Season 7: New Romulus is Live!

By PWE_BranFlakes @ November 13, 2012 at 12:00pm

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• jdadon @ Nov 15th, 2012 3:21PM

  I found a problem with the old system with omega. Your a new player, and introduced to the omega missions. But you gear is at best MK X Rare. you are going to have hard time fighting. But at least the old system you have a chance to upgrade to Very Rare gear and be up to par with everyone else. Now you have to wait to lvl 50 before you can build your reputation. and then have to Build it before you can buy MK XI Very Rare gear. Which also defeats the purpose to have Mk X Very Rare, because you are a lvl 50 and can have MK XI, SO whats the point of keeping any of the MK X gear if you can use it? At lvl 50 i am not goin to have MK X gear for my ships or persons. Might want to reconsider having lower ranks 44 and up to 49 to let them build their reputation. maybe then they can claim the MK X Very Rare. I point this out cause i have multiple characters and my last one is lvl 44, with borg tech and one Phaser beam array MK X, and i can not build reputation until lvl 50, I was happy to get the borg gear before the change over. I wish i had heads up the it was changing and i would have used my salvage and data chips, i have alot built up for new gear on my other characters. Maybe you should just unlock reputation teir 5 for current lvl 50 players. i been lvl 50 on them for better part of a 3 months to a year now. I think i have said my piece now.

• lgxl

  I second that one. New system is a menace, and not thought through. It totallt defeats the purpose of owning Mk X Very Rare gear.

• mackreggin1979 @ Nov 15th, 2012 1:44PM

  New 5-20 person missions! why not make it so that all missions can be played w/1-4 people. It's practically impossible to get teams together for the larger missions.

• fox1616 @ Nov 15th, 2012 10:16AM

  I quit a game because we had to grind at less 1 to 2 hours everyday to have game money to play with on weekends when we build ships and other stuff. got boring STO claims free to play but we have to buy litiunm or grind hard to get it. ships same get upsetting to shell out $50.00 to 100.00 buck a month i would willing to pay 30 a month to play and be able to get lilitunm in larger amounts. I play beta and i'm a lifer that leaves for long period of time because it gets boring.

• camryboy @ Nov 15th, 2012 9:08AM

  P.S. Also the message is for thoughs that are not happy with the Dilithium changes, I can understand your frustrations and I am a regular player sense day one of launch guys and have had all the perks and works with the subcriptions and went from that to what is now refered to as silver. I want o let you know that Changes to the game will and can make you apreaciate it more. Guys this is pretty much all we have for the world of Startrek and im appreacitive of the fact that they made this game free to play, because it was not always so. Hypothetical question for you, and im not here to change your minds but to have you think about this just for a second. Why do you want to rush the process of the game???? If so after you have done everything, then what will be left??? Will you get bored from doing the same matterial everyday and then leave the game anyway??? Or would you then want it all at once and get overloaded because you will never feel like your getting anywhere?? if so, what would be your alternates if this does happen, willl you still go to another game because you feel there is no challages to overcome in gameplay?? These are all things to consider. We allhave things we would like to see in game play, butim here to tell you if you are as loyal to star trek as I am, im going to say im here for the long run. I have worked so hard and having fun doing it, to get my fleet(s) Working together and comming together that they do so well in doing. I proud of the relationships I have made with all of you due to changes made. LGBT OF STARFLEETs 7th, 8th, 9th and 10ths are not a fleet of people to me, they are like family and they help me through the rough times I have during the days. I can say they have taking my stress away and forget about all the bullshyt that life gives you. Im glad to have anothe star Trek Project of Production here to once again unite the world in a better out look for the future. This was Gene's Legacy with the support of the late Majal Berret. This is more than just a game for me. Its the Legacy that we carry on for Gene and Majal. To me im going to honor their memories as well as my memories of a better time in the 90's where people looked out for each other, and a time where we had a little more time to be with our families. Yes I know times are hard right now but they have made it so you can have Star Trek again and make your own mark in Gene's Universe. I for one am not going to leave because I believe in abilities to improve things. I also want to hit you up with something that will help all of you. EARN ZEN is one way you can get Dilithium and everything you want for free.............I myself has eard over 3000 in Zen from doing the free surveys and they do not ask you for personal imformation that is one option that can help some of you get ZEN free and then convert it into Dilithium in th dilithium exchange, did you know that only 500 Zen can get you like 300,000. in dilithium, you can save your dilithium to also get ZEN. No one sad it was going to be easy, but with PATIENTS AND TAKING YOU MIND OFF FINISHING FIRST TO BE THE BEST IN GAME PLAY, then you will enjoy the game as well as others you play with. Keep your head up guys and always look to the stars.

