Al 'Captain Geko' Rivera INTERVIEW!

winters83 · March 2016

Hello fellow STO players! I'm really pleased to announce that Priority One Podcast will be interviewing Cryptic's Lead Designer, Al Rivera (aka Captain Geko) this weekend - all about Season 11.5 that is due to be release on the 12th of April. We would like to ask you, the STO community to submit any questions that you may have regarding Season 11.5 or any major burning issues that the game needs addressed. Send us the hard questions and we will do our best to get them answered! Thank you all in advance!

peterconnorfirst · March 2016

Sure, my first and only question would be:

“Are there any plans to bring more life to the teamed PvE end game contend?”

I play for 4 years flat and the participation drops continuously. Events attract less and less players and even premades in the elite channels seem to form less often than they did in the past. It is my impression that we have even arrived at PvP conditions on a lot of maps. Since this game lacks halfway demanding contend otherwise I’d like to know if I’m better off playing other games in the long run because I’m only interested in teamed PvE.

Thx.

angrytarg · March 2016

A lot of questions, but I guess chances are better if only one is asked.

"Can we expect a crafting expansion following season 11.5? (more weapon types (Andorian Phasers!), special consoles after we lose a bunch of console types in the skill revamp etc.)".

garaks31 · March 2016

when can we expect DeLoreans and time travel locomotives ?

arabatur · March 2016

Do you remember when we used to be explorers?

mmps1 · March 2016

How are the lag investigations going and when do you expect the lag issues to be fixed?

carter60 · March 2016

will we be allowed to mix and match armor visuals. lime omega crossed with the terran armor and so on ?

mustrumridcully0 · March 2016

Q: Will the Temporal Cold War (or Hot war?) be a long-lasting theme like the Iconians, or will it be just a short phase before we get back to rebuilding, exploration or other topics

Personally, I am not a fan at all of excessive time travel stuff.

georikzaberisk · March 2016

My Questions:

1. Are there any plans to invigorate PvP content? Yes I know there are people who don't like PvP but end game PvE can only do as much as a side form of entertainment. When will we have a proper Faction vs Faction or Fleet vs Fleet PvP content that actually involves the now just expensive display of a Starbase?

2. When are you going to give the Romulans independence? I think it's high time you give the Roms some slack. I do acknowledged that in all the 3 Factions the Romulans would be a bit of an OP faction if you finally give them exclusive perks. But I don't think it wouldn't be a problem if you guys actually balance the factions. Lets admit it the Feds may have the numbers and the Eye Candies but they are not the top tier Faction. Roms and KDF's are. Still I want this to be a fair thing for everyone even if my main is Fed.

3. Are you going to fix the Space traits of species? Frankly speaking the eds have the most abundant spicies but I dare say the most least useful ones. The only useful species are humans and Saurian's and the latter gets useless later on. Seriously Leadership and Efficiency are not bad but they are not better compared to what the other factions has.

kekvin · March 2016

Can we have a t6 exeter and not a version of t1 or t2 connie

equinox976 · March 2016

I've come from the future to warn you about the past

szim · March 2016

Can we expect another expansion this year?

Are you intentionally holding back ships like the Keldon and Hideki class for that purpose?

flash525 · March 2016

There are so many questions that I'd like to ask, though if I write down as many as I wish, there's a good chance that few, if any of them will get asked. That, and there's no doubt going to be a whole boatload of other questions to ask, in addition to actually interviewing the guy, so I'm going to be respectful here and stick with the one theme.

Cardassians - What are Cryptic's current plans as far as playable Cardassians are concerned. Can we expect to see them as a playable faction, or at least playable species (within existing factions) anytime soon? What would be done (if anything) to bridge the gap between newly created Cardassian characters and the end-level content of the game right now? Is Andrew Robinson desired for voicework if/when the time comes?

stofsk · March 2016

-Will we see any more T6 Birds-of-Prey ship releases? A T6 Hegh'ta or Ning'tao or something new?

-Will we see a T6 Vesta class or pack or something? There are rumours that this was in the cards but now they're not due to copyright concerns. Can you dispel the rumours or confirm that a T6 Vesta is being worked on or isn't being worked on, either way.

-Are there any plans to revamp the KDF missions about the Fek'Ihri? Same goes for the Breen episodes? These are the only legacy episodes that have not had a revamp.

-What is the long term outlook for the game looking like? (basically are we going to get a third expansion, exploration revamp, do we have content planned for the next x months/years etc)

meimeitoo · March 2016

mmps1 wrote: »

How are the lag investigations going and when do you expect the lag issues to be fixed?

Lag boy: Do not try and fight lag. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Lag boy: There is no lag.
Neo: There is no lag?
Lag boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the server that lags, it is only yourself.

miirik · March 2016

Here is one for Geko.

