Star Trek Online thread

[kruunch]

Personally I dislike the "exhausts" both in this game and also in the last movie. One of the things Roddenberry explicitly stated when they first went about designing the "tech" of Trek was no exhaust streamers and contrails (read the Making of Star Trek).

Without Gene and his team NONE of this would exist but as time goes by, it seems that less and less "reverence" is paid to "the Creator" of the whole "kit and kaboodle" as a certain Scotsman might say

Of course to be fair he also wouldn't approve of how much space battles and "ground" and now ground battles have become
integral to Trek so I guess in a way I might be a hypocrite EXCEPT that:

We have no word in Klingonaase that matches "hypocrite" hahahaha!

Qapla!

[BES]

:-( i keep getting server too busy after my game crashed..

And btw Darkthunder isnt being nice...not answering his in-game tells :-P

I actually did get a tell from someone asking if I was the Darkthunder from BCC. Problem is, i've had periodic problems with game crashing, and "Server is busy" errors today. I crashed shortly after getting the tell, so I was unable to see who wrote.

Yeah that was me...i figured out the ATI crashing issue i think...I disabled Dynamic lighting ...it seems to run more stable now...the other thing to consider is disabling postprocessing.

I made both klingon and fed ..

Sadly my little science ship has only Mk2 gear... and everything on my klingon ship is IV(max level for a lt commander) except the shield since we cant buy any better atm..
The only reason why is because there are zero wait lines for PvP for klingon even though we die a lot more..due to having really gimp shields..

[Darkthunder]

Wiley, do any of the Excalibur class variants resemble the JJprise?

The 3 Constitution Variants in the game have, what I would describe as:

Excalibur: "Sovereign" nacelles
Constitution: "TMP" nacelles
Vesper: "Modern/Sleek" nacelles

The last one, has virtually no resemblence to the JJ Enterprise. I recently did a mission in STO, which involved traveling back in time to 2270 (between TOS and the 1st movie), and encountered the TOS Enterprise.

[Starforce2]

so for those playing...is it in easy game to handel? Meaning, no cumbersome controls like legacy? Is it as easy as bc to fly? I'm curious if I should buy it. I don't want to buy another legacy. That game was crap, was never able to pass enough missions to make it worth what I paid and it runs horribly. I notice the game requires a dual core..I got a 3.2 ghz single..and a radeon x1600xt..think it'll run on low settings?

[Kirk]

After some more playing last night, I can say that I'm really starting to like it. I'm still not sure about ground combat (I understand how it works, I'm just not sure if I like it,) but I love space combat. I could just fly system to system blowing stuff up all day. Starforce, it's easy enough to figure out. WASD all control your ship like in BC, the only thing different is that you press space for phasers and ctrl + space for torpedoes. If you liked SFC, you will like space combat in STO as it reminds me heavily of SFC:OP.

[Barihawk]

I don't know about you guys, but space combat is an exact combination of SFC and Legacy.

[Dawg81]

actually it resembles more along the SFC lines IMO which i like for an old sfc pilot like myself and being able to refit your weapons engines and shields and the transwarp drive is very neat as well

[Barihawk]

Servers offline for maintenance. Announced by devs that when they come up we will have no level caps, unlocked all content, new LCARS interface, and a multitude of other features as the actual client is updated to a modern form. Actual beta will begin.

[BES]

Servers offline for maintenance. Announced by devs that when they come up we will have no level caps, unlocked all content, new LCARS interface, and a multitude of other features as the actual client is updated to a modern form. Actual beta will begin.

Yep ...woooohoooo! ...just made LT commander 5 before i logged out for this server update :-)

[Dawg81]

im at Lt. 7 lol havent had much time to fly but when i do i have some good stuff on my ship

[Kirk]

lt 3 with a pretty much stock ship.

[Daystar70]

ha ha i don't  feel as bad now!! lt. 7 also mostly due to being so swamped offline this week. and playing champions, which i may drop due to th fact no1 i don't feel like paying 2 subs, 2. DC heroes is down th horizn and old rp and i may do TOR/DC/STO as my main games but STO will b priority 1.

[BES]

This new patch is awesome :-)

[Nebula]

grrr my classes won't end soon enough ....

[Voyager16]

Dunno what level I am.

Soooo busy with school ffs.
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[Spade]

Wow! I missed this as it was posted on the STO forums on the 12th but its an awesome chart of all the current tiers of ships. Check it out.

http://suricatasblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/stoshiptierchart.png

Im close to Commander. Akira class! Here I come!! 

[Kirk]

Question for the higher ranking players. When you get to lt commander, do you automatically get the next tier ship?

[Dawg81]

i was wondering about Lt Commander im just about there

[Barihawk]

Question for the higher ranking players. When you get to lt commander, do you automatically get the next tier ship?

When you recieve the rankup to 11, you will get an invitation from Admiral Quinn to come to his office where he will promote you. He will then ask you to go to the Shipyard requisition officer who will temporarily give you a free ship associated with your new rank. You also have the option of attending a ceremony which has no intrinsic reward other than to make yourself feel good.

[WileyCoyote]

I uploaded pictures of the Lt. Commander Cruiser variant ships. Enjoy!

http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd223/WileyCoyote1701/Star%20Trek%20Online%20pics/