STO News

[dvatreknerd314]

So, Midnight has slightly restored my faith in the writing abilities of the people coming up with the plots.

 

[kjc733]

I nearly missed this as I've been off STO for a while. The new Prommie is here.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561933

The design isn't too radical (a good thing) and they've also overhauled.

• Bridge Officer Stations: 1 Ensign Tactical, 1 Lieutenant Tactical, 1 Commander Tactical, Lieutenant Commander Engineering/Command, 1 Lieutenant Commander Science
• Console Modifications: 4 Tactical, 3 Engineering, 3 Science

Eng/Command seat which I find a bit odd. No universal seats

On the plus side - there's a 20% off sale until the 28th... I'm seriously considering it as I loved my Mirror Prommie.

Also, another design competition, voting on styles though.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/st...il/9561483-star-trek-online:-design-your-ship!

 

[CABAL]

Also, another design competition, voting on styles though.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561483-star-trek-online:-design-your-ship!

Too bad we have to vote on their designs rather than submitting the Seraphim. Probably just not doing fan designs anymore after the Enterprise-F debacle.

 

[Majestic]

I am expected to say it, but why not KDF? Wasn't a Federation ship just released the other day? This is why I don't play the game much anymore. No matter what they do, no matter what they say it's still 90% a Federation game and the Federation in STO would have to be the most boring faction and the least like what we saw in the series.

 

[Hellkite]

Here we go again same old s*** again

 

[Elrond]

I am expected to say it, but why not KDF? Wasn't a Federation ship just released the other day? This is why I don't play the game much anymore. No matter what they do, no matter what they say it's still 90% a Federation game and the Federation in STO would have to be the most boring faction and the least like what we saw in the series.

Here here, more KDF. Why not a KDF ship finally? The Feds seriously do have like 1,991 ships and the KDF has about....oh, 12. Well, pretty much.

Here we go again same old s*** again

Ohhh yeah, you know it's happenin'!

 

[SciFiFan]

Time for me to chime in. I agree that the Federation has enough ships for a while and the KDF needs more (specifically science ships). What about us Romulan and more importantly to me, Remans? There are not enough Romulan ships in game. I actually like the way they are doing this voting system for the next ship because it does not exclude any players. It is not an actual contest but a popular vote. Of course I do remember the "popular vote" section of the DTNE contest which was completely thrown out the window (supposedly by CBS).

Some other news, There is a 20% ship sale going on right now (Hestia Class not included). I took this opportunity to get the Federation Command Cruiser pack. I went with the Fed cruisers because my main Fed Engineer is at 60 now so I am working on him. Then I will concentrate on my Reman tac (Shatruk) followed by my newest Fed science (Tovum).

 

[Majestic]

Here here, more KDF. Why not a KDF ship finally? The Feds seriously do have like 1,991 ships and the KDF has about....oh, 12. Well, pretty much.

Yeah the KDF do need more, as do the Rommies. They only seem to get a ship when it's a cross faction bundle and the ship is like identical in almost every way to the Federation ships. Not good, a reason my wallet has stayed shut, and also a reason why I barely play the game now.

Time for me to chime in. I agree that the Federation has enough ships for a while and the KDF needs more (specifically science ships). What about us Romulan and more importantly to me, Remans? There are not enough Romulan ships in game.

I agree the Romulans and KDF both need more attention and production put into them. But as long as the people in charge are in charge, nothing will change and STO will remain what it is.

 

[Elrond]

Yeah I hear ya Maj And SciFiFan. I will say there are some half-decent options with KDF and Rommies, but just not enough options. What options there are usually do come in the form of ships that, when you look at them under the hood, are essentially carbon copies of the Fed options.

 

[Majestic]

Yeah uniqueness between the factions has gone out of the airlock a long time ago. Unless you're a feddy player.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Unfortunately there's no real incentive for the STO devs to add more variety between the factions. Half of the people who play STO are people who were introduced to Star Trek with the 2009 movie, and they all wanna play as some variation of Kirk. Thus, they'll play and purchase Federation-related content, and continue to purchase the new vessels. Since most users play Federation captains, it makes financial sense to have your developers focus on Federation content rather than Klingon or Romulan.

Unfortunately it sucks for those of us that do play the non-fed factions...

 

[Majestic]

There is also the other side of the coin. Giving the Federation all the unique items from the other factions (carriers, flight deck ships, cloak, lockbox consoles) and then putting 90% of their development into said faction is it any wonder why so many people only play the Federation? There is no real incentive to play the other factions because of this development module they have adopted.

Cryptic has caused the game to be what it is, rather than bringing in abilities and development on the other factions to draw people into those factions. All the cross faction ships and missions do nothing to entice people to play the other factions as either their main or as regularly used alt's.

It's a catch 22, when Cryptic says if more people would play these factions they'd put more development into it, when they themselves are the reason it is what it is.

Hence why I have stopped supporting this game, and also a reason I log in very rarely. As I see there are better options out there, especially with what is coming to the Xbox One in the next few months.

 

[OpetJa]

I played this morning STO after long time, "Midnight" mission of the Iconian war...passed it after some 2 hours of playing... And now I wonder, what's next??

