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  • tebsutebsu Member Posts: 372 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Will the invisible Borg torpedo ever be removed?
    What ? Calaway.
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Did you get that thing that I sent you?


    If not it's in my sig:-p
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  • mook2614mook2614 Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Will we every see the defend sector block missions come back so those who wish to get those accolades can. If so when can we expect this?
  • murcraymurcray Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    First, thank you for this game! I love it and am totally addicted to it! Thank you for all the hard work you have put into this for us!
    1. I agree with the idea to turn off the Skill Cap. Once my character hits Vice Admiral I don't stop earning Skill Points but I am stopped from using them! I would like to be able to max out my character and make it the best I can! Any chance of this happening?
    2. Will you be having any missions where I, the Captain, control the outcome of the mission based on the decisions and choices I make during the mission? Make some missions like a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book where every chapter had a choice that determined where you went next.
    3. Will you be making some missions for on-board my own ship! Intruder Alert Simulation, or make it available to communicate with Bridge Officers to build relationships?
    4. When it comes to Alien races we are still only able to choose humanoid shapes. What about multiple arms, eyes, legs, etc.? What about no legs and a tail? Or even adding a tail of different types and lengths? Horns, fangs, fur, cat paws, backward jointed legs, tentacles instead of arms or legs?
    5. What about more choices for customizing ships? Rainbow of color, being able to change type of metal used for hull, having an "ultimate" module selection available so we can customize our ships using any "module" from any other type of ship. What about adding options to our customizations of our ships or uniforms like adding glowing strips in the Patterns available now? Something like having the Orion Pattern be glowing, making it look a little like Tron or even the Delorean from Back to the Future. Same with our standard uniforms. Allow us to add a GLOW color to the striping on our uniforms?
    6. I know this is a long shot but what about adding a conversion console near the exchange or bank that allows conversion from Dilithium to Energy Credits and Energy Credits to Dilithium? Maybe even add a Zen Point exchange that allows you to not only exchange Zen for Dilithium but also exchange Zen for Energy Credits and Energy Credits for Zen?
    7. Is there a chance that in the future you will allow players to purchase dedicated weapon and console slots for our ships with a limit of only being able to have 5 slots for each section? EX. Buy a Heavy Dual Cannon slot for our Science Vessel which only has 3 Fore Weapon Slots, thus bringing it to 4 Fore Weapons Slots. Or being able to buy a Universal Weapon Slot that can be placed Fore or Aft and can be used for ALL types of weapons (except Mines which are Aft only).
    8. Are you going to bring more ships to the KDF? In order to bring more players to the KDF side what about adding a new ship and/or maybe new "slots" that can be purchased in the C-Store or through an upcoming lock box? A ship like a true warrior vessel that has 4 Fore and 4 Aft weapon slots, but with one of each (Fore/Aft) slot being dedicated to port/starboard flanks. This will allow a Klingon to equip Cannons-only in those special slots and thereby make this ship a TRUE Warrior-like vessel!
    On the other hand if you don't want to design one specific ship, what about allowing the KDF side (to start then allow Feds later) to buy a specific extra slot that can be placed (on purchase) into any area of their ship?
    9. I read this earlier and had to repeat it: "Provisioning projects require a rather hefty chunk of dilithium for a rather small number of provisions (especially at lower tiers) and the fact that these items have a dilithium cost attached to them when purchased in the cases of equipment makes this an incredible burden for small fleets...to the point where running provisioning projects isn't really worth the hassle. Would you, or have you, considered adding in dilithium free provisioning projects with increased run timers (40 hours instead of 20), lowered payouts (half the provisioning), increases in the other inputs, or some combination of the three?"
    10. When will it be available for us to place our Fleet Emblem on our Fleet Starbase exterior or even the floor of the Ops area?
    11. I read earlier someone else had a really good question about: When will we be able to take older items and Craft upgrades for them? Like turning our Phased Tetryon Beam Array Mk X into Mk XII's? Or adding [Crit] or [Reg] to items? I know in this new lockbox there is that opportunity to do this with the Jem?Hadar set, but what about the rest?
    12. The Founders sent out 100 babies into the galaxy to explore and come back. Only Odo and Laas were ever recovered. What about the eventuality of adding an expensive new Playable Character or Bridge Officer that is a Changeling? In honor of Constable Odo I would suggest that if it is a Bridge Officer it is a Tactical Officer.
    13. I also read and agree with a previous post that mentioned you should work on making an entire upcoming Season be all about fixing, updating, expanding/simplifying current issues, problems, questions, and concerns that have been slowly piling up on you. Is this something that is in the works?
    14. What are your thoughts on upgrading Boarding Parties that survive and return to being able to TAKE from the ship they boarded? For instance: My Boarding Party goes aboard a Borg ship and manages to damage them and return, with Borg Neural Processors or a Borg Device or maybe even some Omega Marks...thoughts on this?

