Star Trek Online thread

[Tuskin38]

Awesome!  Shame about not being able to use them off Risa though.  

Shame? Do you want people running around in String Bikinis on ESD or in STFs? Unless that was sarcasm.

It seems that they've locked out risa for the time being.

Yeah they deleted the map off the server for some reason. Any character that was on the map when it was deleted is stuck until they put it back in.

[captain_obvious]

Shame? Do you want people running around in String Bikinis on ESD or in STFs? Unless that was sarcasm.

Nope.  I was serious.  I mean, it's not going to harm us is it? OH wait, people want to RP and find bikinis more immersion breaking than invisible walls. *rolleyes*
We have mirror universe outfits, cropped tops, ferengi female "jackets" already fed side.  Don't even get me started on what orions can get!

Yeah they deleted the map off the server for some reason. Any character that was on the map when it was deleted is stuck until they put it back in.

Probably to stop any more spoilers

[FarShot]

I gotta say, Bikinis on ESD is definitely more immersion breaking than invisible walls.

[captain_obvious]

We have mirror universe outfits, cropped tops, ferengi female "jackets" already fed side.  Don't even get me started on what orions can get!
They're fine, but swimwear isn't?  Double standards much?

Still, at least they're in game.  Should be thankful for that much at least.

[Tuskin38]

Probably to stop any more spoilers

I wonder why it took so long, there were Devs (Borticus and EQAH) on the Risa map with us at least 4-5 hours before it went down. Maybe the higher ups didn't hear about it until then.

Nope.  I was serious.  I mean, it's not going to harm us is it? OH wait, people want to RP and find bikinis more immersion breaking than invisible walls. *rolleyes*
We have mirror universe outfits, cropped tops, ferengi female "jackets" already fed side.  Don't even get me started on what orions can get!

Well the Orion stuff is fine, they're Orions.

Some of the Swimwear is a lot more revealing then those other uniforms.

I was not talking about breaking immersion when I brought it up.

When it comes to other player's uniforms I don't care about the immersion, because there is really nothing you can do about it, but the swimwear would be a bit much.

[Tuskin38]

Dev Blog on the Undine Assault

http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/star-trek-online/detail/3040143

[Darkthunder]

Useless blog is useless.

I suppose this is what you'd call a "filler". Since it reveals no new information about Season 9 (besides that the event itself exists). No information about rewards. Nothing.

[AllotoniFan]

Does Cryptic actually bother to make full story arcs instead of STFs, PVEs and Featured Episodes?
Season 8 is full of them, but no compelling story.

[Tuskin38]

this one post has more info then that blog

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16107311&postcount=10

[Darkthunder]

More Trait Changes coming this way...
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16109801&postcount=198

[captain_obvious]

Does Cryptic actually bother to make full story arcs instead of STFs, PVEs and Featured Episodes?
Season 8 is full of them, but no compelling story.

Not really.  There's only 1 arc that they've come up with in recent times that I know of, and that's the romulan 1-50 arc that came out with LOR.

[captain_obvious]

Okay, so basically, they've tried to turn what was originally a strategic decision into a tactical one and now that they've realised that it's not such a good idea (given that it gives a rather unfair advantage to battle cloakers) they're turning it back into a strategic advantage without actually changing the system revamp.

There goes the "oh, but they let us change rep powers on the fly as the situation demands" argument!  Now it's just a nerf.

EDIT

Oh, and they're also giving up on a change they made to one of the powers.  Now they're just going to scrap it and rebuild that power from scratch;

+dmg trait would be changing into something else offensive that will be better in some circumstances but less of a general "you must take this" ability.

I had a feeling that the trait revamp would have some trouble, but I didn't think it would go like this.
IMO, they should just give up on the whole rep/trait revamp and make undine rep the last part of the rep system with something else taking its place as a "filler" in new updates.  Wait, didn't I say something along those lines a day or two back?  ;)

[Darkthunder]

In my opinion, the whole trait/skill system is inherently flawed to begin with. And as is plainly noticable, is becoming more flawed with Season 9.

I think they should just scrap the traits (racial, reputation, career etc) as well as the Skill Point system, and build a robust "Talent Tree" type system. Perhaps even extend Talent Tree's into "Ships", where every ship would have the same "basic" talents to choose from, as well as some that are specific to the ship "career" path, such as Escorts, Cruisers or Science vessels. These talents would then be done to either boost damage, survival, support, or a combination therein.

[Tuskin38]

Huh, the Ent-F's councillor is this character from the Novel-verse. She even makes reference to Ezri and the Aventine.

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Phillipa_Matthias

It was a fun short mission

Oh and Dev blog

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1072681

[captain_obvious]

Yeah, it's pretty fun.  Though the ent f is mislabelled again. (as USS ODDYSEY, NCC 1701-F".)

plus some pretty awful builds on the ships.  Stuff like the bortas having a mk 1 quantum damage console when it doesn't have any quantum torps, or it having 2 cannon boff powers (CSV and CRF) when it lacks cannons.

What's even more hilarious to me, is that the ent f is less agile with its saucer off than my oddy is with its saucer still attached xD

The torp seems pretty fun though.

[Tuskin38]

Big tribble patch, some interesting changes
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=16134731#post16134731

Player, Ship, and Bridge Officer costumes no longer cost Energy Credits to customize.
    Removed the free costume change token from all player starships.
    All Costume changes are now free.
    All costume pieces found in the C-Store are still required to be purchased in order to be used.

Pressing the spacebar no longer skips cutscenes.
    This change was made in order to stop accidently skipping cutscenes which play in the middle of space combat.

The Foundry is back on Tribble!

[Tuskin38]

3D earth is coming back, from the sounds of it, the High ups want people to be able to fly around it.

Some new cliky dialogue. On the new ESD and the old ESD if you click on the Nameless NPCs (Nameless as they don't have anything over their head) they will say random stuff.



Earth from the inside got a texture change

[captain_obvious]

Pressing the spacebar no longer skips cutscenes.
    This change was made in order to stop accidently skipping cutscenes which play in the middle of space combat.

Fuck.  Crap.  Honestly, I hate this change.  Though it might be tolerable if there were a toggle option to enable/disable skipping of cut-scenes.  Obviously on "disable" by default. 
Best of both worlds that way.

[Darkthunder]

As far as I know, "Escape" is still a valid method of skipping cutscenes. The removal of "Space" for skipping, is likely due to Fire All Weapons (which also uses Space).

[Tuskin38]

Fuck.  Crap.  Honestly, I hate this change.  Though it might be tolerable if there were a toggle option to enable/disable skipping of cut-scenes.  Obviously on "disable" by default.  
Best of both worlds that way.

As dark thunder said the escape key also skips cutscenes

I didn't even know the space bar skipped cutscenes until this patch it, I always used ESC