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The 2012 STO Qmas Wishlist
wackywombat
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With Season 7 out the door I?d like to ask what new additions and features people would like to see added to STO in the New Year. Have fun with it, no feature is too big or too small. Perhaps we?ll even surprise someone and sneak some changes in to the next few seasons. Here are mine:
Mini-Fractions:
Let?s face it, we?re probably not seeing full Romulan fraction any time soon. After 3 years the Klingon fraction is still being worked on and fraction specific content takes time. So, instead of offering 1-60 game play, allow VAs/LGs to start the mini fractions at 55 and offer a small 5-6 mission quest line to get them situated.
Granted new fractions would still need supporting systems like homeworld, starbases, doffs and such, but it would cut down on things like lower level ships and extended quest lines.
Not a perfect solution, but I?d rather have a fraction that starts at 50+ then wait another 2-3 years before getting my hands on it.
Cargo bay:
I?m a little tired of searching through row upon row of commodities and anomalies in my inventory when looking for new drops and gear. They really should be stored separately, perhaps even in a currency format. That would clean things up immensely.
Auto Loot/Auto Roll:
I know looting is a core mechanic of MMOs, but I?m a little tired of dealing with the sheer volume of loot notifications in the middle of combat. I?d rather just have the ability to automatically collect loot and automatically roll on loot, based on quality. I?m going to pick it up anyways, I?d rather deal with it later then in the middle of a skirmish.
Auto Recycle:
VA/LG characters can accumulate a STAGGERING amount of loot in a very short amount of time, and the vast majority of them are next to worthless. Rather than slogging through my inventory every couple of hours, I?d like to set a rarity level and have anything lower get automatically recycled when it?s looted. It would clear up the junk from my inventory and leave space for more interesting / valuable loot.
Expanded Replicator / Auto Replicate:
This is mostly due to the Reputation and Starbase project requirements. I HATE having to make a detour to Spacedock or DS9 every 2 days in order to buy a stack of consumables, or having to jump out of the Reputation system to replicate commodities because I?m 1-2 short. I?d REALLY like to see all the consumables available through the replicator, even if there was a highly inflated cost over vendors, and have the option to auto-replicate project resources if I?m short. If the projects had rarer requirements I wouldn?t care as much, I just hate having to run back to ESD or click through all the inventory screens just to collect, and immediately get rid of, what is essentially vendor trash.
Tactical Console Options:
Not really a big deal, but I?m not sure why we?re limited to a single ?type? of Tactical console. Instead of being limited to damage, I?d like to see some additional types like Aggro (both increase and decrease), accuracy, crit, proc rate, etc. Anything to add a little variation to the Tac options.
ADDITION :: Assigned Bridge Locations for BOFFs / BOFFs appearing on bridge:
This one drives me a little nuts. Adjust the ship bridge so that when you assign a BOFF a position in the DOFF system, they ALWAYS show up at an assigned location on the bridge. It just adds a touch of immersion to the game when your First officer is sitting in the proper chair, instead of generic BOFF number 3. I'd also like to see all my BOFFs show up on the ship. For some reason there are a few, like the Holographic medical officer, that don't ever seem to show up.
Well, that?s my list. What does everyone else want to see?
Mini-Fractions:
Let?s face it, we?re probably not seeing full Romulan fraction any time soon. After 3 years the Klingon fraction is still being worked on and fraction specific content takes time. So, instead of offering 1-60 game play, allow VAs/LGs to start the mini fractions at 55 and offer a small 5-6 mission quest line to get them situated.
Granted new fractions would still need supporting systems like homeworld, starbases, doffs and such, but it would cut down on things like lower level ships and extended quest lines.
Not a perfect solution, but I?d rather have a fraction that starts at 50+ then wait another 2-3 years before getting my hands on it.
Cargo bay:
I?m a little tired of searching through row upon row of commodities and anomalies in my inventory when looking for new drops and gear. They really should be stored separately, perhaps even in a currency format. That would clean things up immensely.
Auto Loot/Auto Roll:
I know looting is a core mechanic of MMOs, but I?m a little tired of dealing with the sheer volume of loot notifications in the middle of combat. I?d rather just have the ability to automatically collect loot and automatically roll on loot, based on quality. I?m going to pick it up anyways, I?d rather deal with it later then in the middle of a skirmish.
