MY OWN crew rather than having you give me the crew you want me (and every other player) to have.
I want to murder Tovan Khev. I don't care about the story, I don't care about what it'd take. I want to get rid of him. I want him to stop taking off that boff slot, I want him to NEVER EVER EVER appear on my bridge, at the very least.
I want more options for existing ships, especially Romulan ships.
I want you to go back to the customization-first company that you used to be, rather than the "We want you to play guest-star in our obviously superior story" company that you are now. You guys have reverted to the City of Heroes days, where Statesman was the star of the show and the players were merely his sidekicks. Worse, you're back in the "it's all a Nemesis Plot!" writing habit: everything in the game happened because Nemesis--I mean, the Iconians--wanted it to happen. Stop that, you're better than that and I hate to see you regressing.
On a different note:
I want the dilithium refining cap raised. Everything meaningful costs Dilithium now, far and away more than when the system was first introduced. 8k a day is no longer enough for a player to get the gear she needs in any reasonable amount of time. It's past time the cap was re-evaluated, with the current state of the game in mind. 8k was fine years ago, it is no longer sufficient today.
I can't say it enough, though. The unique boff uniform options for those Romulan Boffs NEED to be available to ALL Boffs and ALL player characters. Stop arbitrarily limiting our customization options!!!
"Star Trek: Online" is either for everyone, or its just another game for the rich.
Similar system as for boffs, for example really is shame i love my undine nicor but i cant use new inteligence or command skills. Just do Inteligence/Command specialization requistion token for another 1000 zen. PWE still be profits and everybody wins.
If only they had an ingame bulletin system in place...oh, wait.....
it got old long ago, didn't it?
Exploration missions! Really?
PvP is absolutely the worst in any game other than an FPS. give me a break losers. quit trying to balance PvP and make the PvE (which everyone plays BTW) better, by removing all that lose if you don't complete something TRIBBLE in advanced. :mad:
Look at the facts, the only Ques in the entire game that get filled regularly are Crystaline Catastrophe (Advanced), Infected: the conduit(Advanced), and Khitomer Vortex(Advanced)
Make more missions like these. and quit giving the new enemies super exploitative abilities, that stupid invincibility shield that the voth have is pure BS:mad:, and so is the undine rift and super healing.
As it stands, the better option is Exploration, besides its missing in its entierty atm. UFP is all about exploration, very star trecky, and a massive failure this game missing that layer. I vote Exploration.
My 2nd vote, would be to work on PvP, but not on queues, on whole new mechanics instead, that will make it fun again.
We needed Cardassians, years ago, where are they ? Romulans need more story for other factions (UFP/KDF) they are a great Alpha Q power, and yet they feel weak and almost irrelevant. UFP as it stands now, is a sole Galactic Superpower, and im not sure thats very Star Treky ether. KDF needs more work still.....
But, yes, please Add the exploration layer! There is no genuine U.F.P. gameplay wthout exploration, just a shooter, and thats more of a KDF way to explore the stars.... UFP is missing its soul, while having alot of toys, that other 2 factions could use.... As usch, all 3 powers, been treated unfairly.
I enjoy the game, very much, having said that, and hope to see the game grow and remain a good place of entertainment for years to come. Please go easy on the gring, devs! Alllow ppl to have fun, not constant grinding. We have so much of it now.
Cheers
P.S. sorry for terrible spelling. Please give some more maps for space & ground Queues, while u at it. We got so many new toys, over past year, and not that many new places to play with them at.
Also, i have almost all the ships for U.F.P including T6s, but, it would be maybe wise? to give F2P folks uptodate t6 to get from a shipyard, outside of special events, they could always get once they reach lvl 60 ? If only, couse, they may invest into game. Give F2P players some love and gear. Vaadwaur home world, is exellent for more ground mission Queues as is Iconia, some thing masterious in irradiated ancient land scape, ruined cities. Be creative ! U can make something SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Fun on ether one of those planets for PvE crowd! Think about it, ruined city, with multiple layers (like floors of buildings, and ancient enemies or Iconian agents, or whatever) Ether one of those planets have endless potential to give exellent groud combat PvE Queue setting. Space, it too can get more fun, like maybe combat inside a wormhole? something fun and bright, with kewl effects! U can do it!
You created this new account just to vote twice didn't you? You will have to do it another 450 times for PvP to win. That should keep you occupied for a while...
I also miss having Enemy Signal Contacts. I've always enjoyed wandering around and randomly encountering stuff to do. There's a ton of dungeons to do if you queue up for them, but I think this game needs more open world sandbox stuff...in my opinion.
....you could do a open world pvp zone too, that run's 24/7...it could be sandboxy as well....maybe a combo of pvp and pve together...maybe a League of Legends or Dota type thing...but pvp....but yeah...less instancy stuff and more open world sandbox stuff...I think that would be a winner. I'm not sure how popular that kind of stuff was in the past, but I love it.
TLDR: Less Queues, more Open World Sandbox stuff. (Dyson Sphere ground and space)
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take this poll that was taken when many more of the old guard still had been around
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=379951
many would come back if there was any postive movement crypticside for pvp.
indeed any vote/statement for pvp in here can be multiplicated by a much higher mod than 1,0.