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STAR TREK ONLINE: The |OT| of Going Where No Gamer Has Gone Before....
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I tried the open beta via EG giveaway and I was kind of torn whether to buy it (well, that and the fact that the pre-order bonuses were so weird-ass). I disliked the sluggish space combat and the little away team combat that I saw wasn't very impressive (in fact, it felt broken as hell), but I would like to see how they are progressing.
By the way, is there some number known of how many are playing atm?
I tried the open beta via EG giveaway and I was kind of torn whether to buy it (well, that and the fact that the pre-order bonuses were so weird-ass). I disliked the sluggish space combat and the little away team combat that I saw wasn't very impressive (in fact, it felt broken as hell), but I would like to see how they are progressing.
By the way, is there some number known of how many are playing atm?
My gods. I mean seriously, the Star Trek Online forums are full of awful awful people. Maybe it's because we have pretty decent moderation on GAF, and I'm a moderator myself on the only other forum I spend time on... but damn. If I had a ban button and just half an hour I could do a lot of good.
Winterblink
Member
Standard fare for a MMO's forum, to be honest.enewtabie said:
Edit: Just patched after a week or so of non-play. Game no longer runs on my PC, crashes with an out of memory error. I'm using the latest video drivers for my system, nothing else has an issue, and I hear the drivers could be the cause of this issue for some people and downgrading is the way around it.
What a fucking joke. Hilariously the previous patch bitched and moaned I had a graphics driver one version out of date. Now the new patch makes it so the driver it wanted last time causes it to crash? *scratches head*
Winterblink
Member
Some amusing news these days with the pricing change recently made. The game's price got knocked back, and the Collector's edition now comes with an additional 60 days worth of no-sub time. The STO forums are currently in a full state of meltdown about this of course.
Kind of a douche move on their part for not extending that to existing customers in my opinion, but I can see why they wouldn't from a business standpoint. Still.. yikes
Kind of a douche move on their part for not extending that to existing customers in my opinion, but I can see why they wouldn't from a business standpoint. Still.. yikes
As mentioned those forums are shit. Most of the people making noise are the kind of people you just want to punch. Such a stupid thing to be pissed off about. I actually saw someone write something to the effect of "if they're not giving away those 60 days then I won't quit"!Winterblink said:Some amusing news these days with the pricing change recently made. The game's price got knocked back, and the Collector's edition now comes with an additional 60 days worth of no-sub time. The STO forums are currently in a full state of meltdown about this of course.
Kind of a douche move on their part for not extending that to existing customers in my opinion, but I can see why they wouldn't from a business standpoint. Still.. yikes
But yeah, if you actually look at the people involved, it's the same 15 people.
Just got my Hope class ship yesterday. USS Mona Lisa's doing good - need to upload a pic though.
Parts of the official forums are crazy. Some even have so far as to say the game is an insult to the Star Trek IP. A lot of these people, and those on mmorpg.com, are simply complaining to complain. I've never said this before but I do have to wonder if some of them are even agents from other games. Some of the things being said just make no sense at times and defy simple logic. Most talk in generalities but when pressed for specifics about what should have been done differently in regard to making a Star Trek game they either refuse to answer or go off on how there is no content, development time was to short, etc. Never really address the issue from the post I've seen. The few times I did something remote close to answer they were talking about elements that wouldn't even make the game a Star Trek game.
I have no problem saying the game needs work in some areas but when people say this game is Star Trek in name only I have to ignore anything else they say because they've lost all credibility when it comes to talking about this game.
These people don't play the game. I don't hear any of this kind of complaining in game that I see on the forums.
I have no problem saying the game needs work in some areas but when people say this game is Star Trek in name only I have to ignore anything else they say because they've lost all credibility when it comes to talking about this game.
These people don't play the game. I don't hear any of this kind of complaining in game that I see on the forums.
I think it's more correct to say that you *don't* have Vorta ears...Medalion said:
Someone on the STO forums had a pretty good idea - use the holodeck as a system for user-created missions. I've been thinking about it a bit more, but if they created a robust mission creator and had a system in place for elevating holodeck to real content [with associated rewards] they could really shine with the game. After the first few months there'd be more than enough content - exploration, diplomatic and combat - for everyone... Someone mentioned there was precedent with one of their previous games too, but I don't know too much about that.
People like to knock mmorpgs with instance systems but you can do a lot with them. Player Mission creating wouldn't be possible without. Nor would true group dungeon crawling be possibly like in Everquest 1, EQ2, Dark Age of Camelot, and even WoW. Don't see how you could do a Star Trek game without it. To be honest I think SWG could have benefit from it as well. Isn't The Old Republic going to have a instance system as well?
