Are there any plans to overhaul the exclusive items that players got for pre-ordering the game, from a low level, starter equipment to a level scaling equipment, e.g. The TR-116A Rifle, Multi-Spatial Personal Shield, Chromodynamic Armor etc.
And if you do plan on overhauling the items, would you consider redesigning the TR-116A Rifle so that it looks more similar to the one shown in DS9.
Also are there any chance that the TR-116A Rifle will be coming to the Z-Store?
Here we go another batch of questions I have that most everyone is probally wondering or already asked but here it goes.
1. For some KDF content is there any chance that we can have some cross packs/bundles that when you buy it for a few examples say Fedside could get like Andorian Melee Weapon and KDF get like A Klingon or other race melee weapon. Even the possibility of ships since we have not had a single KDF ship since the bortasqu pack and its been non-stop push of federation ships.
2. Any clearification on the story telling of season 7 if its true that its just going to be a mini faction of 5 levels or so of Romulan Empire that either joins fed or kdf after that or is it going to be a widespread content burst for Fed and KDF plus an actual Romulan Faction?
3. Any chance that the topic that was discussed by a dev with selling Kits in the C-store with having specific ones to each faction to give them a feel of something other than the copy and paste method we see with the KDF which in reality with the Klingon Empire they would not be using what the federation has?
4. Any news on this issue with people who linked Cryptic Accounts to new PWE accounts not having to change their username as well typing in the password every time you change a character... Not only is this annoying its a security issue of typing your password in as well as username so many times a day.
5. With the fleet ship module discount plan the federation seems to be the only beneficiary of this being that even if you own every KDF ship there is no discount at all on the KDF as well the higher tier ships versus the amount of resources required to obtain them do not justify the means of getting them. So is there any plans in the works or is it just going to be classified as the federation discount?
6. Any chance Rura Penthe is going to have anything to do for the KDF with the transwarp we have to go there... It's not like its helping anything since qo'nos is right next door...
7. Any chance relating to the above question with costumes or anything in the c-store if you have to feel the need to include the federation in obtaining something just to give things like ships, weapons, consoles, costumes, etc so the KDF can get new things too will we ever see any of the mentioned for the KDF or is the statements of complete stop to KDF development been decided to end altogether?
8. Are there any plans in the works for those of us who needed to merge into larger fleets where we can have alliances and add in our solo fleets so that we don't have to abandon resources we have put into them for example the storage tabs?
9. This may go unanswered but its a question that bugs the TRIBBLE out of me... Cryptic typically has interviews with people claiming to be in charge of specific things but yet since this game launched from Cryptic there has been little or no results as far as story and pvp in this game and yet these are positions held at Cryptic... What are these people doing ?
10. Are there any chances of things vaguely discussed as in an stf progression system like the starbases and doff system have... that they be account wide so if you have so many characters it doesn't become a job or grind trying to gear each and every character just to get to the fun parts of the game?
11. Any news on territory control where in ways of fleet/faction/whatever getting specific crafting receipes for owning a certain location to put into the possible crafting system to give it some value for crafting?
12. Is there any way the cost for those doff slots can come down some it seems a bit excessive for those of us who have a lot of characters for the ones I would like to increase to 400 I am looking at over 500 dollars just to do which even with dilithium conversion its still way too costly for what its worth.
1) Would it be possible to add a system to the fleet star base where you can create "Gift cards" that have the fleet credits and dilithium to it so fleet leaders can use those provisions on the starbase as gift/reward/Prize for its members?
2) Is there any plans to expand the exploration in this game? (Seek out new life and new civilizations)
3) Is there any plans to re-release some of the discontinued fleet actions (DS9, SB24 ground)
4) Remaster Terradome?
5) Any plans on releasing retro STFs in the pre-s5 format to enjoy as well as the new stf format?
5 What is the plans for revamping the captains table and will you include tie-ins to the newer systems like doffs or fleet starbases?
Could the KDF have some love in the form of ships and costume options which have been shown numerous times in numerous episodes/films instead of options which don't somehow feel right? e.g. The K'Vort class bird of prey, the Voodieh (spelling?) class ship from All Good Things (TNG) (since the Feds got the Olympic class, why the KDF don't already have this is puzzling), longcoats and spiked, finger-less gloves. As these things all exist, noone has to design them from scratch, surely a time-saver?
Given the above, please can the Feds have a definite date for the Ambassador class? Despite any personal feelings on the parts of any dev, as so many have asked for it surely this is a case of "build it and they will come"?
