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Official(ish) Next Expansion Speculation Thread
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http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=1065181
List of Theories (Updated December 21 2013; aprx. 6:00 PM PT)
*New playable faction:
-Cardassians are considered most likely.
-Liberated Borg has been hinted at by the dev team.
-Voth Separatists.
-Dominion.
*New Content:
-Increase of level cap to 60, if not higher, bringing the ability to command a fleet of ships.
-More content in the Delta Quadrant, possibly involving the Undine, Voth, or Krenim.
-Officially ending the Fed/KDF war.
-Exploration expansion.
-Finally have full conflict against the Iconians.
*Revamping Systems:
-Reworking Omega, Romulan, and Nukara reputation to follow in the footsteps of Dyson reputation.
-Crafting and Kit revamps, as have been mentioned in the past by the dev team.
-DOff revamp, by popular demand.
Let the speculation begin!BranFlakes wrote:...We continued the Romulan story in May when we released the first true expansion to Star Trek Online, Legacy of Romulus. New captains were able to start the game as a Romulan, play through the experience of founding New Romulus, and help build a future for the struggling empire. Legacy was fantastically successful for us, breaking many records for the game, including new highs for the number of players playing. In fact, 2013 was the best year ever for STO! Your enthusiastic support has put another expansion on the schedule for late in 2014. Planning is in the early stages, so there is not much to share just yet, but we?re really hoping to provide something big for you all...
List of Theories (Updated December 21 2013; aprx. 6:00 PM PT)
*New playable faction:
-Cardassians are considered most likely.
-Liberated Borg has been hinted at by the dev team.
-Voth Separatists.
-Dominion.
*New Content:
-Increase of level cap to 60, if not higher, bringing the ability to command a fleet of ships.
-More content in the Delta Quadrant, possibly involving the Undine, Voth, or Krenim.
-Officially ending the Fed/KDF war.
-Exploration expansion.
-Finally have full conflict against the Iconians.
*Revamping Systems:
-Reworking Omega, Romulan, and Nukara reputation to follow in the footsteps of Dyson reputation.
-Crafting and Kit revamps, as have been mentioned in the past by the dev team.
-DOff revamp, by popular demand.
For personal reasons, I've left Star Trek Online.
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Its the most incomplete of the races in STO.
That disc in the center, holds a symbol very similar to this and also closely resembles the Undine Symbol.
That's just my opinion.
Silence, you!
As I have said from day 1 "Undine Faction plox" We can end this little war between the Feds/KDF... then have an epicer war between the Undine and ... everyone.
I call dibs on the Undine named "Sheeba"
That said... I think it'll be either Spoon head or Ferengi related.
As for the level cap... leave it at 50. I don't want to grind our MkXIV stuff ontop of a new reputation and fleet holding.
So i would guess, some delta quadrant species, i think, Voth are not unlikely, given the current story progressions, there are quit a lot of dissidents within the faction.
Borg, i think those are quite unlikely,
yes, it could be liberated borg of some sort, but,
you could either implement them as a "minni faction" which picks a side after x lvls,
which would, maybe i am wrong here, be kinda strange, given that you would have
acces to Boffs and doffs from your allied factions, and i simply cant imagine
Humans, Klingons, saurians and whatnot, serving on a borg vessel, even if the borg would
be liberated, the crew would have complettly different needs then the other species/factions
just hard to imagine a human serving on a borg cube....
next thing would be, wouldnt borg ships be kinda hmm boring?
flying spheres, diamonds, cubes, and what? the mighty triangel as flagship?
Yeah i am kidding about the triangel, but i guess you get the point, borg ships are
boring to look at, to say the least...
That aside, from a gameplay point, it could be kinda hard to keep a solid oientation when commanding a sphere, because chances are, it would be quite confusing, given that the ship has no clear front or rear.
And yes, borg could end up as a third faction, but again, thats something i would call highly unlikely, given how much work would need to be done, to get 50 levels of content (or with a cap increase even 60+) done within the next half year.
So, i stick to voth dissidents as new "faction", they got everything a faction on its own would need, including a mechanic which could be used to seperate their ships from the other factions (the hardened shields)
Yet, nobody mentioned the level cap increase that is discussed for years now. Not a new ranks of power/BOFF/ship/gear that makes everything we have useless, but more horizontal than vertical progression. There were talk about having some kind of DOFF minigame, but with a space sector instead of crew members, where you, an Admiral, need to coordinate ships and fleet for various tasks (exploration, defense/offense...).
A level cap would mean some content to lvlup (probably FE), new areas, and new gameplay mechanism. Maybe new traits/costumes/abilities.
Also, the kit and craft revamp are still part of what they want to do, and it could be part of this kind of expansion.
Taking into account what happened in Endgame it would make sense.
Janeway unleashed the Endgame Virus into the Collective and some Borg were liberated and cut from the Hive, thus becoming free and forming a small faction in the Delta Quadrant.
