Starbases are on Tribble!

Hey everyone!

Yesterday's push to Tribble included a large portion of Season 6! Including updates to the Fleet UI!! It appears that we won't be able to actually visit the Fleet Starbase until we reach Tier 1 though.

For those of you with Tribble installed, get in there and start testing! We have a Tribble fleet. Just ask in StonewallFleet channel for an invite and hopefully someone will be online. Everyone in the Tribble fleet has the ability to invite, so if your online and in the fleet, invite whoever asks!

I have several projects up and queued for donations so feel free to load them up. Try to complete the project on the bottom of the list as that should allow us to access our Starbase!

Tholians are, too. :)

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=280841

Awesome! :D Those screenshots look killer.

I was just on the tribble server - and it seems you can visit the fleetbase at tier zero. i dont know if that was another fix they added just today or not.

so the fleet on Tribble is called?? i am asking just cause i wanna be sure I joined the right fleet :)

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I was just on the tribble server - and it seems you can visit the fleetbase at tier zero. i dont know if that was another fix they added just today or not.

Nope, looks like it has to be at Tier 1 to access it.

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so the fleet on Tribble is called?? i am asking just cause i wanna be sure I joined the right fleet :)

Gays in Space, ofc!

Maybe it glitched then, but I was walking around on it while all the Tier I projects were still in progress or not started yet.

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Maybe it glitched then, but I was walking around on it while all the Tier I projects were still in progress or not started yet.

Nope, not a glitch, I was wrong! Halish corrected me. :P

You can access the starbase by going to Eta Eridani Sector Block. You'll find a system call Federation Fleet System and a large mass of ships around it. If you go to it, I'll give you the option to "Approach Fleet Starbase". You can even dock and run around on it! There's currently not much to do on it, but you can look at the Ops, Science, Engineering and Tactical levels!

I joined the official Tribble Fleet for now (Cryptic Tribbles). I have a feeling I might get to test some of the Starbase stuff there earlier than with the Stonewall Fleet.

I'm also not too thrilled about the Stonewall Fleet's name ("Gays in Space"), TBH. Especially with all the discussions about inclusiveness we had going on recently. :dry:

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For now, I have to say I'm really dissapointed by the Starbase's interior. The OPS level looks somewhat good (although a bit silly at Tier 0). The lower levels (Engineering, Science, Tactical) are on par with the Season 2 ship interiors - and that's not a good thing at all. They are everything but creative and sleek. And I really had hopes we were past those designs...

I won't be too fussy about the interior that comes with the initial release. It's obvious they're mainly worried about the mechanics at the moment, with a graphics+customization upgrade to come. Those seem like sensible priorities to me.

I can't really remember a single update/Tribble test over the past two years were this sentiment was ever true.

It would be cool with me, if these interiors were just for testing purposes. But usually with Tribble it's "what you see is what you get" - especially cosmetic- and design-wise.

There's a slim chance that only the Tier 0 interiors look that amateurish. If that's not the case, I will be fussy - some of the areas are straight copies from some very early missions. People could come up with more sensible and aesthetic designs in the Foundry and I'd expect some more love for detail from the same guys who made some very awesome maps in recent releases (TOS & Belfast interior, revamped parts of DS9, Facility 4029, Utopia Planitia).

I'm just saying: Now might still be enough time to make some noise so the devs will work on custom Starbase interiors. Once this is live, it will stay this way - ship interiors have pretty much proven this.

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I can't really remember a single update/Tribble test over the past two years were this sentiment was ever true.

It would be cool with me, if these interiors were just for testing purposes. But usually with Tribble it's "what you see is what you get" - especially cosmetic- and design-wise.

There's a slim chance that only the Tier 0 interiors look that amateurish. If that's not the case, I will be fussy - some of the areas are straight copies from some very early missions. People could come up with more sensible and aesthetic designs in the Foundry and I'd expect some more love for detail from the same guys who made some very awesome maps in recent releases (TOS & Belfast interior, revamped parts of DS9, Facility 4029, Utopia Planitia).

