Season 7 Dev Blog #23

By PWE_BranFlakes @ November 29, 2012 at 11:00am

51 Comments »

• fevee @ Dec 18th, 2012 1:48PM

  Hiding NPCs? That's exactly what I need for a project of mine. -u- Now there needs to be a toggle that makes a contact follow you.

• ironguardian23 @ Dec 3rd, 2012 8:50AM

  ...And We're still waiting for the update. Come on guys, this isn't good enough.

• zensoji1 @ Dec 2nd, 2012 1:30PM

  Love the updates that have been announced. Shame it's not up and running. Also...still no Fleet Starbase Map. Seriously. I want to make fleet missions. Why can't you add the fleet starbase as a cryptic map? Surely that would have been one of the first things to add to the foundry when the starbases were introduced in season 6. /picardfacepalm

• psycoticvulcan @ Nov 30th, 2012 3:32PM

  Wasn't editing supposed to back today?

• stardestroyer001

  Yes.

• captinjacksparow

  :'(

• arcorian @ Nov 30th, 2012 9:09AM

  How do I put this... at this point I couldn't care less about Foundry Missions. Mostly because there is not realy a good way to find any that I might like. Finding a specific type of missiion with the system is like finding a Bridge Officer or Duty Officer on the exchange by traits and abilities. I guess the only way right now is try and error and I am afraid I am not willing to do that.

• rickysmith1

  I see what your saying, I LOVE Foundry, i spend more time in it than I do the actual game. But perhaps a good idea for a future update is to give each of your creations a Catergory; (Breen, Klingon, Story, Action, etc) so that people searching for missions can select what KIND of mission their after. Maybe even a link buttton to youtube so people can have a direct link to their created trailers!? :D

• chairmanmeowmix

  The Foundry is the only thing interesting to me in this game anymore.

• chairmanmeowmix @ Nov 30th, 2012 7:22AM

  Foundry Spotlight mission rewards... This is great, but can we have both Klingon and Fed missions running at the same time rather than alternating weeks? Or, will different missions be spotlighted daily?

• delvok5 @ Nov 30th, 2012 5:17AM

  I love season 7...... But I would like to dee better insides like being able to remove the alien tree things everywhere , adding a hanger would be nice to just with two shuttles/shuttle pods/runabouts and a force field looking out in to space and the ship switcher move there maybe, reduce the size of the captain's quarters I forget the size of them on the Enterprise-E but on the D the captain's quarters were way smaller then the ones in STO, also when you pick big medium or small in the customization make everything way smaller or way bigger, and just make it cooler if you can. Anyone of these would make me happy so I just put the ideas out there if you like then and I forgot if you can it would be cool to get more shuttle inside skins. Thank you so much STO for all the amazing stuff you are doing.

• delvok5

  be not dee

• stardestroyer001

  Regarding the crew quarters, they should have customizable ones like the bridge.

• thehatch @ Nov 30th, 2012 4:26AM

  I wonder if this patrol behavior will finally allow me to create a race track with NPC pilots. Looking forward to test it :)

• sentinel64 @ Nov 30th, 2012 4:11AM

  This might make me want to play Foundry again, but after my last experience of wasting a half an hour on a broken mission (broken my STO), I don't have much motivation. The Investigation mission reward is not worth the time for three missions (just reduce it to one) and I hope the reward for Spotlight is more thatn fluff.

• coupaholic @ Nov 30th, 2012 2:14AM

  I'm glad to see that New Romulus is available as a map, such a big map can host some pretty cool missions I reckon.

• mrbluegreysf @ Nov 30th, 2012 12:07AM

  YES! Mugato roaming enemies! Someone make a Planet of the Mugato spoof! Keep your paws off my foundry you damned dirty space apes! Great job Z-Rex

• theindefatigable @ Nov 29th, 2012 10:20PM

  THANK YOU for adding patrol!!!

• azurianstar @ Nov 29th, 2012 5:50PM

  No Complaints about the new features, but wish the missing C-store ships and other new assets like Starbases were added to the Foundry.

• psycoticvulcan

  Ditto. And there are still a good 24 mirror universe ships that have yet to be added as well.

• mhudgel @ Nov 29th, 2012 4:22PM

  what about fixing other problems like the autofire feature?

