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Caitains officially slated for release in May!

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I was looking at the release calender for next month and I noticed that Caitains are going to be released in May.
I have been waiting for this since launch and I'm happy to see that we are finally going to move towards less humanoid characters and more interesting customization options.

Whether you love it or hate it, I'd like to hear other people's opinions on this.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    more content, less new character design features...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Popkornn wrote:
    more content, less new character design features...

    I must admit, you make a valid point.
    but why can't we have both?
    other than the lack of manpower at cryptic
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I have been looking forward to the Caitians since launch as well. I am glad to see they are almost here.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    So far, Caitians are the only species they're releasing in the C-store that I want to buy. Caitians are going to have unique animations and hopefully will have some pretty good bonuses. I plan to buy one. BTW, they're on the schedule to go to Tribble on May 14th, saw that in a dev post today.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    So far, Caitians are the only species they're releasing in the C-store that I want to buy. Caitians are going to have unique animations and hopefully will have some pretty good bonuses. I plan to buy one. BTW, they're on the schedule to go to Tribble on May 14th, saw that in a dev post today.

    If they don't have great bonuses I have a feeling Caitian fans will storm Cryptic....

    Anyway the reason we get Caitions and not content is because content designers aren't the same as character designers so while the content guys are beefing up season 2 the character designers might as well be doing something.

    The only way I could think of character designers helping content would be to keep creating more types of enemies and really I don't need there to be 60 variations on the "Borg Heavy Tactical Drone".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    So far, Caitians are the only species they're releasing in the C-store that I want to buy. Caitians are going to have unique animations and hopefully will have some pretty good bonuses. I plan to buy one. BTW, they're on the schedule to go to Tribble on May 14th, saw that in a dev post today.

    Yeah, dstahl is pretty good about updating that info. I swear, he responded to my question on the tribble ETA for Caitians in less than an hour. Never have I experienced that kind of response time from a MMO company. Good on dstahl and hazzah for Caitians! (Get busy Matt, pitchforks and torches are ready and waiting :eek: )
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    If they don't have great bonuses I have a feeling Caitian fans will storm Cryptic....

    Anyway the reason we get Caitions and not content is because content designers aren't the same as character designers so while the content guys are beefing up season 2 the character designers might as well be doing something.

    The only way I could think of character designers helping content would be to keep creating more types of enemies and really I don't need there to be 60 variations on the "Borg Heavy Tactical Drone".

    Caitians have never been about the bonuses. It all about the looks and having the appropriate parts of the race. Most Caitian players have already made an alien/Caitian creation just so we could have the look of one. Although, if the traits are horrible I'll be disappointed, but I'll still play one!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    this will be my main and my 1st RA
    one thing is as a C-store thing we cant test them on tribble
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    qultar wrote: »
    this will be my main and my 1st RA
    one thing is as a C-store thing we cant test them on tribble

    I don't know if i would want to play as one, but a Caitain female tactical bridge officer would be epic!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    qultar wrote: »
    this will be my main and my 1st RA
    one thing is as a C-store thing we cant test them on tribble

    Unless they make them available to test on Tribble without needing the C-store. They may go into the C-store once released to Holodeck, but on tribble they may be part of the normal character creation screen. I'm hoping anyway.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Unless they make them available to test on Tribble without needing the C-store. They may go into the C-store once released to Holodeck, but on tribble they may be part of the normal character creation screen. I'm hoping anyway.

    hopefully we will wind-up with some screenshots before it goes to holodeck.
    I don't play on tribble.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i got figue out which caitian will replace which officer
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    StarDancer wrote:
    i got figue out which caitian will replace which officer

    ahhh... decisions, decisions
    lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Personally i'm looking forward to playing a space kitty, nyah!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Personally i'm looking forward to playing a space kitty, nyah!!

    hahahahaha
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    truly disappointed with this. Adding a race that never appeared in any Star Trek series or movie and one that attracts the wrong sort of person. Should never have been considered.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    they were a background race is ST IV... and they appeared in TAS which Gene Roddenberry considered canon until 1988 when he changed his mind...

    Also, would you mind explaining what you mean by "wrong sort of person" ??

