Big changes for Star Trek Online fans, and STOked is rolling out one of the latest! We introduce the beginning of a new show format, chat about the Doff System, big economy changes.

And of course, a few of the difficulties players are having with STO’s transition to free to play.

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Skills Revamp is coming!
Early details in CaptianGeko’s forum post.

Foundry Files:

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The “Cloaked Intentions” featured series wrapped up this week, and we’ll offer you our opinions about the finale, and the series as a whole.

But… now what? We have no new content on the horizon, the Foundry is still delayed, and we are faced with a several-month gap until the next Featured Series launches. We’ve got opinions on what might be best for STO at this time, so tune in to hear our thoughts!

Then we’ll feature an EPIC return of “You Got Mathed” with a segment co-hosted by Design Lead, Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera.

After all that show is over, we’ll feature your feedback to our Captain’s Table discussion.

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NEWS

Vivox Integrated Voice Chat officially announced

Ask Cryptic: March Edition

• A future FE may revisit DS9 at which point it will “get some love.”
• Actively hiring software developer for boff VO feature!
• Peregrine fighters (and a KDF equivalent) will soon be craftable

MVAM Hits Tribble

Link to “informal chat” with Al Rivera
https://www.justin.tv/borticus/b/280884837

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TACTICAL VIEW

Cloaked Intentions Finale : “Cutting The Cord”
– Grouped: Scaled up in team to EPIC proportions (steak for a starving man) – first space combat in your ship
– Solo: Fewer turrets to take out
– Grouped: Had a full team
– Solo: Beamed down alone, had to use proper pull and ambush tactics, along with calling for support.
– There were a couple dialogues that were interrupted by combat, even solo.
– Virtual Guide Path:  AWESOME
– Fighting a Scorpion as it flew overhead
– LOVED the NPCs fighting among themselves
– Orbital Bombardments
– Hakeev: Super Ninja Leaps (buggy), great death scene
– Iconian Gateways
– Torpedo Blast from on HIGH (Star Trek V?)
– Final Space Combat — EPIC combat.
– Gateway in a Donut, and rescue(?) by an Iconian vessel
– Reman Boff (with psi powers!), and Tracking Mines
– EPILOGUE: Go hang out with Obisek @ the Vault, get a trophy.

MATH

Co-Hosted by Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera (Lead Designer and “Keeper of the Maths”)

• Why do diminishing returns exist?
• Why does a 5% item only give 4.something%?
• Explain the difference between Damage Resistance Magnitude and Damage Resistance?
• Cap = 75%. WITH EXCEPTIONS (Intrepid Armor = 90%)

Curved Value = (1/(1-DamRes%Max))-1-(((1/(1- DamRes%Max))-1)/(1+(MAG/((1/(1- DamRes%Max))-1))+((MAG/((1/(1- DamRes%Max))-1))^2)))
Dam Res=-((1/(1+SumOfAllDiminishedMags))-1)

CLICK THESE LINKS to download the Diminishing Returns Spreadsheet:
PDF format
XLS format

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK

How would you improve/overhaul the Captain’s Table?

Multiple suggestions for:
– Open to ALL players (they’re all captains, after all)
– A direct Transwarp ability
– Dabo and Poker (and other minigames as they come) with either higher table limits, or slightly better odds

nailpeter:  (he read the books!)
Accessible from any station, from every bar.
Should not be a station, just another bar interior.
Should be Captains from ALL times, including back to the 1600s and further into the future.

NeoWolf:
A quest line that explains the location and its backstory in-game.

Stoney997:
Accolades! Maybe it’s to meet 10 different NPC captains that appear at random?

Skippy2k:
Move the mission replay to the Captain’s Table, under the pretense that you’re “retelling” the story to Cap for your drinks.

More suggestions on the forums:  https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=187143

We face a content drought that may last months, and will only be made less painful via the Foundry.

What must Cryptic/Atari do RIGHT NOW to keep the interest and hype high?

Atari is being held afloat almost exclusively by Cryptic Studios

• Subscriptions revenues from Star Trek Online and Champions Online helped online revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2010/11 rise nearly 500 percent from the year before.
• These growing online revenues now represent roughly 45 percent of the company’s revenues, compared to a mere 3.4 percent in 2009.

Cryptic MMOs perform well for Atari, revenue rockets 500 percent

*Now is the time for Atari to invest in STO and Champs. A four month slow down in content is going to eat away at those numbers.
*Atari’s online revenue has increased by $20 million year-over-year to $24.8 thanks to Champions Online and Star Trek Online.
*Revenue from online games represented a whopping 44.9 percent of Atari’s total net revenue for the period, compared to just 3.4 percent in the first nine months of its previous fiscal year.

