Season 6 Dev Blog #24

By PWE_BranFlakes @ August 22, 2012 at 12:07pm

68 Comments »

• masterjp123 @ Sep 4th, 2012 8:56PM

  Stop complaning if you don't like it don't do it !! I like it and it is an easy way to get fleet credits. :-)

• blagorm @ Aug 27th, 2012 4:30AM

  (Sorry about 3 in row but my Fourm post is Comparing KDF vs FED...... if anything look in the Klingon Gameplay folder.

• blagorm @ Aug 26th, 2012 12:22PM

  (play can also be refered to relax.... should have been fireplace atleast... or a upgrade to lounge..

• blagorm @ Aug 26th, 2012 12:21PM

  You better listen STO and listen good.... You say for the KDF part of this upgrade All Work and Some Play.. YET you make the operational system look better? How is THAT play? I am really getting on you with your investments and ideas and even add on for KDF as I said somewhere on the New FED costume AND the Fourm with a thing I made Called Petition: KDF vs FED.... you promise and break or do weak adds or mostly treat KDF like half-dead gagh! And you thinking about another Faction? That gives more excuses for not doing stuff for KDF... like ships, and everything else. IM telling yah complaining will stop with effort. AND MAKE SURE ITS GOOD AND NOT JUST A HORRIBLE ADD ON. Qapla'!

• z0gra

  1 i agree Also dont even think about sharing our unique consoles with federation via lockboxes!!!!

• starsider32485 @ Aug 23rd, 2012 3:38PM

  THIS is a worthwhile upgrade. Now...give us a 3D chess minigame to go with it. XD

• kuwayuo @ Aug 23rd, 2012 8:17AM

  I am a very small fleet of toons and just getting the dailys done are nice and do have one nice item when i see my base for the first time would be nice and already have some upgrades and just keeping up would be nice. I have been doing dillium and stfing last three weeks just to keep pace dailys which are more like weeklys on my fleet.. Also, it would be nice to know where dev placed my base as a part of the basic fleet information board

• murcray @ Aug 23rd, 2012 8:05AM

  On another note: When thinking of our Fleet Starbases, I have to agree with many of these other comments. 200,000 Dilithium is a bit much. Especially for small fleets. I agree that you should make these types of projects cost items that are relevant: Entertainment Provisions, Synthale, Tribbles, etc. As for future special projects I have a couple of suggestions: 1. For KDF I agree with others and there needs to be a fire in that giant fireplace. 2. For Fed/KDF what about creating a specific starbase officer that only high fleet ranked members can speak with and change the colors/materials/emblems of the starbase. This way you can have special projects that give us different starbase "paint jobs" that we can later swtich back and forth. Ex. During Christmas time we can have Christmas decorations and colors up and a giant Christmas tree and then after Christmas we can switch back to standard design. Same goes for Halloween. 3. Here is an idea that may take quite a bit of work on your part Devs, but instead of taking us to that Wait Screen with random pictures, when we dock/undock from our Fleet Starbase why not give us a short "film" of our ship actually going through the docking bay doors or coming out of it? You give us a short "film" when we warp or transwarp and I think this little touch would be kind of nice. 4. I know you have a lot on your plate and you are probably tired of all the complaints and such from fans, but I need to add one more request to your list. When we log-off while in our fleet starbase, could you fix it so that when we log back on we are still IN our starbase and not in sector space? Please? Thank you for your hard work and I look forward to seeing what else you are going to give us!

• jafobss1701

  The thought is you will buy zen to convert to Dil.

• aquitaine985 @ Aug 23rd, 2012 8:01AM

  200k dili is a drop in the ocean. But in reurn for that we expect a measure of usefulness with these projects. Give us things we can actually USE, let us have the ability to move the stuff around, make our starbases unique to other fleets'. Right now we're just buying little trinkets, running around in rooms you made YEARS ago for different things, the Engineering area is from the Captains Table, the Science area is from your own ship interior and the Tactical area was from some randomn ass mission. If you guys are going to keep preaching about all the hard work you've done for Season 6, then show us some?

