Ok, if this really isn't some kind of practical joke I'm getting concerned about the following excerpt from the Dev Blog:
"There comes a time for every MMO that becomes popular and changes over time, when it goes back how it was. For us, that time is now. After over 5 years and countless updates, Holodeck is going to be retired. The old girl has had a good run, but shes tired, and its time to begin again."
What does this mean for Holodeck, is it going to be shut down or reset in the near future? If so, what does that mean for all the current characters currently on Holodeck? Do they just disappear or do they lose everything that didn't exist in STO 1.0?
Is it taking anyone long to patch the game to its original condition on Redshirt. Im at 3% lol, should it be patching slow or is there anyway to make it faster? at this rate I will be here until my next birthday lol
"Omega Class will prevail she cannot be defeated!"
so the old pvevp is back? the one that was in space where you had to bring fed operativaes from one base to the klingon base and get attacked from klingon players? please say its back! I LOVED THAT PVP MAP (i stopped playing space cuz that map was removed lol)
There comes a time for every MMO that becomes popular and changes over time, when it goes back how it was. For us, that time is now. After over 5 years and countless updates, Holodeck is going to be retired. The old girl has had a good run, but shes tired, and its time to begin again.
If it is, what happens to ALL the purchases we have made? Will we get access to them again? Or will EVERY ZEN be refunded? If it will become lost permanently, then the joke will no longer be a joke, but stealing.
Your not going to be x-fering any toon to red shirt.. to many changes in the character files since launch. SO be prepared to create a new toon under the old nasty original rules.
NO ROMULANS
KDF play is an unlock.. I think at level 20 or so.. its been a very long time.
PvP is against the other faction period..
Prepurchase stuff, special edition stuff should be there.. a lot of ships will not be. No T5U..no T6
You'll get a free ship token at rank up... this is pre dilithium.. extra ship cost EC.
NO DOFF system..
They may have thrown in the exploration stuff or maybe not..if we do the early crafting system will be there to. Crafting is done at memory alpha.. mats are gathered pretty much everywhere.
Many things will not be obvious... use yer eyes, use yer map.. AND READ THE MISSION COPY.. there are hints.. and many of the missions you see are still in sto, but are no longer part of level progression.
See ya'll on Red Shirt..
Oh, and C-store may or may not be there or even working...
if is really that bad... just don't play, get out of here lol
Who says I do play. I generally come to the boards to help other people and maybe put my two cents into the devs with the hope that it'll get fixed. Otherwise I tend to play maybe 15 minutes each day... if that.. long enough to DOff.
Even during the CE event I played maybe 30 minutes.. enough to run 4 characters through the event and DOff... then gone.
But I come back because I love Star Trek... and I have hope for the game.
Because Cryptic really has done some things right... even when they do some things wrong. The game is all around better over all... more content... better graphics... soon to be open sector space...
But for everything two things they've done right... they done a BIG DOOZY of something wrong in my mind... and it has everything to do with Metrics, Money Grabs, Power Creep, and Time Gates.
I miss Vanilla PvP and the Feddie Balls... even while I don't miss the fact that Klingons weren't even a fraction of a faction. They were just a bunch of ships. But the who PvP was so much smoother then.. .even while we complained about end game PvP and how Klingons dominated PvP until end game... when Feds had the numbers and the quests to outfit themselves better.
I miss Exploration Clusters... sure the Genesis was what 7 maps and a bunch of different colors and 15 missions... but it was Exploration... instead of building upon what they made and fixing it to be less buggy, Cryptic took out a center piece of Star Trek... Exploration... and literally threw it into the trash bin.
I miss the fact that you could level the way you wanted to play... play the missions you wanted to play and explore or pvp to skip to the next mission you wanted to play. A lot of missions sucked then... just as many missions suck now. But then you could work around and skip those really horrible missions. Now... you're railroaded into playing them by a Cryptic that just wants to pad their Metrics.
