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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    nutronicus wrote: »
    I went to the link and the page is blank :(

    i think DST is in effect in the USA, so times will have been extended by an hour because of increased daylight. so it will be 7 hours behind instead, until europe gets DST at the end of the month, it will be like this, when that has happened its back to 8 hours difference as the UK jumps into CET timezone and UTC is on its own until later in the year.

    complicated yes, but hard to understand, not really, this is why i hope smirk will start putting a translated time on his replies, because it would just be easier for everyone.
    T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW.
    Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
  • plummyg33gplummyg33g Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Hailing all Captains!

    I am organizing an in-game (Holodeck) Community Meet n' Greet for this coming Friday, March 7th, 2014.


    [PST Timeslot] The event will be held at 12PM/Noon - 1PM PST. (Click here to view in your timezone)


    Make your way to Drozana Station in the Eta Eridani Sector Block (any instance) and get ready to have some fun! Please join the PartyTime chat channel to see any communication from myself and to ask your STO related questions*. Only questions given over the PartyTime chat channel will be accepted. Type this command in your chat bar to join the channel: /channel_join PartyTime

    If you can't make it Friday, please feel free to post constructive feedback in here with ideas, including if you would like to see this expanded to other types of events (STFs, PvP, PvE, Foundry, Fleet Actions etc.).



    I hope to see many of you on Friday!

    ~CaptainSmirk


    *Please understand that I will not be able to answer all questions, but I will do my best to answer as many legitimate STO related questions as I can, without of course discussing anything that is currently REDACTED.

    Hi CaptainSmirk :D

    it is really nice to see that you took suggestion "ask the Cryptic team about STO" nad those who read this it is acknowledgment that you are reading posts from community :rolleyes:

    Ok this is my suggestion abut the game and PVP.

    Have you ever consider to give players STFs which are based on racing trough the hoops, so the players can test their skills as pilots. You could do that for small craft to make better use of it and that we have greater value of small craft cause players within the game don't usually fly them at all. We have only 2 STFs and 1 PVP arena for them.

    My suggestion is based on STFs and the really old game called "Death Rally"
    link is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Rally ;)

    players could Q for race and racing trough the hoops of the arena where players can shoot and kill each other while they are racing. Who ever complete the course of 3 , or 5 laps wins some kind of prize at the end of racing. Players can use weapons,devices and the speed of racing is only limited to impulse, so no full impulse can be used.

    In star trek Voyager there was an episode Where Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres were racing against other factions of the quadrant. Further more you could make rep system , where players can put their marks from racing and build them self some small craft from rep system , that way players will have some accomplishment of playing the content, and you could cover another great episode from star trek Voyager called ALICE where Tom Paris is building his ship from scratch.

    I think these idea would fit perfectly within Delta quadrant where it seams story of STO is going right now.

    That is it, i am waiting for your answer thx by the way :rolleyes:
  • ivanlzivanlz Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I would really love it if factions went away. Or at the very least were significantly diminished. It will allow for more pug runs, and more pvps to be run and more fun to be had with our brothers from inferior mothers. Since I've started STO I've always hated the arbitrary nature of the conflict and the divide. All it does is limit the population pool of people not in massive multifaction fleets and in PublicEliteSTFs that can enjoy the experience together.

    This can even be done with a simple in story rationale. Something along the lines of "Well now that we have threat X looming upon us all, we cannot afford to not pool our resources and combine our efforts to combat this threat". The Fed feels morally superior, the KDF feels arrogant, and the Romulan schemes.

    And everyone plays nicely with each other in 'wargames' when the fed and the kdf finally get to join forces in "Borg Minefield", PVP "training", "Starbase Q24", "Voth Strike Force", "Joint Fleet Defense", and everyone's favorite "Diplomatic Marauding of the X Cluster".

    Because lets face it, the war has gotten old, stale and pointless. And the Romulan Star Empire will rise again.

    edit: grammar/spelling
  • dylanmuck1dylanmuck1 Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Will try to make it there. Can't wait!
  • trizeo1trizeo1 Member Posts: 472 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Hailing all Captains!

    I am organizing an in-game (Holodeck) Community Meet n' Greet for this coming Friday, March 7th, 2014.


    [PST Timeslot] The event will be held at 12PM/Noon - 1PM PST. (Click here to view in your timezone)


    Make your way to Drozana Station in the Eta Eridani Sector Block (any instance) and get ready to have some fun! Please join the PartyTime chat channel to see any communication from myself and to ask your STO related questions*. Only questions given over the PartyTime chat channel will be accepted. Type this command in your chat bar to join the channel: /channel_join PartyTime

    If you can't make it Friday, please feel free to post constructive feedback in here with ideas, including if you would like to see this expanded to other types of events (STFs, PvP, PvE, Foundry, Fleet Actions etc.).

