Beyond the Finish Line | STOked 108

Beyond the Finish Line | STOked 108

Jeremy from Cryptic (formally from STOked) joins us to chat about up coming game changes, like the ground skill revamp, crafting overhaul, a new weapon you’re going to get your hands on for the holidays, and some more behind the scenes details on the holiday event!

Plus why it took so long to fix Voldemort, and the new bug you can help the STO dev’s track down!

Also: Chris’ thoughts on the Holiday Event, and an important tweak he’d like to see made and he kicks the tires of the new Jem’Hadar player ship!

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-SHOW NOTES-

J-Man’s tip to avoid ESD to get to Q’s Winter Wonderland:

If you’re trying to get to Q’s Winter Wonderland and would like to avoid ESD, here’s a quick workaround:

* Press “J” to open your Mission Overview (or whatever you have it mapped to)
* Click the “Calendar” button at the bottom of the pane.
* Look for Dec 8th, 2011.
* Double-click on that day’s event to bring up the event pop-up.
* Click the “Transwarp” button at the bottom of the pane that pops up.
* Wait for loading screen to complete.
* Profit!

I sympathize with folks that have an issue loading ESD, and it’s not an issue that’s going completely ignored. Until things improve, please remember functions like the Event Calendar that can help you move around in Star Trek Online.

Chris’ Holiday Trek Picks:

Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual

Price: $17.82

3.2 out of 5 stars (44 customer reviews)

62 used & new available from $9.45

Star Trek the Next Generation Phaser

Price: $9.75

3.9 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews)

16 used & new available from $4.59

Star Trek: Countdown #1

Price:

3.5 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

0 used & new available from

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – The Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector’s Edition)

Price: $11.18

4.6 out of 5 stars (412 customer reviews)

119 used & new available from $2.23

Star Trek Scene It? DVD Game with Real TV and Movie Clips

Price: $19.99

3.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)

34 used & new available from $9.99

Think Geek Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter

Price: $19.56

4.6 out of 5 stars (52 customer reviews)

30 used & new available from $17.02

  • Lionel Harris

    So how do we get in contact with the J-Man or a dev, and know for sure that they got the mesage?  

    It is known that bug reports and support tickets can fall through the cracks.    I’ve submitted ticket  #1239785 on Cryptic’s support page and it is still listed as new and no reply.   While I wouldn’t expect a reply, I would expect the tickets status to change to indicate that a human looked at it.  I have mentioned it the ticket in the thread where the J-man asked for info about the BO slotting issues. 

    Also, it was great to see the J-man back on the show for a visit. I hope that his enthusiasm for fighting for the player does not waiver and starts to wear off on the other devs.

  • Woody Valley

    I find if there is a que for the race in Winter Wonderland, is just change instances to another map with alot less players in it.  Get no ques doing it that way.

    Merry Christmas Everyone!! 

  • SamuelDavidson1701

    It was great to see Jeremey on Stoked as a special guess. Chris you need to try get Jeremey on more.  My thought is have Jeremy do once a month segment in stoked where he can update us what is going on at cryptic and maybe even answer a few question’s from the community.

    I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

  • GeeMan

    Thanks Jeremey for getting the veteran BO and the holiday
    packs out of the Dilithium conversation fiasco, I was really short changed, and
    something is better than nothing. My option of you has gone through the roof.
    It sucks that Cryptic seemed not to care about the loyal players. All they care
    about is getting ready for Fleece The Player (F2P). The only other Devs that
    seem to care are Heretic and Geko which is kind of sad. I just hope Cryptic doesn’t
    assimilate you and you can keep your individuality. 

  • Akaar

    so. i’m not sure what’s wrong with my computer but the last three episodes I have bee unable to see the entire show. It gets to just about 3/4 of the way through and it just locks up. Any ideas on what i can do to fix this?

