Star Trek: Online

God, I've been so busy. Hopefully I can squeeze in some STO this week.

 

FYI - STO Executive Producer DStahl just posted the latest STO Engineering Report for July, 2011 (Link)

There's some interesting stuff.

 

DS9 revamp might be the thing most anticipated and might even be ingame very soon. As far as I know you can already see the new "old" wormhole on Tribble.
Haven't had a chance et to check it out myself, but seen pictures of it.
It may not look 100% canon perhaps, but it is muuuch closer then the poor substitute we have so far.
If as much effort goes into redesigning DS9 itself, I'll be a happy captain.

 

They just put the Final 'Design the Enterpise-F Dev Diary (Part 4)' up on StarTrek.com of all places (link)

In includes a render of the final version of the ship.

 

Starfleet Academy is up on test. They really outdid themselves. It's fantastic.
It's a full starbase minus the shipyard. It has holodecks that when entered give you access to your mission logs. Several memorials scattered around and lots of cadets in cadet uniforms. If you look at the Golded Gate bridge it even has shuttles flying in and out of that building from TMP. The place where Kirk and Xonn have their chat.

 

Wow. I think it really turned out beautiful. I will part with my beloved Excelsior for that.

 

Hmmm. When I look at it, I think, Nice ship.

However, it doesn't look big enough. This is supposed to be larger than the D and E. The deflector looks very large, making the rest of the ship look small. Also, the windows on the side of the neck look very large too. I count only 8 rows of windows in that entire structure.

Maybe it just has big parts on it. I dunno, someone's gotta nit-pick right? Might as well be me.

Anyway, it is pretty gorgeous. Just maybe lacks a wee bit of detail in places IMO.

 

**Posted in a more appropriate place**

 

I've been enjoying the changes to ground combat. I wish the Klingons would get more game content, though. It seems like a lot of the changes have been benefiting the Federation only. I can only play so many repeatable missions before I have to let the game rest for a while.

 

When are we getting new missions associated with Season 4?

 

It going to sound trite, but - When Cryptic is ready.

They have the content team going full speed on new FE series; a new more general Tutorial that will be tied to both the Federation and Klingon Academy zones (and for any other faction they add in the future. This means brand new players WON'T have to start and play a Federation character to a certain level to 'unlock' other factions.); new Ground FAs for both Academy zones, etc.

As for the FE series, they have promised that once they start rolling out FE series again, there will be no more than a two week break between them; so, Dan wants one ready to go, AND 'one in the can' so to speak; so they can make sure they are able to keep that promise going forward.

So, given that - my best guess is late August, or early September before we start seeing the 4th FE series in game.

 

All right. I do not mind playing user missions, but want to see advancement in the main story arc.

 

Klingons have gone all medieval it seems. At leas the KDF academy has...
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the links appear to not work.

 

Really? They work fine for me...

Try to copy them into your browser instead of clicking?

 

I did. This is what I got

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Try these:

http://twitpic.com/5uak8a
http://twitpic.com/5to6jm

 

Those work, thanks. Looks cool. I miss playing this game.

 

They added more shots of the Ent-F to the official website

http://startrekonline.com/gallery?op0=&filter0=1

 

New shot of the F from the official site, textures looks different and the Bridge has been changed a bit

http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/sto_screen_entf_072511_01.jpg