Granted, the game's fairly young, but I have been wondering about this.
in Tabula Rasa, you had a Halloween and Christmas event.
The Halloween one involved acquiring costume hats and an emote.
The Christmas one involved a toy gun drop, snowball "ammo" and decorations of major bases in the game.
Also, cryogenic criticals would turn your enemies into Snowmen.
Champions Online, well, the only one I can remember is Blood Moon, but I haven't seen that again.
Other players are saying a bug caused it to be "discontinued".
So is there a possibility that STO will have similar things happen?
I'm not sure how you'd work them in as a realistic concept though, since Star Trek Online isn't like other games.
But hey, if Tabula Rasa had Halloween costumes and toy guns, why not STO?

Honestly though, I don't mind how realistic it is, as long as something fun happens.
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Tihi... *giggle* You said Blood Moon and bug in the same quote. You is funny.
aka yes... bugged til death.
Well they have kinda discontinued religion in the future and since most(if not all) holidays are based on that it might be hard to work them in.
I mean sure it's possible to just put them there but we all know how Trek fans want their canon. (steamed and correct)
I say go for it. Xmas events can be held on Andoria for open snowball fights and Risa can hold Halloween(you know how scary it is to find out your hot date is actually a man? Scaaaary).
Andoria really need the xmas event.
We had an April Fools Day moment.
And the End of Beta had one massive Borg attack on Earth.
I think we might even see an event at Christmas time. Never know, Q might make it snow in space or somekind of Enviroment malfunction and it snows on the Starbases?
I think it's just more work than the development team has time for. That's understandable, if sad. It's hard to play other MMOs and then come to Cryptic productions and see a lack of events.
Pretty darn good* ones even.
*Good as in good old plain fun.
Is it canon, though? Kirk mentioned Halloween in Catspaw. He said in Charlie X that it was thanksgiving on Earth so he wanted the crew to have some kind of turkey dinner. Picard had Christmas in the Nexus with a tree and presents and stuff.
Theres no real canon that I know of saying that there are no holidays and/ or religion for humans. I think the reason you don't see 'em on screen is because they don't want to accidentally offend someone.
Too bad....B5 worked Invanova's religion (judiasm) in very well. The only time we see religion in trek is when its about aliens.
But I do remember Picard in the Nexus.
Yeah. They never were very consistent with things like that.
True that.
And even with aliens and their religion wasn't it usually just the death ceremony?
Klingons and their fortyeleven prayers for the dead.
There is no actual reason as to why we do not have events like you usually have in MMOs.
Other than development time of course.
Unless of course a small scale invasion of "alien of the week" can be turned on by the flip of a switch and a small patch.
I'm not sure how it would work in STO, but Tabula Rasa Christmases were literally that flick of a switch.
Someone enabled the Holiday versions of the bases or turned on the Holiday NPCs, whatever was required.
All you need to do is have someone design it once and have a GM press the on/off switch when relevant.
Maybe have some themed missions like Tabula Rasa did, speak to this NPC, give them a bottle of "Christmas Spirit" and get a Santa hat costume unlock or something.
The possibilities are endless, go forth and find them!
Aion had a very christmasy themed event last year involving a giant keyboard and presents. I know WOW does something similar with a tree and decorations. I find these rather unimaginative though considering these fantasy worlds are supposed to be different entirely. EVE just gave out snowballs and snowball launchers which let you shoot at other ships without getting arrested/killed.
But for Star Trek it seems VERY obvious to have something like a holiday of when the federation was formed, similar to a country's independence days. And what about Zefram Cochrain day From Voyager, where Nelix made it up. Sure it was fake, but for STO something like that wouldn't break immersion. Everyone could get a free holoemitter of the Phoenix(make it expire after a certain time like in EVE where your snowballs melt).
Also what about Picard day? He is somewhat of a role model you know.
I want a doll of my captain. *pout*
And like someone earlier mentioned, there have been instances in Star Trek where holidays were referenced or shown to be celebrated still. Even if (heaven forbid) the religious purposes are gone behind them, Humans can be just as much about tradition as Bajorans. It's sort of a cop-out answer to say "this isn't Star Treky;" of course it's Star Trek. Star Trek was about the very BEST of humanity being realized. It's not just about finding new, shiny things in the galaxy, but also holding onto what makes us us. At least have the decency to tell us the devs are working on other things that they think are more important than a seasonal event that the community could have fun with, (Santa Q anybody?) so that this game is no longer the half put-together piece of work it's been since it was released.