I'm just saying: Now might still be enough time to make some noise so the devs will work on custom Starbase interiors. Once this is live, it will stay this way - ship interiors have pretty much proven this.

I'm gonna bet what's on Tribble is what will be on Holodeck at launch. I was a bit disappointed that the only unique map is the Ops level, but I think they were wanting to save the development time for other things. One of the Deves said that the next Foundry push will include more projects that unlock more decorative objects, hopefully, filling up the ops level a bit. They've said we'll be able to create our own maps with the Foundry eventually and I bet that's what they're waiting on to do neat things with the interiors. Hopefully then, they'll put some real development time into creating very Trek assets.

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I'm also not too thrilled about the Stonewall Fleet's name ("Gays in Space"), TBH. Especially with all the discussions about inclusiveness we had going on recently. :dry:

Do you not consider yourself part of the gay community?

Tumerboy just confirmed that the interiors won't change with different tiers. :( Meh, somehow those lazy lower deck levels are really frustrating. Usually I'm not that negative with Cryptic but that somehow crosses a line for me.

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Do you not consider yourself part of the gay community?

I do, others might not. And there is a difference in being part of the "gay community" or being referred to as "gays".

Don't need any drama about it and I'm also not picking a fight here - just pointing out that issues like that have been brought to attention in the last couple of weeks and it might not be the most considerate wording in light of these discussions.

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Tumerboy just confirmed that the interiors won't change with different tiers. :( Meh, somehow those lazy lower deck levels are really frustrating. Usually I'm not that negative with Cryptic but that somehow crosses a line for me.

Don't worry! They'll integrate the Foundry soon enough and then our Starbase(s) interiors will be amazing!

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I do, others might not. And there is a difference in being part of the "gay community" or being referred to as "gays".

Don't need any drama about it and I'm also not picking a fight here - just pointing out that issues like that have been brought to attention in the last couple of weeks and it might not be the most considerate wording in light of these discussions.

No drama intended. :) Just trying to understand.

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Don't worry! They'll integrate the Foundry soon enough and then our Starbase(s) interiors will be amazing!

Yeah. Like they didn't say the same thing about starship interiors four seasons ago. :whistle: :)

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No drama intended. :) Just trying to understand.

Of course. :) Hope I could explain it a bit.

Granted, I don't have any experience with these updates to draw on. I do agree that they're probably not planning a graphical overhaul before launch. (I'm not sure I would want to wait for it in any case!) I was thinking more along the lines of post-launch improvements. That might take the form of full customization with a beefed-up foundry, or a set of optional reskins like those applied to ship interiors. I just find it very unlikely that a single unalterable interior that everybody has to use is a solution that anybody, dev team included, thinks is tenable for any length of time.

As for terminology, obviously I can't speak for every LGBT person, but I personally have never had any problem with "gays" or "queers" as catchall group terms, even though both would be misleading if I used them to refer to myself specifically. Maybe we should see if anyone has personal objections to that term being applied to them?

For some reason, we've run out of Projects to Queue on Tribble so we might reach a point where we don't have any place to donate to. This may be a bug or due to us leveling the Shipyard currently. If you log in and see a project slot empty, don't worry! We'll queue one as soon as we can.

Great news, everyone!

We've completed upgrading our Shipyard and have earned our first 1,000 Fleet XP! We're now in the progress of upgrading our Starbase to Tier 1!

Doing so seems to have unlocked some new assignments for us and I've queued some new projects, including our first project to provision Fleet ships!

While all of this is really exciting, this is Tribble after all and not everything is available. My understanding is that none of the unlocks are currently working, therefor Mail and the Stores on the Starbase are still not accessible. (Meaning ships can't currently be purchased.)

Here's some photos of USS Stonewall docked at the Shipyard. :P

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