Engineering Report Updates

[BlueBard]

Should have done this sooner.  Engineering Reports are the Cryptic STO Team's way to let us know at a high level what's coming up in the near (?) future and where they are at in rolling out new features.

Here is the link to the June 11 Engineering Report:

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=162261

And here are the goodies in a nutshell regarding Season 2.0:

In Development
Season 2.0
The following features are schedule to release with 2.0, but keep in mind that there is always a chance a feature may get postponed to a later update.

    * Rank up to 51 (Vice Admiral/Lieutenant General)
    * - New Captain Power
    * - Rank 5 Ship Reward (Special T5 Ship)
    * - Mark XI Gear
    * Player Ship Interiors (FED and KLG)
    * - Select between 3 layouts
    * - Make Consumables Mini-Game
    * - Trophy Case
    * - New Ship Interior Designs
    * - Sliding Doors
    * Anomaly Scanning Mini-Game
    * - chance for additional anomalies
    * Dabo MiniGame
    * - Holo Leeta Dabo Girl
    * - Gold Pressed Latinum Item Store
    * Klingon PVE
    * - 8 New Klingon Episodes
    * - New Enemy Group unique to the Klingon Faction
    * Weekly Episodes - Series 1
    * - Weekly Story Advancement Mission
    * - Scales to all levels
    * - Episodes available to FED and KLG
    * - New Enemy Group Faction
    * Level 46-51 Sector (FED and KLG)
    * - 5 New Episodes
    * - New Level 53 Fleet Action
    * - New Daily Fleet Actions for Level 51
    * - Run STFs at Level 51
    * Federation Diplomatic Corps
    * - Earn FDC-XP for non-combat gameplay
    * - New First Contact Missions in Exploration Sectors
    * - 4 New non-combat missions
    * - New Rewards at each rank
    * Klingon Costume Customization Updates
    * Trade Commissioned Officers
    * Fleet Logos
    * Fleet Action Level Banding Changes
    * Global Help Chat Channel
    * New Exploration Enemy Ship Designs
    * New Wildlife Creatures
    * Gamepad/Controller Support


Season 2.X
The following features may or may not make it into Season 2.0 and if not would be added to a later update.

    * Episode Replay
    * Stores that allow you to obtain "random" Bridge Officers
    * Sitting in Chairs Tech
    * Controller Support
    * New Memory Alpha Items
    * Poker MiniGame
    * STF - Into the Hive
    * Older Science Consoles Refit
    * Daily Mission Re-Scoping


Upcoming C-Store Release
Not everything planned for the upcoming C-Store is listed below and dates are tentative

Pack 7 - June 15

    * KLG Bridge Pack - Raptor
    * FED Costume Pack - DS9
    * FED Costume Pack - MU
    * FED Costume Pack - TNG
    * FED COstume Pack - TOS
    * FED Costume Pack - Wrath of Khan
    * FED Light Cruiser - TOS USS Enterprise
    * FED NX Ship Registry Prefix
    * FED Playable Fed Species: "Caitian" (crossing fingers)
    * FED/KLG Playable Species: "Joined Trill"
    * FED Borg Bridge Officer
    * KLG Borg Bridge Officer
    * KLG Pet - "Targ"
    * Emote - Bloodwine
    * Emote - Khan
    * "Rivera" Tribble


Pack 8 - July 1

    * KLG Bridge Pack - Cruiser
    * Fed Playable Species: "Rigelian"


Future Packs (After Season 2 launch)

    * New Off-Duty Costumes Types
    * - Merc Outfits
    * - Formal Wear
    * New Ships
    * New Species

[BlueBard]

July 16 Update (Sorry, should have posted sooner)

