Season 7 Dev Blog #29

By PWE_BranFlakes @ January 15, 2013 at 1:00pm

109 Comments »

• quickfire02 @ Jan 22nd, 2013 5:24AM

  make a project to add a dabo wheel in your starbase!

• greghughes2 @ Jan 18th, 2013 9:57AM

  i think these things should be cheaper for small fleets

• shraterman @ Jan 18th, 2013 12:08AM

  I'd pay 1k for a Dabo wheel for those days when you are just... you know... a crazy gambler who loves to see his money go down the drain... Starbase customization seems to be the big winner in all of the comments, and that the Feds need some good strong drink at their base. I'm in a big fleet (I think 350 counts as big) and I'm not sure if we will go for this or not. I think it's a kinda lame project.

• quickfire02

  definetly, dabo wheel would be an awesome project our fleet would actually want/care about.

• sirepical @ Jan 17th, 2013 7:23PM

  First there was the Ferocians typo ... then they don't have tails. Step it up!

• kvet @ Jan 17th, 2013 10:26AM

  "...including some that are non-sentient. In a recent transport, a group of Ferasans have moved into KDF bases..." Haw haw!

• captakira @ Jan 17th, 2013 8:54AM

  Exocomps Really that is it. We have done all the Limited Time Special Projects so far but 200k dilithium for just exocomps I think we will pass on this one.

• alexsanderita @ Jan 16th, 2013 10:08PM

  Wait a moment, Cryptic... Ferasans for KDF... and DRONES for Feds? Did you forgot we have a perfect mirror with the CAITIANS? How on Earth could you had not mind that? Or think the exocomp to be better? So it's been proved, you purposely dumb down fed starbase to give a SOP to KDF players. This thing must stop NOW. What about give us all (yes, I also play KDF) actual PLAYING content instead? And give back to feds the care you entirely skipped with Starbases.

• neinbreaker

  I think it was more along the lines of they wanted to put in the Exocomps for the feds and Ferasans were the ONLY option to add for the KDF. There wasn't anything else that could be adding for the KDF so I don't really see it as any priviliged update.

• shpoks

  Since you say you play KDF too, if you haven't noticed, there weren't any Ferasan NPCs in the Fleet Starbases,only the other races as Ferasans were added at a later point as a purchasable species. On the other hand, the Federation Starbases have had Caitian NPCs since the beggining, therefore you now get Exocomps. What you're asking is them to add something that is already there.

• mervdegriff @ Jan 16th, 2013 2:23PM

  Mind giving smaller fleets a little ease on these? The item is purely cosmetic so the 200k price tag can be steep when you have other upgrades pending that give material benifits. ... As for the XO-Comp, given past behaviors of self preservation, group communication, and self sacrifice the argument could be made for the XO comps... and has in the past.

• captinjacksparow

  I agree, it should be lowered to at least 150k dil... but if your fleet does a lot of Elite STFs, you can earn a lot of dilithium.

• jonralen @ Jan 16th, 2013 2:12PM

  Our fleet would love to get the optionals, they do add to the life of the starbase. But dilithium is so short these days that we're not making any progress on our tier upgrades, nevermind embassy xp projects, nevermind cosmetics. At the start of the rerun I said I hoped the price would drop to at most 100k since we now have both starbase and embassy projects to run. Now that people are spending on omega and romulan tier 5 stuff, or converting to zen while the market has crashed, it would have to be more like 10k per special project for us to take them. And that's for a fleet with about 25 active toons, I hate to think how the little fleets are coping. We're bleeding members as it is, they're off to the big fleets that can actually cope with the higher tier projects.

• trimenranger1 @ Jan 16th, 2013 1:03PM

  200k Dil is a bit much for more life. I was bummed out that the fed tribbles are rendered on the user end not server side so there can be no tribble soccer competitions.

