Season 6 Dev Blog #9

By PWE_BranFlakes @ June 29, 2012 at 12:47pm

66 Comments »

• phenix8 @ Dec 26th, 2012 1:15PM

  is it a monthly subscription or 1 time payment i am a noob at sto

• jnohd @ Oct 4th, 2012 11:45AM

  Its been nearly 100 days... can we PLEASE get a fur-less variant of these otherwise awesome KDF bracers???

• rosser71 @ Jul 4th, 2012 1:04PM

  I like the idea of a special class of ships for 1000 day vets. Especially if they constitute a tier higher than anything else. What an incentive that could be to pay to play, and to commit to playing a long time. Might consider this devs. Personally I'm at about 260 days (more than that if you consider the time I played when game first came out and was so buggy that I had to quit). Never the less, a ship that is markedly more powerful than other ships as a reward for playing so long would definitely give me a reason to stick around. Though I'm sure I will anyways. :-)

• jarenriccar

  paid subscriber for 900 days today haha been there since that horrid day one

• matteo716maikai @ Jul 3rd, 2012 10:50AM

  i cant use the ship skin on my intrpid retrofit. what gives?

• shadowgirl @ Jul 3rd, 2012 10:40AM

  I was actually strongly hoping the net material would be a battle damaged look, so when you fly your ship around you can see its been in some tense battles... but it seems cryptic just isn't that creative :( Its not too late devs! Please add this!

• poopbang

  That would be nice...

• onedallarbill @ Jul 2nd, 2012 10:38PM

  Ok First off I'm a lifer and i think the vet reward system is a good way to thank the gold members and i have no problems with anything they have given us so far. But i do have a problem with all the ungrateful players griping about what they are getting. Guess what guys they very well could have given you nothing at all. All the vet rewards are is a way to show off how long you've been in game. Get over your selfish selves and enjoy the game. You take things too seriously. By the way vets have it better than any f2p player so quit being greedy.

• flauren @ Jul 2nd, 2012 3:09PM

  sadly, there is still no veteran reward that even intrigues me to bust out my wallet and pay... sorry :( and I looove STO, but I love my cash so, so, sooo much more. Although if even one decent vet. reward was added, I'd buy the lifetime, so good effort at least :) lol

• vahdo @ Jul 2nd, 2012 2:05PM

  i wouldnt be too optimistic about the 1000 vet reward after i read this here :P especially since the it's only said on the reward page as a "starship variant". that could not be a new starship but a starship costume, and i wouldnt be surprised if it was the latter :P but really,.... the new skin not usable on non-starfleet/klingon ships just sucks :(

• bones1970 @ Jul 2nd, 2012 8:59AM

  So my main character's (space/ground, fed/kdf) will get nothing because i support cryptic. I use 2 jem'hadar attack ships and a grumba. What we learn from ths is never buy a ship in STO, use the free 1's

• azurianstar @ Jul 2nd, 2012 12:16AM

  No offense to the Dev Team, but these rewards are just lazy. The Ship skin is just Aegis rehash, the Federation Uniform is just replacing the Silver of the 500 Day reward with Gold. The only thing is good is the Klingons getting the new gauntlets and belt.

• nyiad @ Jul 1st, 2012 12:07PM

  Another thing I noticed.....nice trick there Cryptic...showing the new material while you have a ton of glare on the hull already....sneaky...

• afree100

  lol

• alexraptorr @ Jul 1st, 2012 12:00PM

  I just keep wondering when the Klingon shoulder pads are going to be finished. Because I seem to recall way back that the plan was to have drapes hanging down the front as well as the back, which is why you have the strip of leather and clasp hanging down on the front side of the shoulder pad.

• nyiad

  Cryptic is stopping with th KDF uniform.

• nyiad @ Jun 30th, 2012 8:47PM

  repainted*

• nyiad @ Jun 30th, 2012 8:43PM

  I love the repaited uniforms for Feds......"Hello, my name is No Effort! What's yours?" I have all my characters using the silver shine with red/dark grey trims....I hope the pics here just happen to have the yellow trim just to look nice...either way...characters going to look like crap with that on haha. I do hope the KDF gets a new vest / armor ...it would be nice to not use the default X vest armor we alrady have :( ...

• lordgabe @ Jun 30th, 2012 11:38AM

  As a lifetimer from pre-launch I'm cool with these rewards. For me its free and I originally wasn't promised it and frankly if this game goes on for many years more maybe everyone will be able to attain these if the even subscribe off and on. My only question is will there be rewards past 1000 days? still 100days/200days? if i've missed this somewhere i'd be happy to know, not going to stop subbing as a lifer anyhow :P

• nyiad

  Awhile ago before PWE took over Stormshade said 1000 was it with Vet rewards and their might be stuff from time to time afterwards. Pretty much Cryptic is saying they're done with wasting their time rewarding us and just want our money with expecting nothing in return....do they can work on Lockboxes...errr I mean doff packs that might have a ship in it.....don't ya love Cryptic / PWE ? :)

• bluedarky

  @nyiad, actually the official reason for stopping the vet rewards is the exact same reason CoX stopped with the specific rewards and turned them into tokens when they went F2P, to prevent causing a load of bonuses that people new to the game can never get.

