Priority One Episode 189 | Al "Captain Geko" Rivera

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• gl2814e Member Posts: 328 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  I'm certain I'm going to get the Delta pack. Even if those ships cost just 2500Z, it's still a huge savings on multiple ships. (And you just know there will be Fleet versions foe the line.). Hopefully they'll release more deal sweeteners before release though.

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• tucana66 Member Posts: 710 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  elijahmre wrote: »

  (...) This week’s Community Question
  [*]Captains, will you be purchasing the new Delta Rising Operations Pack? What about the pack is most enticing to you?

  
  Answer: Yes. (Already purchased.)
  
  Most enticing? KDF T6 ships. 'Nuff said.
  
  

  elijahmre wrote: »

  (...) [*]What are your Game Ideas?!

  
  Orbital Repairs and Rescue Retrieval Mission
  
  BEFORE EXPLAINING THE GAME PLAY:
  The following is a mission idea which introduces a space-like version of the grapple gun. In this case, the tractor beam/repulsor unit.
  
  The item would only be available for equipping within this mission. Otherwise, other existing missions, like the DS9 ones, would need to accommodate the new functionality. (And I don't see that happening...)
  
  SCENARIO:
  + The player responds to a distress call. Above a distant world, a starship has incurred serious damage. Assistance is required to make repairs. (Possibility: The player's toon knows the captain of the damaged ship.)
  
  + The player accepts the mission. As it goes, your player has traits which are necessary to fixing the damaged ship's problems. The other ship's captain asks you to join in the repair work. (Your player knows the captain, or you're returning a favor, or an offer of ___ is proposed, or ?)
  
  The player must equip the following in the transporter room:
  

  - spacesuit
  - repair tools
  - tractor beam/repulsor unit

  
  Note: The grapple gun (from the "Delta Rising" expansion) is NOT optional.
  
  
  + Once the space suit is activated, the player is beamed onto the exterior hull of the damaged starship. A series of mini-games (akin to Dilithium Mining) are played to fix the damaged ship.
  
  The player walks along the outer hull of the damaged ship in their magnetized spacesuit boots. The mini-games should be close to one another. To prevent game fatigue, there should be a handful of separate, random areas where the player would get beamed onto. That way the player isn't going to the same repair location every time they play this mission. (Example: the mission takes place on the Primary Hull, OR the Warp Nacelle, OR the Secondary Hull, etc. The view should be spectacular from wherever they are! It would be awesome to see your starship in the distance.)
  
  During the mini-game, the player uses their "repair tools". Maybe outside of the mission, players could use the Crafting UI to create better tools -- for larger rewards (or a chance at better rewards) when they play this mission with them. Those tools could be bound to the character as a means to encourage crafting.
  
  + At the completion of the final mini-game, a massive explosion occurs: an EPS main has ruptured, sending debris -- and an NPC crew member -- hurling in space towards the planet.
  
  ALTERNATELY: This rescue mission is separate.
  
  The player (still on the exterior hull of the damaged ship) receives a communication: The player's ship cannot get a transporter lock on the NPC with all of the debris. And the damaged ship has lost power; no lock, no transporters. The player is the closest one; they must attempt a rescue. The player's ship CAN maintain a lock on the player. If the player can clear the debris and reach the NPC, then they can beam both of them back.
  
  + A cutscene shows the player jumping into space, assisted by the tractor beam/repulsor unit.
  
  + The player hurls towards the NPC. The tractor beam/repulsor is automatically equipped. (Two keys allow the player to toggle between tractor beam and repulsor beam modes.)
  
  The player maneuvers up-down-left-right, staying within a pre-defined trajectory course. (Think Star Trek: Into Darkness during Kirk/Khan's space jump! Or Gravity!) The tractor beam/repulsor unit moves debris out of the way. Sometimes debris will get into the way and need to be pushed or pulled out of the flight path.
  
  I'd love to see a planet's atmosphere on the horizon, coming up fast as you're rocketing towards the NPC. Just enough out of the player's line of sight to allow you to see the debris coming at you. (Shards glowing in the sunlight.)
  
  + Ultimately, the player catches up with the NPC, using the tractor beam to pull the NPC close enough for transport. Once this occurs, a cutscene shows the players transporting together. Both materialize on the player's transporter pad. Mission successful!
  
