Hey Slice!

I´ve played your mission today again with another char (I´ve played it for the first time over three or four weeks ago and I just wanted to have fresh memories^^).

I like it how the story progresses:



Needless to say that I sided against the consortium. :) But more to that later.

After activating the first console on ESD you are asked to go to a door from where you can beam up. IF you read the text you shouldn´t have a problem to find this door (we all know that reading helps...) but there was a marker missing on the map.

First map change:
Orbit of the colony´s planet. Theoretically it´s possible to progress with the mission without firing one shot. Maybe you could change that? Make it so that you only can contact the ship after you´ve destroyed all enemies? It´s just a suggestion.

Second map change:
Down on the planet. You´re supposed to talk to the Dr. next to your beam in point. Meanwhile the ground troops are handling all the Borg which are around. So there´s not much to do for you and your away team.

Third map change:
The next (real) fights are inside the building (3 groups of Borg).

After that you´ll beam up and have to decide to be with or against the Consortium (I decided both times against the Consortium, so I don´t have any idea what happens if you decide to side with them).

And it´s almost clear that there will be a space fight, but: the rating window pops up! Np, just drag the window in a corner of your screen and start the battle. But it would be good if finishing the mission would require this space battle.

As I´m no foundry author - just a person who enjoys to play foundry missions - I´m not sure which requirements you have to meet so that the mission becomes a spotlight mission or at least gives rewards. But I just think it has something to do - among other things - with the time you need to finish it.

I´ve played it the first time with K.E. Janeway (tac, lvl. 60) and didn´t even need 10 minutes to finish it. The second time it was with Pulaski (sci, lvl. 54) and I needed 20 minutes (well, crappy ship equipment and ground gear, lol).

But the mission has potential. I don´t think you´ll have to add more combat into it, just make sure that the players HAVE TO DO the combat (see first and second map change).

I always like missions where you have to choose options (although I wouldn´t address my commanding officer as "a damsel in distress"). :whistle:

I hope my review was constructive and helps a little bit. Hmmm... maybe you can contact @midnighttlc, he´s a very active foundry author - you should play his missions, it´s always fun - and maybe can help you with questions about spotlight-mission-requirements.

As a last point: I enjoyed playing this mission and I´m looking forward to more missions created by you.

Greetings, A.M. :)


Edit: One more thing: I´ve accepted the mission and after that I switched to another char bc I had to do some fleet captain stuff... when I finally switched back to K.E. I had totally forgotten where to start the mission, lol... So I had to drop the mission and accept it again. It wouldn´t be bad if you would mention the starting point in the mission´s description. :)

Played around with the fonts and text placement a little more and did a gentle blur on top of the ship between the text and the starship to make it stand out more.

looks very nice!

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I like it! The font size is a little small for rank, imho. I made extra sure my PR rank was clearly visible in big letters! Of course, I was summarily dismissed by Dave when I requested that it be laced in gold-like boarders with the mention of how awesome and beautiful I was :dry:

I've bumped up all the fonts half a dozen points

I like it! The font size is a little small for rank, imho. I made extra sure my PR rank was clearly visible in big letters! Of course, I was summarily dismissed by Dave when I requested that it be laced in gold-like boarders with the mention of how awesome and beautiful I was :dry:

So I decided to break out my GIMP skills and this is what I came up with for my own sig after 9 hours lol!

The most time consuming part was probably cutting out my character and ship from in-game images partyly because I took the pics at /renderscale 3 so they were like 7680x4320.

My main is liberated Borg and I've been flying my Borg'ified Breen Raider a lot lately (it's fairly decent if you learn how to position to exploit the 30% flanking damage). So I went with a balance between a UFP scheme with some Borg color choices.

I am loving the game. I completed my first playthrough (Human male warrior) asap as to not get major spoilers in those rare moments I happen to appear on the interwebz, but I am in my second playthrough (Kossith female mage) now at about 40 hours in and at least 15 of that are in the Hinterlands. I love it! And once more the romances are done great!
Also, soundtrack is epic! (and I don't usually really notice the soundtrack, so that is saying something).

The only thing I am a bit disappointed by is that I haven't come across a particular dwarf and his son yet... :(

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Woot that has helped... thank you

Dax probably should donate some more EC and update his signature to reflect his current rank? :P

I am genuinely excited to be able to play it at some unknown point in the future

If I had to guess - pure supposition, of course - this is a backend means to limit level-match based powerlevelling.

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Is it just me then that is confused by that thread. .... Have I missed the point somewhere?

me too...my devnobabble translator exploded with that post :blink:

as with Voleron, I'm only doing DOFF missions on my remaining toons, the content isn't there for me with DR, a shame...it hasn't resonated as well as LoR did and the way they treated us with the XP stage gateways feels bad.

I'd just like to remind those people (like me), who are slowly making their way from level 50 to 60 and are encountering the experience gates that keep them from the next level/mission, to utilize their duty officer assignments. There are several DOFF missions in the Delta Quadrant that reward upwards of 1,000 skill points and on a critical success, much more than that.

Should you be fortunate enough to have a skill point boost active as well, the experience you can get from letting your DOFF missions run overnight, will easily get you a substantial way through a level.

I personally don't mind having to do a few patrols, PvE queues or Kobali zone missions until the next bit of story content, but then I like taking STO at a slower place so that I don't run out of story content quickly. That said, the DOFFing (that I'd long since set aside), has really helped me through the XP grind.

Agreed Dex! Nothing is going to change. The pace is still going to Draaaag. They are increasing reward points but at the same time increasing the amount of SP you need to get to the next level. All the did was move the level wall and increase the rewards. Business as usual.

Just getting started on this game initial frustration over constant loading screens has abated now :p

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Digging this thread up, since it was released friday!

Did you get it?
What do you think thus far?

SOOOOOO much better than DA2, its moved back to how DA origins was like. im still pretty much at the start of it.
Bit upset about the lack of merchants .. I guess the game wants you to craft as much as you can to get good weapons and armor

Listening to the soundtrack now, won't be playing the game though. LOVe it!

Is it just me then that is confused by that thread. They are making huge changes to skill points and progression.... However. If it takes 3 missions to level before it will take 3 after. So isn't that just saying you are doing nothing....

That's like saying 100x6 =600 and then changing the numbers to 500+50=600

Either way it's making no difference so why change.... Have I missed the point somewhere?

Skill Point Update

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1302021

Digging this thread up, since it was released friday!

Did you get it?
What do you think thus far?

SOOOOOO much better than DA2, its moved back to how DA origins was like. im still pretty much at the start of it.
Bit upset about the lack of merchants .. I guess the game wants you to craft as much as you can to get good weapons and armor

I personally loved Starcraft 2! I still play it from time to time and am definitely looking forward to the next expansion :D Thanks for this, Dax!

WoW does have a free trial for their game which anyone can get at any time. The Guest Passes are no different to in comparison.

But again this is as far as I am aware. Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty has a 14 hour in game time before you will need to purchase the full version and with current sales at the moment on Blizzard website.

Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
This is the link to the Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, now at the moment, the price for this is down by half at the moment and with the up coming expansion of Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void being made and becoming very popular as we speak, now would be a good time to get into the story of what happened before that so you can see what happened.

World of Warcraft
And with WoW's prices at 75% off at the moment, you are getting a very good deal with the subscription for the first month. And at this price you are essentially from my understanding you are getting most of the recent expansions except the newly released expansion, (Warlords of Daenor) the base installation will give you, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm and Mist of Pandaria.

And with what i heard regarding the newst expansion, the new content is wicked and something that was needed/essential for World of Warcraft.

Dax