Auto Recycle:
VA/LG characters can accumulate a STAGGERING amount of loot in a very short amount of time, and the vast majority of them are next to worthless. Rather than slogging through my inventory every couple of hours, I?d like to set a rarity level and have anything lower get automatically recycled when it?s looted. It would clear up the junk from my inventory and leave space for more interesting / valuable loot.
Expanded Replicator / Auto Replicate:
This is mostly due to the Reputation and Starbase project requirements. I HATE having to make a detour to Spacedock or DS9 every 2 days in order to buy a stack of consumables, or having to jump out of the Reputation system to replicate commodities because I?m 1-2 short. I?d REALLY like to see all the consumables available through the replicator, even if there was a highly inflated cost over vendors, and have the option to auto-replicate project resources if I?m short. If the projects had rarer requirements I wouldn?t care as much, I just hate having to run back to ESD or click through all the inventory screens just to collect, and immediately get rid of, what is essentially vendor trash.
Tactical Console Options:
Not really a big deal, but I?m not sure why we?re limited to a single ?type? of Tactical console. Instead of being limited to damage, I?d like to see some additional types like Aggro (both increase and decrease), accuracy, crit, proc rate, etc. Anything to add a little variation to the Tac options.
ADDITION :: Assigned Bridge Locations for BOFFs / BOFFs appearing on bridge:
This one drives me a little nuts. Adjust the ship bridge so that when you assign a BOFF a position in the DOFF system, they ALWAYS show up at an assigned location on the bridge. It just adds a touch of immersion to the game when your First officer is sitting in the proper chair, instead of generic BOFF number 3. I'd also like to see all my BOFFs show up on the ship. For some reason there are a few, like the Holographic medical officer, that don't ever seem to show up.
Well, that?s my list. What does everyone else want to see?
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I'm not interested in the idea of a mini-faction. For the most part, it would require all the work of a standard faction any way (social zones, bridge officers, an expensive duty officer system (with assignments to follow), unique sector space, various missions, starship bridges, unique uniforms (that are customizable), ect.
If they're going to go to all that trouble, they'd be better off waiting a little longer and giving us the full payload. The only backlog would be the ship development, but they can always keep it simple at first; one ship design per tier per class, with two skins (one Romulan, the other Reman) then add other designs as the faction progresses.
I can see the benefit of this, and would support such.
Short of the obvious (Romulan Faction and more Klingon Ships / Content) what I'd like for Christmas is the ability to customize my unique Bridge Officers (Breen, Jem Hadar, Reman, Romulan) and to also see a featured episode series that rewards us with a Cardassian Bridge Officer (again, with customization).
And more importantly than that, I'd like to think that the Duty Officer Dilithium Exchange Prices would DROP; much alike the prices around and after Christmas do. Maybe we'll have some January Sales of sorts that'll stick.
We need a few more melee weapon types though. Like those Andorian ice daggers. Or maybe Klingon knives....
My character Tsin'xing
I want that gun! Running around Defera with that thing would be awesome!
Have the foundry mission in focus give certain special rewards,.. just like the featured episodes. It would increase the playing quality, .. have people something to do as we wait for more new featured episodes.
I dont know about you,.. but when I joined there was the weekly featured episode ongoing. That was so much fun.. these grinding stuff/STF etc are not super fun.. its nothing new every week.. and you get tired of trying to keep up with the demands. In all glory .. the ongoing rep system is a nice idea... however its really killing my EC availability (and not so many sources if you are not good at that). Not to mention dilithium. I got a real shock that I had to add another dil to get a romulan gear.
The Thompson -"Tommy-gun" of the 40's.Used by the U.S. Army, in WWII, and the mafia.
Also known as the "Chicago Typewriter" by its distictive firing sound.
That would be fun.
Maybe a weapon that's part Mobile Holo Emitter? It creates it's own Holographic bullets!
Maybe a "street sweeper", AKA Full-auto Shotgun!
My character Tsin'xing
SKINTIGHT SHIELDS :mad:
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
1: Playable Romulan Faction (I wanna be a henchman, spy, or assassin for the Tal-Shiar, a foil to both the federation and KDF not a team up with the federation do gooder r
omulan).
2: Customizable ship interiors.
3: New bridge packs on the Store like a standard 2409 bridge kinda like the odyssey and one for the KDF.
4: More KDF ships.
5: More KDF customization options hair uniform ship parts etc.
6: the ability to organize our own mini battlegroups using our own officers and spare ships with no dil sink hole attached. Story missions and perhaps solo rep missions for your mini battle group would be nice.
