Season 6 Dev Blog #7

pwebranflakes · June 2012

Senior Systems Designer Geoff "Heretic" Tuffli reveals details about the new Reinforcements Duty Officer Pack in this entry of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.

Link to the blog.

tehjonel · June 2012

so awesome. thanks.

meurik · June 2012

Yay, more distractions from the forum fiasco...

zulisvel · June 2012

"Quick! Toss out some news to distract the forum rage!"

Dear Heretic, I love you and I love the Doff system. My BO3 'celcior demands that new Energy Weapons Doff variant. And the Tuffli sounds like a must have for any addicted Doffer. I have no complaints about this. Bring on the new Doff packs!

ducklesworth · June 2012

Awesome. Finally a ship I'm totally disinterested in so I don't need to spend lots of monies. Yay!

havam · June 2012

*yay* for more Doffs, I sincerely hope that with all those new active powers, a balance pass and testing is immanent. "we really care about your feedback, please hold the line"

also the "leave a comment" function doesn't seem to work more win for the new forumz

jexsamx · June 2012

A freighter, eh? That's actually pretty neat. Useless, but neat. I don't see anyone scrambling for those that isn't a hardcore roleplayer, but I certainly wouldn't argue with getting one by chance if I open a pack.

Say, will these new packs also come with a guaranteed 10 Lobi?

nalo · June 2012

Awesome ! Hope I get one havent had any luck so far :frown:

aeolusdallas · June 2012

jexsamx wrote: »

A freighter, eh? That's actually pretty neat. Useless, but neat. I don't see anyone scrambling for those that isn't a hardcore roleplayer, but I certainly wouldn't argue with getting one by chance if I open a pack.

Say, will these new packs also come with a guaranteed 10 Lobi?

That freighter is pretty cool and not just for RP. It's should be great for leveling doffs

pwebranflakes · June 2012

aeolusdallas wrote: »

That freighter is pretty cool and not just for RP. It's should be great for leveling doffs

And crafting since there is going to be access from the interior

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

ltcmdjamescore · June 2012

Look at this:

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=273269

:biggrin:

pogmahone70 · June 2012

I see bad things happening with this, balance is gonna be thrown threw a loop.

BTW the forum is still a pile.

meurik · June 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

And crafting since there is going to be access from the interior

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Oooohhh I see now.

"We want to add more functionality to ship interiors..."
"We want to add things like crafting to ship interiors..."

Evidently, these things quite simply AREN'T POSSIBLE on existing interiors, you need to invent new interiors, which can only be accessed via "dropboxes" or similar devices.

th3gr4ndnagu5 · June 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

And crafting since there is going to be access from the interior

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Because it makes perfect sense that some old freighter can craft anything it wants on board, but the newest Federation carrier escort cant...

pogmahone70 · June 2012

th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »

Because it makes perfect sense that some old freighter can craft anything it wants on board, but the newest Federation carrier escort cant...

lol so true

hypl · June 2012

I really don't need any more duty officers, even if they have new passive abilities. Can't the duty officers be packaged separately within the reinforcements pack? Like:

Reinforcements Pack:
1. Duty Officer Pack (bound)
2. 1 of the following:
- Gamma Quadrant commodities
- Gamma Quadrant consumable
- Alien Artifact
- Random MkXII console
- Tuffli freighter

Either this or create some sort of "overflow" roster for doffs. Some players in the game really are MAXED OUT on Doffs and would have to trash or sell some just to make room to open a Doff pack. A horrible oversight with the Doff system that has been ignored too long.

rliant1864 · June 2012

meurik wrote: »

Oooohhh I see now.

"We want to add more functionality to ship interiors..."
"We want to add things like crafting to ship interiors..."

Evidently, these things quite simply AREN'T POSSIBLE on existing interiors, you need to invent new interiors, which can only be accessed via "dropboxes" or similar devices.

th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »

Because it makes perfect sense that some old freighter can craft anything it wants on board, but the newest Federation carrier escort cant...

Perhaps add these abilities to the regular ships, with bonuses of some sort for using them on the freighter?

sovereignman · June 2012

neato. scary to see what 5 freighters can do in an STF though.

meurik · June 2012

rliant1864 wrote: »

Perhaps add these abilities to the regular ships, with bonuses of some sort for using them on the freighter?

There's no monetary gain to adding these abilities to the regular ships. PWE/Cryptic needs to make money, so they attach the abilities to NEW ships, which you must use real money to get.

Grinding 680'000 Dilithium (current price is 340 Dilithium/point * 2000 pts) for a single C-Store ship, is not really much of an option to "most" people.

rliant1864 · June 2012

meurik wrote: »

There's no monetary gain to adding these abilities to the regular ships. PWE/Cryptic needs to make money, so they attach the abilities to NEW ships, which you must use real money to get.

Grinding 680'000 Dilithium (current price is 340 Dilithium/point * 2000 pts) for a single C-Store ship, is not really much of an option to "most" people.

True, but there's monetary gain in not annoying players by placing sought after convenience abilities in C-store ships.

True, some people will pay money for it, but they sure won't be happy about it, and in just the thread for the announcement alone there are two or three people unhappy about it.

webdeath · June 2012

The alternate active roster abilities include:
?Deflector Officer?Chance to reflect damage while using Polarize Hull

LOL FBP + PH?? I'm going to take a risk and assume it's FBP 1. And it's still based on Aux power.

?Flight Deck Officer (Variant 1) ?Increase Carrier Defense while in Recall Mode

?Flight Deck Officer (Variant 2) ?Increase Fighter Accuracy while in Intercept Mode

?Flight Deck Officer (Variant 3) ?Increase Fighter Damage while in Escort Mode

?Tractor Beam Officer?Drains -10 Engine Subsystem Energy with Tractor Beam Repulsors

?Doctor?Triage and Medical Tricorder can trigger a second heal

?Geologist?Create a Gravity Well effect on ground when using Gravimetric Shift

?Gravimetric Scientist?Create an aftershock Tyken's Rift (same functionality as existing Gravity Well aftershock)

Should have been there in the beginning.

?Nurse/Medic?Increased Crew Recovery when crew is <75%

?Assault Squad Officer?Extra Team Heal and AOE Rez on Rally Cry

?Energy Weapons Officer (Variant 1) ?Reduce recharge time on Cannon Rapid Fire and Cannon Volley

Yay more Overpowered Escort damage!

?Energy Weapons Officer (Variant 2) ?Reduce recharge time on Beam Overload and Fire at Will

Yay more no [Acc] FAW..

?Security Officer?Increase melee Crit Chance and Crit Severity (ground)

In addition to any Duty Officers you receive, you also will get one (1) of the following special bonus prizes:
?A stack of Gamma Quadrant commodities (which will be in high demand with the new Fleet Advancement and Starbase system)
?A stack of Gamma Quadrant consumable devices (new devices based on the Gamma Quadrant commodities)
?An Alien Artifact (available in both "Powered" and "Unpowered" versions)
?A random Mk XII Very Rare Console
?or the jackpot prize? a Tuffli Class Freighter Ship Pack

dontdrunkimshoot · June 2012

the advantage of 3 blue or purple new energy weapon officers is a line that shouldn't have been crossed. the active roster, if it wasn't already, is the single most important part of your build. more important then your weapons, more important then your equipment, more important then your consoles. so much for the doff system being in the background, its taken over the actual gameplay, and has invalidated the cooldowns that are the foundation of the space combat system balance. a good active roster might even be more important then skill now.

rliant1864 · June 2012

webdeath wrote: »

The alternate active roster abilities include:

You should clear up the lines that don't have anything to do with your comments. It'd make it easier to read, and it would be more clear that you are placing comments in the text and not simply copying and pasting the news article to be a spammer.

sollvax · June 2012

This ship is worth vastly more than a mere bug
or a nasty cardassian ship
or a dull ferengi ship

its something Id cheerfully buy and fly

morganusmikaru · June 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

And crafting since there is going to be access from the interior

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

you mean that stuff you've been promising for regular ship interiors since last year?

rliant1864 · June 2012

dontdrunkimshoot wrote: »

the advantage of 3 blue or purple new energy weapon officers is a line that shouldn't have been crossed. the active roster, if it wasn't already, is the single most important part of your build. more important then your weapons, more important then your equipment, more important then your consoles. so much for the doff system being in the background, its taken over the actual gameplay, and has invalidated the cooldowns that are the foundation of the space combat system balance. a good active roster might even be more important then skill now.

I'm not so sure that's true. I've had the same DOFF layout since maybe rank 35 at most (Rank 50 now, been so for about a month and a half), and since then I've changed ships 3 or so times, and weapons/shields much more than that. I can honestly say the weapons/shields of my ship and the power layout made for a MUCH larger impact on gameplay than any DOFF ability I had.

mandoknight89 · June 2012

I find this blog to be a bit humorous... a non-combat ship, possibly OP new Doff powers (are we going to get them in random assignments as well, or only in the Reinforcements pack?), and a chance to "pay-to-win" on getting a Mk XII VR Console (though honestly it's only marginal improvement, PvPers are always trying to squeeze the last drop of performance out of their ships). I prefer this over the prizes from the lockboxes.

sc0rpi0be · June 2012

strange this is

rliant1864 · June 2012

mandoknight89 wrote: »

I find this blog to be a bit humorous... a non-combat ship, possibly OP new Doff powers (are we going to get them in random assignments as well, or only in the Reinforcements pack?), and a chance to "pay-to-win" on getting a Mk XII VR Console (though honestly it's only marginal improvement, PvPers are always trying to squeeze the last drop of performance out of their ships). I prefer this over the prizes from the lockboxes.

Unless the ship is intended to be available in the C-store now or later, it's just using the DOFF packs instead of lockboxes as an online raffle ticket, though it avoids the spam of unopenable (if you don't want to buy keys) boxes, which is a big improvement. It's very cool to hear about the new DOFF powers though.

vengefuldjinn · June 2012

I'm REALLY likin the new doffs, I'm likin some of the rewards and I'm REALLY pumped about the freighter !

The only thing is, what about lobi crystals ?
I find their omission troubling.
I'm guessing they are now just with the lock boxes ?
So, am I to assume that there will be a lock box event ON TOP of this promotion as well?

I hoping I've got this wrong.

Are there plans to INCREASE these games of chance promotions being offered on the
C store ?

I for one would NOT like to see multiple lock box like events running simultaneously.

atatassault · June 2012

Can you ONLY find the new Doff powers in this pack? Or can they randomly show up on in game acquired Doffs?

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