Salami_Inferno and zeroniusrex Interview

winters83 · January 2016

Greetings fellow STO players! Tomorrow the 21st of January, Priority One Podcast will be interviewing Executive Producer @Salami_Inferno and Producer @zeroniusrex. Have any burning questions? Reply here and let us know!

risian4 · January 2016

Not sure if this has been asked before in an interview, but one thing I'd like to know is if there are any plans to make retired ships from events (Anniversary, Summer and Winter) available through other means (C-store, Lobi store, dilithium store etc.)

Or if there are plans for an event where we get another chance at earning these ships.

winters83 · January 2016

risian4 wrote: »

Not sure if this has been asked before in an interview, but one thing I'd like to know is if there are any plans to make retired ships from events (Anniversary, Summer and Winter) available through other means (C-store, Lobi store, dilithium store etc.)

Or if there are plans for an event where we get another chance at earning these ships.

I don't believe that question has been asked directly however I do know that it has been said in past Dev Blogs that the event ships were being retired. From the wording it came across as a permanent thing but we will certainly try and get the question in!

siliconpsycho · January 2016

My question:

Are they ever going to return to releasing a "season" of missions all at once? or is the drip feed of FE's a thing now?

lordsteve1 · January 2016

Are they ever going to look at the PVE queues and try to sort out the mess there;

Three parts really:

1) Are they going to add sufficient elite content to keep the top players happy?

2) Are they going to consider ways to solve the problems with dead PVE queues and how bad it must look for new players seeing most endgame content is dead?

3) Are we ever going to see much loved currently "retired" queues like NWS and Mine Trap return?

risingwolfshadow · January 2016

When will the Dev team bring some balance to gear and boff powers so that we can make best use of what is a very good combat system but is held back by the sheer power creep and abilities that have little to no counter?

Also have you noticed that ships are flying way too fast these days and torpedoes are too slow?

mhall85 · January 2016

Will there be any updates to the R&D system soon? (Anything from new recipes, ability to change mods, or breakdown of items for materials...)

Will the Defiant console set bonus be addressed soon? (Currently, the set bonus it quite useless for FEDs, and omits the phaser quad cannons.)

sisteric · January 2016

Can there be content made for players to play solo and gain marks for any of the reputations?

Is there any plans to add more Science Ships to help out in the Admiralty system?

Will you guys reconsider Gateway website and actually make it a functional part of the game? I would love to be able to do the Doffing and Admiralty through the Gateway, would make my time in game more for content that way. I think it would also be good to expand it to allow us to reset the R&D and Reputations.

Will Memory Alpha ever be re-opened and used as the Galactic Library for the game?

angrytarg · January 2016

It would be nice to allow us to craft Andorian phasers and add a omni-directional beam to the mix. Any plans to do that?

Further, are there plans to introduce new non-Starfleet ships to the blue side? Tellarite (!), Vulcan, Andorian?

How about a Targ handling ground kit?

markhawkman · January 2016

angrytarg wrote: »

It would be nice to allow us to craft Andorian phasers and add a omni-directional beam to the mix. Any plans to do that?

Further, are there plans to introduce new non-Starfleet ships to the blue side? Tellarite (!), Vulcan, Andorian?

How about a Targ handling ground kit?

hmm... wouldn't that be something essentially identical to the Mastiff device, but in a kit slot?

angrytarg · January 2016

markhawkman wrote: »

hmm... wouldn't that be something essentially identical to the Mastiff device, but in a kit slot?

Essentially. But Targ handling was something that Cryptic wanted to implement back in 2012 or even earlier. I'd imagine modul kits with a level so your pets can improve, maybe pets with different skillsets (like support and seeker drones, different specialities) and most importantly TARGS.

swamarian · January 2016

I'm curious if there's going to be a rollup patch to the doffing issues?
(Ongoing space sector border weirdness, not getting rarity bonuses in rewards, having the mission list refresh itself twice when you start a mission in some areas.)

chastity1337 · January 2016

Ask them if they have any plans to implement a language pack for Spanish (aka Castellano).

misterferengi · January 2016

Can we have the New Orleans, Norway classes added to the game please and any other classes that were cannon ships. Even if they are only ship skin options for existing ships.
Will PvE Elites ever be coming back ?.
Will Romulan and KDF get some science ship love or better yet some Admiralty Science Card love.
Tier 6 Sovereign,Nebula and Vor'cha ?
Can we have the d'k tang ( http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/D'k_tahg ) added as a melee weapon for the KDF. Every KDF warrior in the shows and movies appeared to carry one.

mmps1 · January 2016

Can you ask them how the lag solution is coming along and do they expect the omega event to exacerbate the issue like it did last year. It's been over a year of lag now, do they expect it to be resolved soon?

