How do you plan to accommodate new ship classes, given that there are only a finite number of combinations for Sci/Eng/Tac BOFFs, consoles and weapon builds? Will we see greater fidelity with ship equipment slots?
When are you going to finish off the 700 day Android options?
With the new Starbases, will we see featured projects that update the Eng/Tac/Sci decks to be aesthetically in line with the Ops deck?
Also with the Starbases, will we see options to enable/disable featured project additions? Will we see options to set different tiered visuals for the external views?
If Federation is so wildly popular and Klingons such a tiny subset of the IP fanbase, then why was STO incapable of sustaining a subscription model based on the merits of Starfleet alone? Could it be your false marketing of complete dual faction gameplay until live release when lazy development coupled with rushed release drove players away? For the past two years you have done nothing but continue to Stahl KDF development and have made it abundantly clear you care nothing for the faction by lack of testing and pushing out patches with KDF only "bugs" and then refuse to acknowledge said bugs for weeks if at all. What you are left with now after being relegated to F2P because of subscription failure is not gamers or MMO fans but Starfleet fanboys and fabricated usage numbers. Hopefully another company will take up the Star Trek IP and create the game this should have been.
Jack Emmert: "Starfleet and Klingon. ... So two factions, full PvE content." Al Rivera hates Klingons Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert All cloaks should be canon.
Any update on the status of a fleet or +1 Sovereign and/or sovereign interior?
Whatever happened to talk of using foundry tools to make a customizable ship interior? The best part about Cryptic games is their mindblowing amount of customization
When will we be able to fight the Tholians in space? I have fought them in space on Tribble. I haven't seen them in space yet on Holodeck.
When fleets get to the Tier 5 Starbase, Shipyard, Industrial Fabricators, Comm. Array, and Transwarp conduit. Will fleets still be able to do the regular projects to get Fleet Credits?
Will we see a return of the Ship Index and Character profile pages on the STO website?
Thank you for reading these questions and answering them. Live long and prosper.
Marshal Durham@captainmarshal
Joined the STO forums and Star Trek Online on August 11, 2010
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i remeber reading someting about this Will we ever see missions in the SOL system like on mars or around jupiter maybe even a map to play on where we can visit all 8 planets plus pluto and even the sun ? or possibly visit different parts of space/nebulas or exoplanet that have been discovered by nasa?
Will there be a option in the future to somehow offer doff "aid" do your friends?
For example send a rare doff your friend need on a short exchange mission?
Or incorporate special doff missions witch appear went visiting another players ship that both can benefit from or suffer depending on the results.
IS there any plans to make Spacedock/Qo'noS and your ships interior more interactive objects?
Ie Seats to sit in without having to jump like monkey to get in position.
As a quick short-term fix to end-game repeatability for Exploration, Sector Defenses, and Old Fleet Actions, would it be possible to give the player a choice of the following rewards when completing them?:
Level Appropriate Item
480 Dilithium for Missions below your rank
XX number of Fleet Marks
This way the systems can be used as end game content until they get their "overhaul". It means putting Sector Defense missions back in the game to give the static spawns meaning again. I honestly have no idea why they were just removed when a quick fix was all that is needed.
Oh, and here is an Obligatory, What is the status of the 700-day Android BOFF variants?
1) When we can expect the return of the DS9 Under Siege fleet action?
2) When will be preorder items available in Z-Store?
3) When will be rewards for Season 6 tribble test weekend available?
4) When will be deep space encounters accolades available to complete? Will this encounters return as regular daily mission (or in other form)?
5) What is the situation about Into the Hive?
6) When will be Crystalline Entity and Gekli Feeding Grounds fleet actions improved?
7) Will be Terradome revamped like Borg STFs?
8) Do you plan Tholians in ground/space Borg-like STF?
Long shot but. Will Starfleet Academy become a major part of the Tutorial? For instance, make the learning for everything start and finsih there. The do battles in the Holodecks there, groung and space. They learn about teamwork and using skills together. Cut the learning curve down.
The new people can not leave the academy until they graduate and when they graduate, then they get a ship.
Not only that, but prob have it where Fleets visit the Academy and have Fleet Days where fleets show the Cadets what their fleet is about. The Academy has so much potential.
The Average PvP player
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1) Teamwork and timing is #1
2) You cannot "Kirk It" in every ship
3) You are going to die, just get back up
1) When will we be able to promote our Boffs to playable captains? Probably could incorporate this into the Foundry spotlight somehow, so we don't have to rehash the main story arc again.