• shpoks

  ^!THIS!^ Well said sir, I'm also wondering about why are people in such a rush?!

• camryboy @ Nov 15th, 2012 8:31AM

  "And all I ask for is a tall ship and a Star to stear her by." Hi STO world, Im here to say that im liking much of season 7 except for, the Numbus system and the Khitomer System, I was seriously hoping for more social zones. Yeah I do know that the one you have now are dead, but have you ever put thought that the social zones like Andor, Vulcan, and Risa need more work to them, because they are beautiful, but the are just shadows of what could make this game great. Have you ever though about opening up the temple on Vullcan, or Have a historical visit to Sarek''s House, or Tuvok's house on Vulcan, open up some instances on social Zone where you can do the death matches of Pon' Var. If you are true fans like you have stated over again in inerviews and such, then as you well know Star Trek is about Exploring the Galaxy and bring worlds into the federation to help out the wars expanding terroritories. I also want to see Starfleet Headquarters on the grounds of Pesita. We are Admirals right? When are we going to get our Starfleet Headquarters offices??? When are we going to see the President's Office in Paris?? Can you even open up Cheatu Picard, the grounds of Captain's Picard's home?? And what happed to Betazed???? The Veriadian System??? I would like to se the old grave of Kirk and the old Enterprise D's Crash Soucer section. When are you going to do more Bridge packs??? im tired of looking at the same ole bridges, I want a TNG Bridge pack with the Ten Forward and with the shuttle craft of the first and second seasons type 7 and the type 5A from the Star Trek movies. also have a bug in my Embassy projects i can no longer seem to select them, when i try to they won't respond. there also still are server essues that need to be worked out since there are more and more people coming online. I asked for shuttlebays and i got shuttle bays, thanks for listening to us Cryptic/Perfect world and thank you so much

• orici1701 @ Nov 15th, 2012 8:22AM

  Great work STO. Season 7 is awsome, I forone am keeping up my gold account. and for them who say trek never went past season 7 the answer is easy TNG never went past season 7 cos of DS9, DS9 never went past season 7 cos it was just awful and tryed to bring it to life with Worf a lame attempt to makeit good. and then the war that was just end game for the show, and Voyager got repetive "Borg, 8472...... more borg...... the borg died in Voyager lol.... but i stand by this if they wanted to go past season 7 it would have worked but been repetive, look at SG1 lol they defeated the goa'uld and had the ori. but SG1 is diff to trek but run on the same rules as Roddenberry said "a season/series is a whole story" look at Enterprise that was new and not many liked it not cos of the storylines they was awsome its their lack to see the intro for what it was look at it, listen to it its about what they went threw to get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjO2Q0kfETo (Enterprise intro) and STO look at the intro, Im sorry but ur wall of the history of Enterprise is wrong, the 1st Enterprise was not HMS Enterprise it was spelled HMS Enterprize with a Z not a S. and ur WW2 enterprise was not a Nimitz class. please check ur history... sorry if i got way off topic but once again great work STO and good work on ur incorrect history that needs to be looked in to

• inhumanekitten @ Nov 15th, 2012 6:26AM

  Liking the new pic in this post and on the main page. I really like that uniform (the style, not the neckline :-p). Please post a wallpaper version for download! Love the UI updates! Thanks Cryptic!

