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146 – Gekosaurus Rex | Priority One: A Star Trek News Podcast

Elijah 2013-10-21 594 28


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146Greetings, Captains! Welcome to the 146th episode of the premier Star Trek Online podcast record live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday October 17th and published for download on Monday, October 21st at PriorityOnePodcast.com!

James has had to call in sick with a case of Andorian Shingles this week, so Tony and Elijah are your hosts this week for an incredible show! In this episode we interview Star Trek Online’s Lead Designer Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera and ask him the questions everyone in the community would like answers to, but before we do that, we’ll be skipping Trek It Out this week and jumping right into This Week in STO News covering Season 8 Dev Blogs 4, 5 and 6; the return of the Dilithium Featured Projects, Foundry Challenge #8, what you can do if you want to undertake your own five-year mission and finally we’ll be reviewing the latest intel reports on the Voth! After our interview, ChivarlyBean reviews In The Shadow of Midas by GreenDragoon in this week’s community spotlight segment before we go all ahead full into Hailing Frequencies and listen to your incoming messages!

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This Week’s Community Question

  • What are your thoughts on what’s coming with the upcoming Season 8 release? Let us know in the comments below!

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Elijah

Elio is a Northern New Jersey Cuban-American and graduate of Kean University, having earned his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance in 2011. He has performed in internationally renowned performance halls such as Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, as a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and in Beijing, China as a representative for Kean University. Since 2012, he has had the wonderful opportunity to Executive Produce Priority One – the premiere Star Trek Online podcast. Whether recruiting, managing the global team of talented volunteers, arranging interviews with special guests, editing, web-development, finding sponsors, managing crowd funding, or writing content for the podcast, Elio has a hand in it all. A long-time Trekkie, Elio has been watching the series since he was a child and sneaking in late night, back-to-back, episodes of TNG reruns. He finally embraced the Trekdom in college and spent many hours catching up on the entire multiverse…. instead of studying.

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  1. Arcanum70 on 2013-10-23

    I was kind of taken aback by the comment about F2P and the Tribble server. While I am sure that traffic on Hologram goes down a bit, the inference that those of us that are on the game as F2P don’t think that the games means enough to us to financially support it is off base. MANY of us support by buying zen, I know that I am a F2P player that spends between 50 and 100 a month in zen (then I buy keys or ship with the zen).

    Just because I don’t give Cryptic a monthly fee of $14.95 that does not mean that I don’t see value in the game or spend money in the game.

    One would think that the hosts of this program would be able to choose how they try to make points in a way that does not alienate a sizable chunk of the players.

    • Elijah on 2013-10-23

      Thank you for your feedback and I am sorry you felt alienated. The truth is our guest presented an argument backed by legitimate statistics — it wasn’t conjecture. More importantly, the discussion was not about financial support from F2P-ers; but that players (as a whole) are less likely to replay missions when Beta testing.

      As a matter of fact, we choose — weekly — how we make points and have welcomed feedback from our listeners. As a matter of fact, we frequently invite players from all shapes, sizes, and play-styles to join us on the show and offer their unique expertise in STO.

      Thanks for listening!

  2. Arcanum70 on 2019-01-30

    I was kind of taken aback by the comment about F2P and the Tribble server. While I am sure that traffic on Hologram goes down a bit, the inference that those of us that are on the game as F2P don’t think that the games means enough to us to financially support it is off base. MANY of us support by buying zen, I know that I am a F2P player that spends between 50 and 100 a month in zen (then I buy keys or ship with the zen).

    Just because I don’t give Cryptic a monthly fee of $14.95 that does not mean that I don’t see value in the game or spend money in the game.

    One would think that the hosts of this program would be able to choose how they try to make points in a way that does not alienate a sizable chunk of the players.

    • Elijah on 2019-01-30

      Thank you for your feedback and I am sorry you felt alienated. The truth is our guest presented an argument backed by legitimate statistics — it wasn’t conjecture. More importantly, the discussion was not about financial support from F2P-ers; but that players (as a whole) are less likely to replay missions when Beta testing.

      As a matter of fact, we choose — weekly — how we make points and have welcomed feedback from our listeners. As a matter of fact, we frequently invite players from all shapes, sizes, and play-styles to join us on the show and offer their unique expertise in STO.

      Thanks for listening!

  3. Mobius on 2013-10-22

    I really like the proposed reputation changes. I certainly skip MK X stuff in favor of saving up for the MK XII stuff. Getting the X – XI stuff as rewards for doing the rep project sounds like a great idea.

