An Ambassador class (Enterprise C) costume for the Exploration Cruiser ;
More content for the playable Klingon faction (Episodes, costumes, ships, weapons, etc.);
A playable Romulan Faction with its own Episodes ;
Could we meet Data somewhere in the Federation ? I would be delighted to hear Brent Spiner portrait Data one more time...
Other than that, thank you Cryptic/PerfectWorld for making me a Trekker anew.
Paramount should realise the popularity of this game and seriously consider a new Star Trek series based on the STO content, I would be delighted with seeing the Odyssey class Enterprise F on my TV screen once a week.
There is gold to be found here, ladies and gentlemen...
1) When will we be seing the Voyager bundle? I watched all of Voyager, I want that bundle.
2) Perhaps one of the most important question we want answered... Romulan faction or Romulan lock boxes?
3) Will we ever see more stuff added to ship interiors like holodecks, shuttlebays, observations lounges, and the brig for feds? And can I see my Doffs walking around instead of random people (and the right amount, there's only 50 people on my ship)?
4) Cardassian playable species?
5) More warzones like Kerrat? Maybe just a map you go into where you have kdf and fed spawn points, something like private match maps but you can just come in and battle as long as you want (with no map resets)?
Is there any chance we could see the player created two episode series 'Not Our War" stretched into a Featured Series? I know you guys just did a Deep Space Nine, but the story of this one was really good and worthy of being a developer made series.
SPOILERS. Don't continue if you have not played this mission.
The episode's plot takes the player back in time to the Dominion War. Another reason I bring this particular one up is because it would present a neat opportunity to bring Avery Brooks in to do some voice acting as Captain Sisko and only the developers can make such a thing happen, you know with licencing and all.
Now on I guess a more practical note, will we see a featured series again anytime soon? Have you guys considered maybe doing mini series in-between featured series to at least give us a little bit of something every now and then?
Captain_Conrad
Join Date: October 2009
STO Start Date: March 2010
June 2012, assimilated into the PWE collective. Resistance is futile.
Will the Captain's Table ever NOT SUCK? That is will it ever actually be a WORTHWHILE reward? For instance offering discounted items OF VALUE? Opportunity to buy things otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain? CT-specific mission or DOFF assignments? High-stakes DABO or something else? As it is, it's utterly useless nonsense. I mean, the equipment store sells like level 1 & 2 cr@p for ships, etc. Could we at least have the items be "level appropriate"?
Well at of the last time I looked anyway. Which was like never-and-a-half ago... (Maybe 6 mos.) For that matter a bunch of the lifetime or length-of-membership perks are pretty useless (a dancing monkey? a cape?)... How about something we can actually USE like Purple DOFFs, Purple consoles. Free Zen or coupons for 1 free item (any item?) in the Zen store? Know what I mean. I kind of hate things that offer no real in-game benefit.
For that matter it would be nice of the delta flyer pet was actually a COMBAT pet, doing a little damage and taking some aggro. Kind of like an upgraded fighter? Not saying it would last LONG in combat, just long enough to offer some actual benefit for using it... For instance taking down a shield or contributing some firepower, or drawing some damage away from YOU.
Will the novel Needs of the Many have any bearing on the future content coming with season 7? The novel gives a lot of suggestions as to what happens between now and the time of the novel's in character interviews.
I know it's a little late now that s/b construction has already started, and switching mid-stream would probably TRIBBLE some people off, but it also seems like it would perhaps FIX some of the issues the S/B creation method has created...
Why when I reported it (six times) do my reports disappear?
Why give me a free ship exactly like the one I just bought? If you have to why not let me have the choice resell the credit or choose another similar ship?
Why have so much skill training for my bridge staff if the game only lets them use a fraction of what they have learned?
Why when one of my bridge staff learns a new and higher skill level does the game not (by default) offer to eliminate the a lower skill that is exactly the same? The way it is now I have staff that have the same skills but different levels because the game makes me keep the lower levels until someday (if ever) the game decides to offer me something else that might be useful and also replace a level one skill... etc.
Since you sell the ship that is docked in the back of the Odyssey tactical cruiser in the Zen store is there any chance of us getting an upgrade on our odyssey so we could fly the one that came with the ship like the shuttle craft that we had to buy separately?
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.
2) Romulan faction: Separate faction (preferred)? When?
3) More content in general? Though featured episodes were supposed to be coming out ever other week or so, according to some previous "Ask Cryptic" responses. So far we seem to have gotten approximately one series and then the content flow stopped in favor of s/b stuff.
