Nicole DeBoer is actually a great choice, and in that vein Alexander Siddig El Fadil works too.
Alexander Siddig is a personal favorite of mine. I loved him as Bashir, but I have to say that his best performance was as the rich British inventor Phillip Burton on the BBC show "Primeval". He was a great, very humanized antagonist.
Hoping this sector space ship switching has a nice animation to not make simply one ship fades out and another fades in. Here's an idea, you select the ship you want, it warps in and hails you, bridge officer reporting that they are ready for you to beam over, once beamed to the new ship your old ship warps off.
It's going to be Ethan Phillips (Neelix). Delta Quadrant, Federation Ambassador.
There was also a copy of the EMH left behind on a planet when Voyager tried to play mediator.
Season 4 episode 23, "Living Witness" the backup was dropped when Voyager was attacked, where he laid dorment for 700 years, reactivated to find a vary distorted version on history as to the ship's involment. after setting the story straight about Voyager's involvement the doctor (backup copy) stayed for many years before deciding to leave, wondering if the crew ever made it home.
Dyson-hybrid ships as reward for the anniversary event. Good, there's not a lot of variety of non-Zen/non-Fleet ships at top level in the KDF and RR. I know the raison d'etre of some ship classes makes mirror versions of them difficult to implement, but it'd be nice to have another KDF battlecruiser (f'rinstance) buyable with a sane amount of ec.
Trek actor doing VO. As long as it's not Neelix (Ethan Phillips), good.
Remastered early Fed missions. Good, but you need to look at your priorities. Feds have something like 85 storyline missions, Klingons 70, and Romulans 75. How about instead of remastering early Fed missions, add some more Klingon and Romulan missions. Or, if you insist on giving the Feds a makeover, updating the interior ship maps - when was the last time you saw a ship with a circular engineering hull?
Scrapping the hourly events in favour of weekend-long events, and some hourly events becoming dailies. Oh dear. I hope that means none of the actual events are going to be lost. I don't play the mirror event much myself, but quite a lot of people grind it for XP; and while I acknowledge the multiphasic and cheap crafting events may not be well-used in these days of fleet projects and reputation unlocks, crafting does remain the most reliable way to get purple Mk XI gear of exactly what you want.
Swapping ships anywhere you want, plus a loadout swap feature. Thank you, that will be very useful, and will obviate my need for more ships, especially if "loadout" includes BOffs & DOffs as well as weapons etc. Breaks the immersion a bit, I suppose, but hey, if Cryptic wants to dumb-down to arcade level gaming, that's their call. It won't make any difference to me, I transwarp to a starbase to change ship - even if it's for just one mission, the cooldown is never longer than the mission, and most of my characters can tw to pretty much anywhere in the galaxy.
Yes! I hope this saved loadout means saved trays as well! Free ships also looking good! I hope these are science ships, given how science heavy the Voth are.
I am one for all the ships in the game to be available in the Zen store, no every1 can run the stupid winter race 55K times a day to achieve some dumb signed picture, make all the ships available via Store. No where in the Star Trek Captain Kirk or Piccard had to do the lambada dance to get a freaking ship.
I'm imagining it's George Takei, I hope not as Hikaru should be long gone and I don't want him voicing some bit part.
I'm hoping for one of the captains, in fact I'm thinking for some reason it might be Patrick Stuart, but it's purely a hunch. Levar Burton would make sense as an engineering expert investigating the sphere.
Not sure how I feel about the hourly events being removed - let's see what comes in their place though
I dunno about Takei, if memory serves he issued some statement that he never wants to have anything to do w/ ST anymore, since the new movies distorted his vision on ST, so he prolly won't be it.
I dunno about Takei, if memory serves he issued some statement that he never wants to have anything to do w/ ST anymore, since the new movies distorted his vision on ST, so he prolly won't be it.
Memory may not serve - I can't find any reference to this, but he did play Sulu in the fan-produced version of Phase II, and reportedly mentored John Cho for the '09 movie. No reports of any statements about him disliking Trek these days, or the new movies at all.