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=168447

In Testing

    * 200 Day Veteran Rewards
    * Season 2!
    * Rank up to 51 (Vice Admiral/Lieutenant General)
    * - New Captain Power
    * - Level 51 Ship Rewards
    * - Mark XI Gear
    * Player Ship Interiors (FED and KLG)
    * - Select between 3 layouts
    * - Trophy Case and Trophy Accolades (earned via missions)
    * - New Ship Interior Designs
    * - Sliding Doors
    * Anomaly Scanning Mini-Game
    * - chance for additional anomalies
    * Dabo MiniGame
    * - Gold Pressed Latinum Item Store w/Ship Holoemitters
    * - Holo Leeta Dabo Girl (VO still a possibility)
    * Klingon PVE
    * - 8 New Klingon Episodes
    * - Fek'ihri Enemy Group
    * Level 46-51 Sector (FED and KLG)
    * - 5 New Episodes
    * - New Level 53 "Undine" Fleet Action
    * - New Daily Fleet Actions for Level 51
    * - Run STFs at Level 51
    * - New Mark XI Stores for Level 51 content
    * - New Sector Design
    * Federation Diplomatic Corps
    * - Social zone non-combat missions
    * - New First Contact Missions in Exploration Sectors
    * - Earn progress towards FDC Rank Accolades
    * - Accolades with Rewards at each rank
    * Klingon Costume Customization Updates (Gorn still being worked on)
    * Trade Commissioned Officers (manual person to person trades only)
    * Fleet Logos
    * Fleet Action Level Banding Changes
    * New Exploration Enemy Ship Designs
    * Gamepad/Controller Support
    * New Wildlife Creatures
    * Older Science Consoles Turn in Option
    * Weekly Episodes - Series 1 - The Deferi
    * - Weekly Story Advancement Mission
    * - Scales to all levels
    * - Episodes available to FED and KLG
    * - New Enemy Group Faction to be revealed


Under Investigation
We are responding to Season 2 bugs reported from Tribble Forums/Shard and while there are too many to list - here are some big ones.

    * Season 2 ships - balance, powers and descriptions
    * C-Store: Costume Slots not granting to account
    * Total cost for ship customization not displaying appropriate amounts
    * Interact bars not displaying properly
    * UI sliders displaying out of bounds
    * Lighting too dark on ESD when set to low end video settings
    * PVP Rewards not displaying proper numerics
    * Help channel/Global Chat changes
    * Anomaly data granted at your level and not level of sector
    * Fleet Logo placement
    * Fed Diplmacy mission rewards and progression
    * Global Cooldown timers not displaying
    * Healing displayed in negative numbers
    * Sniper Rifle special attacks cancelling FX
    * Help Channel spamming other zones


In Development

Season 2.X
The following features may or may not make it into Season 2.0 and if not would be added to a later update.

    * More Weekly Series
    * Gorn Customization Options
    * More Ship / KDF & FED
    * Stores that allow you to obtain "random" Bridge Officers
    * Sitting in Chairs Tech
    * New Memory Alpha Items
    * Poker MiniGame
    * Daily Mission Re-Scoping
    * Make Consumables Mini-Game
    * Global Help Chat Channel


Season 3+

    * Secret Project (to be announced)
    * More Weekly Series
    * More Ship / KDF & FED
    * More Costume Options
    * More Playable Species
    * Episode Replay
    * STF - Into the Hive


Upcoming C-Store Release
We are working on plan for what new items will be available in the C-Store during Season 2. Here is a list of the items that are already in development and on the schedule. More to follow in future engineering reports.

Season 2 C-Store Items

    * New Off-Duty Costumes Types
    * - Merc Outfits
    * - Formal Wear
    * New Ships
    * - Excelsior
    * - Nebula
    * New Species
    * - Aenar
    * - Kzinti
    * - Talaxian

[BlueBard]

There is a new State of the Game report from the new executive producer, Dan Stahl:

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2089

I missed posting about the August Engineering Report, which you can read here if you like:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=176068

Spoiler

Greetings!

