STT - Q & A with Admiral Prince
- stt-ff
- May 2, 2018
- 2 min read
"Thank you for taking the time to participate in our April Q&A. There were some great questions, me and the team enjoyed reviewing them all. Below you will find the most frequent and most interesting ones, along with my reply. Thank you for playing! The STAR TREK TIMELINES Team
Will there be a rebalancing of older crew to accommodate the boost that newer crew have? As the game has evolved and there is need for a wider range of crew, the crew stats themselves now have a wider range. We are not likely to rebalance old crew in the short term, but as we continue to revise features and add to the game, we will be looking for ways to make the older crew more relevant. Can we see Spot, Porthos, or other pets in-game? It’s something we’d like as well. We have a number of different ideas about how we might approach these requests, but haven’t yet narrowed down the best way to make this happen. "How do you decide what traits and stars a crew has, especially the more subjective traits? For traits this is a multi-person, multi-step process. A designer proposes traits, often considering other versions of that character. These are reviewed by our community team, other designers, QA, people very familiar with the episode or character, etc. The star-rating for crew is totally different, however. That process starts when we need a crew who is X number of stars or they need to fit Y narrative. At that point, the narrative designers make suggestions and then we go back and forth on who it should be, and what version of that character. We then debate over whether that version of them is valid for whatever star level. Sometimes, we base that on their role in the episode, or how beloved they are by fans, or how that version compares to other potential versions. This process has lots of different inputs and operates quite differently from our process for traits."