• altair1193 @ Nov 29th, 2012 3:18PM

  yes this is great and all but there is a big problem with the hide npc thing that has affectid all foundrey missions made before the S7 update that if you go to far from an npc (witch might i add has probebly fouled up 99% of preS7 foundrey missions), anyone have any idea, NPCS HIDE THEM SELFS AND WONT APPER AGAIN UNTILL YOU RESTART YOUR COMPUTER............ Now i love the foundrey and think it is a great idea irealy doo and have enjoyed houres of playing missions on it. now i will admit im not a game programer, ive never made a missin for the foundrey before but i have modid some games before so i can say this you need to remove the hide npc thing alltogether becose youve basicly screwed up the foundrey to a serton extent now if you want an example of this glitch play the fed foundrey mission "Lost Part 1" let the klingons blow you up then fly back to the hilighted area and you will see that there is nothing there but dont take my word for it try it.

• cobracanniac

  you're right. I tried 4 different missions and all had the same problem

• lincolninspace

  THis is a real problem. I tried the highly praised City of the Polmar Ree mission and it is spectacular but the aforementioned glitch of npcs disappearing made one part of the mission very very difficult for me. Not the authors fault of course but truly frustrating.

• attestedbrush35 @ Nov 29th, 2012 2:50PM

  can you please add tholians and their ships and equipment? consoles,tables etc..

• khamseenair @ Nov 29th, 2012 2:23PM

  Now we just need a clear breakdown of what our missions need to have in them to qualify for the investigate officer reports daily.

• camryboy @ Nov 29th, 2012 1:00PM

  Thats is just some of the things I would like to see in gameplay. Attention to true Detial and not just have or Use the name Star Trek. If you truley care and are as bigg of fans that you claim to be in may interviews, then I know that you would like to see this as well and have more activity inside of our Ships, I don't care if you Restricted the intiors to Sector Space in order to Deliever Change. But intiors are very important in Star Trek as well as more Social Zones. Yes I do understand that the Social Zones you have Do not have many players on they and the reason for that is the lack of Quality and Detail put in them. As I said in my Previous Statement, I know the game is continuing to change, but Im just giving you the places you can improve in per Season for game Progression. Like you have Special Projects for the fleet Starbase, Why not offer the same thing for Starship Tiers after Season 9, like Make that Season 10, and also when you Get to a certain level in another Rank, then make more Social Zones availablie to High Ranking Officers like a level 65, To Brand Admiral, and We all know Fleet Admiral is needed in the Game as well. * Have you guys ever Though about having and Elected Federation President or A succeded Klingon Chancelor??? There Or some many Avenues that this game could be Endless. Also Where are the many Factions that were Promises Before the game was launched that we would be able to play any and all Factions like Having the Ferangi faction, Cardassian Faction, Domion Faction for the Gamma Quadrant Etc? Also When Are We going to Accually go through the warmhole to the Gamma Quadrant and Explore That Quadrant, this is 2409 and We can't Go to the Gamma Quadrant?? Why hasn't this happen yet. The Ability to Go To the Delta id Here with the Transwarp Hubs as well as Transwarp Drive?? When are you going to make this happen another 10 years?? The progression at the rate that you are offering it is Taking a long time to Develop. Like was Stated in many interview Startrek as som many Refferances to make these Deams come to Reallity. Thank you again for this game to build a base for what can be great and so addictive to much of the World to enjoy.

• mrbluegreysf

  ROTFLMFAO I agree! When are we going to get to go exploring through the warmhole?? :) ...snicker... sorry, I just could not resist

• camryboy @ Nov 29th, 2012 12:37PM

  P.S. Decks and not dect

• misoratkovac

  that was not only typo but we get it. :)