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To keep the focus on the hottest topic this week, we jump STRAIGHT into Tactical View to review “Coliseum” – the latest mission in the Cloaked Intentions featured episode series. Due to continued inclement weather, this episode has Jeremy joining the show via Subspace communications!

After that, we take LIVE call-ins from our audience members to discuss their take on the latest weekly mission, plus their thoughts on the new open jacket uniforms.

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NEWS:

Feds get craftable Lirpa (also available on C-Store, includes bat’leth also)
(pic @ MemAlpha)

“Open Jacket” uniforms also land on C-Store
About 10 separate uniforms in one pack, including two separate styles.

Tweet Leaks:
Shot of MVAM in action (and confirmation that you can choose the section to control)
Updated texture on Cheyenne cruiser variant
Oberth
TOS Lounge

STAHL SAID STUFF:
Stahl is interested in releasing a Mac client
Stahl’s Foundry update (on Tribble in the next couple days, early March on Holodeck)
Sounds likely that Series 4 won’t land til after Season 4 (~May)

TAC VIEW:

Review of “Coliseum”

– Obisek intro
– Wrecked shipyard
– Station puzzles (MATH!)
– Ship Wreck
– Cut Scenes (Where am I cut scene? – great)
– Amok Time music FTW
– Regen spores in the Arena – nice touch!
– A lot of running around
– Worm things up out of the ground, Chris liked!
– Chris liked consoles to activate guns to shoot worms
– Favorite Ending yet: The last-second beam out (CLASSIC!)
– Reward shield is awesome

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

A very special feedback segment today, where we took the live calls from a few audience members to discuss recent news and events.  Tune in for the details!

Next week:  We will share your suggestions on revamping the Captain’s Table

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It’s time for another Featured Episode review! You’ll hear our thoughts on whether or not Cryptic has managed to bridge the gap between TOS, TNG and JJTrek universes, in the ambitious mission, “Mine Enemy.”

Before that, we’re gonna lay down a heaping helping of DAN STAHL SAID STUFF, as well as other insider news we’ve scraped together from across the interwebz.

After all that carnage is finished, it’s time to dig into a new Community Feedback segment, where we will have a brand new question for you to answer. Make your voices heard!

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Show Notes:

NEWS::

Ask Cryptic (February Edition)

HOT TOPICS:

• Off-duty KDF uniforms will be reworked into additional customization (KDF doesn’t have a real uniform, so it makes some sense… they wear their “off duty” clothes while “on duty”)
• “At least 5 Featured series in 2011” (MATH: 5 weekly episodes each = 25 out of 52 weeks)
• Romulan Faction: Civil war, with sides taken (Fed vs. KDF)? (more info)
• Skill system revamp, which may include a more limited ability to mix ships types w/ professions

First look at a TOS interior (work in progress)

MVAM Update:
will NOT be a new ship
Will be a console that fits only on all Prometheus-grade escort vessels
A behind-the-scenes pic of CapnLogan breaking the game with MVAM

STAHL SAID STUFF (Follow him!  twitter.com/Cryptic_dStahl )

• First of all, he said a bad word and got an infraction. Naughty Stahl. (dead horse issue)
• We’ll SEE Spock in the remastered “Past Imperfect”
• Detailed plans (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) on the Duty Roster
• … followed up by a blurry whiteboard picture from a brainstorming session (translations here)
• Posts another pic of a new melee weapon in testing – the lirpa
• And a picture taken from Ep.4 “Coliseum” which will have you avoid enemy fighters while on the ground (shot also includes a preview of the new “over the shoulder” targeting).

Stahl interviewed in UFP Herald Magazine (starts on pg. 10)
Some fleet mechanics discussed, as well as a voice for Admiral Quinn.

MATH THREAD SPOTLIGHT:
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=201265
This thread covers a massive imbalance with Fire-at-Will as it currently applies to Beam Arrays vs. Dual Beam Banks. A great read for anyone interested in learning more about powers, and power-based math.

• Direct link to log parses
• Dev response and fix to hit Tribble soon

IMPORTANT: Foundry Downtime (approx. ONE WEEK starting Monday, Feb 14 – woah!)
Will include pathing fixes, new triggers, branching dialogue and copy/paste.

TACTICAL VIEW:

New Weekly Episode — “Mine Enemy”

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

Captain’s Table features/revamp ideas

This came up last week during our interview w/ Stormshade, and was again brought up in this month’s Ask Cryptic as being a current area of discussion. So NOW is the time to get your voices heard, in the hopes of influencing Cryptic’s plans to revamp or improve this specialized social area into something worth having in the game.

Send us your ideas!

Memory Alpha:  https://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Captain%27s_Table

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