Welcome back to another edition of the Engineering Report! We are certainly excited to see more players coming back to Star Trek to check out the Season Two: Ancient Enemies update. In a market where new MMOs are struggling to find a foothold and more and more games are shutting down, we recognize and thank you for continuing to support Star Trek. This is your game and we will continue to listen and drive development in the direction that you tell us it needs to go in.

Right now there are two big things we're hearing and working to deliver. Improved and fixed PVP and more PVE content for everyone. Add in more ships, more costumes, and more overall Star Trek and you can see that a lot of the changes you are asking for are on the radar. We want to see the game continue to improve and grow over time and after our six month anniversary it is amazing to look back at how many updates have gone into the game already. We plan to continue releasing updates that improve the quality of the game.

In fact, that is the goal and focus of the development team. Focus on Quality. There are many features in the game that need a quality touch and instead of promising that we have a quick fix around the corner, we are taking the time to develop a solid solution and deliver a functional and tested feature. The new PVP challenge system is an example of this. We recognized that PVP was in a scary state after the release of Season Two, and instead of rushing out a temporary solution, we've been working to deliver an improved Queue and Challenge system. Those changes have been going onto the test shard and we've been incorporating feedback and bug reports to ensure the update addresses the issue.

So while the team takes time to address your concerns and wishes for the game, we are also working on new ways to introduce content into the game. In the immediate future we will be releasing our first weekly series focusing on the Breen. These series will allow a way for us to release content on a steady basis in a fun and exciting way. Another way we want to introduce new content in the game is to allow you to make your mission content in the game via a User Generated Content Tool.

While still in the infancy stage, our vision for UGC is to not just put players in a box and let them make their own content in some corner of the universe, but allow you to create missions that take place in the existing game. Want to make a new mission that takes place on Deep Space Nine? Go for it! Want to make a mission that takes you from P'Jem to Andoria to Vulcan? Go for it! We want you to have the flexibility to use existing locales in your content as well as existing contacts. There's a lot of tech required to make that happen, and we may not even get close by the start of Season 3, but we are going to put a stake in the ground and start making the system.

Another big change we are making internally is focusing less on "big updates" like Season one or Season two and focusing more on the features, fixes, and content you care about. We all agree Sector Space needs to change. So we're working on it. I honestly don't know when we'll be able to release a new sector space to you, but the key is - its a priority and we're working on it. We'll show you progress and even discuss putting up test versions on TRIBBLE so you can give feedback. When we all agree its ready and awesome. Then we'll release it.

Given that switch away from "the next big update", I'm adding a few new sections to the report this time around to give a better idea of what is "In Development" = we have resources working on this now. "In Design Discussion" = we have designers in meetings discussing how to make or improve this feature. "On Hold" = we were in development of the feature and hit a snag or some other tech issue that needs to be resolved before we can move forward.

We look forward to delivering all of the features listed below. As we move forward, you'll see features and issues continue to move around from design to development to testing. I'm also hoping to continue to shrink the number of issues under investigation and the QA and Customer Service departments are renewing efforts to track down your bugs and ensure that we have fixes on the way for anything that is causing you an issue.

The future for Star Trek looks awesome from where I'm sitting and look forward to working together to continually improve the game.

Now on to the report!


In Testing

    * PVP Queue Updates including revamped Personal Challenge system
    * Updates to the Assimilated Cruiser PVP Map
    * Weekly Series 1 Episodes and Daily Missions
    * Updated Loot item drops for Level 51 enemies
    * Updates to the camera to reduce jittering
    * Mission fixes for STF: Undine Terradome
    * Fixes for Shanty Town PVP map
    * Fixes to allow Aid the Planet Missions to be continued and repeated if you had completed them before
    * Fixes to ensure anomalies drop at the correct levels in Star Cluser Unexplored Systems
    * Fleet Bank UI Revamp
    * Additional Season 2 Bug fixes
    * General Performance fixes to address rubberbanding
    * New wing movement animations for various ships
    * Excelsior T3 classic design - requires Commander Rank
    * Fixes for interiors missing ambient audio


