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astimingpyleastimingpyle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
So a new member to our fleet claims he has a friend who is in a fleet that has some STO Devs in it, and they discuss with their fleet developments for the game.

Currently he is claiming that these Devs have revealed that changes are going to be made so Romulan Captains will be limited to only Tactical Bridge Officers having the Superior Romulan Operative trait just like everyone else. Romulan Captains will not be able to have an entire Bridge Officer compliment that has that trait which gives the coveted +2% Critical Chance and +5% Critical Severity.

Also, he claims Technician Duty Officers are allegedly being altered so you can only slot one on active space duty. This is to stop the "exploit" used in Aux2Bat builds to bring bridge officer abilities to the minimum cool down.

I figure devs do play the game but I would think when they do, they do not reveal themselves as devs, and join fleets to discuss game development with their fleetmates.

I do believe this new fleetmate of ours who is making these claims, is very much like a rather large bag of extremely warm air.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    So a new member to our fleet claims he has a friend who is in a fleet that has some STO Devs in it, and they discuss with their fleet developments for the game.

    Currently he is claiming that these Devs have revealed that changes are going to be made so Romulan Captains will be limited to only Tactical Bridge Officers having the Superior Romulan Operative trait just like everyone else. Romulan Captains will not be able to have an entire Bridge Officer compliment that has that trait which gives the coveted +2% Critical Chance and +5% Critical Severity.

    Also, he claims Technician Duty Officers are allegedly being altered so you can only slot one on active space duty. This is to stop the "exploit" used in Aux2Bat builds to bring bridge officer abilities to the minimum cool down.

    I figure devs do play the game but I would think when they do, they do not reveal themselves as devs, and join fleets to discuss game development with their fleetmates.

    I do believe this new fleetmate of ours who is making these claims, is very much like a rather large bag of extremely warm air.
    They do play the game, certainly, both with DEV accounts and actual 'player' accounts just to play the game as it is.

    You're still right to take those claims with a grain of salt (or warm air, as you put it)
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Devs will join players fleets (at least Branflakes; I have occasionally (and I mean very rarely) talked with him in my KDF fleet's cross-faction chat channel [fine fine, not a dev but close enough (until recently of course, still counts)]).

    However your friend's claim sounds too good to be true.
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  • buommanbuomman Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am quite sure that any Devs or GMS are NOT allowed to reveal that they are to players. This is standard procedure for any staff of a major MMO.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited April 2014
    It's extremely doubtful that devs are talking in open channel about future changes on a scale such as this.

    It's even more dubious when it's reported as 'I have a friend who overheard...'

    Having said that - a nerf in that manner would be acceptable ;)
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    When I hear Friend of a friend knows a dev, My Fry meter goes off.
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  • knuhteb5knuhteb5 Member Posts: 1,831 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I think you are right in doubting the veracity of these claims since I too don't believe the devs typically reveal themselves to regular players, unless of course it's some special event in which they want to make their presence felt. Be that as it may, I do hope these changes come about because they are badly needed to balance this game. If the technicians doffs were limited to 1, that alone would go a long way in reigning in the scimitar cheese spam builds that have made older ships almost completely obsolete. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    My advice would be to treat it as 'The Rumor Mill' for the time being.

    Until it's on the holodeck patch notes, it's not "real".
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  • astimingpyleastimingpyle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    deokkent wrote: »
    So many people are already pissed about the much needed nerfs that occurred in S9, but now I have to wonder if maybe you wanna galvanize them some more lol? Can you imagine the huge backlash these rumors would cause?

    Are you boycotting STO?

    I don't understand what your on about.
    I'm only relaying what I've been told by a new fleetmate. As I don't really know him well, I don't know how much credit to give to what he says. It sounds like bullcrap to me. I doubt he's getting this from a friend who got it from a Dev. I doubt devs discuss with players game developments that have not been officially announced. But, the guy insists it's all true and it is from a dev.

    I have no reason to boycott STO.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I think your friend is full of it, but these wouldn't be bad at all.
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2014
    LIES!

    We aren't allowed to join fleets. At least not on our dev accounts.

    We do have private accounts. But if some Dev is talking about Dev stuff on his/her private account, that's bad juju.
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tacofangs wrote: »
    LIES!

    We aren't allowed to join fleets. At least not on our dev accounts.

    We do have private accounts. But if some Dev is talking about Dev stuff on his/her private account, that's bad juju.

    Doom on the Dev that would do it
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  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    voporak wrote: »
    However your friend's claim sounds too good to be true.

    You mean making the Galaxy-X unplayable again would be a positive change? Aux to bat is only a crutch for ships with crappy boff layouts.
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  • wazzagiowwazzagiow Member Posts: 769 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Let's face it anyone could claim to be a dev and have made that stuff up.

    Only pay attention to official stuff and even then they can't be trusted. :p
  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Superlink?

    Only old forum members will get this reference..

    Despite the rumor, it would be welcome changes imo.
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  • astimingpyleastimingpyle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tacofangs wrote: »
    LIES!

    We aren't allowed to join fleets. At least not on our dev accounts.

    We do have private accounts. But if some Dev is talking about Dev stuff on his/her private account, that's bad juju.

    Ah, this is great, thank you Tacofangs!
    I was thinking this was the case. So, perhaps I should point the guy here and ask him to stop filling our ventrilo server fertilizer! :D
  • spacebaronlinespacebaronline Member Posts: 1,103 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    So a new member to our fleet claims he has a friend who is in a fleet that has some STO Devs in it, and they discuss with their fleet developments for the game.

