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

pwebranflakes · December 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 should be released before the end of the month.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

starcommando101 · December 2012

Any news on the Dreadnought getting a fleet version or Saucer Separation?

Any news on the new PvP Tech that was being worked on with Season 7-9?

russell1997 · December 2012

Will there be a better way to get Purple Mk XII ship tactical energy consoles? Like Antiproton mag regulator, Phaser Relay, disruptor induction coil, and ect...

josephdridgeway · December 2012

What is the status of the much-touted, long-awaited First Officer system?

hanover · December 2012

Server connection stability issues.

russell1997 · December 2012

There was talk (I guess about a year ago) about action figures of our characters and maybe some other merchandising. Are there still any plans to do this?

sumghai · December 2012

1) Will we see more BOff species in the future, such as the possible addition of tri-career Reman BOffs to the New Romulus Fleet Embassy stores, or Cardassians?

2) Are there plans to make the standard range of Starfleet and KDF uniforms available to the special rewards BOffs? (e.g. Romulan, Reman, Breen, Jem'hadar)

3) What plans does Cryptic have regarding functional and customisable ship interiors, including canon ones (e.g. Intrepid for Voyager), as per the following discussion?

4) Will Cryptic consider allowing players to pay for reconfiguring their BOff station slots for their ships?

5) Will we be able to get additional BOff costume slots?

drogyn1701 · December 2012

1) Thank you for adding the Temporal ships to the Foundry. Many authors agree that we are desperately in need of new assets. Are there any plans to designate someone to put in a lot of the missing assets or ones that have been recently created for new content? Also, what do you you think of the Assets Friday idea. Where someone tags an asset for the Foundry and releases it each Friday. It?s a way for us to get some new assets added and not take up much dev time.

2) How do you respond to some of the recent player criticism of the Foundry. Specifically that the dilithium grind makes the Foundry a ?waste of time? (quoting other players here, not my own attitude at all), and that the Foundry is a way to make players do the job the devs should be doing.

3) Setting assets aside, what new improvements do you expect to be putting into the Foundry? For example, will we ever be able to set the size of an away team or dictate that players can, say, only use melee weapons on a map or change the beam-out/warp-out transitions on a per-map basis?

4) There is a lot of concern over the in-game Foundry UI. For instance, players complain about not being able to narrow their search enough should they feel like playing, for example, a 45-minute mission with Romulan enemies that starts near their current location that contains only space combat. Authors complain that they can get anonymous 1-star reviews from people who have never even completed the mission, and said rating will knock them far, far down the list where they will never get any other plays. Can we expect any updates to that in the near future?

5) The changing of the Foundry wrapper quest has generated a lot of controversy. Can you share with us why that decision was made, what are the goals behind it, and can we expect any further changes, say, toward the reward system in Neverwinter?

6) Tholians in the Foundry?. please??

ildw · December 2012

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?

mattmiracle · December 2012

When will we see the "Refer a Friend" back? [in case Brandon missed that question on Deck 8]
When are the starbase and embassy "special projects" going to be repeated? It is hard enough to gather 200, 000 dilithium for one in a small fleet.

Now more serious questions (j/k

)

When can we have joined Trills that look like Odan from "The Host"
Why are your thoughts on the teaser trailer for "Star Trek Into Darkness"?
Why does my chef always burn my eggs? I keep changing him out with different Chets (DOFFs) but my eggs always taste like carbon and charcoal.

c0nd1t10nr3d · December 2012

Why are the lobi bound to accolades? This means that many of us can't obtain lobi again during this months FE rerun! Very unfair! *cries*

epicmidget95 · December 2012

Can you give us ANY news on a Romulan Faction or Sub Faction? Even tell us if you are even thinking about creating one.

sedlo74656 · December 2012

When is the terribly needed PvP reputation coming?

ooiue · December 2012

There is a Free 3rd Year Anniversary ship coming out alongside a Fed one for the KDF, are there anymore KDF exclusive ships (that go into the Z-Store) coming out within the next 6 months?

If KDF ships have actually lost you money, why not just give out free KDF ships for T5? This could, at the very least, make up for the free ships the Feds have at T5.

Feds are getting more multi-species ships (Caitian Carrier, Andorian Escort, Vulcan D'Kyr etc.), can the KDF get a Ferasen Escort or something? I'd love to see one of those ships (even if it is a free T5 ship that isn't as good as the Z-Store or Fleet ships).

rifter1969 · December 2012

Dan, I like to say that I am very happy with the Season 7 content, though not completely happy with some of the changes made, but understand them.

My question is this, at New Romulus there is a transwarp gate that is plainly visible when you warp in. However there is no ability to transwarp to New Romulus.

Wouldn't that be a perfect perk to the Romulan reputation system?

I know there is a shuttle linking fleet starbases to embassies, but.. what if someone isn't in a fleet?
Also with that system, that makes little sense that your going to use a shuttle to travel 3 sectors blocks... is the shuttle making use of transwarp, if so why can't a starship?

Thanks.

icegavel · December 2012

1: There are a LOT of suggestions for changes and additions to this game strewn throughout the forums. Would you be willing to consider, at a later date, a whole Season based on implementing some of these (after evaluation, obviously)?

2: What are some of the story ideas being considered for the next FE?

3: Can we get a way to obtain more hybrid energy weapons (Plasma-Disruptor, Phased polaron, etc.)? Possibly crafted?

sollvax · December 2012

How many more Fleet starbase special projects are there ?

And how soon after the run completes will they be rerun ?