Under Investigation

    * B'Tran Elite Cluster - Teaming, Drops, Anomalies
    * PVP and other Daily mission issues
    * Bugs reported in specific STF missions
    * Bugs reported in specific PVP maps
    * Buddy Icons showing up as white Squares
    * Loot Tables for Level 51+ enemies in B'Tran
    * Reports of STO Mail being returned after deletion
    * Reports of players unable to load into Star Cluster Unexplored Systems and getting booted to login screen
    * Reports of players unable to rank up properly
    * Reports of Klingon Players not receiving the Sword of Kahless reward item after completing the appropriate mission
    * Eject Warp plasma killing friendlies after the spawning player leaves the map
    * Ships not displaying correct rank restrictions
    * Gamma and other graphical issues reported since Season 2 launched
    * Global Chat Channel Revamp
    * Remaining reports of anomaly data not dropping at appropriate levels (we're slowly fixing all these)


In Development

    * Upcoming Content for Weekly Series
          o New Episodes for Fed and Klingon factions
          o New locales to visit
          o Updated Enemy factions (and maybe even some new ones!)
          o New Daily Missions
          o More Diplomatic missions
          o New Accolades
    * More Loot
          o New Weekly Series Rewards
          o Episode Specific Rewards
          o More Memory Alpha Crafting Items
    * Redesign for the Remote Contact System
          o Improve the way you get missions
          o Provide daily rewards for doing specific missions
          o Allow players to rate and search for missions by metadata
    * Redesign for Sector Space
          o Larger Sectors
          o Less UI / UI you can Toggle
          o Contextual Menus for Systems
    * User Generated Content Tools (beta)
    * More Minigames
    * More Ships including
          o Vor'cha Refit
          o Vulcan Faction Ship
          o Orion Faction Ship
          o Nausicaan Faction Ship
          o New Crytpic Design - Klingon Ship
          o TOS Enterprise Refit
          o Andorian Faction Ship
          o Enterprise J
          o Enterprise NX
    * More Costume Options
          o ST: The Motion Picture Uniform
          o More Borg parts for AlienGen
          o TNG: All Good Things Uniform
          o PC Gamer Cover - Open Jacket Uniform
          o T'Pol Jumpsuit
          o More Skirt options
          o New Gorn customization options
    * 300 Day Veteran Rewards
    * Missions features planetary wildlife creatures


In Design Discussions

    * First Officer System
    * Converting First Officer to Playable Captain
    * Redesign for Exploration Sectors
    * Additional Bridge Officer and Player Species
          o Aenar
          o Kzinti
          o Talaxian
          o Android
          o Hologram
    * Crafting for Klingons
    * Allowing Episodes to be Replayed
    * Revamping VO for contacts
    * Improved Hair Tech


On Hold/Pending Issues

    * STF: The Hive
    * Sitting in Chairs
    * Episode Replay


Upcoming C-Store Releases

    * Excelsior T5 "Lakota" - Requires Rear Admiral rank
    * Off-Duty Costume - Mercenary Outfit
    * Nebula T5 - Requires Rear Admiral rank
    * 7 of 9/T'Pol Jumpsuit Costume Pack
    * Enterprise Uniform Costume Pack

And a new Engineering Report for September!:

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=180790

Greetings!

It's time for another Engineering Report! Lots of stuff to review this time around. The Breen Featured Episodes are going strong (although we're surprised that only half of you have played them yet!). The next features series is well in development and is expected to offer some really cool new mission moments. New space combat tweaks are being tested on the internal shard, and the team has started development on a new targeting mode that promises to bring a new way to experience ground combat in STO.

Our recent meetings with CBS also turned up some interesting discussions and several of the features we had hoped to deliver are being rescoped and evaluated due to some concerns. This primarily impacts the Enterprise J and the Kzinti. I'm updating the report to reflect this and want to remind everyone that there is a lot of fluidity to making an MMO and in order to react to issues that get brought up we often have to shift things around. Luckily we always have a ton of new updates in the works so there will always be something new to talk about.

