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Star Trek Online Free to Play |OT| Boldly freeloading where others have subbed before
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stryker1138
Member
So did they break autofire in the last patch or is it just me?
Yup. That's the quest I've been doing.
Also, just an FYI, you don't have to go back to the base and turn in and re-accept. You can "Hail Starfleet" and do a turn in there and re-accept. You don't even have to leave the zone. The only time you physically have to go back to K7 is when you move into the next PVP tier of the zone. Makes it so you can just chain it over and over and soak up the XP/items.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yes from me, although I don't know how many people would be willing to buy Foundry slots.
Do Silver members not get a single free slot?
They broke it. While in space type "/defaultautoattack 1" (no quotes) into the chat bar to fix it. If some weapons don't light up green, rightclick them and type it again.
The Shift
Banned
I think so. I just played a three hour session and autofire was bugged for me. The UI is atrocious. Trying to do simple things like move dialog boxes is a nightmare - having to press escape to edit the layout and guessing what the results might be is truly baffling. No overview for selecting objects in space. Can't move items around without removing them first. Using the bank and inventory is an exercise in frustration. My neck is sore from shaking my head at the damn thing. The UI dev/s need to play EVE for a month as that game has the small details I mentioned down pat and should do after nearly nine years of development. The game is compelling though, but as I said, the minor details sometimes make a huge difference in how players can interact with the gameplay and STO seems to have quite a bit to go in that regard.
I'm just glad that the latest patch brought horizontal resizing of the inventory. I've been calling for that for 24 months now.
The Shift
Banned
Shit, really? That must have been beyond frustrating. I have only played it for 4 days now and am being a bit picky about things I guess. I'm going to hang in there with it though - just got Lieutenant Commander, feels nice. There is a lot going on in this game and many of the activities seem to be easily accessed. Anyone have impressions playing the game using a 360 controller? I have a spare hanging around with the wireless dongle and am going to have a run with that tomorrow.
Yeah, I think they did.
What the hell.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=252004
Yep, they did.
Seems there is a temp fix :
Now if they would only add in an auto-sort inventory button.
Also, what is the maximum number of ship slots we can get? I don't like decommissioning any of my ships, not even the starter ship. How many do we get at maximum level for free? How many can I buy in addition to that?
BigJonsson
Member
Level 49
Fucking Borg drones adapting to my weapons, good thing I had a Captain Kirk style spade thing in my inventory to cut them to shreds with..........I couldn't find any nodes to destroy =/
Fucking Borg drones adapting to my weapons, good thing I had a Captain Kirk style spade thing in my inventory to cut them to shreds with..........I couldn't find any nodes to destroy =/
there is an item you can replicate for free that remodulates weapons for fighting borg
BattleMonkey
Member
God yes. So much little jank like this is so annoying. Moving inventory around anywhere in the game is a pain
Affeinvasion
Member
Especially crafting materials...which are obtuse to begin with. They all look the same to me that when I'm putting them into my bank they don't actually auto-stack...I have to play a game of match the colors and symbols.
Darkflight
Member
Post your character@account name and I'll see what I can do
Jackpot@temp89
Darkflight
Member
Hmm, it's not finding you, can you shoot me a tell? - Purslane@Darkflight
The funny thing is, SWTOR, the other game I'm currently playing also doesn't have inventory sort. That is especially unacceptable considering SWTOR is NOT F2P.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I've been playing for 5 hours now. This is the first game in a long while that has made me smile. Especially stuff like naming the dodge-ability "Evasive maneuvers". Still, it isn't a very good game. But it nags in my mind how it's so easy to make a good Star Trek-game and how annoying it is that it hasn't really been done. Sure, a few okay games have been released, like this one, but nothing that's really classic.
Still, going to keep on playing despite there being some wonky design choices.
Still, going to keep on playing despite there being some wonky design choices.
BigJonsson
Member
Level 50
Didn't get a ship token despite still being gold from the alienware thing, oh well
Time to play with the Odyessey more
The USS Jack Bauer is going to send the Borg and company back to the void!
Didn't get a fleet invite yet Garvik@bigjonsson99 or it might be @bigjonsson28
Didn't get a ship token despite still being gold from the alienware thing, oh well
Time to play with the Odyessey more
The USS Jack Bauer is going to send the Borg and company back to the void!
Didn't get a fleet invite yet Garvik@bigjonsson99 or it might be @bigjonsson28
JoshuaJSlone
Member
For things like inventory increases the C-Store lists a limit, but I don't see one for the ship slots purchase. So it's probably at least in the dozens, like the character slot limit.
