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Caught in the Crossfire | STOked 92

chris — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:49:28 +0000

We’ve packed together the latest leaks and news about upcoming features, including details of the impending Borg Invasion, a KDF Flagship, and the Rhode Island class starship. All of this, PLUS a bonus helping of “Daniel Stahl SAYS STUFF” in this week’s news feed!

After that, we’ll share the results of our Starfleet Academy feature poll from last week, and lay out a whole new Community Feedback question for you all to make your voices heard!

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

Massive Star Trek DVD Sweepstakes on Facebook

TNG on Blu-ray Coming In 2012

Borg Invasion Teases:
* STOwiki has been gathering info
* Contact dialog popup leaked into recent patch
* 5x skill point rewards?!

The Foundry makes a TRIUMPHANT return!
… and then went away again, until Monday (so they could look at the collected data)

Tribble Test Reward is LIVE

KDF Flagship? WORK IN PROGRESS
Info on CapnLogan’s “free time” work on this project

Another compilation shot of the Odyssey Class (EntF)

Rhode Island Class vessel coming soon
* Decoy + Cloak power (Console? Type?)
* d’Stahl@dstahl: The RI power allows you to create an exact holo copy of your ship while you go stealthy and slink away. Any ship that was targeting you now targets decoy

Daniel Stahl SAYS STUFF

Stahl on Trek Radio
* Confirmed that Cryptic wants to split Ground and Space skills (no timeline)
* Acknowledges the current content drought, and plans to change that soon, and permanently
* SFA: Trivia daily coming, which will possibly reward doffs

He popped online and held an impromptu Q&A
* A replica Defiant interior is in the works for an episode in the next series – it is possible that will become available
* i’m trying to get CBS approval to expand on some story points in Shatner’s “The Return” novel..
* there is a new King of the HIll pvp map coming in next feature episode series

COMM FEED:

POLL RESULTS
Next Feature Requested for Starfleet Academy:

Testing Builds : 31.75%

Mission Replay Upgrade : 29.63%

Firing Range : 19.05%

Trek Trivia Quiz Game : 11.77%

PvP Arena “Dodge Ball” : 7.4%

StormyMaverick (and MANY others):
The NUMBER one thing I’d like to see at Starfleet Academy is THE KOBAYASHI MARU!

Divvur:
My idea would be for a mini-game. First you need to gain a Universal Cadet, perhaps through missions or recruitment assignments. You then ‘sponsor’ them for Starfleet Academy, much like Sisko did for Nog. Throughout their training, you use the mini-game to advise them (like a mentor) what to study for their upcoming tests.

eng09:
I would like to see SFA In a weekly Series, Like Paradise Lost, where the Changelings Infltrate Earth, But start Wuth the SFA.

New question:

Tell us your top “newbie” tip!

Something not covered by the tutorial
Tribal knowledge
I wish I knew then, what I know now

Leave your submission on our SHOW PAGE (where you are reading these show notes!)

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Season 4 Arrives | STOked 90

chris — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:13:38 +0000

The epic update we’ve all been waiting for has landed, but some of us are a bit upset. Bugs, nerfs, and issues oh my! Does all this spell certain doom for STO? Or is the solution to all of Season 4’s issues just a patch away?

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DTNE Dev Diary #3

Season 4 Patch Notes
Announcement
TENSIONS ARE HIGH

We did not get:

New tutorials
KDF academy
Starfleet academy
Duty officer system

Known Issues:

Foundry Dialogues got EFFED OVER (deleted, broken, unplayable)

Intermittent connection issues
Some gear scaling swaps did not happen correctly, some of your gear might have been “nerfed” on accident.
Auto-Fire in RPG mode was preventing Spring/Roll/etc – Should be Fixed by Tues.
Tac Boffs throwing grenades at their feet
PVE queue system non-functional (not creating maps)
Cannot equip Boffs if you are not in space
DStahl’s FAQ / Q&A / OMG

Chatroom’s list of Stuff That Rocks:

Fonts
Textures better
Faster Ground Combat
Borg Adapt
New Ship UI
New Qo’Nos
Kit Powers
Overall Faster UI
aNew Ground Weapon FX
New Ground Sound FX
New C-Store UI
ViVox (TBD)
New Kling Shipyard
Switching Shuttles from UI
New Gorn
New Loading Screens
Warn in Effects
Resizable Boff Power UI
New BOFF Bar

Tweet Leaks
Gozer reveals Borg Turrets on The Cure:
https://twitpic.com/5n7w8q https://twitpic.com/5n7xda https://twitpic.com/5n7yg7

We are out next week!

J-MAN Productions:

“Little Birdies” – A Tribute to the Klingons

Little birdies
Flown by Klingons
Little birdies made of ticky-tacky
Little birdies blow up easy
Little birdies all the same

There’s green ones
And … green ones
And greener ones
And greenish ones
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all blow up the same

And the klingons
In the birdies
All went to Kronos Academy
Where they were put in birdies
And they came out all the same

They’re Science
Or tactical
Or engineering specialists
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all die just the same

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Into the Crossfire | STOked 89

chris — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:04:05 +0000

Season 4 of Star Trek Online is nearly here, and the guys chat about the new features they personally are looking forward to. Plus in this week’s MATH segment, learn the ins and outs of the Efficiency!

Then we wrap the show with kicking off a new foundry review segment, called the Found Files. We’ve assembled a dedicated foundry review team, and we introduce to them and review two epic foundry missions!

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NEWS:

STO Calender Updated
July 2011:

*6th – 8th Season 4: Crossfire
*21st – 23rd Cadet Uniforms (C-Store)

Our most anticipated Season 4 features:

Chris:
*Faster ability execution on ground.
*Improved textures.

Jeremy:

*UI responsiveness as a whole
*Foundry improvements / assets
*An excuse to replay content (Ground Combat 2.0)
Pre-patching has been enabled! Season 4 will be here NEXT WEEK!

New Variants on the way
Super Mega Cool Picture
Tribble Weekend is ON!

Tricobalt Grenade Launcher?!

Star Trek Reunion, Ep 1 (and their blog)

Tweet Leaks? (actually Forum News)
Gozer now has a radio show on Risaradio.com
Map of new Qo’nos
Gorn updates still in progress
Ogen (Infected Mini-Boss) now heals himself?

Cardassian Upgrades have appeared on Tribble!
And a new dialog Easter Egg about Capt Kurland
Before / After pic

MATH:
Email from Al Rivera, mini-Math!
Link

I can find no problem with either the player of BOff version of the Efficient trait.

The player version adds +10 to Auxiliary, Engine, Shield and Weapons Efficiency Stats, and the BOff version adds +5. That’s not +10/+5 to power levels, that to the stat, as though you were buying this skill. The Efficiency stats add more power to your systems the lower your power levels. So you gain more of a bonus if you power level is low.

Here is the formula:
(StatStarship_X_Efficiency/300)*(75 – Y_PowerLevel)
(100 / 300) * (75 – 25) =

Where X= Auxiliary, Engine, Shield or Weapons Efficiency Stats; and Y=the corresponding power system level. Note, this formula affects all Efficiency stat values, not just those gained by the Efficiency Traits.

The net results are very small and the UI may round your numbers down, so you may not see the bonus, especially with high power levels.

These values are old and have not changed in some time. I verified today that they are working – at least in Season 4 they are working. So if for some reason there is some other odd problem on holodeck right now that I am unaware of, it should be resolved by season 4.

Foundry Files by Jupiter Force:

Old Top 5 vs New Top 5
OLD: The Worst of All Worlds vs NEW: The Spirits of Ramok Nor

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