Starfleet Academy coming to STO!

[Christian M. Hanson]

For those of you that have not read it yet.. There is a new Ask Cryptic on the STO forums. Now that the foundry is out, the next big project the developers will be working on, will be Fleet Starbases, also in development, Starfleet Academy!

The direct link can be found here: http://startrekonline.com/node/2370

[Morgan Shackelford]

Q: DecadeComplete How's the T5 Constitution Refit-Refit that was in a recent engineering report doing? Will there ever be a way to purchase "Ship Slots" and "Costume Slots" in game with say 1Mil EC or so?

A: We are working to add more variations to existing ships for both factions and one of the ships they are working on is an additional Constitution refit; however there has been no confirmation that this is a top tier ship. Geko can add more details as we get closer to Season 4 release, but for now, I can only say that we are working with CBS on an alternative refit design.
As far as making ship and costume slots available for in game currency, we are considering finding a way we could offer them for in game currency, or in the case of ship slots, have the ships come with slots as part of the purchase price.

I found that interesting...

[Morgan Shackelford]

Q AdmGriffiths: Can you please explain how the Foundry will be used to edit interiors?

A: Our early designs for the interior editor were quite simple and easy to use. From a top down perspective, you had a grid and could drop premade rooms of various sizes on the grid. You then could connect them with hallway pieces and then determine where to place doors. Objects were then the last thing you could drag and drop. It felt a little bit like designing a house in the Sims. When we add this functionality back into the editor, we hope to retain this simple easy to use interface.

And that, tied in with being able to use the foundry to design our own starbase... well, that will be pretty damn cool.