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Ask Cryptic: September 2012 - Submit Your Questions, Please!

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited August 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Hello Captains!

Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Dan tomorrow.

Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that will be released in September.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited August 2012
    Questions that our EU players have asked/ translated to English:


    flottenkommando
    Would it be possible to define the alert state of our ships and fleet starbase ourselves? (Ex.: Green Alert: no shields, weapons deactivated; Yellow: shields active, weapons not active; Red: shields and weapons active, personnel on battle station)

    starcrow1701
    When will there be shuttle hangars? Will there be new shuttle missions?
    Will the fleet base system be visually upgraded at some point? Will there be new interiors?
    Will old ship models be revised?

    ajowi
    Could you implement an option to use/transfer a skin on another item? Ex.: Using the M.A.C.O but displaying a Reman shield)

    saphiromega
    Could you please integrate an LCARS interface? That would spice up interaction instead of just hitting one button over and over.

    julianjcarry
    Would it be possible to be able to use multiple C-Sore ships at the same time? Ex.: Have Tetryon Defiant, Plasma Defiant, Phaser Defiant without converting

    maddinm214
    Can we get the original LCARS at some point?
    Can we get more social missions, i.e. looking after a colony or crew? Will the social maps like the academy or Risa be extended?
    Will we be getting missions boarding enemy ships?
    Will there be more appearances from characters of the Star Trek universe?
    Will there be more animations like climbing or swimming?
    Will there be more trophies?

    larva616
    What about the future of social maps? Vulcan and Risa need an upgrade.

    alphanius
    When will there be new updates and when will the Klingon faction be updated (e.g. new ship)?
    Any plans to implement existing but non-playable ships like the Typhoon?
    Any plans to have more diverse designs of starbases, i.e. possibility to choose between project A and B with different outcome. Could it be possible to choose the weapons of the starbase? Any exterior design projects planned like being able to add the fleet?s logo?
    About the players that don?t contribute at all to STFs or fleet events ? are you doing something to stop that or penalize them in any way?
    Any plans to have cross-promotions between the Cryptic games, i.e. players playing STO and CO getting some kind of bonus item in the other game?

    michaelfinnern99
    Will it be possible to land on freely visitable planets with certain ships choosing whether to land automatically or manually?
    Could we have some kind of honorary event for Gene Roddenberry, e.g. featuring the Glorious Heritage Class?

    xxxhellspawnyxxx
    The Elite STFs are way too easy with a mediocre group. Could you raise the/add another difficulty and appropriate rewards? Also, could you add the option to choose fleet marks as reward?
    About PvP: Why don?t you add features that don?t require a lot of resources like new rewards, point acquisition depending on everyone?s individual effort, queues with mixed teams? What are your specific dates/milestones for your work on PvP?
    Any chance to be able to customize the HUD?
    Any chance to add more fleet mark rewards?

    unimatrix77
    Could we please have some more mini-games (non-social), e.g. added to duty officer assignments? At the moment you can?t do much as an officer besides shooting.
    Will there be any useful additions to interact with in the interior of a ship?

    nometa
    Will you be raising the level cap to have a rank ?Admiral? for example?
    Will there be similar shooter controls for space fights?
    Could you add a feature to see fleet members on the map?

    draven1907
    Will there be an update for exploration missions and exploration in general? What about the First Officer and Department Heads system?

    kveldulfir
    Could we get individual home systems for all species?
    Any possibility to customize the NPC crew of your ships, i.e. adjusting uniforms and choosing the species (especially for RP purposes)?
    Any chance to get swimming gear? Are you working on the graphics and physics of water?
    Could you add the feature to visit your bridge while the ship keeps on flying?
    There are many ?bad? missions in The Foundry and many have been reported but are still there. When do you clean this up?

    patrickkillian
    Will it be possible to buy additional DOFF mission slots in the C-Store one day?

    prapilius
    Will there be additions to the ship?s interior, e.g. a shuttle hangar?
    Any possibility to customize the NPC crew of your ships, i.e. adjusting uniforms and choosing the species?
    Will there be an MK12 upgrade for Jem?Hadar and Breen Set? Will there be Breen and Reman ground sets?

    fengbao
    Will there be new races and ships or anything for the KDF? They really need more love.

    ackreed
    Could Season 8 maybe be dedicated to the KDF? With new costumes, ships, and missions for Level 1-22?

    crittio
    Will there be more playable races/factions in the future? Like Borg or Romulans?

    oxylon
    Will the Galaxy X with a detachable saucer make it into the game at some point?
  • unicornlovebakerunicornlovebaker Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Romulans???????
  • commadorebobcommadorebob Member Posts: 1,223 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will we see the Andorian escort?
    Will we ever see more on-starbase fleet missions?
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  • jerlikinsjerlikins Member Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When are you going to fix the fire caves so they're playable? The AI for crew members hasn't worked in those since launch.
  • vinru821vinru821 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will we fight Tholians in space combat?
    :eek:
  • asardetemplariasardetemplari Member Posts: 447 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Hello Captains!

