Upcoming content

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[edit] Coming Soon

Note: Season 5 was launched December 1 but is considered to span the entire period through 2012 until Season 6 is released (tentatively scheduled for mid-June).

[edit] TBA Season 5

[edit] Missions

• Return of DS9 Under Siege fleet action ^[1]
• Improved queuing ^[2] and playability of some fleet actions:
  • Crystalline Entity/Crystalline Catastrophe ^[3]
  • Fluidic Space Fleet Action/Gekli Feeding Grounds ^[3]
• More daily missions ^[3]
  • New daily mission(s) taking place in Hathon on Bajor ^[4]
  • Daily missions near neighborhood of Sol System and Qo'noS ^[5][6]
    • Mission rewards including "Red Squad" (and elite Klingon academy) cadet costumes ^[1]
• More aliens, like Tamarians, from TV shows and movies ^[1]
• New crafting quests and/or mini-game side-quests ^[7]
• Targ and Gorn Saur crafting mission, to get attack pets ^[8]

[edit] Concepts and Systems

• A form of encyclopedia for all information presented thus far ^[9]
• Possibly adding option to create level 20-Klingon character after only doing the Federation tutorial ^[10]
• "Test drive" ships before requistion
• Bridge Officer Requisition "Exchange" (Season 5 or 6) ^[11]
  • Shows skills learned
• Expanded Ensign bridge officer powersets and exclusive abilities (Season 5 or 6) ^[12]
• Mission and bridge officer voiceovers ^[13]
• Ability to warp to a friend and/or improving travel between sectors^[5]
• Betazed sector ^[12]

[edit] Items and Costumes

• More latinum store items ^[14]
  • Possible "High-stakes" Dabo night with high end rewards^[9]
• Different species' combadges ^[15]
  • Vulcan (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) combadge
  • Andorian combadge
  • Other races (Saurian, Ferengi, Liberated Borg, Pakled, Rigelian and Tellarite)
  • Humans (United Earth)
• New items in crafting stores ^[16]
• More Klingon hairstyle options (C-Store post-F2P) ^[17]
• Craftable Horta variants ^[18]
• Remaining preorder items made available to C-Store ^[19]
  • Not likely to appear: [Red Matter Capacitor] ^[20]
• 100 Day Veteran Reward for KDF ^[9]
• Animated Andorian antennae ^[21][22]

[edit] Ships

• Saucer separation for the Galaxy-X Dreadnought Cruiser ^[23][24]
  • Separation mode
• New escort ("a few months from February") ^[25], possible references:
  • Tier 5 Akira class escort ^[26]
  • Tier 5 Merian class escort ^[26]

[edit] Klingon Ships

• Tier 5 Bird-of-Prey Hegh'ta Refit ^[27]
• Tier 5 Raptor Qin Refit ^[27]
  • pic?
• Tier 5 Battle Cruiser Negh'Var Refit ^[27]

[edit] Longer Term

• Ship variants as mission rewards ^[9]
• New Bird-of-Prey skins for the B'rel (D'Gavama) and QulDun (MChar) ^[28]
• Vesta class, possibly as science vessel (approved by CBS in February 2012 ^[29]; no rights given yet, though ^[24][30]; talks are "in progress" ^[31])
• New Orleans, Freedom, and Niagara classes ^[32]

[edit] Season 6 (June)

Tribble testing by early June^[33]. Release is tentative for mid-June ^[34][35][4] and bringing major upgrades to fleet gameplay, the Foundry and PvP (to be released "one step at a time") ^{[35][22][2][24][16][36][37]}

[edit] Revamp of fleet gameplay

• Fleet advancement system ^[35][22][6]
  • Tie-in of Duty Officer System ^[22]
  • Ability to unlock fleet perks, e.g., more fleet bank space (Season 6 or earlier) ^[17]
• High-end content designed for fleets, e.g., STF-like instances for 10 or 20 players ^[38]
  • "Revamp of the end-game loot structure", including STF drops ^[2][4][6]
• Ability to "craft"/construct and manage fleet starbases ^[17] and ships ^[38][37]
  • 20-person fleet events that take place at your starbase ^[37][33]
  • Including shipyards to costumize/upgrade ships, e.g., creating a refit Sovereign class ^[31]
  • Playing some role in future fleet vs fleet (KDF vs FED) territory control game ("controlling and or harvesting a vast variety of resources") ^{[32] [5][22]}
• Ability to form a fleet with less than five players ^[1]