2) When will we have fully, customizable ship interiors? (not in the grindy, starbasey run through the same 5 instances ad nauseum until I get 5 billion (shipmarks? or ad new currency name of choice, here) to add some pre-placed plants, but more in the spirit of "Hey, I 've got 50 latinum!" "Maybe I'll buy a nice lamp for my room." "Check it out, I stuck the lamp in my fishtank!" vein.
3) Card table. Still empty. If you're not gonna do anything with it, then replace it with a Sushi buffet table. I'm tired of looking at it. Reminds me of things that could've been.
4) Nix the "invasion" story tag. We have way to many invasions going on in the game right now. If you're idea for the Iconians and the new sector zone, is to just make another "invasion" zone, and fill it with Iconians, I urge you, in earnest, to please, please, reconsider. These zones are a boring, grindfest, that contain all the excitement of slamming one's fingers in a window jamb. Over and over again.
5) Latinum store. I realize that this currency, like ECs, is readily available ingame, and from a strictly commercial aspect, doesn't provide the game with the same type of return as the lobis do. However this currency still remains underutilized. Not sure why you guys chose to throw out canon, and make lobis worth more than latinum, but hey it's your game. Can we please have a latinum store? You could incorporate this with ship interior furnishings.
6) More bank slots. You could specialize them. Make a weapons locker, for weapons, a pantry for food items, wardrobe for Armored Environmental Suits etc... Also turn on "purchase more account bank slots".
7) Make lobis account wide. I got one guy who opens all the boxes, and makes all the purchases. This is the only way it's cost effective for me.
8) Call the Orkin man if you have to. This game is becoming lousy with bugs. Maybe even push back Season 7, in favor of Season 6.5 "Fumigation".
9) More Doff assignment chains. Small part of the game, but with all the grinders going on, this is largely what I do, when I log in. Dare I say, right now it's the only thing I log in for.
Quick and easy one,
Having multiple characters, I was wondering why we have to relog back into the game to swap toons? I would think it would be easier on the account log-in server if when someone wants to swap to another toon, just "drop" them back on their toon select screen.
Hi Dan, fist I would like to say that I love the game. Been waiting for something like this since FASA put out the Star Trek role-playing game.
This is my first posting for Ask Cryptic, been with the game since just after release.
But I got one question...
The Feature Episode were awesome! In content, stories and rewards.
I remember seeing somewhere that Featured Episodes were no longer going to be done by Cryptic/PWE, for what ever reason.
Are we ever going to see something like this again? They were a nice, welcome, and frankly very anticipated weekly event. Much like watching a Start Trek series on TV, and when they had a To Be Continued... you were like OMG I can't wait till next week, or next season or something.
are you ever going to fix the bug that decloaks ships when a dialogue window pops up?
whenever a ship is cloaked, and ANY form of dialogue box pops up, be it mission interaction, or your own boffs talking to you, it forces you out of cloak.
"We are the Perfect World. Life as you know it is over. We will add your monetary distinctiveness to our own. Your player base will adapt to service us. Resistance is Futile."
What happened to "better quality assurance" you wanted to improve upon in the last few months? I have not seen any improvement.
Will Cryptic and Perfect World continue roll out "significant" changes or adjustments to STO or STO-related items (forums, website, accounts, store, etc.) without giving the players a heads up about it? The forum transition and the removal of ship costumes were not well received and, whether you realize it or not, affects how both your companies are perceived.
Has PvP been abandoned? We have not heard anything at all about it in the last month or so. Who will be responsible for revamping PvP and what is the status of said revamp?
When will exploration be revamped? A main hallmark of Star Trek is exploration and very little has been done to improve it in the last 2 years. There is so much potential to tie exploration with fleet starbases as well.
-Where is our Taunt button? Aggro management in this game is far too iffy.
Threat Control is currently the ONLY asset that is available for aggro generation increases. We have found small loop holes in using DEM, max weapon power, etc to help hold aggro because aggro in STO works off of DPS=Aggro. This however does not work since Escorts are DPS kings and can peel aggro off of an unsuspecting tank. Furthermore if someone decides to spec into Threat Control and fly an Escort, there is no possible way you are getting aggro off of this escort. There needs to be some type of snap aggro ability, possibly a boff ability, or a new weapon stat [THRT] added to specific weapons. This would help greatly in being able to hold aggro over everyone and allow a tank to do his job and take the hits they should. Cruisers are the perfect damage absorber, but they need better tools for holding and gaining aggro.
Also, when can we expect the giant white splotches that cause severe frame rate lag on almost any machine to go away? This causes some extremely bad scenarios for people with less than stellar computers.
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[Unrepentant] Lapo@overlapo: the problem with space STF
is that you can't properly teabag your defeated opponent
Unrepentant: Home of the Rainbow Warrior and the Rainbow Brigade.