Now that s/b's are out can we get back to featured episodes and other additional content? Will some GOOD Foundry missions eventually be made STO canon (frozen, given in-game rewards, etc.)?
Can we maybe NOT have to warp to fleet space in order to use the fleet transwarp option to go places like Vulcan? Why not just add it to our regular transwarp menu from the mini-map? It's a pain to have to warp to fleet space just to warp to Vulcan. Why can't we just warp directly. I mean, if we have a Transwarp network, why not just let us use it directly rather than indirectly with a bunch of pit stops? I assume our navigation officers know how to negotiate the network, why not just let them do their jobs and just tell them to plot a transwarp network course to Vulcan. I really don't need a bathroom break at the fleet starbase Rest Area. :P
I get it, we have a starbase now, let's ooh and aah over it. I still don't need to GO THERE in order to transwarp. I get that you want people to know it's there. Okay, we get it. Don't beat the playerbase over the head with it!
What are your Plans for the KDF?
How many % of your crew will work on KDF Content?
Whats the ratio of upcoming FED / KDF Content ?
Will we see KDF T5 Z store Ships to get finaly a discount option for the Fleet Moduls?
Is the option of playing KDF from lvl 1 in any future dead?
When u will fix the decloaking bug where u decloak after receive a message or pick up a item?
Some little preview of future pvp plans?
What is the status of the full department head system that was mentioned? The one where heads would "eat" doffs to learn new skills?
Also what happened/is happening about the mentioned 1st officer universal boff slot on ships?
Any word on a ferasan style ship? More ferasan specific weapons? or even a visit to ferasa? Maybe even a Fearasan pack - i would pay for a bundle i love the evil kitty's.
Any update on new playable species?
Will we ever have anything to do around Rura Penthe?
It seems strange that as a founder of the federation , that Tellar prime isn't in the game at all.....
And Finally will we ever be able to visit Ferenginar? Have more ferengi ..... in game?
Will there ever be space skills or equipment with maximum ranges of more (or less) than 10km? I think powerful short range weapons and weak long range weapons would add interesting tactical variety.
(Also the nitpicker in me thinks that since the IP's weapons have theoretical ranges measured in thousands or millions of kilometers, the 10km limit in the game is akin to fighting with assault rifles at arm's length. ;P )
So, there have been like a billion transporter effects over the course of the series. We would all LOVE to be able to set our own transporter signature rather than the current defaults.
So, if you're not willing to put that into the game proper for everyone as a default, how about a Zen store "costume" as it were for transporter signatures. A Fed pack and a Klingon pack. Each of which is only usable for the appropriate alignment characters. And each of which is future-proof. That is, if they only start out with 3 a piece and someone buy them and more alignment transporter effects get added later, whoever had that alignment's transporter effect unlock would automatically get access to the new ones too, as opposed to having to re-buy.
I think you'd get A LOT of Zen purchases for that. I might be wrong... But A LOT of people I know would love the ability to customize their beam-out... For instance the old TOS glitter-in-water effect, etc. etc.
Even better if you could just make it a default in the game to just have the transporter effect be selectable... Y'know without people having to pay for it. And please, if we do have to pay for it, make it account-wide. I doubt many people would like it if it were bound to specific characters. That would just seem, umm, how shall I put this: "money-grubbing," yes, I think that's the diplomatic term...
Will there be a Space and Ground version of our Starbases for PVP purposes?
-If so, will we also be able to get Fleet marks for such a thing?
What can you tell us about the ships that got leeked reciently? (Wells, Koroth, etc.)
Do you PVP in STO? And if so, what is your favorite type of PVP? (Arena, Cap and hold, Ground Arena, assault)
If you could go back in time, knowing what you know about STO, what one thing would you have done differently?
Will the ability to create your own PVP Maps ever get added to the Foundry?
With the intoduction of the Racing outfits, does that mean there might be some sort of Shuttle Race intoduced to the game? Perhaps even a new way to customize and modify Shuttles for that purpose?
Are there any plans to release new Kits? We currently only have Mk X kits at this time.
Are there any plans to reduce the costs of Dilithium for Starbase Projects, or Other items you can buy in starbases (Like ground equipment)?
You think that your beta test was bad?
Think about this: American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Switch 'toon without logging out. Every other mature MMO has this. I'm tired of having to re-enter my credentials EVERY... SINGLE... TIME... I... SWITCH... CHARACTERS... One should simply be able to back out as far as the character selection screen, select a new character, and switch over to it. Or, if that would cause problems with someone being logged in and a friend going to that screen and selecting "make new character" or "delete character" while you step away, then make it a 'stripped down' character select screen without the "create new" and "delete" options (for that, you'd have to log out and re-provide credentials). Or just offer a button to "switch characters" and bring up a small in-game menu with the names and basic stats/alignment/class. Once you select the character from the menu, it switches you over post haste.
