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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3820 on: February 15, 2013, 02:54:03 PM »
New ask Cryptic
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=820691

Friday Sceenshot, there will be 3 variants like the Ody and Vesta line. I'm guessing Dreadnought and Battleship like I found in the game files, 3rd will probably be some sort of escort.


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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3821 on: February 17, 2013, 07:39:39 PM »
I don't know if y'all have noticed, but there is an absolute SHITSTORM going down on the sto forums. Here

It's not the first big thread on it either.  There's been at least 2 other big (50+ page) threads locked down on this topic as well as who knows how many other small ones.
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3822 on: February 17, 2013, 10:44:20 PM »
1600+ posts in that thread. I added my feedback to the mix: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=8141031#post8141031
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3823 on: February 18, 2013, 03:43:37 PM »
Meh, doesn't effect me

Anyways, Andorian ship design Dev Blog

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=821691

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3824 on: February 18, 2013, 08:42:09 PM »
I have to admit, the timing of that release is...curious.  Might have been a coincidence, but then again it might not.

Meh, doesn't effect me

How so? You don't play it anymore?
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3825 on: February 18, 2013, 10:28:45 PM »
Mildly hypocritical statement, but not all of us are power grinders.
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3826 on: February 18, 2013, 10:52:05 PM »
I have to admit, the timing of that release is...curious.  Might have been a coincidence, but then again it might not.

How so? You don't play it anymore?

As Shaun said, I'm not a grinder. When I contribute to my fleet, its everything else.

Also we've known for a while now, before the whole FM event that the Andorian ships were coming out this month.

Someone on the STO forums compared my lack of caring by quoting this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

Basically comparing my opinion to the Nazi purges.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3827 on: February 19, 2013, 08:56:27 AM »
*aside* Ah, Martin Niemoller.  I quoted him in a presentation I did for history class, years ago.  It's a little extreme to make that comparison, but I can see where it came from. 
I'm in STO for the fun.  I don't like to grind and I never have.  I like good solid content from a game that I find fun.  STO has, since S6 went live, become a grindfest.  But that isn't the only issue at stake here.  We STO players play because we love star trek, we're invested in it and we don't want to see a game with such potential go down the proverbial toilet.  Thing is, it is heading in the direction of said toilet, has been on that heading for some time and we the players have been ignored every time we have made our opinions clear.

Btw, I knew that the Andorian ships were on the way, but I didn't realise that they were due quite so soon.  I figured that they would see the light of day around June.
I may not speak for everyone, but releasing a 'shiny' quite like that at this particular time raised a few eyebrows.  Something to distract most players from the issues? Maybe, maybe not.  Hopefully I'm wrong and it really was a coincidence.


 Shaun, I don't know how my statement was hypocritical so would you kindly tell me?
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3828 on: February 19, 2013, 10:14:23 AM »
I think he was saying his statement was hypothetical.

The Andorians ships were due to come out last month but were delayed, maybe because of the Anniversary Event.

I'm thinking the ships have been done for a couple weeks, but they didn't want to interfere or distract from the Anniversary event so they're waiting to release them now because the event is over.

The screenshot Posted Friday, the community manager said it had been ready for a couple weeks, so we know the art was at least done

If I wanted to be a pessimist, maybe a single ship was done, but then they decided quickly to make it 3 ships, and because of the short timeline they didn't make the art very different to get them out faster.

But I'm not a pessimist.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3829 on: February 19, 2013, 10:17:48 AM »
Btw, I found an interesting video :)  

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3830 on: February 19, 2013, 10:34:52 AM »
Ah, very interesting. Also I edited my above post to sound a little clearer, maybe.


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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3832 on: February 20, 2013, 03:09:07 PM »
This should calm down some people

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=8207291#post8207291

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Fleet Marks:

    No-Win Scenario:
        Increased the rewards for rounds 4, 5 and 6 from 5/8/13 to 10/18/28 respectively.
        This increases Fleet Mark rewards by 30.
    The following events now grant an additional 30 Fleet Marks.
        Colony Invasion
        Starbase Blockade
        Starbase Fleet Defense
        Starbase Incursion
    Starbase Alert now grants an extra 10 Fleet Marks each time an enemy wave is defeated for the first 3 waves.
    Azure Nebula rescue now grants twice as many Fleet Marks.
    Defera invasion missions:
        Easy missions now grant 13 Fleet Marks.
        Medium missions now grant 25 Fleet Marks.
        Hard missions now grant 60 Fleet Marks.
    Nukara missions:
        Easy missions now grant 13 Fleet Marks.
        Medium missions now grant 25 Fleet Marks.
        Hard missions now grant 60 Fleet Marks.
    Mine Trap now grants an extra 30 Fleet Marks upon completion.
    Added 50 Fleet Marks to each of the PVP daily wrappers:
        Raze Enemy Headquarters (Daily)
        Raze Enemy Secret Headquarters (Lt. General - Daily)
        Dominate the Heroes of the Enemy (Daily)
        Dominate the Leaders of the Enemy (Lt. General - Daily)
        Claiming Enemy Reserves (Daily)
        Claiming Enemy Emergency Reserves (Lt. General - Daily)
        Reclaim the Neutral Zone (Daily)
        Restore the Neutral Zone (Vice Admiral - Daily)
        Into the Fray (Daily); To the Front Lines (Vice Admiral - Daily)
        Pacify Enemy Heroes (Daily)
        Pacify Enemy Leaders (Vice Admiral - Daily)

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3833 on: February 20, 2013, 03:10:17 PM »
As I feared, utterly useless.
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Damn you Kori! If only you'd posted that 2 minutes later lol :P
Seems rather more like it! If only they had done that as soon as they removed the IOR!
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3834 on: February 20, 2013, 03:20:50 PM »
I agree they shouldn't have removed it if they didn't have a replacement right away.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3835 on: February 20, 2013, 03:55:17 PM »
Maybe they wanted good statistics on fleet mark intake during the interim, since from what they post it sounds like they like watching numbers as a form of optimization, not just people complaining about closed loopholes.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3836 on: February 20, 2013, 04:34:06 PM »
Maybe they wanted good statistics on fleet mark intake during the interim, since from what they post it sounds like they like watching numbers as a form of optimization, not just people complaining about closed loopholes.

Plus, I'd hate to have the job of having to sort through two thousand pages of bullshit to find the five or six reasonable protests - and I'm sure the people running Cryptic's forums would hate it too, heh.
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3837 on: February 20, 2013, 05:01:24 PM »
Plus, I'd hate to have the job of having to sort through two thousand pages of bullshit to find the five or six reasonable protests - and I'm sure the people running Cryptic's forums would hate it too, heh.
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3838 on: February 20, 2013, 06:36:15 PM »
If you want to look at the Andorian ship models they're in the ship requisition menu on tribble.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #3839 on: February 21, 2013, 10:29:54 AM »
Wait, does tribble stay up during these maint. periods?
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