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Ten Forward Weekly 11/25/20

somtaawkharsomtaawkhar Member Posts: 10,222 Arc User
edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Yeah I'm late on this one.

The stream mostly involved Kael talking to STO streamers/content creators who have come together to form a sort of unified group for STO stream/content creators to share information/stuff, so there's not as many notes about the game this week. Still worth a watch for those interested in that stuff.
  • Cryptic has talked about a PVP revamp of using premade ships/recreating famous battles from the TV shows, but the general playerbase dislike of PVP, and the large scale community backlash over the Cooperative TFOs, makes it unlikely when they could put those resources into more missions/TFO etc.
  • Random TFO system was a 3-4 month process for all the various developers involved.
  • An upcoming mission is going to use the Renegades Regret/Quark's Lucky Seven character changing tech.
  • Onslaught Villains from Champions used as an example of how said possible PVP revamp would work.
  • Problem with said PVP revamp isn't getting the tech to work, its all the time needed to make new PVP maps, and enough pre-made builds, to have good variety. Jett could make a lot of builds, but then she wouldn't have time to make new ships, etc.
  • Trouble with trying to nerf the overpowered consoles in PVP is that its stuff people paid for, and STO isn't set up to have different versions of items for PVE and PVP.
  • One of the guests suggested adding more rewards, like Competitive marks, for PVP matches. Kael said he would bring it up.
  • Devs are aware that you can't queue for any of the Competitive TFOs while using a private match of 10 players. Its on the list of known programming issues.
  • Doing something like Twitch drops for STO content creators is up to Perfect World, not Cryptic. Perfect world has asked, and Kael has said they want it, but stuff keeps coming up on Perfect World's side so it gets delayed/pushed back.
  • Kael isn't sure how hard it would be to allow people to rearrange or delete outfits entirely rather then just saving over them.
  • Kael is investigating why Steamrunner ships aren't on Xbox
  • Being able to move Lockbox/promo ships from one character to another is something Kael will ask about. Kael asked if people would pay to move them.
  • Cryptic has had a lot of discussion about account unlock tokens for Lockbox/lobi ships. Those conversations have been had, and Kael has been given a hard no. Its not feasible for business reasons he can't talk about.
  • Someone asked about Andre Emmerson's comments about making STO "the account is the player not the character" comments. Cryptic still believes in that, but some things will likely remain character unlocks for business reasons.
  • Kael mentioned using The Burn as an April's Fools joke where you blow up the moment you log in and the game just says THE BURN!
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    redeyedravenredeyedraven Member Posts: 1,297 Arc User
    edited November 2020
    somtaawkhar wrote: »
    corinthalas wrote: »
    But all of that presumes the issue is financial in nature. Which we don't know, because Cryptic won't tell us what the problem is.
    Well, one of the guests said he can guess what the reason is, and that is probably isn't what people think it is, and Kael said yeah after he said that so.... it being monetary was somewhat implied to not be the issue.

    If it's not monetary, it has to be a PR-related business-decision. They probably assume incredible backlash from those people who actually already collect the same single-unlock-ships on multiple characters.

    Starting to offer an account-unlock token after so many years would be absolute punishment to those who did that (though IMHO pretty much deserved; because patience pays out sometimes). Even though that kind of token would be an incredibly good deal.

    They don't want another Nagus.
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    garaffegaraffe Member Posts: 1,353 Arc User
    Being able to move Lockbox/promo ships from one character to another is something Kael will ask about. Kael asked if people would pay to move them.

    Yes.
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