Has any thought been given to introducing content which must be purchased? A certain Gary Gygax-based MMO does this and it works to great extent. You can complete the game F2P, without buying a thing, or you can buy mission packs which have exclusive rewards, accolades, etc. and enhance your gameplay to a small degree so as not to be pay-to-win. This would clearly make such endeavours as Featured Episodes pay for themselves. Think of it like this... release a new season FE with 4 episodes. Buy the content pack and receive 4 more episodes from the same arc, with enhanced rewards. The purchase of the extra episodes will go towards paying for all 8 episodes and make new content a good money spinner instead of new ships for the same grind. You could even introduce whole mission arcs which must be purchased to be played.
How about making some of the doff missions reward c-store items, or even exclusive content, on a 1-in-a-million chance? e.g. a Trill 10 mission arc which can only be played through once but has a very tiny chance of unlocking Joined Trill as a playable option for that account? As most players have used their free slots already, they will have to buy more slots so money will be spent. Didn't unlock the ultimate prize? Oh well, have a blue doff. Likewise, a shipyard based mission arc which has a chance to unlock a playable Oberth class ship for the account would work. Think lockboxes, only completely free and with published odds!
Thanks for reading.
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Are there ways we'll be able to search for fleets based on factors like starbase level, number of members, and users active within a given period of time?
Some projects, such as the bartender, require 250 Romulan Ale and 250 Dosi Rotgut -- very hard to find items (en masse) that are not available from any vendor. As such the prices for these have skyrocketed by many orders of magnitude on the exchange. Are there plans to make sure that items like this required for starbase projects are kept at a reasonable level (such as was done with fleet duty officers)?
Are there any plans to make it so everyone in the fleet can see what project is queued without being able to change it (read-only), since fleets want people to know what to be prepared for but may not want virtually anyone being able to change which projects come next?
Can we get the name of our starbase to appear when doing missions like Starbase Blockade, Fleet Alert, etc. or for it to have an object name in the map instance when visiting the system in the Eta Eridani block?
Will there be a Fleet Assault Cruiser Refit added back for the Federation?
2.) Will there be two versions of the Fleet Advanced Escort?
3.) What is in Season 6 that has not been released yet?
4.) Season 7 is supposed full of contant, can you tell us something about it?
5.) With season 7 we are supposed to get a new Sector Block, how will this change map, and will this change how the sectors are connected to each other?
When can we expect more information on star bases - so far little aesthetic details about construction projects have been released but there are other projects we have no clue about at all, for example whats the difference between Fleet Costume Option and the existing Fleet uniforms?
Will we ever see a project for the holodeck in the station maps?
Can we get a exchange console to browse/buy from the market? - without being able to avoid larger hubs like earth space dock, the fleet starbase is just somewhere to visit occasionally when you want the daily, uncommon+ fleet duty officers etc which makes upgrades like the limited time bar/entertainment area kinda pointless. The fleets need to be self sufficient when fully upgraded or there's little point to using them.
Do the pretty ground weapon models we see in the star base cabinets (the shiny grey ones) appear on any guns? If they are the same as advanced, being without any set bonuses whats the incentive to have them.
How does Elite ground, and space items compare to stf/advanced items? - advanced items are not that impressive for all the effort needed to acquire them..
Why decide to limit the usefulness of common fleet duty officers, we have to spend enormous amounts of resources to unlock them, and fleet credits earn from doing so, only to be restricted to only being able to upgrade them to greens in starfleet academy the so called working as intended issue...
The new season is awesome, great job. I was wondering about a few things though.
1) Are we going to get a duty officer pool in our fleet starbases where we can put extra doffs so our fleet mates can use them if they need them. I would also like to see the same thing for bridge officers.
2) Are we going to get fleet shuttles and fighters sometime in the future to go along with the new fleet ships?
3) When are we going to be able to put our fleet emblems on that big empty white area in the middle of the main room in our fleet starbases (hopefully that will not cost any dilithium to do)?
4) Where is the fleet admirals office in the fleet starbase?
Can you explain to me how a $5 price for a single respec token isn't considered punitive?
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1. Any idea when the Ferengi Marauder set will be made available again? I just got my D'Kora class ship (Finally!!) and have been saving up the Lobi's for the set, so please bring it back!
2. As far as the uniforms go, is there any chance of a couple of additions to the Wrath of Khan uniform?:
a) a 'no collar' option like on 'Yesterday's Enterprise' episode, and
b) have different actual rank insignias for the right-hand shoulder instead of just the 'Captain rank. You have different ranks on all of the other uniforms except for that one.
are you sticking with the 5 fleet project limit? i'm part of a fairly large fleet on my main and because of work and sleep I often dont get to donate anything for days at a time, and with well over 4 million expertise and 1500 fleet marks sitting around doing nothing it'd be nice to see some more slots so fleets with more resources at their disposal can do more.