Would you ever consider allowing Foundry authors to submit KDF missions to become "official content" with XP rewards in order to flesh out the KDF side and create a 1-51 PvE level progression like the one Cryptic created for the Federation?
There's been talk in the past of allowing players to customize their ship interiors by using the foundry. Is there any news or timeline on this feature?
2) What happend to the Gold-pressed-Latinum Store? Why not change the Lobi-Store in a GPL-Store (= additional EC-sink)
3)Crafting Update, you guys never grow tired with telling us how important crafting is. So why got the update moved from: before Season 6, to between Season 6&7, to Season 7, to some day 2013?
4) Phaser-Rifle, when will we get some without FX, it looks like i carry a complete Holodeck.
5) What happen to the armorer and the "modern" Melee weapons?
Any news on when we'll be getting the next "pack" (like the TOS and DS9 versions), and what it will be. With TNG's 25th anniversary and us already getting the Worf stuff, it would seem like an ideal time to do a TNG pack.
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When are you going to finish off the 700 day Android options?
With the new Starbases, will we see featured projects that update the Eng/Tac/Sci decks to be aesthetically in line with the Ops deck?
Also with the Starbases, will we see options to enable/disable featured project additions? Will we see options to set different tiered visuals for the external views?
Al Rivera hates Klingons
Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert
All cloaks should be canon.
I would like to see lock keys in STF (elite) missions and a new story factor and a new limit refinery and an carrier cruiser and new bridge missions.
Thank you for reading Cryptic
From Jonathan
you said ask in august , so we're asking
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
Whatever happened to talk of using foundry tools to make a customizable ship interior? The best part about Cryptic games is their mindblowing amount of customization
What will Season 7 focus on?
What will we see in the future of fleets?
When will we be able to fight the Tholians in space? I have fought them in space on Tribble. I haven't seen them in space yet on Holodeck.
When fleets get to the Tier 5 Starbase, Shipyard, Industrial Fabricators, Comm. Array, and Transwarp conduit. Will fleets still be able to do the regular projects to get Fleet Credits?
Will we see a return of the Ship Index and Character profile pages on the STO website?
Thank you for reading these questions and answering them. Live long and prosper.
Joined the STO forums and Star Trek Online on August 11, 2010
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For example send a rare doff your friend need on a short exchange mission?
Or incorporate special doff missions witch appear went visiting another players ship that both can benefit from or suffer depending on the results.
IS there any plans to make Spacedock/Qo'noS and your ships interior more interactive objects?
Ie Seats to sit in without having to jump like monkey to get in position.
Also, Fleet tribble? o.O
This way the systems can be used as end game content until they get their "overhaul". It means putting Sector Defense missions back in the game to give the static spawns meaning again. I honestly have no idea why they were just removed when a quick fix was all that is needed.
Oh, and here is an Obligatory, What is the status of the 700-day Android BOFF variants?
1) When we can expect the return of the DS9 Under Siege fleet action?
2) When will be preorder items available in Z-Store?
3) When will be rewards for Season 6 tribble test weekend available?
4) When will be deep space encounters accolades available to complete? Will this encounters return as regular daily mission (or in other form)?
5) What is the situation about Into the Hive?
6) When will be Crystalline Entity and Gekli Feeding Grounds fleet actions improved?
7) Will be Terradome revamped like Borg STFs?
8) Do you plan Tholians in ground/space Borg-like STF?
Well, I think that's enough...
Thanks if there'll be answers. Have a good day!
What's the status on a VA assault cruiser (both fleet and C-Store)?
Can you elaborate on the story focus of Season 7?
Any work being done on a better exploration system (ETA?)?
Any work being done to improve crafting?
Is there anything new coming that isn't monetized?
The new people can not leave the academy until they graduate and when they graduate, then they get a ship.
Not only that, but prob have it where Fleets visit the Academy and have Fleet Days where fleets show the Cadets what their fleet is about. The Academy has so much potential.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
1) Teamwork and timing is #1
2) You cannot "Kirk It" in every ship
3) You are going to die, just get back up
1) When will we be able to promote our Boffs to playable captains? Probably could incorporate this into the Foundry spotlight somehow, so we don't have to rehash the main story arc again.
2) When will we have fully, customizable ship interiors? (not in the grindy, starbasey run through the same 5 instances ad nauseum until I get 5 billion (shipmarks? or ad new currency name of choice, here) to add some pre-placed plants, but more in the spirit of "Hey, I 've got 50 latinum!" "Maybe I'll buy a nice lamp for my room." "Check it out, I stuck the lamp in my fishtank!" vein.