    Thank you for your time!
  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    any chance of the future nx-01 ship showing up in game?

    picture 1

    picture 2
  • bobogheimbobogheim Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Hi Daniel!

    I like my Ambassador Class ship very much and I enjoy it every day when I playing Star Trek Online.


    For some days ago I read something interesting in the Forums on the website about Cheyenne and Nebula class:


    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=525591&highlight=Nebula+saucer+separation


    Are there any possibilities to make saucer separation on Cheyenne and Nebula class?
  • chandlerasharichandlerashari Member Posts: 348 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I feel very uncomfortable when npcs call me admiral, and i dread having to becalled a "fleet admiral" eventually as the level cap incrieses so...

    Are you considering letting people set what their title be as opposed to being called "admiral"? Such as just "captain"?

    (ofc i know this opens up oppurtunitoes to become Punching Bag Stan but its just agame right? Haha)
  • dova25dova25 Member Posts: 475
    edited February 2013
    When will kdf get a 5 tactical console bop/escort having comparable stats (shield mod .9,turn rate 17,inertia and impulse mod ) with federation fleet tactical escort retrofit ?
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  • ruinsfateruinsfate Member Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    How about doing something about the server stability? Just DCed for the 2nd time in as many minutes.
  • kandyman2012kandyman2012 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Ok, so we have 3 buttons on the hud i sorta do and don not understand. The fire all phasers is straight forward. But the fire all torpedos button puzzles me. I usually fit my ship (4 fore, 4 aft) 2 beams and 2 torps in the fron and back, thinking the fire all torpedo would lets so, if i had my setup, fire 2 if i pree it. but it still only fires the 1. so it actuall makes no sence to put more than one torpero in the front and back (unless you want their effects). Sooooo....my question is, Is this a bug that will someday be fixed? or is this the way it will be. and if this is the way it will be, why not remove the button and be done with it?
  • dalechall12dalechall12 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Will the ready room change
  • mcitoshimcitoshi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Any chance of fixing the empty tholian red alerts once and for all?
    It cant be a daily if I can only complete it once a month purely by luck.

    p.s. dont forget the helmet for the adapted KHG set
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  • roboticzebraroboticzebra Member Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    How do you think the new star trek movie will effect STO?
    And your thoughts on the new Star Trek game being released in April?
  • poppawoodiepoppawoodie Member Posts: 18 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    will the next faction have its own ships that can be earned ingame and bought in the z store?
  • novoctus13novoctus13 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Dstahl,

    I was wondering if there would be and further ship customization coming in the future?

    Example: Mixing different sections of ships (you have purchased or earned) saucers, nacelles, struts, and pylons to create more options for a unique star ship.

    And any thoughts of adding the Interior from "Star Trek:Enterprise" ?
  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Would we ever get costume slots for Bridge officers?
  • darkplegas12darkplegas12 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Will the Borg make a new intro in season 8?
    like new missions new Borg technologie
  • maicake716maicake716 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Is season 9 still aiming to be "pvp focused" like you said back before season 7?
    mancom wrote: »
    Frankly, I think the only sound advice that one can give new players at this time is to stay away from PVP in STO.
    Science pvp at its best-http://www.youtube.com/user/matteo716
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  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Any chance for ship interior customizations including giving each of our bridge officers quarters and customize them to suit their personalities?

    Would be nice to be able to visit off duty bridge officers in their quarters wearing off duty outfits to engage in some kind of mini game such as poker.
  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Any chance of getting Earth pets? Archer had a dog and Data had a cat. The pets dont have to be from alien worlds all the time.
  • captwilhelmcaptwilhelm Member Posts: 99 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    You said on the last Q&A seesion that there are plans to launch the game on more translations. And the most probable would be portuguese. My question: if this happens, is it more probable to be brazilian portuguese or portugal portuguese?