  • Forge

    I have all the things you linked in the wish list :P  Also, the player you are using fro STOked right now REALLY does NOT get along with Chrome.  Which makes me sad because I really do :(  Anyhoo, awesome episode.  It was really good to see Jeremy on the show again.  In all honesty, he kind of inspired me to get out there, and I am now in the middle of an internship at a Toronto game studio :D

  • AGNT009

    Great show. Going to get my light sabre right after typing this. Angela failed as makeup girl this week for not catching that piece of glitter on your eyelid Chris that drove me crazy in the first segment, lol. I have a bug report. Whats with the BO clones on my bridge where I have more than one of the same BO sitting at multiple stations? As if the Bridge wasnt boring enough, now I have to crop out the clones when I spin the camera around to take screenshots of my crew in action. Once Tron finishes the Crafting revamp, put him to work on that Poker game from the Captains quarters. As for GPL, I say you really pimp out Risa and make us have to pay for certain attractions on the planet, and make it more like a Trek amusement park of sorts. Requires a social ground map revamp, but would make a fun GPL sink if the games were fun like running foot races, high stakes poker, duck shooting gallery (for that First person shooter mode), Holosuite that takes you to an Old West Town like in A Fist Full of Datas, and you get to have bar fights and shoot the revolvers and such JUST in that Old West Holosuite. REALLY make Risa THE place to hang out in the Alpha Quadrant. And the theme park only accepts GPL, because a certain Ferengi took over, lol. Naturally if you make an Old west town, let us use it in Foundry :D

  • AGNT009

    The game is obviously hurting in the social interaction category. The Risa theme park option opens up a whole new realm of possibilities where the sky truly is the limit on HOW STO entertains us socially. Thanks to the Holosuites, you can dream up any like of level and activity thats OUTSIDE of Trek while at the same time STILL being Trek because you can just say, “oh, thats in the Holosuites, but its not the “reality” in our game.” You can actually create fun diversions OUTSIDE the rules of Trek this way. I guarantee you giving players the ability to tear it up in an Old West town, and give them the clothing to match would be a HUGE hit. I think I have Trons work schedule lined up for the next few years. When they cant give him something to do, have him working on the Risa revamp   :D    And it IS canon, or was about to be. I heard of a scene cut from Insurrection where Quark comes down and tries to set up a casino or something on the Baku planet. Maybe we cant get Quark, but an enterprising relative of his makes it a reality on Risa.

  • AGNT009

    Admiral Tom Paris just called. He’s volunteered to write us some Captain Proton holonovels as one of the feature attractions down on Risa.

  • oldman

    Loved the new weapons but I have two issue. The sowrd of Sword of kahless should do more damage and knowing it dose more then the Sword of kahless A very rae quest item. the new wepaons should be purple very rares.  Other then that thumps up all the way

  • oldman

    Dexylisia got the worst of my typing fill in the blanks

  • Sanjuanna

    Where or who May I contact on the wrong Bridge Officer cheat? I have an idea how they are doing it.

  • luketheduke

    secret santa who gave you the ship = jeremy??

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    Any information that you could share which leads to exposing this exploit would be greatly appreciated. 

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  • Ken_brimm

    can’t seem to find email addresses for chris or jeremy, but here goes. I paid for the lifetime membership of startrek online. I managed to get a character to rear admiral lower half when the game first started. I can’t move my fingers fast or do a lot of my character rolling around in ground combat. So I tried to be an engineer gadget man, so i can stay around my gadgets. In space the same way, I would put out a field of mines and then back into them. However, the opponents now will not come into my range of weapons or gadgets on the ground and I die. Space opponents will now just stay outside the 10 clicks and won’t come into range with me stationary in space. Also, after all this time, there is no persistent universe for exploration and it still does these random places, the name of the planet only stays briefly and I cannot even copy down where I am. They promised we could explore. All we get to do on exploration is these same kind of missions. Every once in a while i get to explore a neat place to scan artifacts or some such, but mostly its kill all the aliens. I find myself only coming to play startrek online now every couple of months or so if my wife begs me. I want to just leave until they fix the exploration and make a persistent universe, like they promised we could actually explore. The man who said he would do this, Dan Stahl is now leaving. The company was bought by chinese. Not sure how many other startrek fans feel like me…maybe we all should leave and wait for a real startrek exploration game and not have to play a world of warcraft kill fest clone.

    Disappointed in Arnold, MO

  • http://twitter.com/Camdy169 camdy

    chris you should start a new character think you might like it :)