[edit] New Foundry assets

• Various additions of features and improvements to the UI of the foundry editor ^[39][31][37]
• Making more content from seasons 5 to 6 (including new Tholian enemy group) available for the Foundry ^[31]
• Updated dialog editor ^[31]: More control over dialogues/behaviours and their triggered changes ^[2]
• More options for door locations and types ^[2]
• Creating "Feature Foundry Episode Series" or "campaigns", i.e., ability to create a sorted string of several foundry missions ^[2][39]
• Specially advertised "Feature Foundry Missions" offering new types of rewards for players and authors ^[2][31]
  • Generally improved advertising of foundry missions, e.g., an individual foundry button in the mission journal ^[2]
  • Ability to subscribe to specific foundry authors ^[39]
  • 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 ^[4]

[edit] "Total rework" of PvP system

(Most of it likely coming during the later parts of season 6 ^[40])

• Either replacing current PvP maps or revamping the existing ones ^[6]
  • Transferring existing PvE maps (Facility 4028 amongst others) to ground PvP maps, possibly with capture-the-flag mod ^[39][4]
• All PVP in the new system will be cross faction queues ^[41]
• Matchmaking, e.g. matching people of comparable gear level ^[38]
• PvP leaderboard ^[38][16]
• King of the Hill PvP map for space and/or ground ^[5][4]

[edit] Further contents

• Account-wide bank slots (Season 6 or sooner) ^[42][17][33]
• New end-game group missions (aside from fleet-starbase events), including "Colony Rescue," "No Win Scenario", and "3v3 PvP" ^[31][37][33]
  • No Win-event for 5 players granting rewards after each survived wave of incoming ships. Players won't be expected to last past wave five or six. ^[40]
  • New Borg incursion-like events and Defera-Ground Invasion-like map against the Tholians ^[6][37]
• 2409 ships like Excalibur, originally designed by Perpetual Entertainment ^[43]
• Range of new and different alien ships from patrols and cluster missions ^[9]
• Exclusive starship "material" and uniform variant as 900 day veteran reward (July 3, 2012)
• Exclusive starship variant as 1000 day veteran reward (October 11, 2012)

[edit] Featured Episode Series 5 (July)

• Will feature Tholian enemy faction ^{[44][45][5][6]}: Concept art
• Possibly adding new locations in the Alpha Quadrant ^[31]

[edit] TBA Season 6

• New EV suit mission takes captain to hostile planet and face off against a challenging new foe^[33] (Tholians?)
• Iconians as new major enemy faction after the Borg and Tholians ^{[9][22][6][33]}
  • New STF featuring the Iconians ^[17][22]
• Further Foundry improvements
  • NPC patrols/pathways in interiors ^[2][31]
  • New enemy behaviour settings ^[31]
  • Interior editor ^[31]
  • Ability to prepopulate maps with prefab detail object layouts ^[31]
• New STF: Into the Hive ^[5][4]
  • Will involve going to a unimatrix complex and confronting the new Borg Queen herself ^[1]
• Remastering of STF: Terradome ^[22]
• Bridge officers who are put in as First Officer, Chief Engineer, Chief Medical Officer, etc. gain some new abilities/perks ^{[46][1][47][48][49][50]}
  • Department Heads and First Officer will leverage Bridge Officer skill points and can be individually augmented by Duty Officers of their respective departments ^[51]
  • First Officers will grant additional lower-level Captain powers depending on their respective specialization ^[52][53]

[edit] Possible

• Tier 6 ships (between Season 6 and 7) ^[54]
• Jupiter and Typhoon playable ships ^[9]
• Customize fleet starbase and ship exteriors/interiors in Foundry ^[21][5][55]
• New Fed tutorial mission probably involving Starfleet Academy and the Kobayashi Maru test ^[1][5][45]
• Increased ship interior functionality (Season 6) ^[5][56]
  • Working sickbay
  • Crafting station (during Season 5) ^[5]
  • Holodeck ^[11]
  • Botanical Garden ^[11]
  • Shuttlebay (to switch to shuttle instead of current transporter room) ^[5]
• Possibility of allowing players to customize geometry and texture of weapons ^[57]
• Duty officer commendation Tier V categories added (requirement is above the 150,000 CXP cap) ^[58][59]
• Melee combat improvements ^[1]
  • Vulcan Lirpas, Andorian Ushaan-tor knives, and Klingon bat'leths from special weaponsmiths ^[16]
  • Open melee-only PvP arenas on Vulcan, Andoria, Qo'noS, Rura Penthe ^[5][45]

