{"id":1615,"date":"2010-03-14T19:56:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-03-15T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:52:56","slug":"coming-up-in-sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/03\/coming-up-in-sto.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming up in STO &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" style=\"width: 74px; height: 112px;\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sto.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The STO Season One &#8220;Common Ground&#8221; update, sometime real soon now (&#8220;Mid-March&#8221;).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/season_one\">Features<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>PVP  Updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wargames<\/strong> \u2013 Federation players can now  participate in PvP against one another to better prepare for the dangers  of the battlefield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um &#8230; PvP meh.\u00a0 But new PvP map will likely mean a new PvE map to use, so that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Customization<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Off-Duty Uniforms<\/strong> \u2013 Experience DS9 in style!  Starfleet officers will have the option to change into off-duty outfits  to enjoy more casual attire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the presumption this will cost extra, meh.\u00a0 I can imagine that if I were doing more RPGing, this would be of value.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Stances and Hairstyles<\/strong> \u2013 Further customize your  Captain by changing his or her hairstyle, or adopting two brand new  stances: Stern and Relaxed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New stances always good.\u00a0 Actually, the ability to dynamically change your stance would be welcome.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Captain&#8217;s Log<\/strong> &#8211; A web-based application to  check in on you and your friends&#8217; Captains and ships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You mean, a website portal to our characters and their ships?\u00a0 Excellent!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Ships<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A New Klingon Battle Cruiser<\/strong> \u2013 The K\u2019Tanco  Battle Cruiser has been made available to Klingon Lieutenant Commanders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Klingon Ship Customization<\/strong> &#8211; Use the ship tailor to  customize your Bird of Prey, Carrier or Raptor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fine, fine.\u00a0 When I finally roll up a Klingon, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find this cool.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Missions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Fleet Actions Everywhere!<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Big Dig<\/strong> \u2013 Available in Romulan space.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DS9 Under Siege<\/strong> &#8211; The True Way has attacked and  boarded DS9. Repel the invasion to save the day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Klingons Can Play, Too<\/strong> \u2013 Klingon Captains may now  access the Crystalline Entity, Big Dig and Breaking the Planet Fleet  Actions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Skills<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Respec Is Here<\/strong> \u2013 Unhappy with your Captain\u2019s  skill point allocation? Use the respec tool to change things up.  (Available both in-game and as a C-store item.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t see a personal need for this, but some folks do.\u00a0 Hopefully Cryptic will have learned some costing lessons here from CO.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Skill: Starship Attack Vectors<\/strong> \u2013 Improve your  ship\u2019s accuracy and critical hit chance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Skill: Combat Maneuvers<\/strong> \u2013 Improve your ship\u2019s  evasion and turn rate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Skill: Starship Battle Strategy<\/strong> \u2013 Improve your  ship\u2019s critical hit severity and damage resistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All good-sounding stuff, though I&#8217;m not sure we need more skills to split our skill points out onto.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>In The C-Store<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Bridge Variants<\/strong> &#8211; All new ways to update  your Bridges\u2019 look, available for a low price in the C-Store for both  Federation and Klingon ships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Federation Ship Variants<\/strong> \u2013 New takes on your old  favorites, available for a low price in the C-Store.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Respec<\/strong> &#8211; Unhappy with your Captain\u2019s skill point  allocation?  Use the respec tool to change things up.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Character Slot<\/strong> &#8211; Purchase an additional character  slot if you&#8217;d like to have more than three characters on your account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rename<\/strong> &#8211; Changed your mind about the cool name you  chose? Get it legally changed! Recognized across the Alpha Quadrant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Federation Playable Species<\/strong> &#8211; Become a  Tellarite, Pakled or Rigelian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well,  no big surprises here, though it&#8217;s good to see some new stuff finally showing up in the C-Store.  Holding out for the Caitian playable species, though &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is only a bit of the changes, fixes and updates coming to <em>Star  Trek Online<\/em> in March. Season One: Common Ground will be available  in mid-March. For a full list of what will be available in Season One,  please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.startrekonline.com\/forumdisplay.php?f=158\">the  Engineering Reports forum<\/a>. Interested in checking things out early?  Visit the Tribble test server forums for early <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.startrekonline.com\/showthread.php?t=136484\">release  notes<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STO Season One &#8220;Common Ground&#8221; update, sometime real soon now (&#8220;Mid-March&#8221;).\u00a0 Features: PVP Updates Wargames \u2013 Federation players can now participate in PvP against one another to better prepare for the dangers of the battlefield. Um &#8230; PvP meh.\u00a0 But new PvP map will likely mean a new PvE map to use, so that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/03\/coming-up-in-sto.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming up in STO &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules","category-star-trek-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}