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[INTERVIEW] Tribbles in Ecstasy to interview Jesse Heinig live on 16th Oct 2015

midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
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Today, 16th October 2015, the Tribbles in Ecstasy podcast will be interviewing Jesse Heinig, Staff Game Designer for Star Trek Online. We will be boradcasting live from 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern / Midnight UK over at

If you are unable to join us live, please post below any questions you would like asked.

LLAP, MidNite

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  • alex1geralex1ger Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    I intend to be there for the show, but just in case I forget something or can't make it:

    If you should actually like any of these ideas, feel free to take notes/use them.

    - Would it be possible to turn Lt. Cmdr. Kyla VanZyl into more of a recurring character (she seems to be a "guest star" right now)? I mean, in Uneasy Allies she was voiced by Laura Bailey, who is an awesome voice actor and I would like to hear more of her. Although... I feel like she is at her best, when the character she voices is a little less "business" and instead has a little more snark (or even sassiness) to her.
    Maybe the war/the experience of having that bluegill control her has changed her? Or the easy way to change her personality would be to just use the heavy casualties suffered during the Iconian war to turn her into a joined trill. The symbiont could take her into that direction.

    - Based on one of sunseahls ideas: How about an episode (or two or a whole story arc) delving into the KDF's diversity? Showing us how... the gorn deal with being part of the empire. (Gorn freedom fighters/terrorists?) Or how the Letheans might struggle to make a name for themselves because of their telepathic abilities. I think there are a lot of stories waiting to be told. And it might put some KDF players at ease.
    I'm not even asking for a klingon-only story arc, make it faction-agnostic and make use of the species/faction-specific dialogue options.

    - Are there any plans (I'm not asking for spoilers!) to deal with the Elachi/Solanae/Tal Shiar, now that the Iconians are out of the picture?



    Suggestion:

    - Since you got Nog and Leeta and we know from two interviews that Armin Shimerman offered to do voice acting, could you put the following on the "whiteboard":
    "Get Max Grodénchik to do a ferengi story arc with the Grand Nagus, his "first lady", his brother, his son and the changes they tried to introduce to ferengi society."
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    The current ship limit is a total of 60 per character. For ship collectors, there are over 50 lobi/lockbox/special reward ships now, not even counting c-store or fleet ships. For us ship collectors, and with the impending admiralty system, are there any plans to increase the ship count or make ships reclaimable to alleviate the current limit?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Previously special event ships, such as Risian or Breen ships, could be re-earned at future summer/winter events. That policy was recently changed with no forewarning to the player base - are there any plans to make them re-available in the future?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Since the Delta event promoting new characters joining the game, there have been no replays of feature episodes with rewards such as the ophidian cane, shard, etc. Any plans?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    I bought the Heavy Escort Carrier pack recently which contains the Starfleet T6 Alita, Klingon T6 Qa'Tel, and the Romulan T6 Jhu'ael. The Starfleet Alita got a console which is part of a 3 piece set, the Romulan Jhu'ael got a console which is part of a 3 piece set, but the Klingon Qa'Tel did not get a console that is part of the 3 piece set. The arc announcement with this incredibly strange observation is here - - https://arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9478993-star-trek-online%3A-heavy-escort-carriers-now-live!. Any plans to appease the players with a proper set for those who prefer to play on Klingon carriers?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    I like both ground and space play, but I constantly have to change traits between ground and space and this takes a lot of time. Any plans for ground loadouts, or spec loadouts?
  • ladychelle79ladychelle79 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    Are there any plans to make ground trait load outs and space trait load outs or a system where you can set ground and space and the game automatically switch your personal set traits based on if you are on a space or ground map?
  • ladychelle79ladychelle79 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    Summer Event food is available in the Summer Event store for favors but Winter Event food is not available in the Winter store for ornaments etc. Is there a reason for the inconsistency and can that change so it is always available as well?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Several seasons ago, the doffing chain "Children's Toys" could reward some of the best items in the game. The crafting system has obviously taken that roll now. Are there plans in the future to bring better value to doffers via items that are only obtainable via the doffing system. With the new admiralty system, I think it is a relevant question to ask how will you continue to provide value to players in existing major systems?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Are there plans to provide the ability to change item modifiers. Currently the crafting system is a true "click-fest" in constantly making the same item trying to get the right modifiers.
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    We currently have a large number of "mark" currencies. Fleet marks, omega marks, undine marks, etc. Are there plans to consolidate this into a more reasonable number of currencies?
  • ladychelle79ladychelle79 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    sneyeper wrote: »
    We currently have a large number of "mark" currencies. Fleet marks, omega marks, undine marks, etc. Are there plans to consolidate this into a more reasonable number of currencies?

    I think it would be a great idea to let us convert all reputation marks into a general "reputation mark" currency once we have the rep done. It would be so much easier to convert it into dil if we had just one type not seven. Even easier if we could do it in larger quantities. I mean who wants to convert 40k omega marks 500 marks at a time?? The reputation system in general could be so much more user friendly instead of the mess it is now.
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    The average ec-price of the Krenim Annorax seems to have been somewhere in the range of 650-750 million ec and the exchange could not accomodate those prices, which resulted in most Annorax ships trades/sales in game occurring between players. This points to two things -- obvious ec inflation in the game, and the inadequacy of the in-game Exchange for premium items with this given inflation. Are there plans to address this obvious ec-inflation by providing an appropriate "ec-sink" in game, and if not, are there plans to update the Exchange to accomodate the new reality of prices? As it stands, there is potential in the future for many players to enter into unfair trade deals since the Exchange may no longer be able to accomodate the in-game economy.
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    When is No Win Scenario coming back? Will there be a ground version?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Recently, a certain fleet visited Cryptic Headquarters. Within the same week the same fleet "discovered" a way to break an item which had been in the game for several years. This led to much speculation about favoritism on Cryptic's part in relation to specific fleets. What is Cryptic's official policy regarding relationships and promotions of certain fleets within game?
  • sneyepersneyeper Member Posts: 217 Arc User
    Now that we have Armada's, are there any plans to provide a way for players to discover Armada's and the fleets contained within?
  • ladychelle79ladychelle79 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    Currently Armadas are the name of the Alpha fleet. Is there a way to change that? Our armada, for instance, has different fleets as Alpha on the fed and kdf sides but we wanted the Armada to have the same name. Is this something that you have plans to add to the game?
  • midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
    Thank you all for your questions, we went through most of them. I'll post the link to the release of the episode when it is released this weekend.
  • midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
    This interview has been posted, you can discuss it on the offical forum post here: http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1205783/podcast-interview-tribbles-in-ecstasy-take-189-all-jessed-up
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