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STO had been out for several years and there were certain Klingon players who made life in Kerrat miserable for Federation players trying to farm the Borg. These guys were absolutely merciless. After being hunted and attacked several times myself I decided to find a way to get under their skin.
*Note I never used any sort of keybind, hack, or bot. I prefer to outsmart my opponents with Science. Still do 😁
Back in the day the Science power Viral Matrix looked very different from the beam effect you see today. It used to be a small purple pea shape that was rather inconspicuous. My main toon was a Tactical Captain flying an Intrepid class Science Torpedo boat. I came up with an idea that I thought was very clever. The fireworks emote had recently been given to players. Subterfuge was going to be my weapon of choice. I would taunt opponents into attacking me in the area just outside the moon of Kerrat. I would claim that I would use my "Omega" weapon on my enemies. New powers were constantly being released into the game. So at the beginning of combat I would activate the fireworks emote 🎇 (at the same time I used it as cover to activate Viral Matrix 3) the results were awesome 💥!!! Next thing my opponents knew systems started going offline. Torpedo Spread 3 made short work of the Klingons. Well the opponents cried and complained and repeatedly reported me to the Devs. After investigations they told them that I wasn't cheating. That wasn't good enough so surveillance continued. Eventually a Dev figured out what was happening and sent me a PM to stop harassing the Klingons. Even though I wasn't violating any rules the Devs were upset with me. They started nerfing Science powers like Scramble Sensors because I would turn on Ablative Armor and fly into a nest of Klingons. All hell would break loose as the scrambled sensors caused them to target other Klingons. Because Klingon players were not set up to defend against disruptors the carnage was massive. Once again the Devs got an earful from the disgruntled Klingons. So the response was to nerf the science ability and to change my subterfuge effect to a beam effect. Ah... the good old days. Stardagger the wanna be Romulan before we had a Romulan faction, he crossed the line and got the lifetime ban. It felt so good to consistently defeat him and his band of brothers knowing that I was 💯% legal. Sometimes I really, really, miss the old days...
*Note I never used any sort of keybind, hack, or bot. I prefer to outsmart my opponents with Science. Still do 😁
Back in the day the Science power Viral Matrix looked very different from the beam effect you see today. It used to be a small purple pea shape that was rather inconspicuous. My main toon was a Tactical Captain flying an Intrepid class Science Torpedo boat. I came up with an idea that I thought was very clever. The fireworks emote had recently been given to players. Subterfuge was going to be my weapon of choice. I would taunt opponents into attacking me in the area just outside the moon of Kerrat. I would claim that I would use my "Omega" weapon on my enemies. New powers were constantly being released into the game. So at the beginning of combat I would activate the fireworks emote 🎇 (at the same time I used it as cover to activate Viral Matrix 3) the results were awesome 💥!!! Next thing my opponents knew systems started going offline. Torpedo Spread 3 made short work of the Klingons. Well the opponents cried and complained and repeatedly reported me to the Devs. After investigations they told them that I wasn't cheating. That wasn't good enough so surveillance continued. Eventually a Dev figured out what was happening and sent me a PM to stop harassing the Klingons. Even though I wasn't violating any rules the Devs were upset with me. They started nerfing Science powers like Scramble Sensors because I would turn on Ablative Armor and fly into a nest of Klingons. All hell would break loose as the scrambled sensors caused them to target other Klingons. Because Klingon players were not set up to defend against disruptors the carnage was massive. Once again the Devs got an earful from the disgruntled Klingons. So the response was to nerf the science ability and to change my subterfuge effect to a beam effect. Ah... the good old days. Stardagger the wanna be Romulan before we had a Romulan faction, he crossed the line and got the lifetime ban. It felt so good to consistently defeat him and his band of brothers knowing that I was 💯% legal. Sometimes I really, really, miss the old days...
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I distinctly remember there being an event wherein several people lamented that the Orion stages lacked proper poles, as those are a necessity for pole dancing, and one of the devs said something akin to "We tried, but they told us it was a bit much."
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> I distinctly remember there being an event wherein several people lamented that the Orion stages lacked proper poles, as those are a necessity for pole dancing, and one of the devs said something akin to "We tried, but they told us it was a bit much."
Apparently it was not too much to have topless dudes dancing on a table in a mission. 🙄 Uh... yeah. Whose idea was it to bind the drink from the yesteryear mission to the toon? I was making a fortune selling those 🍸 on the exchange. Not to mention giving them to the nice ladies at the club on ESD 🤪
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They still exist. That and the fireplace in the KDF Base Bar makes it better than the Fed bar. Almost a hunting lodge feel with dancers for those who like that kind of thing...
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Getting distracted again...
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And then it wasn't possible anymore.
I've also filed a bug report once, explaining how ships in the Azure Nebula were liberated by hiding behind the asteroids. I wouldn't be surprised if I were the game's biggest hero.
Yeah, not major impacts, but then again I'm not a major figure, so...
In the latest episode, there's a 'then' somewhere where it should read 'than'.