This SHOULDN'T be that hard. No excuses now. Get it done. Thanks! Everyone will LOVE you for it... Seriously! :cool:
Almost one year ago on September 29, 2011 the 250 Emblems were removed from the 500 day Veteran Reward. To date no replacement reward has added at the 500 days. As someone who had an active subscription while this reward was available, watched many other players receive said reward, and was approximately 67 days away from receiving the 500 day Vet Rewards when they were removed I have spent the last 11 months feeling personally cheated out of something all subscribers were promised every time I log into the game. I'm also frequently wonder if the remaining Veteran Rewards will still be available by the time I reach the required subscription time, or if Veteran Rewards I have already earned will be removed.
Will a replacement for the removed Emblems ever be added to the 500 day reward? And if not will something at least be done for players who had active subscriptions while the reward was available but had not yet reached 500 days before Sept. 29, 2011?
I note there are now DOFF missions that give TEMPORARY boosts to various skill trees. Is there any possibility of maybe having some DOFF missions that give permanent boosts (like an additional point or rank or whatever you call it) in that skill (even above and beyond the current maximums)? A way for topped out captains to actually go above and beyond the current maxes. through ultra-rare DOFF missions, etc? Maybe make the mission very rare & difficult and only offer the hard "permanent" point on a critical success. And only offer extra points up to the maximum of the given skill (9 ranks/points per, if I remember right)?
If you respec and reduce those skills that had the DOFF-based extra points, they wouldn't count toward your total trainable skill points. That is, you couldn't exploit those spoints to rank up some other thing you could critical on a DOFF mission 'cause your DOFFs aren't up to the task of completing it...
And if the level cap were ever increased and additional points possible, then some or all of those "extra" skill points might convert to "regular" skill points?
Just thinking out loud...
It'll probably never happen. But it would definitely never happen unless someone asked. So I did.
When will the alternate gender/class combinations of the 700 day veteran reward android boff be released?
FKA K-Tar, grumpy Klingon/El-Aurian hybrid. Now assimilated by PWE.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
Any plans for high-end consoles (blue/purple or unique to STF like anti-borg gear) to be made available in STF store for EDC, rare/prototype salvage, etc? Right now it's seemingly just ground & space weapons & shields/armor/engines, etc. Would like to upgrade my consoles TOO... Especially in the Mk XI-XII range appropriate for STFs. Would be nice if stuff WASN'T BOUND, too. I'd like to be able to sell some of the stuff I grind for EC's in the exchange to use in the exchange to buy other stuff. As it is, I feel like doing fleet events and STFs with fleet memebers I'm not getting much "sellable" loot that's worth anything (just vendor trash) and thus never have any ECs anymore for buying stuff I need. Something's gotta' give...
1) What is there an ETA for Season 7? I'm anxiously looking forward to more/new Story Content.
2) What is the ETA of the full release 700 Day Veteran Reward Android BOff, including Tac/Sci and Female BOffs? There's a thread about it here, but you can see all the important details summed-up in Post 651. The last info we got on it was back in the June Ask Cryptic, when we were told the issue was resolved in Season 6 and was waiting for one of the developers to revisit.
Thanks.
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
When can we expect the game to be less buggy, instead of more buggy? Specifically all the little odds and ends that "aren't important enough to address at this time?" I've stopped playing the game at this point, because anytime you guys touch it, something else breaks. I think if we take some of the talent out of making new uniforms for the C-store, and create a Quality Control department, this is, theoretically, do-able, and within budget. It's my, personal, belief that the dividends from a bug free game would pay for themselves, in a year's time.
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2. Will we ever get premium ship costumes? (Will I be able to stick a giant skull on the front of my ship?)
3. Will STF rewards ever be made less random? Can the days of hunting for that last piece of prototype salvage be over?
4. Hats?
Other than that, thank you Cryptic/PerfectWorld for making me a Trekker anew.
Paramount should realise the popularity of this game and seriously consider a new Star Trek series based on the STO content, I would be delighted with seeing the Odyssey class Enterprise F on my TV screen once a week.
There is gold to be found here, ladies and gentlemen...
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Darrin Kessel
USS Unicron
1) When will we be seing the Voyager bundle? I watched all of Voyager, I want that bundle.
