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Ten Forward Weekly 29.08.2019

somtaawkharsomtaawkhar Member Posts: 10,222 Arc User
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/cwtgyl/ten_forward_weekly_29082019_qa_chatonly_version/

Q: Are there plans to expand the "fleet upgrade" system introduced with the T6 Risian corvette? I'd love to be able to upgrade my Vestas, Bortasqu, etc, to full spec.
A: Maybe, if it was popular enough and there's another ship we feel it's right for.

Q: Any changes to power FX coming, or is it just weapons so far?
A: No plans currently to change other power FX, or to scale by ship size. This change was made by Thomas because he thought it would look better.

Q: Since Romulans only have one interior, but there is the interior for Tal Shiar Assimilated ships, and possibility of Romulan ships getting access to those?
A: Maybe, I'd have to ask.

Q: Any plans to make T5 ships level-scaling, too?
A: Probably not, we're more likely to focus on making more T6 ships that scale instead.

Q: Is the "8 minutes" for a patrol average time for an average player? Will Stupid DPS let you complete them in 2 minutes?
A: Like everything in our game, stupid DPS will probably make it faster, but none of the patrols are JUST "blow stuff up."

Q: When will we get more information on what will happen with our existing TFO tokens?
A: We have plans to do something with them, a good something, so don't throw them out. But that won't be until after Awakening.

Q: Will the T6 ship next month allow players to use the walker the ship turns into?
A: I wish.

Q: When the temporal ships got revamped recently to be completely temporal, why didn't the Romulan variants get cloak?
A: I'd have to ask Jette. Unsure. Probably a balance issue?

Q: Will we still be able to complete Events on multiple characters? or is that going away now...?
A: Multiple characters will now provide progress towards completion, rather than having multiple projects with multiple completions. Like how Endeavors work. But you'll still get bonus rewards for overdoing it, and Jeremy has worked very hard to make sure they're comporable.

Q: What will happen to any TFO tokens people have leftover from earlier stuff? (sorry if someone's asked this already)
A: We'll have more info on that post Awakening. Don't throw them out.

Q: Will the PC LTS ever be made available for Zen like IIRC how consoles work?
A: Unlikely. How Zen works on Console is really different. It's one reason why we don't do C-store giveaways on console.

Q: Ship BOFF command when?!?
A: When I control the universe and can make things happen with a snap of my fingers.

Q: Does the Elachi ship thing start with Awakening or later? I can't recall
A: With Awakening.

Q: What about event ships ? Like starting a project on year Y and finishing it on year Y+1 ?
A: Because I think this is cool: Event progress won't be visible when an event ends, but it does continue tracking. So if you don't finish the winter event, next winter it will begin auto-tracking towards those rewards again.

Q: I'd rather have like a "first officer" boff slot than a "boff ship" since that just sounds like a slightly customized fleet support
A: I would love for our boffs to have characters, like in some Foundry missions, but that's a far, far distant future idea. Maybe for a hypothetical STO 2.
Mike: Massively OP article tomorrow: STO 2 CONFIRMED
Chat: (Bunch of other jokes about Massively OP's morbid sensations regarding STO)

Q: currently you can work on different ship projects on different characters, but with the new event system being account-wide...
A: You won't be starting a new one. I believe, and don't quote me on this, you can choose to abandon the old and start the new, buy out the old, or just continue on the old until it's done and then start the new.

Q: we know the wintership will be big, really big, but... how big will it be to the Universe class?
A: We ain't built it yet. ;) So right now it's size is Hypothetical.

Q: is there anything you want us to know that we haven't asked?
A: Hmmmmmm. Unsure.

Bunch of stuff from various people.
A: Gonna take all those QOL fixes that were just asked as questions and file them away as suggestions to pass on to the team.

Q: Bridges is what other mmos got as housing - are they isolating too? in fact other mmos you can invite people on your place
A: Building an entire housing system at this stage in the game's life is unlikely. Not impossible. Just wildly unlikely.

Q: Discovery Andorians, when ?
A: After the anniversary at least, if not longer.

Q: With Starbase 234, will it have a ground map as well?
A: Eventually, we'd like to.

Q: I'd like to know what accolades *even exist* w/o having to use the Wiki
A: One of many things we could tutorialize better. I did see the idea on Twitter this weekend for TFO tutorials. I think it's pretty cool. We'll see.
Chat: #GetTheHawkingParticles

Q: what do you think about the idea of live time space/ground gear?
A: Like for LTS users? I think it's a good idea.

Q: any chance for reman boff (or a Boff with the same cloaking traits) on Fed and KDF characters?
A: There's always a change. (It's likely Mike made a typo.)

