{"id":1044,"date":"2010-08-10T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:28:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T06:28:53","slug":"cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements-for-sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements-for-sto\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic discusses user-generated content and future improvements for STO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sci-fi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/interviews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Interviews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/patches\/\" rel=\"tag\">Patches<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\/\" rel=\"tag\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/2018\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/08\/sto.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/\"><em>Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> concludes its shakedown cruise of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/08\/05\/captains-log-pros-and-cons-of-season-2\/\">Season 2.0 update<\/a>, players have turned their eyes to the future and pondered, &#8220;What&#8217;s next?&#8221; Coming to their aid is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\"><em>STO&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> executive producer Dan Stahl, who fields a large number of questions about upcoming features and works in progress in <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/2018\">the latest Ask Cryptic article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the inquiries covered was user-generated content, which Stahl confirmed would be coming &#8212; at least in beta form &#8212; with Season 3. <em>&#8220;We aren&#8217;t discussing our specific plans just yet, but we do want the tools to be easy to use so that players can begin to create their own missions and episodes,&#8221; <\/em>he said. <em> &#8220;This may or may not be the big secret project we are working on.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other questions into the future development of <em>Star Trek Online<\/em> included customizable ship interiors, the PvP system, bridge officer promotions, expanding the Sol System, the ability to play as a holographic character, and bridge officer voices. And for those standing at the edge of their captain&#8217;s chairs, eager to sit down, don&#8217;t fret: Cryptic is hard at work on the long-awaited &#8220;sit in chairs&#8221; feature. You can read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/2018\">Ask Cryptic<\/a> over at <em>STO&#8217;s<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/08\/10\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements\/\">Cryptic discusses user-generated content and future improvements for STO<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/2018>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/08\/10\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19587556\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/08\/10\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/08\/10\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sci-fi, Interviews, Patches, Star Trek Online As Star Trek Online concludes its shakedown cruise of the recent Season 2.0 update, players have turned their eyes to the future and pondered, &#8220;What&#8217;s next?&#8221; Coming to their aid is STO&#8217;s executive producer Dan Stahl, who fields a large number of questions about upcoming features and works in progress in the latest Ask Cryptic article. One of the inquiries covered was user-generated content, which Stahl &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/cryptic-discusses-user-generated-content-and-future-improvements-for-sto\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289],"tags":[690,369,843,709,972,971],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}