Now if we only could get some actual useful information, that would be even better. As it is thou, all Cryptic seems to manage to do, is copy-and-paste a pre-posted article from a 3rd Party site.

Furthermore, one wonders where Mr Executive Producer is hiding out, since he didn't bother to post the FIRST of the new blog series. I didn't care much for Mr D'Angelo when he was EP, but he atleast was involved in the writing/posting of most of the previous dev blogs (Pre Season 5)

I must admit a system of housing in STO will be fantastic. I do have one other though, I am guessing you fly to a system to enter your base, would it be possible to choose from a list of choices the backgorund environment (aka Nebula, near a planet, near a star of a selectable color) I think it would be great if visiting bases would be as fun as using one. Which brings me to decorations. Will wall and floor decorations be placable?

Cryptic did a wonderful job on the base system in one other game, I am hoping some of those build a base sort of things will be brought over.

It might also nice to add some base items or decorations to the vetran's reward program.

Hopefuly the smaller bases will be accessable to smaller fleets.

i'm with you on this, i asked about something similar for ships but everyone just complained to me about how much trouble it would take. i say it never hurts to at least try, housing aboard the starbases and berths for the ships would be lovely. me personally i wish for our bases to have way more than what the NPC starbases give us.

And on that note...

If "Fleet Starbases" are located in an entirely instanced / separate zone or system, from the rest of the galaxy, Might we also get a personal "Transwarp to Fleet Starbase" ability, preferrably without a cooldown or shared cooldown with other transwarps?

Mr BranFlakes, or another CM, any forthcoming information anytime soon on DETAILS ? I realize it's "Memorial Day" weekend in the US, but there's gotta be someone who has the information, correct?

Please, may I be so intrusive and ask for proper couches that I can have my Vice Admiral and her BOFFs to chill on?

Btw, Cheers! Really looking forward for this stuff.

this will not be fixed in time the reason kdf dont get the breen off is they want us to buy the new boffs in c-store

I'm not going to lie that I wasn't a bit put off by the fact that Blog#1 is a copy/paste from another site, but I understand that not many people visit STO sites other than this one. For that reason, I suppose this would be the best way to kick off the Season 6 Blogs.


Housing would be a nice addition in the future, but I don't really know how it would be pulled off since the station would need to have X amount of rooms available for the members of the fleet, in which case, there would need to be an entire map dedicated to it. I suppose a function could be added to the powerlift to choose which quarters you want to be taken to, though. Kind of like a doorbell in an apartment complex.

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This was under the assumption that you meant housing on the Starbases. If you meant housing on planetary bases, should we eventually get them, then there's physically more room to work with.

I'm with you on this one, as are a lot of peeps in the previous comments.

IMO, when it comes to trophies, I think only the Fleet Action trophies and ships models of ships in your fleet should be able to be displayed. As for additional decorations, I could see them being added for Dilithium if we can get a Dilithium Fleet pool to go alongside our current EC Fleet pool.

I'm guessing a transwarp would be available simply b/c it's the first thing that popped into my mind as a deciding factor on owning a Starbase to begin with. I seriously doubt the whole separated cooldown on it would come into play, though.

I like what I see so far, but Starbases are such a small piece of this gigantic puzzle that is STO. However, if Fleet Events exclusive to Starbase owners, and/or if Starbase Raids come into the picture, that's a whole different story. I hope to see more in Season 6, such as crafting revamps, rethinking of time gated content, and of course, new missions. Those are my top 3.

In all honesty, what I expect this to look like ~ in game is similar to personal hideouts in Champions. We'll get an option in the drop down menu where "Visit Bridge" is, and once clicked you'll warp into an instance where the station is located. I very seriously doubt that we'll have a static location on the map. That's just a guess, so, take it as such.

This is something I really want to know as well. I belong to two fleets. My main fleet is Stonewall, but I have a second, personal, fleet that's just me a a few friends with our alts. Stonewall has amassed quite a 'nest egg' in anticipation of fleet bases... but my personal fleet, where I am basically the only player, is there any hope of getting even the small base?

Personally, I am not a fan of PvP, but acknowledging the fact that there is a portion of the population that is, I hope that the devs can accommodate both preferences and have any PvP associated with the bases be voluntary. I expect it to be so, since all PvP currently in game is not something that is forced on the player base.

As far as the editing of the appearance of the interiors of the bases, my first thought was this would be a difficult thing to program, but on giving it additional thought, I think that if they go back to their experiences with bases in City of Heroes, the base permissions thing was rather straight forward. Abilities and duties were dictated by rank.. similar to how our current bank situations are. This won't make everyone happy, but then again.. when does that ever happen? lol

As to what options we'll have the ability to edit, this is something I am also very interested in. I doubt we're going to get any in-depth information until much closer to launch of the stations though.

Personally, I am hoping that we'll have the ability to have bank, exchange, tailor and vendor options, similar to the main bases in game now. I know there will be the community and dev concern about taking things out of the "social hubs" .. but I can't think of a rational justification, outside of that, that would prevent having a Sick Bay.. or access to mail and Banking.

Those are my thoughts..

Jolan'tru

I personal don't care where it was posted first, lol. How bout the big questions. With all this tech available, why can't there be choices for each section? so fleets can make something unique. Are there goings to be options for the material look, interior, furnishing, etc. Are we goings to be able to built this thing with EC's, dilithium and crafting mats? or is cryptic going to be really greedy and make us pay CP's? are we going to be able to pick where the station will be built? Maybe let the fleets have their own systems, where they can have resources on hand. with all the diferent tech we're equiping to our toons and ships, we shouldn't be limited to the generic Star Fleet build patern. Why not a station where you can mix SF, Borg, Breen, Reman, etc., and styles from DS9 as well. Give us some options with this, especailly if we're the ones builting it.