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gerwalk0769
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Lol, or has he finally said something asinine like that the game could survive without the players.
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Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Never meant to mislead, sorry about that. The thread title is the title of the podcast.
Maybe both...
It's like since he appeared on STOked, someone gave him public speaking lessons.
I was just annoyed that "THE FIRST (and ONLY - dubious claim) PODCAST ENTIRELY DEDICATED TO THE FOUNDRY IN STAR TREK ONLINE" as the host likes to say at the beginning of every show, never even asked ONE question about the Foundry, and the only comment we got on it was in response to a player submitted question.
Still , it was a very good interview.
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The beginning of this interview was more of a TV series (VOY) discussion than about the game. Lots of trivia about the series, plus reflections on various characters and episodes, etc.
It was interesting to know DS9 is CaptainGeko's favorite Trek series.
In the future, I would welcome STO podcasters to host an interview which starts the Gamma Quadrant discussion. That appears to be the next logical step in STO's next expansion, post-"Delta Rising".
But I guess it's technically right since Cage was first title The Menagerie and later retitled The Cage.
That part was interesting. Geko could give a politician a run for their money in misdirection..
The one Geko statement that was glaring out to me, was this quote:
"We're going to make sure your investments, whether they're in game investments like your Mk12 gear, which you've gotten from reps, or your investments that you bought a starship, we wish you'll continue to use those, and play all of our content with those ships, with that gear and continue to do all that, ok. Yet we will still honour the fact that people will want to get more power, ok, and so we will make sure both of those goals are honoured, um and er yeah T6 ships are more powerful than T5 ships, ya, they will be, but um, you don't have to have a T6 ship if you don't want to"
And then he goes on to say that everybody can worry "after" they release the information, otherwise we are speculating and there is no point doing that, apparently.. :rolleyes:
I already made my mind up, no more speculation needed, but make your own minds up....
Reminds me of what Cryptic said about Dilithium during F2P-Beta. That it was totally optional, if you don't want to get dilithium there is no reason to.
Yeah right...
And if you really want to really make it more.. Customizable.. Make say 3 of them, one does Hull, another does Shields, and one adds a console slot of your choosing. A versatile answer, and an end to the wish wash.
This crossed my mind also... Given the blowup last time, it's possible the outcry resulted that some very needed pointers were passed along, however...
There is also the possibility that, since little really touched on the response to recent changes from players, he did not have much opportunity to deviate from 'no comment/not in the foreseeable future' type answers...
There was the little dig that that the new Doff UI was better than the old one however, utterly dismissing alot of feedback (even completely relevant complaints that it was forced upon players while still unfinished - and is yet to be finished), and then the podcasters (rather sycophantly IMO) seemed to dismiss the large amount of criticism as being little more than outspoken forum posters, whilst presuming the 'quiet majority', who did not post their feedback, must obviously think it's fantastic...
I honestly am not putting too much faith in a change of attitude... In any event, his true opinions of the player base (at least those who bother to share their opinions) is already known and until such time as it's acknowledged, I'm not gonna confuse a few idle platitudes with being proper respect for the player base...
To quote myself from the other thread:
Be afraid; be very afraid.
Gecko is going to have a forum meltdown on his hands when players log on to sto and find their favorite iconic ships are no longer top-of-the-line and that there is no proper upgrade option. All power to the forum deflector shields!!!!
the funny thing is most have been not top of the line for quite some time.
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I will admit, I really liked the idea of us going on board Voyager. Reminds me of the old Perpetual idea of the Enterprise being the mission hub, which the Cryptic team was thinking about using when Omega Fleet was brand new. So I'll give that a thumbs up.
Tier 6 ships, I'm still skeptical about. But it confirms what I thought recently with Priority One in our discussion that they are indeed moving on to Tier 6. But I'm still somewhat skeptical on the ship upgrade system.
For an example, I don't want to see us being charged for upgrades like we do with Fleet ships. There is too many Tier 5 ships that makes it financially unacceptable to be charged every time we have to dismiss a ship, because we want to go fly another ship when the shipyard is full. And we still do not know how Fleet ships will factor in with the new system, if they are the Tier 6 upgrades or there is something beyond?
Also, I'm not keen on the new Federation and Klingon designs, because they are becoming too non-Trek. Nobody I know can look at those pictures and immediately go "oh that's Klingon" or that's "Federation / Star Trek". This is why we are here, it's Star Trek!
... If there is any.
Honesty, I'm going to be truly upset if it turns out 'being able to make them competitive' meant nothing more than saying like you can still use T4 ships now (only with Mk XIV gear). Not that I'm so deluded as to think Geko would care about my being upset; but he wouldn't be able to sell any lockbox ships to me any more. Like ever. Caveat venditor.
Why just up to Tier 5.5 stats when the devs have stated that the JHAS will be upgradable to Tier 6 starship capabilities at no cost? If one ship gets this treatment, then others will as well.
See you there folks!
- Judge Aaron Satie