Star Trek Online thread

[Tuskin38]

Branflakes explained it on the forums, they just set the price to 0 for that day in the store. You 'buy' it like a regular C-Store purchase. So they're all account wide and what not.

None of the Romulan stuff will be given away because how new they are.

[captain_obvious]

Branflakes explained it on the forums, they just set the price to 0 for that day in the store. You 'buy' it like a regular C-Store purchase. So they're all account wide and what not.

None of the Romulan stuff will be given away because how new they are.

I.know.I.read.the.damn.thread.

Label me cautiously optimistic.  Hopefully there will be no catches or string attached (not that I expect any this time).
However, the Garak in me can't help but see this gesture as...a wee bit overblown and I can't help but wonder if they are gearing up for the implementation of a decision that they expect to be unpopular in the extreme.

[Darkthunder]

The good: Free stuff, always a good thing.

The bad: Potential for future price hikes and other shenanigans. (quite likely, with their track record)

[Darkthunder]

Double-posting (update from Star Trek Las Vegas):
(Copy/Pasted from Priority One Twitter feed)

General news:

- CrypticTTC: we totally changed how the UI was built." This provided opportunities to add features they couldn't before. (regarding LoR)
- DStahl: moving forward looking to integrate BOFFS more into player character story and elevating DOFFs
- DStahl: we have someone working on retrofitting STFs for story content
- DStahl: building gateway team and looking to integrate crafting with it, if possible
- New FE launches in Sept.
- Level scaling player ships? (CaptainGeko: we'll try)

Season 8 news:

- S8 sneak peak. The Voth are coming in S8 end game content
- We will be fighting the voth in a giant dyson sphere adventure zone. No new sector is coming.
- DStahl describes the sphere as a "battle zone" not "adventure zone"
- there WILL BE territory control in the new Battle Zone
- Scheduled for launch late 2013

Next year:

- Customizable Player Interiors, likely to use Foundry/Neverwinter tech
- DStahl: looks like we will be doing some voyager content in the next year.
- next year you're going to see something that allows you to fly all (cross faction?) kinds of different ships.

Thoughts?

[captain_obvious]

As per normal, cautiously optimistic.

I don't see the point of integrating crafting into gateway however.  In fact, what is the point of gateway at all? Last I heard it worked for only a fraction of the player-base and when it did work it lacked the features that people wanted (doff management, bank stuff, rep project and fleet project management etc). 
I'll have to check it out again, as last time (about a month back) it was still busted (went into a loop where logging in let me to....the log in screen).

[Tuskin38]

By FE they mean one Episode, not a series just to clarify.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=11844181&postcount=16

Also regarding the summer give away, on days where there are free ships, there will be 1 for KDF and FED, so technically it would be 2 free items that day.

[captain_obvious]

By FE they mean one Episode, not a series just to clarify.

So something along the lines of "alpha" then.  :/

[Darkthunder]

Or Temporal Ambassador.

Shame really. I would've hoped a new FE would be released every week, or every other week leading upto the launch of Season 8. The game really needs more regular story update content. I don't care if it's every week, or every month, but it needs to be regular, and more frequent than "one per year".

[Tuskin38]

If it is suppose to be a branch to Season 8, it will probably have some reference or appearance of the Voth.

Also I guessed it would be the Voth, Dan said for a long time he'd like to see them or the Vaudwaar./

Plus the Voth city ship texture files have been in the game file since before LoR, maybe even a year.


So, I can't find the source (think it was the TrekRadio or Priority One twitter) but the next reputation will not be a point grind, it will be just a daily the advances the reputation. If popular they might convert the older ones.

And all items will be MKXII from the start.

[captain_obvious]

And all items will be MKXII from the start.

Uh oh, that may mean that xii is soon to become obsolete. 
That may be....rather unpopular at first lol

[Joshmaul]

Uh oh, that may mean that xii is soon to become obsolete. 
That may be....rather unpopular at first lol

Cap, name me one thing that's ever been released in this game that's been popular from the get-go.

[captain_obvious]

Cap, name me one thing that's ever been released in this game that's been popular from the get-go.

Pretty much anything that I didn't like

[Tuskin38]

Today's free item is the DS9 uniform.

[captain_obvious]

Today's free item is the DS9 uniform.

Ugh.  It has to be one of the few that I have bought! Derp.

[Darkthunder]

Here's a good question: Did they fix the TNG pants? Since the DS9 uniform uses the same pants, might be a good thing to make them look right?

[Darkthorne]

they didn't

[Darkthunder]

Figures. They looked fine once upon a time. Then Cryptic chose to break it, and have yet to fix it.

[captain_obvious]

It was broken when the tng rom uniforms were introduced.

Oh and contrary to previous belief, there is no kdf giveaway.  We thought that there would be a kdf item given away each day as well as the fed item but no, that is not the case.

[Joshmaul]

Cute - it's giving away crap most people would have already. Well, I suppose some don't, but...

[AllotoniFan]

If Day 3 is really a Tier 3 ship giveaway, i?ve got to get my UFP character to lvl. 20 soon.