That is awesome. I will buy ALL of the ship slots. I have a bad habit of collecting things in MMOs and in this game I'm going to want to collect all the ships from the various shows and junk.
I've started a new Klingon faction character, a Lethean. For some reason my character started as a Commander level, instead of the beginner rank. Not that I'm complaining. Hopefully I can get to level 21 before the 2nd anniversary is over so that I may have a chance to win the Bortas class ship, the Odyssey equivalent on the Klingon side, but way way better.
The Bortas isn't just an easy giveaway freebie for anyone? I thought the Odyssey was.
Damn I guess I should roll a Klingon and try to claim the Bortas too. Where do you go to get the Bortas mission?
Sax Russel
Banned
His wording just meant that he has a limited timeframe to do it in. The Bortas is acquired in almost the exact same way as the Odyssey. There's a quest giver in a central area that gives you a shakedown mission to scan some stuff and kill some stuff, the it's yours. Did it the other day, now I might have some motivation to actually level my Klingon =P I think the only requirement is to be level 21. You start at 20 and the intro tutorial stuff should get you to 21 easy.
Yeah I already got past level 21, am at level 24 right now... and got the Bortas claim token in inventory. I was in the middle of a mission at a Starbase when I encountered a map bug, had to open a ticket for it.
The Bortas mission is very similar to the Odyssey one, scan something, fight some harmless shit, then fight something threatening, ironically in this case an actual federation Odyssey ship but with major help with a fleet of klingons by your side.
The mission is pretty much in the center of the First City where Q is, talk to the Engineer, and boom, fly off to a different system to begin yer mission.
The Bortas mission is very similar to the Odyssey one, scan something, fight some harmless shit, then fight something threatening, ironically in this case an actual federation Odyssey ship but with major help with a fleet of klingons by your side.
The mission is pretty much in the center of the First City where Q is, talk to the Engineer, and boom, fly off to a different system to begin yer mission.
BigJonsson
Member
So uhh STF missions, they need more variety of them lol
But I do want to pimp out the USS Jack Bauer with more purples, ugh
But I do want to pimp out the USS Jack Bauer with more purples, ugh
There's an Undine themed STF that they still need to rework into the Ground/Space/Normal/Elite queue system. Plus pretty soon they'll release "Into The Hive" which concluded the Borg series.
After that, we should get "Children Of Khan".
Would be nice if each Feature Series came with a couple of them though.
It took me almost 3 hours but I finally beat that last group of Romulans on the ground. I must've tried every possible strategy with so much micro of my away team.
Never again am I going to do an Explore ground mission.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I can't seem to collect the rewards for a duty officer mission. Every time I click it says that it failed to collect the rewards, so it appears to be a glitch. Should I submit a ticket with Cryptic?
I know that you can unlock transwarp abilities by ascending diplomatic ranks, but I don't know of any other ways (besides "paying" for it with energy credits).
Level up your Diplomacy commendation rank I believe.
Anton668
Member
Diplomatic assignments. Rank 2-4 each nets you a transwarp.
If GAFleet still has room, I'm Kelinda@darthwoo
Does the Bortas look extremely similar to the Terran Battlecruiser to anyone else? I thought it looked pretty similar just by glancing at some other people were flying, but when I did the mission and it did that slow flyover of the ship, even some of the little details are very similar like the ridged "neck." Then again, I suppose the Battlecruiser itself was pretty similar in configuration to most large Klingon vessels before it.
Does the Bortas look extremely similar to the Terran Battlecruiser to anyone else? I thought it looked pretty similar just by glancing at some other people were flying, but when I did the mission and it did that slow flyover of the ship, even some of the little details are very similar like the ridged "neck." Then again, I suppose the Battlecruiser itself was pretty similar in configuration to most large Klingon vessels before it.
Sax Russel
Banned
Grrrrr I was on the tail end of an elite STF >(
bloodforge
Member
Servers just died. Just got disconnected and now I get "page cannot be found" when opening the launcher.
I gotta continue levelling up my Klingon faction character so I can take a proper warship to battle, the Bortas. The muthafucka can load proper cannons, cloak, and is fucking ass huge. I think I shoulda started as a Klingon to begin with since I love warships so much.
But first, gotta redo the Q party crasher mission as my Fed character, want more dilithium!
But first, gotta redo the Q party crasher mission as my Fed character, want more dilithium!