TOS Temperal Agent bundle

Looks like at least the last 2 temp ships will be "faction agnostic", that i can accept.

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I think it'll be a cool expansion and I'm glad a couple of those temporal ships are cross faction. I definitely want to check out that Eternal class multi-mission science vessel. It kinda looks like a Wells class to me.

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Looks like at least the last 2 temp ships will be "faction agnostic", that i can accept.

Swall Art on reddit.

ooo thanks... hmm what does the registry "NCV" stand for? i see it on the Paladin Class

I am guessing cv is coalition vessel.

I can get behind what Nick said in part, however that ship he is talking about... well it looks like a pancake saucer with little bug legs or antlers sticking out the back after getting squished.

Again...NO KDF love. I hold my ground until they do better.

Come on Lars, you should at least like the T6 Temporal Science Vessel Nautilus Class...it looks like a pizza cutter wheel! :lol:

I grew up with TOS. I am looking forward to this expansion. It seems to me that it is going to finally bring exploration into the game. I am stuck on trying to figure out how you would level 0-60. The amount of content they'd have to push would be phenomenal. It will be interesting to see this all come to fruition.

Looking forward to this expansion!

So A couple of things:

1. I am super stoked/confused about this expansion... though there is more info to come on it. Confusion comes from TOS/Fed separation.
2. I am looking forward to the temporal ships, though based on how they look, the 26th century ships appear as if they need some final work... the resolution on them seem...off.
3. I hope that this panders to the Romulan and Klingon side as well and that they have not released the info on it yet.

One thing Nick mentioned is Exploration and when Cryptic comes out with that again I will be very happy, and for demands sake... well... let's throw in some more bloody bat'leth/melee tournaments and ability to create/queue for them hehe. Qa'pla!

I for one was already tired of the time travel stuff in game. It's a plot that I just despise in stories and I've pretty much just been ignoring this whole temporal thing in game. Now they are doing an entire time travel expansion. Bleh.

The only thing I hate more is "alternate universes" so don't even get me started on that arc.....

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I for one was already tired of the time travel stuff in game. It's a plot that I just despise in stories and I've pretty much just been ignoring this whole temporal thing in game. Now they are doing an entire time travel expansion. Bleh.

The only thing I hate more is "alternate universes" so don't even get me started on that arc.....

Does anyone think this may also be a ploy to draw in the J.J. crowd too?

Let's see some others thoughts on this (random sampling of course):

Spectator 1: "Oh the humanity if it is..."
Spectator 2: "There goes the neighborhood!"
Spectator 3: "I like turtles."

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Does anyone think this may also be a ploy to draw in the J.J. crowd too?

It's not clear to me there is a JJ crowd - that is, fans that've been drawn into the franchise by virtue of JJ's reboot series.

For better or worse, I can't think of them not having been previously familiar, much less preferring existing Paramount/CBS materials.

If I had to guess, it's more about providing Cryptic an out - a mechanism to retcon and overwrite their entire storyline as a recursion of temporal mechanics, depending on how the Bryan Fuller show decides to play it.

Ultimately, wasn't that the point of Enterprise's much-revilved Temporal Cold War arc? To give that show license to futz about with the existing continuity by building in the retcon into the premise?

If any of you missed it, Al Rivera was one P1 Podcast the other day and here are the bullet points posted by Massively OP:

