Little to nothing else would make me happier. I'm still salty that Cryptic sidestepped around that when they created the Romulan Republic as the player Romulan faction. Definitely looked like we were on course for them to be the third player race of a new Romulan faction down the line... then PSYCHE! There's actually TWO Romulan factions now, you can only play in one of them, and that one has ONLY Romulans and Remans in it.
So for Christmas? Make Hirogen a player race. Maybe some Hirogen, after getting their access from Sela to Romulan space, have found their way to the Republic. Maybe some have gone from their membership in the Delta Alliance to joining the Federation or KDF. Whatever, I don't care. As long as I can walk around looking like the cross of The Shredder and a gila monster, I'll be happy.
Also, all of this is on my wishlist:
Playable Hirogen
Playable Voth
IRW prefix option for ALL ROMULAN SHIPS. Kinda ridiculous that I can buy the Valdore skin, have it be "IRW" as a Valdore or Mirror Mogai or T5 Mogai, but the moment I slap it on a Morrigu? Oops, sorry, only RRW for you
VSS prefix for Voth vessels
Top level re-balance to curtail power creep, along with a dedicated effort to prevent power creep from ever happening again.
Really, just make strides to end "DPS IS KING AND WILL TRIVIALIZE CONTENT!!!" to the point that a single powerful ship is no longer trivializing content while also allowing for other builds to actually be a welcome sight.
New exploration system
Hirogen as a race that I can make as a player character, even if I have to unlock it through reputation or Zen or something, but after I do that I get to play as a Hirogen.
Until a new system is implemented, maybe re-open the old exploration clusters and give us back First Contact missions?
Better search engine for the Foundry
Could also always use more toys in the Foundry to play with. The ability to drag n' drop assets in the actual game map would be awesome.
Allow us to import costumes to the Foundry that were designed in-game! I'd love to shove in some of my own characters to missions I make.
Have more assets in a Foundry mission based on the individual player. Would be great to have a scene on a bridge actually be that player's own bridge, would love to have the player be able to have a scene down in sickbay with an NPC that's looks like and is named after their actual CMO.
Playable. Hirogen.
More Gorn ships
More non-Klingoncentric costume options for non-Klingon members of the KDF.
At least T5-U versions of virtually all player ships.
Foundry support for "small craft" missions.
Generic crewmembers being sometimes populated by DOFFs and BOFFs that don't have room on the bridge! Put our chief engineer and medical officers potentially down in sickbay and engineering!
Playable Cardassians
More attention given to ship interiors. Romulan ships in particular need more bridges, and we can make them more than fun little places to go run around sometimes. Make em' functional, give us stuff to do inside our ships.
Been ages since we got new parts in the Alien creator. Would love me some of those, maybe a proper Hirogen skin type? Could also come with a note saying "We don't think we'll ever be able to make Hirogen ourselves, so here's what you need to make one on your own."
Make Hirogen a playable race.
Aged Romulan Hull for more ships. Ever see a white D'deridex class in the Foundry? Pretty fantastic.
The ability to have a player Hirogen character flying aboard the VSS Lizardmobile while he explores uncharted corners of the galaxy.
Winter knit hats for Saurians and all other races that are currently denied the Q given right to wear hats.
The VSS Lizardmobile really could use some Selay, even as DOFFs.
I guess Anticans could also pop up, even if they're dicks to the vastly superior Selay.
Ability to get Romulan DOFFs as easily as I get Federation DOFFs. I get my Warbird should probably need a few Feds to help fully staff it, but c'mon, I need Romulan redshirts too!
A promise that the future will have less OMG EPIC WARZ storylines and more exploring the unknown and bumping into weird TRIBBLE out in the cosmos. Epic battle scenarios have their moments, but STO has plenty of that and needs more of the other elements of Trek.