• tpalelena

  Agreed. Gives us a wallpaper sized variant of the picture please!

• kingjohn22 @ Nov 15th, 2012 5:48AM

  At first I was skeptical, I loved the fact of a new adenture zone coming and new rep systems, but I was skeptical. How much more grind? Especially when they take dil from stfs. But now, I'm loving it, my only complaint is that you should stop putting girls in revealing outfits, whats next? Terran? Orion?

• bblbrx @ Nov 15th, 2012 3:57AM

  Thanks again Cryptic for this awsome new season. There are a lot of complainer around here these time but a lot lot more player, who feel the same way as I do : This game is getting better and better every days. So thanks for your hard work !

• eol1002 @ Nov 15th, 2012 2:26AM

  with this changes the game is over

• archanarchist @ Nov 14th, 2012 9:30PM

  sofar ive loved it the dill reduction on stf just means have more ppl to pvp against. having numouros chars with 150 stf runs and only 1 or 2 with full ground and space sets i look forward to one day being able to get those elusive last bits. the new zones ect im still exploring after days i havnt run all the missions. much more flesh in that area then any patch befor and i feel the balance changes are going to create a game were u have a coice of paths for efective advancement not just runing the same 3-6missions or the same mission if u only need 1 more bit all day every day. all in all i htink this is a great update cryptic realy matures the game. plz can we have our foundry back soon that should quiten most of the dill complaints. thanks for making other areas of the game viable again. woulda been nice if it was just a buff to those areas rather then a nurf to stf dill, but the omega marks are nice and abundant its good to be able to just run 1 or 2 stfs on a char to sort them for a day or 2

• guthrie65 @ Nov 14th, 2012 6:59PM

  Blarg. Harmif dimpla goo shamma lamma dingdong! Life is good. Some people are never happy. ;0)

• mrbluegreysf @ Nov 14th, 2012 12:06PM

  Thank you so much for creating the "Change Character" button! That makes my life so much easier, you have no idea. My 18 alts and I thank you Cryptic!! Now as far as Season 7 is concerned, New Romulus and the Embassies look fantastic. But you have totally screwed yourselves, cuz now we know you can make ground maps this big/intricate, and main ops and shuttlebays that look amazing, can now be integrated into our ships (I am tired of changing ships in my transporter room!). Well done on the design textures and polygonals for all the new stuff, and I am about to go buy my Vesta bundle, cannot wait to see what you have done with that set. The rep systems have me excited (must get Nanite Cloud and Romulan Plasma Flamethrower) and I think the new system looks very promising. Vanity items, new consumables, new allie support and BOffs/DOffs all have me ready to work for my rep tiers. It would be great if you could reimplement some of the Dilithium drops for STFs and Explores, even though the new rep system doesn't use as much Dil as the Starbases do, since we need Dil for Crafting and for Zen, cutting back on Dil drops is bittersweet for those of us that are behind you on the new rep systems. I think that you all did a great job on the new season releases, and I cannot wait to sink my teeth into them. Last thing, you better make sure those Emergency Forcefields are in place to keep those Vulcan Boobs from breaching that uniform. Now start blatantly objectifying men in this game for the rest of us!! I wanna be pandered too just as much as the next guy!

• bridgern @ Nov 14th, 2012 12:03PM

  Special Thanks for the fail of Season 7 goes to Cryptic and PWE

• kirkepsilon1 @ Nov 14th, 2012 11:51AM

  First off a bit like the star trek convention in london this season 7 looks like it will be a huge disappointment now I know why I don't play much anymore maybe because ummm in my opinion the fun got sucked out of STO ages ago and its been getting worse and worse. It appears the masses like me have received season 7 when a great deal of sceptism oh well, I wonder does this mean like some of the Star Trek TV shows Voyager,DS9 and TNG which all ended at season 7 will the same fate be fall this game? There is a possibility that maybe some peeps on here are beginning to not care anymore about what happens to STO and therefore are looking towards other games to scratch that need for fun?