(In fact, in this video, he seems to approve of JJ's approach. I also liked his comment about why Bill Shatner would not have been a good fit for the new movies.)
Always excited to hear about Quality of life updates, new voice talents being added, and new ships. Thanks devs, can't wait to see what you've got for us!
If I could though: with the coming ship swapping feature, my biggest annoyance when swapping between ships is always having to redo my power tray. Can y'all please do your best to link individual power tray setups with individual ships, if possible?
...and selecting the Active Space DOffs. These are ship and build specific as well.
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Just wondering if Brandon or any Dev. that might read this can tell me wheather the KDF Birds of Prey will be getting the 'flanking' mechanic with this update on the 30-th?
I guess I'll just have to wait and see how this goes but I'll admit, I'm not thrilled about removing the hourly events. I really wish that, instead of just jumping the gun, Cryptic had just asked us why we do/don't participate in certain events. Personally, I love Mirror Invasion, Tour the Galaxy, and the Bonus Marks events. As for the rest, I've found more efficient ways to get dilithium.
I play STO daily, and the thought of having to wait until the weekend to get bonus marks does not appeal to me at all. Just my two cents.
Just wondering if Brandon or any Dev. that might read this can tell me wheather the KDF Birds of Prey will be getting the 'flanking' mechanic with this update on the 30-th?
That could work too, if he was interested. The voice is distinctive enough.
And, as a holographic AI, the character would certainly still be "alive". Any Delta Quad VO with the Doctor in it could be hilarious and full of sarcastic wit. That's the way any such thing ought to be written, anyway.
Still think Tim Russ is the more likely candidate, but I would not be disappointed with this either.
Kate Mulgrew has the voice for it, but I just can't see her being A) affordable and available or C) interested.
Ethan Phillips also has a distinctive voice, but I can't see the fans being all that enthusiastic about a Neelix VO.
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Ethan Phillips also has a distinctive voice, but I can't see the fans being all that enthusiastic about a Neelix VO.
Because STO fans are so enthusiastic about everything else Cryptic adds to the game to make it more Trek-like.
That said, your logic does have its reasoning. Wil Wheaton plays STO, and it wouldn't surprise me if the reason he refused all offers to reprise the role of an older and more mature Wesley Crusher based on his traumatic adolescent years on the set of TNG, and his extremely obvious perception that people hated his character even 20+ years ago.
That could work too, if he was interested. The voice is distinctive enough.
And, as a holographic AI, the character would certainly still be "alive". Any Delta Quad VO with the Doctor in it could be hilarious and full of sarcastic wit. That's the way any such thing ought to be written, anyway.
Still think Tim Russ is the more likely candidate, but I would not be disappointed with this either.
Kate Mulgrew has the voice for it, but I just can't see her being A) affordable and available or C) interested.
Ethan Phillips also has a distinctive voice, but I can't see the fans being all that enthusiastic about a Neelix VO.
Kate Mulgrew did do VO for Dragon Age I & II though. Still, she is busy right now.
Wil Wheaton plays STO, and it wouldn't surprise me if the reason he refused all offers to reprise the role of an older and more mature Wesley Crusher based on his traumatic adolescent years on the set of TNG, and his extremely obvious perception that people hated his character even 20+ years ago.
Holy TRIBBLE, really? Wil Wheaton HIMSELF plays STO?
And I think you're right. He strikes me as the kind of guy who could get annoyed really fast playing a Mary Sue like season 1 Wesley.
With the launch of Season 8 EVRYONE was making all Sphere missions/events their priority or the only thing they did. Then the Winter Event was they same way. Not surprising the Hourly Events were all but forgotten.
Both Sphere and Winter were MASSIVELY BUGGED!!! Sphere was Entirelyunplayable to me until the last week before it ended/changed over to Winter, and even then the game only worked about half the time. Winter was almost as bad, as lag freeze would keep me from even reaching Q to get in, or keep me from reaching the starting line. Last year i raced 14 characters and 12 completed 25 races. This year i was trying to race more but i could only get 3 chars as far as their 12th race of the 25. Most of my time was not so much racing as struggling to get the game server to work rather than TRIBBLE me over.