• This is essentially a new faction that’s playable in the original series (TOS) era, although marketing was hesitant to label it as a “faction” due to possible confusion.
• Rivera explained the difference between a season in Star Trek Online and an expansion, with the latter usually containing something epic, such as a level cap increase, new things to do in the endgame, or a new faction.
• Cryptic loves expansions since they get new and veteran players to all start together at the same point.
• The expansion takes place in 2270, after the third season of TOS and three years before the movies. For comparison, the current era of Star Trek Online takes place in 2409.
• The current Future Proof arc in the game will lead into the expansion’s story.
• Agents of Yesterday will have its own tutorial, starting experience, and sector block.
• All players, TOS and modern, will be able to come together at some point, although Cryptic isn’t explaining how that will work yet (Rivera pointed to what they did with the Romulans as a possible path).
• Modern captains will be able to access at least some of the story arcs of the expansion, although there will be dialogue differences depending on which era you’re from.
• There are other actors and celebs that Cryptic hasn’t announced yet for the expansion.
• The team isn’t “shoehorning” Chase Masterson’s Leeta in; her presence will make sense.
• Expect iconic moments, locations, and characters harkening back to the best of TOS.
• “This story is going to resonate with TOS fans,” Rivera said.
• New captains will only be able to pick races that make sense for TOS era, so no Bajoran, Cardassians, etc. Also, Klingons and Romulans will not be playable then because TOS was mostly about the Federation (and Cryptic ain’t got time for that).
• There will be plenty of blog posts coming out between now and the expansion at the rate of about two per week.
• Rivera stressed that Agents of Yesterday is not a separate game because they didn’t want to split the community.
• Cryptic did consider creating a new TOS game but decided that an expansion was a better idea.
• Cryptic is in talks with CBS about the upcoming 2017 Star Trek series and working with them, but nothing is set in stone yet. They may or may not be doing something together.

Source: Massively OP

Like most have guessed, this is going to be a mini-faction. If this is the direction every expansion is going to take, a new faction for us to roll new characters in, I'm going to be pretty disappointed. I have enough characters as it is. I don't need to be adding on a couple more every year. How does Cryptic expect people to keep up with that?

I guess this is the monetization scheme of expansions. Get everyone to start new characters so they buy more inventory slots, more bank slots, more doff slots, more dry dock slots, more boff slots, new faction-themed ships, uniforms and everything else.

It wasn't in that list, but he also asked how many ships had been announced for the pack, indicating that they will be announcing more in the future, which also happened with the LOR pack.

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It wasn't in that list, but he also asked how many ships had been announced for the pack, indicating that they will be announcing more in the future, which also happened with the LOR pack.

I hope that = T6 Connie!

He also said that the T6 Fed ships in this pack could wear the skins of their T1-T5 counterparts. So I 'm already planning on keeping my Temporal TOS-er ships looking old school!

If that interferes with anyone's immersion, Q is my Chief Engineer! :P

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If any of you missed it, Al Rivera was one P1 Podcast the other day and here are the bullet points posted by Massively OP:

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Like most have guessed, this is going to be a mini-faction. If this is the direction every expansion is going to take, a new faction for us to roll new characters in, I'm going to be pretty disappointed. I have enough characters as it is. I don't need to be adding on a couple more every year. How does Cryptic expect people to keep up with that?

I guess this is the monetization scheme of expansions. Get everyone to start new characters so they buy more inventory slots, more bank slots, more doff slots, more dry dock slots, more boff slots, new faction-themed ships, uniforms and everything else.

I'm actually pretty excited for this since I grew up watching TOS re-runs on VHS, but I'll concede that expansion is likely only going to appeal to a small subset of the current Star Trek fandom, many of whom were raised primarily on TNG or later series. Since the TOS universe is so unique in it's cornyness in terms of ships and set designs, etc, I almost think that it needs it's own mini-expansion to not seem ridiculous in the 2409 STO universe. I think there's only so many times you can write time travel episodes to engage a modern timeline player with the TOS universe before it gets a little too much.

I'm hoping that this will take me back to the likes of the Star Trek 25th anniversary PC game that I loved so dearly. I'd love to do a YouTube video of a play-through of both games side by side to see how far Star Trek PC gaming has come in the 25 years. I'm DROOLING over the familiar TOS locations, stories and HOPEFULLY TOS themed music! :D

Stoked!

Curtailing to a select few... really??? Yet, somehow the Klingon's (and well I suppose those Rommies too :P ) do not take precedence as we HAVE been here A LOT longer.

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Curtailing to a select few... really??? Yet, somehow the Klingon's (and well I suppose those Rommies too :P ) do not take precedence as we HAVE been here A LOT longer.

The Rihannsu even longer still.

Im also gonna place a £5 bet that they will prob have that ice cream cone planet killer ship, as the new lock box ship! LOL



FAR to many crazy alien lockbox ships out there it makes sence

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Im also gonna place a £5 bet that they will prob have that ice cream cone planet killer ship, as the new lock box ship! LOL



FAR to many crazy alien lockbox ships out there it makes sence

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