    The federation is about tolerance and social liberty, afterall...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    truly disappointed with this. Adding a race that never appeared in any Star Trek series or movie and one that attracts the wrong sort of person. Should never have been considered.

    The first part of your statement is false as they appeared in TAS (Voiced by none other than Majel Barret, no less). The latter part of your statement is flame bait that has been debated five ways to sunday and back again.
    t...which Gene Roddenberry considered canon until 1988 when he changed his mind....

    And CBS changed it back to canon again about when they started releasing TAS DVD collections.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    truly disappointed with this. Adding a race that never appeared in any Star Trek series or movie and one that attracts the wrong sort of person. Should never have been considered.

    They were in the STO cartoon series. One was shown to be an admiral in the voyage home.
    http://http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Caitian
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    HyenaZERO wrote: »
    The first part of your statement is false as they appeared in TAS (Voiced by none other than Majel Barret, no less). The latter part of your statement is flame bait that has been debated five ways to sunday and back again.



    And CBS changed it back to canon again about when they started releasing TAS DVD collections.

    As I keep saying. There is no canon. It used to be an archive for continuity and ended with Rodenberry. However he did state that TAS was not canon, not Star Trek. That aside, what you need to know is that even if there was an appearance in the first series of TAS those unique new characters were created outside of the scope of the rights license and as such had to all be replaced. Which included your caitian.

    As someone will mention the 'caitian in the movie' you need to be aware of the character descriptions by Mandel. The character in the film was a Kzinti male.

    as for the last part of my statement it's not flame bait at all but statement of fact. The internet is full of proof for that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Kitty kitty meow meow.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    truly disappointed with this. Adding a race that never appeared in any Star Trek series or movie and one that attracts the wrong sort of person. Should never have been considered.

    wrong sort of person?
    wrong sort of person?

    :mad:

    well first of all, if you are playing an MMO you aren't the best kind of person to begin with.

    Secondly, if you are referring to "furries", few in the furry community actually have fur fetishes or do any of the ... stuff ... you may have heard about and those that do already have sexual issues.

    Thirdly, Caitains are appealing to many players, not just furries.

    and finally, who really cares what kind of "preferences" other players have! You will probably never meet them in real life!

    btw, Caitains appeared in the animated series (which is soft canon I'll admit), and appeared in the background in one of the films
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Caitians: Because what STO needs more than anything is bestiality RP in the middle of Spacedock. :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    as for the last part of my statement it's not flame bait at all but statement of fact. The internet is full of proof for that.

    This really makes no sense... please elaborate... do you hate cats or something?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    PSIRockin wrote:
    Caitians: Because what STO needs more than anything is bestiality RP in the middle of Spacedock. :rolleyes:


    :rolls eyes:
    really?
    the haters have moved in and they are saying baseless stuff.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    as for the last part of my statement it's not flame bait at all but statement of fact. The internet is full of proof for that.

    how do you know?

    unless...

    unless of course you look at that kind of stuff...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    PSIRockin wrote:
    Caitians: Because what STO needs more than anything is bestiality RP in the middle of Spacedock. :rolleyes:

    You can't get NORMAL RP in spacedock, what on earth makes you think there would be pervs?

    Get your mind out of the gutter...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    This really makes no sense... please elaborate... do you hate cats or something?


    I do hate cats yes. they are vermin. But that's got nothing to do with anthropomorphic fetishists.

    I'm not having argument about it. I've said my piece. Too many of these furries think they belong. Being removed for legal reasons from TAS and NOT being in ST IV ( your caitian is described as small, slender and golden, looking like an Abyssinian, as opposed to what you see in the movie which is the heavy, orange Kzinti, makes me disagree that they belong.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    You can't get NORMAL RP in spacedock, what on earth makes you think there would be pervs?

    Get your mind out of the gutter...

    thanks for the back-up lilravegirl!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I do hate cats yes. they are vermin. But that's got nothing to do with anthropomorphic fetishists.

    I'm not having argument about it. I've said my piece. Too many of these furries think they belong. Being removed for legal reasons from TAS and NOT being in ST IV ( your caitian is described as small, slender and golden, looking like an Abyssinian, as opposed to what you see in the movie which is the heavy, orange Kzinti, makes me disagree that they belong.


    Is it that big of a deal?
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