1: when will their be an option where we can "promote" our #1 to captin a ship that we have and they will fly in when you call for assistance?
2: would we be able to use the ship that our #1 commands as part of a team?
3: will we be able to customize the oddessy class more, like : different saucer shape,nacells, etc?
4: will their ever be an increase in lvl to 100 and the introduction of admiral, fleet admiral, general and dahar master and new uniforms to go with respective sides?
5: will we ever be able to max out our stats?
6: will their ever be a way that the leaders of a fleets can setup a ranking system within the fleet in case they are away for various reasons. for example, the leaders can set a number value for each member of the fleet starting with the founder (#1) down to the last member so that if enough o fthe leadership is away for a time, the next highest number is in command and it falls down the line to fill how many leaders their are till they are filld. and when they are active again, the leadership is restord?
6. As a member of a small but active fleet I've felt the strain on resources that a fleet starbase gives. It's very difficult for small fleets to acquire the resources to finish featured projects on time. It's even more difficult for small fleets to gather the necessary DOFFs for base and project upgrades. Is there something being talked about by the Dev team to make it less straining on a small fleets resources so that they don't have to spend 100% of their time grinding resources to devote to the base. It's not fun.
10. Will we ever see customizable quarters on our ships or fleet starbases? Alastor is getting tired of sleeping on consoles when his duty shift ends.
Wow, you took two of my questions that I was going to ask. [give Alastor a high 5 for thinking like me]
Now my other questions. As Alastor said above, as a Fleet leader of a small fleet with a few active players, the DOFF requirement is killing us (I have 16 characters of each faction and running out of "Common" DOFFs).
Can we please get an assignment that takes BOFFs? I have tons of Blues and Purple BOFFs that are just sitting there. Most of the time, I just dismiss them and I would rather those "senior or bridge" officers to have some value when doing Fleet projects.
Can Fleet Marks be tied to STF's? Maybe have the normal with X amount and then Elite to have the bonus amount?
Any word on when we can expect the Department Heads / First Officer for our BOFFs?
Can there be a min / max price set for items in the exchange for items like Dosi Rotgut? Not everyone is sitting on tens of millions of EC.
Any update as to why the State of the Game (new Eng Report) comes now at the end of the month just before the "ask Cryptic"? I thought the plan was for the Ask Cryptic to be a the start of the month while the State of the Game to be in the middle. I could be completely off my rocker but I like having 2-3 weeks between offical answers/posts. If makes me feel more in the know as to what is going on
When are the diplomats on "Coloney Invasion" going to be fixed. Right now, if they move or you are hit while beaming, they will leave but not give you credit. The map placehold is still there even though the animation showed them beaming out.
Any update on character re-species/re-trait option?
Would it be possible for Lifetime Sub to be able to create a Liberated Borg other than Human [Fed] or Klingon [KDF]? I know the Borg took more than just humans and klingons. Why are we leaving other members species of Starfleet/KDF to rot in the Hive mind.
When we get the Ambassador class starship, can we get a new bridge with it? Maybe do something similar with the Odyssey where a "free" version would be a bridge similar to the one in "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the C-Store one have a more creative bridge (rather than a redress of the Battle Bridge from the Episode).
Any chance of getting the future shuttle from Voyager "Endgame"? I think that would be a good replacement for the Type 8 shuttle.
Can we get a "Chuck Norris" class Escort so that it just kicks serious butt and has a 50% chance to cause the ships AI to crash in fear. [OK, this one is just a fun request since I am looking at a Chuck Norris poster and I have run out of questions.]
Thank you for your time.
Matt
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Fleet Commander in Chief [Rank 7] for Covenant of Honor; a FED T5 Starbase
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So Mr Stahl, let's talk upcoming ships ;-) Official screenshots maybe?
Is the absence of an exchange on our Starbases intentional or a missed text entry? If intentional - what's the thinking behind this?
Any explanation of the logic behind the changes to dilithium given when dismissing duty officers? Or perhaps why changes like this are just thrown at us without a bit of forewarning
Could we get the old fleet actions reworked to award Fleet Marks? Or perhaps the option to buy them from the STF Store in exchange for proto tech/edcs?
And since it's my favourite?
Any more news on In to the Hive given you're teasing us with pictures?
When are we going to see modular kits? This would tie in really well with the eventual release of "Into the Hive". The old Borg Set had a Console with it, the new ship sets would be neat with a Console, and it would be nice if the Ground Sets got a thematic kit module/power.
On a note about STFs, are there any solid details on how the loot/purchase mechanic is going to be reworked? Will the dependence on drop rates be reduced or eliminated?
Will there be any KDF Fleet ships that are eligible for the Discount? Will Lower tier ships get a discount (maybe not down to 1 FSM, but say 2)? Will there eventually be a way to get ships like Galaxy-X, Excelsior, and Garumba a fleet version?
Will the 1000 day ship be on par with Fleet Ships? What ship will it be?
Will it ever be possible to put our Boffs into the STF costumes? Will the "alien" species get more parts (like say, Trill Spots on the legs, Make-up options)? Could the "Liberated Borg" species be expanded beyond Humans and Klingons? Playing a liberated Borg Gorn would be awesome.
When will the overall story of STO move forward? Its pretty obvious that the Iconians are manipulating everything based on the Undine Mini-arc? Will we get a whole Arc (Like the Klingon War or Romulan Mystery arcs) for the Iconians (they don't deserve less)?
Does the short, medium and long term goals change depending on circumstances in the game, and if so:
When will the KDF receive parity? Does the future of STO include the KDF, and possibly other factions?
Will the full potential of the Foundry be realized in terms of assets, additional maps, objects and other functionality? e.g. there is a very limited selection of NPC contacts and enemy contact groups. Could some form of alien generator be envisaged for the future, and "purchasable rewards" as placement on maps?
Will Cryptic seriously consider the fact that end-game PvP is a heavily weighed component of the game, and that changes to accommodate PvE heavily affect it, and possibly it's time to consider some separation of these two aspects of balance in the game. e.g equipment geared towards PvP, and PvE.
1 - Any way to make a special promotion or event to make a custom duty officer with the name and drawing of a player?
2 - About the starbase: Have plans to make a trophy system to the starbase?
3 - Have plans to make a bulletin board in the starbase?
4 - I can't ask about the KDF content because everyone ask, but just for lol, any reason to don't have any TRIBBLE in the foundry? KDF's want to kill tribbles in the foundry too !;)
5 - Any plans to permit the foundry missions begin from the holodeck of the starbase?
Will we ever see a 2 or 3 level bridge for a Caitian Atrox Carrier? I think the Carrier should have it's own style bridge as it was built by the Caitians and not Starfleet.
The 700-day Android Bridge Officer Vet reward. We still do not have all the options we were supposed to have with these. We still have not seen any more updates on this issue since the June 2012 Ask Cryptic where we were told "Turns out that at the time there was an issue that prevented those additions from happening. That issue appears to be resolved in Season 6 and so now it boils down to having one of the developers revisit this and put in the options."
As of this posting, we are already six weeks into Season 6 with still no update.
We have a thread that we keep active to increase visibility of this issue to the Cryptic teams so they might provide us some sort of feedback on what the status is and what's keeping the options we're supposed to have in this game. We've even done a couple Queencover songs in an attempt to get you guys to chime in.
The question everyone who's put in at least two years in this game should be asking is, "WHERE. ARE. OUR. VET REWARD. OPTIONS?"
Now understand, this is not a demand to "put it in or else!"... That would be immature and silly. However, we're approaching the 1000-day vet reward time for those that have been with the game since launch, and we're still missing the options we were supposed to have 300 days ago. Nearly a year! We at least need to know what's going on with these options, and I don't think that's too much to ask for.
I mean, I don't think JHeinig should be called a liar, but you guys are making him look bad. I don't want JHeinig to look bad. I think he does great work. As one of the main people that kept us informed of what has been going on with the Android BOffs over the past year, he has stuck his neck out on the line for us, and by not completing the work on this or even giving us any more information about what's going on, you guys are letting him hang out to dry.
For everyone else not already clued in on the issue I'm talking about, here is a recap post of everything a dev has said about the Android Bridge Officers since Nov. 2011
Story line content, content, content, content, when ? We are tired of the busy work grind stuff?
When will you not require us to pay real money for fleet modules, because fleet ships were part of a season feature update you yourself said we would not be charged for? (as you have stated many times and as recently as the ask cryptic previous to season 6 launch)
Boff exchange (training, transfer,trade,recruit -for free no c-store)?
All universal bridge officer slots that scales with a players ranks = tier 5= 5 universal commander slots?
Universal consoles that work on all ships not just class specific, 15 universal console slots, 5 fore and aft weapon slots and 5 device slots at tier 5? Thus letting the Captain control balance across the boards and fulfilling crytpics customization promises, and ship will be purchased on the quality of the design and truly universal consoles / extra weapons it comes with.
Androids should have an efficient trait?
Customize special boffs, and train them through the above mentioned boff exchange?
Please bring back transparency, communication and engineering reports to the community, because the trade off was terrible, and I personally hate where it stands currently.
Maybe i can get some answers here, maybe even from a DEV (please)!
I used up all my Charakter Slots, 46 for now. All toons maxed out...
Is there any way to get more Slots on my account or at least in the future when new factions are released??
And i dont mean 2 more for a liftime subscription.
My fun for this game is to create and play a toon on every ship in the game, at least the Tier4-5 one and some below and now i have no slots left...
A second account would be no solution because of all the c-store Items...
I dont ask for free slots, i still would pay for them as i did for all the others.
Hopping for an answer on this.
Best wishes from me, @Ironman84 (loyal subscriber since day one)
In a previous Ask Cryptic you said that that the Devs were looking at an alternative method to select Ships for the KDF Fleet Requisitions. Can you elaborate on this, and will we see Non-Klingon ships added, such as the Varanus, which is one of two Pure Science Vessels with a Console available?
Regards,
burstdragon, KDF Advocate for Content & Equality
is there a way you can fix the colony invasion so that players on the team will stop running ahead and leave other behind to get kill so make everyone move together maybe insert some force feilds that certain goals need to be finished.
i'm getting tired of 2-3 running ahead cause they think its they only way to do it and just won't listen or read the release notes
What are your thoughts on increasing the refine dilithium limits? Could be approached in different ways. Perhaps a vet reward for long time players( That 1000 every 2 days does not count). Perhaps used as a gold perk.
8000 - Silver
10,000 - Gold
15,000 - Vet 1000 days
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I will not let the childish acts of a criminal ruin this game for me.
-The actions of Cryptic, on the other hand......
As we have lots of Mk XII gear and sets in circulation now, are there plans for MkXII versions of current sets and items like the Jem Hadar Sets and Breen Space Sets to keep them competitive against the others.
What is the status of the 700-day Android gender/career options? Last we heard there was no longer a technical reason why this wasn't in-game and it was more of a 'we just need to do it' time constraint. Any chance of this happening in the near (>1 month) future? Also, shouldn't Androids be Efficient?
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When can we expect the Neverwinter foundry upgrades to hit the holodeck server? You teased us with the ability to create custom made interior maps and I know a lot of us are itching to get our fingers on that tech. Will that ability also allow us to make custom interiors for Fleet Starbases?
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And if you do plan on overhauling the items, would you consider redesigning the TR-116A Rifle so that it looks more similar to the one shown in DS9.
Also are there any chance that the TR-116A Rifle will be coming to the Z-Store?
1. For some KDF content is there any chance that we can have some cross packs/bundles that when you buy it for a few examples say Fedside could get like Andorian Melee Weapon and KDF get like A Klingon or other race melee weapon. Even the possibility of ships since we have not had a single KDF ship since the bortasqu pack and its been non-stop push of federation ships.
2. Any clearification on the story telling of season 7 if its true that its just going to be a mini faction of 5 levels or so of Romulan Empire that either joins fed or kdf after that or is it going to be a widespread content burst for Fed and KDF plus an actual Romulan Faction?
3. Any chance that the topic that was discussed by a dev with selling Kits in the C-store with having specific ones to each faction to give them a feel of something other than the copy and paste method we see with the KDF which in reality with the Klingon Empire they would not be using what the federation has?
4. Any news on this issue with people who linked Cryptic Accounts to new PWE accounts not having to change their username as well typing in the password every time you change a character... Not only is this annoying its a security issue of typing your password in as well as username so many times a day.
5. With the fleet ship module discount plan the federation seems to be the only beneficiary of this being that even if you own every KDF ship there is no discount at all on the KDF as well the higher tier ships versus the amount of resources required to obtain them do not justify the means of getting them. So is there any plans in the works or is it just going to be classified as the federation discount?
6. Any chance Rura Penthe is going to have anything to do for the KDF with the transwarp we have to go there... It's not like its helping anything since qo'nos is right next door...
7. Any chance relating to the above question with costumes or anything in the c-store if you have to feel the need to include the federation in obtaining something just to give things like ships, weapons, consoles, costumes, etc so the KDF can get new things too will we ever see any of the mentioned for the KDF or is the statements of complete stop to KDF development been decided to end altogether?
8. Are there any plans in the works for those of us who needed to merge into larger fleets where we can have alliances and add in our solo fleets so that we don't have to abandon resources we have put into them for example the storage tabs?
9. This may go unanswered but its a question that bugs the TRIBBLE out of me... Cryptic typically has interviews with people claiming to be in charge of specific things but yet since this game launched from Cryptic there has been little or no results as far as story and pvp in this game and yet these are positions held at Cryptic... What are these people doing ?
10. Are there any chances of things vaguely discussed as in an stf progression system like the starbases and doff system have... that they be account wide so if you have so many characters it doesn't become a job or grind trying to gear each and every character just to get to the fun parts of the game?
