NEWS:

First, it’ll be a compact episode this week, sorry!

We had planned to have another “Foundry Files” segment for you to chew on, but the Foundry has been eating missions and causing a LOT of crash issues, so it’s been taken offline. Until it’s stable again, our team can’t deliver the goods!

Perfect World Acquisition is FINALIZED!

• What’s that mean for Atari points?
• What’s that mean for personnel/staffing?
• Final Price = $49.8million (~$30mil went straight to bring Atari into the black)
• The first round of “separation” from Atari on August 18th.

Ask Cryptic – August Edition

• Dates (Sept/October before we see anything new)

  • Additional comment from Dan re: timelines, delays: “… we are absolutely learning from the code merge that was Season 4 and I’m being very vocal about how much it has cost STO and how we can avoid it in the future.”
  • Aug 25th and Sept 22nd – next “big” release dates.

• T2 Nova / Pay-to-Win (Not seen as an issue by Cryptic… but totally is!)

• Acquiring the Ent F = Mission Reward for completing “a Fleet Action series”
• Space skill update coming in September, will combine T5 stupidity.
• Custom kits confirmed! (Late S4, or Early S5)
• Cross Faction STFs coming in September! (big boon to the underpopulated KDF side)

JHeinig ECONOMY MATHS us

• Per the Ask Cryptic… This ‘unified currency’ may be implemented as early as September.

Massively hands out some solid info on the upcoming Borg events

• Persistent ground combat areas, with weekly missions (Orion or Gorn homeworlds?)
• Stage 3 is the STF Revamp releases.
  • This will include new STF queues, including cross-faction teaming.
• Stage 4 = Into The Hive

Updated Defiant – QUAD CANNONS

Action Shot #1 // Action Shot #2

Not to be outdone… the KDF gets the same!

Action Shot!

Stahl hints at some sort of “Marines” uniform coming with the Borg invasion

TrekCon edition of TWEET LEAKS

(which just goes to show, what happens in Vegas, ends up on the internet)

• Gozer shows off his writer-signed script and flute from TNG “Inner Light”
• ThomasTheCat in uniform
• And a more job-appropriate color
• ThomasTheCat squeezes a Trek babe
• Trekkie R&R at the blackjack table

Dstahl responds to Foundry outage with REAL INFO

Reminder Q Weekend 20th-21st – XP NOMNOMS!