• murcray @ Aug 23rd, 2012 7:52AM

  Suggestion: When thinking of ways to make money AND satisfy the cravings of a horde of fans, I have a few suggestions for you. 1. Sell a 4th or 5th weapons console for ships. But not just standard put-anything-you-want-there slots. I'm thinking of sellng weapon slots that are dedicated to Cannon/Dual Beams/Beam Array/Torpedo Launcher/Mines. In fact make a Rededicate Weapons Token so that captains can change the layout of their ship weapon slots with dedicated weapon slots. Yes, this will mean cruisers could have Dual Heavy Cannons and ships could have multiple torpedo launchers that don't have a shared cooldown time, but this changing of the game would mean an influx of money and allow players to truly customize their ships. 2. Expand the costuming of ships. When it comes to changing colors and material there isn't a lot of variety. What about adding running lights? Or neon light edges along sides of the ship? For colors, what about allowing pure black, or even the entire rainbow of colors? When it comes to the Odyssey and a few other ships there isn't any way to customize the shape as there are no other options. What about opening up some options? In fact you could even have an Ultimate Customization Refit Token for sale that will allow players to customize their ships with parts from ANY standard ship available in game! The ability to "pimp-out" their own ships could have players flocking to the C-Store to make these purchases. Just some thoughts.

• baudl @ Aug 23rd, 2012 7:40AM

  "All work, some play" ironically sounds like the perfect description of the fleet advancement system in place currently. I'm not even referring to the fleet mark grind...i'm talking about the 120 DOFF's that need to be put into each assignment.

• bludagger

  welcome to Tier 2 wait till you see Tier 3 :)

• ef261

  Oh, ya. Just you wait for Tier 3.

• masterjp123 @ Aug 23rd, 2012 6:24AM

  Nice project ! You know what would be nice ?............Puting a fire in the fireplace at the KDF base ! Thank you !

• vaapi @ Aug 23rd, 2012 5:46AM

  I love the fed add-on, I didn't think so much of the Tribbles, so thanks! But I agree with everyone, for this high price we would like to see a bonus of fleet XP, because it's hard to keep the fleet members interested in non-functional decoration without some sort of bonus. I predict sales are going to drop that way.

• briitta @ Aug 23rd, 2012 5:40AM

  Yes, for 200.000 dil. I agree an SB XP bonus would be very welcome....we have to work hard for that stuff after all, maybe that is something to consider. It might sell some more too. @bludagger Fair enough. as a consumer you have a right to complain, and clearly you are not happy. Only, to complain about a commercial company doing marketing seems a bit unrealistic. It is a business, right, to make profit? I don't know where you work, but where I work all companies are like this. Maybe not the ideal model, but it does provide jobs. Maybe FTP is misleading to some. Nothing is free, profits need to be made. Wages need to be paid. If you are so unhappy, exercise the most powerful tool you have against profiteering companies, don't buy their products!

• bludagger

  yeah, you miss the point. I complain because money has exchanged hands. The Dev's themselves do good work, it is the rush to make that money, the rush to get it out the door without proper testing. to deliver a substandard product consistently... (Management, not Developers) If your work does this, do not expect to stay in business long. I work for a company that if we gave out a product like that on a consistent basis and conducted business as history shows this group doing, my CEO would of fired everyone of us. While this may be a "game company", Doing business is doing business. Some professionalism, usage and durability of the product *is* expected.

• mattjohnsonva @ Aug 23rd, 2012 3:26AM

  Excellent, thanks Devs, would like to see some Starbase XP going with these projects though.

• spaceblahd @ Aug 23rd, 2012 3:01AM

  Total win. Much better than tribbles! Loving these projects!

• caliban149 @ Aug 23rd, 2012 2:34AM

  Uggg Cryptic clearly have a really nice Starbase all designed and ready to go. . . . which they are going to sell to us one chair at a time. Utter cretins. On the plus side, it drives the Dil exchange down as ppl falll for it and actually spend money on this crap. I'll be converting my Dil into CP thank you.