11. Any news on territory control where in ways of fleet/faction/whatever getting specific crafting receipes for owning a certain location to put into the possible crafting system to give it some value for crafting?
12. Is there any way the cost for those doff slots can come down some it seems a bit excessive for those of us who have a lot of characters for the ones I would like to increase to 400 I am looking at over 500 dollars just to do which even with dilithium conversion its still way too costly for what its worth.
1) Would it be possible to add a system to the fleet star base where you can create "Gift cards" that have the fleet credits and dilithium to it so fleet leaders can use those provisions on the starbase as gift/reward/Prize for its members?
2) Is there any plans to expand the exploration in this game? (Seek out new life and new civilizations)
3) Is there any plans to re-release some of the discontinued fleet actions (DS9, SB24 ground)
4) Remaster Terradome?
5) Any plans on releasing retro STFs in the pre-s5 format to enjoy as well as the new stf format?
5 What is the plans for revamping the captains table and will you include tie-ins to the newer systems like doffs or fleet starbases?
Could the KDF have some love in the form of ships and costume options which have been shown numerous times in numerous episodes/films instead of options which don't somehow feel right? e.g. The K'Vort class bird of prey, the Voodieh (spelling?) class ship from All Good Things (TNG) (since the Feds got the Olympic class, why the KDF don't already have this is puzzling), longcoats and spiked, finger-less gloves. As these things all exist, noone has to design them from scratch, surely a time-saver?
Given the above, please can the Feds have a definite date for the Ambassador class? Despite any personal feelings on the parts of any dev, as so many have asked for it surely this is a case of "build it and they will come"?
Has any thought been given to introducing content which must be purchased? A certain Gary Gygax-based MMO does this and it works to great extent. You can complete the game F2P, without buying a thing, or you can buy mission packs which have exclusive rewards, accolades, etc. and enhance your gameplay to a small degree so as not to be pay-to-win. This would clearly make such endeavours as Featured Episodes pay for themselves. Think of it like this... release a new season FE with 4 episodes. Buy the content pack and receive 4 more episodes from the same arc, with enhanced rewards. The purchase of the extra episodes will go towards paying for all 8 episodes and make new content a good money spinner instead of new ships for the same grind. You could even introduce whole mission arcs which must be purchased to be played.
How about making some of the doff missions reward c-store items, or even exclusive content, on a 1-in-a-million chance? e.g. a Trill 10 mission arc which can only be played through once but has a very tiny chance of unlocking Joined Trill as a playable option for that account? As most players have used their free slots already, they will have to buy more slots so money will be spent. Didn't unlock the ultimate prize? Oh well, have a blue doff. Likewise, a shipyard based mission arc which has a chance to unlock a playable Oberth class ship for the account would work. Think lockboxes, only completely free and with published odds!
Thanks for reading.
Jo Cox 22.6.1974 - 16.6.2016
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1.) Will we get the Fleet B'rel?
2.) Will there be two versions of the Fleet Advanced Escort?
3.) What is in Season 6 that has not been released yet?
4.) Season 7 is supposed full of contant, can you tell us something about it?
5.) With season 7 we are supposed to get a new Sector Block, how will this change map, and will this change how the sectors are connected to each other?
Will we ever see a project for the holodeck in the station maps?
Can we get a exchange console to browse/buy from the market? - without being able to avoid larger hubs like earth space dock, the fleet starbase is just somewhere to visit occasionally when you want the daily, uncommon+ fleet duty officers etc which makes upgrades like the limited time bar/entertainment area kinda pointless. The fleets need to be self sufficient when fully upgraded or there's little point to using them.
Do the pretty ground weapon models we see in the star base cabinets (the shiny grey ones) appear on any guns? If they are the same as advanced, being without any set bonuses whats the incentive to have them.
How does Elite ground, and space items compare to stf/advanced items? - advanced items are not that impressive for all the effort needed to acquire them..
Why decide to limit the usefulness of common fleet duty officers, we have to spend enormous amounts of resources to unlock them, and fleet credits earn from doing so, only to be restricted to only being able to upgrade them to greens in starfleet academy the so called working as intended issue...
1) Are we going to get a duty officer pool in our fleet starbases where we can put extra doffs so our fleet mates can use them if they need them. I would also like to see the same thing for bridge officers.
2) Are we going to get fleet shuttles and fighters sometime in the future to go along with the new fleet ships?
3) When are we going to be able to put our fleet emblems on that big empty white area in the middle of the main room in our fleet starbases (hopefully that will not cost any dilithium to do)?
4) Where is the fleet admirals office in the fleet starbase?
1. Any idea when the Ferengi Marauder set will be made available again? I just got my D'Kora class ship (Finally!!) and have been saving up the Lobi's for the set, so please bring it back!
