Quick Mission Briefing..

The most important initial thing about a foundry mission is Location, location, location. Where does it start? I am very happy to say. This mission is very clearly identified. So off the bat, I was happy.

As far as general play, I did enjoy the plot, and the dialogue options, The fact that some of the combat was optional was a good feature.. I will have to play it a few times for any actual editing suggestions, but I liked it.

From a writer/plot perspective, I would suggest that you inform the player to start in a "neutral" ship, if possible. but that is a super minor suggestion.

I will play the other two missions this weekend also, and I would suggest to others to play, as well.

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Of course they changed it to a bonus marks weekend. :/

IKR!!!! Damn you cryptic!!!!! *fist shakes* :evil:

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Tactical Readiness is now recruiting for the Positions of Test Gophers and test Guinea Pigs

ooh what's the diff between a Goph and a GP? :dry:

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Question: Traits got split, so you don't have to stifle one at the other. Now skills. I wonder if they're looking on bringing a focus back to ground in some way.

given there's a 46/10 space/ground split...and you can't fill them all, I'm guessing not

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I am waiting to see the full skill trees before worrying/getting excited. Though I am hoping for some build diversity with this change

Part of what's led me to my position being that the post describes specific changes to the one place there remained build diversity in the game - in the Science trees.

Specifically, the revamp effectively collapses certain coordinate skills into a single marker - Cotnrol, Drain, you get the drift.

I admit - some of Bort's discussion at Reddit seems to at least somewhat acknowledge the possibility they may be trying to incentivize or clear away skillsets that go underutilized. Threat and maybe even Stealth/Detection mechanics most notably.

I am waiting to see the full skill trees before worrying/getting excited. Though I am hoping for some build diversity with this change

I'll plan to attend for sure.
My main T'Lola is almost 60, but I have another toon really low and one at 50.

Thanks for the event guys, see u online

I'll help out too if you still need more helpers!

I'm of the opinion that this is actually going to change very little for most long-time players.

The skilltree system has been (at least since its last major overhaul) an incredibly narrow buildspace. Most decent builds look remarkably similar to each other - there's very little meaningful room to vary builds - the most significant exception being Science.

By the looks of it - the point of the overhaul is to limit the wasted space, that people weren't really using anyways.

There's even the outside possibility that this might be an opportunity for Cryptic to use the revamp as a backend nerf for the steady escalation of player power.

Wow. These changes are really significant. Will definitely change how the game is played for sure.

I made such the unholy noise, even at the screenshots.

Question: Traits got split, so you don't have to stifle one at the other. Now skills. I wonder if they're looking on bringing a focus back to ground in some way.

Reddit is on fire with this news. They did confirm a free respec when the changes are released. Most of the comments are very positive. I'm so proud of our community right now; in almost every MMO I've played their communities hate change, but here is a vocal majority who are happy to see the evolution of STO.

Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/46fqic/star_trek_online_skill_system_revamp/?sort=confidence

ARC forum thread
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1212020/skill-system-revamp

they will need to give everyone a free respec as this is being changed from the ground up

For those of us "Silver" F2P non-subscribers who don't get a free respec token at every level, I wonder whether the existing skill trees will be wiped clean when this goes live so we can adjust to the new system, or whether it will be a flat conversion.

Enquiring minds and all that.

Tactical readiness will keep a close eye on the changes and we will report back our findings as soon as we can.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9797693-star-trek-online%3A-skill-system-revamp

Also Tactical Readiness is now recruiting for the Positions of Test Gophers and test Guinea Pigs to join us on Tribble so we can test out these changes as they are put up on Tribble.

Hello,

Lords of Stonewall...

Can a guild leader please move the guild ship as soon after next weeek's conquest begins? And apologies if this is already known or planned!

Conquest: Death Mark (link)
Commences: Tuesday Feb 23 at 7AM EST (US)

Suggested action:
• Move Guildship to tattooine
• Open Conquest tab, click the dropdown to choose tattooine, and click "Invade Planet" or similar.

Why? This cuts down on the amount of time to achieve personal conquest goals significantly (by a huge amount!), as many of the objectives will have x2 multipliers for Tattooine being invaded.

Cheers and thanks!

Hey there,

Conut me in (if this relates to SW:TOR and Lords of Stonewall.)

Of course they changed it to a bonus marks weekend. :/ I'll try to still come, depends on how dedicated to fleet marks I'm feeling.

I used to be an RTS nut but not so much anymore. It looks pretty cool, but...browser-based. I suppose that raises the question of which browsers, compatibility and so forth.

As a support tech, I'd rank the top 3 "I need help" calls, in order:

1. Password/login
2. Email
3. Browser apps

Again, it looks great but I just wonder if he's not going to end up limiting it to say, Firefox & Chrome, or if he'll try to make it functional on MS-Edge, etc.

Here's one I use every time I get a new ship... It clears your powers of the trays so you can set it up just the way you want it.

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