  4. seannewboy on 2013-10-22

    A truly splendiferous example of the spoken word entertainment artform. Thanks to Chivalrybean on his latest review.

  5. @KirkRyder on 2013-10-22

    You have done all us Silver users a favour, by not being able to go into tribble, we do not have to do it all again. Which makes it feel like a chore. So I am all for gold users going in and wasting time, and getting bored quicker. However I was never a fan of Dino-bots…

  6. Mobius on 2019-01-30

    I really like the proposed reputation changes. I certainly skip MK X stuff in favor of saving up for the MK XII stuff. Getting the X – XI stuff as rewards for doing the rep project sounds like a great idea.

  7. tom jones on 2013-10-22

    I cant believe you wasted half the interview on your personal fight to get a mark conversion system what a waste of time.

    • Lennon on 2013-10-22

      Hi Tom,

      Thanks for your feedback. There is more of the interview to be released later in the week which will hopefully satisfy your craving for more information, so keep an eye out for it!

  8. seannewboy on 2019-01-30

    A truly splendiferous example of the spoken word entertainment artform. Thanks to Chivalrybean on his latest review.

  9. @KirkRyder on 2019-01-30

    You have done all us Silver users a favour, by not being able to go into tribble, we do not have to do it all again. Which makes it feel like a chore. So I am all for gold users going in and wasting time, and getting bored quicker. However I was never a fan of Dino-bots…

  10. tom jones on 2019-01-30

    I cant believe you wasted half the interview on your personal fight to get a mark conversion system what a waste of time.

    • Lennon on 2019-01-30

      Hi Tom,

      Thanks for your feedback. There is more of the interview to be released later in the week which will hopefully satisfy your craving for more information, so keep an eye out for it!

  11. Zeb on 2013-10-22

    Any bets on what the new ship tied to the FE will be?

  12. DaUnknownAdmin on 2013-10-21

    Great Interview!

    My thoughts…

    I would say 5 plays over 30 days, says more about the content then player preference. It appears apparent that its Time to revamp some of those missions. I’m doubtful that simply throwing extra marks is the answer.

    Additionally, When players have 3, soon to be 4 separate REP Grinds with 20 hour cooldowns, time then becomes an issue and therefore seeking “the path of least resistance” inevitably becomes the next logical step.

  13. Zeb on 2019-01-30

    Any bets on what the new ship tied to the FE will be?

  14. Jakestone on 2013-10-21

    Lol its a trek game for fans so there must be a balance inbetween ground and space missions what make s a good trek game.

  15. DaUnknownAdmin on 2019-01-30

    Great Interview!

    My thoughts…

    I would say 5 plays over 30 days, says more about the content then player preference. It appears apparent that its Time to revamp some of those missions. I’m doubtful that simply throwing extra marks is the answer.

    Additionally, When players have 3, soon to be 4 separate REP Grinds with 20 hour cooldowns, time then becomes an issue and therefore seeking “the path of least resistance” inevitably becomes the next logical step.

  16. Col3 on 2013-10-21

    I believe that it may tie into the breen featured episode. You never do learn what the mysterious predecessors really are.

  17. Pax on 2013-10-21

    I like the reasons im hearing, but my big question is when will KDF get more love?

  18. Jakestone on 2019-01-30

    Lol its a trek game for fans so there must be a balance inbetween ground and space missions what make s a good trek game.

  19. Col3 on 2019-01-30

    I believe that it may tie into the breen featured episode. You never do learn what the mysterious predecessors really are.

  20. Pax on 2019-01-30

    I like the reasons im hearing, but my big question is when will KDF get more love?

  21. Towani on 2013-10-21

    The new Voth stuff looks cool, but honestly, I love this game for the space, not the ground combat. To me, it’s still just clunky. Space feels right, but ground feels like I’m playing an old N64 game. To me, space and ground is night and day difference. All this to say I look forward to S8, but unless the ground ‘feel’ has been worked on, I foresee only playing around with the space part of it.

  22. Towani on 2019-01-30

    The new Voth stuff looks cool, but honestly, I love this game for the space, not the ground combat. To me, it’s still just clunky. Space feels right, but ground feels like I’m playing an old N64 game. To me, space and ground is night and day difference. All this to say I look forward to S8, but unless the ground ‘feel’ has been worked on, I foresee only playing around with the space part of it.

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