    Currently he is claiming that these Devs have revealed that changes are going to be made so Romulan Captains will be limited to only Tactical Bridge Officers having the Superior Romulan Operative trait just like everyone else. Romulan Captains will not be able to have an entire Bridge Officer compliment that has that trait which gives the coveted +2% Critical Chance and +5% Critical Severity.

    Also, he claims Technician Duty Officers are allegedly being altered so you can only slot one on active space duty. This is to stop the "exploit" used in Aux2Bat builds to bring bridge officer abilities to the minimum cool down.

    I figure devs do play the game but I would think when they do, they do not reveal themselves as devs, and join fleets to discuss game development with their fleetmates.

    I do believe this new fleetmate of ours who is making these claims, is very much like a rather large bag of extremely warm air.

    While all things said by someones grandmothers, cousins, gardner have to be taken with a grain of salt - most things you mentioned have been hinted at by the Dev known as adjudicatorHawk.

    "Hawk" indicated a few things he would like done:

    -Returning to a 4/4 split of space and ground traits so you could not pick 8 of one or the other.

    - reducing doff stacking of several doffs like the Tech doffs - or adding diminishing returns rather than limiting them when people already have 3.

    -Reducing the stacking of the Sup Op boff trait.

    But these are things that he said he would like to do - not that they will do it.

    Of course with a lot of the changes lately - anything is possible.
  • sqwishedsqwished Member Posts: 1,475 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    You mean making the Galaxy-X unplayable again would be a positive change? Aux to bat is only a crutch for ships with crappy boff layouts.

    Would just like to point out that I'm currently seeing 13k out of my Galaxy X which doesn't run A2B. My friend has a similar setup to me but using the A2B skills and he's turning out 18k. People need to understand that A2B is a choice not a requirement.
    Oh, it's not broken? We can soon fix that!

  • colonelchenchuancolonelchenchuan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tacofangs wrote: »
    LIES!

    We aren't allowed to join fleets. At least not on our dev accounts.

    We do have private accounts. But if some Dev is talking about Dev stuff on his/her private account, that's bad juju.

    lol... they may not even be "devs" but some intern in the accounting dept.

    But regardless of whether or not its bad juju, can you confirm or deny
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  • red01999red01999 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    And my uncle's friend's goldfish told me that the devs are all actually trained monkeys.

    Long story short, I wouldn't buy it. That's a fantastic way to get fired. And I don't think the devs are dumb enough to out themselves on their personal accounts, which they seem to guard rather fiercely (and with good reason).
  • gosabresgosabres Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    sqwished wrote: »
    Would just like to point out that I'm currently seeing 13k out of my Galaxy X which doesn't run A2B. My friend has a similar setup to me but using the A2B skills and he's turning out 18k. People need to understand that A2B is a choice not a requirement.

    So what happens if you fight your friend or any player in a cruiser with a decent, less eng-heavy boff layout?
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  • drunkadmiraldrunkadmiral Member Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    ...to be made so Romulan Captains will be limited to only Tactical Bridge Officers having the Superior Romulan Operative trait just like everyone else

    ...Technician Duty Officers are allegedly being altered so you can only slot one on active space duty. This is to stop the "exploit" used in Aux2Bat builds to bring bridge officer abilities to the minimum cool down

    Will be great to be true, i hope to see this changes soon.
  • lenovo123456lenovo123456 Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    So a new member to our fleet claims he has a friend who is in a fleet that has some STO Devs in it, and they discuss with their fleet developments for the game.

    Currently he is claiming that these Devs have revealed that changes are going to be made so Romulan Captains will be limited to only Tactical Bridge Officers having the Superior Romulan Operative trait just like everyone else. Romulan Captains will not be able to have an entire Bridge Officer compliment that has that trait which gives the coveted +2% Critical Chance and +5% Critical Severity.

    Also, he claims Technician Duty Officers are allegedly being altered so you can only slot one on active space duty. This is to stop the "exploit" used in Aux2Bat builds to bring bridge officer abilities to the minimum cool down.

    I figure devs do play the game but I would think when they do, they do not reveal themselves as devs, and join fleets to discuss game development with their fleetmates.

    I do believe this new fleetmate of ours who is making these claims, is very much like a rather large bag of extremely warm air.

    Most of the DEV's, are in the Reddit fleet. (RedditAlert)
  • burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    All I can say is...

    Yes, do all that and lets get a touch of sanity back in this game (just let me hide in a flame resistant bunker when it hits)
  • sqwishedsqwished Member Posts: 1,475 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    So what happens if you fight your friend or any player in a cruiser with a decent, less eng-heavy boff layout?

    Then Tactics come into play. I.E. you don't go at a broad siding cruiser from the sides. The same as you don't take an escort head on. I've taken out a random PvP'er using a cell ship before now because although I was outgunned from the onset, but they couldn't fly their ship for toffee.

    Another example would be my torp boat, it works great against PvE but A friend using a heavy cruiser in PvP trashed it. So do I ***** and cry about it? No I go away look at what I have available in this case I came back with an adapted cruiser and managed to get the upper hand on him.

    But if you throw in Subnucleonic Beam and a load of DoT's then the A2B doesn't matter a great deal.
    The problem is not the A2B build it has its uses and I'm not denying that but its not a necessity. I've seen people in game that are doing 1k dps thinking their bad TRIBBLE but they don't have a clue. And when was the last time you saw a build that wasn't a copy cat one?

    One question would you use A2B on a ship such as the Fleet D'Deridex?
    And wheres the fun in tearing through an STF in 5mins when you've got a 60min CD on it?
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  • ltdata96ltdata96 Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    EDIT: Nevermind (Read the prev. pages just after posting ;) )
  • jellico1jellico1 Member Posts: 2,719
    edited April 2014
    I dont believe it

    But I hope it is true

    All 6 of my Romulans support it
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    Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
    Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng

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