There's this race in Star Trek they introduced in Voyager called the "Hirogen". They're pretty fantastic, one of the few races Voyager introduced that have a look, culture, and even ships that were as memorable as races introduced in earlier Trek series. Given their relative notoriety, especially compared to the majority of other Voyager-centric races, it'd be really, really cool if you guys made them playable. We've already got their canon ships, and the story of STO means that some could have potentially found themselves among the Romulan Republic, found the KDF as a means to help them hunt for worthy prey, or even followed the vision of Karr all the way to Starfleet.
Ability to scream "E'pohhs! COME GET YOUR E'POHHS!!!" in literally any part of the game. All year long.
Mirror. Universe. Winter. Wonderland. It's a frozen hellscape filled with Gingerbread men committing mass genocide. Mayor Truffles has a little icing goatee.
I guess a Dominion faction could be cool. Throw in some Cardassians and Breen with em'.
Cowboy hats
When I'm making a new character and go to pick which race they'll be, one of the options I can click is "Hirogen".
1. Unrestricted tailor
2. Merging the factions
3. All unlocked species parts enabled for custom Aliens
4. Ship name length cap set to 40 like every other name field in the game
5. Private queues startable without minimum player requirements
The best thing that could happen to STO is the same as the best for the whole game industry: all publishers globally vanish forever because the industry wakes up and realizes they are a net negative and that developers can market direct to consumers without them.
A revamped Defera battlezone. Switching the Fleet and Omega mark rewards would be a good start. I did both easy and both medium difficulty missions with a bonus pool and only ended up with 30 Omega marks...
A gentle nerf to Beam Fire at will so it remains a great choice for AoE/multi-target combat and is mediocre against a single enemy ship. Along with a stiff reduction to its accuracy (-20%?) against small targets/torpedoes so it doesn't also deliver incredible defensive utility - all with the goal of opening up more choices and build diversity overall. No other ability in the game is contributing as much to STO's reputation as having the about the same tactical depth as tic-tac-toe.
Slightly reduce the massive gains to DPS at grades XIII and XIV for weapons -- it doesn't need to be linear like consoles, but it doesn't need to be +100% cat 1 either. Cut the bonuses from the Epic [Acc/Dmg] mod in half (because seriously, it didn't need to be FOUR TIMES as powerful as any other upgrade). Having a fifty-fold difference between average/expected performance and peak performance is massacring any semblance of challenge, game wide.
Make plasma explosion console unique. Make existing ones unbound/bind on equip so people can move around or sell off unneeded extras. Having number of science consoles be the deciding factor on how well a ship performs as a beam boat is SILLY.
Some small buffs to less used Command abilities so that people quit groaning every time a new ship comes out and its, ug, Command.
Perform an incredibly hard-eyed look at all the countless "bypasses 100% of shields" abilities and reign that **** in.
A general clean up of ship console descriptions so that they're accurate - e.g. if it says "All Krenim ships", it should either work with all krenim ships (duh), or have the text changed. Pick one. Don't care which.
Take weapon power overcapping out behind the building and put a bullet in its head. Then leave it for the crows. Dumbest glitch-made-secret-build-strategy EVER.
Merge cosmetic armor and general uniform choices into a single category so we can mix and match.
Oh, and one free master key for every player that logs in on the 25th. In a stocking-shaped box .
A gentle nerf to Beam Fire at will so it remains a great choice for AoE/multi-target combat and is mediocre against a single enemy ship. Along with a stiff reduction to its accuracy (-20%?) against small targets/torpedoes so it doesn't also deliver incredible defensive utility - all with the goal of opening up more choices and build diversity overall. No other ability in the game is contributing as much to STO's reputation as having the about the same tactical depth as tic-tac-toe.
Slightly reduce the massive gains to DPS at grades XIII and XIV for weapons -- it doesn't need to be linear like consoles, but it doesn't need to be +100% cat 1 either. Cut the bonuses from the Epic [Acc/Dmg] mod in half (because seriously, it didn't need to be FOUR TIMES as powerful as any other upgrade). Having a fifty-fold difference between average/expected performance and peak performance is massacring any semblance of challenge, game wide.