    Can we expected more remastered episodes?

    Any info that you can share about the expansion comming in may?

    How often can we expect missions like the one from the 3 year anniversary, which is heavily history focused?

    Any updates you can share about the gateway?
    Pre-forum change name: Captain Wilhelm
    Join Date: March 2009

    Thanks Cryptic for introducing the Kelvin Timeline. It remembered why I decided to never more put any money on this game.
  • alvaraxalvarax Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    i love the idea that we can find a way to use our old ships.
    As an admiral we are captain of our ship but we can also command a fleet. maybe we can use our ships in a system like the doff system and send ships into missions.
    Is cryptic is working on something like this?

    Only leathan and sauroan can have the efficient trait. Is it possible that you give this trait to some others races? I will prefer me team to be a full sexy orion efficient than a full leathan team as it is now.

    thx
  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Any chance to get exchange sold items mail automatically delete after being read? I have so much of those that the game gets extreme laggy when i open my mail and there are too many to delete one by one and the lag it causes makes trying to delete them worse
  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Any chance for foundry authors to be able to create new races in the foundry? Such as, choosing what weapons their ships and ground combat NPCs would have, which costumes their ships and ground NPCs would use (including player made costumes), what powers their ships and ground combat NPCs would have, creating their race icon (maybe like how fleets make a fleet emblem), etc.
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  • mehlindemehlinde Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I would like a civilian faction to play. such as freighter captains, smugglers, traders. That sort of thing. Who would love to be a Serrano Jones or a Mudd playing tricks on captains. Or a freighter captain bringing goods to players starbases to boost asset levels or to decrease cooldown to completion to projects.
  • mav75mav75 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Hi Dan,

    Any fixes coming for the UI lag? It's annoying to get killed because the UI fails to register given command.

    Any new expansions coming for the Duty Officer system? By this I mean new missions and mission chains.

    When can we have a Fleet Ambassador/Kamarag and/or Chimera? And what new ships are coming for KDF?

    Would it be possible to upgrade Mirror Universe ships to Fleet Standard? I know some are just flipped with the other ship, but some genuinely offer "better" Boff configurations or other abilities than their Prime counterparts.

    When can we expect the Honor Guard visuals to be fixed?

    Are there any plans to add to or improve the contents of Omega/Romulan reputation stores (such as Doffs)?

    Are there any plans to increase the Fleet Marks rewarded from playing Fleet Mark content? Either by a flat increase or by adding higher difficulties with increased rewards? Same goes for Romulan Marks.
    And could the Fleet Mark rewards from Defera be restored to their S6 levels when they were worth doing?
  • zshunzshun Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    1- Can we have customization options for the Borg, Breen, Reman, and Jem?Hadar Bridge Officers? At the least the clothing options should be allowed to be customized.

    2- Are there any plans to have more customization options for our characters and regular bridge officers?
  • dracondarknightdracondarknight Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I will not ask the usual questions as they always get ignored anyway. Something more content sepcific this time though:

    Q: During the Anniversary event we got to fly the Enterprise C, one of my friends had problems with the english instructions and told me he set course to the 'band' in the background of the Azura nebula instead of the temporal anomaly. So his sentence made me think a bit more about this band... And the Temporal Anomaly...
    Is this band in the background supposed to be the Nexus?
  • wombat140wombat140 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Going back to basics, there are three things I'd like to see done in the game more than anything else:

    1) For it to be able to give up focus (say, when I accidentally let the laptop battery run down) without crashing. I'm not sure if this is an unavoidable thing - certainly I know several other MMORPGs that are the same way.

    2) To be able to log out in the middle of a Foundry mission and later pick it up where you left off, as you can with other missions. At the moment, the many really long missions are a bit impractical - there are some that are supposed to last for 4 hours!

    3) Fixing the close combat brains. At present, most adversaries walk a few inches INTO my avatar, in which position she can't hit them but they seem to be able to hit her, which isn't reasonable. It's really annoying having to spend most of a fight constantly dodging backwards!

    For me, any of those things would improve the game more than any new feature I can think of. Are there any plans about them?
  • tomin8rtomin8r Member Posts: 201 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I have a pressing question. Why is the damn window for these Ask Cryptic's only one day long? It invariably leads to frustration, and confused people asking questions in the thread when it is released.
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