As for a DS9-style station, I think this would be a good way to include a 'mining' type holding. That would allow for players to keep their normal starbase but have another iconic outpost that has a canon reason for being involved in resource collection.
Take a look at my Foundry missions! Conjoined, Re-emergence, and . . .
Q: (werewolf359) You mentioned recently that an upcoming season would be titled ?Founders of the Federation? and include the sector between Sirius and Beta Ursae. Does this mean we?ll get the missing founding world Tellar as a social zone or at least as a dot on the map?
Dstahl: The comment comes from an interview where I mentioned that one of the sectors we want to do is the area to the galactic left of Sol in the Alpha Quadrant. This area would include Trill, Ferenginar, Tellar, and several other Founders of the Federation. We have not fully fleshed out the concept for this sector, but one idea was to make it a purely Foundry related zone where players could create missions that represent this mostly peaceful part of our galactic map.
While I like and support the idea, I hope that Dstahl realizes that it would require art assets. We don't have anything Ferengi for Ferenginar. We're mostly limited to using:
Cardassian, Vulcan, Romulan, Fed, KDF, and generic science or colony buildings, etc.
Please, for a moment, think of us as one of your teams. If you wanted one of your teams to develop this specific sector, what kinds of assets would they need to tell their stories?
Asking us to develop a sector but not giving us the resources to do so would be unfair.
The problem I have with a DS9 style starbase, is it is actually not a federation design (And I am assuming the ones who want a ds9 style are the feds). It is actually a cardassian designed station that was taken over by bajor after the occupation, and administered by the federation, presumably until bajor was made a member world (at which point it was all federation owned and operated).
The problem I have with a DS9 style starbase, is it is actually not a federation design (And I am assuming the ones who want a ds9 style are the feds). It is actually a cardassian designed station that was taken over by bajor after the occupation, and administered by the federation, presumably until bajor was made a member world (at which point it was all federation owned and operated).
That's true, but it's still a nice station design. Over the years a lot of mods for Star Trek games have incorporated the design for use by Federation bases since it's so popular, so I don't see it being a problem if STO does it. I used to like building them in the Armada Millenium Project mod.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
The problem I have with a DS9 style starbase, is it is actually not a federation design (And I am assuming the ones who want a ds9 style are the feds). It is actually a cardassian designed station that was taken over by bajor after the occupation, and administered by the federation, presumably until bajor was made a member world (at which point it was all federation owned and operated).
True, but keep in mind that the Cardassian government allied with the Federation following the Dominion War. They've already given us Galor class cruisers, why not a Nor-type starbase?
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
Q. I know the game is already very "free" player friendly, but is there a possiblitly of making a minimum limit on how much dilithium to sell for Cryptic points, something like 100 dilithium for 1 C token
Q. I know the game is already very "free" player friendly, but is there a possiblitly of making a minimum limit on how much dilithium to sell for Cryptic points, something like 100 dilithium for 1 C token
there is its 25 dilithium to 1 zen ratio and it been that ratio since season 6 and when they switched to zen
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
that is such a cop-out. why not just state clearly that it didnt make money wasnt worth the time and there will be nothing of this again...
this weapon has been in the game for nearly 3 years and is the most worthless weapon in the game after level 10.
i have been playing this since launch and just about every pre-order item is availible in your cashshop but this weapon and the pre-order bodyarmor.
The pre-order Deflector Dish we got from SyFy is also useless after about the same level even though it's still in the shop and claimable. I do agree if you paid for a specific pre-order you are due the special 'bonus' whatever it is, or at least a decent variant/compensation if not....too bad PWE/Cryptic cares not for what is 'right' or 'fair', or even 'honest'.
Can you explain why I can not see a holiday commodity I post on the exchange. sorting by price per unit if I post 1 credit less then the lowest should be easy to see,,,,but NO... posts tens of items, cant see them on exchange cant sell them, wtf? why are you creating an atmosphere of deceit in the game...frustrating and nearly wanting to give sto the bird....any comment?
ive been wanting to post a few questions towards cryptic but i always seem to miss the date for it. where do i go to check on said asking date? or is it just a random selection of questions taken from all the forums?
ive been wanting to post a few questions towards cryptic but i always seem to miss the date for it. where do i go to check on said asking date? or is it just a random selection of questions taken from all the forums?