    I hope to see many of you on Friday!

    ~CaptainSmirk


    *Please understand that I will not be able to answer all questions, but I will do my best to answer as many legitimate STO related questions as I can, without of course discussing anything that is currently REDACTED.

    Hello Captain Smirk,

    I won't be able to be there but as you suggested I will leave my questions here in hopes that at least you get to read it.

    Can we have a LTC for the Gal X? at the very least for the fleet version?
    Is the lance accuracy going to be addressed?
    Do you TRULY feel you have pleased the STO community with the Gal R/X revamp?
    Have you read the feedback since releasing the details of the revamp?

    Those questions are for the Gal X/R.. for me personally I also wish that the Gal R gets more firepower by adding an ensign for even just have LTC. It is more enjoyable when you get to fly a ship using most of the tactical abilities like BO/TS/HY.

    I also would like to issue a challenge... take the Gal X and take up against a Scimitar and let us know if you truly feel that it is in line with DN's.

    For the gameplay..

    Is it possible when you go thru the story to choose having more space battles over ground stuff or even vice versa? I enjoy the space combat than I do the ground plus the ground sometimes doesn't even make sense with you running back and forth.

    My suggestion is to make story missions shorter and not too long as it can be dragging.

    Can we have more Borg STF's? or choose stf's like Fed Alert and choose Borg as the opponents... and make the rewards tailor what enemy you fight.

    Can we have Dill rewarded for all STF's?

    All I can think of now but I will edit if I come up with more.
  • reximuzreximuz Member Posts: 1,172 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    i think DST is in effect in the USA, so times will have been extended by an hour because of increased daylight. so it will be 7 hours behind instead, until europe gets DST at the end of the month, it will be like this, when that has happened its back to 8 hours difference as the UK jumps into CET timezone and UTC is on its own until later in the year.

    complicated yes, but hard to understand, not really, this is why i hope smirk will start putting a translated time on his replies, because it would just be easier for everyone.

    DST starts this upcoming Sunday, and is not in effect yet.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    reximuz wrote: »
    DST starts this upcoming Sunday, and is not in effect yet.

    i know it starts earlier then europe by a few weeks, just wasnt sure exactly when.
    T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW.
    Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
  • puttenhamputtenham Member Posts: 1,052 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lcdrmiller wrote: »
    Well, when I got hired about 2 years ago, I was hired on as an environment artist. Just a few months after we were down a ship artist and I was asked if I would step in. I did ship art for a few months before moving back to environments. While there I created a few ships, Armitage and Vesta to name a couple.
    Making ships was awesome! Now that we have a full ship team of 3! I have yet to be asked to help out. They are great team and have everything pretty much covered.

    really... the ship team only has three people.. im not even sure what to say... that is a little ridiculous. cryptic needs to either sh*t or get off the toilet.. honestly, the game is 4 years old.. I would expect that they would increase the dev team in all reguards to meet the demand of the current market.

    this is exactly why we get small expansions.. it takes forever for content to be created..
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Hailing all Captains!

    My Community Meet n' Greet on Drozana Station begins in about 10 minutes!

    I will be in Instance #1 and will be sending you all happy balloons! See if you can spot me :)

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • reximuzreximuz Member Posts: 1,172 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    puttenham wrote: »
    really... the ship team only has three people.. im not even sure what to say... that is a little ridiculous. cryptic needs to either sh*t or get off the toilet.. honestly, the game is 4 years old.. I would expect that they would increase the dev team in all reguards to meet the demand of the current market.

    this is exactly why we get small expansions.. it takes forever for content to be created..

    I look forward to your awesome MMO with the giant ship team.
  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Shame. I had an exam at the time of the meet'n'greet. Oh wells.
    Because thousands of posts of unrealistic wish listing developed a mindset that anything less than a Mary Sue ship would be a slap in the face. Next question?

    You're wrong. Almost to the point of it being ludicrous. There were thousands of posts that were asking for very little, very realistic things. It's really not much of a change to improve a ship that has been a runnin... erm crawling joke in this game for YEARS.
    It is said the best weapon is one that is never fired. I disagree. The best weapon is one you only have to fire... once. B)
  • robdmcrobdmc Member Posts: 1,619 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    There are a few people who would love this item. Have you considered making a tribble that could enable that for a small radius?
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    robdmc wrote: »
    There are a few people who would love this item. Have you considered making a tribble that could enable that for a small radius?