I hope the issues with Sphere have been resolved as i look forward to have the enjowment i was denied the first time around.
I like the ideas for new ships and new proposed systems. I hope they will work fine.
I am far from they only voice long arguing for adding Ship Slots, in particular that 'small' craft do not use the Large Berths for Starships. Starships each carry multiple 'small' craft though considerably less than the dedicated Carriers.
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That's one of the only 2 reasons it makes any sense to go back to a space dock, that and visiting the ship tailor.
However there are other things that make absolutely no sense being restricted to a space dock: Things like the tailor and the exchange. (Because your replicators should be able to fabricate whatever it is you've pulled out of the exchange if it's a thing. I suppose you could explain officers and pets away by saying they were brought by cargo ships or you could just preclude the categories that include DOffs, BOffs and pets from the ship exchange terminal).
In either case, is it easier to believe that you have your own private flotilla following you around in case you swap ships than you have a tailor on your ship? Even the Voyager crew had someone doing their hair and cosmetic surgery and at least a replicator making their clothes.
If you're going to give us a ship swap in sector space, give us a tailor on our ships.
Another area we looked at was the hourly event calendar. Our data showed that few of these events were being played often, and so we are re-envisioning the hourly events as weekend-long events with better rewards. You can expect the hourly calendar to disappear with Season 8.5, with the new events showing up on the main calendar. Additionally, a small selection of the existing hourly events are being turned into Daily missions ? we?ll provide more information on this soon.
...Turning things into a weekend event would not help the weekends; people still log in for the events already there. What's happening here is that things like "21:00 this tuesday is dilithium mining hour" dissapear, to be replaced by, what, "once/weekend" one weekend a month? We lose the incentive STO had over other games to log in during the week, atop many people losing incentive to stay logged in as much during the weekend. People with no reason to log in will find something else to occupy their time; something that very well may have weekend events of its own - since as you say that's what most games do - and may then prefer to stick around for those!
Perhaps a change to the hourly durations would make sense. But I cannot see, nor can understand how someone would be so blind as to believe, that removing events during the week as well as their variety would do anything other than reduce the playerbase!
"Many of the events go unplayed" does not mean we want them weekend-long, it means those specific aspects of the game are not appealing! Would anybody give a flying f*** about Metaphasic Weekend? It's not because we think Metaphasic Hour is not long enough, it's because the crafting system's completely obsolete! Who's gonna bother with that weekend while another game's doing "double-loot-rarity saturday"?
Hmmm, why am I not surprised that this came after that strange 'failure' of the event calendar?
Whilst accepting that the Calendar events needed an overhaul, and whilst we await the details, the alternatives mentioned leave me a little concerned.
Why not just replace the failing hourlies with better ones? Why not have a couple of bonus mining events a day instead of one? With the cooldown, you still only get to do it once per toon, per day, instead of sometimes missing it completely.
And with being able to go to Vlugta at any time, currently, is that going to change to enable a daily instead? Usually, I only take a toon there outside of a bonus event if I miss it, because I want the bigger payout of up to 1500 dil, but 1000 is better than nothing. If you therefore remove the bonus hour for Vlugta and turn it into a daily, then presumably the only time you will be able to visit Vlugta will be when you take the daily.
More importantly, what is the reward going to be? Is it going to be up to 1000, or 1500?
And there's something exciting for players that have many starships in spacedock! With the Season 8.5 update, you will be able to easily switch between your starships in sector space and social zones ? we want to make it easy to quickly get to the ship you want to fly. Not only that, but each of your starships can have multiple pre-made build-outs saved, and you will be able to switch between them quickly and easily. Now you will be able to prepare separate PvE and PvP builds...
