I feel like i have to give a little more feedback on those questions then the survey allows.
LINK:
http://www.startrekonline.com/survey/1958
If anybody feels the same please join me.
This thread is about giving more Feedback to the questions, i know there are other Threads but they all seem to be about how the Survey should have been made diffrently etc. pp.
Please keep the thread clean and only reply if you have actual Feedback to the Questions.Have Feature Episodes made an impact on whether or not youve stayed subscribed to STO?
[X] Yes
[] No
Well i have a one year sub so... i guess i would have stopped playing by now if that was not the case, the Episodes keep me coming back every week even if i dont play STO that much at the moment.
Do you most often play the Feature Episodes teamed or solo?
[X] Solo
[] With one person
[] With two or more people
Solo! I allways play Story missions Solo... i hate it when other players TRIBBLE up something or i don't have time to read through the text boxes. With all those puzzles in the Weeklies i would not want to have another player with me to TRIBBLE them up.
In which location do you prefer Feature Episodes to take place?
[] In space
[X] On the ground, indoors
[] On the ground, outdoors
I dont prefer any place, i want a good mix of all.
In the breen series there was the right mix, it could have used some more Capital BOSS Ship encounters, though.
The Deferi series was pretty much ground only... that was fitting to the story arc, but next time more Space please.
Since i have to make a choice i voted for On the Ground Indoors because indoors means i get to see space ships and stations from the inside.
I dont care that much for some dirty randomized Genesis Planets, or underground stone Bases etc....
What do you find to be the most important component of Feature Episodes?
[X] A continuing storyline
[] The featured enemy group
[] New rewards every week
[] Playable by any Faction at any level
These are all important !
Without a continuing storyline it would not be a Series but only an Episode.
On occasion (between the big Series) i would like single Episodes, too.
I'd say the featured enemy group is the one thing i could do without, just use what fit's the Story and if it need a new race then make it so. But it doesn't need to be a new Race for every Series. It is also cool if you take an old one and change them up a little.
Whatever fits the story.
The rewards... they are surely important, but i have 2 whishes here.
1. Make the Items we get directly connected to the Story we play, like with the Proton Rifle!
2. Let me use the reward INSIDE the mission and then keep it. Don't spoil it with the Quest giver dialog!
It is kinda stupid if you only log on once a week, to do the mission, get the reward at the end and then have to wait another week before you can play with it. I have 5 chars running the missions, sometimes i don't have that much time to fool arround after the mission.
"Playable by any Faction at any level" ...every mission in the game should scale like that !
Even the old ones! The more Weekly Episodes come out and the more i play them with my low level ALTs i will outlevel the old default missions when i get there and it will be to easy,
It also would help with the new Episode Replay feature.
Make it so!
What would you most like to see more of in future Series?
[] More space combat
[] More ground combat
[] New non-combat gameplay (puzzles, dialog options, skill challenges)
[X] Repeatable daily side-missions
Yes i want more Space combat, Breen Series had "enough" of it, but no difficult enemies. There realy would have needed to be at least one capital Boss enemy Ship in the Series. The Devidian Series had alsmost no spacebattles, the few that where there were just like an intro or outro to the missions. Since the Devidians don't seem to have ships i will let that slide.
There is enough Ground Combat.
There are realy to many puzzles by now... Devidians Episode 2 was only a puzzle and some text, that was clearly the lowpoint of that Series and the mixining a drink Puzzle realy gave it the rest for me.
Please dont do Puzzles only to HAVE puzzles, do them when you think it would be a cool one!
Sometimes less is more. I am oversaturated with those puzzles.
I rather have speech challenges, like in mass effect where i need to get a certain information out of an NPC but if i say the wrong thing he doesn't give it to me anymore and i have to find another way to solve the Problem.
Repeatable daily missions? Yes i realy do want more of those, they were pretty late in the devidian series (i still only have one?) and that realy did hurt the Series.
The Breen series felt like i was defending the Sector every day, but... i also did the Breen Dailies
every day.
At the end of it i couldn't see any more Breen ships... allways the same old dance.
In the new daily mission i noticed that you put in a rondomizer what enemy ships spawn, they are Cardassian
or Dominion... that is nice to change it up a little
What new feature would you most like to see added to future Series?
[] Cut scenes
[X] Voiceover dialog
[] Faction-specific outcomes
[] Longer, more involved individual missions
....ok on this one i have to say PLEASE dont make me choose!
I am a big supporter of a Faction Specific feeling to the Missions, i even would like to give them their own 5/5 objectives and text that is written by another person that has never seen the Fed side of things.
I realy think some Missions don't work for the Klingon side if it is only Copy&Paste everything.
For example, the new Sattelite Repair daily.... WHY do i repair Federation Sattelites??? I should blow them up!
I asked for Voice Overs since launch, and i dont mean short Bonikin Bonikin pop ups, i mean fully voiced text boxes! So there goes my [X]
Cut scenes.... would certainly be cool, and i'd vote for it but how would Cutscenes without voice overs work? i don't know...
"Longer, more involved individual missions" ...i would need an example for that ? I think most of the missions are good as they are, i just did not like the two non combat missions, they are just to short and no action makes it boring so please get rid of those.
OK.... i think that was it
Comments
Have Feature Episodes made an impact on whether or not youve stayed subscribed to STO?
[X] Yes
[] No
badly worded. I put yes as i am a lifer already, and i would still be here even without the weeklies. so technically the correct answer is no as they have had no impact on me being here but that paints a negative picture and sounds like i want to quit. so i put yes as i do love them.
Do you most often play the Feature Episodes teamed or solo?
[X] Solo
[] With one person
[] With two or more people
I always play solo. its just what i do.
In which location do you prefer Feature Episodes to take place?
[] In space
[X] On the ground, indoors
[] On the ground, outdoors
I like all, but the interiors maps have been awesome, but i like a nice space map just as much. The first breen series had incredible space maps. Im not as interested in outdoors, but at the same time that should not be ignored.
What do you find to be the most important component of Feature Episodes?
[] A continuing storyline
[] The featured enemy group
[] New rewards every week
[X] Playable by any Faction at any level
All are important but I have like 11 characters, so that feature is very important to me personally but a good story is something i want to see keep going. the story really makes it.
What would you most like to see more of in future Series?
[x] More space combat
[] More ground combat
[] New non-combat gameplay (puzzles, dialog options, skill challenges)
[] Repeatable daily side-missions
I want more space combat and i also like the repeatable daily missions, please keep those up. the last two series have had a touch too much ground. Puzzles and things have been spot on. what ever they are doing now is just right for me.
What new feature would you most like to see added to future Series?
[] Cut scenes
[] Voiceover dialog
[X] Faction-specific outcomes
[] Longer, more involved individual missions
Again I want all of the above but i have always wanted the fed mission to play differently to the klingon mission.
Next time i advice do a 'most important to least important' or let us add comments on the survey.
[X] Yes
[] No
Having the feature episodes there really helps break up the grind while levelling. Besides, they are really fun
Do you most often play the Feature Episodes teamed or solo?
[] Solo
[X] With one person
[] With two or more people
Depends. I usually keep one of my toons free to team up and do the episode with a friend, but my science captain usually goes solo.
In which location do you prefer Feature Episodes to take place?
[] In space
[X] On the ground, indoors
[] On the ground, outdoors
Ummm, all of the above option needed here
If you can get the right balance, then really they should take place in all 3 places. I ticked indoors because I would like to see ship interiors
What do you find to be the most important component of Feature Episodes?
[X] A continuing storyline
[] The featured enemy group
[] New rewards every week
[] Playable by any Faction at any level
Other than the reward, everything else here is kinda important to the series, but the storyline has to be the most important I think.
What would you most like to see more of in future Series?
[] More space combat
[] More ground combat
[X] New non-combat gameplay (puzzles, dialog options, skill challenges)
[] Repeatable daily side-missions
So long as they have a purpose, instead of mixing somebody a drink as an excuse to talk to Scotty. Maybe add diplomacy style missions in there? You go off to investigate something and inadvertantly step into a first contact situation for example. Warp into a system only to be told 'yes, we can provide you with what you need, however you must do the same for us'...Voila, Aid The Planet mission.
Basically, it doesn't all have to be combat.
What new feature would you most like to see added to future Series?
[] Cut scenes
[] Voiceover dialog
[X] Faction-specific outcomes
[] Longer, more involved individual missions
Unlike most people on here it seems, I don't think voiceover should be added as standard. I think you should keep it for atmospheric effect, like 'Bonnie-Kin'. That was awesome. Cut scenes could be good, so long as they don't detract from the gameplay and the mission.
I ticked faction specific outcomes because the Feds and the Klinks would obviously have differing goals a lot of the time. Not so much for the devidians series. Everyone was kinda out to save the neutral zone in that one, but in future i think it would be good for the klingons and federation to be at odds during these missions. It doesn't matter if they have widely opposed goals, even down to feds being told to protect someone while the klingons are given the order to kill them. The episodes don't seem to have a huge effect on the wider galaxy, so what difference does it make if inone episode the target dies and the klinks win, and in another run, the feds manage to save him?
Longer, more involved missions are usually good. A couple of the missions from the first 2 series did seem rather short, but that was ok. You still completed the episode and set it up quite nicely for the next one.
This right here surprised me when i logged in to tribble to test episode replay. They really need to scale, if they don't its kinda a weak half feature. I love the idea but they need to scale up to us when we replay them again and again. Keeps them fun!
1) Yes!
2) Solo
3) A continuing storyline
4) New non-combat gameplay (puzzles, dialog options, skill challenges)
5) Faction-specific outcomes
Ps: also, the only people who could take the survey were people that have actually done it all (which i have) but people who post their opinions here for the survey might not have, and therefor their opinion (in my eyes) should have no meaning. you cant say something sucks or is brilliant if you havent done it.
PsPs: The Breen series far exceeded the Devidian series (although i admit i have not much love for TOS and more even Time travel in general) i hope the next one will be either about romulan or the dominion, but seeing as the future romulan faction might have access to these episodes it would prob be dominion (they did have quite a lot of votes in the poll)) Link to poll -> http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=180529