  + If the player doesn't complete the objective, then the player is transported back empty-handed. The NPC is lost forever. Mission fail! Well, until you play again...
  
  Afterthoughts:
  * No clue what the rewards should be...
  * Have fun creating the Mission Accolades names for this one!

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• orangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  Oh yay, another CaptainGeko interview that forum posters will either ignore or will consider all lies. :rolleyes:

  elijahmre wrote: »

  This week’s Community Question

  • Captains, will you be purchasing the new Delta Rising Operations Pack? What about the pack is most enticing to you?

  Yes. It's just less I have to pay for stuff I'm wanting to buy anyway. Eventually.

  
  Helpful Tools: Dictionary.com - Logical fallacies - Random generator - Word generator - Color tool - Extra Credits - List of common English language errors - New T6 Big booty tutorial

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• xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  orangeitis wrote: »

  Oh yay, another CaptainGeko interview that forum posters will either ignore or will consider all lies. :rolleyes:

  
  Nonsense.
  
  The worst thing which could happen is people actually listening to him. :P

  Reality is an illusion.

  The universe is a hologram.

  

  Buy gold!

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• gofasternow Member Posts: 1,390 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  orangeitis wrote: »

  Oh yay, another CaptainGeko interview that forum posters will either ignore or will consider all lies.

  
  Don't forget cherry pick a quote to prove that he hates the fanbase or something like that!
  
  Anyway, nah, not picking up the pack. Maybe if there's a Starter Pack ala LoR, but nah. The only one that catches my eye is the Guardian Cruiser.

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• bergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  So, it wasn't until this week's "Community Question" segment started that I remembered I had actually responded to the question. Cookie paused before she said it, much as I do when I'm unsure how to pronounce something, and then dove into my name, and much like I would, butchered it! I laughed. In case ya'll decide to read the rest of this on air, just to help things along:
  
  Burg-inz
  
  Anyways, DOffs:
  
  Skiffy wants to be an Engineer, how about a Technician?
  IIRC, Cookie has talked about going to conventions in her Medical division uniform, so she should obviously be a Doctor.
  Jase has shown a great knowledge for ship systems and combat, so Space Warfare Specialist.
  I think Elijah would agree that someone needs to make the Nerve Tonics. Bartender!

  "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock

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• varthelm Member Posts: 265 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  I thought it was a good interview. The part where Geko talks about getting the Voyager crew in for the voice acting work was fun. Most of the new season stuff was cool. I did have a few concerns however.
  
  
  Ship Obsolescence - I applaud the work and testing done to make sure people could take the ship they currently fly and reach level 60. However, when we talk about our current ships being obsolete, most of us players are thinking end game. It seems based on the work with the T5U ships vs. the T6's a good compromise has been reached and this point is understood. For now (see below).
  
  
  Fleet T6's - If Cryptic is not willing to obsolete (endgame version, not leveling version) our current gear and ships via upgrade options, I will take it on faith they will continue that policy when Fleet T6's arrive. As Geko said, there should be incentives and reasons to want the new ships. However, those should be based on different options not significantly more raw power vs. what we can eventually upgrade our T5's to.
  
  
  Chasing new shinies - Geko said he was somewhat confused by players wanting to be done gathering new levels or gear as he felt that's what an MMO primarily was. I disagree, especially those of us on limited time budgets. MMO's that sold us new gear and levels immediately outstripping what players had already worked very hard to get will find themselves with shrinking player bases. We like new options that do not immediately invalidate the bulk of what we already have.
  
  Think of it like Magic the Gathering. You build a card collection and use the many options to craft your deck. A new set comes out, giving you some new abilities and options but they are ones that allow you to tweak what you have, not cause you to want to burn your cards and find something else to do. While we like new stuff we don't want to be on a hamster wheel of revolving gear. Eventually us players realize how pointless that is regardless of how immersed we are in the franchise or community.
  
  How other MMO's handle this is only so relevant. Most of us stopped playing many of those in favor of this. In part, for some of the reasons listed above.
  