Concerning future KDF ships, is there any chance of using gorn/orion/nausicaan designs? It was nice when we finally got the T6 Guramba, it would be wonderful to see the same happen with the Corsair, Marauder, or even Dacoit with the orion ships, or the Phalanx, Draguas, and Varanus of the gorn ships, or even new designs. Or has the Klingons just completely taken over ship design?

evilmark444 · March 2016

Has anything changed regarding the CBS restrictions involving the Constitution-like ships, such as the awesome Excalibur?

siliconpsycho · March 2016

My Question:

With the introduction of Time Travel as a significant plot point in most (all) of the S11 / s11.5 content so far, are there any plans to visit the largely unused "in universe" timeline between the end of the TOS films, ie ST6 and TNG? There is a lot of opportunity there to explore a largely non-cannon period of time to create original events and stories that do not necessarily have to tie in, or be effected by the canonical events of the original movies or TNG onwards

alexraptorr · March 2016

Are there any plans to bring T6 Carriers to the Klingons and Romulans? Considering that the Federation were the first to get a T6 carrier, despite that Carriers were originally a Klingon "feature".

sazhdapec · March 2016

Since Cryptic does nothing with PVP will they give the players instruments to make it viable: making pvp maps, changing stats of ships, traits and abilities for pvp, or at least allowing to set rules for pvp challenge matches.

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lordsteve1 · March 2016

1) Can we get a revamp of the fleet projects and donation mechanics so that it's more balanced in favour of both large and small fleets?
Currently in small fleets it takes an age to get anywhere and in larger fleets only the lucky few ever get a chance to earn FC's.

2) Would it be possible to revamp the group battlezone slime Defera and Nukara so they are more up to date and provide a decent alternative for ground endgame content?

3) Can you fully unlock the ground tailor so that we can truly mix n' match rep costumes, outfits and off duty stuff. The tailor is extremely good but it still limits us a lot and the colour palette could do with being freed up a bit like you already did with the ship tailor.

apulse · March 2016

When will the Nova Class get some T6 looove?

timonicus · March 2016

Can borg stfs reward fleet marks as an option like the newer ones do? And more omni types, craftable, rep and mission rewards so other weapon types are encouraged

timonicus · March 2016

Can borg stfs reward fleet marks as an option like the newer ones do?

eighrichte · March 2016

I'd like him to address the fact that many Mac users were denied our promised Zen reimbursements for the closure of the Mac client. Many of us experimented with wineskin wrappers — often with unsatisfactory results — while the client was broken after the S11 launch. It appears that all such users were excluded from the reimbursement list for not being Mac users, and support insists that the decisions were made by the development team, and cannot be revisited.

misterferengi · March 2016

Science ships for the Romulans and KDF so those who choose to be a Rom/KDF Science officer have a better choice of ship with a COMMAND SCIENCE BOFF STATION.

Tier 6 Nebula/Soveriegn/Vor'cha/Nova/Vesta please.

Revamp for farming R&D materials. You already time gate the R&D Schools levelling by 20 hrs, Time gate the creation of materials from a few seconds to 20 hrs depending on whats being crafted. How about giving us a definite way of earning the specific materials we want, like the old exploration clusters did rather than this random drop TRIBBLE from boxes. Z-Particles and Rubidium are the most sort after for crafting components for upgrade tech yet it can take ages to amass a large amount of them. With the time gates theres no need for the random drops. Its just a further time gate on a time gate.

Oh and this 100%

eighrichte wrote: »

I'd like him to address the fact that many Mac users were denied our promised Zen reimbursements for the closure of the Mac client. Many of us experimented with wineskin wrappers — often with unsatisfactory results — while the client was broken after the S11 launch. It appears that all such users were excluded from the reimbursement list for not being Mac users, and support insists that the decisions were made by the development team, and cannot be revisited.

kodachikuno · March 2016

Why they insist on twisting season 11 into 'yet another bigass war' right after we get done with the Iconian War which obliterated worlds and devastated the fleets of the Alliance? Why couldn't they focus on episodes that actually involved rebuilding, restoring order and normality to the Alpha/Beta quadrants? Touch up first city on Qo'nos since it got hammered in the war. Give Mol'Rihan a little progress finally. Some episodes were we slap down raiders/pirates and shut down merchants exploiting and war profiteering. Actually help a colony or 3 rebuild stuff. There was at least a full season of content under the theme of 'rebuilding' they just ignored....

WHY??

buckner3 · March 2016

Would it be possible to get...

Classic (Borg) STF's revamped into Single Player Missions? (sadly some go completely unplayed, so it makes it hard to get those story elements)

A Transwarp to Battlegroup Omega (as part of Tier I Rep reward package)?

Reputation Missions moved to the Episodes pane (to keep the story together)?

Episode "Resets", to include all the mini-missions that tie things together (even if they offer no reward than the story dialogue)?

Thanks

bergins · March 2016

Just watched the S11.5 trailer. What's happening on May 5th?

risian4 · March 2016

Are there any plans to allow us to specialise in ground combat?

In the current skill tree, it's possible to put more points in the ground part. This is no longer possible after the revamp. For those of us with dedicated ground characters, an option to put some more points in the ground tree and less in the space part would be a nice change.

And to add a question that isn't related to the skill revamp:

Are there any new playable species coming soon?

Al 'Captain Geko' Rivera INTERVIEW!

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