    Sadly not. It's just for us :)

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Thanks to everyone who came out! It was a lot of fun answering questions and seeing everyone's very creative uniforms/costumes. You are some creative Captains!

    Stay tuned for more announcements for in-game events and Livestreams in the near future!

    And next time, I will be able to do two timezones (crossing my fingers) so others can join in the fun!

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    robdmc wrote: »
    There are a few people who would love this item. Have you considered making a tribble that could enable that for a small radius?
    Sadly not. It's just for us :)

    ~CaptainSmirk

    LOL!

    You're pretty brave, letting this crowd know something with that name exists... :D
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,671 Community Moderator
    edited March 2014
    Hope I can catch the next one, since I didn't even know about this until it was already over. I do have some questions, including one involving a rather large bug affecting many people since Season 7.
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
    normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
    colored text = mod mode
  • lcdrmillerlcdrmiller Member Posts: 47 Cryptic Developer
    edited March 2014
    I would like to apologize to all who attended the meet and greet. I was not able to make it today, I got tied up in finishing a project that I know everyone will love!

    I will make it a point to be at the next one! If you have any questions you wanted to ask me today go ahead and ask them here. I'll be watching this thread today and will answer what I can.
    Jeff M.
    Environment Artist on Neverwinter Online
    Find me on Twitter
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lcdrmiller wrote: »
    I would like to apologize to all who attended the meet and greet. I was not able to make it today, I got tied up in finishing a project that I know everyone will love!

    I will make it a point to be at the next one! If you have any questions you wanted to ask me today go ahead and ask them here. I'll be watching this thread today and will answer what I can.

    You were missed, but it's ok, we know you're busy. There were tons of questions, but I did my best to answer what I could.

    Thanks for taking on some more Q & A here though :)

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,671 Community Moderator
    edited March 2014
    If I may...
    Ever since Season 7 launched, many characters have been hit with a bug that prevents Accolades related to accomplishing the Optionals on Elite STFs from completeing, even when they have met the requirements. This bug is preventing many affected characters from claiming the coveted MACO/Honor Guard/Omega costume unlocks. Its been about a year now since Borticus opened a thread about said bug, and its being kept alive by those of us still determined to see a resolution to it. I would like to ask if there is ANYTHING on the horizon regarding the Season 7 Accolade bug.
    Can we expect a resolution? The natives of that thread are kinda getting restless... *Sweatdrop*
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
    normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
    colored text = mod mode
  • lcdrmillerlcdrmiller Member Posts: 47 Cryptic Developer
    edited March 2014
    rattler2 wrote: »
    If I may...
    Ever since Season 7 launched, many characters have been hit with a bug that prevents Accolades related to accomplishing the Optionals on Elite STFs from completeing, even when they have met the requirements. This bug is preventing many affected characters from claiming the coveted MACO/Honor Guard/Omega costume unlocks. Its been about a year now since Borticus opened a thread about said bug, and its being kept alive by those of us still determined to see a resolution to it. I would like to ask if there is ANYTHING on the horizon regarding the Season 7 Accolade bug.
    Can we expect a resolution? The natives of that thread are kinda getting restless... *Sweatdrop*

    Sadly I am not the person who would know about this. I will pass along this question to the right devs.
    I myself am just a lonely environment artist =) Anything art related I will be able to answer, with in the environment realm.
    Jeff M.
    Environment Artist on Neverwinter Online
    Find me on Twitter
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,671 Community Moderator
    edited March 2014
    Thank you very much. We've just been waiting, constantly bumping the thread to keep the issue alive, and waiting some more... we're just kinda frustrated and would appreciate any help.
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
    normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
    colored text = mod mode
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lcdrmiller wrote: »
    Sadly I am not the person who would know about this. I will pass along this question to the right devs.
    I myself am just a lonely environment artist =) Anything art related I will be able to answer, with in the environment realm.

    The pink...the blinding pink! On a certain planet in a certain mission...that sort of thing? :D
  • lcdrmillerlcdrmiller Member Posts: 47 Cryptic Developer
    edited March 2014
    The pink...the blinding pink! On a certain planet in a certain mission...that sort of thing? :D

    Is this in regards to the reported pink light shafts coming from the moon? I played through that mission the other day and we are looking into that. If there is something else that is pink, please let me know where it's showing up. Thanks!
    Jeff M.
    Environment Artist on Neverwinter Online
    Find me on Twitter
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lcdrmiller wrote: »
    Is this in regards to the reported pink light shafts coming from the moon? I played through that mission the other day and we are looking into that. If there is something else that is pink, please let me know where it's showing up. Thanks!

