Star Trek Online thread

[Darkthunder]

This may be a stupid question, but have you ever tried 'Compatibility Mode' ? I know it shouldn't be necessary, but perhaps it will work, in order to circumvent shoddy craftsmanship (aka Cryptic coding)

[captain_obvious]

This may be a stupid question, but have you ever tried 'Compatibility Mode' ? I know it shouldn't be necessary, but perhaps it will work, in order to circumvent shoddy craftsmanship (aka Cryptic coding)

Yes and no it doesn't work. 

[Tuskin38]

Any guesses if or what this years Christmas Event ship will be?

It is probably going to be another Alien ship, I hope from a Race we don't already have ships from.

Or they could just give us the Breen ship again, which would suck.

[Darkthunder]

Would rather have the Jem Hadar ship. Or maybe a different Breen ship? The previous one was a Breen Battlecruiser. How about a Sci/Tac ship for a change?

[Tuskin38]

How about another Cardie ship, I'd like a Keldon or Hideki

[BarnesSFC]

Would rather have the Jem Hadar ship. Or maybe a different Breen ship? The previous one was a Breen Battlecruiser. How about a Sci/Tac ship for a change?

The Breen ship was more of an Escort actually, as it didn't get Cruiser commands and it could use cannons. It had more turn rate than the average cruiser as well.

[Tuskin38]

I went Data mining again.

So, Gingerbread Houses and people seem to be a big part of this years event, there are ingredients to make them as well.

We got a reason for why the WOK uniforms got an update, we're getting Variants for the Winter event

Item_Pack_Costume_Winter_2013_Twok_Captain_Vest.wtex
Item_Pack_Costume_Winter_2013_Twok_Engineering_Vest.wtex
Item_Pack_Costume_Winter_2013_Twok_Excusion_Jacket.wtex

The Captain vest is self explanatory
Engineering Vest is probably Scott's Black one
The Excusion (probably a typo of Excursion) jacket, I'm thinking the Away Team jacket they wore to Regula station.

The ship this year is a 'Breen Raider', and if I'm reading this correctly the Cruiser is coming back as well
They will be done through a rep system like the Summer event.

The Raider is most likely the "Plesh Brek" its in the Tribble foundry as a customization ship costume.

Edit: ICONS!

[captain_obvious]

OOh.  Looks like fun.  At least some things I would have liked to see in game are coming in (at last)!

[Darkthunder]

OOh.  Looks like fun.  At least some things I would have liked to see in game are coming in (at last)!

Let's just hope, they fix the crashing before the Winter Event

[Tuskin38]

New Dev Blog

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1048301

[Darkthunder]

New Dev Blog which basically says NOTHING. "We have something to reveal, but we're not gonna reveal it until later". What's the point? Everybody who plays STO knows that the Winter Event is coming during the 1st week of December. People want DETAILS. Details such as what kind of rewards can be expected. But nooo... "We got nothing better to post right now, so let's just tease them for a few more days..."

[Tuskin38]

It is also a copy and paste of last years Dev Blog (same number too) with just added references to the Gingerbread Colony.

[Tuskin38]

So Worf's VO for the KDF missions is hooked up on Tribble, sounds great.

Also I just beat the Forcus tournament unarmed, just my fists, it was very easy. I really like the unarmed fighting animations.

[ShaunKL]

Hooray for vests and excursion jackets!  I am so excited!

And Kori, I find unarmed to be the secret guilty pleasure of STO ground combat.

EDIT: INB4 "fail Cryptic, no bomber jacket: "

[captain_obvious]

I'd like to see the tmp costumes used.  stuff like the Engineers hazard suits, the EV suits and the Excursion jackets they had (the sand coloured ones at the end of tmp)

[Tuskin38]

I wonder if the Romulan Mission where you 'Vaporize' that starfleet officer is a reference to DS9 where Sloan is 'Vaporized' but is actually beamed out.

[FarShot]

Let's not forget Picard getting killed transported.

[Tuskin38]

New Dev Blog

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1052191

[ShaunKL]

I'd like to see the tmp costumes used.  stuff like the Engineers hazard suits, the EV suits and the Excursion jackets they had (the sand coloured ones at the end of tmp)

I wonder if they're not making more away jackets because the rest are kindof plain and/or generic?  I mean, I know we have dinosaurs with phaser-beams on their heads in a Star Trek game but Cryptic and/or CBS could be having an internal logic conflict going on.

Mm, I could go for some TMP/TWoK phasers, those suckers look cool.  I wish they'd polish the TNG uniforms.  I wonder when that pack is coming...

[captain_obvious]

I wonder if they're not making more away jackets because the rest are kindof plain and/or generic?  I mean, I know we have dinosaurs with phaser-beams on their heads in a Star Trek game but Cryptic and/or CBS could be having an internal logic conflict going on.

Mm, I could go for some TMP/TWoK phasers, those suckers look cool.  I wish they'd polish the TNG uniforms.  I wonder when that pack is coming...

I think that the EV suits they had in TMP/TWOK were the coolest looking ones in all star trek.  The hazard suits are something else that could not be called bland, plain or generic.
Now if they really wanted to mess with peoples heads, they'd introduce the late Victorian/Edwardian outfits from things like "the time machine" and "20,000 leagues under the sea".  You can't say those aren't sci-fi!