Newest Ask Cryptic for Star Trek Online available

Started playing the game recently and while it's not perfect by any means, I really appreciate the dev communication that I've seen so far. Goes a long way in my book.

"...we have the core R&D team investigating whether we can collapse all the sector maps into one giant uber galaxy map. If we do that, then it is [just] a matter of adding or expanding more locations to the one sector. This could be a Season 5 feature if the tech works out properly."

W000TTT!!!!!

With launching Season 4, the entire team is focused on adding new content over the months ahead that will utilize all the new cool features and combat updates in this release. We are currently in development on the following content: Featured Episode Series 4 which will take place around Deep Space 9, Special Task Force updates to improve and balance these missions into something fun and/or challenging to play, Borg Invasion Events which will include a weekly ground assault on a to be announced species homeworld as well as hourly Borg Deep Space incursions into all sectors, new locale flavored neighborhood missions for social zones, OpenPVP Encounters, and four new Fleet Actions (1 exclusive ground and space FA for each faction). So yes. We absolutely plan to release some great new content to show off the new combat updates in Season 4. All of this content is currently scheduled to release at various stages in Season 4 between now and October.

Here is all my worldly possesions. Please take them as payment for this and give me this stuff NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW!!!!

You gotta love people who 18 months after the game was released still defends a game with incomplete KDF (making pvp a joke), no endgame at all (a few random 5man missions offering nothing for larger fleets does not make an endgame), got a crafting system that is better than at launch is still horrible, got zero sense of true star trek exploration (randomly generated crap missions doesn´t make for exploration) and that butchers star trek lore while charging not only 15 dollars per month but also has a store with ships for sale..

imo STO is awesome.. I am not a big Trek fan (I do like it though), I'll watch a show from time to time..
But I think this game is great.. It started off a little rough, but each update it just keeps getting better and better.. not one step backwards for Cryptic..

Can't wait for Season 4 to hit live.. oooo.. and looking forward to Season 5 now too.. :)..

Star Trek Online Rocks.. !!

I picked up STO a couple of weeks ago when it was on weekend sale on Steam and I admit I enjoyed my month.
But beyond that, the game offered little incentive to make me stay.
Once you reach "the endgame" you have ssen it all.
Space combat (PvE) was very, err, "uniform". Fly a cruiser ? Keep your enemy on your side und hit it with a broadside of beams. Fly an escort ? Keep your enemy in front of you and hit it with your cannons. Rinse & repeat till level 51. (Also, too much combat for Star Trek, at least Federation side)
Ground combat (PvE) past level 20 was either trivial (on normal difficulty) or unbalanced (on the higher difficulties) to the point of being unfair.

The features episodes (their "seasons" I believe) were nice, but there were only three of them and once you go Klingon (who have almost no unique content) you run those all day long to level. And when you play the same mission for the 40th time, you're going to start to hate it :(

Are there any vids of the the changes to ground combat?

That is a huge improvement and it feels ver sci fi