For me, the STO: Rebirth thing was an April Fool's joke, and it should remain where it is: in non-existence, and any other form of it should be there as well. In short: no.
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Yes, if you read my words that you quoted I said exactly that. It's not intended as a true poll. It's meant to be a "Signature Gathering" thread. This is the negativity I'm talking about. You're here making negative comments just for the heck of it. I will be flagging and reporting all insulting and non-constructive posts so keep it up.
Then
1)Don't phrase it as a question in the title, this invites discussion and differing opinions
2)Don't make a poll, this invites discussion and differing opinions
3)Label it a 'petition, sign here if you want it'
Taco is a great artist, I respect his opinion but in this case, he's not the one I'm appealing to and not a decision maker. I'm now being trolled hard. What a surprise! Development resources would not need to be divided between the two shards and there is no evidence supporting the idea that having a STO: Rebirth shard would detract or conflict with anything from Holodeck. It's just speculation.
If anything, it could provide a much needed new revenue stream for Cryptic with minimal investment if they only allowed Gold players access to it.
First off that build was extremely dated and buggy. Rose-tinted glasses don't highlight the fact that the build wasn't stable in the slightest. This leads to a lot of issues and exploits that would require an extreme amount of time to just get up and running without any content changes alone.
Second is that would impact the development cycle for other things as well. Just getting it to function would move development over to getting a build that is many many moons old and volatile. That would also infer, as someone had mentioned, two simultaneous development builds. Each is using drastically different code. One just happens to be years and years out of date back when it really didn't have a lot of quality of content.
Ultimately, while I like nostalgia and revel in it as well, I look back and see a lot of things as well that make me go wtf.
There was a tabletop of Star Trek way back in the day that was the first of its kind. How awesome and innovative! It's nostalgic as hell to look at, but shows itself as being extremely dated. Klingons have smooth foreheads. There's tons of murder. It was weird for being Star Trek. I played it recently with a bunch of my friends and compared it to more modern tabletops. It was terrible, but served as the foundation for what we have now.
Ever played the original Dungeons and Dragons? Same deal. There's tons of nostalgia there, but the classes were things like Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric. Also does anyone remember when Elves weren't a race but they were a class?
You see our past is important. It's what lead us to where we are today. I'm grateful for the past because it serves as a function to grow from and develop. We need to take the past and grow from it, not revert back to it. Move forward.
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Then
1)Don't phrase it as a question in the title, this invites discussion and differing opinions
2)Don't make a poll, this invites discussion and differing opinions
3)Label it a 'petition, sign here if you want it'
If anything, it could provide a much needed new revenue stream for Cryptic with minimal investment if they only allowed Gold players access to it.
First off that build was extremely dated and buggy. Rose-tinted glasses don't highlight the fact that the build wasn't stable in the slightest. This leads to a lot of issues and exploits that would require an extreme amount of time to just get up and running without any content changes alone.
Second is that would impact the development cycle for other things as well. Just getting it to function would move development over to getting a build that is many many moons old and volatile. That would also infer, as someone had mentioned, two simultaneous development builds. Each is using drastically different code. One just happens to be years and years out of date back when it really didn't have a lot of quality of content.
Ultimately, while I like nostalgia and revel in it as well, I look back and see a lot of things as well that make me go wtf.
There was a tabletop of Star Trek way back in the day that was the first of its kind. How awesome and innovative! It's nostalgic as hell to look at, but shows itself as being extremely dated. Klingons have smooth foreheads. There's tons of murder. It was weird for being Star Trek. I played it recently with a bunch of my friends and compared it to more modern tabletops. It was terrible, but served as the foundation for what we have now.
Ever played the original Dungeons and Dragons? Same deal. There's tons of nostalgia there, but the classes were things like Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric. Also does anyone remember when Elves weren't a race but they were a class?
You see our past is important. It's what lead us to where we are today. I'm grateful for the past because it serves as a function to grow from and develop. We need to take the past and grow from it, not revert back to it. Move forward.
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You created a biased poll without a "no" option. Pointing that out and saying how ridiculous it is is not trolling.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008