Make plasma explosion console unique. Make existing ones unbound/bind on equip so people can move around or sell off unneeded extras. Having number of science consoles be the deciding factor on how well a ship performs as a beam boat is SILLY.
Some small buffs to less used Command abilities so that people quit groaning every time a new ship comes out and its, ug, Command.
Perform an incredibly hard-eyed look at all the countless "bypasses 100% of shields" abilities and reign that **** in.
A general clean up of ship console descriptions so that they're accurate - e.g. if it says "All Krenim ships", it should either work with all krenim ships (duh), or have the text changed. Pick one. Don't care which.
Take weapon power overcapping out behind the building and put a bullet in its head. Then leave it for the crows. Dumbest glitch-made-secret-build-strategy EVER.
Merge cosmetic armor and general uniform choices into a single category so we can mix and match.
Oh, and one free master key for every player that logs in on the 25th. In a stocking-shaped box .
But where's the:
- One Free Personalized Dev, willing and able to customize the game to your heart's content? (Packaged in 1 cardboard box with Styrofoam peanuts and include a new collectible display stand! Just don't forget to feed them.)
Oh. And being able to use other Captains as Doffs and Boffs, or Boffs as Doffs, or Doffs as Boffs to really buff up the game play.
(not to mention being to actually see the Doffs you actually have in-the-ship and not the clone army walking around that's standard and has nothing to do with your actual personnel. I'd like to be able to actually see some of those guys in my ship! just saying)
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cryptic is owned by PWE - end of discussion
PWI may also own it by virtue of the fact that it owns PWE, and therefore everything they own by extension, but the direct parent is still PWE, not PWI, and therefore makes cryptic directly owned by an american company
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A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
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In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
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Any chance someone might give an answer to OP's original question: "What could be the best thing to happen in game?", instead of arguing what they'd like to see happen TO the game?
Any chance someone might give an answer to OP's original question: "What could be the best thing to happen in game?", instead of arguing what they'd like to see happen TO the game?
Best thing to maybe happen in the game? Easy. We all get what we want. But then we'd stop playing, wouldn't we?
Little to nothing else would make me happier. I'm still salty that Cryptic sidestepped around that when they created the Romulan Republic as the player Romulan faction. Definitely looked like we were on course for them to be the third player race of a new Romulan faction down the line... then PSYCHE! There's actually TWO Romulan factions now, you can only play in one of them, and that one has ONLY Romulans and Remans in it.
So for Christmas? Make Hirogen a player race. Maybe some Hirogen, after getting their access from Sela to Romulan space, have found their way to the Republic. Maybe some have gone from their membership in the Delta Alliance to joining the Federation or KDF. Whatever, I don't care. As long as I can walk around looking like the cross of The Shredder and a gila monster, I'll be happy.
Also, all of this is on my wishlist:
Playable Hirogen
Playable Voth
IRW prefix option for ALL ROMULAN SHIPS. Kinda ridiculous that I can buy the Valdore skin, have it be "IRW" as a Valdore or Mirror Mogai or T5 Mogai, but the moment I slap it on a Morrigu? Oops, sorry, only RRW for you
VSS prefix for Voth vessels
Top level re-balance to curtail power creep, along with a dedicated effort to prevent power creep from ever happening again.
Really, just make strides to end "DPS IS KING AND WILL TRIVIALIZE CONTENT!!!" to the point that a single powerful ship is no longer trivializing content while also allowing for other builds to actually be a welcome sight.
New exploration system
Hirogen as a race that I can make as a player character, even if I have to unlock it through reputation or Zen or something, but after I do that I get to play as a Hirogen.
Until a new system is implemented, maybe re-open the old exploration clusters and give us back First Contact missions?
Better search engine for the Foundry
Could also always use more toys in the Foundry to play with. The ability to drag n' drop assets in the actual game map would be awesome.
