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Note: Season 7 was launched November 12 but is considered to span the entire period until Legacy of Romulus expansion is released May 21, 2013. Between season launches there are small updates, C-Store releases, and minor events.
[edit] Expansion: Legacy of Romulus (May 21)
- Tribble Patches:
- March 28 - Reworked character creator, UI changes, Tholian Reputation (Nukara Strikeforce)
- April 2 - Trait revamp, warp cores added, UI changes
- April 3 - Minor updates
- April 4 - Minor updates
- April 8 - Minor updates
- April 9 - Minor updates
- April 10 - Minor updates
- April 12 - Minor trait and UI updates
- April 16 - Minor trait and UI updates
- April 17 - Minor updates
- April 18 - Closed beta testing of Romulan gameplay, Minor updates
- April 19 - Minor updates
- April 22 - Nukara Marks added and minor updates
- April 29 - Many UI updates and Romulan gameplay updates
- May 1 - More UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and first voiceovers
- May 2 - Many more UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and more voiceovers
- May 3 - Many More UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and more voiceovers
- May 7 - Many More UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and more Romulan missions
- May 10 - Many More UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and more voiceovers
- Open beta testing of Romulan gameplay May 10 - Legacy of Romulus release
- May 13 - Many More UI updates, Romulan gameplay updates and system updates
- May 14 - Minor Gameplay, System and UI Updates
- May 15 - Minor Gameplay, System and UI Updates
- May 16 - Minor Gameplay, System and UI Updates
- May 17 - Minor Tweaks
- May 20 - Minor Tweaks
- Official teaser site
- Romulan Republic playable faction [1][2][3]
- Level a Romulan or Reman from levels 1-50 [1]
- Romulan-exclusive storyline missions plus Romulan Feature Series to level until ~40 (40-50 done via existing Undine/Borg/Breen/Dominion mission/feature series) [5][6][1]
- In a recent interview by STOIC Podcast, Daniel Stahl stated more Iconian storylines will be added including the consequences of discovering the Iconian Gateway on New Romulus. [8]
- No fleet starbase - a permanent choice to align with Federation or KDF. Romulan-made fleets will get benefit of their ally (includes access to allies' ships, rewards, and hubs). [4]
- D'Deridex as one playable ship (will not appear in lockbox) [9]
- Warbirds at every tier, with new singularity drive power [10]
- Sets stage for how to introduce additional races such as Cardassians [2][3] and Borg [1]
- Implementation as 5-level mini-faction, after which the character chooses to either join Starfleet or the KDF, had been considered [11], recent plans envision a fully fleshed out faction, however [12]
- Create a Klingon character at level 1 as first character [13][2][14][12][11][1][15][16][9][17]
- KDF tutorial revamp [18]
- Possibly making KDF versions of episodes across the game (retelling some episodes from a Klingon perspective – such as “Saturday's Child” or “The Kuvah'Magh”) [2]
- Federation missions of the Cardassian Struggle are in process of being ported over to the KDF [19]. Mostly just KDF dialog rewrites of existing FED episodes [20][18].
- New Romulus-like adventure zone in the Nimbus System [12][20]
- Khitomer will be a featured location [12]
- Invasion zones (similar to Defera and Nukara) for space [6]
- New enemy faction: Elachi
- Re-trait token [21]
- Next fleet holding to be released in June [22]: possibly dilithium mine, colony, or outpost [23]
- Revamp of all traits [11]
- Tholian Reputation System: Nukara Strikeforce [7]
- New UI, with major feature revolving around color schemes [24]
- "More LCARSy", mostly appearance update, less functional changes, only subtle differences between FED and KDF versions [25]
- Re-organizing storyline missions for FED and KDF and adjusting leveling speed [26][27]
- Major revamp to character creator [7], existing options likely to remain free, possibly new options with costs [28]
- Improved hair and cloth tech (no firm plan yet) [23][9][30]
- Some lesser seen species make their debut, including the Yridians [24]
