| Interviews Dan Stahl of Star Trek Online |
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| Written by Administrator on Friday, 08 April 2011 17:12 | ||||||
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The interview was done in 4 segments, each area is displayed as necessary. Future Developments Sector SpaceQ. STO has now reached the 1 year mark and the universe has only expanded by smaller 2 sectors. Posters and players have expressed an interest in seeing an expansion to sector space within the Federation areas. What is Cryptic’s plan for the expansion of sector space, and what time frame could that be within? A. After recently updating the look and feel of Sector Space, the next step is to add more variety and random events as you flying throughout the galaxy. This includes updating Deep Space Encounters and adding more random “star cluster”-like missions to the regular sector maps. Before we start expanding outward from our existing zones, we also have some gaps that we want to fill with content such as the gap between the Pi Canis and Psi Velorum sectors. You can look for these changes to happen after our Season 4 release. Most of the new sectors we plan to add will happen in Season 5 and later. There may be some sectors that will be added along with a Feature Episode series before then.  Featured C-Store Item (Bajoran Militia Uniforms) A: One of the upcoming Feature Episode series will be based around Deep Space 9 and we intend to have several of the missions take place in locations seen on that show. This could mean venturing into the Gamma Quadrant, or going to some of the planets seen during the Dominion War. Look for this series to start in the Fall. Q. The Klingon sectors are very small but are continuing to improve in content and how far a Klingon can travel. Will the Klingons gain new sectors of their own in addition to being able to go into more of the Federation player sectors? A. As part of our next major update, Season 4, we will be opening up nearly all of the sectors for Klingon players to travel in. In addition, we are looking at KDF specific missions that will take place in these opened up sectors so that the Klingon Faction have content to play in these newly opened up sectors.  A. We have a long term goal of going to a large open galaxy with as little map transitions as possible. In the meantime, we are looking at ways to speed up loading times and improve the experience as you travel between sectors of the galaxy. Q. The current galaxy map only contains a small portion of the Alpha Quadrant. As Star Trek Online expands and grows would Cryptic entertain an eventual redesign of the galaxy map to better suit a larger environment and how would something like that be implemented? A. While we don’t anticipate making the sectors any larger in the short term, if we did need to add in some more Alpha Quadrant locations we will consider whether or not the new systems can be added to existing sectors or whether or not we needed to change the scale of our in game star system so that it doesn’t feel overcrowded. |
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Just like your in the interior of your ship
and walk to engineering ,
Do that and choose a shuttle to take off.
Think about it.. WoW makes over a billion dollars a year, and it still doesn't have viable voice-chat..
Features and content don't just make themselves, Cryptic works with a small team and doesn't have a big buget to play with.. Cryptic also in some ways have their hands tied by CBS, but it would be unprofessional for Stahl to say anything about it..
The modding community has already jumped at the map editing Foundry tools. Theres been so much extra content generated in the last 3 weeks its not even funny.. The game is flying
So true and right on the mark, hell iam surprised that someone hasn't tried to do what people have done to WoW in putting it on there own servers. Modders could have done a better job, frankly iam sick to death of the C-store crap, that is all it is.
I truly believe they are trying to force out what little of the pvp community is left. It took them 6 months to get a rudimentary queue system in place. The only devs seen in the pvp forum are either handing out infractions or is a content-related dev who plays in their off-time.
With how much money people have pumped into this game, and continue to pump in under the bs ruse of the c-store funding more development, cryptic owes its player base a helluva lot more.
I have thought that same thing, however that can only work for so long and holds no water at all.
Cryptic as a company has programmers with no creativity, they bite off more than they can chew on a regular basis. If you look at their company info they tell you that they are cut rate by saying they will bring a game on budget and on time. This means being sloppy and being short on substance. Most good/great titles tend to go over budget and get delayed often.
In the last year STO players have been paying for the title being polished and finished when that should have been done during development.
Iam not surprised, this is just another interview that confirms what we already know, they are going to just leave it to its own demise.
Two things need to happen, either the modders need to come in and clean up the mess that Cryptic Fucked up, or someone needs to find a way to simply pull the game to there own server, so we can make STO into what it should have been, instead of a half ass attempt while falling short.
Typical Cryptic side stepping..
And again no questions about the many bugs in game ??
Perhaps it is time for Modders to take over, they could do what needs to be done.
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