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Well... The Na'kuhl seem to have turned up in the tailor as an alien complexion.
Time to get our cold war on.
They're a 29th century faction in the war, probably contemporaries of Braxton, as opposed to being a 31st century faction like Daniels
Enemies of the Temporal Accord, they view time travel as their right. They're also enemies of the Suliban. Masters of one way stealth time travel. They assassinated Vladmir Lennin that one time.
Time to get our cold war on.
They're a 29th century faction in the war, probably contemporaries of Braxton, as opposed to being a 31st century faction like Daniels
Enemies of the Temporal Accord, they view time travel as their right. They're also enemies of the Suliban. Masters of one way stealth time travel. They assassinated Vladmir Lennin that one time.
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But yeah, they look cool, presumably going to be the antagonist for Season 11 if they're in the tailor. Will be nice to have someone new again
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Just use the Vadwaar uniforms they work quite well.
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
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'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
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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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You have made the Goddess of Empathy facepalm.
Who?
Oh, right, that species that turned up in that absolute nonsense time travel arc. Aren't you tired of absolute nonsense time travel arcs yet after "Butterfly"?
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Though it's making it obvious New Dawn will be the STO's inclusion into the Temporal War. Which makes me actually happy because I've been itching for the Battle of Procyon V even before Launch. Which I always suggested STO ships were those ships seen on Enterprise.
And Future Guy is a Romulan Imperial whose pissed off about the destruction of Romulus and trying to change history to bring it back.
You want these forums to burn don't you? *starts passing out molotovs*
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253
Why are you not rejoicing?
EDIT: those were mostly Russians. So Stalinists, not TRIBBLE.
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My suspicion is that Cryptic will design new uniforms for the Na'kuhl that have a similar flavor. The Na'kuhl who wore the uniforms were actually IN the SS. Presumably the ones we encounter won't be. That said, they likely have a taste for fascism. And when it doubt, Cryptic (I think wisely, mileage may vary) latches onto canon traits and amplifies them.
So they'll look like aliens who would be at home wearing a TRIBBLE uniform but they won't actually wear TRIBBLE uniforms.
My prediction is, Temporal Cold War is actually going to be the next expansion. IF they include WWII German uniforms, they'll make it a perk for the $20/$150 packs. The regular costume bundles haven't been profitable. Meanwhile, the demand for this is going to exceed what I see them putting in the Lobi store. And it thematically plays well with an expansion called Temporal Cold War (or probably something simpler like Star Trek Online: Time War) to have historical military costumes tied in.
My prediction is that we'll see Temporal Holdings for fleets. 23rd Century Starbase with TOS flare in time for the 50th anniversary celebration. Historical costumes. Historical bridge officers. I also think the Doctor Holo-BOff at Vegas is a testbed. Maybe we'll start seeing super-exclusive holographic recreations of characters for the 50th. I don't know that they can get Shatner but they might manage to swing his likeness on a BOff or at least Pike's.
I think TCW will be the "wrapper" for new content but that the new content itself will likely be all eras on the table. I can imagine Takei and Koenig headlining the next expansion. If you think about it, Tim Russ seems to be a contact person for Cryptic. Then you can look at people who work on Russ' fan films as possible recruitment for STO.
That would include Koenig, Cirroc Lofton, Alan Ruck, J.G. Hertzler. Takei I think is all about keeping a high internet profile.
I really can see Frakes and Sirtis going for STO. And we've heard they're going for Levar Burton and Kate Mulgrew.
And also keep in mind they found out they have the rights to all the audio from the shows. I believe they put Roxann Dawson in game from an alternate take of the scene where Harry Kim died. They're only using stuff with raw audio. That would theoretically include movies. So they can Trials and Tribble-ations us into iconic Trek moments.
Now, sure, you want to mix that up with new stuff. But Delta Rising brought in record numbers for the game when it launched. If they can use a mix of new recordings from various actors in supporting roles and use audio of Kirk and Picard and Sisko from the shows, in context, well... You might need sign-offs in some cases but I think a Shatner likeness signoff is more realistic than new recording. And then if you have Takei doing new dialogue around it, it will fit.
My prediction remains that when they reintroduce State of Q, it will become part of this new plotline and they'll get Felecia Bell and maybe Cirroc Lofton to record new dialogue aboard the Saratoga.
If we're hopping in and out of iconic moments, in our timeline and in others, a lot of the material becomes usable. Christopher Plummer likely won't do STO but we can take Kirk's place fighting Chang while safeguarding an alternate reality where the Klingons executed Kirk. And then we get Plummer's glorious Shakespearean taunts in a boss fight.
