Season 6 Dev Blog #6
By PWE_BranFlakes @ June 20, 2012 at 11:44am
Starbase Alerts
You didn’t really think you could build a starbase and hostile forces would simply ignore it, did you?
Occasionally, during the course of normal gameplay, players in a fleet will receive notification that their starbase is under attack. When this special kind of alert shows up, players have the option to queue up (via the alert itself) and defend their starbase. When the queue launches, players will be moved to their starbase along with other queued members of their fleet. You and your fleet mates will need to work together if you want to drive back the attacking forces.
Starbase Alerts are similar to Red Alerts in that you must defeat a certain number of attackers in a set amount of time. If you’re able to do so, you have the chance to earn bonus rewards by defeating the captain of the invading force. The attackers are chosen at random with each engagement, so you’ll want to be sure you’re prepared for all possibilities.
Low-level players can participate in these alerts, as they will temporarily have their level raised to 50 during the course of the event. Also, it’s important to note that participation in these alerts is completely optional, and there is no penalty for declining them or failing them. The only thing lost will be the opportunity to earn rewards.
We’ll see you in-game and in the Starbase Alerts when they launch with Season 6: Under Siege.
Scott “Goatshark” Shicoff
Lead Content Designer
Star Trek Online
camryboy @ Jul 16th, 2012 4:34AM
Im starting to have Log-in problems
talon115 @ Jul 11th, 2012 4:27AM
Cant wait hope other fleets can attack aswell
cptrowan @ Jul 7th, 2012 5:13AM
when is it coming out? i want it to come out soon so hurry up and give us it plz.
dastroyahs @ Jun 25th, 2012 5:29PM
what day is it gonna be updated so i can call my job an tell em i'm sick
phase325
LMAO... very good :)
picard125 @ Jun 25th, 2012 8:27AM
i think we should be able to design our own base not just have someone else tell us. And i also wish there was a set date.
zing89 @ Jun 25th, 2012 3:40AM
is it yust space or is there a ground one when you defend your star bace?
picard125
i know i hope there is ground fighting to. and i don't like the time limit i think it should be like a PvP battle.
robodude222 @ Jun 23rd, 2012 8:09PM
Wow cool event. Especially the temporary levels. What am I saying i just downloaded STO!
blagorm @ Jun 22nd, 2012 5:26PM
Idk anymore. IM confused. The way you read comments on this is diffrent for me. I just hope starbases come out by June's End. Defesnsives can be in 2062 for all I care.
blagorm @ Jun 22nd, 2012 5:23PM
END OF JULY! ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!? You show us this info near mid to late May to find out it would be comming out in July?! That made my hopes fall. (Might not know how loing since Ive been playing since F2P only in January. Dont/not use to lengths.)
omnivii @ Jun 22nd, 2012 9:30AM
I haven't heard anything on this but what is we could choose what type of starbase we got? Like DS9 or Earth Spacedock. That would be cool, maybe even install weapons on the starbase.
thatguyyouknow10 @ Jun 22nd, 2012 7:56AM
there should be a pvp aspect to it, like different fleets can attack other fleets starbases. It would be exciting, and expand on the fleets a bit
blaster5 @ Jun 21st, 2012 6:51PM
when are the bases coming out i have been waiting
rickysmith1
I last heard it was end of July. Even thought it was 'reliable' source that was a good month ago so it could be extended by now.
sakaul @ Jun 21st, 2012 3:05PM
so am i the only one who feels they should do it where the base can have defense's installed and placed by people in kind of a tower defence thing where you can place turrets at certain points or traps and whatnot, tune your base's power levels, the base becomes prefectly defencable by itself, and then make it a pvp where other fleets can target and attack your station, and whoever is online can try and help defend the starbase while the enemy tries to fight their way through your fortifications and destroy your starbase, though then it might not be fair to the one guy with his own base cuz then he cant assault other peoples base's
shockarm
so are you trying to say that pll attacking other pll fleet base?
shockarm @ Jun 21st, 2012 1:46PM
what I am really hoping is that you have the borg attack :P
obiwonko1 @ Jun 21st, 2012 9:08AM
make it end game content "stf style queue anytime 1 or more people to defend the base of the same fleet to activate and give borg chips as well as bonus to starbase"
shockarm @ Jun 20th, 2012 6:18PM
Sweet cant wait but inst it already season 6 for sto?
smaug1 @ Jun 20th, 2012 4:15PM
I hate the box!
intrepiduk
If you have firefox, install adblock plus and the element hider and you can block it from even loading. :)
beyere @ Jun 20th, 2012 3:38PM
Adblock works great to get rid of that stupid floating box.
pertune @ Jun 20th, 2012 2:32PM
get rid of the floating side bar , cryptic its getting annoying...... please
genhauk
Agreed ... I'll not read these now because of that floating box.
fauxpasiii
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fauxpasiii
That got a bit garbled... here: http://pastebin.com/6bvPai6z
fauxpasiii
Here it is as a greasemonkey / tampermonkey script: http://pastebin.com/QWSLvjLk
pertune @ Jun 20th, 2012 2:23PM
when is season 6 coming out my fleet is pestering the living hell out of me about the damn base. we need more info like where can we build ? can dilithium be traded to help build the base ? anything please throw the players a bone.
sollvax @ Jun 20th, 2012 2:19PM
Would agree that if this requires 5 it won't be used much Nice Graphics however
daharmasterklag @ Jun 20th, 2012 2:14PM
Yea.... definitely need to make sure any number less than 5 has the option of starting the base defense mission if they want to.
kevkla1269 @ Jun 20th, 2012 1:10PM
when is it coming because i'm so excited about it i also have that concer because if there not 5 people then what happens do we have to rebuild or something like that
longasc @ Jun 20th, 2012 1:01PM
Yeah, are 5 people required? I don't see more than 3-4 online most of the time.
cusashorn
What he said. If there's a minimum requirement to actually start it, then a lot of fleets will just be flat out unable to do them. I look forward to defending my starbase, even if it's just by myself (just like I do with the borg.)
edinator96 @ Jun 20th, 2012 12:55PM
I think that you should encourage a minor damage to the Starbase if no one attends the fleet star base event or if the event is failed. Like a 10,000 Dilithium repair or something. Edbetter@Edinator96 of the 501st Attack Fleet
meurik
"Minor damage" of 10'000 Dilithium? Are you NUTS? There are clearly fleets in the game that are a "fleet of ONE", and the maximum dilithium per day is 8'000. Should this single player be forced to pay the full cap 2k extra, just because he/she chose to be in a fleet on his/her own?
pertune
your Nuts , you might have 10k to blow but i dont
gettorix
Yeah, even large fleets may trigger an event when only a couple of people are online. Penalties for this are a bad idea. Rewards for it are a better incentive to play, and much more enjoyable.
edinator96
You can't make a fleet with a single person in it as you need 5 to start a fleet. Also, If you own a fleet like mine (the 501st BATTLE (sorry) fleet with 50 people in it, Cobboling together 10000 Dilithium would not be hard. I will ammend my idea. I now think that there should be a penalty and that penalty should depend on the size of the fleet. if they said 500 dilithium per person to repair the Starbase, that would make it alot more fair.
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