Now I have to say, I love that. But then, hey, I would, wouldn't I... :cool:
...it seems that there is a great variety of different consoles which you can choose from and their effectiveness seems to depend on who or what you are dealing with. This being so, swapping consoles so you can go on a specific mission or meet a specific enemy is laborious and I personally CBA.
What would change that for me would be making that process quicker and simpler.
I would like to see ship weapon/console configuration sets, so that if you want to change your weapons and consoles so that they are more effective against, e.g. The Borg, you can set-up a configuration and be able to switch to it without individually switching out the weapons and console slots each time. You can have a default set and the ability to name your own config (like a costume) and have several for different instances.
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Alexander Siddig is a personal favorite of mine. I loved him as Bashir, but I have to say that his best performance was as the rich British inventor Phillip Burton on the BBC show "Primeval". He was a great, very humanized antagonist.
There was also a copy of the EMH left behind on a planet when Voyager tried to play mediator.
Season 4 episode 23, "Living Witness" the backup was dropped when Voyager was attacked, where he laid dorment for 700 years, reactivated to find a vary distorted version on history as to the ship's involment. after setting the story straight about Voyager's involvement the doctor (backup copy) stayed for many years before deciding to leave, wondering if the crew ever made it home.
Dyson-hybrid ships as reward for the anniversary event. Good, there's not a lot of variety of non-Zen/non-Fleet ships at top level in the KDF and RR. I know the raison d'etre of some ship classes makes mirror versions of them difficult to implement, but it'd be nice to have another KDF battlecruiser (f'rinstance) buyable with a sane amount of ec.
Trek actor doing VO. As long as it's not Neelix (Ethan Phillips), good.
Remastered early Fed missions. Good, but you need to look at your priorities. Feds have something like 85 storyline missions, Klingons 70, and Romulans 75. How about instead of remastering early Fed missions, add some more Klingon and Romulan missions. Or, if you insist on giving the Feds a makeover, updating the interior ship maps - when was the last time you saw a ship with a circular engineering hull?
Scrapping the hourly events in favour of weekend-long events, and some hourly events becoming dailies. Oh dear. I hope that means none of the actual events are going to be lost. I don't play the mirror event much myself, but quite a lot of people grind it for XP; and while I acknowledge the multiphasic and cheap crafting events may not be well-used in these days of fleet projects and reputation unlocks, crafting does remain the most reliable way to get purple Mk XI gear of exactly what you want.
Swapping ships anywhere you want, plus a loadout swap feature. Thank you, that will be very useful, and will obviate my need for more ships, especially if "loadout" includes BOffs & DOffs as well as weapons etc. Breaks the immersion a bit, I suppose, but hey, if Cryptic wants to dumb-down to arcade level gaming, that's their call. It won't make any difference to me, I transwarp to a starbase to change ship - even if it's for just one mission, the cooldown is never longer than the mission, and most of my characters can tw to pretty much anywhere in the galaxy.
Just look at how much pie Kirk went through in order to get the Enterprise-A and a B'Rel!
I dunno about Takei, if memory serves he issued some statement that he never wants to have anything to do w/ ST anymore, since the new movies distorted his vision on ST, so he prolly won't be it.
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(In fact, in this video, he seems to approve of JJ's approach. I also liked his comment about why Bill Shatner would not have been a good fit for the new movies.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGfWrJR5Ck
LOL Piccard would have said NO to STO waaaaaay back!!!!
...and selecting the Active Space DOffs. These are ship and build specific as well.
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I play STO daily, and the thought of having to wait until the weekend to get bonus marks does not appeal to me at all. Just my two cents.
Not just yet. Hopefully shortly after.
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We've enough A2FAW cruisers as is. It's time to bring out the 2/5 minelayers!
well sadly romulan's don't have enough unless you shell out the $ for them.
That could work too, if he was interested. The voice is distinctive enough.
And, as a holographic AI, the character would certainly still be "alive". Any Delta Quad VO with the Doctor in it could be hilarious and full of sarcastic wit. That's the way any such thing ought to be written, anyway.
Still think Tim Russ is the more likely candidate, but I would not be disappointed with this either.