2) Perhaps one of the most important question we want answered... Romulan faction or Romulan lock boxes?
3) Will we ever see more stuff added to ship interiors like holodecks, shuttlebays, observations lounges, and the brig for feds? And can I see my Doffs walking around instead of random people (and the right amount, there's only 50 people on my ship)?
4) Cardassian playable species?
5) More warzones like Kerrat? Maybe just a map you go into where you have kdf and fed spawn points, something like private match maps but you can just come in and battle as long as you want (with no map resets)?
2. fully customisable rooms on our starbases and ships please
3. will the vesta class have a fleet version?
4. more kdf stuff ! ships , uniforms, missions , races etc etc , like yesterday already
5. maybe fix the spots on trill necks ?
6. will we ever be able to match our ships crews uniforms with the ones you select for your Boffs?
7. will the vesta class have the different saucer and nacelle pylon options ? or just the standard version
8 . MORE KDF
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
SPOILERS. Don't continue if you have not played this mission.
The episode's plot takes the player back in time to the Dominion War. Another reason I bring this particular one up is because it would present a neat opportunity to bring Avery Brooks in to do some voice acting as Captain Sisko and only the developers can make such a thing happen, you know with licencing and all.
Now on I guess a more practical note, will we see a featured series again anytime soon? Have you guys considered maybe doing mini series in-between featured series to at least give us a little bit of something every now and then?
Join Date: October 2009
STO Start Date: March 2010
June 2012, assimilated into the PWE collective. Resistance is futile.
Well at of the last time I looked anyway. Which was like never-and-a-half ago... (Maybe 6 mos.) For that matter a bunch of the lifetime or length-of-membership perks are pretty useless (a dancing monkey? a cape?)... How about something we can actually USE like Purple DOFFs, Purple consoles. Free Zen or coupons for 1 free item (any item?) in the Zen store? Know what I mean. I kind of hate things that offer no real in-game benefit.
For that matter it would be nice of the delta flyer pet was actually a COMBAT pet, doing a little damage and taking some aggro. Kind of like an upgraded fighter? Not saying it would last LONG in combat, just long enough to offer some actual benefit for using it... For instance taking down a shield or contributing some firepower, or drawing some damage away from YOU.
I've suggested an alternative...
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=5000421
Thoughts?
I know it's a little late now that s/b construction has already started, and switching mid-stream would probably TRIBBLE some people off, but it also seems like it would perhaps FIX some of the issues the S/B creation method has created...
~MG
Any words on weather we can expect a fix for the T4 Marauding cross-faction Bridge Officer?
Why when I reported it (six times) do my reports disappear?
Why give me a free ship exactly like the one I just bought? If you have to why not let me have the choice resell the credit or choose another similar ship?
Why have so much skill training for my bridge staff if the game only lets them use a fraction of what they have learned?
Why when one of my bridge staff learns a new and higher skill level does the game not (by default) offer to eliminate the a lower skill that is exactly the same? The way it is now I have staff that have the same skills but different levels because the game makes me keep the lower levels until someday (if ever) the game decides to offer me something else that might be useful and also replace a level one skill... etc.
Since you sell the ship that is docked in the back of the Odyssey tactical cruiser in the Zen store is there any chance of us getting an upgrade on our odyssey so we could fly the one that came with the ship like the shuttle craft that we had to buy separately?
Any chance for a Nomad adventure?
1) More KDF content, on par with Fed?
2) Romulan faction: Separate faction (preferred)? When?
3) More content in general? Though featured episodes were supposed to be coming out ever other week or so, according to some previous "Ask Cryptic" responses. So far we seem to have gotten approximately one series and then the content flow stopped in favor of s/b stuff.
Now that s/b's are out can we get back to featured episodes and other additional content? Will some GOOD Foundry missions eventually be made STO canon (frozen, given in-game rewards, etc.)?
(Or a pig)
Sorry if my English is bad.
I get it, we have a starbase now, let's ooh and aah over it. I still don't need to GO THERE in order to transwarp. I get that you want people to know it's there. Okay, we get it. Don't beat the playerbase over the head with it!
How many % of your crew will work on KDF Content?
Whats the ratio of upcoming FED / KDF Content ?
Will we see KDF T5 Z store Ships to get finaly a discount option for the Fleet Moduls?
Is the option of playing KDF from lvl 1 in any future dead?
When u will fix the decloaking bug where u decloak after receive a message or pick up a item?
Some little preview of future pvp plans?
When can we see some love for The Galaxy Dreadnought with a saucer sep, as well as giving it a boost. for the to make it a bit better?
