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"We cover the Star Trek Online news that is going to be a total game changer, walk you through a STO mission in our new Tactial View segment, and then read your ideas for re-building STO’s crafting system.

PLUS: We’ll ask you your thoughts on our big news story, and share our insights on Craig’s recent State of The Game post."



They're claiming to announce major changes in STO and covering this. I'll update my message once I saw the episode myself.

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UGC is so much win. Especially as a role-player. Tons and tons of great opportunities with it, especially for screenshot based stories. I look forward to it with great trepidation.

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UGC?

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Hehe sorry I assumed everyone would watch the STOked episode before reading my post.

User Generated Content.

Basically it allows people to make missions, scripting, npcs, etc, etc. Oh and then there is obviously a system for sharing them with your friends.

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I've seen what they feature as a major game changer and yeah... It's definately huge and incredibly awesome for RPing!

UGC, or User Generated Content, will allow people to create their own episodes in the game and share them with others. The advantages of this are insane... For one you'd probably never have to be bored again when leveling up, doing the same missions for the 6th time with your alt. You can just play other peoples content.

Also you'll probably always have something to do...

Personally I'm looking forward to creating fleet episodes that feature our starbase. Perhaps we can even use it to create our own starbase...

I can recommend watching the episode.

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Holy expletive!

Correct me if I am wrong but this doesnt exist in any other MMO.. That is the greatest idea I have ever heard of. Any idea when it is planning on going live? I would also like to see the ability for player bases etc to exist in game... kind of like player citys in other IP's

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It actually does exist in one of Cryptic's past games, City of Heroes/Villains. But yes it is completely awesome, a lot of people make better content then the Devs do.

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It could take a full year before it's going live. Don't expect it to be available on the short term since so much is involved. Cryptic does have exeperience at this sorta thing though and yes it is very unique too!

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Still really cool though, tons of potential.


Big thing I am looking for right now would be more ship/character customization. in terms of more uniform options for characters, I want to be able to buy in the c-store or unlock Ds9/voy costumes. I would also like to see a much wider variety of ship varients, it doesnt seem like it should be that diffifcult to implement more varients and my one complaint about the game is everyone is flying around in the same 3 ships.

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Wow, that will open up tons of possibilities; good and bad. But I do like the idea

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