Allow us to import costumes to the Foundry that were designed in-game! I'd love to shove in some of my own characters to missions I make.
Have more assets in a Foundry mission based on the individual player. Would be great to have a scene on a bridge actually be that player's own bridge, would love to have the player be able to have a scene down in sickbay with an NPC that's looks like and is named after their actual CMO.
Playable. Hirogen.
More Gorn ships
More non-Klingoncentric costume options for non-Klingon members of the KDF.
At least T5-U versions of virtually all player ships.
Foundry support for "small craft" missions.
Generic crewmembers being sometimes populated by DOFFs and BOFFs that don't have room on the bridge! Put our chief engineer and medical officers potentially down in sickbay and engineering!
Playable Cardassians
More attention given to ship interiors. Romulan ships in particular need more bridges, and we can make them more than fun little places to go run around sometimes. Make em' functional, give us stuff to do inside our ships.
Been ages since we got new parts in the Alien creator. Would love me some of those, maybe a proper Hirogen skin type? Could also come with a note saying "We don't think we'll ever be able to make Hirogen ourselves, so here's what you need to make one on your own."
Make Hirogen a playable race.
Aged Romulan Hull for more ships. Ever see a white D'deridex class in the Foundry? Pretty fantastic.
The ability to have a player Hirogen character flying aboard the VSS Lizardmobile while he explores uncharted corners of the galaxy.
Winter knit hats for Saurians and all other races that are currently denied the Q given right to wear hats.
The VSS Lizardmobile really could use some Selay, even as DOFFs.
I guess Anticans could also pop up, even if they're dicks to the vastly superior Selay.
Ability to get Romulan DOFFs as easily as I get Federation DOFFs. I get my Warbird should probably need a few Feds to help fully staff it, but c'mon, I need Romulan redshirts too!
A promise that the future will have less OMG EPIC WARZ storylines and more exploring the unknown and bumping into weird **** out in the cosmos. Epic battle scenarios have their moments, but STO has plenty of that and needs more of the other elements of Trek.
There's this race in Star Trek they introduced in Voyager called the "Hirogen". They're pretty fantastic, one of the few races Voyager introduced that have a look, culture, and even ships that were as memorable as races introduced in earlier Trek series. Given their relative notoriety, especially compared to the majority of other Voyager-centric races, it'd be really, really cool if you guys made them playable. We've already got their canon ships, and the story of STO means that some could have potentially found themselves among the Romulan Republic, found the KDF as a means to help them hunt for worthy prey, or even followed the vision of Karr all the way to Starfleet.
Ability to scream "E'pohhs! COME GET YOUR E'POHHS!!!" in literally any part of the game. All year long.
Mirror. Universe. Winter. Wonderland. It's a frozen hellscape filled with Gingerbread men committing mass genocide. Mayor Truffles has a little icing goatee.
I guess a Dominion faction could be cool. Throw in some Cardassians and Breen with em'.
Cowboy hats
When I'm making a new character and go to pick which race they'll be, one of the options I can click is "Hirogen".
A hug.
I can help you with the Hug. *TACKLING BEAR HUG*
How about that forum goodwill ?
There is still good in the world
Out of all the content left in the game from the early days, the Defera Battlezone is by far the most broken one.
Sad too because its also the one least likely to ever get fixed. Cryptic has said once or twice that the time and effort needed to fix it would be so large they could only really do it if they did a Borg Expansion.
Well even if they just switched the rewards around it would be better. That can't be too hard. It's probably a line of text somewhere. Something else they could do is remove the team requirements for the hard missions and let people solo them. That's probably more difficult but would be nice...
Out of all the content left in the game from the early days, the Defera Battlezone is by far the most broken one.
Sad too because its also the one least likely to ever get fixed. Cryptic has said once or twice that the time and effort needed to fix it would be so large they could only really do it if they did a Borg Expansion.