One of the questions I've been seeing recently is the discussion about how the "Season" releases are impacted or work in conjunction with the Featured Episodes. Seasons are our way of sectioning off the large code features we want to work on without impacting the current game. So when I think of the release of Season 3, I think of big large broad stroke features such as User Generated Content Tools, Sector Space redesign, Ground Combat Changes, and other features that cannot be done in smaller updates. So when I talk about Seasons in the future, I'm thinking less about new mission content, and more about big feature updates.

When it comes to content updates, we are not tied to specific code changes being made in the game and can continue to release new updates on a regular basis. So for the immediate future, all of the new mission content being added to the game will primarily be done through the Featured Episode updates. We expect to be adding content on a regular basis this way as it allows us the flexibility to work at a faster pace than being tied to the release of a big seasonal update. So in a nutshell, expect constant content updates to have happen regularly throughout the season and big feature updates to happen the day the season starts.

Hope that clears up some questions about Seasons and future mission content.

Now on to the report!

(note that there aren't a lot of changes from last report as we're on track to deliver - but I'll continue to update each report even if only a few things change)


In Testing

   * Breen Featured Series Episodes
   * Fixes for Breen Accolades
   * Featured Series 2 Episodes
   * New Reward Items for Featured Episodes
   * Nebula Class ship
   * New Patrol Missions
   * Space Combat Balance Updates
   * Additional performance fixes for Star Clusters
   * New Gorn and Nausicaan ships


Under Investigation

   * Camera issues with the Ship Customization UI
   * Mission issues with Private Queue Space Arena maps
   * Team Matching for PVP queues
   * Phaser Rifle Overload secondary misfiring FX
   * PVP Goal scores not adjusting when maps are changed
   * Star Cluster locations names not being displayed properly
   * Reports of in game mail not being sent out properly


In Development

   * Adding an ignore invite feature to queues
   * Allowing ability to right click invite players to a PVP challenge
   * Ship loot items options that visually alter the look of your ship
   * Changing challenge chat to not look like local chat
   * Improving game performance and eliminating game crashes
   * Adding a listing fee for the exchange
   * First Officer System
   * Converting First Officer to Playable Captain
   * Upcoming Content for Featured Series 2
         o New Episodes for Fed and Klingon factions
         o Updated Enemy faction
         o New Daily Missions
         o More Diplomatic missions
         o New Accolades
   * More Loot
         o New Weekly Series Rewards
         o Episode Specific Rewards
         o More Memory Alpha Crafting Items
   * Redesign for the Remote Contact System
         o Improve the way you get missions
         o Provide daily rewards for doing specific missions
         o Allow players to rate and search for missions by metadata
   * Redesign for Sector Space
         o Larger Sectors
         o Less UI / UI you can Toggle
         o Contextual Menus for Systems
   * User Generated Content Tools (beta)
   * More Minigames
   * More Ships including
         o Vor'cha Refit
         o B'Rel BOP
         o Gorn Ship
         o Orion Ship
         o Nausicaan Ship
         o Vulcan Ship
         o TOS Enterprise Refit
         o Andorian Ship
         o Enterprise NX
   * More Costume Options
         o ST: The Motion Picture Uniform
         o More Borg parts for AlienGen
         o TNG: All Good Things Uniform
         o PC Gamer Cover - Open Jacket Uniform
         o T'Pol Jumpsuit
         o More Skirt options
         o New Gorn customization options
         o Counselor Troi Jumpsuit
         o 7 of 9 Jumpsuit
   * 200 Day Veteran Reward for Klingon Characters
   * 300 Day Veteran Rewards
   * Missions features planetary wildlife creatures