EDIT: I'm sure that SFD would love some commie uniforms.
TNG did reference WWII but tended to focus on the technological advancements. They did make a Pearl Harbor allusion once. Dixon Hill took place in 1941. Hill was based on the character Dixon Steele (nicknamed "Dix" also) who was played by Humphrey Bogart in a 1947 film. The Dixon Steele character was a WWII vet.
However, spoilers for the book...
I could see them designing uniforms being highly militaristic, but if they added the WW2 outfit ... oh boy. You know that's going to cause problems on so many levels. And how much you want to bet our goon squad is going to get dressed up and cause a commotion? People thought the Disco Balls were bad?
I'm sorry, but I just don't buy that. Especially when the queues and chat channels are dead. (Except during this CE Event, and I'm seeing 300 numbers in the Advanced).
The Class A Service Uniform Type 3 of the Tal'Diann is much snazzier, and the Praetorian variants on that are snazzier still. :P
^This. Is the reason they will use, because making possible for players to wear TRIBBLE uniforms would be problematic.
Sure it is.
Now that we're doing war with temporal technology and everybody and their mother have access to it sure the next season is about temporal war and the Na'Kuhl would not like the youngster species to mess with "their" business.
As long as they don't fit them in ridiculous TRIBBLE-like uniform I think they could make a good enemy.
I fear for the ship design though. They always make questionable taste ripoffs when they don't have solid canon material imho.
It's too early for the STO timeline but we' re going in that direction and the Xindi are already there. So there will be something related imho.
I think it brought in record sales on bundles and I expect more attempts at bundles tied to new cast members appearing.
I think Geko said the first few weeks were CLOSE to record activity (LOR was the record, I think?) but DR set a financial record for them nevertheless. Which is what's relevant to my prediction of a bundle.
They can get mileage out of the 50th by doing an expansion that time travels to different eras. I can see a lucrative bundle there and can see historical military uniforms as a premium perk.
And you actually believed him? Without showing solid evidence to back up that claim? /facepalm
Yeah, I believe Hillary Clinton and Bernie Madeoff before I believe that. Especially out of the person who called people exploiters for simply playing the game. If the game was doing so well, then where is the solid proof? And if DR was as much of a "financial success" as they claim, then why the firings a few months ago?
I just don't buy it. To me a success would be them sticking around longer than 1 or 2 weeks. Especially when there was a MAJOR event shortly after (The Winter Event). Guaranteed, that thinking is going to lose business, because new players come on board and see a ghost town, they very likely aren't going to stick around in the long-term.
I don't think we're talking about a magical success model. We're talking about whether there was a short term financial spike, which might be something that can be sustained with a repeat or a doubling down if dropoff wasn't related to the products in the C-Store or the cash bundles, which I don't think it was.
Separate your view of the game into component parts.
I am not talking game mechanics or XP curves or longer term retention management. I am talking raw financials and cash shop products as well as marketing.
Okay, now, I am saying that I believe that the value offering of the bundles coupled with hype from the Voyager reunion generated a spike of sales. I think that the spike's decline can be tied to a number of things, which include: cyclical play, community communication difficulties, frustration, bugs, etc.
All I am saying is that I think a similar build up and launch (not including any of the nerfing in the launch, that was several days later) with perhaps a different post-launch set of strategies can replicate or create better short term financial returns, especially if they double down on elements that were successful. I don't think this is a revolutionary premise.
Now, that said, my next premise is that time travel opens things up wide open. If Voyager cast members generated X, George Takei and Walter Koenig with archived voiceover from Shatner and Nimoy and Riker, Troi, Worf, and Geordi, with archived voiceover from Stewart and Spiner and strategic C-Store packs could generate a lot of pre-launch buzz and buzz through launch.
Now, from the day or two or maybe the week after the launch hits, that's a separate set of issues.
Assuming the spikes were real, it's not sustainable since the population leaves within a few weeks. It's no different in principle than the stock market. Spikes are people playing the market, while the slower growth is with dedicated investors who believes in the product's long-term growth. All it takes is one major disappointment and that spike becomes smaller and smaller. Their goal should be not having spikes, but having an island form, and it getting higher and higher.
Now if they did get a whole roster of the cast to reprise their roles for S11 or the ST 50th, oh it will surely generate an interest. But those who were burned by DR will still feel the burn, and not all will return. So I would advise Salami to keep the dogs on the leash and task someone that the community likes for the PR.