Thank you

goodscotch · January 2016

T6 D7/K'tinga...yes, no? Coke or Pepsi? What's the fastest land animal? Well...skip the last two questions.

daveyny · January 2016

Will there ever be another Replay Event of Old Missions to make available the Specialty Items that are currently unavailable?

thegrandnagus1 · January 2016

1) foundry: why was this abandoned? Even NW has virtually abandoned theirs.

2) mission rewards: why the disparity? Why Do I get 480(or is it 520 now?) dilithium from a 10 minute(or less) patrol, but only 192 from spending 10-15 mins replaying an episode in the mission journal? More details here.

kjwashington · January 2016

I have two unrelated questions.

1) Will we be seeing any new specializations soon? (Perhaps coming with the anniversary?)

2) Are there any plans to bring certain tactical powers (particularly Beam: Fire at Will) back in line with the performance of the others? Or at least getting them to acknowledge they its over-performing would be nice.

spiritwalker1969 · January 2016

Any plans for changes or expansions to Fleets in the future ? Perhaps make it easier for projects to be completed by smaller fleet by introducing items that can only be used for this purpose?

velqua · January 2016

With all the non-combat pets available--and obtained--can we get a tab in the Inventory to hold non-combat pets both for ground and space instead of using either Inventory or Bank space, similar to what was done for the R&D materials?

markhawkman · January 2016

When will we get Boff manual equivalents of the event kit modules?

devilzaphan · January 2016

Will you be designing a new carrier sometime this year for the KDF/Rom faction or will it be like what you did for the fed with player choices?

rezking · January 2016

My question:

Next playable Faction is...?

captainhunter1 · January 2016

Any plans for paid development time for the Foundry? More specifically...to address the terrible UI interface blocking access to nearly 100,000 missions? THAT is a HUGE amount of 'strange new worlds' Cryptic could be promoting as exploration content for New Dawn - that have been made for FREE for their game. The cost-to-reward index doesn't get any higher than that.

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winters83 · January 2016

Thanks for all the replies people!

I've added all of your questions to the list. We will try and get through as many of them as possible!

tmassx · January 2016

1) It is scheduled for 2016 an expansion ?

2) We have heard from Geko , there will be no kdf science ships . It is sad but hopefully i can live with B'rel . For the Romulans revealed nothing . There is still hope that they could get a decent ( pls no Ha'nom T6 ) science vessel ? Tier 4 trait of terran reputation is ideal for building a sci / torp ship.

3) It is going a something that would encourage playing "dead queues" (f.e. better rewards for longer missions)

4) How continues reworking The Breach and Mine trap?

mustrumridcully0 · January 2016

Will we ever see a Risan Science Vessel to complete the Risan Summer Event Ship Set of the 3 "classic" ship types? Can it be a (Yellow) Science Vessel Submarine?

bazag · January 2016

What is the best and worst part of engaging with the community like this? Also, what are you looking forward to most in 2016 (Doesn't have to be STO or Star Trek-related)?

vegeta50024 · January 2016

tmassx wrote: »

1) It is scheduled for 2016 an expansion ?

2) We have heard from Geko , there will be no kdf science ships . It is sad but hopefully i can live with B'rel . For the Romulans revealed nothing . There is still hope that they could get a decent ( pls no Ha'nom T6 ) science vessel ? Tier 4 trait of terran reputation is ideal for building a sci / torp ship.

3) It is going a something that would encourage playing "dead queues" (f.e. better rewards for longer missions)

4) How continues reworking The Breach and Mine trap?

I don't remember Geko ever saying there wouldn't be a KDF science ship. I remember him saying that the ship probably wouldn't come out until they were done making every Tier 6 ship they wanted to make before hand.

storules · January 2016

I like it when people post questions...then a few others answer those same questions. Don't they READ that these are for the PODCAST...some people just can't stay away from being opinionated

As for me just one question:

Is there ANY plan to bring back PvP back to STO in the near future?

Just tired of DPS gaming and killing off NPCs...would be nice to get an enticement to duel/battle with "real players" who actually think. Perhaps...creating some sot of a PvP reputation similar to other MMOs (to bring more people around it).

Thanks

Salami_Inferno and zeroniusrex Interview

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