    Please post your questions below and dStahl will answer selected questions from all those received. Please post them today as I will ship questions off to Dan tomorrow.

    Also, remember that questions will not be answered in this thread -- answers will be posted in an upcoming "Ask Cryptic" Web Feature that will be released in September.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Will there be a Fleet Sovereign that doesn't cost the Modules?
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  • angelus214angelus214 Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    With the end of the year fast approaching are there any previously unteased teases you can give us regarding Season 7?

    thanks
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  • rbatalla1977rbatalla1977 Member Posts: 132 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Is there any plans to have more missions that rewards fleet credits?
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  • thehavrahathehavraha Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I've heard a rumor that things like Romulan ridges in the alien generator / playing as Romulans may come as early as the next featured episode series. Confirm or deny? ;)

    The Klingon faction is in spitting distance of being fully complete in my opinion. When are we going to see the next one-off Klingon mission like "Alpha"?

    Fleet marks were attached as rewards for Foundry missions on Fleet Week, but then were removed. Are there any plans to add them permanently?
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  • hawks3052hawks3052 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will we see consistent and numerous updates to the KDF?
    The factions is are scarce filled hollow structure.
  • eurrsk47eurrsk47 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will there eventually be an improvement on Exploration Missions? Ie: more variety of missions, implementing particular Foundry missions that have an exploration theme, visiting new civilizations and possibly their homeworlds.
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  • maxxinamaxxina Member Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    What can we expect for Doff system in Near future ? Like to S7 ?
  • tomk123456789tomk123456789 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    we will see any new abilities for ground and space?
  • ef261ef261 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Can you give us a rough release date for Season 7, with the end of 2012 fast approaching? Will there be any additions to Game Ranks, and if so, what benefits will they bring (e.g. a Task Force of ships captained by your Bridge Officers - as stated at http://www.stowiki.org/Upcoming_content#Season_7_.282012.29)? Will we be able to customize the interior look of our Starships (Crew Deck, Engineering etc), or the NPCs on those decks?

    And, most importantly, why does the Bartender Contract Fleet Project require so many rare or very-rare drop items!?
  • cmdbawbcmdbawb Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will we ever get to have player-controllable Jupiter class dreadnaughts, even if they're only lifetime/veteran/fleet ships? Hell, I'd pay good money just for one of those ships.
  • jkirk13jkirk13 Member Posts: 63 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Could we see any games on our fleet bases like maybe soccer with the tribbles?

    Also adventures on our Holodeck like Captain Proton or Dixion Hill?


    What is with all the Wells class ships popping up everywhere?

    Will anything be done with The Captain's Table? Special items that you can only buy there.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    jerlikins wrote: »
    When are you going to fix the fire caves so they're playable? The AI for crew members hasn't worked in those since launch.
    That mission's been stealth-tweaked for some time now ;) There's still the occasional issue, but they are playable now.

    And now to this thread's matter: "What's the next piece of KDF content in the works?" (Missions, ships, new Dailies, etc etc)
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  • akrilonakrilon Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    A few question choices: :)

    1. It's been mentioned that featured episodes will be returning "in a big way" in Season 8. Can you give us any preliminary details on how you foresee this being rolled out?

    2. It's been previously mentioned that ship interior customization may be tied to the Foundry in the future. Have there been any additional discussions or concept discussions surrounding this?

    3. Is there a way to allow foundry missions to use our Starbase interiors as a starting point? For example, would it be possible, in the future, to use the Starbase holodeck to launch into a Foundry mission?

    4. Could the possibility of allowing more than five players on one team, into the same instance of a Foundry mission, be explored in the future? This could allow for the creation of social fleet events, for example.

    5. Can the playerbase look forward to the release of any additional mission or PvE queue fleet missions or other content, prior to the release of Season 7?