  
  Getting information out - There was a lot of work Cryptic was doing behind the scenes to make sure our investment in our current gear and ships was not a waste with these upgrade options. They really did a poor job communicating it on even a basic level though. Many people I know were apprehensive enough to start looking for another game including members of my fleet leadership. I myself quit STO for nearly 2 months for fear the expansion would invalidate my prior dilithium, time and monetary investments. Based on what is coming out of Tribble those fears were mostly addressed and I bought a Delta pack as a result. The right words, even if vague, might have saved us a lot of that.
  
  
  Those are my thoughts anyway and I am still enjoying the game. Keep it rolling guys and thanks for all the hard work.
  
  Respectfully,
  
  Varthelm

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• originalspock Member Posts: 809 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  I have always liked Geko, as he is one of the first Devs who started doing player interviews on his own time and explaining segments of the game via STOKED. He started doing interviews in his house, try getting one of the Blizzard Devs to do that. Heck if its the weekend they don't exist. I think some in the community aren't even remotely aware what kind of information strangle hold they could institute. In fact it is and has been my experience that saying little to nothing at all and attempting to be as vague as possible saves lots of PR heartache. I see plenty of people going ballistic over unfinalized work and unknown data. God help some people here in a actual emergency situation, they might flip out and want to end it all because their shipments of monocles and top hats wont arrive on time. Joking aside, I think we are all lucky to have STO, if you don't believe me Google a company called Perpetual Entertainment, and read how close STO got to being nonexistent and eventually used as a bargaining chip for legal reasons.
  
  It could have been worse oh so much worse. Naysayers feel free to tell me how green the grass was on the other side, even when I spent 3 years looking at 8 or so pieces of concept art on a website that was never updated. /end rant Go Geko!

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• shmeetensbutt Member Posts: 13 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  I purchased the Operations Pack. I work long hours, and Star Trek Online is one of the very few games I play when I get some down time. I have no problem shelling out money for MMO's, and I think the developers should be supported, after all their salary has to come from somewhere. I think with 8 ships, 3 upgrade tokens, and more, I'll probably save money along the way. Besides, I have captains in all 3 factions, this will keep me busy for quite a while.

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• iconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  I do love me some Al Rivera, even if I don't always agree with his decisons, and think Priority One pitches him more softball questions than not.
  
  Maybe someone can post the relevant parts of the podcast in the thread. Extra gold star if they can do it without quoting him out of context.

  

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• herpsterpnderp Member Posts: 7 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qNIrF7BvVOA#t=404
  
  This is from a really old game known to a few of us as Star Trek: Klingon Academy. Other great Star Trek games were born from this, one of them being Star Trek Bridge Commander. They allowed for the complete control of your ship and also offered stunning damage effects and real time damage to ships hull and subsystems. STO needs to be less of a boreville, bang your head against the keyboard-to-win and needs to start taking the initiative to a different direction.
  
  Of course my pipe dream is a Star Trek game with the universe like EVE Online, the ability to pilot your ships like Klingon Academy and Bridge Commander with the micromanaging of Star Trek Starfleet Command 1-3.

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• damix4 Member Posts: 609 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  iconians wrote: »

  I do love me some Al Rivera, even if I don't always agree with his decisons, and think Priority One pitches him more softball questions than not.
  
  Maybe someone can post the relevant parts of the podcast in the thread. Extra gold star if they can do it without quoting him out of context.

  
  Some of the things he said:
  - T5-upgrade tokens will probably be tradable
  - There will be no smaller faction packs, only Delta Operations pack that is currently out.
  - There will probably be some kind of Voyager bundle in the future but he didn't said if it will be based on ships, or similar to DS9 bundle that we currently have on C-Store.

  startrek.44thfleet.com

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• atomictiki Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  varthelm wrote: »

  Chasing new shinies - Geko said he was somewhat confused by players wanting to be done gathering new levels or gear as he felt that's what an MMO primarily was. I disagree, especially those of us on limited time budgets. MMO's that sold us new gear and levels immediately outstripping what players had already worked very hard to get will find themselves with shrinking player bases. We like new options that do not immediately invalidate the bulk of what we already have.
  

  
  Al probably should brush up on the concept of "Horizontal Game Progression" which is what this game had for 3.5 years -- and was actually a positive thing going for it considering that ships have to be bought (with a pretty ridiculously high price point).

  Leave nerfing to the professionals.

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  September 2014 edited September 2014

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