- Will address a lot of the issues with boff reassignment, boff skills, and power tray setups
- Additional Cryptic-designed 25th century-ships [7], more KDF ships of Klingon design [25]
- The KDF will be getting more Klingon based ships before we'll see a Lethean ship.[18]
[edit] Revamp of PvP system
(To happen after Season 8 [7][31][32]; having two fully fledged factions, i.e., finishing the Klingon faction, is important step in PvP revamp [25])
- STO will be first game to implement a new PvP engine developed by Cryptic [31]
- PvP-faction for the Reputation System [7][23][33], "PvP Marks" as rewards [25]
- All PVP in the new system will be cross faction queues [34]
- Matchmaking, e.g. matching people of comparable gear level [35]
- Rewards based on participation more than completion [36]
- PvP ratings/leaderboard tech is now available [1][9][35][37]
- Either replacing current PvP maps or revamping the existing ones [3]
- Space combat prototype map (arena style?) to be released on Tribble server in the coming months (2013?) for extensive public testing [31][38][9][25]
- Transferring existing PvE maps (Facility 4028 amongst others) to ground PvP maps, possibly with capture-the-flag mod [27][14]
- King of the Hill PvP map for space and/or ground [2][14]
- Ground combat may have Battleground-style development in long-term [1]
- Possible: Starbase PvP Challenges [39]
[edit] Foundry improvements
- Possible: Foundry faction in Reputation System ("first half of 2013") [33]
- Ability to create a sorted string of several foundry missions [29][27]
- Ability to subscribe to specific Foundry authors [27]
- Remastering (cutscenes etc.) and incorporating the best Foundry missions into the hard code of the game as part of the official story line; possibly replacing some of the less popular Cryptic missions [14]
- New assets (Many major changes will not be available until debut of Cryptic's game Neverwinter [13])
[edit] Possible
- Revamp of kits (being considered for Season 8 or shortly after) [6][9][41]
- Minor restructuring and general layout improvement of sector space [31]
- Ability to reselect passives from Reputation System [24]
- Lobi Crystals to be included in more upcoming events [6]
- Remastering of STF: Terradome [38][11]
- New small craft missions [43]
- Convert First Officer to playable Captain and vice versa [2]
- Possibly: Tier 5 Merian class escort: 12[45]
- Customize fleet starbase and ship exteriors/interiors in Foundry [42][2][46]
- Increased ship interior functionality [2][47]
- Melee combat improvements[49]: Open melee-only PvP arenas on Vulcan, Andoria, Qo'noS, Rura Penthe [2][50]
- Saucer separation for the Galaxy-X Dreadnought Cruiser (before Season 8) [23][51][41]
- Separation mode
- Animation kinks being worked out as of December 2012 [24]
[edit] Concepts and Systems
- Adding Dilithium as a reward for all Cryptic-made story missions in game [52]
- Improved UI of Exchange [13][31][53][29]
- Better control of limits on provision usage by fleet rank [54]
- Account shared currencies [9]
- Ability to warp to a friend and/or improving travel between sectors[2]
- Animated Andorian antennae [55][42][11]
[edit] Season 8 (Late 2013)
- Possible: Rank increase to Admiral / General (level 60) [12][1]
- Crafting revamp (end of 2013 or early 2014) [7][13][9][43][57][58][12]
- Update of Memory Alpha: Work in progress shot
- Will get its own Reputation System faction (possibly Season 9) [12][33]
- Further revamping probably after Season 9 [12]
- Incorporating new content, i.e., crafting missions [29] (e.g., Targ and Gorn Saur crafting mission, to get attack pets [44])
- Duty Officer assignments to allow your staff to upgrade items and systems on your ship [44][29]; crafting/kitbashing better versions of ships [35]
- Craftable Horta variants [59]
- Savable ship-specific duty officer configuration (Season 8 or 9) [21]
- Duty officer assignment cooldowns listed (possibly Season 9) [21]
- "My Favorites" tab for Foundry missions (late 2013) [21]
[edit] December
- Return of Winter Event [21]
[edit] Undetermined Release
- Season 9 is 2014 [24]
- Cardassian playable species [24]
- New Orleans, Freedom, and Niagara classes [40]
- Last remaining canon Fed ships to come over the next year (through February 2014), including new designs that may not have a unique console (later in 2013)[18]