Sure it was a buggy mess... full of it's own issues... I'm not going to put on rose colored glasses and say it was perfect and great and Cryptic has done no right... Cryptic has done a lot of things right...
But to me... they took away the essence of Star Trek in STO in order to make a better game.
The game may be better... but it's lacking a SOUL now that it once had.
I seriously need to get patching. I loved the pvp back then. It's was fun and varied not like today's mess where it's all or nothing. Says things at I'm probably more excited to play the old style pvp and have a TRIBBLE ton of fun that the new Galaxy coming out tomorrow.
Cryptic if you learn nothing else from this awesome April fools treat is that players want that fun pvp back. I would love to see a pvp mode which was independent from normal pve. Let's have set roles and set ships and abilities to promote good pvp and fun in an equal environment.think like team fortress and you probsbly won't be far off.
Can't wait to take a nebula in with detection grid and the old Grav well of awesomeness!
Looking for a dedicated Star Trek community? Visit www.ufplanets.com for details.
To my shame I have to admit I've been fooled . I spent a good number of seconds thinking WTH are these guys thinking. And then I realized it was a joke. Ha ha, I got fooled and I found it funny.
But wait, the redshirt bit is for real? Is that an April fool's joke inside another April fool's joke? That's just evil!
"Essentially, you'll want to add a command line flag to the launcher:
-patchserver patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com
If you use the cryptic launcher, make a new shortcut to it, and edit the properties. Append the command above to the end of the Target field."
Lol, still not sure if she's trolling us. It would be awesome to PvP without all the junk that has piled on over the years.
Patching now, but I swear to god, if this turns out to be a 10-gig patch of Rick-rolling, I'm coming after you, Trendy. All ur baconz will be ours.
The fact that some people have download quotas is the only reason I suspect they're being honest about it actually being on Redshirt right now. 10GB of download could easily be half of somebodies monthly allowance, which wouldn't be very funny if it turned out to just be the latest holodeck build.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Trendy....seriously...this is he best April Fools joke to date lol good job...you got so many people...my fleet freaked out, friends in game started blowing up my phone, they blasted it all over our FB fleet page hahahaha I love this
The only reason I say this is because I have spent hundreds of dollars on the game alone plus a couple hundred dollars on zen so I can get the lockbox ships so this better be a joke!!!:mad::eek::rolleyes:
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Oh April fools........Shame, I miss good PVP
@Tonyjohnminter
Mosquito Squadron & SVKE
"There comes a time for every MMO that becomes popular and changes over time, when it goes back how it was. For us, that time is now. After over 5 years and countless updates, Holodeck is going to be retired. The old girl has had a good run, but shes tired, and its time to begin again."
What does this mean for Holodeck, is it going to be shut down or reset in the near future? If so, what does that mean for all the current characters currently on Holodeck? Do they just disappear or do they lose everything that didn't exist in STO 1.0?
The worst part is, Redshirt is taking soooo long to patch. I want to see NPCs asking where Sulu is again, dammit!
There comes a time for every MMO that becomes popular and changes over time, when it goes back how it was. For us, that time is now. After over 5 years and countless updates, Holodeck is going to be retired. The old girl has had a good run, but shes tired, and its time to begin again.
If it is, what happens to ALL the purchases we have made? Will we get access to them again? Or will EVERY ZEN be refunded? If it will become lost permanently, then the joke will no longer be a joke, but stealing.
Common sense:
Most Like WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO...
Your not going to be x-fering any toon to red shirt.. to many changes in the character files since launch. SO be prepared to create a new toon under the old nasty original rules.
NO ROMULANS
KDF play is an unlock.. I think at level 20 or so.. its been a very long time.
PvP is against the other faction period..
Prepurchase stuff, special edition stuff should be there.. a lot of ships will not be. No T5U..no T6
You'll get a free ship token at rank up... this is pre dilithium.. extra ship cost EC.
NO DOFF system..