The question portion of "Ask Cryptic" usually takes place around the middle of a month, with the selected questions being posted about a week later.
So, we're due soon for a new round of questions to ask.
You know, i was actually shocked to read this one. Usually all i see are softball questions with puff answers or answers that dont go to the heart of the question.
I fired up my old eve account recently BUT while i plan on playing the original 'internetspaceships' game. This ask cryptic one made me ask if i shouldn't keep playing this.
I'm a bit stuck without a fleet so i'm kinda in downtime mode. That aside
There were some serious questions and some candid and blunt answers this week. I still dont like how season 7 was implemented but i doubt we'll ever see an apology from you guys. All of that being said, You took the heat this go around. I'd like to see more of it in the future. Dev Teams willing to answer those questions are teams i'm willing to put my money towards helping.
Keep answering our tougher questions. You'll like the results no matter what the answers are.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
When can we expect to see a Career Change and Species Change function made available? (eg via a C-Store Token)
Are you kidding me? One, this isn't a question thread it's the answers to previous questions. Two, if you actually read the Ask Cryptic answers you would have seen this in the article;
"Q: (lindaleff) Is the re-species token truly in the works?
Dstahl: This is being discussed, but it is still up in the air. We have yet to announce if re-species tokens are for sure coming because we are evaluating traits with Season 8 and have some pending decisions which may impact our need for the re-species tokens. Once we?ve ironed out how we want traits to function in Season 8, we can either move forward with re-species or announce the trait changes we plan to make."
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
i know people here are going to disagree but im going to say it anyway
could you please sort out the foundry a bit more like bug fixes and it would be cool to have 3D editor as i said im previous post animations for the space NPCS need a fix its been two weeks now and also could the foundry be separate from the holodeck that will stop so many bugs getting through it
Ok a few questions, if you cant answer them all thats fine.. so here we go..
1) With having a more bigger Dev team which has been mentioned by Dan Stahl, why are there alot of constant issues being overlooked that make it onto holodeck, and has been like this for quite sometime now? What is the process that the developement team does to insure bugs dont make it to holodeck? I can understand you can't get every single bug fixed but it seems like there is no attention to people posting bugs on the tribble forums, and the same bugs that are discussed before you guys patch, seem to make it to holodeck never the less. And one final note is that with a bigger team, one would assume that projects would also not fall behind, why are ships such as the andorian ship for example being pushed back.. is your team not fully capable of handling this game?
2) With most successfull MMO's, there has always been a constant "theme" that Developers over the course of the games life introduce new classes to the game. To give the game more variety. When can we see a new class be introduced for STO? We currently have Engineers, Science and Tactical captains, what about a possible "Command" Class?
3) When can we see new improvements to the game, that have been talked about for quite sometime.. for example "new hair tech, exploration revamp, pvp "not that I care for this personally, but iam sure others do", the map to rule them all "sectors connected togeather"?
4) KDF Content, when can we see a huge improvement to this faction that has been "to me" neglected on a constant basis. Such improvements as, New uniforms, new ships, missions that spand to end level like the Federation "faction" and so on.
Do you have plans to add anything new to the Omega Store requiring Borg Neural Processors?
Will you ever implement a way to turn in masses of Borg Neural Processors, rather than simply 5 at a time, for those of us wanting to turn in several hundred?
Would you consider making a special feature episode starring T'TRIBBLE and Handsome Phaser Guy?
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Conjoined, Re-emergence, and . . .
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While I like and support the idea, I hope that Dstahl realizes that it would require art assets. We don't have anything Ferengi for Ferenginar. We're mostly limited to using:
Cardassian, Vulcan, Romulan, Fed, KDF, and generic science or colony buildings, etc.
Please, for a moment, think of us as one of your teams. If you wanted one of your teams to develop this specific sector, what kinds of assets would they need to tell their stories?
Asking us to develop a sector but not giving us the resources to do so would be unfair.
That's true, but it's still a nice station design. Over the years a lot of mods for Star Trek games have incorporated the design for use by Federation bases since it's so popular, so I don't see it being a problem if STO does it. I used to like building them in the Armada Millenium Project mod.
True, but keep in mind that the Cardassian government allied with the Federation following the Dominion War. They've already given us Galor class cruisers, why not a Nor-type starbase?