3) Card table. Still empty. If you're not gonna do anything with it, then replace it with a Sushi buffet table. I'm tired of looking at it. Reminds me of things that could've been.
4) Nix the "invasion" story tag. We have way to many invasions going on in the game right now. If you're idea for the Iconians and the new sector zone, is to just make another "invasion" zone, and fill it with Iconians, I urge you, in earnest, to please, please, reconsider. These zones are a boring, grindfest, that contain all the excitement of slamming one's fingers in a window jamb. Over and over again.
5) Latinum store. I realize that this currency, like ECs, is readily available ingame, and from a strictly commercial aspect, doesn't provide the game with the same type of return as the lobis do. However this currency still remains underutilized. Not sure why you guys chose to throw out canon, and make lobis worth more than latinum, but hey it's your game. Can we please have a latinum store? You could incorporate this with ship interior furnishings.
6) More bank slots. You could specialize them. Make a weapons locker, for weapons, a pantry for food items, wardrobe for Armored Environmental Suits etc... Also turn on "purchase more account bank slots".
7) Make lobis account wide. I got one guy who opens all the boxes, and makes all the purchases. This is the only way it's cost effective for me.
8) Call the Orkin man if you have to. This game is becoming lousy with bugs. Maybe even push back Season 7, in favor of Season 6.5 "Fumigation".
9) More Doff assignment chains. Small part of the game, but with all the grinders going on, this is largely what I do, when I log in. Dare I say, right now it's the only thing I log in for.
10) Romulans. Sooner is better than later.
Having multiple characters, I was wondering why we have to relog back into the game to swap toons? I would think it would be easier on the account log-in server if when someone wants to swap to another toon, just "drop" them back on their toon select screen.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
This is my first posting for Ask Cryptic, been with the game since just after release.
But I got one question...
The Feature Episode were awesome! In content, stories and rewards.
I remember seeing somewhere that Featured Episodes were no longer going to be done by Cryptic/PWE, for what ever reason.
Are we ever going to see something like this again? They were a nice, welcome, and frankly very anticipated weekly event. Much like watching a Start Trek series on TV, and when they had a To Be Continued... you were like OMG I can't wait till next week, or next season or something.
Thanks again.
whenever a ship is cloaked, and ANY form of dialogue box pops up, be it mission interaction, or your own boffs talking to you, it forces you out of cloak.
Will Cryptic and Perfect World continue roll out "significant" changes or adjustments to STO or STO-related items (forums, website, accounts, store, etc.) without giving the players a heads up about it? The forum transition and the removal of ship costumes were not well received and, whether you realize it or not, affects how both your companies are perceived.
Has PvP been abandoned? We have not heard anything at all about it in the last month or so. Who will be responsible for revamping PvP and what is the status of said revamp?
When will exploration be revamped? A main hallmark of Star Trek is exploration and very little has been done to improve it in the last 2 years. There is so much potential to tie exploration with fleet starbases as well.
Threat Control is currently the ONLY asset that is available for aggro generation increases. We have found small loop holes in using DEM, max weapon power, etc to help hold aggro because aggro in STO works off of DPS=Aggro. This however does not work since Escorts are DPS kings and can peel aggro off of an unsuspecting tank. Furthermore if someone decides to spec into Threat Control and fly an Escort, there is no possible way you are getting aggro off of this escort. There needs to be some type of snap aggro ability, possibly a boff ability, or a new weapon stat [THRT] added to specific weapons. This would help greatly in being able to hold aggro over everyone and allow a tank to do his job and take the hits they should. Cruisers are the perfect damage absorber, but they need better tools for holding and gaining aggro.
Also, when can we expect the giant white splotches that cause severe frame rate lag on almost any machine to go away? This causes some extremely bad scenarios for people with less than stellar computers.
[Unrepentant] Lapo@overlapo: the problem with space STF
is that you can't properly teabag your defeated opponent
Unrepentant: Home of the Rainbow Warrior and the Rainbow Brigade.
There's been talk in the past of allowing players to customize their ship interiors by using the foundry. Is there any news or timeline on this feature?
Thanks!
2) What happend to the Gold-pressed-Latinum Store? Why not change the Lobi-Store in a GPL-Store (= additional EC-sink)
3)Crafting Update, you guys never grow tired with telling us how important crafting is. So why got the update moved from: before Season 6, to between Season 6&7, to Season 7, to some day 2013?
4) Phaser-Rifle, when will we get some without FX, it looks like i carry a complete Holodeck.
5) What happen to the armorer and the "modern" Melee weapons?