They may have thrown in the exploration stuff or maybe not..if we do the early crafting system will be there to. Crafting is done at memory alpha.. mats are gathered pretty much everywhere.
Many things will not be obvious... use yer eyes, use yer map.. AND READ THE MISSION COPY.. there are hints.. and many of the missions you see are still in sto, but are no longer part of level progression.
See ya'll on Red Shirt..
Oh, and C-store may or may not be there or even working...
This being a joke or not... how do I login into another game server???
Retiring of Holodeck -- April Fool's Joke -- Not gonna happen
Star Trek - Rebirth -- Not an April Fool's Joke -- Is happening.
Who says I do play. I generally come to the boards to help other people and maybe put my two cents into the devs with the hope that it'll get fixed. Otherwise I tend to play maybe 15 minutes each day... if that.. long enough to DOff.
Even during the CE event I played maybe 30 minutes.. enough to run 4 characters through the event and DOff... then gone.
But I come back because I love Star Trek... and I have hope for the game.
Because Cryptic really has done some things right... even when they do some things wrong. The game is all around better over all... more content... better graphics... soon to be open sector space...
But for everything two things they've done right... they done a BIG DOOZY of something wrong in my mind... and it has everything to do with Metrics, Money Grabs, Power Creep, and Time Gates.
I miss Vanilla PvP and the Feddie Balls... even while I don't miss the fact that Klingons weren't even a fraction of a faction. They were just a bunch of ships. But the who PvP was so much smoother then.. .even while we complained about end game PvP and how Klingons dominated PvP until end game... when Feds had the numbers and the quests to outfit themselves better.
I miss Exploration Clusters... sure the Genesis was what 7 maps and a bunch of different colors and 15 missions... but it was Exploration... instead of building upon what they made and fixing it to be less buggy, Cryptic took out a center piece of Star Trek... Exploration... and literally threw it into the trash bin.
I miss the fact that you could level the way you wanted to play... play the missions you wanted to play and explore or pvp to skip to the next mission you wanted to play. A lot of missions sucked then... just as many missions suck now. But then you could work around and skip those really horrible missions. Now... you're railroaded into playing them by a Cryptic that just wants to pad their Metrics.
Sure it was a buggy mess... full of it's own issues... I'm not going to put on rose colored glasses and say it was perfect and great and Cryptic has done no right... Cryptic has done a lot of things right...
But to me... they took away the essence of Star Trek in STO in order to make a better game.
The game may be better... but it's lacking a SOUL now that it once had.
Cryptic if you learn nothing else from this awesome April fools treat is that players want that fun pvp back. I would love to see a pvp mode which was independent from normal pve. Let's have set roles and set ships and abilities to promote good pvp and fun in an equal environment.think like team fortress and you probsbly won't be far off.
Can't wait to take a nebula in with detection grid and the old Grav well of awesomeness!
Looking for a dedicated Star Trek community? Visit www.ufplanets.com for details.
I know a lot of people I've been talking with, are actually more excited about doing Redshirt, than they are about Delta Recruit.
With patch speeds this slow we'll be lucky to get on by next April 1st.
But wait, the redshirt bit is for real? Is that an April fool's joke inside another April fool's joke? That's just evil!
-patchserver patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com
If you use the cryptic launcher, make a new shortcut to it, and edit the properties. Append the command above to the end of the Target field."
Lol, still not sure if she's trolling us. It would be awesome to PvP without all the junk that has piled on over the years.
It would suck, specially for people with download quotas.
The fact that some people have download quotas is the only reason I suspect they're being honest about it actually being on Redshirt right now. 10GB of download could easily be half of somebodies monthly allowance, which wouldn't be very funny if it turned out to just be the latest holodeck build.
the launcher is very slow to load.:mad:
no mindless grinding!
PVP!
NO LOCKBOXES!
No "cutesy" pets!
Romulans hadn't been defiled!
People talking about Star Trek instead of their latest parse!
NO CHINESE OVERLORDS!
I guess it's a good thing I have unlimited internet usage.....