Over the next few days Subspace-Radio.net will be interviewing some of the team from STO and we would like you to post up questions you want answered and let us know if it's for all our interviewees or specific to team member you want to hear back from.
Are there any more C-store releases planned for Delta Rising Launch that aren't currently listed in the operations pack?
Where is my Andorian Battlecruiser from Enterprise.
Are there any plans to do one off "side story" style missions that aren't necessarily tied into the main storyline of STO?
Any new shuttle content coming with Delta Rising?
One of the things STO is starting to do more is having reoccurring NPCs (like Obisek, the Crew of the Flagships, now Tuvok) will this trend be continued in Delta Rising? Will we run into familiar faces throughout the new mission chain?
If I were a pirate, and you were a ninja, and we we're both robots, who would win in a fight?
can the kdf look forward to more t6 ships, such as a t6 bop or the fleet guramba?
is there a plan to keep kdf ships up to par statwise with the constant fed ship releases? cos as it is, with t5u ship upgrades are relative to one another, even at t5u we are still well behind feds and romulans.
Simpe i would like to know when if ever im going to be able to get a T6 kdf sci ship n allso were is my kdf T6 bop
P,s they are the only 2 ships i would of forked out cash for, as ive allready saved up 8.5k zen from grinding dil for upgrades n the T6 rom tac ship.
Over the next few days Subspace-Radio.net will be interviewing some of the team from STO and we would like you to post up questions you want answered and let us know if it's for all our interviewees or specific to team member you want to hear back from.
post a transcript.
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Al Capt Gecko Receria has said they he would like to buff some ships, like the Vesta, Nebula, and Aquarius. Just to name a few. Are these buffs coming with the T5U ships version? Also are secondary deflectors going to make it into DR?
Will there ultimately be canon faction T6 ships or will T6 be reserved for Cryptic designs?
FKA K-Tar, grumpy Klingon/El-Aurian hybrid. Now assimilated by PWE.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
then can i ask geko: will there ever be a playable race zen store unlock at any point for the federation like the cardassians? equally would the romulans see the likes of the suliban or acamarians make their way as a playable zen store unlock?
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
Why make such a convoluted system that will have players in T5U 10 Console ships, T5U 11 Console ships, T6 10 Console ships, T6 Intel Class 10 Console ships, Fleet T6 ships and Fleet T6 Intel Class ships - both of which will probably have 11 Consoles? Does the new end-game really need 6 different ship playing levels? And that is before we even talk about other new Sub-Classes like Communications or Piloting and what ships they might bring with them in the future.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
"With the influx of Star Trek Online-related radio programs, do you think your interview here will help SSR stay relevant?"
Thanks for posting these up, looking forward to the responses.
Unless everyone changes their music line-up, I do not see how any of them will remain relevant. Most of STO's radio programs cater to people who are fifty. I think these people are 'old' inside.
You can be old with a young mind.
Or, you can be young with an old mind.
"Faith of the Heart" vs. "Wherever You Will Go"
As for my interview question, "How will Cryptic deal with the drastic decline in T5 c-store ship purchases? Since the level cap is being raised to sixty, the players will end up pushing the T5 and T5-Fleet ships aside. How will that affect sales?"
Over the next few days Subspace-Radio.net will be interviewing some of the team from STO and we would like you to post up questions you want answered and let us know if it's for all our interviewees or specific to team member you want to hear back from.
Hawk:
1)Is there any timetable for fixing all the bugs in the R&D system including the missing promised mods outside beams and cannons, the lack of mods in UR consoles, and the lack of an EPS console in the engineering tract?
2) Can you please get rid of the 5 second delay in doff/R&D assignment completion?
3) Any changes planned to existing boff abilities because of the metagame changes thread?
Geko:
1) Any chance you could put a dedicated resource to bug fixing or do a .5 season dedicating to only fixing bugs so the game's quality improves?
Bort:
1) Could the NPC's AI and abilities be improved so that they actually presented a bit of a challenge since adding shields/hull/DPS only results in players having to press the spacebar more?
Over the next few days Subspace-Radio.net will be interviewing some of the team from STO and we would like you to post up questions you want answered and let us know if it's for all our interviewees or specific to team member you want to hear back from.
