I've just started playing GTA online and loving it. If you are still looking to set up a crew, count me in :)

Stay tuned to the event thread update later on today for the costume award categories ;)

I have some awesome ideas too... just not sure if I can make them work!

Guinan, possibly Kai Winn.

I have the most craziest, the most scariest idea for a costume and I am feeling very nice about giving clue about what mine is going to be.

1.Crappy outfits for most of their Star Trek appearance.

2.Came across as annoying to some people.

3.Who would never see them most of the time unless you really needed them.

This is all the clues I am giving. Anymore and I could give it away to you all too easily..

OMG CUTE DINOS!!!!

So who has read this and who hasn't....

For those that have read it, what are your thoughts on it?

and for those that haven't, you should at least read the first chapter and see if you like it or not.

would love to hear from anyone on their thoughts about this.

I effing love dinosaurs so much...

After my HDD crashed and burned, I have yet to reinstall STO... This may just make me do it.

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Heyy El, any idea when they would need content for the next issue? I'd like to do a write up of our existing Guild events or something!

Hey Shiny. Calx needs any submissions for the November - December edition by November the 21st.

Thank you for your interest! :cheer:

Each of my toons has a distinct general theme for their ships.

Quinn (tac main): Determination and Compromise
Currently flying: Arbiter - JHAS
Other ships include: Armistice, Adamant, Resolute

Liet (sci alt): Continuum and Linearity
Currently flying: U.S.S. Origin - Wells Temporal Science Vessel
Other ships include: Continuity, Creation, Meridian

Atreides (engi alt): Emotions and Instability
Currenlty flying: U.S.S. Solace - Fleet Avenger Battle Cruiser
Other ships include: Avarice, Asylum, Fury

Feyd (Rommie tac alt): Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince/Token novel series
Currently flying: A.R.W. Azh'rei - Temporal Destroyer
Other ships include: Kir'rei, Diarmadh'rei, Faradh'rei

"Open the door get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur!"

I will sing this if we can have one of these as a vanity pet

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It's dinosaurs on a spaceship!

I was almost going to say that :laugh:

With mint frosting. Please remember the mint frosting.

It's dinosaurs on a spaceship!

I'll bring the cellular peptide cake! :laugh:

I voted Unity also.


hehehehehehe

Further info and pics of the Voth have been released in today's Dev Blog. Looks pretty cool though I think I'll be getting some dino crisis flashbacks periodically. :P


Designing the Voth

The Voth are an interesting group. They’re highly evolved, technologically advanced dinosaurs that left Earth millions of years ago to avoid impending doom (according to the “Distant Origin Theory” that some of the Voth believe in). We’ve been toying with the idea of using them as a villain group in Star Trek Online for quite a while now. We started doing initial Voth creature sketches back in 2010, but they were shelved when we decided to go in a different direction. The Sphere has finally given us the perfect venue to bring this group to life.

We knew immediately that in order to make this group a really interesting player experience it was going to need a lot of variety. We talked with the game design team and started to get a feel for what they wanted to see in the species. We kicked around a lot of ideas and had some debates about how to represent them. The Voth in "Distant Origin" (Star Trek: Voyager, Ep 3×23) are portrayed as highly evolved scientists, and we wondered whether or not they would even have a military. In the end, we decided that it would be in the game’s best interest to design the Voth in the Sphere as a technologically advanced group of soldiers. We talked about everything from mechs and dinosaurs to flying creatures and super soldiers. At one point our Lead Designer, CaptainGeko, said, “all I want is dinosaurs with frickin’ laser beams on their heads!” We all chuckled, and then he said, “I’m being serious; this is a game. Let’s have some fun!” So we did, and what we ended up with was almost too much diversity!

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This is probably the most complex group we’ve done on the art side. There’s the base Voth humanoid, and then we have a Voth in power armor, a class of mechs with jumpjets and a whole group of dinosaurs with frickin’ laser beams on their heads! For the Voth humanoid, we stuck pretty close to what we’d seen in the show, a dino humanoid that looks like it might have evolved from a Hadrosaur, with the largest similarity being the cranial crest. When it came to the mechs and armor however, we got to play with the designs. In general, because they are so advanced technologically, we went with a sleek futuristic look on all of their tech bits with smooth flowing lines and not a lot of right angles.

Because they’re antagonists and we wanted to make sure they looked like something that needed to be fought, we made sure to add a few toothy looking knife points into the costume designs. Mimicking the ship designs, we went with mostly blues and greens for the parts that glow, such as lights and tech panels. Then to keep them from feeling too generic sci-fi, we added some interesting ornamentation to their designs by incorporating a kind of wavy tiger stripe pattern that we gleaned from some of the outfits in the Voyager episode. Adding this one small design element really helped to bring a level of cohesion and uniqueness to their design and lets us know that these creatures take pride in their appearance and care about more than just function.

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We’re still putting the finishing touches on the Voth, but what we have so far really is a visually interesting enemy group. Add to that all of the new and exciting gameplay scenarios and environments that players are going to encounter, and The Sphere is really shaping up to be an amazing update to this ever-expanding game.

We hope you enjoy it!

Jeremy Mattson
Art Lead
Star Trek Online

Boooo hope!

Unity! Unity! Unity!!

Heyy El, any idea when they would need content for the next issue? I'd like to do a write up of our existing Guild events or something!