Well even if they just switched the rewards around it would be better. That can't be too hard. It's probably a line of text somewhere. Something else they could do is remove the team requirements for the hard missions and let people solo them. That's probably more difficult but would be nice...
More difficult. But only in so far as it's more difficult to eat two pieces of cake than one.
[*]Perform an incredibly hard-eyed look at all the countless "bypasses 100% of shields" abilities and reign that **** in.
This is now more needed than ever. It's bad enough that shields were completely ignored on the ground (except for some abilities like mines that actually had some drawbacks), but now we even have stuff that both completely ignores shields and always crits.
How about that forum goodwill ?
There is still good in the world
Thanks, mate! I'm also pretty confident that this is the only thing on that list I may actually ever see. Well, that and maybe someone at Cryptic will use their coffee break to add that IRW prefix to ALL Romulan ships. Maybe? Hopefully? I know some things can be deceptively difficult to change or add, but I can't imagine ship prefixes are among them.
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Little to nothing else would make me happier. I'm still salty that Cryptic sidestepped around that when they created the Romulan Republic as the player Romulan faction. Definitely looked like we were on course for them to be the third player race of a new Romulan faction down the line... then PSYCHE! There's actually TWO Romulan factions now, you can only play in one of them, and that one has ONLY Romulans and Remans in it.
So for Christmas? Make Hirogen a player race. Maybe some Hirogen, after getting their access from Sela to Romulan space, have found their way to the Republic. Maybe some have gone from their membership in the Delta Alliance to joining the Federation or KDF. Whatever, I don't care. As long as I can walk around looking like the cross of The Shredder and a gila monster, I'll be happy.
Also, all of this is on my wishlist:
2. Merging the factions
3. All unlocked species parts enabled for custom Aliens
4. Ship name length cap set to 40 like every other name field in the game
5. Private queues startable without minimum player requirements
Full PvE queues.
Barring that, accurate ship bridges and interiors with missions.
There are many things in this thread that would be nice, but these two stand out.
I'd add to those the option to vote to just go ahead with less people if the queue popped but that one guy just wouldn't hit the button.
I was being SARCASTIC. I am well aware.
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My dreams for under the tree this season:
Oh, and one free master key for every player that logs in on the 25th. In a stocking-shaped box
But where's the:
- One Free Personalized Dev, willing and able to customize the game to your heart's content? (Packaged in 1 cardboard box with Styrofoam peanuts and include a new collectible display stand! Just don't forget to feed them.)
(not to mention being to actually see the Doffs you actually have in-the-ship and not the clone army walking around that's standard and has nothing to do with your actual personnel. I'd like to be able to actually see some of those guys in my ship! just saying)
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definition of Subsidary: A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company that is owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company, parent, or holding company.
cryptic is owned by PWE - end of discussion
PWI may also own it by virtue of the fact that it owns PWE, and therefore everything they own by extension, but the direct parent is still PWE, not PWI, and therefore makes cryptic directly owned by an american company
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A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Best thing to maybe happen in the game? Easy. We all get what we want. But then we'd stop playing, wouldn't we?
I can help you with the Hug. *TACKLING BEAR HUG*
How about that forum goodwill ?
There is still good in the world
Well even if they just switched the rewards around it would be better. That can't be too hard. It's probably a line of text somewhere. Something else they could do is remove the team requirements for the hard missions and let people solo them. That's probably more difficult but would be nice...
More difficult. But only in so far as it's more difficult to eat two pieces of cake than one.
This is now more needed than ever. It's bad enough that shields were completely ignored on the ground (except for some abilities like mines that actually had some drawbacks), but now we even have stuff that both completely ignores shields and always crits.
Thanks, mate! I'm also pretty confident that this is the only thing on that list I may actually ever see. Well, that and maybe someone at Cryptic will use their coffee break to add that IRW prefix to ALL Romulan ships. Maybe? Hopefully? I know some things can be deceptively difficult to change or add, but I can't imagine ship prefixes are among them.