CAPTAIN'S BLOG

I would like to see the bridge officers-> captains system, and the increase to Fleet Admiral rank :p

Legacy of Romulus is indeed awesome. I managed to get my female Liberated Romulan Borg to Level 50 yesterday (blessed be the Mirror Universe Incursion), finished all the romulan-specific Stories and did my first Elite STF with it. The new content is incredible. Although I concentrated on my Romulan Toon, I checked some of the new Content for Klingons as well. I like it.

But now to answer your questions:
#1 Looking forward to: I'd wish Cryptic would do a slightly better job with beta-testing. Don't get me wrong. The content and stuff is fine, but I wish they had gone open beta sooner. I might have helped to prevent all the Server SNAFU, that we are currently experiencing.
#2 Summer Event: I like to see some Games, in which you can team up and/or compete against each other. How about some old fashioned Skeet shooting? Or a major Dance Contest? You know, like the one on Nimbus III but better. :)
#3 End of the Year: I like to see the Level Cap raised to at least Level 60 (Admiral), but would prefer Level 70 (Fleet Admiral).

I agree with Paddy about Beta Testing. By delaying open testing until just before the launch of LoR, Cryptic made it far less likely that problems would be identified while there was still time to fix them before launch. It also made it harder to complete the cycle of new missions before the new missions came to Holodeck.

As for the Foundry, it seems to have gone backwards. I looked for Spotlight Missions last night and found ONE. None of the previous Spotlight Missions were even in the regular mission menu.

My wishes for the coming year would be: (1) A major reduction in the Dilithium cost of crafting; (2) Affordable fleet uniforms. The 16000 Dilithiun cost is equal to about 5,000,000 EC. For 40,000 EC you can usually find a Tier Four starship on the Exchange. Also, the fleet uniform unlock should be an account wide unlock, just like the C Store uniforms; (3) Fix the Exchange so that it reliably displays the prices people are charging for items, rather than showing different prices to different people for the same item at the same time; and, (4) My new wish, fix the Mail System so that I can once again delete obsolete messages. I have over a hundred messages form the Exchange that are just clogging up my mail box. When I sent a Bug Report, nothing happened. When I sent a request for Tech Support, I got a canned message saying that in-game support (at least for this type of issue) is no longer available and that I would be receiving an E-Mail from PWE. Based on past experience, the E-Mail will read, "Thank you for your input. This game, whichever one it is that you are writing about, is an evolving game. You may be able to find an answer to your issue, whatever it is, by randomly searching our poorly indexed Forum pages. Please be assured that no human has looked at, let alone addressed, your request for help. Signed, PWE Support Team."

Not wanting to end on a low note, I have to say I really like the new content in STO. The Romulan missions are well designed and the Wasteland series looks interesting (I haven't had occasion to try it yet, but I soon will). Right now, I'm leveling up a couple of Romulan toons so I can take full advantage of my Legacy Pack.

There's any number of things I would be wanting to see. I'd like to see crafting enabled for Mk XII items for example. Crafting Warp Cores and Singularity Cores would be good too.

But to be realistic, I'll settle for the Militia getting our shipyard to IV so I can upgrade the Mjolnir's hull to fleet class.

I'm not going to razz the devs too much (except maybe about that bogus 750z charge for customizing a ship that you already owned poppin up) as I know how many things have to be covered on any major release of a program. Doesn't matter how hard you try, there will always be something that crops up nobody thought of.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying chasing all of my characters around the Cosmos. Engage!

I found that I can delete messages in Champions Online, so that's currently how I'm managing my Inbox. They had this problem before after the last major update as well.

The foundry will be fixed shortly, I'm sure it's just like last time as well.

1) Looking forward to having something to do on Risa if they put the Summer event there.
2) Some kind of water balloon fight, like the snowball fights at Winter. That was awesome. I also loved the Epo racing event at winter, so something like that were we race other players would be nice.
3) Foundry updates. They have to be coming, but I've not gotten to see them in Neverwinter to know any context.

Server improvements and bug fixes, period! Worry about new content when the current content is running smoothly. After that, perhaps some upgrades to the crafting system.

If the summer event is at a beach on Risa, then a surfing contest, Tribble volley ball games and Bloodwine pong comes to mind.

I certainly am looking forward to what they do in the Summer Event!

(Especially if they have some epohh or something that help with Romulan Marks or Nukara Marks [raising little spiders?]
Getting the Winter Epohh were certainly cute to collect, and were a great booster for getting through the Romulan Reputation system for most of my characters.
A boost like that would make doing the Nukara reputation much easier for 5 characters.)

Tribble volleyball would be excellent!

I want a revamp of the mail system or that make it accessible from outside the game. An extensive update to the Foundry would be a bless for the game also. I would like to see more set added so we can have many more variety in the configurations of the ships. More bling to KDF would be nice, just 1 uniform in the Z-store doesn't cut it. Maybe they can implement the first officer/companion system they have talked about in the past. More options in the Alien creator would be awesome too. Perhaps a way to force/ enhance players need to interaction in the social areas of the game. A final fix to the launcher autoupdate problem? I actually can't get into the game since my launcher won't connect/update

Also, I agree with Saarak about the bridge officers advancing to Captain Status, as well as, my character advance to Fleet Admiral.

Also, I would like to revamp on the earlier missions, as well as, the Introduction missions into a storyline that includes cutscenes. I feel that there are missions, which Cryptic can enhance the mission by creating a cutscene in particular areas throughout the mission. For instance, The mission "Past Imperfect" they can place a cutscene in which as the away team mission is going through the Guardian that the away team wonders how they got back on the ship. At the same time, there is a bridge officer receiving a distress signal from the Enterprise asking for assistance. Then, my character has my ship go to red alert, orders the tactical to prepare, and helmsman plots a course towards the Enterprise. The cutscene ends by having my flagship steers toward the direction of the Enterprise. Then, it pans towards the Enterprise as the Klingons are firing at the ship. Then, the mission starts. Also, I wish that Cryptic can fine a way to be able to play the Introduction mission in such a way that anyone can play it again. Of course, the storyline will be altered a bite. However, there are times, which I would like to play it again, but not go through the learning process of the game.