[edit] Post-Season 6

• Crafting revamp: Currently on hold in order to focus on fleet starbases ^[60][42]
  • Incorporating new content, i.e., crafting missions ^[2]
  • Duty Officer assignments to allow your staff to upgrade items and systems on your ship ^[8][2]; crafting/kitbashing better versions of ships ^[38]
• Exploration revamp
  • Including distribution of anomalies in various star clusters ^[61]
  • More about specific species and less about randomness, like with the Deferi ^[11]
  • Plan is dependent on changes being introduces with the Fleet Advancement system and Fleet ownership of Starbases ^[6]
• More Mini-games (after Season 6) ^[5]
  • Poker ^[62]
  • New exploration-related minigame ^[11]
• Convert First Officer to playable Captain and vice versa ^[5]
  • This would allow for Reman, Breen and Jem'Hadar playable captain species ^[8]
  • Converting veteran reward-Android bridge officer will not be possible (vetoed by CBS) ^[22]
• Revamp of kits ^[24]
  • New/custom kits ^[21]
  • Only one power per kit, but one additional kit-slot per rank (5 as admiral) ^[24]
• Possibly: Andorian ship (likely tier 5 refit Kumari escort) ^{[5][63][26][31]}

[edit] Undetermined Release

• Feature Episode Series 6: Delta Quadrant-based and featuring the Voth ^[45][22]
  • Talaxians^[5], Ocampa (FED) and Kazon (KDF) as new playable races ^[22][6]
• New Feature Episodes after Series 6, proposed themes include:
  • "Children of Khan" (not on schedule) ^[8][33]
  • Gorn ^[64]
  • Xindi and Sphere Builders ^[32]
• Ability to create a construction bee, which would allow for animated repairs on the outside of a starship ^[65]
• Ability to gain Commendation XP via gameplay types other than the DOff-system. ^[24]
• Ambassador class (likely after ships like Andorian vessel, Sovereign refit, Tier 5 Akira, Vesta) ^[66][67][5]
  • as part of a feature episode series ^[21]
• Update of Accolade system and UI, including more challenges and rewards ^[31]
• Merge all sectors into one map ^[21][39]
  • More new sectors ^[1]
• Ship crew uniforms for officers onboard your vessel ^[8]
  • Possibly also more uniform options for Breen and Reman bridge officers ^[22]
• Gorn bridge officers on Federation side as reward for some diplomatic missions. ^[22]
• C-Store with tangible merchandise ^[1]
• More content for Klingon faction ^[68][69]
  • Generally releasing more content accesible to both factions, and less faction-specific missions ^[4]
  • Making KDF versions of episodes across the game (retelling some episodes from a Klingon perspective – such as “Saturday's Child” or “The Kuvah'Magh”) ^[5]
  • Possibly developing Klingon content "backwards", i.e., successively lowering the level at which a KDF character can be created as new missions are released ^[22]
    • Eventually create a Klingon character at level 1 as first character including new KDF tutorial mission ^[5][9][17] (uncertain) ^[4] ("So we are getting there slowly but surely." ^[31])
• More and improved character costumization options ^[2]
  • More parts for Alien Generator ^[5]
  • Improved hair and cloth tech ^[61]
• Re-species (and thus re-trait) character ^[1][22][33]
• Revamp of all traits ^[22]
• Adding day-night cycles (first seen on Bajor) to further ground locations ^[22]
• "Leaving Shipdock" cutscene sequences when getting new ships ^[8]
• Return of Morn to Deep Space 9 ^[70]
• Stun enemies and disable ships instead of killing and destroying (long-term goal) ^[1]
• Lifetime Subscription Perks: Exclusive in-game chat channel, where lifetime subscribers can talk to each other ^[71]
• Adjusting leveling speed ^[39]
• Level and rank increase to Fleet Admiral / Dahar Master, with special type of gameplay where you can begin to build away teams in space (other ships that you command) ^[9][24]
  • This would include the ranks of Admiral / General
• Romulan Star Empire playable faction (after Season 6) ^[5][6]
  • Hirogen player option ^[54]
  • Only after Klingon Empire has been "fully developed" ^[22]
  • Possibly only as 5-level mini-faction, after which the character chooses to either join Starfleet or the KDF ^[22]
• Cardassian playable faction (after Season 6) ^[5][6]

