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Welcome Back Dan! | STOked 113

chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:19:25 +0000

Chris chat’s with Star Trek Online’s Executive Producer, Daniel Stahl. Chris asks about new challenge he faces, the speed of player leveling, the success of the new featured episodes, and hints about future updates to sector space, the foundry, and Klingons!

PLUS: Chris reviews the new featured episode, Facility 4028. And we’ve got a new community feedback that covers recent discovered game exploits, and we follow up on a lot of your STF loot feedback!

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Show Notes:

News Links:

Ask Cryptic: March 2012 is Here
DStahl’s back
A handy thread explaining (in short) what the Foundry could expect to see in Season 6

STF Loot Bags Explained

When you successfully complete an STF, including the optional objectives, you will have two different loot bags provided – the personal loot bag and the team loot bag. Obviously, the personal one is loot just for you and the team loot bag, which is obtained from successfully completing the optional objectives, is divided up using the Need or Greed system. The loot you get in those bags is taken from multiple loot tables in the following manner.

Personal Loot Bag:

Table A – always gives you every item every time which is EDCs, dilithium and a mystery box. This is your GUARANTEED reward for mission completion.
Table B – always gives you at least one item but can be more which includes Bind On Equip space & ground gear and also Borg Salvage. This means that you will always get something from this loot table but not necessarily the salvage drop.
Table C – this table contains the high end loot, the Borg tech drops. Everytime you successfully complete an STF the game decides if you should be offered an item from this table. It is 100% NOT GUARANTEED loot. You have a chance to get the tech drop and a pretty low one based on user feedback 1% or lower is suspected right now (unconfirmed). This “roll” by the game engine does not take into account how many STF runs you have done it simply flips a coin to see if you are to be offered a tech drop for this specific STF completion. It is the primary source of making players insane as this heavily gates access to MK XII equipment and sets.
So for each completion of an STF as a player I will get:

EDCs / dilithium / mystery box
1 or more Bind On Equip space gear, ground gear or borg salvage
a chance at getting a Borg tech drop (chance guaranteed, loot not so)

The second loot bag is a shared one across the team based on completing the optional objectives in any STF. It is constructed in a similar way to the personal loot bag but with some key differences.

only 1 loot table containing all of the items (does NOT include Borg tech drops, EVER)
usually 4 items from the loot table are offered as a reward to the team (can include salvage)

This shows that the lock boxes that were added to the loot system recently are actually included in a table that has nothing to do with the Borg Tech drops and their minuscule drop rate is therefore a separate issue. The information presented here is derived from a – post made by Gozer.

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Cleared for Departure | STOked 99

chris — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:47:19 +0000

The big news this week is the just announced departure of Dan Stahl, Star Trek Online’s Executive Producer. We spend a few minutes chatting about the past, present, and future of the game in light of the recent news.

Plus we take a look at the STF upgrades, some new ship designs, and much more!

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

Dan Stahl LEAVES!

Was NOT fired by Perfect World… that’s just silly…
But, he’s heading to Zynga? That hurts a little.
CTO Stephen D’Angelo stepping in as “Emergency Executive Producer Hologram”
- Previously contributed a huge portion of STO’s central code, and is a ST fan
Also one of the primary proponents of getting The Foundry into STO
Priority One Interview w/ DStahl

Gozer lays out the backstory of the STF revamps

Tweet Leaks!

TTS Goodies (no links, sorry)
* Sept 29th target for 4.1 on Tribble
* CapnLogan is making a new Connie! (NOT T5) is this a picture of it?

New Orion Ship from CapnLogan – concept sketch, rough model, and first render

FOUNDRY FILES:

“Rise of Darkness” parts 1 AND 2
by Jake81nx

Grab the entire review PDF

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Romulans in the Dark | STOked 70

chris — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:09:35 +0000

Popout Live Chat

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.

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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Winning Foundry Submission | STOked 64

chris — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:41:26 +0000

Welcome to 2011! Looks like STOked aren’t the only ones that took the holidays off… with barely any new content or ground-breaking news, we’ve decided to feature a bit of the community’s outlook on some recent features: Aegis/Borg Sets, the Garumba C-Store ship, and more responses to the continued development of the Foundry.

Then we’ll go over some highlights from Dan Stahl’s recent interview on Trek Radio, and share the winner of our community-submitted UGC mission contest — complete with EPIC TRAILER! You can’t miss this!

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Show Notes:

NEWS

TenTonHammer = “Foundry: Savior of STO?”
https://tentonhammer.com/editorials/sto-foundry-preview/

Test Reward = Danube Shuttle Pet (aka Runabout)
https://jupiterforce.org/showthread.php?3860-Season-3-Test-reward

Aegis Set and Borg Set hit Holodeck
Chris would like to say thanks to Barile@Powerhelm for crafting his awesome TRON-suit
Many have complained about the balance issues

Garumba Seige Destroyer DRAMA
Obtainable ONLY via CStore at this time
Could be considered equivalent to Galaxy-X which is CStore and REFERRAL only

TrekRadio interviews Dan Stahl
Direct download link (right click, save-as)
– Updates on Foundry Tech
– Ground combat upgrades/revamps becoming top priority
** More weapon effects, more unique weapon mechanics
– Crew System
** Duty Roster (crew beyond Boffs) — 20-100 “crew” slots that follow you from ship to ship
** First Officer
** Core goal = additional fine-tuning and customization to distinguish one Capt from another
– Iconians
** Will NOT be the “big bad” of the next featured series
– More ships! “There are only so many ships in Star Trek, so given time I’m sure that STO will eventually have all of them.” Oberth, Vesta specifically mentioned as “coming”
– Also more ALIEN ships coming soon! CapnLogan’s name was dropped.

