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Ask Cryptic: August 2012
pwebranflakes
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In this brand-new edition of Ask Cryptic, Executive Producer Dan Stahl delivers answers to player submitted questions.
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The perspective about the lobi catch-22 was almost as interesting as the skant revelation.
I find it hard to buy into the constant ship visual updates though. Some ships have gone without basic improvements, like a main light over the registry/name for years. Its clear there is either no time, or not enough will to assure quality (adding a light to the Tactical Escort for example hardly sacrifices performance when it is present on other ships).
Its hopeful to hear that ship caps (among others) are still open to change. Limiting people who want to spend money is bad business.
So people are earning as much Dilithium as is 'needed'? Thats a really interesting thing to hear. So for all the commentary about people turning away from the 'grind', it seems people are actually... playing the game (for dilithium) as much as is 'needed'.
Laugh of the day: "Dstahl: Tholians will start showing up when the Starbase you are defending is big enough to draw their interest."
Oh Dan, why do you tease so about the Foundry.
Dstahl: As we prepared to release Season 6, we were looking at what ships to make available in the Fleet Store. The designers settled on 40 ships, divided between FED/KDF, which gave a variety of options at Season 6 launch. Our intention is to continue to add more in future Seasons and updates.
That's a cop-out, Mr Stahl, and you know it... You could've just as easily skipped the T2 Saber, or the T2 Nova, and added the T2 Excalibur instead. The simple truth of it is; You didn't want people running around at max level with a T5+ "Constitution" look-a-like.
Oh when the Skants,
Oh when the Skants go marching in...
Zap Branigan AWAY!
Cryptic has done nothing to make the faction appealing to the playerbase or promote playing it.
To create an influx of new players into the KDF the Devs have to invest serious time and resources into promoting the faction.
To make it even more of a cop out is this statement "Another consideration was whether or not the ship had a T5 C-Store version."
As none of the KDF fleet ships have T5 C-store versions, that obviously wasn't that big of a thing to consider. This was the entire point of lordmalak1's question later, which he managed not to answer. Many Feds get a discount due to many of their fleet ships having C-store variants that qualify. The KDF has no such fleet ships qualifying for such a discount.
Dstahl: We?re happy to announce that we are working with Mark Rademaker to get the Vesta class ship into STO. We'll talk more about the Vesta closer to its release date.
how??
HOW is that an update ?! we KNEW that already !
we've known that for absolutely ages now , both from information on the forums and on rademakers blog
jesus :rolleyes:
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
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Thanks Dan (et al)
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
You just nailed down the problem and, I think, what the problem at Cryptic has been up through the "Dead Targ" comment.
Cryptic devs prefer playing KDF on the whole. I think they always thought that it would take serious time and resources, serious time and resources that they didn't have.
Since then, they discovered that factions may not be WORTH serious time and resources. Oh, definitely in a qualitative sense but not from a profitability standpoint.
Would investing more time and resources into the KDF yield more money? Almost certainly. Would it yield more money than investing those time and resources elsewhere? I'm deeply skeptical.
If anything, the problem is what it's always been:
Either they need factions to be something that require less time and resources than the Feds got at launch... Or they need to do away with the idea of factions.
Because generating "more" money isn't the same as generating the "most" money. Cryptic didn't have any speculative stockholders to answer to when it started development; it did under Atari and it has very serious stockholders under PWE. When you have stockholders like that, what generates "more" money or "feels right" is going to lose out to what generates "the most money" or "looks right on the balance sheet."
Boff exchange?
Adding all currency to missions still needs to happen with all the currencies replaced with real money ones
I feel as if the the player base needs an advocate, because the obvious issues are not getting changed, it the process has been signifigantly TRIBBLE since PWE has become involved.
yippee!! Maybe STO will start to get the same type of love with new costumes as Champions Online gets
Really? I know of 1 mission, and it gives 1 Lobi, and is not repeatable. If you are willing to make 800 characters to exploit the Lobi mission to get a carrier, you may want to re-evaluate your priorities. Maybe I'm missing these other chances for Free Lobi but, 1 Lobi is all but worthless with the current prices. If that is the only Free Lobi chance I would gladly give it up in exchange for it being account bound.
I'm surprised he actually answered the question but the result was the set of well-rehearsed talking points we all expected.
Al Rivera hates Klingons
Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert
All cloaks should be canon.
you make it sound less and less probable every time someone asks about the romulans
i'll believe that when I see it. we heard the same comment about a certain FE a year before it was even started
CBS gave the approval many months ago, but it took this long for Cryptic and Mark to come to an agreement as to how much Mark would get paid.
Great changes to mines I love the new mine changes.
-Rule of Acquisition #113: Always have sex with the boss.
-I am one of the many victims from the hijacked Caspian Division.
I will not let the childish acts of a criminal ruin this game for me.
-The actions of Cryptic, on the other hand......
Well, as much as I hate to admit it, the reply saying they are discussing either a different ruleset or releasing more T5 KDF ships is encouraging. It also reminds me of how flexible (and more expensive) a T5 KDF ship is going to be: A fleet K'Tinga@2000 (4 refit modules) zen plus a bio-neutral warhead off the 1000 zen Q'orgh refit c-store ship, or the subspace-jump console from the 1500 zen Ch'Tang.
Imagine the Fleet K'Tinga having BOTH consoles (evil grin), plus the lockbox point defense console.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
preprogrammed holo Spock = the new Dan Stahl? The Romulans?
Thats true to a certain extent , but from stuff that was said on priority one , (85 i think , one with all the ship info ) its been pretty much obvious that all the discussing was done with already :rolleyes:
just frustrating thats all
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
I got mine from the personal officer on Esd under special officers at the bottom of the list
Season 7 worries me, as no Star Trek has ever made it to a Season 8
Hopefully STO can change that
You can also get them when they rerun the featured episodes. The point he is making here is that by making them account wide Cryptic effectively have to lock us out of ever earning free Lobi on existing or future content.
And yes, believe me when I say people will create hundreds of alts to make this happen. For some players who don't have a lot of cash lying around, this would be the only way they can ever get the 800 Lobi reward.
Join Date: Sept 2008
"Holographic tissue paper for the holographic runny nose. Don't give them to patients." - The Doctor
Yes, there is the sole Engineer...we were supposed to get a male and female from Science, Tactical, and Engineering. Six total.
Here is the THREAD to catch you up on it. There are summary posts HERE and HERE.