Season 3 Today!!!

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Hello, just a reminder really, that the newest major update is going live today!

Check it out. Some major overhauls are awaiting you.
Most noticably the new look of sector space (gorgeous!) and the first step of redoing Space Dock: Extended interiours. Can't wait for the next step, the exteriours which is rumoured to be made into an event. Assumably the Klingons will destroy ESD which forces Starfleet to get the old mushroom station out of mothballs.

Also player generated content is a big part of the new season, which is already on the Tribble server. Not sure if it also goes live today, depends on if they ironed out all the bugs.

 

[Noname Given]

The Foundry probably won't be going to Holodeck for a while as it definitely needs A LOT more of a stability shakedown on Tribble; and even when it hits Holodeck, the Dev will still be considering it 'in Beta' (meaning use as you will, but there will still be bugs). Got to play with it last weekend and I found it fairly intuitive to use (but I also have a programmiong degree, have done a lot of coding and scripting - and mission creation works like a 'drag and drop' flowchart - you just need to know what elements you want to drop in what oder and how to configure them so they do what you want.

But Foundry aside, there's a lot of nice stuff in Season 3:

- Revamped Sevctor Space (log in and click 'Disable Astrometirics' and you'll be in space.)

- Another Crafting System Update that is honestly really nice, and gets it MUCH closer to where it needs to be (It's got more items and stuff that's actually useul - and you craft 'schematics' instead of using a 'base' item.

- Klingons now get access to crafting too; as well as ship and ground scanning (like Feds had already); and scanning points to destructible objects now as well.

- Klingon also get 6 new 'Resouce Raiding' missions (it's one way for KDF players to get Anomolies for crafting) where they take supplies from Fed outposts and frieghters - and these missions have optional objectives that will net you bonus stuff if you manage to complete them all in one day.

And a lot more streamlining and bug fixes overall. IMO it's their best Season update to date (going by what I tested on Tribble over the last month )

 

[DarkHorizon]

I am especially looking forward to Episode Replay...

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

One minor problem with episode replay I have (but I'm sure that will be taken care of sometime down the road) that you "physically" repeat the mission. You pick it of your computer log instead of the original contact and actually fly to the system to do it.
Star Trek has a canon-build-in simulation feature and it would be nice if they actually utilized that.
If I would do it, it would work like this:
Visit your bridge, go to your ready room, access mission log, pick the mission, upload mission data to crew training simulation on holodeck 3, go down to crew deck, activate program on holodeck and begin...

 

[Bird of Prey]

I'm really looking forward to trying this out tonight.

If I would do it, it would work like this:
Visit your bridge, go to your ready room, access mission log, pick the mission, upload mission data to crew training simulation on holodeck 3, go down to crew deck, activate program on holodeck and begin...

That's a great idea !! Hopefully in a future update they will incorporate something like this.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Psyched for this. Anyone know how long the patch will be? I plan to start it as soon as I get home from work so its ready to play when my little one goes to bed!

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Psyched for this. Anyone know how long the patch will be? I plan to start it as soon as I get home from work so its ready to play when my little one goes to bed!

The patch is pretty big, but I already downloaded most of it because I logged in on Tribble before. Taht should cut down my patchtime today.

 

[Briquettes]

I'm really excited about this. I got burned out on STO a few months ago and left. I've been feeling the itch to play again lately and decided to wait for season 3. I re-subbed today and hopefully the new features (especially the foundry when it launches) will be enough to keep me around for a while.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I'm taking a break from ST:O to play Cataclysm (WoW). Unfortunately my ST:O account literally expired today!

I'm sure I'll be back in a month or two, and probably by then most of the "Post-Patch Bugs" will have been hotfixed.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

The new crafting system is pretty cool, I used it to make some new weapons for my ship it's way cheaper than buying them.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

The new crafting system is pretty cool, I used it to make some new weapons for my ship it's way cheaper than buying them.

I never got the hang of the crafting...I have tons of the samples in my bank I've collected over the last few months. Is the new system user friendly?

 

[Commodore_Rook]

Can you craft TOS Hand phasers yet??

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Can you craft TOS Hand phasers yet??

Not sure...haven't even tried to be honest. I don't think I made it much past the hypos. I think I gave up to be honest.

 

[Commodore_Rook]

So any other discoveries yet? Any surprises? How stable is it? (I can't play for another 50 days, as I am still in Iraq)

 

[Freman]

So do they sell membership cards for this yet, or can you still only play if you have a credit card?

 

[Nick Ryder]

Cards would be nice, easier to pick up without having to worry about using a credit card - and nice if I want to buy a friend a sub for a month so we can play!