• camryboy @ Nov 29th, 2012 12:36PM

  Cryptic First before I include Some things of constructive Critism I would first like to say thank you for bringing the entire World Of Star Trek available for all to play. I've a dedicated player ever since launch, and even Bought a computer especially for this game. I've been following this game's development ever since Word in 2002 in the Star Trek Mag. I was so hurt to hear in 2006 that the company that first had developed it Was Perpetual Entertainment, then Ateri "aka" Cyptic Studios, until now Perfect world. The fact of the matter I've spent half my life waiting on the Development of this game and I want the readers to know that this game has overcome so many Challages Through out its Career and I know im not Employed be this company in any shape or form, and I just want to thank all of my follow players for Supporting this game Through out its standing. Yes I have read some ill maniored comments, and understand that you mean well, and that im a Die Hard Fan Ttoo and understand your "high Hopes of this being the "perfect Star Trek Game, because I share you sentalments. The fact of the matter its going to take time to help them Shape the game into what we all Deserve from a hard and stressful day at work. All I just want to say to all of you is to be patient with our Perfect World Development team because im sure it not easy for them to get Rights from Paramount "aka old Desilu company/CBS/UPN/FOX. They have to pay for the royalties of their art Work as well as Termanology of their content so I want to say, Thank you time, and time again. I my Self has beeen Through a lot with this Video game, first I had was hacked into and eveything I paid for was lost, I had virtually everying unlocked on the Federations said, from all the Costumes to All of the Brigde Packs, as well as all the Ship unlocks except for the Vulcan Ship, and many of the unlocks I had they were not offered again. My point is this, Don't let little things worry or upset you, because you can always gain more than What was lost and to Stand by the game's Changes and offer Psosiative Constructive critism. I would like to offer Suggestion that we all may or may not agree that will improve this stability of the game. 1. The Email has not Fowarded or Cut and Paste to you to Resend Decument that you have typed in the past to and for new Fleet members that has Joined your fleet. I on accassion have new member that need to know the Requirement for Promotions in my fleet and its Hard to keep Typing the same thing over and over again. Although I love the game for its long missions that you send at least a hour or two in some missions,The fleets are becoming harder and harder to maintain wothout this Feature and cound save Fleet Leaders a lot of time just by having a Fowarded Tab or a Cut and Paste system to help out. 2. Since the game is having more and more players added to the game Server Stability problem as getting to be an issue on many of you 20 man maps, love them, but some times I can't play them and that really make me look like an idiot in gameplay, Thats not cool since Im a leader of my Fleet and have been playing this game since launch. 3. Starship intiors need to be more than just Three decks and has a need to play a bigger role in Star Trek Online. a. Sitaitions to help and give you what many hardcore fans like myself would like to see, As a captain I would like to see every room of my ship, Crew Quarters and not just the Captain's Quarters, I would like our Ships to very in Deck according to a specific ship. For Example The Galaxy Class Starship has 42 decks. I would like to see 42 dect on a Galaxy and not just 3 decks Attention to Detail is needed

• stardestroyer001 @ Nov 29th, 2012 12:24PM

  Interesting how 'Investigate Officer Reports' now restricts the maps eligible for it, but neither the game nor these blog posts give any information on what exactly makes a mission qualify.

• captainfry420x

  This was previously discussed.

• stardestroyer001

  May I ask where?

• captakira @ Nov 29th, 2012 12:08PM

  And when is the next maintenance update going to be. Stahl's post Upcoming Season 7 changes gave the date of the 21st and 29th the changes he posted would be done. today is 29th no patch update. How about an update. When is the update going to happen. People like to be kept informed especially when you give a date and it does not happen. Please keep you paying customers informed. It is called Customer Service and with the economy the way it is i would think you would want to have good Customer Service to keep you paying customers.

• darthpostal

  Read the forums. The patch is tomorrow, Nov 30th.

• captakira

  I do read the forums before posting and if there search was any good I might have found the information.

• anonymoose666 @ Nov 29th, 2012 11:59AM

  This could be a really nice system, but a random piece of gear simply isnt enough of a reward for the time it takes to complete a spotlight mission. And requiring people to complete 3 missions(which will probably take at least 2 hours) for the foundry daily is also way too much for the reward given. Solutions: give more rewards for the spotlight daily and reduce the number of missions required to complete the foundry daily. Until then, there simply isnt enough of a reward to make up for the amount of time required to play foundry missions.

• irrapirthesecond

  dilithium would be nice

• rtk142

  Cryptic giving out dilithium? Surely you must be joking

• cmdrscarlet @ Nov 29th, 2012 11:51AM

  Man, I have not made the time to try the Foundry missions before S7 and that was my fault. Now I'm jonesin' to give them a try! (grumbles at lack of play time)

• captainrevo1 @ Nov 29th, 2012 11:47AM

  great changes. Just hope the problems all get fixed in tomorrows patch. am slighly concerned that if people dont like the new rewards they will take it out on the author, but we've had that happen since day one for the lack of rewards so its a bit of a no win. love the ability to hide contacts finally. now all we need is....*deep breath*..... THOLIANS!!!!!