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Rhode Island Q&A | STOked 93

chris — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:15:32 +0000

Star Trek Online’s lead designer, Al Rivera, joins us to chat about the new Rhode Island variant, STO’s latest Tier 2 science starship! In another segment of “Rumor Busting” he also lays down long-term plans on bringing more and more starships to the game, new special abilities, and so much more behind-the-scenes info.

Then the Foundry Files team returns to report on their latest player created adventure, and we cover the community’s STO beginner tips and collection of “tribal knowledge” that all captains must know.

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

Rhode Island Variant lands on Tribble – Patch Notes
Info Thread from Jupiter Force
STOWiki – Console Details

Rumor Busting with Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera:

Is there a canon reference that this ability is based on? (Picard maneuver? TNG – Peak Performance? Voyager – Basics?)
How good is the cloak?
Can the decoy be destroyed? How resilient is it? It does damage, right?
What does “Aggression Stealth” mean?
What’s the C-Store cost? Bought with emblems?
Is the current Boff setup finalized?
Any chance of a T5 version?
KDF equivalent?
The tooltip for the console lists like 2 dozen skills that affect it… are there any that affect it more than others?

Star Trek Convention in Vegas – Aug 11 – Aug 14
* Gozer, Zero, Thomas and JHeinig, hosted by Priority One
Holding
* Twitter-based contests for prizes, including autographed versions of Ent-F poster

Cryptic is Hiring again! – LINK
Only one position specifically calls for “Star Trek knowledge” – Systems Designer

Suricata’s Ship Chart has been updated!

Amazon JB Chrome Extension!
Support the show with your reckless spending!

Tweet Leaks

FOUNDRY FILES:

Mission: “First Cause, Then Effect”
Author: RogueEnterprise
Total Plays: 3749
Total Star Rating: 4.26

* Intended for SOLO play *

FULL REVIEW DOCUMENT (pdf version)

FINAL REVIEW SCORE
Story: 7.57
Technical: 6.40
Gameplay: 7.20
TOTAL: 7.13

Links
+ Starbase UGC
+ Wiki UGC Tutorials
+ Podcast UGC
+ Podcast UGC Review

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

Bobdoesthejob Wrote:

Disable Kit visuals so you can strut your hot stuff

Hevach Wrote:

Mission Replay and other ship interior functions, great way to get missing parts of a reward set!

OggOfSkish Wrote:

When you run a scan (by pressing the V Key)

PlayfulDreamer

You need to go through 11 grades of spent skill points to get promoted to the next rank. So many people see their 9th

hatchery Wrote:

… there’s actually an auto-fire option?

… you can buy schematics for crafting?

… you can replay some missions to get new level appropriate rewards?

… accepting a map transition to a team mate’s bridge will put you alone in their bridge with your BOFFs?

… you can share most missions with team mates?

… you can breed tribbles?

… you can have high-end skills trained to your BOFFs by other players?

… you can display trophies in your ship’s interior?

… the cooldown timer on repeatable missions will start to count down at the time of accpeting the mission?

… you can win the bat’leth contest on Forcas III?

… release notes contain important information?

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Eve of Battle | STOked 84

chris — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:00:01 +0000

Chris & Jeremy prepare for a three week STF event, find out their thoughts on this event, and how you can participate and join the battle!

Then – with season 4 around the corner, we’ve got the latest updates straight from the STO devs, and some new info on the master plan for deep space encounters.

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

Follow-up on Atari/Cryptic conversation at Massively.com
For sale!

KDF version of the Azura comm
– “Bringing Down The House”
– Nice to see them NOT overlook this useful item for KDF.
– 4 hour cooldown

Caitian and Aenar boffs coming to C-Store in June
– Dev comment: These will be available in-game, too (via Doff missions)

June 23-25: Borg Invasion DSEs
– Stahl comments
* Will no longer auto-zone you!
* Also include special rewards and/or Emblems
* Working on auto-scaling so that all can participate (in testing, no promises)

TWEET LEAKS:
KDF capes & new shoulders: https://twitpic.com/51lz2v/full
Yet another Jupiter Uniform detail (non-Vet version): https://twitpic.com/52i4wd/full
Gorn updates: https://twitpic.com/52wspn/full

COMM FEED:
Is Cryptic’s split from Atari a GOOD thing, or a BAD thing?

POLL Results: 82.56% GOOD THING

COMING UP ON A FUTURE STOOOOOOOKED!

STF THURSDAYS! @ 7pm Pacific, starting June 2nd!

June 2nd: Infected
June 9th: The Cure
June 16th: Khitomer Accord

In an EPIC build-up to the new Borg DSE events. Join us LIVE and be PART of the ACTION on the INTERNET. YEAH.

Email in your guides & tips!

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Shuttle Info Round-Up | STOked 68

chris — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:19:33 +0000

We finally have stats, prices and a whole bunch of pictures of the upcoming shuttles. These have quite a few players excited, so sit back and enjoy the new features!

After covering the latest news and events in the wide world of STO, the boys are going to host a preview session of each of the Foundry missions being moved to Holodeck in the next few days!

These were played LIVE with our audience, while we took the time to critique and evaluate each one as we went, and offer our impressions and feedback.

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

CO in the STO Launcher? SAY WHUT?
(Show folks how to do it, so they can try it out FREE. Plug LOTSO.)

Delta Flyer Stats (and more Stats) and Price (400/$5) have been released
(Pictures in this thread) (close ups)

More questions answered HERE
Stats above are also the same for the Craftable shuttle
“Free” Shuttle will not be as strong as Runabout
KDF Info. Klingons will have Type 8 equivalent, Runabout equivalent, and Yacht
PLUS “something else for both factions that we haven’t really announced yet.”

As part of a recent Tribble update, KDF were ONCE AGAIN transwarping to ESD

The results were hilarious, as always.

Another shot from DS9

Vulcan D’kyr now on Tribble for testing!
(pictures)

TACTICAL VIEW:

Foundry Mission Previews!
Live playthru and initial impressions of:

“Tipping Point”

“Unholy Alliances (Part 1)”
“The Syndicate Extraction”

BONUS ROUND:

The Dancing Breen
Preview of 1-Year Anniversary celebrations?
SPOILER ALERT: He’ll show up and ask you 5 questions. If you get any wrong, he turns you into a random creature. If you get them all right, you get a special reward.
A bunch more pictures and a video

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