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STOked Episode 37: We asked you what you want to see in version 1.0 of a User Generated Content Engine for Star Trek Online, and you told us! We read your ideas on the show.

Plus! We show you some of the high-lights from our recent live STO gaming session this passed weekend!

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Show Notes

NEWS:

    * Team Settings crash: Don’t change your “Team Settings” options while members of your team are on a map other than your current. http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2724457#post2724457

Don’t buy PC Gamer for the STO Trial!

• - Ghost Ship
• - City on the Edge of Never (and Kuvah’magh)
• - The New Link
• - Ground Zero (Hobus)
• - Iconia
• - Suspect
• - Shut Down
• - The Tribble with Klingons
• - A Crack in the Mirror
• - State of Q

• User Ratings/Rankings
• This is an absolute necessity for weeding out the crap farm-fests, from the truly interactive and well-made stories.  Could be prone to griefing, but still worth the risk.  
• DO NOT TIE IT TO ACCOLADES:  People will artificially rate up/down if there is an Accolade for creating a “5-star” or “1-star” map.  Ruins the true use of the rank system.  Just don’t do it.
• Also add a “Don’t show me this mission again!” option, so that individuals can weed out their own dislikes.
• Many people brainstormed ideas to include some form of QA that doesn’t require 100% hands-on approach by Cryptic.
• Custom Mission Text
• Being limited to pre-fab scripts will kill immersion and creativity.  Give UGC artists the ability to write a script from the ground up.  (Use profanity filter.)
• Custom Bad Guys
• Full alien creation, not a pre-fab list of existing templates (or have both available as options?)
• Must be cross-faction
• Fed, KDF, Rommies, etc.  ALL must be able to use the entire toolset.
• Use the Holodeck!
• Allowing all of this UGC to take place on our ships’ Holodeck fits with canon, and allows the potential for a whole subculture of Holonovelists (complete with some sort of progression tracking?).  Also allows for eventual inclusion of non-Trek costumes & stories, similar to Dixon Hill, Sherlock Holmes, Wild West (Fistful of Datas), Vic Fontaine, Captain Proton and so much more!

• A tutorial!!  (Jeremy personally supports this mechanic)
• Different “hubs” for different progressions of a Holo program (MemAlpha for Beta Testing, major space docks for Round 2 if their ranking is high enough, Quark’s Bar for the best of those for Round 3.
• Player-controlled missions (Live GameMaster scenarios that could include creator/narrator-controlled NPCs)

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