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
there is its 25 dilithium to 1 zen ratio and it been that ratio since season 6 and when they switched to zen
Isn't it 50:1?
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
The pre-order Deflector Dish we got from SyFy is also useless after about the same level even though it's still in the shop and claimable. I do agree if you paid for a specific pre-order you are due the special 'bonus' whatever it is, or at least a decent variant/compensation if not....too bad PWE/Cryptic cares not for what is 'right' or 'fair', or even 'honest'.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
The o3 - Killed you good
The question portion of "Ask Cryptic" usually takes place around the middle of a month, with the selected questions being posted about a week later.
So, we're due soon for a new round of questions to ask.
ROLL TIDE ROLL
I fired up my old eve account recently BUT while i plan on playing the original 'internetspaceships' game. This ask cryptic one made me ask if i shouldn't keep playing this.
I'm a bit stuck without a fleet so i'm kinda in downtime mode. That aside
There were some serious questions and some candid and blunt answers this week. I still dont like how season 7 was implemented but i doubt we'll ever see an apology from you guys. All of that being said, You took the heat this go around. I'd like to see more of it in the future. Dev Teams willing to answer those questions are teams i'm willing to put my money towards helping.
Keep answering our tougher questions. You'll like the results no matter what the answers are.
I was wondering if you guys will be letting us bet more on dabo up to a million?
This is the answer sheet. They don't take any "Ask Cryptic" questions until about a week into next month.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Bring back BOFF Off-Duty Uniforms! Please!
Are you kidding me? One, this isn't a question thread it's the answers to previous questions. Two, if you actually read the Ask Cryptic answers you would have seen this in the article;
"Q: (lindaleff) Is the re-species token truly in the works?
Dstahl: This is being discussed, but it is still up in the air. We have yet to announce if re-species tokens are for sure coming because we are evaluating traits with Season 8 and have some pending decisions which may impact our need for the re-species tokens. Once we?ve ironed out how we want traits to function in Season 8, we can either move forward with re-species or announce the trait changes we plan to make."
could you please sort out the foundry a bit more like bug fixes and it would be cool to have 3D editor as i said im previous post animations for the space NPCS need a fix its been two weeks now and also could the foundry be separate from the holodeck that will stop so many bugs getting through it
thanks
Also , I emjoyed reading what you wrote. Cannot wait for the next ask cryptic!
I hope STO get's better ...
There should be a thread next month titled: "Questions for Ask Cryptic"
ROLL TIDE ROLL
I hope STO get's better ...
1) With having a more bigger Dev team which has been mentioned by Dan Stahl, why are there alot of constant issues being overlooked that make it onto holodeck, and has been like this for quite sometime now? What is the process that the developement team does to insure bugs dont make it to holodeck? I can understand you can't get every single bug fixed but it seems like there is no attention to people posting bugs on the tribble forums, and the same bugs that are discussed before you guys patch, seem to make it to holodeck never the less. And one final note is that with a bigger team, one would assume that projects would also not fall behind, why are ships such as the andorian ship for example being pushed back.. is your team not fully capable of handling this game?
2) With most successfull MMO's, there has always been a constant "theme" that Developers over the course of the games life introduce new classes to the game. To give the game more variety. When can we see a new class be introduced for STO? We currently have Engineers, Science and Tactical captains, what about a possible "Command" Class?
3) When can we see new improvements to the game, that have been talked about for quite sometime.. for example "new hair tech, exploration revamp, pvp "not that I care for this personally, but iam sure others do", the map to rule them all "sectors connected togeather"?
4) KDF Content, when can we see a huge improvement to this faction that has been "to me" neglected on a constant basis. Such improvements as, New uniforms, new ships, missions that spand to end level like the Federation "faction" and so on.
1) When will we see these great features (Ask Cryptic and many other things), and support in general period, come back to CO?
We have no support whatsoever on your older game. It's like the game has just died. Or is everyone from that dev team working on NW?
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Will you ever implement a way to turn in masses of Borg Neural Processors, rather than simply 5 at a time, for those of us wanting to turn in several hundred?
Would you consider making a special feature episode starring T'TRIBBLE and Handsome Phaser Guy?
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This is not the question thread. This is the answers to last months questions.
I really think either people need to read the OP more, or the thread titles for these should include "ANSWERS", so that people realise.