I do not thing that things like Christmas have to be Canon to cause an event, means they do not have to be mentioned onscreen. Earth is a part of the Federation and that is an earth tradition, there doesnt have to be any onscreen reference.
And events like that are fun, not more not less. It isnt necessary to make it part of the storytelling.
I could see most races getting down with Arbor Day with the exception of the Borg who might find it totally offensive and futile.
Maybe Superbowl Sunday?
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I've seen videos of that, and it looks like it was awesome fun. Earth could use an occasional Borg attack, IMO
Breaches in the defense lines in the various zones(Romulans, Klingons etc) would maybe be more fitting.
A open pvp attack by Klingons at K-7(which will have the same results like last time... Feds spawn camping. *bangs head on desk*), Cardassians trying to take over DS9(not the Fleet Action but an actual attack in the DS9 instance).
Agreed.
The vulcans problably wouldn't though it would be hilarious to invite your vulcan buddy over to watch the game on superbowl sunday!
nah -- it doesn't have to be limited to "holiday" events.
I would literally love to see some type of space 'environmental' effect or some other random "Act of Q" from time to time.
Imagine one day finding a massive ion storm hanging out over the Sirius Sector Block and it doing something similar to EWP, but just slowing and not holding?
Of course you would have to ignore the inevitable random "Act of QQ".:rolleyes:
.. but I would get a laugh out of it, a-la Q.:cool:
(I will stop now and go back to work...):o
Right now, the dev team is focusing in on improving what is already there, and adding more content that you can play whenever you want, rather than for just a few weeks out of the year. Once we're comfortable with what we have in the base game, in-game events are something we'll likely consider.
However, I wouldn't wager on stereotypical holiday events like a Christmas or Halloween event. Should we make tthings like this, they will most likely be aimed at more Trek like holidays.
Thanks,
Stormshade
those would be nice :P similar events i mean
Bajor
■Gratitude Festival
■Ha'mara
■Festival of Lights
■Peldor Festival
Earth (contemporary)
■First Contact Day
■Federation Day
Qo'noS
■Day of Honor
■Kot'baval Festival
Vulcan
■Kal Rekk
■Rumarie
■Tal-Shanar
Other
■Batarael (Halii)
■Captain Picard Day (USS Enterprise-D)
■Commander Riker Day (USS Enterprise-D)
■Festival (Beta III)
■Red hour
■First Meal (Meridian)
■Lohlunat (Risa)
■Mother's Day (Lissepia)
■Prixin (Talax)
They had Hallows End for Halloween, Pilgrim's Bounty for Thanksgiving, and Winter's Vale for X-mas.
If STO does events, they need to take the religious overtones out of it. For example we can celebrate x-mas just like my family. All of the fun commercialized bits like the Tree and gifts and no "christ". This would be the only way STO could create the traditional holidays without offending people.
For those over 21, you could have drinking games with your fleetmates while playing STO. Eat some blood pie and drink a bunch of blood wine on the Day of Honor in the Great Hall. Ahh, drunk talk over Vent...provides hours of hilarity!
I see MUCH potential for fun here...
I vote for Red hour!
I think its more important to have some fun and somewhat pointless things to play with than it is to keep working on the big issues (as long as those items are of themselves enjoyable, not like the ship holoemmiters).
The [Breen Biothermal Dampner] has been a complete hit with me and all my fleet mates! Its possibly the funnest item to have appeared in the game (certainly always equipped).
For me, big changes can wait (heck we've already waited this long), making the game fun whilst I'm waiting is a massive priority.
I dont thing theres any conflict between classical (to them) current day holidays and Star Trek. Come on, they went back to Robin Hoods time (or at least virtually) they all played out the crew of a rigged sailing boat in one of the movies. Theres lots of historic event re-vival in Trek. Why not Christmas spirit? (if the "Dev's" have said they would seem to be using cannon for their convinience in avoid more work being generated? ).
Hey, back when the gap between the Devidian series and the one coming in January was announced, Dstahl referred to some sort of "event" that would happen during the gap after season 3 launched.
Is that still gonna happen? Things get too busy getting the Foundry up and going?