First of all, thank you for soliciting questions from the community.
Questions:
- To the ship designers: Is it a bug that all four of the Constellation-class warp nacelles do not light up when going to warp? (Only two are lighting up. And in-game bug reports on this are not being responded to.)
- Can Cryptic challenge itself to a self-imposed hackathon to stomp out numerous bugs that continue to plague STO? (Just pour through the STO Forum bug report section for starters, along with your in-game bug reports...)
- When will Cryptic address adding more ground combat blade weaponry, including new fighting moves? (Example: There are Andorian and Klingon blade weapons which would be a welcome addition.)
- Will Cryptic consider revamping the ground play zone on Andoria? Perhaps in support of the previous question? (Both Andoria and Qo'noS are ideal candidates for revamping ground PvP tournaments, or player v. computer opponent.)
- Jupiter and Typhoon class ships: Will we see them in-game, now that Level 60 is achievable?
question a) Most consoles are stackable, and is also the most effect and popular way to build a ship (5 tac consoles of the same type), yet it limits your options in terms of console diversity.
Is there a discussion going on among the devs to make any type of console unique? in other words: Forcing players to aquire consoles from different sources to fill all their console slots.
stacking 5 fleet tac consoles seems to be one of the more obvious reasons for "power creep" over last few seasons. Limiting each type of console to only be usable ONCE on a ship, would bring greater diversity and yet still stay competitive and even make ships with fewer tac console slots more competitive compared to 5 tac console ships.
question b) Will there ever be an option at the ship tailor to select the visuals of shields/engines/ deflectors from various factions, similar to the ground tailor.
Maybe even an option to select the color of your weapons.
question c) What are the current ideas to improve the FPS rate while doing battle in certain "crowded" areas. Is this issue even known discussed?
my idea to solve this would be to limit weapon fire animation to only 2-3 energy weapons. Meaning that a player can deselect the weapons he does not want to be visible while fireing, Or that the animation of which weapon is fored from a ship depends on the type of ship and not its weapons. In other words, a starfleet cruiser will only shoot orange beams at a target (one at a time) regardless of amount and type of weapons equipped.
Will we ever see more of a focus on Zen store sales and less focus on lock boxes?
What plans do you have regarding the massive inflation of prices on the exchange over the last year?
What plans do you have to limit bots and gold sites in game along with people selling lock box and lobi ships on 3rd party websites for cash?
What can you do to limit people running scripts and other 3rd party software in game?
Is it possible to have actual, live, GMs in game helping people with problems and stopping abusive language and griefing activity?
A lot of players of this game, are not MMO types, but are here for the IP. The direction of the game in the last year has gone sharply towards the standard MMO archetype which there has been a lot of push back against. Many features have been added that are copies of what is in Neverwinter for example. Is there a plan to engage players with fun things other than gear grind and rep systems?
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Where is my Andorian Battlecruiser from Enterprise.
Are there any plans to do one off "side story" style missions that aren't necessarily tied into the main storyline of STO?
Any new shuttle content coming with Delta Rising?
One of the things STO is starting to do more is having reoccurring NPCs (like Obisek, the Crew of the Flagships, now Tuvok) will this trend be continued in Delta Rising? Will we run into familiar faces throughout the new mission chain?
If I were a pirate, and you were a ninja, and we we're both robots, who would win in a fight?
is there a plan to keep kdf ships up to par statwise with the constant fed ship releases? cos as it is, with t5u ship upgrades are relative to one another, even at t5u we are still well behind feds and romulans.
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If you need to ask, you loose.
To the Devs: When is the next Fleet Holding planned? Any hints what it'll be?
P,s they are the only 2 ships i would of forked out cash for, as ive allready saved up 8.5k zen from grinding dil for upgrades n the T6 rom tac ship.
post a transcript.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Are they having plan to release for KDF players new T6 Bird of prey class ships?
Cause it seams logical that that class of ships goes toe to toe with new intelligence gameplay and officer stored for Delta rising. :rolleyes:
And second question, are they planing to revamp KDF first city and academy in case of updating new map look for the zones?