• lordgabe

  Ahh cheers guys makes sense, but in the end if the game runs for 10 years 1000days or 2000days is something with some incentive to subbing :) but yea maybe the ability to buy days to your active account unlocks would be a clever way to open them upto those who can't wait/don't want to sub :P but thanks anyhow.

• teuck @ Jun 30th, 2012 5:11AM

  I agree totally with everything mattjohnsonva says,i've been a sub since day one,and this game gets better especially wit the content from the foundry missions keep up the great work,cryptic and the ppl that keep us coming back for more content from the foundry!! ;)

• mattjohnsonva @ Jun 30th, 2012 3:33AM

  The 1000 day award is the free exclusive starship. http://sto.perfectworld.com/community/veteran-rewards I'm happy with these rewards so far, I subbed and now have a LTM because I have faith in this game, the developers and the community. This is Trek and unlike other MMOs this title can never die.

• bekstorm0cz @ Jun 30th, 2012 3:25AM

  I em subed form 886 days and I buy more then half of C-Store, And you know what, STO is good game and getting beater and beater. You think you will do beater? Please go ahead

• disposeableh3r0

  When I first read your reply it sounded quite violent. I didn't know there were so many beatings being handed out. May explain the low morale.

• johnynormus @ Jun 30th, 2012 2:54AM

  you'd think the developers would be smart enough to not exclude this portion of the player base. Here you go since you guys have probably spent the most out of anyone on this game we'll reward you with something you're excluded form using. Please buy another ship in our c-store. Oh look there is currently a ship sale going on when this blog was written, how convenient. I love how all the "freepers" who probably haven't paid a dime have so much to say on this topic about how ungrateful we are. Here's a fun fact: The magical star trek fairy doesn't pay the developers salaries. The folks who subbed for 30 months and opened a bunch of lock boxes however have. Does it make sense from a business and customer service perspective to exclude this group of players/ payers? Only if you are incompetent at running a business i think. Even if it takes the art team working on a special project to remedy this situation I say allocate the resources if you are truly grateful After all Actions>Words

• nyiad

  Shhhhh! You know too much, and Cryptic / PWE doesn't - wait....did you hear that !? *Glass breaking* GET BACK I SAY MODS, GET BACK - !

• apocalypse2001

  Johnny is absolutely correct. How else are they going to get paid? I make it my mission every month to buy a PWE card so I can get a few doffs or boffs or open a box maybe. I'm doing my part to keep supporting them. yes it bothers me that PWE bought out Cryptic; yes, it bothers me that Devs are mysteriously leaving so close to each other - time wise; yes, it bothers me that..... well you get the picture. For those of you who are free players do what I do. The Cryptic guys need to be paid some how for bringing us something wonderful like Star Trek Online.

• foundrelic @ Jun 29th, 2012 8:47PM

  Hmmm... that Federation male's rank has FIVE pips. Hint dropping?

• disposeableh3r0

  THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS!!!

• cptwilliam2

  Nah, they've been in game for a while, guy on ESd has em.

• foundrelic

  but not for users. Only NPC's.

• nyiad

  You do know level cap is getting raised at on point right? Admiral and then Fleet Admiral

• claudiusdk @ Jun 29th, 2012 7:41PM

  Oh you silly devs.. -Add tons of alien ships to KDF side. -Huge amount of players fly alien ships. -Add 900 vet ship skin that doesn't work with alien ships. Please say the skin works with alien ships KDF side. Almost half the ships KDF side are alien ships.

• admiral3nick @ Jun 29th, 2012 5:30PM

  Awesome Perks! I love the Jupiter Uniforms, so having the ability to show off my 900 vet on my favorite uniform is just that much better. Ship skin I am still iffy on. Ill have to see how it looks on my Heavy Escourt Carrier. Ill never get over all of the flaming over therse Vet rewards, Its a system to show off how long you have been with the game, not to reward you for being subscibed so long, imo thats what Stipends are for, but thats just me.

• allious @ Jun 29th, 2012 5:22PM

  These are all good things and no doubtedly will be a hit with the veterans, What I am sad about is this: I have only been subscribed to the game for 202days, I have played this game for much longer. Since F2P came into effect it is much nicer I suppose, being able to play my favorite game for little to no cost. But what I am sad about is that I cant always be subscribed. Is there any possible way to give rewards if, over time, lets say you spend 12k C-points/Zen. There would be some kind of Reward(s). It would surely be an even greater boost in profits for STO and boost in smiles on Holodeck. Please take this in concideration.

• nyiad

  It's not happening.

• droclionia @ Jun 29th, 2012 4:55PM

  I the rewards are nothing to complain about, its something for nothin and they're a little treat I suppose. Like another player had said though, its a shame about the ship costumes. I had to spend real money on my atrox carrier and I'm kinda happy with the omeage look that it has at the moment until something better comes along... which evidentally isnt going to be for a very long time it seems :(

• cptwilliam2

  I have to agree about the alien ships, that seems incredibly shortsighted. I will say though, the rewards aren't somethin for nothin since it cost time and money to get them.

• drachenhaut01 @ Jun 29th, 2012 4:20PM

  If the uniform variant is just a color then can we assume the ship variant for the 1000 days is going to be just a recolor of the ship skin. Great now i just gave them an idea so they dont have to do any real work on our next vet reward