[Jestersmith]

Looks like the Temporal Recruit will happen in and around 8th September to coincide with the 55th anniversary so i suspect it will see something interesting added, L'rell also looks to be the KDF face for forthcoming missions for KDF so suspect we will see more of her in the future.

Going to try and do a weekly summary on the weekly cryptic stream Summary taken from Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comment..._weekly_82521/





Ten Forward weekly 25/08/21

• Having lots of discussion internally over keeping the tokens as drops, but lowering the drop rate.
• Don't expect a change soon. Have to see how this change effects the dil economy before they make another change.
• Vanity shield promotion isn't kept around all the time because more people go of it if its limited time, so that helps the economy more.
• Decision to go forward with the token change came somewhat suddenly after having spent time getting it ready to go beforehand. Blog would have gone out a week earlier had Kael known about it. Doesn't think announcing the change the day before was the best approach.
• Vanity shield event likely to happen again since they know people like it.
• As an example of how long concepts can take from idea to coming out, Kael mentions Al Rivera was talking about cloning L'rel, and having J'ula do her face turn, around 3 years ago. Maybe slightly earlier then that.
• Ship development process is a couple weeks long for each team working on it(art team spends a few weeks on it, systems team spends a few weeks making the stats, etc)
• New systems, like new ways to spend dilthium, takes a few week for systems, and about a week from programmers/UI artists to make the interface to buy it.
• Temporal Recruit will be in time for Star Trek's 55th on September 8th.
• Someone asked if it was possible for a Mudd's bundle with DSC Section 31 and Mirror ships. Kael said its possible, but wouldn't happen soon.
• Talked about the Red Alert event errors. Jared(producer) scheduled the Red Alert. Kael and Thomas did their normal things not knowing it was a one week event, so put up the blog/loading screen for the longer Red Alert Event, instead of the shorter one, since they had only been running the longer ones recently.
• Mentioned that since remote work started about half the team has moved to Texas, and there are no plans to go back to the physical studio any time soon, which has caused communication issues.
• QA is looking over the blog as well.
• Ship release schedule, and the number of ships coming out, changes year to year, but theres almost 30 ships planned for this year(not for the rest of this year, this year in total)
• Kael has asked about Competitive marks in PVP matches. Recalls they weren't put into PVP possibly to prevent people from cheesing the marks with the ways you can cheese PVP. Though hes not 100% sure thats the reason.
• Someone asked about an Italian translation for STO. Kael says thats on Perfect World who have cut down localization on their games.
• Someone asked about the Nova. Always a chance for a new Nova. ship interiors unlikely unless they are used in a mission for the same reasons we know.
• Cryptic has generally moved to putting out higher quality stuff, instead of as much stuff, for awhile now.
• No word yet on playable DSC Andorians or Tellarites.
• Some of the people who were on Magic Legends did come back to STO.
• Working on fixing a few known broken ship animations.
• We can shoot new ship/systems ideas to the devs, but due to legal reasons they can't read most of them.
• L'rell will be the contact for new Klingon missions going forward.
• Kael will ask about making some of the old toys/novelty prizes from lockboxes available somewhere else.
• Kael will asking his superiors at Perfect World why Egyptian players can't play the game.
• Eisenberg class coming soonish? Not that long, but longer then some may want.
• No plans for a Mirror Recruit event.
• Will ask about being able to buy away the patrol cooldown(someone suggested it)
• A Star Trek actor pitched a story idea to Cryptic. It was something they were already thinking of, and they will be in the upcoming arc.
• Next actor showing up isn't new to STO, but we haven't seen them in awhile.
• Next story arc is going to be the story arc for the considerable future
• Early Fall 2021 is a "good estimate" for the next story arc
• TOS rerun will be simulations on consoles(based on KAel saying yes to something a user asked)
• Will pass on ideas to see if T5 ships that can't go T5U be given the ability to upgrade, and removing the Obelisk/Dyson fused weapons, with dil.
• No new alien races involved in the upcoming story
• They are in negotiations for representation in Star Treks 55th anniversary event
• Some stuff is happening to character models
• Winter ship will not be Breen or Fek'Ihri
• Picard 2385 uniforms are closer then they were before
• Have considered upgrading crafting for more then just dil sinks, since they want R&D packs to be worth something other then the ships you get out of them. Keeps coming up in meetings, but their other stuff happens and it gets pushed to the side.
• Will pass on XBO graphics issues
• Keal doesn't expect new fleet projects for awhile
• Will ask about transcendent jacks/swears for Winter event
• Will check on the Delta Recruit admiralty Rank 10 box not being openable now due to pass tokens being made dil
• Fixing GPL is a lesser priority to fixing dil, since GPL isn't breaking the economy being the way it is
• Will ask about putting discount coupons in the Phoenix Box
• Kael says making the dilithum refine amount account wide is a good idea, but he has no idea if it would happen
• Will look into Warriors of the Empire/A Day Long Remembered missing VA
• Someone asked about "special zen" that could be taded between games. Kael said that would require permissions above even their CEO's head
• Someone suggested an ship upgrade that gives us a ensign specialist slot. Kael said it might be a good idea
• Kael once had an April fools joke weapon idea called the Photonic Temporal Warhead(PTW) where the more GPL you spent on it the more damage it did
• No plans to revamp Romulan storyline to bring it more in-line with Picard
• Originally there was canon reasoning behind not having Roms in Fed uniforms. Since that has changed maybe Cryptic can change it in-game.
• someone asked about weekly ship rentals for Dil. Keal really likes the idea, and thinks it would be good for the health of the game, but guesses it would take a lot to implement
• Will likely get stuff from Prodigy, but may take a while, like Lower Decks stuff, due to its animated nature.
• Cryptic is working on Lower Decks stuff right now, but Kael can't tell us what
• Kael has campaigned on getting the Bonnie Kin mission added as a Halloween event, but Cryptic wants to remaster it before they do so
• Might be possible to increase stack limit on batteries
• Ultimate tech upgrades in the Phoenix Pack on epic is an interesting idea
• The newspapers in the lockboxes was an idea someone had that they thought was funny, so they did them.