    Nah, it's that one. It was just something I noticed because I rerolled a bunch of toons at the start of the year. Wasn't sure if it was something that happened because of going from DX9 to DX9ex...cause it had been the only change on my part since I'd last flown it and then noticing the pink. Though, I guess it's not really pink. But pink was the easiest to say without trying to hunt down any particular shade.

    For the most part (99.7%) or so, the touchups you guys have been doing here and there are awesome.

    It's just a quirky thing here and there where you drop a shield bubble where there's some ambient fog or the like - and - you can no longer see the screen because it's a blinding white or yellow. A totally different experience to dropping the Triolic Pattern Enhancer in Step and having the screen go black, heh.

    But it was just a more general question - the addressing part...environmental art and all that - including ambiance, lighting, the whole kit 'n kaboodle as well as the physical scenery - or whether there was a distinction between the map folks and bringing the maps to life folks...
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Grr, I completely forgot this was happening today. :( Can somebody post a transcript?
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    "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
  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Grr, I completely forgot this was happening today. :( Can somebody post a transcript?

    Sorry buddy, I only got snippets that I posted to relevant threads =( Is there anything you wanted to ask? I might remember if someone asked and got an answer.
    Member since November 2009... I think.
    (UFP) Ragnar
  • groomofweirdgroomofweird Member Posts: 1,045 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Hi lcdrmiller,
    Firstly can I say that I think its fab you and captain smirk have been interacting with the community, its really appreciated :)
    I do have one question regarding a common graphics issue which many players seem to be experiencing. I know this may not be your specific field of expertise but it does affect the view of the environment somewhat to say the least.
    Often since season 7 I have been experiencing some insane graphics issues, blinding white screens, highly simplified weapons fire and explosions etc,sometimes pulsating white ships or equipment, half visible (only the quality of the item) items in my inventory and other things. I haven't changed my machine or settings in anyway since starting sto.
    I find that reloiading the game solves the issue, but I do have it several times in a long gaming session(say. 5 hours or more). Originally I thought it was related to map changing, but today I stood idle chatting for some time and the issue ocurred.
    If it were just myself experiencing this bug I probably wouldn't have brought it up, but seeing "graphics bug, reloading" or some such thing has becom commonplace in fleet chat nowadays.

    A small map related issue, I have noticed when in the city in dyson battleground, often when running down to the t-rex at the end, if I corner too tightly (trying to get there faster) around one or two of the bends that seperate the flatforms from the main areas, there seems to be a gap where I occasionally fall through the map.

    My question on behalf of my fleet mainly with regard to my first point is if the team is aware of this and could offer a fix or solution to these problems.

    And finally just a map visual compliment, I think most members of my fleet,myself included agree thaat the exterior of the dilithium mine is a totally beautiful map visually, its a map we all visit often that is both dynamic and visually appealing.
    Your map work and design for me is one of the most amazing visual aspects of the game.
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    "If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
  • kolbrandrkolbrandr Member Posts: 266
    edited March 2014
    Was there any word on giving the B'rel retro an upgrade now that the Galaxy has been tweaked?
  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    kolbrandr wrote: »
    Was there any word on giving the B'rel retro an upgrade now that the Galaxy has been tweaked?

    Sorry, I don't think that was asked nevertheless answered =(
    Member since November 2009... I think.
    (UFP) Ragnar
  • dukedom01dukedom01 Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lcdrmiller wrote: »
    I would like to apologize to all who attended the meet and greet. I was not able to make it today, I got tied up in finishing a project that I know everyone will love!

    I will make it a point to be at the next one! If you have any questions you wanted to ask me today go ahead and ask them here. I'll be watching this thread today and will answer what I can.

    Oh yes please, I have some beef with the starbase incursion maps. To be precise with the difference between the kdf and fed incursions. I probably have run a 4 digit number of incursions on the fed side and maybe 'only' 10 on the kdf because of this issue.

    Due to whatever weird reason you cannot jump as easiely onto the crates in kdf incursions as you can in fed incursions, which makes it 'slightly' more difficult to play them effective.

    Take a non-cat character and play a fed incursion, jump onto some crates to take advantage of sniper positions. Then take a non-cat character and play a kdf incursion. Try to jump onto the same spots. And then ask yourself. Why?

    Disclaimer: If the above posting somehow somebody would motivate to change FED incursions to a point that you cannot jump onto crates, please disregard it. Or do some other terrible stuff. Just move along then.
    Ceterum censeo Otha supplendum in praemiis.
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