• clamyfishstick @ Jan 16th, 2013 12:31PM

  most worthless thing yet :)

• mrchip69 @ Jan 16th, 2013 11:46AM

  While I like both Ferasans and xocomps, Im not sure this is worth 200k dil. I would like to know when we are going to get something with our fleet logo in the base. I would like to see our fleet logo on the outside of the base. I would pay 200k dil for that.

• speedofheat @ Jan 16th, 2013 10:23AM

  I would pay 200k Dilithium to customise the uniforms of my NPC's ... I'd pay 200k to have a fleet logo... but to have NPC that I can't realistically interact with ... sorry not going to happen until we run out of things that add value to the fleet to achieve ...

• blockbusters @ Jan 16th, 2013 10:08AM

  Muahaha! KDF are doing extremely well compared to the FEDs! Good! Now to put my feet up next to the fireplace, drink some bloodwine and watch those orion girls dancing on the table. All whilst bragging to Vice Admiral Quinn about how cool our trophy wall and stone carving looks!

• cakeballs @ Jan 16th, 2013 10:07AM

  HECK YEAH EXOCOMP! STARFLEET DENTAL FULLY ENDORSES XO COMP AND AFFILIATES! EXOCOMP YOU'RE A LOOSE CANNON! HERE'S A RAISE!

• steve14428 @ Jan 16th, 2013 10:00AM

  I'm glad they have these projects to flesh out the starbases to have them not be quite so sterile, but gee does everything have to be so blasted much dilithium?? With a cap of only 8000 on refining it kind of makes these projects prohibitively expensive, especially if you are also trying to procure good equipment for your ship!

• crypticarmsman @ Jan 16th, 2013 9:46AM

  So, I suppose on the KDF side - if you did the 'Roaming Targs' special project - now, if your Fleet does this one you can say: ..."Targs and Cats living together - mass hysteria!"

• trimenranger1

  ROFL, ok Venkman.

• a90211 @ Jan 16th, 2013 7:27AM

  i do catch your guys drift on how useless all this stuff is, but you have to admit that none of it hasn't been cool stuff for your starbase ever if it's just decoration =)

• a90211

  even*

• scififan78 @ Jan 16th, 2013 4:38AM

  If it were Photonic Security Guards ala Facility 2048, then we may have gone for it. Not for Exocomps though.

• ragingloli @ Jan 15th, 2013 11:52PM

  More useless nonsense. 200k dil for some floating pieces of metal? Yeah, no thanks. How about doing something with that empty holodeck in ops?

• a90211

  I second on the holodeck thing!! mabey make one of the consoles at the door give you access to the foundry and the starting local for that mission is just converted to the holodeck warming up =]

• trimenranger1

  I agree. Should allow foundry designers to use the fleet holodecks as a start point for missions.

• worfscousin1 @ Jan 15th, 2013 10:06PM

  They should have the Photonic Honor Guards instead.

• lordgyor @ Jan 15th, 2013 8:35PM

  Maybe the Ferasans could offer Doff assignments to aquire Ferasan Duty Officers and the Exocomps could give assignments for Exocomp duty officers. This would give at least some functionality to it.

• a90211

  that sound like an awsome idea =)

• captainespinoza @ Jan 15th, 2013 8:31PM

  Are you going to do a 3rd annivarsary event?

• tinead51

  Wil it cost us Dil? :/

• wolfpacknz @ Jan 15th, 2013 8:03PM

  Are these still overpriced or are they priced according to uselessness???

• trimenranger1

  If you have a hughe fleet this is nothing. If your fleet is the size of a single squad then...

• capthayden @ Jan 15th, 2013 7:53PM

  A featured project that allowed a fleet to determine their base's speciality would be nice. As it stands right now, all bases are the same. How about a featured project that allowed a fleet to choose whether to be a tactical outpost, a specilized shipyard or an R

• capthayden

  Meh got cut off. I was saying R and D facility. With each specilization unlocking unique bonues. This would give people a reason to visit other bases and allow fleets to customize their facility.

• trimenranger1

  I'd rather they allow us to customize the base denizens. Let them wear the fleet uniforms.