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My Secret STO Wish List

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I'm very encouraged by the Engineering Reports and the upcoming features. At the same time, there are things which I, being selfish, would like to see in the game. Some of them will never happen, but if I could walk into the Cryptic offices and start giving orders like a petty despot, these are the things which I would do. Not because they help the most players or anything like that, but for no other reason than because I WANT THEM.
  • Add the Andorian ice mining tool as a melee weapon and give it combos like unarmed martial arts and the bat'leth. Since Ushaan is supposed to be done with the two combatants tied together, I would like to see a root or even a pull in these combos (like the lasso attack of Snake Gulch) which kept the target in melee range with the knife-fighter for a few seconds.
  • Add uncommon and rare melee weapons. Give us bat'leths and other weapons with unusual properties. More bleed damage, better holds, more knockback, and so on.
  • Add supported voice chat without using Ventrilo, ala LotRO. STFs like Infected and the Cure are so Ventrilo dependent that teams simply will not take you without it. A game should not require a service that it cannot itself provide. LotRO's integrated voice chat eliminates one step -- you don't have to go anywhere or do anything to enable voice chat.
  • Add a roleplay forum. I keep getting the impression that Cryptic's team just doesn't get into RP. That RP is something they allow to fall to a lower priority. This is a real shame considering the wealth of the IP. Ten Forward is not an RP forum; it includes RP in its purview, but RP topics are quickly drowned out by all the other (fun and entertaining, but not RP related) threads. Turbine may not communicate to fans as well as you guys do, but they have an RP forum and it has its own community.
  • Introduce a way to exchange low level medals (of exploration or PvP) for higher level ones, presumably at an exchange rate of less than 1:1. I am returning to low level star clusters to gather data samples for Memory Alpha; it would be nice if the medals I got for these missions were not worthless to me.
  • Clean up those awful emote texts. Half of them are grammar nightmares and the rest are just stupid. Again, this comes back to a casual disregard for RP. Emotes are used primarily by RPers, and when we use them we don't want to see "Oh my god, like, space is SOOOO big!" That just means we cannot use that emote.
  • BOff voices! I think the folks at Cryptic played a lot of Age of Conan, and one of the places you see it was the early promise of voices. I'd make that promise pay off. This will make our BOffs come alive. I'm sure we'll also want to shut them up once in a while, so we'll also need some kind of interface that lets us decide how talkative they are.

Other things I would add -- like mission replay, using a single member's level for the entire team, and more cute outfits besides the Mirror outfit -- are already in progress and I look forward to them. But if the STO Santa came early, this is what he would bring me.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    On my STO Santa wish list:

    *Some sort of way to weaponize my Tribbles (Tribble Launcher)
    *Being able to go to Betazed
    *A Hat to wear
    *Being able for my character to swim
    *A passout emote for when my character drinks to much

    Also I'm with you on your list
    especially the RP Forum, we need that. It'll make me a happy camper.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010

    Add a roleplay forum. I keep getting the impression that Cryptic's team just doesn't get into RP. That RP is something they allow to fall to a lower priority. This is a real shame considering the wealth of the IP. Ten Forward is not an RP forum; it includes RP in its purview, but RP topics are quickly drowned out by all the other (fun and entertaining, but not RP related) threads. Turbine may not communicate to fans as well as you guys do, but they have an RP forum and it has its own community.

    .

    Please.... this right here, Ten forward doesn't cut it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My main wish is more melee weapons. Specifically swords. They're canon, NPCs have them I'd like them too. The Nausicaans have these great dual wield swords (assuming they're like dual pistols)

    Bat'Leths are certainly nifty, but they're so very Klingon orientated.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    RA5 missions in areas of space previously beaten. i.e. klingon, federation, romulan space.

    Along the same storylines but harder and more suited to someone who is level 45.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Not real secret now, huh? :D

    /signed all the above...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My demand would be for some kind of customizable room on my ship and a way of collecting furniture, trophies, etc. How awesome would it be to blow up a Gorn ship and get a new desk!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My demand would be for some kind of customizable room on my ship and a way of collecting furniture, trophies, etc. How awesome would it be to blow up a Gorn ship and get a new desk!

    Its coming actually. Dstahl posted some pictures of the 'Ready Room' coming soon that will have some trophy options to decorate it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    personae wrote:
    Its coming actually. Dstahl posted some pictures of the 'Ready Room' coming soon that will have some trophy options to decorate it.

    Link? 10chars
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Voices for BOs, instead of that massive pop-up in my screen,, especially during explore missions when my BO feels the need to inform me that there's another ship approaching, a ship that I would be able to see quite clearly myself if it wasn't for that massive pop-up and during SB24. Maybe they could even tell us distance and bearing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Seriously, there is a forum just for "people who play carriers." And we can't get a dedicated RP forum?

    Let's say I want to advertise a roleplay-focused fleet. If I put it in the Fleet Recruitment forum, it is buried in MINUTES by the active threads of non-RP fleets. If I put it in Ten Forward, it is buried by ... all the non-roleplayers.

    A Roleplay Forum, please!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Seriously, there is a forum just for "people who play carriers." And we can't get a dedicated RP forum?

    Let's say I want to advertise a roleplay-focused fleet. If I put it in the Fleet Recruitment forum, it is buried in MINUTES by the active threads of non-RP fleets. If I put it in Ten Forward, it is buried by ... all the non-roleplayers.

    A Roleplay Forum, please!

    I thought that was what Ten-Forward was for.
    Ten Forward
    Introduce yourself, share fan art, fan fiction, role play, and make friends here! Romulan Ale is still prohibited.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Good list that!

    Remember a direct response to a RP forum request from one of the GM types, and he pointed to Ten-Forward of course. It's not a RP forum, it's a random chit-chat forum...

    Regarding Ventrillo, I am loathe to install it again, something about it just turns me off. More or less literally. :(

    ---
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I thought that was what Ten-Forward was for.

    Ten Forward is great. I have no complaints about Ten Forward. But my request is for a DEDICATED ROLEPLAY FORUM.

    Discussion about roleplaying quickly gets buried in Ten Forward's general chit-chat. If I want to recruit for an RP fleet, there is nowhere to do that where the thread is not buried on page 3 in literally minutes by threads that have nothing to do with roleplay.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I would like to see green/blue/purpler liquors in the game....strictly for medicinal purposes mind you.
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