• korzan1

  They ave to implement each every improvement over time. Not all at once.

• hydaspes @ Aug 23rd, 2012 12:59AM

  I agree with Briitta. The succes of all of this is measured in how many people get it. So if it is not any good, people will not buy it and the devs will learn. And otherwise, it's apparently good enough, no matter what the complaints are. What I would like is that at one point we can Tailor the contacts on the Starbase. We would love our Starbase to reflect our race (the Deferi).

• briitta @ Aug 23rd, 2012 12:53AM

  I am always amazed at the negativity here. I do understand 200.000 dil. is a lot, for our small fleet too. So we will have to work for it. But it is a choice, right? If you don't like it, leave it. And the same applies to the bugs. There are bugs in every system, they need to be fixed, but I think it is not that bad. Most of it works fine. I personally like this upgrade, so we are going to get it. And if we didn't like it, we wouldn't get it. And we wouldn't start complaining all the time, just give some positive feedback. I can understand the DEV's are less than enthousiastic after reading all of this, they are only made out as money-hungry incompetent idiots. Not a nice wat to talk to people that, I am sure, are doing their best.

• bludagger

  The DEV's never were the problem briitta. Management? Oh yeah, marketting? double oh yeah. Its the reputation the company as a whole built. They want to do the smoke and mirror thing and say hey look at what we have done! The problem is, at what cost? Far as bugs, yeah some of them are glaringly painful briitta, like the 86 week old de-cloaking bug. Just to name one off the top of my head. Only recently did they even fix the unlimited crafting resource bug inherent to all klingon explore zones. that one was going on for over 67 weeks. As far as Dev's being enthusiastic, they do not get that choice, it is their job. When they do a good one I congratulate them, but when they do a poor one, as a paying customer, I express my displeasure over the money i spent for my enjoyment at a buying a broken device/item. I am not here to pet/hold/cuddle/make feel good any Dev or cryptic employee. I am a consumer, and a demanding one at that, they take my money willingly, they get to take my displeasure at poor performance of the product i purchased as well.

• iconians @ Aug 22nd, 2012 11:24PM

  Shut up and take my dilithium.

• otakuboyt @ Aug 22nd, 2012 10:52PM

  I hope these repeat later. I'm unable to play the game now because of work.

• hatepwe @ Aug 22nd, 2012 9:30PM

  While I understand that the people making interior swag to drain Dilithium and increase the demand for Zen I'd love to see these people tasked with making unique interiors and interior packs for ships on the C-Store.

• markfalcone @ Aug 22nd, 2012 8:27PM

  Not sure what to think of this one. Like the idea of having games and seating in the lounge for Feds, but you can't even tell what the heck the KDF is really getting out of this. As one person already commented, it appears to be nothing.

• bludagger

  The wife and I abandoned the Klingon side. After seriously discussing it, it was not worth the hassle to get a company who shows through history they have no desire to flesh out the rest of such a rich culture. They could of make history by giving more to the klingon race then anyone else, but they chased the money, a business decision. One that caused the wife and me to make one of our own.

• oldjerseydevil

  @bludagger Sad really. IMHO the KDF Faction

• lpthomasmarik @ Aug 22nd, 2012 8:12PM

  It would be nice if they would just have fun with these. The tribble project should have cost 200k tribbles. The bar enhancement should be costing entertainment provisions. etc. Grinding out 200k Dilithium is the opposite of fun.

• nalo @ Aug 22nd, 2012 3:41PM

  well I do hope the Feds get some better changes the only one I regret not getting is the2nd one with the -panels and such. I want my SB to look more like a military base not a resort

• machaliss @ Aug 22nd, 2012 2:33PM

  I am going to have to say.... The Klingon's would be the ones more likely to have drinking Facilities get that much attention on an Operation level of a Starbase than the Federation.

• targpetz101

  That one will come eventually. The same as this one, but vise versa.