Once the interviews are completed we will post up the transcripts on our site
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Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
then can i ask geko: will there ever be a playable race zen store unlock at any point for the federation like the cardassians? equally would the romulans see the likes of the suliban or acamarians make their way as a playable zen store unlock?
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Or
Will we see any fixes or additions to Romulan uniform options?
Or
Will we ever get these old Gorn costume pieces or texture options back?
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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I'm sorry to people who I, in the past, insulted, annoyed, etc.
You can be old with a young mind.
Or, you can be young with an old mind.
"Faith of the Heart" vs. "Wherever You Will Go"
As for my interview question, "How will Cryptic deal with the drastic decline in T5 c-store ship purchases? Since the level cap is being raised to sixty, the players will end up pushing the T5 and T5-Fleet ships aside. How will that affect sales?"
Hawk:
1)Is there any timetable for fixing all the bugs in the R&D system including the missing promised mods outside beams and cannons, the lack of mods in UR consoles, and the lack of an EPS console in the engineering tract?
2) Can you please get rid of the 5 second delay in doff/R&D assignment completion?
3) Any changes planned to existing boff abilities because of the metagame changes thread?
Geko:
1) Any chance you could put a dedicated resource to bug fixing or do a .5 season dedicating to only fixing bugs so the game's quality improves?
Bort:
1) Could the NPC's AI and abilities be improved so that they actually presented a bit of a challenge since adding shields/hull/DPS only results in players having to press the spacebar more?
Questions:
- To the ship designers: Is it a bug that all four of the Constellation-class warp nacelles do not light up when going to warp? (Only two are lighting up. And in-game bug reports on this are not being responded to.)
- Can Cryptic challenge itself to a self-imposed hackathon to stomp out numerous bugs that continue to plague STO? (Just pour through the STO Forum bug report section for starters, along with your in-game bug reports...)
- When will Cryptic address adding more ground combat blade weaponry, including new fighting moves? (Example: There are Andorian and Klingon blade weapons which would be a welcome addition.)
- Will Cryptic consider revamping the ground play zone on Andoria? Perhaps in support of the previous question? (Both Andoria and Qo'noS are ideal candidates for revamping ground PvP tournaments, or player v. computer opponent.)
- Jupiter and Typhoon class ships: Will we see them in-game, now that Level 60 is achievable?
Thank you.
When will we see a return to Exploration within STO?
Is there a guardian class or was that grainy image we all saw a weather balloon
Will there ever be a Ferasan escort carrier, or a Ferasan ship in general?
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Is there a discussion going on among the devs to make any type of console unique? in other words: Forcing players to aquire consoles from different sources to fill all their console slots.
stacking 5 fleet tac consoles seems to be one of the more obvious reasons for "power creep" over last few seasons. Limiting each type of console to only be usable ONCE on a ship, would bring greater diversity and yet still stay competitive and even make ships with fewer tac console slots more competitive compared to 5 tac console ships.
question b) Will there ever be an option at the ship tailor to select the visuals of shields/engines/ deflectors from various factions, similar to the ground tailor.
Maybe even an option to select the color of your weapons.
question c) What are the current ideas to improve the FPS rate while doing battle in certain "crowded" areas. Is this issue even known discussed?
my idea to solve this would be to limit weapon fire animation to only 2-3 energy weapons. Meaning that a player can deselect the weapons he does not want to be visible while fireing, Or that the animation of which weapon is fored from a ship depends on the type of ship and not its weapons. In other words, a starfleet cruiser will only shoot orange beams at a target (one at a time) regardless of amount and type of weapons equipped.
Will we ever see more of a focus on Zen store sales and less focus on lock boxes?
What plans do you have regarding the massive inflation of prices on the exchange over the last year?
What plans do you have to limit bots and gold sites in game along with people selling lock box and lobi ships on 3rd party websites for cash?
What can you do to limit people running scripts and other 3rd party software in game?
Is it possible to have actual, live, GMs in game helping people with problems and stopping abusive language and griefing activity?
A lot of players of this game, are not MMO types, but are here for the IP. The direction of the game in the last year has gone sharply towards the standard MMO archetype which there has been a lot of push back against. Many features have been added that are copies of what is in Neverwinter for example. Is there a plan to engage players with fun things other than gear grind and rep systems?