[edit] Remastered episodes

• All episodes were originally scheduled to be remastered - including cutscenes, accolades, optional objectives, new loot
  • “City on the Edge of Never” - next up for remastering; possibly with B'vat voice over^[72]
  • “Past Imperfect” - next up for remastering; with Spock appearance^[73]
  • “Researcher Rescue” - featuring updated Gorn^[72]
  • “The Ultimate Klingon” - possibly playable from Klingon perspective with different objectives ^[1]
  • “The Kuvah'Magh” - possibly with Miral Paris voice over ^[72][74]
• Some less popular missions might be replaced by Cryptic-remastered Foundry missions ^[4]

[edit] References

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (3 July 2011)
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11} Priority One Episode 69 - Interview with Dan Stahl (24 February 2012)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (October 2010)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9} Tribbles in Ecstasy Dan Stahl Interview (March 26 2012)
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21} Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (19 August 2011)
6. ↑ ^{6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (1 March 2012)
7. ↑ Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (18 July 2011)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 May 2011)
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 June 2011)
10. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (12 May 2011)
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (10 February 2011)
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (December 2010)
13. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (6 February 2011)
14. ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (4 February 2012)
15. ↑ Matt Highison - Forum posting (16 May 2011)
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3} Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (17 June 2011)
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (9 September 2011)
18. ↑ Salami_Inferno - Forum posting (24 May 2011)
19. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (8 February 2011)
20. ↑ Al "CaptainGeko" Rivera - Forum posting (15 April 2011)
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (11 August 2011)
22. ↑ ^{22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 22.16 22.17 22.18} Priority One Episode 66 - Interview with Al Rivera, Part I (3 February 2012)
23. ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (14 November 2011)
24. ↑ ^{24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6} STOked Episode 110 - 13.02.2012
25. ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (2 February 2012)
26. ↑ ^{26.0 26.1 26.2} Al Rivera - Forum posting (4 February 2012)
27. ↑ ^{27.0 27.1 27.2} Path to F2P Dev Blog #10
28. ↑ Forum posting (15 June 2011)
29. ↑ Mark Rademaker website
30. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (20 July 2011)
31. ↑ ^{31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (April 2012)
32. ↑ ^{32.0 32.1 32.2} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (4 April 2011)
33. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named AskCrypticMay12
34. ↑ Brandon Felczer - Forum posting (15 April 2012)
35. ↑ ^{35.0 35.1 35.2} Stephen D'Angelo - Season 5 Dev Diary #11 (3 January 2012)
36. ↑ jfinder - Forum posting (2 December 2011)
37. ↑ ^{37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5} Dan Stahl - Forum posting (12 April 2012)
38. ↑ ^{38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4} Subspace Radio interview of Dan Stahl (13 March 2012)
39. ↑ ^{39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.5} STOked episode 113 (March 5 2012)
40. ↑ ^{40.0 40.1} STOked Episode 120 (24 April 2012)
41. ↑ [1]
42. ↑ ^{42.0 42.1} Outpost Gamez - Dan Stahl interview (2 May 2012)
43. ↑ Priority One Episode 33 - Interview with Dan Stahl (10 June 2011)
44. ↑ Stephen D'Angelo - Forum posting (3 January 2012)
45. ↑ ^{45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3} Podcast UGC #47 - Al Rivera interview (January 18 2012
46. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
47. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
48. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (12 August 2011)
49. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
50. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 March 2012)
51. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
52. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
53. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (4 March 2012)
54. ↑ ^{54.0 54.1} Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (3 March 2011)
55. ↑ StarbaseUGC interview with Al Rivera (1 May 2012)
56. ↑ Al Rivera - Forum postnig (4 February 2012)
57. ↑ Outpost Gamez Interview with Dan Stahl (8 April 2011)
58. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (31 October 2011)
59. ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 November 2011)
60. ↑ Priority One interview with Al Rivera (20 April 2012)
61. ↑ ^{61.0 61.1} Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (16 May 2011)
62. ↑ Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (January 2011)
63. ↑ CapnLogan - Forum posting (12 Sept 2011)
64. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (16 February 2011)
65. ↑ Interview with CaptnLogan from February 8 2012
66. ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (19 April 2012)
67. ↑ CapnLogan - Forum posting (12 Sept 2011)
68. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (24 February 2011)
69. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (25 March 2011)
70. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (5 March 2011)
71. ↑ Community Rep Phoxe (15 March 2010)
72. ↑ ^{72.0 72.1 72.2} Dan Stahl - Forum posting (25 February 2011)
73. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting #9,21,29 (8 February 2011)
74. ↑ Dan Stahl - Forum posting (25 February 2011)

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