2. As far as the uniforms go, is there any chance of a couple of additions to the Wrath of Khan uniform?:
a) a 'no collar' option like on 'Yesterday's Enterprise' episode, and
b) have different actual rank insignias for the right-hand shoulder instead of just the 'Captain rank. You have different ranks on all of the other uniforms except for that one.
2: will there be more inside ship play like fixing problems on your ship whit the crew.?
3: will there be any new type of weapons or new equipment.
2: would we be able to use the ship that our #1 commands as part of a team?
3: will we be able to customize the oddessy class more, like : different saucer shape,nacells, etc?
4: will their ever be an increase in lvl to 100 and the introduction of admiral, fleet admiral, general and dahar master and new uniforms to go with respective sides?
5: will we ever be able to max out our stats?
6: will their ever be a way that the leaders of a fleets can setup a ranking system within the fleet in case they are away for various reasons. for example, the leaders can set a number value for each member of the fleet starting with the founder (#1) down to the last member so that if enough o fthe leadership is away for a time, the next highest number is in command and it falls down the line to fill how many leaders their are till they are filld. and when they are active again, the leadership is restord?
Wow, you took two of my questions that I was going to ask. [give Alastor a high 5 for thinking like me]
Now my other questions. As Alastor said above, as a Fleet leader of a small fleet with a few active players, the DOFF requirement is killing us (I have 16 characters of each faction and running out of "Common" DOFFs).
- Can we please get an assignment that takes BOFFs? I have tons of Blues and Purple BOFFs that are just sitting there. Most of the time, I just dismiss them and I would rather those "senior or bridge" officers to have some value when doing Fleet projects.
- Can Fleet Marks be tied to STF's? Maybe have the normal with X amount and then Elite to have the bonus amount?
- Any word on when we can expect the Department Heads / First Officer for our BOFFs?
- Can there be a min / max price set for items in the exchange for items like Dosi Rotgut? Not everyone is sitting on tens of millions of EC.
- Any update as to why the State of the Game (new Eng Report) comes now at the end of the month just before the "ask Cryptic"? I thought the plan was for the Ask Cryptic to be a the start of the month while the State of the Game to be in the middle. I could be completely off my rocker but I like having 2-3 weeks between offical answers/posts. If makes me feel more in the know as to what is going on
- When are the diplomats on "Coloney Invasion" going to be fixed. Right now, if they move or you are hit while beaming, they will leave but not give you credit. The map placehold is still there even though the animation showed them beaming out.
- Any update on character re-species/re-trait option?
- Would it be possible for Lifetime Sub to be able to create a Liberated Borg other than Human [Fed] or Klingon [KDF]? I know the Borg took more than just humans and klingons. Why are we leaving other members species of Starfleet/KDF to rot in the Hive mind.
- When we get the Ambassador class starship, can we get a new bridge with it? Maybe do something similar with the Odyssey where a "free" version would be a bridge similar to the one in "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the C-Store one have a more creative bridge (rather than a redress of the Battle Bridge from the Episode).
- Any chance of getting the future shuttle from Voyager "Endgame"? I think that would be a good replacement for the Type 8 shuttle.
- Can we get a "Chuck Norris" class Escort so that it just kicks serious butt and has a 50% chance to cause the ships AI to crash in fear.
[OK, this one is just a fun request since I am looking at a Chuck Norris poster and I have run out of questions.]
Thank you for your time.Matt
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Is the absence of an exchange on our Starbases intentional or a missed text entry? If intentional - what's the thinking behind this?
Any explanation of the logic behind the changes to dilithium given when dismissing duty officers? Or perhaps why changes like this are just thrown at us without a bit of forewarning
Could we get the old fleet actions reworked to award Fleet Marks? Or perhaps the option to buy them from the STF Store in exchange for proto tech/edcs?
And since it's my favourite?
Any more news on In to the Hive given you're teasing us with pictures?
On a note about STFs, are there any solid details on how the loot/purchase mechanic is going to be reworked? Will the dependence on drop rates be reduced or eliminated?
Will there be any KDF Fleet ships that are eligible for the Discount? Will Lower tier ships get a discount (maybe not down to 1 FSM, but say 2)? Will there eventually be a way to get ships like Galaxy-X, Excelsior, and Garumba a fleet version?
Will the 1000 day ship be on par with Fleet Ships? What ship will it be?
Will it ever be possible to put our Boffs into the STF costumes? Will the "alien" species get more parts (like say, Trill Spots on the legs, Make-up options)? Could the "Liberated Borg" species be expanded beyond Humans and Klingons? Playing a liberated Borg Gorn would be awesome.