A new tutorial could easily start where Endgame ended making us re-live what happened to "us" as a drone and tie it to the current timeline where the Alpha Quadrant factions would end up in the Delta Quadrant.
I don't think a Cardassian faction would make any sense at this moment of the storyline. We need a continuing story driven through the game - a red line. There was and is too much story which was left open, half-heartedly - or not concluded up until now by the story department. I hope they don't make this again for the expansion.
Hugh's borg could ally up with the remaining unimatrix 001 survivors and try to establish a new place for themselves in the Delta quadrant trying to build a free way of life. it's possible the new cooperative could become apart of this culture, it would depend if their ideals lasted after Voyager left. along with any further defectives, disconnected drones and such. i wouldn't imagine however that cryptic would allow players to run around with cubes, but spheres are possible. and creating other ships with a symmetrical generalized appearance wouldnt require too much creativity behind the idea. it's not entirely out the realms of possibilities, and adding races wouldnt be a stretch, but it can't be all alpha and beta quadrant races though, so there is plenty of opportunity for assimilated Jem'hadar, Kazon (despite 7 of 9's comment to the contrary), Devore, Krenim, and a whole lot of others from one episode races to recurring and upwards. a great source of revenue to be made there while adding these races for their cameo appearance as it should be.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
JUST KIDDING!!! Do not actually commit a crime!! :eek:
I bet you ten million dollars and a lifetime subscription that this is EXACTLY what will happen.
But then again, I was wrong about the Romulans becoming a playable faction...of sorts. So who knows... :rolleyes:
Could be a Delta Quadrant expansion, 10 new levels with new missions, new skills, squadron command for space combat, new reputation, possible crafting and exploration revamp, and maybe more polish and bug fixes...
(Just kidding about that last part) :P
And then, for repeating gameplay, I'd like to see the doff system expanded to let you promote your BOFFs to be their own captain, and you can use the Teir 1-4 ships as their ships, and then you could send them off on their own missions. It would be even better if you could also assign doffs to those ships and then use the ships to remotely complete doff missions. Like for instance you could send a ship of your fleet to the fleet dilithium mine and use it to do those missions instead of you going there yourself. Or maybe you could have new doff missions that collect small amounts of marks for the rep systems. Like you could send your ships to serve with task force omega and get omega marks. Or to Tau Dewa sector to get Romulan marks. Or go to your fleet starbase for fleet marks. Keep it so that direct action gives more rewards, but also so that if you run your fleet you can at least somewhat in several places at once.
Nouveau riche LTS member
Wait... what? That stuff doesn't look like Undine technology at all.
And to be honest, I can't spot the Undine symbol in there either?
Looks like Elachi, Voth or even Borg, but not Undine.
""Hugh-like" liberated Borg" what ever that means, I am guessing a full "Drone"-like Borg race unlike the 7 of 9 liberated ones that we have now.
Talaxians for Romulans; Ocampa for Feds and Kazon for KDF.
Voyager/Intrepid class ship for the Feds
I would really like tho have more ships for Rommies since the picking is quite slim with them.
Both Romulans and KDF should probably be given something more Science-y, I personally would like to see a true Romulan Carrier amongst others, and the Raiders are going to be getting some love after so much time.
If we get a expasion...maybe it'll be a expansion of the map...give us a Delta Quadrant to go into and explore...plus there is also that poll that the Krenim won...maybe we will see them pop up.
Still its easy enough to bring Cardassia in, Cardassia gets invaded by Undine Ships. Or something like that.
Are you trying to sabotage the Republic?
But most of all i wont loads of long term BUGS FIXING. e,g when for no reason at all my power tray messis up and ive not changed any thing for weeks.
The Feds already have an Intrepid-class ship. I think it's in the third tier, but may be mistaken, as it's been a while since I had to select a new Fed ship.
Notes ... That would imply they actually have a plan and don't make this **** up as they go. Buahahahaha!
- Judge Aaron Satie
Let me move, modify and/or add BOff, Console and device slots and I'll be happy.
Your forgetting borgified vessels. Vessels with heavy borg tech mods. Although I would play, I think a Borg faction could be the final nail in the coffin for the borg. They keep being watered down and finally playing as borg, flying their ships and finding them less than unbeatable would make them even less intimidating.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
Improve the 3 years worth of stuff we have. Expand on that and MOVE THE STORY LINE ALONG!!!
This is the only part I care about honestly, perhaps the level increase to allow this is also of interest but in the end, so many mothballed ships will at last be useful for those of us that have been here since launch. HURRAY!!!!!!
Crosses all digits on hand and feet plus arms and legs!!
This!!!
Asking Cryptic to do yet another expansion is like asking an ADHD kid to multitask while showing him cartoons on TV. The results are not going to be good.
- Judge Aaron Satie
Yeah, let's get that to happen at some point.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP