A New Hope | STOked 103

A New Hope | STOked 103

Star Trek Online’s Free to Play date has been announced, and details on when existing players will get their hands on all the new changes, and we cover it all!

Plus: Is Star Wars The Old Republic a threat to Star Trek Online? We share our thoughts on the elephant in the room!

Then – you’re going to love our Foundry Files pick this week, Niki’s MATH update on the formulas behind skill bonuses, and you Doff system fans won’t want to miss Community Feedback!

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Foundry Files:




The author of “The Spirits Of Ramok Nor”, alimac30, is back with his new mission “The City Of The Polmar Ree”.
  • Will the mission live up to the expectations set by his first mission?
  • See what 4 months of mission building can produce.
  • Be prepared to read a lot for this dialogue heavy mission.
  • Experience some of the best environments produced by Foundry authors to date.
  • Contact the team at their email: foundryfiles@jupiterforce.net

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Math:

  • Nikki delves into the new formulae behind skill bonuses
  • Chris tries to decide if the new way is more user friendly and intuitive
  • Raw formulae are provided so that you can do your own Math

Community Feedback:

  • We go very in depth on a question about having a mobile device application to control the Doff system without the need to log into the game on your computer. Wishful thinking or impending reality?
  • Community to make submissions to community feedback @ STOked@Jupiterbroadcasting.com.
  • We will take all questions, comments, concerns regarding STO & F2P, Cryptic, STOked and its segments (Foundry Files).
  • Website:  Jupiter Force.org
  • Email:  Asmick@Jupiterforce.net
  • Twitter: @Asmick_JF

 

  • Thomas Townley

    Good episode, I wish Nicki could somehow be miked better, but unless Chris wants to send her new equipment, we’ll work with what we got.  There’s been a definite improvement since the initial post JB episode.

  • Irish Darkshadow

    “lame ass Reunion crap”? If you followed the Reunion storyline you should be understanding that you’re seeing a log entry from the main character whose memorial service underpinned the first episode. The foundry itself is not capable of supporting the type of machinima that this trailer highlights. Only the character recording the log entry was from the foundry. The surrounding graphics and animations were custom built. The voice over work is performed by community members.

    The sort of dedication, skill and perseverance that is required for amateurs who share a passion to produce material of this quality is astounding and I’m quite disappointed that another member of the community would be so derisive regarding this project. I can understand if the overall story of Reunion, or simply the execution of it in your opinion is not to your liking but to insult the work in that manner is simply dismissive and ignorant.

  • MikeHawk69

    Yes, lame. Extremely lame. Mind numbingly boring ass lame. Yawns me right off the web page lame.

  • Bloop

    No, only the sibilance hurts my ears. 
    The rest is totally fine. now you go back to your 13 year olds. 

  • -C

    No offense to Niki, but she just drones on, and on, and on, and on. Plus, she looks a little masculine. How about a cute little blonde bombshell for the eye candy effect?

  • Keith Grigsby

    I have watched two weeks in a row during the math segment and the audio is bad – i would honestly look into getting this guest a good mic because its really bad and I have had to skip the section twice now.

  • Erik

    Wow, there’s some right cunts in the comments section.

  • Earthcrusher

    This is a great show and I try to catch it every week.  However, the “math” section takes up far to much time.  It’s interesting and all but there’s just too much of it.  Thanks

  • TerranGuy93

    So they should never ever be rude or insulting, but he can?
    I do not condone name calling or being rude. However, it is a little funny that when Chris does it you defend it as “being called out about it” but when they do it, you refer to them as “douchebags”. Bit of a double standard there. 

  • Optimaloptimusprimus

    - DECEMBER 3rd DEV APPERCIATION DAY -

    All the hard work the Devs put into this game. Devs work vigorously, often neglecting personal needs to give us a game to play and features to play. You do so much, yet you receive so little in return. This December 3rd Is your Day !
    We should all take time out to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts of your hardwork.
    On Saturday December the 3rd on the Holodeck Server at Earth Space Dock come dance it up at Club 47. Lets show some apperciation to the Devs. Lets hope they show up to Dance too !

    Items to bring :
    Pets / Tribbles / HortaFire Suppression DeviceExplosive Party PopperBiothermal DampenerExocomp companionSehlat Cub

    PLEASE REPORT ON THIS IN YOUR NEWS. SPREAD THE WORD. THX !

  • sams45

    Hey Chris,
    I think you should moderate your own comments. I sounds like the comment was done I the heat of the moment and i can understand that. Everyone gets angry and fustrated and needs to vent, and i read the comments from both 102 and 103 the fustration is obvious. But as host you need to be helping to set and suport the tone of feed back.

    Now i’d like to reply to your comment:
    I’ve just started watching your show(s) and i love it. I’ve watched all the ‘new’ episopdes of stoked and some of the ‘old’ and i’ve enjoyed every episode i’ve watched. I just finished lessoning to the latest SciByte and i realy enjoyed that to. Im realy looking forward to becoming a regular stoked watch. Reason one for carrying on.

    Your a good presenter. Your fun and livly. You listen well to the people you have on the show, you help people engage with what thye are saying and then you enhance what they are saying. You keep me interested and enformed. Your enjoyable to watch and your presenting style makes your shows easly excessable. Reason two.

    Most people only comment if they feel something is wrong. Now that anit completely true but how often do you see a forum thead talking about how amazing a preticular asspect a game is. You dont see 50 page long threads on this that are perfect. I guess I have 2 points. Your going to get more bad feed back than good. That doesnt make it easy and you probably know this. I just want to incourage you to not get disheartened by it. My second point is, that if you look up and down the comments, quite alot of people have come out and said they love the show. You must have a lot of people who are realy passionate about ur show when you think only a small amount of those are gona comment about it. Reason three.

    STOKED provides valuable information on the game in a way that is easly accessable. Now obviously we could all read the patch notes and search the forums and …… im a busy person and im dyslexic so readings like stressful and im waiting for free 2 play so im not playing atm, so STOKED is great now and even better when playing, (I bought the game about a year ago, coming back cos its going free and i miss it). You also provide another voice for the communite when communicating with the devs. Something thats so important for MMOs. These is reason number four.

    I think that last point is the thing thats seems to be coursing the most issue atm. People see the show as one way to have there voice aired. Which sounds like one of the things you want the show to be, but then they are fustrated when they feel there opinions are not the ones being put forward. Or that the views of the commonity as a whole are not being put forward. Maybe this is one of the things that needs to be added to the show. A way to have the multipule views of the the STO communite aired in some way on STOKED, just a suggestion.
    One practical idea could be to have a section in the community feed back that reports on the views and moods of the STO community as a whole. Like lots of people on the forums are saying ‘this’, a few people are a saying ‘blahblah’, we got some e-mails saying ‘somthing else’. I dont know if that makes any sense. msybe not.

    Main point: Your show is great and its important.

  • TommyTom

    You’re kidding right? Devs “receive so little in return”?  last time that I checked they are getting paid and have fulltime jobs.  A lot of people in the country don’t have that.  Now I don’t want to rant about the f2p work.  Some of it I like.  Some of it I don’t.  But I think the Dev team on this game has not produced a lot this year work this year.  I am seeing a lot of them complaining on twitter that they are working really really hard now and are mad at players or are criticizing them.  I think, they need to work double or triple hard to win my time and dollars back to this game.  I think the time to throw them a party is in 6 months AFTER they produce some real results and pull this game out of the fire.

  • Magenticst0rm

    To the other posters who can not read I did not call chris a name. I called his talking points Names of character. I plainly call chris talking points and pod cast disclaimer majority of the time one sided with cryptic doing no wrong.

    Honestly chris I viewed your shows from start to now and many will agree, you might not have your mouth on “cryptic’s dick”  your words, but you lean on their side and their points of view. You saw nothing wrong with cryptic when Z left, You saw nothing wrong with cryptic when content was dry. You made some attempt to be fair but then pointed towards well maybe cryptic is making something great. Turns out the great was D stahl leaving among the other attributes. You have have given cryptic to many passes and it is far to long for viewers to have to stay shut up about it. You are a show on the internet. After The J man left i figured I would continue to watch and see what you would do.

    We are your critics. You dont have to change everything but when a good number are saying shape up the show some. Give both sides and have more graphs and less talking well yeah certain things can be changed.  I will not baby you when your show starts to down grade another game without you even knowing of taking into any facts of the game. Just from the many people who played the game at many shows, many who played it in beta and you site their and try to compare STO to TOR. well you get what you give. Saying such statements will get you negative feedback.

    You dont have to agree with me, but you can be fair and balance in your talking points along with your disclaimer. It shows humility and at least keeps it real with your viewers.  Get back to the charts and more understanding in math and not so much talk. Show some numbers please.

  • http://twitter.com/Tribble_Hunter Mike Tripp

    Love the opening speech. Very well said. Agree completely.

  • Guest

    NikeのハイエンドのサッカーシューズのシリーズELITEある去年派手な1時、ティンバーランド ブーツadidasは品質はNIKEに負けませんますが、しかサッカースパイクし位置付けの上で風下に降りました。近日、1組のサッカーシューズのスパイはによってadidasの重いサッカーシューズの王の席に帰る遠大な抱負を暴露しました。adidasはadiPOWER PREDATORが発表することをきっかけにするを、SLシリーズのトップクラスのサッカーシューズの製品を出して、その中はPREDATOジャケット 革R SLとadiPURE SLを含みました。2足の靴はすべてF50を採用しました adiZEROの軽量で大きい底、靴の表面の材質も普通な版と違い、大いに重さを軽減しました。さらに加えて再びサッカーシューズの軽量の王冠のF50を奪います adiZERO PRIME,adidasのトップクエアマックス95ラスのサッカーのシリーズはすでに準備し出発を待ちました。NIKEとadidasの双雄間もなく引き離す大きい幕。

  • bob

    If my volume goes over 4 (max being 100, normal websites with music around 7-12, headphones off with loud music on in the 20s) Nikki’s whistling “S” sound is intolerable in my ears. 

    No offense to her, if she has a speech impediment, but it’s horrible. 

    It makes all the amazing, pertinent information she has, completely useless, because I can’t stand to listen to her more than 3 seconds. 

    And I WANT to listen to her, I love the Math segments. 

    She knows her stuff, and I get that she’s basically a volunteer, but please, is there some way to fix her mic equipment, or do a complete voice over? I’m not trying to be rude, and obviously you hear this enough from the rude commenters, but the problem is real. 

    The S sound coming from her is a complete deal breaker for watching your show. I am forced to just skip the entire segment…As to TOR not being competition. Chris, apologies but that’s completely delusional. With everyone, under the sun going free to play, including WoW… WoW has been hemorrhaging players this whole year, and TOR will definitely be a huge thorn in their side. Much much more than STO’s free to play, even though that too will hurt them, but make no mistake this is TOR’s year to shine, all other MMOs will suffer until they pass the 6 month mark, and start to even possibly lose players.It’s not about apples or oranges, it’s about numbers.I miss Jay. :(