• bolawon @ Nov 14th, 2012 10:33AM

  ZOMGZORS!!!111oneoneoneeleven No more being spoon fed dilithium cap in an hour! Zomg i have to work to achieve things in the game! ZOmygod I dont log in to play, i want to bum it in ds9 and post sick burns about newbs! Zomg cryptic! Why arent you giving me everything without me having to do anything to earn it?? Broken, nerfed, etc etc. /end sarcasm. Welcome to real gaming kiddies.

• tpalelena

  My troll sense is tingling.

• kezzin

  troll much?

• dreagy @ Nov 14th, 2012 10:31AM

  For a F2P Gamer Delithium is ESSENTIAL. Now u cut off the Delithium from the B´Tran (Va) quests... what great Vice Admiral quests thats gives u NO Delithium o.O stf´s give u No Delithium. Sure, iam a free to play gamer... but i spend LOT of money for zen for ships, and so on.... but the only players are even "heard" are Goldmembers and Lifetimers... That´s ok.. but more Delilthium projekts and fewer Delithium to "grind" hmmm i don´t think that mutch people want this. they have jobs, they have a life.... STo more becomes a pay2win game...to be honest...sto ,in this form, is dead for me

• robertesg93 @ Nov 14th, 2012 6:41AM

  Can we get a high-resolution wallpaper of the website background art with the Romulan city, the Vulcan and the Starfleet ships on it? It's really awesome and I think everyone wants ya'll website background as a wallpaper, so please can u make it happen.

• bolawon

  plus the big chebs of course :P

• aveldra

  I agree, I want to see a wallpaper of this soon. Whoever was the artist they did a great job! :D

• weasleyisourking @ Nov 14th, 2012 6:31AM

  Can I now make a character that's as attractive as the girl they drew for the promo?

• captaind3

  Highly likely if they'd give us control of forehead size and give us her great hair. They say more clothing and hair options are due for Season 8, so see ya in six months.

• keithwaddell @ Nov 14th, 2012 5:54AM

  Season 7 is awesome, and so the Vesta. Well done!

• tpalelena @ Nov 14th, 2012 5:44AM

  Could we get a high-resolution wallpaper of the website background art with the Romulan city, the Vulcan and the Starfleet ships on it? It is really awesome, but we need it in higher resolution!

• silverfaustx @ Nov 14th, 2012 5:02AM

  starbase project have a major bug as in cant put in any doff or boff

• zuigje010 @ Nov 14th, 2012 4:55AM

  I am used to grinding in mmo's for 8 years now, I don't mind it anymore. In real life we grind, farm aswell to stay alive in our corrupt society we live in. Season 7 is very great. Greetings from Rotterdam.

• radiantdarkness0

  So, after 8 years of torture, you've finally broken down. I have to ask, then: Rotterdam, is that near Stockholm?

• dreagonlambeau @ Nov 14th, 2012 4:54AM

  Hello, This is my first comment ever on this game. I play STO for 1025 days now, BETA not included. It's a shame how every Star Trek series get's cancenled because of the money issue. Somewhere I hoped this would not be the case with STO, apperantly the folks of Cryptic think the same as the producers of the series. I see many players leave because of the changes they made in Season 7, even the hardcore believers of my fleet are thinking about leaving now. (Me included) The lockboxes where a big issue to get over, but we all understood - changing the Dili rewards and making it harder to get anywhere in this game is also logical if Cryptic needs more time to create content. But I really believe this is going to be the end of STO despite the protest of many players. Ec is a hard currency in STO because of the exchange, Dili is now to. Does Cryptic not see that people have no more money to invest in a online game? Don't get me wrong I am a lifetimer. A StarTrek Fan and a former daily based player.

• notoryczny @ Nov 14th, 2012 4:53AM

  Yay! More grind, more blatant cash grabs!