- Iconians as new major enemy faction after the Borg and Tholians [56][11][3][60]
- Delta Quadrant-based story content featuring the Voth [50][11]
- Voth possibly connected to some content taking place on Gorn homeworld [12]
- Delta Quadrant locations and races (such as Kazon, Malon, Vidiians, Talaxians, Krenim, the Devore, the Hierachy, and additional Borg) have slight chance of appearing in Season 8, but more likely to be Season 9 or later [6]
- Talaxians[2], Ocampa (FED) and Kazon (KDF) as new playable races [11][3]
- Exploration revamp (not on the schedule for Season 7 or 8)[6]
- Plan is dependent on changes being introduced with the Fleet Advancement system and Fleet ownership of Starbases [15]
- Including distribution of anomalies in various star clusters [30]
- More about specific species and less about randomness, like with the Deferi [48]
- New exploration-related minigame [48]
- Rank increase to Fleet Admiral / Dahar Master (will be maximum skillpoint cap; currently in design as of February 2013, will happen over next 12 months or so) [7][43][61][9][38][56][41]
- Department Heads, and Off-Duty revamps are on hold as of October 2012[6]
- First Officer system is not on schedule as of December 2012, but may be revisited with increase to Full Admiral[24]
- Bridge officers who are put in as First Officer, Chief Engineer, Chief Medical Officer, etc. gain some new abilities/perks [63][64][65][66][67][68]
- Department Heads and First Officer will leverage Expertise and can be individually augmented by Duty Officers of their respective departments [69]
- First Officers will grant additional lower-level Captain powers depending on their respective specialization [70][71]
- First Officers will occupy a special, additional bridge station. This may be closer to increasing the skill cap to Admiral.[6]
- New Fed tutorial mission probably involving Starfleet Academy and the Kobayashi Maru test (sometime in 2013) [31][64][2][50]
- Duty officer commendation Tier V categories added (requirement is above the 150,000 CXP cap) [72][73]
- Plans have been held off for near-term (as of June 4, 2012) [74]
- TOS Communicators or transporter effects via C-Store or episode rewards [39]
- "Children of Khan" feature episode series (not on schedule) [44][60]
- Return of time-limited Crystalline Entity fleet action with an elite version [75]
- Revamp of fleet actions
- Voyager ship pack is near top of "ship pack" list [9]
- Voyager and TNG bundles are both planned but no ETA [53][39][38][29][15][9]
- More daily missions:
- More aliens, like Tamarians, from TV shows and movies [9][64]
- Ability to gain Commendation XP via gameplay types other than the DOff-system. [41]
- More shuttle combat in future seasons will have strong possibility of adding Admiral Janeway's SC-4 shuttle with ablative armor and cloaking device [1]
- Update of Accolade system [55], including more challenges and rewards [15][9]
- More new sectors, particularly in Alpha Quadrant [38][64], probably as "Founders of the Federation" expansion [12]
- Sector between the Sol System and Cardassia including Betazed and Trill/Trillius Prime along with other key Fed homeworlds, possibly in 2013 [1][38][78][12]
- Xindi may show up in a future sector [9]
- Merge all sectors into one map [42][27][38]
- Single player or co-op versions of ground STFs [31]
- Possibly more uniform options for Breen and Reman bridge officers [11]
- Gorn bridge officers on Federation side as reward for some diplomatic missions. [11]
- Adding day-night cycles (first seen on Bajor) to further ground locations [11]
- Different species' combadges (not on schedule as of July 2012) [39][38][79]
- Some less popular episodes might be replaced by Cryptic-remastered Foundry missions [14]
- Bridge Officer Requisition "Exchange" showing skills learned [9][48]
- Ship crew uniforms for officers onboard your vessel [9][44]
- Mini-game: Poker (dependent on developer free-time; very unlikely in short term as of July 2012) [39][76][80]
[edit] Older Ideas
The following updates have been mentioned by the developers and not retracted since then, yet over 12 months have gone by since they were last mentioned.