I have not reported this yet, if you want to do it, go ahead
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This; except in my case, I proposed that there be some sort of 'loyalty' or 'longevity' reward for completing multiple server events, along the lines of preserving the 'exclusivity' that Cryptic had favored for long-time players. Their solution now expressed in the 3-event reward packs now a regular part of the event cycle, and increasing daily dil rewards for those who exceed the minimum number of event runs.
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LOL
You must have had an effect, they're using your picture on the game promos.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Sounds like you had lots of fun in early PvP many of us did. As a member of Razor (the fleet you seem to be talking about lead by StarDagger) we had a lot of fun blowing up a lot of people... and I don't remember a time where we where fooled by any sci, we tended to fly a lot of Science themed birds of prey. The science "nerfs" where pretty much all PvE related. Sci was all fun and games in PvP and no one at Cryptic cared until some PvE player used sci magic to pull off some 30 second speed run of PvE content. The old versions of VM where all annoying and or broken in their own ways. The first version was abused by Klingons mostly as you could VM people out of cloak and almost always respawn them before they even knew they where being shot at.
For the record StarDagger never received any bans of any kind. (in fact he had a note on his account... as he was often reported for his antics. If I remember correctly he was immune from the auto mute, cause Cryptic got sick of unmuting him. He was never banned because although he may have annoyed some people he never used foul language, never used personal insults that where not heavy on the RP and never did anything not allowed by the game... he would never do stupid things like follow people out of the PvP zone ect. He played kerrat exactly as Crytpic intended, and its where he was 99% of the time.)
He did leave the game however... as did most of the those early PvP players. (most of whom played KDF... as it was a PvP leveling faction at launch) Sadly Cryptic never made PvP a priority or even paid enough attention to it to keep a lot of PvP players around after year 2 or 3. Star Dagger also returned when they released Romulans for real... unfortunately all the same PvP issues that where there when he and many others left where still in game and his return was short lived. (at that time I welcomed many good old PvP friends... and non of them stayed much longer then it took to see what the greatest expansion ever looked like. I would say they loved it and stayed but alas they did not)
What have I done that I take pride in... hmmm fixed the market a lot. Dropped 100s of millions of worthless stuff on bad market workers... collecting their EC and I assume tears. I have to imagine them bashing their keyboards as opposed to the old days of reading their frustration in Kerat zone chat. Made sure to use as many badly designed items in PvE speed runs as possible to facilitate "nerfs". The 1.5 million damage tricobalt mine pattern insta killing gates and cubes was a personal favorite. Those lasted on live all of a week.
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My common sense tells me I am just one among many and players who have made a difference in this game are very few and very far between.
I have helped some players and upset far more others.
I'd like to think what little impact I've created on STO is positive in nature but I cannot say for certain this is true.
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> Yeah, Foundry was great, maybe someday we'll get a Foundry 2.0.... maybe.
Assuming we do get another Foundry my hope is that they release it with a COMPLETE set of DEV tools including voiceovers. I would even be happy with a review council that took submissions for publication. That way you stop the quickie blow something up missions and get more into the storyline missions. That's my 2¢ not that it's worth anything... 😁
As one of the top Foundry authors I would offer a polite "no" to those suggestions.
Jesse Heinig showed off Cryptic's content design tools once on Ten Forward weekly. They are less much efficient at doing simple things than the Foundry (ex. optional dialog contacts, dialog trees, setting up combat mobs with scaling difficulty, building maps out of a large number of existing assets) and would have served as a significant barrier to entry and creative roadblock. What we had in the Foundry was better for where we were coming from and they allowed us to do things which the devs weren't able to as frequently (because for them things like optional dialog and contextually-scaling combat are much more involving to set up) in addition to making the process of building an elaborate mission yourself a lot more viable.
To VO: the amount of projects that could have coordinated voice overs of even reasonable quality I count as four in the life of Foundry 1.0 (Purity, Photonomy, AEI, ICO.) Nothing else had the scale or number of people involved to provide a passable ensemble performance across multiple missions, and this is coming from an accessible system. That leaves single author narrations as the most likely target for this and, as a format, that would be completely new to players (requiring an even greater adjustment than reading, which we already do for Boffs, display information, and older content.) If we had the option back in the day I think it would have been more frequently requested to NOT use it.
Add to this: the problems for Cryptic in storing hundreds of thousands of hours of player-uploaded VO (a large portion of which will never be used or used sufficiently to justify bandwidth and storage costs) and distributing that without detonating load times or bandwidth. Modded games like Skyrim make use of 3rd party distribution like Nexus or the Steam Workshop and what's being modified are not live MMO's (where modifying an asset could potentially break the rest of the game for the rest of the population. See. the Dyson/Jenolan ground maps recently.)
If ever the devs decide to take another stab at a UGC system (whether or not it involves missions) they should capitalize on the Foundry's core strength (bringing a creator's voice to as many people as possible in one system that could be handled by a single individual without technical experience) and prioritize making the system as bullet proof as possible. Bring back and enhance the ability for players to impact the game directly for other players. Whether or not we had the capability to copy the devs exactly was not the deciding factor in whether the system remained, it didn't prevent the Foundry from having a tremendous impact (far from it, the limitations helped channel effort into far more productive areas like plot), nor is it what folks are lamenting most now.
(Old topic and one I still care about.)
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