DangerousDave
Member
The problem of user-created missions is that can be used as a xp exploit.
The problem is that we need missions that involves people of your crew. More diversity, to make it similar to the show. For example, a mission where, after going to a planet, two of your crew members are kidnapped (the 2 with more bride officer points), and you have to pursuit the ship to another system, and do some space and ground battles trying to rescue them... but, of course, without that members (so if you don't have any replacement members, your powers will be significatively lowered).
Or missions that happen inside your ship (they have enough federation ship interiors resources to make it) where some invasors trapt you and got the control of the ship, and you have to reach the bridge (starting alone, but finding the rest of your crew party in the way).
The problem is that we need missions that involves people of your crew. More diversity, to make it similar to the show. For example, a mission where, after going to a planet, two of your crew members are kidnapped (the 2 with more bride officer points), and you have to pursuit the ship to another system, and do some space and ground battles trying to rescue them... but, of course, without that members (so if you don't have any replacement members, your powers will be significatively lowered).
Or missions that happen inside your ship (they have enough federation ship interiors resources to make it) where some invasors trapt you and got the control of the ship, and you have to reach the bridge (starting alone, but finding the rest of your crew party in the way).
Past Cryptic games have had a form of mission creator. Dev comments have suggested that they're looking to bring that to STO. The assumption is that it would make a lot of sense to just use an in-game holodeck on your ship to run and create such missions.Medalion said:
Following on from that you can imagine the developers crowdsourcing a lot of the "real" mission content in this fashion.
So yeah, nothing yet but a pretty exciting possibility.
Winterblink said:Some amusing news these days with the pricing change recently made. The game's price got knocked back, and the Collector's edition now comes with an additional 60 days worth of no-sub time. The STO forums are currently in a full state of meltdown about this of course.
Kind of a douche move on their part for not extending that to existing customers in my opinion, but I can see why they wouldn't from a business standpoint. Still.. yikes
I know I regret buying the game at launch, and already cancelled my subscription. I bet a lot of people have done that if they're taking such dramatic steps to try to increase sales less than a month after launch.
Don't know, you got a lot of complaining on the forums from people who expected a different game to what was made... but other than that most people I know who started playing are still doing so.Zzoram said:
To be fair though, the core game was a bit overpriced. I don't regret buying it, but would have felt a lot better paying £25 or £30 for it with the subscription.
Oh, and yeah base items are expensive on the exchange... They really need to revamp the Memory Alpha system. You know when you deposit the sample the first time you visit? That should be the mechanism by which you gain "crafting" levels. Deposit more samples to get more item options.
wayward archer
Member
Wow playing the klingon faction is painfully boring and slow, which is a shame because pvp is what i'm most interested in.
Upcoming features:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=132130
Post with screenshot of new map area [speculated to be Nimbus III faction-neutral planet], as well as new Federation and Klingon ships:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2290118&postcount=181
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=132130
Post with screenshot of new map area [speculated to be Nimbus III faction-neutral planet], as well as new Federation and Klingon ships:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2290118&postcount=181
Hiyas, first time poster here
Glad to see a "sane" forum thread on STO. The official forums are fairly atrocious.
I've been having heaps of fun with STO and even got the lifetime sub during open beta (I got into Closed Beta back in Dec).
The game does have a bunch of issues, but I'm optimistic that they will be smoothed out.
On another note though, I don't trust Atari to handle things well (past experience has shown they are crap). I just hope Atari don't stuff up STO.
Anyways, some screenshots
My Away Team. I also got the Borg Officer (the one in yellow)
My Captain:
And my ship flying towards the DS9 wormhole (Captain ship):
Glad to see a "sane" forum thread on STO. The official forums are fairly atrocious.
I've been having heaps of fun with STO and even got the lifetime sub during open beta (I got into Closed Beta back in Dec).
The game does have a bunch of issues, but I'm optimistic that they will be smoothed out.
On another note though, I don't trust Atari to handle things well (past experience has shown they are crap). I just hope Atari don't stuff up STO.
Anyways, some screenshots
My Away Team. I also got the Borg Officer (the one in yellow)
My Captain:
And my ship flying towards the DS9 wormhole (Captain ship):
ButtaKnife
Neo Member
Maxrpg said:Well they said they tuned it for five captains, so it's pretty hard, I'd wager.
I realllly need a group of people to do these with.
Ooohh... I'm Cmdr7 right now, and time permitting, I'll hit Captain this weekend. I'd love to group for this.