- More Klingon hairstyle options (C-Store) [81] [September 9, 2011]
- Sol/Qo'noS system daily mission rewards including "Red Squad" (and elite Klingon academy) cadet costumes [July 3, 2011] [64]
- C-Store with tangible merchandise [July 3, 2011] [64]
- Melee combat improvements [July 3, 2011][64]: Vulcan Lirpas, Andorian Ushaan-tor knives, and Klingon bat'leths from special weaponsmiths [June 17, 2011] [37]
- 2409 ships like Excalibur, originally designed by Perpetual Entertainment [June 10, 2011] [82]
- A form of encyclopedia for all information presented thus far [June 7, 2011] [56]
- Range of new and different alien ships from patrols and cluster missions [June 7, 2011] [56]
- 100 Day Veteran Reward for KDF [June 7, 2011] [56]
- Expanded Ensign bridge officer powersets and exclusive abilities [December 2, 2010] [78]
- Story content featuring Gorn [February 16, 2011] [83]
- Remaining preorder items made available to C-Store [February 8, 2011] [84]
- Not likely to appear: [Red Matter Capacitor] [April 15, 2011] [85]
- Ship interior functionality:
- Possibility of allowing players to customize geometry and texture of weapons [April 8, 2011] [86]
- "Leaving Shipdock" cutscene sequences when getting new ships [May 6, 2011][44]
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Raptr Q&A Session with Dan Stahl (6 September 2012)
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (19 August 2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (1 March 2012)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Ask Cryptic (29 March 2013)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (5 October 2012)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Dan Stahl - Third Anniversary Q&A on Redalert channel (1 February 2013)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Interview by STOIC Podcast (4 March 2013)
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.18 Dan Stahl - Question & Answer Chat Transcript (14 June 2012). Alternative link
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (4 April 2013)
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 Priority One Episode 66 - Interview with Al Rivera, Part I (3 February 2012)
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 Ask Cryptic (24 November 2012)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 September 2012)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Tribbles in Ecstasy Dan Stahl Interview (March 26 2012)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (5 April 2012)
- ↑ Deck Eight 6: Brandon and the Klingons (18 August 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (24 October 2012)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 Digibytes - A Q&A with Star Trek Online's Executive Producer, Dan Stahl (25 February 2013)
- ↑ Forum Post from April 3, 2013
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Dan Stahl - Forum posting (4 April 2013)
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Ask Cryptic (11 January 2013)
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Dan Stahl - Forum posting (16 May 2013)
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Dan Stahl - TTS Channel (8 November 2012)
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 24.7 24.8 Ask Cryptic (14 December 2012)
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 Podcast UGC – Episode 102: The Return of Captain Geko
- ↑ DStahl Forum Post, March 29, 2013
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 STOked episode 113 (March 5 2012)
- ↑ pwebranflakes Forum Post (15 February 2013)
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 Priority One Episode 69 - Interview with Dan Stahl (24 February 2012)
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (16 May 2011)
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 31.6 31.7 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (10 August 2012)
- ↑ STOked Episode 120 (24 April 2012)
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Massively Speaking Episode 234: Star Trek Online interview with Dan Stahl (29 January, 2013)
- ↑ Dan "Gozer" Griffis - Forum posting (5 May 2012)
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 Subspace Radio interview of Dan Stahl (13 March 2012)
- ↑ Dan "Gozer Griffis" - Forum posting (1 June 2012)
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (17 June 2011)
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 38.5 38.6 38.7 38.8 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 June 2012)
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 July 2012)
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (4 April 2011)
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 STOked Episode 110 - 13 February 2012
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (11 August 2011)
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 Priority One Episode 86 - Interview with Al Rivera (26 June 2012)
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 44.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 May 2011)
- ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (4 February 2012)
- ↑ StarbaseUGC interview with Al Rivera (1 May 2012)
- ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (4 February 2012)
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (10 February 2011)
- ↑ Al Rivera - Tweet (4 August 2012)
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 50.2 Podcast UGC #47 - Al Rivera interview (January 18 2012
- ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (14 November 2011)
- ↑ Dan Stahl Forum Post (15 February 2013)
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Dan Stahl - State of the Game (27 July 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (1 August 2012)
- ↑ 55.0 55.1 Priority One Episode 97 - Interview with Dan Stahl (23 September 2012)
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 56.2 56.3 56.4 56.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 June 2011)
- ↑ Priority One interview with Al Rivera (20 April 2012)
- ↑ Outpost Gamez - Dan Stahl interview (2 May 2012)
- ↑ Salami_Inferno - Forum posting (24 May 2011)
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (4 May 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - State of the Game (15 June 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (3 March 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 64.2 64.3 64.4 64.5 64.6 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (3 July 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 March 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (4 March 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (31 October 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 November 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (4 June 2012)
- ↑ borticuscrpytic Forum Post April 11, 2013
- ↑ 76.0 76.1 Priority One Episode 85 - Interview with Dan Stahl (18 June 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (1 October 2010)
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (2 December 2010)
- ↑ Matt Highison - Forum posting (16 May 2011)
- ↑ 80.0 80.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 January 2011)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (9 September 2011)
- ↑ Priority One Episode 33 - Interview with Dan Stahl (10 June 2011)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (16 February 2011)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (8 February 2011)
- ↑ Al "CaptainGeko" Rivera - Forum posting (15 April 2011)
- ↑ Outpost Gamez Interview with Dan Stahl (8 April 2011)
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