Q: Are there new fleet holdings or options in the works? They do a good job of pulling dil and EC out of the economy
A: Not right now. They're a TON of work, and might not be a priority for the future. We shall see. :)


Here are some clips with the new beam animations.
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Comments

  • thevampinatorthevampinator Member Posts: 637 Arc User
    I'd really like to see an option to buy the lifetime subcription without needing a credit card, or debit card. At least something for those thta don't have either can get it. Something like steam wallet for example. :(
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,924 Arc User
    There is Paypal. I used to use it a lot until I got a Visa debit card.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,865 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    Q: Since Romulans only have one interior, but there is the interior for Tal Shiar Assimilated ships, and possibility of Romulan ships getting access to those?
    A: Maybe, I'd have to ask.

    It doesn't really fit though, because the ready room is Borg-ified.

    It might make more sense to use one of the (two?) interiors we saw in the Romulan story arc.

    That said, I've always agreed with the idea of letting us pair any interior from ships that a character owns with any ship that they are flying. So give a warbird or event ship a Fed or KDF interior if you want.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    Hopefully, NOT like Endeavors because there is no cross-collection towards a particular Endeavor between Characters. For example, if the Endeavor is to Kill Five Captains and Character A kills two, when Character B logs in he would have to kill five to complete that Endeavor and not just the three remaining that Character A did not kill.
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • thevampinatorthevampinator Member Posts: 637 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    echatty wrote: »
    There is Paypal. I used to use it a lot until I got a Visa debit card.

    The issue I have is well this. I'm 24 but still live with my folks I don't have car insurance. I don't have a job. I'm still supported by my parents work and well though I do have a visa I guess do to my disability or whatever I can't control that. And well I'd rather not anger my mother. She is against prepaid debit cards so the only option I have is paysafe and from what I know they removed support for that so you would either have to use a debit card a credit card or paypal. The Problem with paypal is got to have verification from a bank to even use it. I'd rather not have to explain that one to my mother. Plus you do have to give out the last digits of your social security number and given how easy it is for people to get information these days.

    I use steam wallet for ninety nine percent of my zen purchases.
    The thing about arc I really don't like at all is when they did have the subscription model you couldn't even use their arc gift cards or arc cards to get the subscription. No you couldn't do that. I was going to do that with the arc cards so I could maybe get the outfits unlocked with subscription but no they can only be used for zen. I was kinda bitter about that. The only reason I have arc installed and the only reason I will launch sto with it is to unlock the khan outfit for a character if I'm interested in having that character have it and then I close sto and arc and go back straight to steam. ARc is worthless to me because it doesn't allow you to use prepaid currency in the form of their gift cards to buy subscriptions. Steam wallet gives you the option to buy anything off of steam basically from what I understand. Arc ones can only be used for zen.

    So arc is very unfriendly when it comes to transactions because of the simple fact you can't use an offline prepaid method like steam wallet to get subscriptions. You can't use it to buy their lifetime or other stuff from their website or arc platform.
    I imagine this is what holds back others that are in my shoes and can only use steam wallet or arc cards.
    I mean other mmos like ffxiv I think its called and elder scrolls online have steam subscription options. Or the ability to buy from steam through their websites using a steam tie in. Arc/Cryptic Perfect world doesn't have this arc steam website tie in option and thus. I can't buy lifetime subscription.
    Unless they allow the option to link with steam to pay for the lifetime subscription or add other means of getting the lifetime subcription like placing it into the zen store or allowing purchase with arc cards. I just can't get the lifetime subscription. It bugs me that I can't even get the liberated borg and the outfits. But that is how it is for me. Unless they have steam support for allowing players to purchase or allow their gift cards to be used to purchase the lifetime subscription. I'm left out. Just how it is.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    What do you mean Featured TFO Tokens from earlier stuff, they're SELLING them right now!! You know the Item that was standardized on just two months ago.

    Don't throw them away! What is wrong with this picture?

    This whole thing reminds of George Steinbrenner's parody of himself on Saturday Night Live about the Billy Martin firings: (Steinbrenner is Carl)

    'Carl: A stupid owner! A stupid, arrogant, shortsighted owner. The kind of guy who blames everybody but himself! How would you like it everytime something went wrong, I just blamed you, the supervisor, huh? Let’s just fire the supervisor! Then I’ll hire some other guy, and something would go wrong and I’d fire him, and I’d probably rehire you! Then fire you again, bring in someone else, then fire him and rehire you again! Then fire and hire, back and forth until the whole thing’s just a big joke! Is that the kind of owner you want? Some yammering nincompoop in a fancy suit? No way you take that road, ’cause before you know it, you’ll probably be banned from running the entire company.' ;)
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    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    UI/System does not imply that the Featured TFO Tokens were just a fleeting gosomer.
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
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