When will the overall story of STO move forward? Its pretty obvious that the Iconians are manipulating everything based on the Undine Mini-arc? Will we get a whole Arc (Like the Klingon War or Romulan Mystery arcs) for the Iconians (they don't deserve less)?
Does the short, medium and long term goals change depending on circumstances in the game, and if so:
When will the KDF receive parity? Does the future of STO include the KDF, and possibly other factions?
Will the full potential of the Foundry be realized in terms of assets, additional maps, objects and other functionality? e.g. there is a very limited selection of NPC contacts and enemy contact groups. Could some form of alien generator be envisaged for the future, and "purchasable rewards" as placement on maps?
Will Cryptic seriously consider the fact that end-game PvP is a heavily weighed component of the game, and that changes to accommodate PvE heavily affect it, and possibly it's time to consider some separation of these two aspects of balance in the game. e.g equipment geared towards PvP, and PvE.
1 - Any way to make a special promotion or event to make a custom duty officer with the name and drawing of a player?
2 - About the starbase: Have plans to make a trophy system to the starbase?
3 - Have plans to make a bulletin board in the starbase?
4 - I can't ask about the KDF content because everyone ask, but just for lol, any reason to don't have any TRIBBLE in the foundry? KDF's want to kill tribbles in the foundry too !;)
5 - Any plans to permit the foundry missions begin from the holodeck of the starbase?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
As of this posting, we are already six weeks into Season 6 with still no update.
We have a thread that we keep active to increase visibility of this issue to the Cryptic teams so they might provide us some sort of feedback on what the status is and what's keeping the options we're supposed to have in this game. We've even done a couple Queen cover songs in an attempt to get you guys to chime in.
The question everyone who's put in at least two years in this game should be asking is, "WHERE. ARE. OUR. VET REWARD. OPTIONS?"
Now understand, this is not a demand to "put it in or else!"... That would be immature and silly. However, we're approaching the 1000-day vet reward time for those that have been with the game since launch, and we're still missing the options we were supposed to have 300 days ago. Nearly a year! We at least need to know what's going on with these options, and I don't think that's too much to ask for.
I mean, I don't think JHeinig should be called a liar, but you guys are making him look bad. I don't want JHeinig to look bad. I think he does great work. As one of the main people that kept us informed of what has been going on with the Android BOffs over the past year, he has stuck his neck out on the line for us, and by not completing the work on this or even giving us any more information about what's going on, you guys are letting him hang out to dry.
For everyone else not already clued in on the issue I'm talking about, here is a recap post of everything a dev has said about the Android Bridge Officers since Nov. 2011
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Story line content, content, content, content, when ? We are tired of the busy work grind stuff?
When will you not require us to pay real money for fleet modules, because fleet ships were part of a season feature update you yourself said we would not be charged for? (as you have stated many times and as recently as the ask cryptic previous to season 6 launch)
Boff exchange (training, transfer,trade,recruit -for free no c-store)?
All universal bridge officer slots that scales with a players ranks = tier 5= 5 universal commander slots?
Universal consoles that work on all ships not just class specific, 15 universal console slots, 5 fore and aft weapon slots and 5 device slots at tier 5? Thus letting the Captain control balance across the boards and fulfilling crytpics customization promises, and ship will be purchased on the quality of the design and truly universal consoles / extra weapons it comes with.
Androids should have an efficient trait?
Customize special boffs, and train them through the above mentioned boff exchange?
Please bring back transparency, communication and engineering reports to the community, because the trade off was terrible, and I personally hate where it stands currently.
Thank you
I used up all my Charakter Slots, 46 for now. All toons maxed out...
Is there any way to get more Slots on my account or at least in the future when new factions are released??
And i dont mean 2 more for a liftime subscription.
My fun for this game is to create and play a toon on every ship in the game, at least the Tier4-5 one and some below and now i have no slots left...
A second account would be no solution because of all the c-store Items...
I dont ask for free slots, i still would pay for them as i did for all the others.
Hopping for an answer on this.
Best wishes from me, @Ironman84 (loyal subscriber since day one)
In a previous Ask Cryptic you said that that the Devs were looking at an alternative method to select Ships for the KDF Fleet Requisitions. Can you elaborate on this, and will we see Non-Klingon ships added, such as the Varanus, which is one of two Pure Science Vessels with a Console available?
Regards,
burstdragon, KDF Advocate for Content & Equality
i'm getting tired of 2-3 running ahead cause they think its they only way to do it and just won't listen or read the release notes
8000 - Silver
10,000 - Gold
15,000 - Vet 1000 days
-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......
make getting Fleet Marks, just a little bit easier
"Spock, this 'child' is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?" -Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.