 

[dvatreknerd314]

I played this morning STO after long time, "Midnight" mission of the Iconian war...passed it after some 2 hours of playing... And now I wonder, what's next??

Hopefully they can do something kind of like the exploration system but much better

 

[SonicJordan]

I can't wait for the final design of the ship!

 

[OpetJa]

Hopefully they can do something kind of like the exploration system but much better

I was trying to say...Federation "has no enemies" for now... Borg and Undine were defeated, and Iconians are defeated too... Who's next enemy? Maybe Galactic Empire or Republic? Or maybe Dominion again... Nobody cares for planetary scans (like in SFC)...Oh now I remember...Sphere Builders...

 

[CABAL]

I was trying to say...Federation "has no enemies" for now... Borg and Undine were defeated, and Iconians are defeated too... Who's next enemy? Maybe Galactic Empire or Republic? Or maybe Dominion again... Nobody cares for planetary scans (like in SFC)...Oh now I remember...Sphere Builders...

If they dredge up the Sphere Builders or any other Temporal Cold War factions, they're going to need to work hard to make the TCW not as stupid as it was in ENT.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

It looks like the Tholians will be making a comeback

 

[Majestic]

The problem is they only use enemies for such a short time. The storyline makes no sense, it's like a yoyo jumping from one to another. I really think they need to go back and fill in the blanks more. Add more faction unique missions, more Elachi for the Romulans, more Fek'hlri for the Klingons etc.

But they are running out of ideas due to poor planning and a very short sighted over look.

Exploration would be good for the Federation, but the Klingons and Romulans really need more unique missions of their own. Exploration wouldn't work as well for them.

 

[CABAL]

I'd like to see some new episodes added to the existing arcs or the writing of some of them modified. I just finished the Dominion arc and that had some build up and a finale, but the Klingon War arc just kind of stopped with B'vat defeated. And Shon just suddenly shows up in the E-F the episode after the Belfast is destroyed? Did that make more sense as the season was airing? The Wasteland arc felt like it could have been much shorter, though. I hardly got to use my Ambassador since most of the time I had it I was on that one planet.

 

[Majestic]

I must admit the Federation missions make a lot more sense than the Klingon ones. Have you had a chance to play the Klingon faction yet @CABAL? That said the writing of the missions have always been a little poor. The Fek'lhri, and the new missions that came with LOR were really well done. I also didn't mind the Delta Quadrant ones, although they don't make a lot of sense for non-Federation characters, but that can be said for every single cross faction mission made.

 

[CABAL]

I made a Romulan character, but I'm not very far in. I think I'll set my doffs to work and try a Klingon.

 

[Majestic]

Both Romulan and Klingon characters are the best part of STO imo.

 

[OpetJa]

The problem is they only use enemies for such a short time. The storyline makes no sense, it's like a yoyo jumping from one to another. I really think they need to go back and fill in the blanks more. Add more faction unique missions, more Elachi for the Romulans, more Fek'hlri for the Klingons etc.

But they are running out of ideas due to poor planning and a very short sighted over look.

Exploration would be good for the Federation, but the Klingons and Romulans really need more unique missions of their own. Exploration wouldn't work as well for them.

Interesting thing is that in all Star Trek stuff (movies, TV shows, novels, games) Federation is always in war... almost unbelieveable... I could make list...There could be dozens of races (canon and non-canon) which Federation battled... So I welcome this "exploring thing" in STO... I hope they can make it interesting... They can make it like ST episodes with choices that have
repercussions in Federation, Klingons, Romulans...
I quote Picard: "Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"

 

[Majestic]

Interesting thing is that in all Star Trek stuff (movies, TV shows, novels, games) Federation is always in war... almost unbelieveable... I could make list...There could be dozens of races (canon and non-canon) which Federation battled... So I welcome this "exploring thing" in STO... I hope they can make it interesting... They can make it like ST episodes with choices that have
repercussions in Federation, Klingons, Romulans...
I quote Picard: "Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"

For Federation yes, but the thing about STO that is so often forgotten is that STO is more than just the Federation. I don't play Federation as I don't like how discriminating the game is against the other factions.

Pure exploration doesn't work as well for the other factions.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

I guess you could get exploration to work for different reasons. For the Federation, it's simply to explore or to find allies. For the Klingons, it could be to find challenging enemies or new races to conquer, and with the Romulan Republic, it could be to find a way to finally kill off Tovan Khev...

 

[SciFiFan]

Cryptic has officially announced their Admiralty System. It will be going onto Tribble soon so I will be checking it out. It really looks like the Doff System just with your ships.

 

[kjc733]

Cryptic has officially announced their Admiralty System. It will be going onto Tribble soon so I will be checking it out. It really looks like the Doff System just with your ships.

Meh, even more time wasted playing with the DOFF system than actually playing the game. At one point I was leveling up purely by DOFFs.

 

[Majestic]

Meh, even more time wasted playing with the DOFF system than actually playing the game. At one point I was leveling up purely by DOFFs.

I did that and doing the academy dailies. In fact I still do that.

 

[OpetJa]

not exactly news, but this composition from sto became my favourite