Also what happened/is happening about the mentioned 1st officer universal boff slot on ships?
Any word on a ferasan style ship? More ferasan specific weapons? or even a visit to ferasa? Maybe even a Fearasan pack - i would pay for a bundle i love the evil kitty's.
Any update on new playable species?
Will we ever have anything to do around Rura Penthe?
It seems strange that as a founder of the federation , that Tellar prime isn't in the game at all.....
And Finally will we ever be able to visit Ferenginar? Have more ferengi ..... in game?
Thanks and keep up the good work
(Also the nitpicker in me thinks that since the IP's weapons have theoretical ranges measured in thousands or millions of kilometers, the 10km limit in the game is akin to fighting with assault rifles at arm's length. ;P )
So, there have been like a billion transporter effects over the course of the series. We would all LOVE to be able to set our own transporter signature rather than the current defaults.
So, if you're not willing to put that into the game proper for everyone as a default, how about a Zen store "costume" as it were for transporter signatures. A Fed pack and a Klingon pack. Each of which is only usable for the appropriate alignment characters. And each of which is future-proof. That is, if they only start out with 3 a piece and someone buy them and more alignment transporter effects get added later, whoever had that alignment's transporter effect unlock would automatically get access to the new ones too, as opposed to having to re-buy.
I think you'd get A LOT of Zen purchases for that. I might be wrong... But A LOT of people I know would love the ability to customize their beam-out... For instance the old TOS glitter-in-water effect, etc. etc.
Even better if you could just make it a default in the game to just have the transporter effect be selectable... Y'know without people having to pay for it. And please, if we do have to pay for it, make it account-wide. I doubt many people would like it if it were bound to specific characters. That would just seem, umm, how shall I put this: "money-grubbing," yes, I think that's the diplomatic term...
Will there be a Space and Ground version of our Starbases for PVP purposes?
-If so, will we also be able to get Fleet marks for such a thing?
What can you tell us about the ships that got leeked reciently? (Wells, Koroth, etc.)
Do you PVP in STO? And if so, what is your favorite type of PVP? (Arena, Cap and hold, Ground Arena, assault)
If you could go back in time, knowing what you know about STO, what one thing would you have done differently?
Will the ability to create your own PVP Maps ever get added to the Foundry?
With the intoduction of the Racing outfits, does that mean there might be some sort of Shuttle Race intoduced to the game? Perhaps even a new way to customize and modify Shuttles for that purpose?
Are there any plans to release new Kits? We currently only have Mk X kits at this time.
Are there any plans to reduce the costs of Dilithium for Starbase Projects, or Other items you can buy in starbases (Like ground equipment)?
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
MANDATORY:
Switch 'toon without logging out. Every other mature MMO has this. I'm tired of having to re-enter my credentials EVERY... SINGLE... TIME... I... SWITCH... CHARACTERS... One should simply be able to back out as far as the character selection screen, select a new character, and switch over to it. Or, if that would cause problems with someone being logged in and a friend going to that screen and selecting "make new character" or "delete character" while you step away, then make it a 'stripped down' character select screen without the "create new" and "delete" options (for that, you'd have to log out and re-provide credentials). Or just offer a button to "switch characters" and bring up a small in-game menu with the names and basic stats/alignment/class. Once you select the character from the menu, it switches you over post haste.
This SHOULDN'T be that hard. No excuses now. Get it done. Thanks! Everyone will LOVE you for it... Seriously! :cool:
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Will a replacement for the removed Emblems ever be added to the 500 day reward? And if not will something at least be done for players who had active subscriptions while the reward was available but had not yet reached 500 days before Sept. 29, 2011?
If you respec and reduce those skills that had the DOFF-based extra points, they wouldn't count toward your total trainable skill points. That is, you couldn't exploit those spoints to rank up some other thing you could critical on a DOFF mission 'cause your DOFFs aren't up to the task of completing it...
And if the level cap were ever increased and additional points possible, then some or all of those "extra" skill points might convert to "regular" skill points?
Just thinking out loud...
It'll probably never happen. But it would definitely never happen unless someone asked. So I did.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
I have two questions:
1) What is there an ETA for Season 7? I'm anxiously looking forward to more/new Story Content.
2) What is the ETA of the full release 700 Day Veteran Reward Android BOff, including Tac/Sci and Female BOffs? There's a thread about it here, but you can see all the important details summed-up in Post 651. The last info we got on it was back in the June Ask Cryptic, when we were told the issue was resolved in Season 6 and was waiting for one of the developers to revisit.
Thanks.
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.