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Star Trek Online Lead Designer - Cryptic Studios "If you gave every player a gold bar, some would still complain that it weighs too much."

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It sounds like @counselor-sunna.bsky.social intends to have our VOD posted in the wee hours, when they return to work tmrw.

If you cannot wait that long, @casualsab.bsky.social has posted a version to his YouTube page (including auto-caption) which can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRa9...

15.07.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not likely. I meant more along the lines of missions that involve exploration. Kinda like "Sunrise" and the few missions surrounding it.

15.07.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've seen lots of folks ask this in various places.

I believe the plan is to make the VOD available on our Twitch page. But seeing as its our first livestream, I can't guarantee that we know how to do that!

Also, all the Europeans are probably in bed by now. So tomorrow at the earliest, I suspect.

15.07.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Don't miss the return of #StarTrekOnline Ten Forward today! Dev post:

"To properly introduce DECA and the new STO team to you, we will be live at 11am PT! Get to know some of our leadership and find out more about our plans for the future of STO!"

Broadcasting live from: twitch.tv/decagameslive

15.07.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

And in case it's not obvious, we're discussing if we can improve or optimize this (among MANY other things). Asking players to "turn off logging" isn't a real solution, just a band-aid or workaround that might help.

11.07.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, precisely. Some of our internal testing suggests that, basically, if the Client's busy writing a crapload of info to the Log, it might not be able to simultaneously -- reliably -- send/receive data to/from the Server. Resulting in Lag/Latency-like symptoms.

11.07.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We are investigating server framerates and hardware load. As well as investigating certain performance failures associated with powers & combat mechanics.

It's a slow process, with a tedious pipeline. And I can't even guarantee that these investigations will yield results. But yes... we're trying.

11.07.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good tip here from @casualsab.bsky.social for all you log parsers out there.

11.07.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To be clear, I don't expect this to be a Silver Bullet. Just a potential improvement. And if it's noteworthy, then maybe we can spread the recommendation to all players: Only run your Combat Log when necessary.

11.07.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quick question for any of you super-high-end-DPS players, who are experiencing performance issues (lag, latency, client hitching):

Do you get significant and/or noticeable performance increases if you DISABLE combat logging?

Internally, the answer appears to be "yes" but I'd love verification.

11.07.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is still in the works, but has been scheduled. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available!

08.07.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll be interviewing the #StarTrekOnline developers in just about two hours! Make sure to head to my Twitch and follow so you don't miss when we go live!

www.twitch.tv/VengeanceGOD

#sto #trek #startrek #trekkie

08.07.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[New Developer Post]

"The Federation Intel Holoship is en route to all of you, Captains! Tomorrow, at 11am PT, some of your favorite Devs; Thomas Marrone, Jeremy Randall and Pundus, will be on Stream with EndeavourGameOn to talk about our Summer Event Ship!"
twitch.tv/endeavourgam...

30.06.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Note, this includes reverting of the undocumented patch a couple of weeks ago to the "Fleet Power Network Array" console.

01.07.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Patch Notes for 7/1/25 Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go in this expanding vast universe.

Today's patch includes a reversion of some recent changes made to the Fleet Power Network Array. We've updated the Patch Notes page with that fix, as well as adding some developer commentary on the situation.

www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/arti...

01.07.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok. You're not the only player reportedly affected by this partial fixup. We're still investigating internally to see if we can figure out what went wrong, and how to make it right.

01.07.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are aware that there were issues with the most recent Mudd Megabundle, and performed some updates on our end to fix them. You should have received those ships in your in-game mail. Have you checked there?

01.07.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everything is technically possible, given enough time and resources.

That being said, I have no idea how we'd even do this, so I feel like it's extremely unlikely to be considered, or implemented.

01.07.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An alternate version of the infographic for this ship has been available, too!

30.06.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The 2025 Risian Lohlunat Festival Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go in this expanding vast universe.

New Developer Blog:

"The 2025 Risian Lohlunat Festival"
Enjoy the annual Lohlunat Festival and receive some amazing rewards, including a Grand Prize Starship!
[From July 1st, 2025 until July 30th, 2025]
www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/arti...

30.06.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Agreed on all counts -- Warbirds in general are wildly inconsistent in terms of classifications, abilities, slotting, seating, all of it. This was By Design when initially done, but it still causes a lot of ongoing complication when determining what a ship "is" and "isn't" and "should be" and so on.

25.06.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Valid!

25.06.2025 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kinetic cutting beam is not an omni beam like the others. It does not respond to beam firing modes.

25.06.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I was gonna write up another rebuttal, but I don't think it's worth either of our energies to argue a point that we won't agree on. If you wanna keep trying to convince me, you're welcome to it... maybe you'll succeed one day. But right now, this just isn't on the table.

25.06.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cruisers have Cruiser Auras.

25.06.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you send me the exact names of the 4 "omni beam" items you have equipped? So I can see if there's a data setup error that needs fixing.

25.06.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The results weren't mixed. We lost players. It was not good for the long-term health of the game.

25.06.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should only ever be able to use 2 Omni beams. Sounds like some of our recent stuff might not be set up correctly.

25.06.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good for them!

We quite frankly don't have anywhere near the time or resources that'd be necessary to accomplish this.

25.06.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As for the "minimum" time, all of these entries are allowed to be Zero. But if we are trying to play any sort of activation VFX when the power goes off, these are typically non-zero values in order for the visuals and power effects to match timing. Which is extremely common, on nearly all abilities.

25.06.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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