    Thanks! :)
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  • morpheushawkmorpheushawk Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    when will the lock boxes be able to give free to play players a better chance to gain better items or ships from them as opposed to gold players
  • kobayashlmarukobayashlmaru Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Now that some of us are approaching the 1000 day vet rewards, is there a plan to extend beyond 1000 days? If so, in what capacity?
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  • trekkiematttrekkiematt Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will we get a playable breen ship?
  • reinawattreinawatt Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Will we ever see a refit feature appear? Basically a feature where we can refit one of the lower tier ships only once to a higher tier - like for example if someone is very fond of their starter ship and wants to improve it so that it has more weapon slots and console slots, then they can earn a token that allows for one complete refit of that ship.
  • sl1ckm1stersl1ckm1ster Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    How long until spotlight missions get rewards and journal features? and how long after NW launches will we see all of their new updates to our foundry?
  • moo8emoo8e Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Now that we have Account Bound items in the game, when can we see existing character bound items changed to be Account Bound? Also, any progress on making STF items (EDCs or Tech) Account Bound?

    And, any chance that we will someday (hopefully in the near future) be able to re-box our Lock Box ships so we can send them to our other characters?
  • martydartymartydarty Member Posts: 45 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    What about possibality of adding small amount of dilithium to the fleet missions, prehaops when we complete the optionals as a extra gift
  • tovalmorgantovalmorgan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    are you EVER going to fix the decloaking bug?

    Ive asked this in the last 3 'ask cryptics' and you have ignored it each time.


    Whenever your bridge officers talk to you or any kind of interaction window pops up on the screen while you are cloaked, the pop up window forces your ship to decloak.

    Ive reported this bug to pwe and they have stated this is "working as intended". NO THE HELL ITS NOT.
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  • xenominosxenominos Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    When will you product new ships for the KDF?
    Or just new skins for existing ships? Because every Federationship has three or more skins.
  • sean2448sean2448 Member Posts: 815 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    when will see crafting update for season 6. yes I do know revamp is season 7
    will we be able to craft older set Maco honor gaurd omega
    also when will we get to see stf store update
    is the que going to be fixed loads me into wrong mission or fails to load

    all new missions fleet ground I seem to spin
  • icegavelicegavel Member Posts: 991 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    1: I'm a Lifer, and I have the Captain's Table... but there's never been anything to DO there. Can we at least get a few special DOffs, or assignments? Maybe a Dabo table, or Bank/Mail/Exchange (since I really don't like ESD's population lag)?

    2: I'm not saying State of the Game is bad, but could we PLEASE have our Engineering Reports back? State of the Game is like the first Engineering Report post that I never read, because it's more like a politician's speech than anything useful. I always read the list. So, could we PLEASE have our Engineering Reports?

    3: If anyone at Cryptic has been paying attention, the Well class Timeship has been popping up in-game. Is this S7 material, or something sooner?

    4: I made a forum post a while back, complaining about the binding system in STO (like winning the lottery, buying a ring, and then only being able to wear the ring on your right index finger because that finger touched it first). Are there plans to retroactively Bind-all to Account? If not, why is this not happening (since it makes more sense than Character-binding)?

    5: Just a quality of life question, but will we ever see a BIG upgrade to BOff AI, or just AI in general? BOffs are too stupid use melee weapons, they don't know when to jump, and they sometimes try running back to the spawn point if you stand still for more than ten seconds. Also, can you make it so that if I set auto-pilot to go to a system, my helmsman will know to turn RIGHT to avoid things to the left (instead of now, where he'll plow into other ships in the process of trying to avoid them)?

    6: I used to be a big Crafter, until you put Di in the system. Now, the only thing worth the cost to craft is Kits, because the're the only things that don't cost a week's worth of Dilithium to make. Could you PLEASE take Di back out of Crafting? When it went in, you borked the whole system more than it was already.

    7: I like to replay Story missions, but it's never really worth it. Could you put a small Di reward into story missions (especially for the first time around, because you almost never have any Di until you max out)? Also, there are a pair of optional sub-dailies in the Defera sector (Ore for Outpost 3 and Outpost 3 Security) that are totally worthless now that you can only get them a level 50 and they give no Di (just Skill Points - and I have plenty of those already). Could they get a small Di reward, to return them to relevance?

    8: Are there plans to allow players to refine more Di from their inventory button (Say, like a Gold perk, or a C-Store option, like the EC Cap Raise)?

    9: I'm not in a fleet yet, but I'm itching to face down some Tholian starships. When will Tholian space combat make it out of Fleet events? It seems like you're almost punishing players for not being in a fleet by denying them content.

    10: Simple Quality-of-Life request: Can we get a Deposit All/Withdraw All button for the EC storage in our Account Bank?

    11: Can we at least have a BANK on our interior (the Cargo Bay, say), if not Mail/Exchange (Communications Array) as well?
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