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The main storyline is over: what do you want now?
bioixi
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So, what do you want now, what do you think the developer team should do now? what do you want as a customer?
The main questions is: What do you want them to focus their efforts on? without forgetting about adding new content of course.
For example, the first option means you want them to focus on bug fixing, PvP and PvE rebalance, R&D, crafting and upgrading rebalancing, new quality of life features like a new inventory tab for vanity items like pets and party horns, improving the Doff system, improving captain's skill system and trait system with separate ground and space slots and trait builds.
But without forgetting about adding new content like new ships and missions, those will be secondary and a bit more "Story light".
The second option means you want them to focus on making a new storyline leading to a climatic ending, similar to the old storylines leading to the Iconian war.
Exploration means making a whole new dimension with procedurally generated content and help from foundry patrons, a new universe to explore based on the classic storyless episodes (those without continuity) we all love from the star trek franchise, meeting new species, diplomacy, righting wrongs, etc.
The remaining options are pretty straightforward.
The main questions is: What do you want them to focus their efforts on? without forgetting about adding new content of course.
For example, the first option means you want them to focus on bug fixing, PvP and PvE rebalance, R&D, crafting and upgrading rebalancing, new quality of life features like a new inventory tab for vanity items like pets and party horns, improving the Doff system, improving captain's skill system and trait system with separate ground and space slots and trait builds.
But without forgetting about adding new content like new ships and missions, those will be secondary and a bit more "Story light".
The second option means you want them to focus on making a new storyline leading to a climatic ending, similar to the old storylines leading to the Iconian war.
Exploration means making a whole new dimension with procedurally generated content and help from foundry patrons, a new universe to explore based on the classic storyless episodes (those without continuity) we all love from the star trek franchise, meeting new species, diplomacy, righting wrongs, etc.
The remaining options are pretty straightforward.
The main storyline is over: what do you want now? 170 votes
Balance, fixes and quality of life improvements
35%
60 votes
A new storyline
11%
19 votes
Exploration
28%
48 votes
A new expansion: Gamma quadrant
11%
20 votes
A new Expansion: Mirror Universe
5%
10 votes
Reworking/overhauling old stuff (missions, zones)
7%
13 votes
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For most games, forums are irrelevant, I doubt developers read anything other than the bug report section, this forum or any forum, still is a good way to pass time.
Of course it's their concern in what we want now, because not listening to your customers is always a sign of a bad business. You obviously don't want to let them lead you by the nose, but you also don't want to ignore them either.
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It's a matter of priority, of course you are not going to assign a 3D modeler or an artist to a bug hunt, but you can have that 3D modeler working on ships and props for future use while coders and debuggers focus on fixing and balancing stuff instead of coding 3D designs for a soon to be released mission.
Focusing resources on something doesn't mean you are wasting time if you have people unable to work on that something, you can assign those people to other low priority stuff, and it's not counterproductive, you can have writers and artists working on a future project without pressure, while coders focus on fixing the game instead of having everyone focused on releasing a mission per month and a patch per week.
But imo, STO needs Exploration badly, ST is about Diplomacy and Exploration, with out it, STO is not really ST...
After which a season dedicated to bug fixes and QoL improvements would be good... but yeah, my 1st comment.
P.S. Sorry in advance if any of this sounded crabby as that was not my intent. Its just been a long day and it's beginning to feel like we have this debate in the forums at least once a month. To answer OP's poll in a more light hearted way I can honestly say I'd love a return of some form of exploration. One that's hopefully far more interactive than the old version and perhaps includes a bit of diplomacy.
Sure you're not confusing Cryptic with PWE's business practices? Cryptic makes the game, PWE sells the game.
Now the only bad things about Cryptic as a business in regards to STO is: 1) STO is a pretty simplistic MMO which really has no real challenges. 2) A certain member of the Dev Team belittling the playerbase. But they pretty much are doing what MMOs do, they listen and adjust their plans to accomodate their customers without sacrificing their long-term plans.
I agree 100% but sadly fixing broke stuff doesn't make $$$ directly and that's the only way PWE can count.
There is a lot of potential out there. Some seeds are even within the existing story.
Tholians, Augments, Mirror Universe (though I'd prefer they'd never touch that ever again), Borg, Species 8472, Dominion, Section 31, Klingon Council members and renegade houses like house Torog, Fek'iri...
No, it definitely is following a good buisness model, or they wouldn't have the resources to do something like the Delta Rising expansion or monthly new missions for most of this year.
Star Trek Online was on a bad business model a few years ago ,when people complained about "content droughts" and the like. They have long overcome that problem.
But at the moment the game really needs some work in mechanics department.
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I think the most logical sense would be to make them red alerts with extra XP, shorten them significantly...5-10 minute red alert type of thing
Implement some other red alerts: Nausican pirate alert, true way incursion, ...
in a way this is also new content, so I'd say my vote was more a vote on new content and refurbishing old one.
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