With the last one I could see them going all out, assign two ships to hold defensive positions in orbit while you and another run interference for the approaching enemy ships while your last ship evacs colonists on the planet below.
NEITHER will ever happen because there is NO SANTA CLAUS. :P
Also, I do enjoy occasional RP and would like some work done on the emote system. In other games you could more closely react with a player like patting them on the back and holding their hand. I think that would be really fun!
It would also be interesting if you could acquire a ground mount or vehicle so you could travel faster through certain ground areas like New Romulus.
- more animated/moving weapons similar to the maco battlerifle. Also to include into this more armor (ground) that included moving parts.
- more ships, especially on the KDF side.
- more pve content
- more ways to gain high amounts of dil for the casual player, so they can play when they want but still make alot of dil in order to contribute to fleet holdings, embasy, reputation, and also gear out for items that cost 10k-30k a piece.
- more bridges similar to the defiant updated bridge pack, and the tos conie bridge pack. (that level of detail)
- 29th century outfits to come out <- soooon
- new hair tech
- new emotes
- new classes in game maybe even some none combat classes
* list of some ideas here (Command Class, Entertainer (ability to be someones tailor and be asked to design their features but also having special features that are only open by the class itself and not part of normal npc tailor options), Trader (Has the ability to go to certain solar systems and mine dilitheum "larger quantities".
- new social areas (fereginar ect)
10) Removal of dilithium cap
9) lowered cost of some specialty items from the dilithium store, like Spiral Wave Disruptors.
8) scaling fleet project costs to match size of the fleet
7) cruisers to be beefed up a bit so that they're more than just slow moving big targets
6) a federation battle cloak for cloakable ships
5) finished Klingon faction
4) filtered queues so that if you have someone on your ignore list, you will never be grouped with them
3) a penalty system for afk'rs in STFs and the like
2) an advancement system for doffs
1) sell Cryptic to a real gaming company that will better maintain STO
Not exactly the same, but something similar...
TR-116A Rifle - Sniper Rifle
Rare Ground Weapon
TR-116 - Bolt
35.7 Kinetic Damage (51 DPS) (20% Shield Penetration)
TR-116 - Sniper Shot
Does not Require Line of Site
96.4 Kinetic Damage (9.9 DPS) (20% Shield Penetration)
50% Chance: Knockback +12 meters
...and the Borg can not adapt to it. Too bad its a unique item and only available as Mk I.
Legendary Starfleet Captain
STO Forum Member since December 2010
That's what I thought it was, but I haven't seen First Contact in a while.
So this is my Xmas wish. Make it available at all Mk levels
Legendary Starfleet Captain
STO Forum Member since December 2010
Yes. This and the Tommy gun. I'd be one happy trigger-hap.
I'd like to see the short sword that Worf uses in First Contact...its in game I've seen Klingon npcs use it
What, is there a problem with Romulan mathematics? :P
Yeah sorry, wrote that rather late last night and didn't bother to proof it.
Fixed it for you.
Great weapon, nothing better for CQB.
2. Revamp for Ground combat
3. Crafting revamp
- make "switch to small craft" a button rather than a toggle, just like when beaming to the Academy.
- ability to disable holos on ground weapons, if possible a slider to adjust the model size.
- allow uniform parts to be mixed freely with off-duty and (if unlocked) Omega reputation armor.
- crew uniform customization menu, so as to not look out of place in your own ship interiors.
C'mon, gimme something I can use.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
1) The ability to put my non-Federation species boffs in Starfleet uniforms. I know this isn't practical for Breen, but my Orions, Gorn, Reman, and Jem'Hadar crewmates would love to join Starfleet!
2) More boff species - Denobulan, Deltan, Benzar, Romulan (maybe a prize for the end of S7?), Cardassian, and others!
3) A fix so that the warp-out mini-cutscene actually shows my ship warping out and doesn't focus the camera randomly.
4) More outer space maps - I love the mining asteroid because it's so quiet and peaceful.
5) Undershirts for female boffs wearing open uniforms.
6) Putting Tellar on the map. I don't even mean a beam-down-able planet, just putting them on the map would be great since the other Federation founders have planets.
7) A dilithium-granting daily mission that picks a random storyline mission for you to play. There's a lot of content there to play!
8) The ability to turn off the hologram details of my mark xii phaser pistol model.
Thanks for listening, Santa Cryptic!
USS WARRIOR NCC 1720 Commanding Officer
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