In Design Discussions

   * Redesign for Exploration Sectors
   * Additional Bridge Officer and Player Species
         o Aenar
         o Talaxian
         o Android
         o Hologram
   * Crafting for Klingons
   * Allowing Episodes to be Replayed
   * Revamping VO for contacts
   * VO for Episode Intros
   * Improved Hair Tech
   * Sitting in Chairs
   * Episode Replay


On Hold/Pending Issues

   * STF: The Hive
   * Enterprise J
   * Kzinti


Upcoming C-Store Releases

   * Nebula T5 - Requires Rear Admiral rank
   * 7 of 9/T'Pol Jumpsuit Costume Pack
   * Enterprise Uniform Costume Pack

[Courtnall6]

I'm looking forward to the new sector space design. I really hope they do away with the grid lines...it feels so confining.

The First Officer System sounds cool too.

I'm disappointed that their adding the open jacket uniform from the PC gamer cover. With the addition of the Mirror Universe outfits...there are enough slutty looking female officers around already. Oh Starfleet...how you've been degraded so.

[BlueBard]

I'm looking forward to the new sector space design. I really hope they do away with the grid lines...it feels so confining.

The First Officer System sounds cool too.

I'm disappointed that their adding the open jacket uniform from the PC gamer cover. With the addition of the Mirror Universe outfits...there are enough slutty looking female officers around already. Oh Starfleet...how you've been degraded so.

Just to digress from the topic a bit...

There are so many non-uniforms running around that I wonder how you could even call them uniforms.  But would the player base truly have been happy with a base uniform that you could only customize in limited ways?  The vast array of customizations would have made more sense (on the Fed side) if there were more career paths available than Starfleet.  Like a crew of privateers or mercenaries.  But... I'm flexible on this.  I can accept the non-uniforms.  Even in various versions of Star Trek the uniforms weren't always uniform (Deanna Troi being one notable example).  And if you factor in major characters who weren't actually Starfleet (Kira, Odo, Seven of Nine) then yeah.

It does seem at best odd that the Captain of a Starfleet vessel would be dressed as anything other than a Starfleet officer.  But from an MMO viewpoint, it sure makes it easier to tell who's who.

[Courtnall6]

Off duty uniforms I can live with and don't really care about...but when Starfleet Captains, dressed in a variant of a Starfleet uniforms, start to look like they belong on a street corner rather than the bridge...there is a problem there.

[BlueBard]

I guess the solution there is simple... don't RP with anyone who doesn't look like Starfleet.  If you run into them at DS9 or ESD, pretend they're civvies.  Or maybe somebody's pet hologram that got loose in the wild.  ("Fed Girls Are Easy" being a fairly popular holo in Ferengi establishments across the galaxy...)

I don't think the Klingons have the same issue, at least not at present.  The 'skankiest' outfits available are for Orion women and that is practically canon.  (Not sure if the Orion costume pieces are available to Klingon women or not...)

[pr1983]

i'm pretty strict about my own crew (FC, DS9 S5-7 unis only), but i just leave everyone else alone.

though i am morbidly curious what you guys mean by slutty female feds... i can honestly say i havent seen any.

[BlueBard]

I have.  The costume pieces for TOS and the Mirror Universe are largely what makes such outfits possible for Starfleet.  Open jackets, too.

(Not gonna talk about Orion female costume pieces... they're supposed to look like that.  Although my Orion Science Captain is fairly decently-dressed.)

But I don't really think it's that bad.  What I see more often are Starfleet-ish costumes in very original color combinations.  (I saw one guy running around in a White and Green Wrath of Khan uni, once.)  And of course the multitudes of Tac officers of both genders roaming around in form-fitting body armor.

I don't restrict myself to canon outfits and colors, but I prefer not to stray too far away from the Starfleet look.

[BlueBard]

BTW, there's a new Engineering Report up.  I'll post more details when I can.

[pr1983]

i always hide the armour lol.

the 15/11 one? i liked it.

sector space looks gorgeous.

[BlueBard]

Latest Engineering Report is up.

