Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
Yes!
Anything to make this actually feel like a war. Right now it's just a slight skirmish that we occasionally pay attention to when we're not building sand castles on Risa.
If it's supposed to be a 'full on war' then let us see the effects in game, not just in the couple missions.
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
Yes, bring the actual battles to holodeck. At least some of us don't want to see Fox News Alerts on the STO website. We want to actually feel like we are involved other than behind the scenes outtakes.
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Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
Well the magic men, bodysnatchers, and 'shrooms anyway, not too bothered about Tal'Shiar.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
Maybe it helps my immersion in the war that I'm not hanging out in Risa, instead of partying while the galaxy burns in the one place the Iconians don't think is worth invading, I've been battling mostly Iconians, Borg alerts, Tholian Alerts, Tal Shiar in Yan Nebula, assorted Delta Quadrant riff raff, so it feels more like a war zone to me, just that the Iconians are one faction amoung many.
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
I would love to see iconian, servator, along with tal shiar type red alerts in sto. Maybe make the alpha an beta ones be more of a mini-alert in that you get reports of many small worlds being ceased by the servator races/allies of the Iconians, and so there is a new space/ground mini-battleground that you fight with other players to push the occupying forces off the world as they seem to be searching even the worlds they captured. THis could be tooled to be more of a on-set type alert that shows the Iconians using their allies (tal shiar, and such) in the alphas/beta quadent along with the Solanae an elachi as well. Also this kind of alert would have a very unique feel an style to it, and would not need to be story/level gated at all as it would hide the Herald/iconian involvement.
Then in the Delta quadrent might have more of a muti wave style red alert in, in which you have two different alerts based on your place in the story/level possibly, with those being at prior to the Vaadwaur involvement an then links witht eh Iconians there is either just a Voth invasion or a Voth fleet fighting a Vaadwaur incursion fleet that is attacking one of thier allies (maybe a large space-base) making this more of a escort/defend type red alert giving us more veriety in the red alerts. Then once you hit the end few missions you get access to the full iconian/Herald red alert that is mroe of a multi-wave/fleet type encounter. In this alert you might warp in hearing the distress calls of a voth/collective/coupertive group/fleet either being attacked or attacking a incursion of Vaaswaur or Elechi (servator races) fleets that useed sub-space portals to jump in, and have the choice to either attack (if it is voth) both fleets or help one fleet while fighting the servator fleet, then when the servator fleet is pretty well destroyed either large Solanae drone ships (think like the ones you see in the spheres yet starship/cruiser size) or Heralds portal in ataacking an scattering the fleet destroying much of the allied fleet (might be able to interact with some fo the ships to repair them.) prior to them starting the culling of the rest of the fleet. THis kind of fleet would be interesting an feel like we have a war happening with Herald and Servator races poping in attacking an widdling the fleet's numbers
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
hell!!! love the idea!! props to you Asuran14! add in different types of red alerts! Minor Medium and Major ones. heck make the minor ones perhaps level capped up to level 40 ? make the medium ones level 50 and above and have the current 2 "waves" format and add the fricking Major Red alert! 3 waves of enemy fleets with a boss at the end oh and make this one be hard aswell!! let it take over 10 minutes
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
While I'd like to see this, I get the feeling that's the whole thing is too far along for it to happen.
This should have been part of the whole 'event', and it wasn't and thus marks yet another failure on the part of Cryptic. I suppose one should just accept that this game won't live up to any of its potential.
Iconian Red Alert with Heralds/Elachi/Tal Shiar/ect... Iconian subjects.
I agree that it should have been part of the event, though even added later it would give the delta quad a red alert it is missing, as well as giving us something new to do in the alpha/beta quad too. Not sure what t thik of the idea of having a boss-like part to the encounter of the red alert, like a larger than normal Dreadnaught or capital ship (think the voth city ships) as than you might get into the feeling of making the red alerts into more of a standard raid like content over more of a fun down time encounter.
If i was going to think of doing something or seeing something raid-like that might be similar to raids in other games, but in the sto setting it would be more of a fleet-linked mission type of content. In that the idea would be to have fleets have missions linked to each of the story arcs that are built for a larger group of player doing them (maybe almost battleground size groups) that would actually have tactics an AIs, story elements tellling/tieing-up loose ends in the arcs as well as giving another thign for fleets to enjoy together, while also giving more story elements in harder content (subjectively). Issue i see with this is that what to give in, and for completing the missions, since if it is too good than players will feel they have to join a fleet for one more reason whether they want to or not. Also is how would you fund these to be made as this is the same issue raids had if it is billed an pushed towards a single grouping of player in the community, than is the dev money/time spent well an worth it or better used in antoher area of the game.
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For the Delta quadrant I would like to see a Vadwaar, Voth, and Borg should be added there too. Undine might be a nice fit for the Delta quadrant too.
For the Beta quadrant I would like to see the Tal Shiar and the Elachi added. I think that's it.
For the Alpha Quadrant, I would say add a True Way and Mirror Universe Red Alert.
Honestly just adding more Red Alerts then the ones we already having would be great and make grinding for those Spec points a lot more interesting.
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Anything to make this actually feel like a war. Right now it's just a slight skirmish that we occasionally pay attention to when we're not building sand castles on Risa.
If it's supposed to be a 'full on war' then let us see the effects in game, not just in the couple missions.
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Then in the Delta quadrent might have more of a muti wave style red alert in, in which you have two different alerts based on your place in the story/level possibly, with those being at prior to the Vaadwaur involvement an then links witht eh Iconians there is either just a Voth invasion or a Voth fleet fighting a Vaadwaur incursion fleet that is attacking one of thier allies (maybe a large space-base) making this more of a escort/defend type red alert giving us more veriety in the red alerts. Then once you hit the end few missions you get access to the full iconian/Herald red alert that is mroe of a multi-wave/fleet type encounter. In this alert you might warp in hearing the distress calls of a voth/collective/coupertive group/fleet either being attacked or attacking a incursion of Vaaswaur or Elechi (servator races) fleets that useed sub-space portals to jump in, and have the choice to either attack (if it is voth) both fleets or help one fleet while fighting the servator fleet, then when the servator fleet is pretty well destroyed either large Solanae drone ships (think like the ones you see in the spheres yet starship/cruiser size) or Heralds portal in ataacking an scattering the fleet destroying much of the allied fleet (might be able to interact with some fo the ships to repair them.) prior to them starting the culling of the rest of the fleet. THis kind of fleet would be interesting an feel like we have a war happening with Herald and Servator races poping in attacking an widdling the fleet's numbers
This should have been part of the whole 'event', and it wasn't and thus marks yet another failure on the part of Cryptic. I suppose one should just accept that this game won't live up to any of its potential.
If i was going to think of doing something or seeing something raid-like that might be similar to raids in other games, but in the sto setting it would be more of a fleet-linked mission type of content. In that the idea would be to have fleets have missions linked to each of the story arcs that are built for a larger group of player doing them (maybe almost battleground size groups) that would actually have tactics an AIs, story elements tellling/tieing-up loose ends in the arcs as well as giving another thign for fleets to enjoy together, while also giving more story elements in harder content (subjectively). Issue i see with this is that what to give in, and for completing the missions, since if it is too good than players will feel they have to join a fleet for one more reason whether they want to or not. Also is how would you fund these to be made as this is the same issue raids had if it is billed an pushed towards a single grouping of player in the community, than is the dev money/time spent well an worth it or better used in antoher area of the game.