(We missed one due to multiple missing fleet members)

nitrous82 · December 2012

Season 7 is supposed to be all about the Romulans yet you are releasing a Breen ship in Qs winter event, if a Romulan Faction is too far down the line then at least how about giving us a D'deridex??

I say D'deridex because I realize asking for a Scimitar might be a little too far fetched

sc0ttish · December 2012

Hi Dan,

are there any plans on making the fleet projects a bit cheaper for small fleets in the foreseeable future? Most of my alts needs to funnel all refined dilithium and loads of DOffs into the fleet projects. Now with the embassy projects and the reputation system (which is awesome after the previous luck-centric approach) in place it is even harder to fund all these things when there are only a handful of active people in a fleet.

Thanks!

Chev

captainbaldy · December 2012

Any details on what the anniversary ships are going to be? Maybe another hint?

How about that/those Andorian ship(s)?

webdeath · December 2012

There was a time when discussions about changing the Crew Mechanic to something else was going on. Is that still a possibility?

What is your Vision for PVP in the future concerning Styles of PVP, and the kinds of maps you want to eventually be implimented?

Will there be any more changes to the way Ground combat takes place, or improvements to the Kits for both PVE consideration, and PVP Play?

Will we see a return of the Refer a friend rewards, or even some form of that system where maybe if we invite some one, we get credit Zen when ever they buy zen? (Ala: DDO's Refer a Friend program)

Any more hints as to who maybe doing a voice over for the 3 year one shot Featured Eposide?

With City of Heroes and Paragon Studios now closed, can you tells us who from that former company have been hired so far, and if any are working with Star Trek Online?

Is it possible to get Micheal Dorn to voice old Worf's dialog, or any other official Mission dialog that is currently on the KDF side?

oewefreestar · December 2012

One of my favorite aspects of an MMO is that we design our character. Key word here is "design". I've noticed that after F2P(Free to Play) went live there have been a few more unique faces out there but there are still a lot of "clones". By this I mean people just throw the same hair and (about the same) face on a character and go with it. About the only discerning feature to tell people are different are our clothing styles. We have had the same appearance options for awhile now with a few releases here and there.

Not meaning to compare but, Champions Online has a HUGE range of options when it comes to designing what our appearance is. I'm sure the Champions Online and STO teams are different, but is there any possibility of making more clothing options for STO in the near future?

I've also noticed that my Borg Medical Analyzer Science Kit for ground combat isn't as effective when it comes to the tachyon harmonics. It seems like the borg have stronger shields or the ability strength was lowered (I didn't see it in any of the patch notes). I was wondering if this is a bug or intentional, or even if it's not changed at all and it's just me imagining things...

tribelwarrior · December 2012

Will you ever allow more than 8,000 dilithium to be refined per day, besides the vet npc?

Will we see gear higher than Mk XII in the near future?

When will we get andorian ships?

kubagucwa · December 2012

On website sto wiki we can read some information about possible future content. There is information about new races as hologram and android- any real chances they will be added in future ?

chalpen · December 2012

1) are the borg sector red alerts going to continue indefinetly or can they be put towards an event?

2) Has the decision on what to do about the KDF in S8 been resolved?

rheatitan · December 2012

Any news class specific doff packs? e.g. engineering doff packs. Its hard to get 30 engineering doff's for a single T1 reputation reward with the current system.

any plans to update the standard ship interior? or release any new interior packs?

any plans to release standard empty foundry maps like for a ships interior. just have the rooms with no objects

betawatcher · December 2012

Could we please get special rewards for replaying the normal mission episodes, not just the featured series?

markharmon01 · December 2012

Ya, I have a Question, for Mr. Stahl.
About a year back, I bought a ship with Cryptic Points. I bought it, and it became available to only one of my characters. I since, used Zen to purchase extra character slots. anytime I put in a ticket, ( I've sent in three now) they don't seem to believe me, but I'm not lying I honestly bought it with cryptic points ( a 1,000 Zen ship on 20%discount for 800 Zen) Boy! It would sure be nice to use that ship, for future characters, but I was told I would have to purchase that ship using 1,000 zen. They keep insisting that my zen/dilithium ratio is correct, and that I purchased that ship with a free ship requisition. Again, I'm not lying, nor am I stupid... so how can such a glitch be overlooked? I love the game, and I'll keep playing it as long as it's here! I even invest money into it, however, I don't see the point in buying a ship I had already purchased. ( and it's not like it's an expensive ship, either) it's the mere principle of the fact that I had already BOUGHT the [commander level Advanced Nebula ship] with 800 Zen thank you, have a good day

williamadama1 · December 2012

maybe you can put in an 7 day bonus each week, by that i mean that each day the players gets an item or a xp boost completly random, the item or the boost gets higer and better for each day and for the 7 th day there could be a chance to get a lock box key

fraghul2000 · December 2012

I really enjoy playing the patrol missions in the various space sectors. Pretty much every one of my characters has done a few of them and they are a great aspect of the game. Unfortunately, once you play them with one character, you can't replay them anymore.

Now that we have the Tau Dewa Patrol mission daily, is there a possibility to get something similar for the old sectors?

Being able to replay the "old" mission patrols as a daily, perhaps with a modest amount of Fleet instead of Romulan marks would be great.

rtk142 · December 2012

First up I want to ask my usual question, why are Explore Strange New Worlds/We Need Breathing room and the Chart the B'Tran Cluster/(whatever the Klingon Lt. General sector is) are on 24 hour timers when everything else is 20. Secondly, is there any chance we can get a filter for the foundry search so we can see which missions count for Investigate Officer Reports. And is there anyway you can give guidance as to what it is that will allow a mission to qualify so we can know when we're creating them.

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

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