In Testing
These items are currently being tested on either an internal test shard or on TRIBBLE/REDSHIRT
•Foundry: Mission Creation Tools
•New Playable Vulcan Ship
•TNG: All Good Things Uniform
•Open Jacket Uniform ("PC Gamer Cover")
•Feature Episode Series 3
•New playable shuttles including the Delta Flyer

Under Investigation
These issues are hot topics in the QA and CS world. It by no means represents all the bugs we're looking into, but instead new issues that I want you to know we are on top of.
•Reports of expired exchange items not being returned to the user
•Daily PVP Reward Balance
•Fine tuning warp in and out animations
•PVP wrap up screens closing too quickly
•A way to edit prior captain's log entries
•Error Messaging related to "Unable to take down your sale. Please try again later."
•Increasing number of players allowed in social zones
•Adding a way to obtain the the Guramba Siege Destroyer using in game currencies
•Upgrading the amount of content Demo accounts are allowed access to
•Ridiculously difficult Borg in STFs
•Additional reports of the infamous 1 shotting dual pistol exploration creatures
•Better "Aid the Planet" rewards
•Distribution of Anomalies in various Star Clusters
•Interaction problems in STFs
•The Captain's Table
•Future Veteran Rewards past 400 days

In Development
These items are actively being worked on by the at this time by the development team.
•Feature Episode Series 3 missions
•400 Day Veteran Rewards
•Ways to boost XP gain while leveling up (new type of consumables)
•PVE Mission Queue System (to allow Fleets to run private fleet actions, initiate episode replay etc)
•New Ground Combat v 2.0 - major update to weapons and a new over shoulder aim and shoot (optional) reticle system
•New Running, Sprinting, and 8 direction of movement animations
•New craftable consumable items
•New Gorn customization options
•New Loading Screens
•Imroved Sector Space Map
•New Earth Spacedock Exterior and Interior
•Andorian Playable Ship
•Better ways to promote and inform players about Feature Episodes in game
•Ability to spend Atari Tokens as well as Cryptic Points in STO
•Reviewing designs of the STFs to determine areas that need improvement and ways to make these episodes better
•More voice over and cutscenes in missions
•Ongoing support for new Foundry features and updates

In Design Discussions
The lead designers are currently discussing these features for implementation in an upcoming update
•Feature Episode Series 4
•Duty Officer System (formerly known as the crew system)
•New Bonuses, items, craftables, and game mechanics related to Duty Officers
•Redesign for Exploration Sectors (and Exploration in general)
•Off-Duty Costumes and ways to improve the feature so that costume rules are clearer and better defined
•Adding BOFF abilities to power list on the ground (so you can slot them)
•New Prometheus, Oberth, Vesta, Ambassador, and Future Enterprise ships
•Exchange Updates
•STF: The Hive

Long Term
Designs and features being considered for updates further in the future
•Converting First Officer to Playable Captain
•Fleet Starbases
•Fleet Action Updates
•More Fleet Actions
•More PVP Maps
•Updated Game Tutorial and ability to skip it
•More iconic locations such as Starfleet Academy, Rura Penthe etc...
•Explorable Sol System
•Improved Social Planets with social gameplay
•More Minigames
•More Borg parts for AlienGen
•Ability to construct new ships at Starbases
•Territory Control War
•Deepspace Exploration Concept
•Additional Playable Factions (Romulan, Cardassian...)
•Android species
•Aenar species
•Talaxian species
•Hologram species
•Improved Hair Tech

[pr1983]

i have to admit i was very happy to read that when it showed up. dstahl continues to impress me big time.

[BlueBard]

Ignoring the Long Range forecast for the moment...

I am very interested in seeing what the Vulcan D'kyr ship has under the hood, and am saving my VA ship token just in case.

I am really looking forward to Featured Episodes Series 3...
PVE Mission Queues...
Overhauled Ground Combat...
Exploration redesign...
the Duty Officer System...
And of course, updates to the Foundry.