Kate Mulgrew has the voice for it, but I just can't see her being A) affordable and
Ethan Phillips also has a distinctive voice, but I can't see the fans being all that enthusiastic about a Neelix VO.
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Because STO fans are so enthusiastic about everything else Cryptic adds to the game to make it more Trek-like.
That said, your logic does have its reasoning. Wil Wheaton plays STO, and it wouldn't surprise me if the reason he refused all offers to reprise the role of an older and more mature Wesley Crusher based on his traumatic adolescent years on the set of TNG, and his extremely obvious perception that people hated his character even 20+ years ago.
Kate Mulgrew did do VO for Dragon Age I & II though. Still, she is busy right now.
Holy TRIBBLE, really? Wil Wheaton HIMSELF plays STO?
And I think you're right. He strikes me as the kind of guy who could get annoyed really fast playing a Mary Sue like season 1 Wesley.
Both Sphere and Winter were MASSIVELY BUGGED!!! Sphere was Entirely unplayable to me until the last week before it ended/changed over to Winter, and even then the game only worked about half the time. Winter was almost as bad, as lag freeze would keep me from even reaching Q to get in, or keep me from reaching the starting line. Last year i raced 14 characters and 12 completed 25 races. This year i was trying to race more but i could only get 3 chars as far as their 12th race of the 25. Most of my time was not so much racing as struggling to get the game server to work rather than TRIBBLE me over.
I hope the issues with Sphere have been resolved as i look forward to have the enjowment i was denied the first time around.
I like the ideas for new ships and new proposed systems. I hope they will work fine.
I am far from they only voice long arguing for adding Ship Slots, in particular that 'small' craft do not use the Large Berths for Starships. Starships each carry multiple 'small' craft though considerably less than the dedicated Carriers.
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PS - I fully support a T6 Nova, fixing the Nova skins. I am also rooting for a T6 Science Cruiser, that can use Nova/Rhode Island skins.
T6 Nova/Rhode Island, T6 Oberth & T6 Constellation are needed. Also needed a T6 Science Cruiser, that can wear any Science or Cruiser skin.
Change my ship in sector space?
That's one of the only 2 reasons it makes any sense to go back to a space dock, that and visiting the ship tailor.
However there are other things that make absolutely no sense being restricted to a space dock: Things like the tailor and the exchange. (Because your replicators should be able to fabricate whatever it is you've pulled out of the exchange if it's a thing. I suppose you could explain officers and pets away by saying they were brought by cargo ships or you could just preclude the categories that include DOffs, BOffs and pets from the ship exchange terminal).
In either case, is it easier to believe that you have your own private flotilla following you around in case you swap ships than you have a tailor on your ship? Even the Voyager crew had someone doing their hair and cosmetic surgery and at least a replicator making their clothes.
If you're going to give us a ship swap in sector space, give us a tailor on our ships.
Hmmm, why am I not surprised that this came after that strange 'failure' of the event calendar?
Whilst accepting that the Calendar events needed an overhaul, and whilst we await the details, the alternatives mentioned leave me a little concerned.
Why not just replace the failing hourlies with better ones? Why not have a couple of bonus mining events a day instead of one? With the cooldown, you still only get to do it once per toon, per day, instead of sometimes missing it completely.
And with being able to go to Vlugta at any time, currently, is that going to change to enable a daily instead? Usually, I only take a toon there outside of a bonus event if I miss it, because I want the bigger payout of up to 1500 dil, but 1000 is better than nothing. If you therefore remove the bonus hour for Vlugta and turn it into a daily, then presumably the only time you will be able to visit Vlugta will be when you take the daily.
More importantly, what is the reward going to be? Is it going to be up to 1000, or 1500?
Now I have to say, I love that. But then, hey, I would, wouldn't I... :cool:
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I'm not greedy. A weekly stipend of 10000 dilithium will do me.
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Oh my *****! I didn't pick up on it at all! Probably cause I've only now sat down to watch Voyager!