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Season 6 Dev Blog #18

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited August 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Game Designer Jesse "JHeinig" Heinig shares details about the second Starbase Featured Project in this entry of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • starfleetfcstarfleetfc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Still doesn't make up for those awful EVA suits.
  • meurikmeurik Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Game Designer Jesse "JHeinig" Heinig shares details about the second Starbase Featured Project in this entry of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.


    Link to the blog.

    More Dilithium milking?

    Suppose that's all Cryptic is capable of these days, while they string people along in the vain hopes of getting actual STORY content for the game.

    Sorry, but my faith in Cryptic is forever lost after this latest travesty (EV suits)
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    You guys take this way too personally...

    This is business stuff. You're reacting like Cryptic is your friend and he's suddenly behaving badly...

    Anyway, thanks for the EV suits :) And these special projects look pretty interesting
    Was named Trek17.

    Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Excellent! The current interior looks so empty. It will be great to fill it up a bit.

    (ps. thanks for the EV suits :D)
  • eristhevortaeristhevorta Member Posts: 1,049 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2012
    A few 100K diliffium is not too bad, since it's a fleet thingy and everyone can ****ribute his own ameownt of diliffium, as much as he / she wants. Butt the price for the TNG era EV suits are a bit high if they are only characterwide and not ac****wide. :(

    ~ Meowz
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  • rrincyrrincy Member Posts: 1,023
    edited July 2012
    i really like these projects , breaths life into a starbase , breaks up the open space :)
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  • hrisvalarhrisvalar Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Seems simple enough... But I can't help feeling this wasn't meant to be posted for another week or so, and got pushed ahead to distract from #17... They don't usually follow each other this closely.
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  • jnohdjnohd Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    *sigh*

    Can we please get the option to swap or remove a project? Our small fleet got stuck with one of those and I doubt we can get it cleared PLUS this one.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Looks great.
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  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    meurik wrote: »
    More Dilithium milking?

    Suppose that's all Cryptic is capable of these days, while they string people along in the vain hopes of getting actual STORY content for the game.

    Sorry, but my faith in Cryptic is forever lost after this latest travesty (EV suits)

    You know, if their whole issue with makign use of GPL as a currency is that players have a massive stockpile of it, why not make some of these special missions GPL based?


    I'd love to finally have a use for the TRIBBLE.
  • koppenflakkoppenflak Member Posts: 191 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    foundrelic wrote: »
    You know, if their whole issue with makign use of GPL as a currency is that players have a massive stockpile of it, why not make some of these special missions GPL based?


    I'd love to finally have a use for the TRIBBLE.

    You know, something I've always wondered about is just how some people got so much GPL considering what a useless currency it is, and what a boring, pointless game Dabo is.

    It's kinda like whizzing your ECs - a useful currency - against the wall.

    Do people actually find some amusment in selecting random combinations of numbers and hoping they roll the "Hard Six"?
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    koppenflak wrote: »
    Do people actually find some amusment in selecting random combinations of numbers and hoping they roll the "Hard Six"?

    Gambling is pretty popular in the real world. So obviously yes.
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    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • o4q123o4q123 Member Posts: 72 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    They could have A Ferengi trader be available for the stations as a project like they do with the science, tac, and engineering officers. Once he is available, it opens up projects that involve GPL, like a dabo table or reduced purchase prices on gear.
  • majesticmsfcmajesticmsfc Member Posts: 1,401 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    More limited time projects for big fleets great. Not all of us are in huge 500 member fleets many have under a dozen members. Why can't you scale the project determined by how many accounts are in a fleet?

    Support the small fleets too.

    Oh also could you fix your news page, no images how up in the blogs. Thanks.
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  • walshicuswalshicus Member Posts: 1,314 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    eristhevorta wrote: »
    A few 100K diliffium is not too bad, since it's a fleet thingy and everyone can ****ribute his own ameownt of diliffium, as much as he / she wants. Butt the price for the TNG era EV suits are a bit high if they are only characterwide and not ac****wide. :(

    ~ Meowz

    I'm sorry, I'm pretty amused by your typos / profanity filter interception here!


    But anyhow, it *would* be nice if Starbase projects used more types of inputs to construct. GPL is a good idea, as are other lesser used items. I see Starbases as being a good method to control inflation.
    http://mmo-economics.com - analysing the economic interactions in MMOs.
  • starfleetfcstarfleetfc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    jnohd wrote: »
    *sigh*

    Can we please get the option to swap or remove a project? Our small fleet got stuck with one of those and I doubt we can get it cleared PLUS this one.
    My fleet got stuck with that stupid Refugee mission, we can't swap it unfortunately.
  • colonias2colonias2 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I keep seeing people concerned about the two week window of completing their current special project AND this one but the way I was reading it... you only need to START the project in this two week window and can then work on it for as long as you like :D

    I wouldn't be too concerned as I'm sure these may be repeated (hopefully) in the future for new fleets / fleets that missed out :)
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  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    colonias2 wrote: »
    I keep seeing people concerned about the two week window of completing their current special project AND this one but the way I was reading it... you only need to START the project in this two week window and can then work on it for as long as you like :D

    I wouldn't be too concerned as I'm sure these may be repeated (hopefully) in the future for new fleets / fleets that missed out :)

    You then get backed up with the special project following it though. You can only run one of them at a time. Push the first one back and you'll start pushing them all back until you lose one.

    edit: I have to admit that I only run a single character with a klingon that I haven't played on months (I can't deal with the red UI. Get headaches in under five minutes from it) I hadn't been using any dil farming or contraband dumping alts. That personal policy just got changed.
  • robdmcrobdmc Member Posts: 1,619 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    If I'm paying for plants on the starbase they better not be plastic. I want to see some of those useless npc squatters watering them.
  • moronwmachinegunmoronwmachinegun Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    jnohd wrote: »
    *sigh*

    Can we please get the option to swap or remove a project? Our small fleet got stuck with one of those and I doubt we can get it cleared PLUS this one.

    You can't because the current tech doesn't track who donated what, and so it can't be returned if a project got cancelled.
  • meurikmeurik Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    One "Featured Project" i'd like to see, is an addition of "Social Activities" at the Fleet Starbase. Perhaps even getting the long-requested "Poker" minigame.
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    If "social activities" includes an activatable dancing Vulcan Love Slave in the Fed starbase holodeck and a dancing Orion slave girl on the stripper table in the KDF starbase, consider my support 100% behind you.
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  • switchngcswitchngc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    So, my fleet (Fed) got this and I couldn't help but notice a new "spot" on our floor. After you walk out of the transporter room, if you look to the left at about 45 degrees there is a small silver circle on the floor. If you stay long enough some of the starbase crew will walk up to it and ponder over it. What is it? and is it supposed to look like that?

    It appears to be a floor light like shows up in the bar area, but not turned on.
  • ufpdodgersufpdodgers Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Some awesome additions to the bases, however how come the Federation got 2 Display cases with what I assume is the awesome Elite Fleet ground weapons and the Klingons just get 2 statues and a big logo?
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  • captmack001captmack001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    could we get statues of

    kirk
    picard
    janeway
    archer
    sisko

    in the gold pressed latinum store please

    and while you are there how about some trees not plants trees or some shrubbery which could go around my desk oh and can i have a desk id like a desk on a train but ill settle for a starbase
  • jnohdjnohd Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    starfleetfc wrote: »
    My fleet got stuck with that stupid Refugee mission, we can't swap it unfortunately.

    Our simple solution was to get 4 of us running the Tholian missions during the 2-hour event. We filled that and had enough Marks left to fill the next two rounds. Shot us through ship provisioning, Starbase 1, and shipyard 1 in short order. If I can keep enough people willing to group up for it I should see a full Tier 1 fleet by end of week or so... *crosses fingers*

    Then again, MWO beta just hit us all... :rolleyes:



    EDIT: never mind, they just nerfed the Tholian Invasion grind into dust. Looks like the grind is over. Back to a measly 60 Marks/hr, which I'm fairly sure I cannot get the gang to do with anywhere near as much enthusiasm. I'm just glad I got my Fleet Quin before the nerf.
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    ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
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  • jnohdjnohd Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    moronwmachinegun wrote: »
    You can't because the current tech doesn't track who donated what, and so it can't be returned if a project got cancelled.


    I would happily settle for a way to swap the one in-progress for the one in waiting, leaving all progress intact.
    Wampaq@Jnoh, Fleet Leader: ..Bloodbath and Beyond [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] 'Iw HaH je Hoch!
    ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
    A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
    Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
  • alexandernabiscoalexandernabisco Member Posts: 35 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    the starbase interiors are all nice and all but are they ever going to finish the unfinished ship interiors?
  • switchngcswitchngc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    alexandernabisco wrote: »
    the starbase interiors are all nice and all but are they ever going to finish the unfinished ship interiors?

    Why would they? They can't turn it into a $$ sink
  • sito1jastsito1jast Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Hmmm.. can we get some living quarters for our starbase?

    (I.E 2 or 3 decks with living quarters for fleeties to "rent" .. Let us place our Trophys on the walls etc)

    Failing that.. Can we get a firing range? (Dummys we can shoot at to try out new weapons etc)
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