[Taku]

• No plans for a Mirror Recruit event.

This actually sounds like a very good idea. I like it.

• Will ask about transcendent jacks/swears for Winter event

It took me a minute to unmung this one. Jackets and sweaters, I'm assuming?

Thanks for the highlights!

[darthnovawave]

The things that jump out at me are that we're less than 2 weeks from yet another event, the long awaited revamp of the temporal recruit event, plus we probably are only weeks away from finally getting some new event missions to kick off the next big story arc, which sounds like it will probably span multiple episode arcs again like the disco/klingon stuff. Also interesting that the winter ship won't be Breen or Fek'lhri.

I'm kind of wondering if the actor tease might relate to the tweet Michael Dorn made earlier this year that got people hoping for a Worf on-screen appearance. Certainly been a while since he's done new in-game dialog.

Also, for those holding out hope, Kael was totally clueless when asked if Kahless's fornication helmet as seen in Lower Decks season 2 would be coming in game. He hadn't even watched the episode yet.

[Taku]

Kahlesses what now?

[Jestersmith]

Also, for those holding out hope, Kael was totally clueless when asked if Kahless's fornication helmet as seen in Lower Decks season 2 would be coming in game. He hadn't even watched the episode yet.

Tbf i have not had chance to watch the second ep so would also be clueless on that also.

[ForTheGamer]

So, there's no centralized office anymore and everyone works remote. First time I've hard of a studio doing that. I mean sure, a lot of them live in Texas, but still. Haven't heard an entire studio doing remote. They are going to need to tighten that communication so that we get less blogs and posts having errors, though that at least explains why that is happening now.

We're currently at 17 ships for the year. If we are truly getting to 30, that means we've got a baker's dozen of ships coming in the next 4 months. Assume the TOS Recruitment event is getting a 3 ship pack and a Legendary ship pack (please let this be the Utility T6) and that means we've still got probably 9 ships for the rest of the year. That's a lot of ships still. Might be why they said "if you are waiting for a ship coming, it is going to be later than you want".

