Hey Everyone,
Trek Radio / Hailing Frequency will be interviewing Daniel Stahl tomorrow evening and I just wanted to give you all a chance to send in questions for him.
Now that season 3 is out, I'm sure you all have questions you would like to ask about whats coming up, comment on the new features, so on and so forth.
Please post your questions here or email them to
zach@startrekradio.com - the deadline is 4pm GMT tomorrow!
Zach
Comments
My Question:
When will being a Federation Ambassador have any signifigance besides an Enemy BOff, Transwarp and Diplomatic Immunity? Are there some kinds of events planned for Ambassadors in the future like Meet and Greets and Something other then Aggressive Negotiations?
Now that season 3 is live, are there any plans to re-think and improve the rather dull and unimaginative exploration system to be more variable and dynamic? Are we getting wildlife, new randomly generated interiors and exteriors and most importantly scripts for missions? Are we going to see systems that we can bookmark to visit again?
It's been said that at Cryptic, there is a rather limited number of people working on Star Trek Online. If that is true, then the work they've done so far has been fantastic. I would ask, though: If Star Trek Online is going to have the same kind of longevity as other MMO's, what steps will Cryptic/Atari be taking to ensure that comes to fruition? Are we going to see a decent amount of more staff? An increase in budget? I am more than prepared to play this game for the next five years; I'd just like to know if you all intend to go that far, and how you'd achieve it.
Apologies for the rather muddled question.
If Billy has twelve apples, and Tony takes four apples, how many apples does Billy have left?
Wow now that its just a GREAT questions!
What about some of the Wolf 359 ships? The New Orleans class in particular.
Can we hope/expect more non human Federation ships to be put in game(other then just the Andorian and Vulcan coming up)....or ships from the Gorn for the KDF??
If memory serves, there was talk about the item binding system and the monumental amount of top tier BoA items and the overall disenfranchisement of the community over the situation; especially so given the grievous prices for things on the Exchange and the casual oriented nature of the game. Accordingly, I'm under the impression the take away was Cryptic would look into changing thing. Consequently, are you planning on converting toon based BoA items to at least account based items or removing the BoA element for some or all of the items?
I know mine.
After being on test recently and checking out the new ship sets, I was disappointed that they are, evidently, going to be gated to VA only. The Borg set makes sense in that, as I realize they will be mission rewards for doing the Admiral Borg STFs. The Aegis set, however, is a crafted item set. And I would expect that.. especially with us having a number of alts, we could conceivably be able to craft these items at much lower ranks.
So, the question is.. Will the Aegis be re-worked at all, to be accessible to captains of a lower rank, and barring that, can we expect more sets similar to these, that our lower ranked characters WILL have access to?
I mean, I have a couple of Lib Borg captains.. and it's be more character appropriate for them to have borg tech on their ships... lol
Saith
When will Terradome be fixed?
When will Terradome have an extremely valuable reward instead of a Mark 10 rare armor to be worth the time and effort of players to complete the STF?
When will Terradome and the Undine Front be given more Undine STFs and missions to supplement them?
Will the Undine Fleet Action be given extremely valuable rewards and/or be made easier to entice players to make the time and effort to do it?
Why was the Undine Front relatively neglected, since it seemed so short, introduced right after the level cap was raised?
Can you delay introducing the Iconians to first give more attention to the Undine with Terradome, Undine STFs, and Undine Front missions?
Will there be weapons with Undine procs similar to what's available to fight the Borg and obtained with Marks of Valor?
And finally:
WHEN WILL TERRADOME BE FIXED?
When diplomacy was discussed, Zinc said he wanted to get more of an arcade style diplomacy system in, where we learn dances and customs and that he wanted to steer clear of a "text adventure" style diplomacy system. In the end, after some delay, that's what we got though. (And people do seem to love it, albeit want more access to it.)
Likewise, when mission replay was discussed, it was held off to incorporate the fleet system to make replayed missions scale with level. In the end, we got mission replay without level scaling.
It seems like we keep running into delays for new systems only to have them come out in such a limited form that the delays seem unwarranted. Are you taking steps to identify cases when that will happen in the future?
It seems like a lot of wasted work and time that we could at least be playing with new systems. Instead, you have people spending man hours on stuff that isn't seen and we have times that we could be enjoying (limited) new systems and are instead stuck waiting for new systems that never happen.
Will we ever see toilets in our ship interiors? And will we be able to use them?
Also,
Will we ever get Mirror Universe skins/materials for our ships?
Example: Just today I ran into 3 all during b-tran dailies.
1. NPCS fell through map. Forced to drop mission.
2. Borg enemies I was meant to defeat never spawned on the map, forced to drop mission.
3. Aid the planet, wouldn't take the supplies after I clicked deliver... nothing happened. Forced to drop mission, and I was out 26k in credits.
These are examples of what I mean. This was just what I faced in one daily run!
Ok, now we have the option of adding the Borg and Aegis parts to our ships, will there be an option to get unique cosmetic add on's for our ships. For instance the abilaty to add the "Venture phaser" strips to our Galaxy class nacelles, or a new deflector dish which give our ships unique cosmetic options and abilaties.
It would be awsome if there were to be ship specific parts we could add on to our ships or even buy a bundle pack for my Galaxy class on the C-Store.(new "orange colured" impulse engines with awsome turn rate)
Also, will you guys be doing some more Federation or Klingon ship textures/material. I've noticed the Klingons got the new more Green looking texture, and was wondering if the Feds are gona get a more "Cannon" looking Aztech design.
Cheers.
P.S. Can you please please change the Galaxy class deflector texture.lol
I want to say first that you & your team has done a fantastic job to date, I'm a preorder lifetime sub and every patch I feel more & more like that was the right decision.
Now, to my questions:
Is this something we'll be seeing over the next few months, or is this long term?
Will this include the TMP Refit as well or just the TOS version?
Any possible word as to what ship Tier this may be? Tier 5 would be great, but realistically a Constitution beating a Sovereign doesn't seem correct.
Last, but not least.
Going back on pre-order items, will the code that unlocked the Tier 1 Constitution also allow for access to the TOS Enterprise Refit, or will this be separate?
When will we be getting mini games like 3D chess and poker?
When will we be getting more ship's interior functions and what will they be?