Star Trek Online thread

[FarShot]

I use the shooter controls.  And don't forget, that came around a long time after launch - after all the sets were made.

Stahl is gone, so there's no reason to continue that promise.

[sovereign001]

Gone? aah he was from the atari team?

[Shadowknight1]

True but still, they even tried to make it almost an fps ! (with the x button you could manually target etc) but no one is almost using it.


Btw, it appeared that on the forums stahl said he would make 10 series in a year. It seems that the post is nowhere to be found these days 

Maybe no one is using it because they didn't know about it?  I didn't until you said it.  Thanks BTW!

Also, just walked into my ship's engine room and saw a crewmember NPC jump from the top level.  Maybe I should suggest counseling. 

[majormagna]

Stahl is gone, so there's no reason to continue that promise.

Stahl left, but he's back (But not as Exec. Producer), he's one of the lead devs on the Foundry team now.

Also, if you haven't played a Foundry mission called (somethng along the lines of) "Dereliction Duty", I suggest you do (It's one of the top rated ones) because it puts some Cryptic missions to shame!

[sovereign001]

I will check it out, to be honest, almost 80 % if not more of the foundry missions put a lot of cryptic missions to shame. The persons that are making those foundry missions are just persons, gamers, that are doing this in their free time. THey can make beautiful, interesting missions in a week or less. Check out how many foundry missions there are. That's the reasons also why there is such a massive flaming about this on the sto forum. Why the devs won't make more missions instead of the extreme pricing fluff.

[FarShot]

Did play Dereliction Duty.  I admire everything about it except for the low ceiling.  Yeah, I get it.  Canon ceilings are 3 meters high plus or minus.  But it just doesn't work in the game.  Jesus Christ, people, you can't have both true to canon and a good MMO.  And don't say Infinite Space, because last I checked, starships can move three-dimensionally.

[majormagna]

Well considering there are more than tenfold the number of players than devs... and given that a lot of these missions take weeks at a time to build. These players also don't have a time limit to make a mission in, so they don't have to rush anything.

What I don't understand is why people are complaining that they have even better missions to play...

As has been said, this "extreme pricing fluff" is their main way of making money from the game now; unless you want it full of adverts?


And FarShot, although I felt the ceilings were a tad too low, they were very good considering the mechanics of the Foundry when it was published.

[sovereign001]

As has been said, this "extreme pricing fluff" is their main way of making money from the game now; unless you want it full of adverts?

It's a f2p, they need money, so they are gonna do it by using the c-store, i know, of course! They aren't a non-profit organisation.

But i don't know if you were there from the beginning? People that had retrofit ship (highest tier) it was given to them, i don't know the full story because i did my vessel away for something else, but every retrofit ship is gone that was given to the people, and now they need to pay for it (for something that they had). That is already one thing that is bugging a lot of people. But its not only that, please just visit the forums, read some threads. You will understand me and josh and probaby 89 percent of the forum over there. People that were there from the beginning, just don't feel the need anymore to come online. Log in, check duty officiers, log out. THat's the spirit with a lot of people these day i've read. I'm doing some foundry missions but i do understand them. And somehow i'm afraid that f2p isn't going to help sto. (people are buying less and less from the c-store because the prices three doubled almost) Before i get a bat'leth in my back again, please this is an opinion, not a fact! There are many people who share this too!

[FarShot]

And FarShot, although I felt the ceilings were a tad too low, they were very good considering the mechanics of the Foundry when it was published.

I didn't say the ceiling was bad.  It's just that it seems when people complain about STO or Star Trek XI, it always comes down to stupid things like, "Oh, it doesn't look exactly like it did on the show," or, "Spock and Uhura together?  Blasphemy!"  It really annoys me because its like they don't expect things to change due to the times.  Star Trek (TOS) was supposed to reflect social issues of the day like racism, feminism, and the Cold War.  I think the franchise should continue that tradition of parallelism.  Yeah, Spock is angsty in ST XI, but that reflects what a lot of young adults (like me) feel these days.  And yes, Star Trek Online does try to act like other MMO's, but that's what they need to do to draw in people who play MMO's but may not be familiar with Trekdom.

So it just irks me when I see people doing things to metaphorically stick it to the man.  Childish rage like that is what kills the franchise.  If it were mandatory that fans of Trek had to wear form-fitting pastel shirts in public all the time and wear toupees, I'm sure Trek would've died right then.

[Lionus]

Ah, so it's free now? I wonder if my old subscription works for free now.. I'd hate to lose all that vice-admiral stuff lol

[FarShot]

That it does.  Early F2P access for past subscribers has been up for a week.  You can hop in at anytime.

[Lionus]

And this is the reason why I stopped playing earlier.. they still haven't gotten it fixed.

 





Yes, I like games, but not when they look like acid trip gone wrong.

[Nebula]

seems more like a graphical glich on your side of things...

[FarShot]

Uh, that's something wrong on your end.  Have you tried messing with your video options?

EDIT:  Curse you and your slightly faster reply, Neb.

[Lionus]

what on earth could cause some textures glitch like that? Now that I think of it, CFS3 suffers from same stuff.. please, tell me that it has to do with the software settings rather than hardware..

[Nebula]

could be memory issues... could be issues with lighting options or shaders...

I think I've said this before... but have you not run STO at all with all options set to low? just for laughs?

[Lionus]

Not yet

[sovereign001]

Looks like minecraft!

[flarespire]

looks like your GPU is on the fritz may want to try updating your drivers and playing around with your overall graphics setting on your machine.

[Lionus]

the drivers are up to date, I updated them this week, and at the moment there's no single driver that is outdated on my comp :Pcould be that some of the GFX cards settings are forcing something on STO and CFS3 that they don't like.. I'll take a closer look at it.