As far as dilithium sinks go, probably him explaining that it basically will be a month before anything gets implemented probably means some things are in production and are just being worked on. So that's good news.

Whoever suggested the weekly rental of ships for dilithium is a brilliant person. I never even thought of it and I wish I had. If you could rent out whatever ship you want, it would allow people to try out a lot o ships. That would though mean they need to hard code ship skills and stuff and that's why it'll be hard to do, but I really hope they can implement this somehow.

Overall, I liked what I heard here.

[Taku]

The big takeaway for me is that by the time the Reroll Tokens are put back in the Endeavor boxes, I won't need them any more.

[darthnovawave]

We're currently at 17 ships for the year. If we are truly getting to 30, that means we've got a baker's dozen of ships coming in the next 4 months. Assume the TOS Recruitment event is getting a 3 ship pack and a Legendary ship pack (please let this be the Utility T6) and that means we've still got probably 9 ships for the rest of the year. That's a lot of ships still. Might be why they said "if you are waiting for a ship coming, it is going to be later than you want".

There is talk that a T6 version of the Steamrunner is coming, plus the winter event ship should be part of that count. There will probably be a few more gamble box ships too, plus probably some sort of bundle or 2 will come out in time for the holiday season. If they do a faction-cloned ship like the Support carrier bundle they could conceivably crank out several ships at once since they are mostly the same stats and mechanics slapped on different artwork. It seems like a lot of work still, but they were pretty quiet with bug fixes and stuff over the summer.....

[Jestersmith]

There is talk that a T6 version of the Steamrunner is coming, plus the winter event ship should be part of that count. There will probably be a few more gamble box ships too, plus probably some sort of bundle or 2 will come out in time for the holiday season. If they do a faction-cloned ship like the Support carrier bundle they could conceivably crank out several ships at once since they are mostly the same stats and mechanics slapped on different artwork. It seems like a lot of work still, but they were pretty quiet with bug fixes and stuff over the summer.....

Chances are we will also so another Legendary pack also at some point seeing as these are high value bundles i cant see them not giving us another and add into that another Mudds account unlock pack and then you are looking at that number hitting 30 sooner rather than later within the 3/4 months left of the year.

[Jestersmith]

Ten Forward weekly 30/08/21

This weeks stream was shown early as twitch content creators are having a blackout on Wednesday in protest to twitch not taking action agains spam/abuse raids so no stream set then. The basis of this weeks stream was more of a howto on demorecord from Kael with guest advisors @rurinnfane and @The_ZEFilms

Our very own Mentioned User Solace is also on stream chat with a few comments that are read out and he did used to do some demorecord stuff when he was in game and if anyone is planning on doing anything with demorecord and needs help i am sure he would not object to pms for advice he has a guide you can also follow HERE


for anyone interested in using demorecord for screen shot and video creation its a decent viewing

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1134522049

we did get an answer to someone asking over lower decks uniforms and the uniforms are coming to game in the future at some point

Expect some extra stuff next week for star trek day and also next weeks stream may be on a differing day also as a result of this being Wednesday also.

[Scarlett]

[*] Working on fixing a few known broken ship animations.

Finally.

[Solace]

Mentioned User Jestersmith

A couple years ago I tried my hand at doing cinematics. The first attempts were meh and I kinda cringe at the poor editing skills.. but anyway enjoy!

[Mack]

I'd rather that instead of wasting their already non-existent MDF on a screen voice actor, they invest that money to dev team/game development and go back to making proper yearly expansions. Unpopular opinion though.

[Arno12]

I'd rather that instead of wasting their already non-existent MDF on a screen voice actor, they invest that money to dev team/game development and go back to making proper yearly expansions. Unpopular opinion though.

Victory is Life was STO at its peak, while the ending was rushed it was awesome overall. Perfect World is just wasting the IP and it bums me out.

[darthnovawave]

Mentioned User Jestersmith

A couple years ago I tried my hand at doing cinematics. The first attempts were meh and I kinda cringe at the poor editing skills.. but anyway enjoy!

I'm not sure that first one was all your fault. I'm sure the primary cinematic cameras weren't due to be installed until next Tuesday.