MATH

None this week!

Tune in next week for everything you ever wanted to know about Starship Engines

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK

Circle of Deceit by Fewzz = 16.2%
The Longing by Rachel Garrett = 31%
Defend Deep Space 11 = 52.7%

We will now present his TRAILER

In addition to the trailer, Murphy has received full rights to any and all Jupiter Force personnel for the purposes of testing and feedback on his mission, as well as collaborative efforts. He’s taken me up on that in one form – I am now his mission dialogue editor. The version currently live on Tribble features dialogues written and edited by Jeremy (aka @borticus).

In the future, I will offer this editing service to ANYONE that would like to take me up on it. Unless I get overwhelmed. For now, the door’s wide open so email me your scripts (jeremy@jupiterbroadcasting.com) and I will review them and send them back once I’ve restructured them.

Murphy also has “A Helping Hand” and “Withdrawal” on Tribble if you’d like to see more of the Jem’hadar Alliance series.

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Spooky Updates, Charts & Links | STOked 57

chris — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:07:31 +0000

In honor of the SCARIEST day of the year, we give you our review of the SCARIEST Weekly Episode to date – “What Lies Beneath.” Then we’ll cover a new batch of Stahl Quotables, including Season 3 details, Foundry updates, and an impending update to both ESD -and- Qo’nos!

Stay tuned for our viewer-submitted STO links, and a new Community Feedback question.

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NEWS:

Live every Saturday from now on!

REVIEW OF “What Lies Beneath” (Series 2, Episode 3)
(NOTE: I’ve been informed to play with AUDIO ON for best results.)

Stahl: A comprehensive list of Season 3 (or prior) updates
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3119139&postcount=17
* Enterprise Series Bundle Pack
— NX-01 Ship Skin (speculated: Light Cruiser replacement)
— Enterprise Costumes (Classic and Mirror)

* 300 Day Vet Rewards

Dauntless Accolade and Title.
FREE Character Slot.
FREE Ship “Firework” emote.
A 4% Captain and Officer Skill Point Boost up to Lieutenant Commander 6

Stahl: Qo’nos upgrade coming around the same time as ESD revamp
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3123920&postcount=71

Stahl: Official response to the CO=F2P announcement
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=185819

Stahl: Foundry officially enters Closed Beta
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3118932&postcount=6
– Foundry Forum has launched!

Player Created Content Sector? D. Stahl thinks it could happen!

D’kyr Vulcan Ship
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3115172&postcount=3
– You can see it in-game now, if you do “Task Force Hippocrates”

MATH:

INTRODUCING: THE CHART !! https://bit.ly/mathchart

What’s it for? The point of this particular resource, is to offer you a way to balance your boff-related expenditures, to ensure that you’re seeking out abilities that aren’t too costly, and therefore leave you room in your skill point pool to beef up these abilities to the max, man.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by email, jeremy@jupiterbroadcasting.com

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

The one good link: https://stofan.comxa.com (sent in by about a dozen of you)
Good resource for guides, tutorials, maps and much much more.

Oh, and a ship chart: https://www.spidermitch.com/STO/SpidermitchFEDShipChart.jpg
Inspired by Suricata’s ship chart, but now with complete graphical views from every angle.

The rest have been Fleet-specific websites. At this time, we’ve chosen not to focus on Fleets, to avoid playing favorites of any kind. But, I will say that some of your sites looked great.

NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION:
In light of Stahl’s announcement that ESD and Qo’nos will be getting facelifts, send us your ideas for features that the new versions of these core social areas need to obtain.

Live every Saturday from now on!

REVIEW OF “What Lies Beneath” (Series 2, Episode 3)
(NOTE: I’ve been informed to play with AUDIO ON for best results.)

Stahl: A comprehensive list of Season 3 (or prior) updates
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3119139&postcount=17
* Enterprise Series Bundle Pack

— NX-01 Ship Skin (speculated: Light Cruiser replacement)

— Enterprise Costumes (Classic and Mirror)

* 300 Day Vet Rewards

Dauntless Accolade and Title.
FREE Character Slot.
FREE Ship “Firework” emote.
A 4% Captain and Officer Skill Point Boost up to Lieutenant Commander 6

Stahl: Qo’nos upgrade coming around the same time as ESD revamp
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3123920&postcount=71

Stahl: Official response to the CO=F2P announcement
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=185819

Stahl: Foundry officially enters Closed Beta
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3118932&postcount=6
– Foundry Forum has launched!

Player Created Content Sector? D. Stahl thinks it could happen!

D’kyr Vulcan Ship
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3115172&postcount=3
– You can see it in-game now, if you do “Task Force Hippocrates”

MATH:

INTRODUCING: THE CHART !! https://bit.ly/mathchart

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by email, jeremy@jupiterbroadcasting.com

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

The one good link: https://stofan.comxa.com (sent in by about a dozen of you)
Good resource for guides, tutorials, maps and much much more.

Oh, and a ship chart: https://www.spidermitch.com/STO/SpidermitchFEDShipChart.jpg
Inspired by Suricata’s ship chart, but now with complete graphical views from every angle.

The rest have been Fleet-specific websites. At this time, we’ve chosen not to focus on Fleets, to avoid playing favorites of any kind. But, I will say that some of your sites looked great.

NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION:
In light of Stahl’s announcement that ESD and Qo’nos will be getting facelifts, send us your ideas for features that the new versions of these core social areas need to obtain.

Download:

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