Why can’t I assign my skills? The accept button just never lights up. I was able to assign some points to my officers.
Now I remember some of I what I didn’t like about this game - I had nfc what was going on, how the game worked, what anything did.
When you click the accept button, the choices don’t save? ( I don’t think the button lights up)
I created a new character last night just to mess around, and it seemed to work ok. :/
Any good builds out there floating around? I’m kind of picking skills semi-randomly since I have no idea what I’m doing. I suppose I don’t really mind if I perma-nerf my character, but I’d like to avoid it.
Marcin
1625
You have to assign all (or 90% or so) of them before the Accept button will light up. Just keep distributing until it does.
What do you do with the Alien Artifacts and other stuff you find in anomalies?
They are used in crafting, which is super unrewarding and best avoided.
Just wanted to mention that this game is a freaking blast all of a sudden. I’m feeling that old MMO addiction like I haven’t since Burning Crusade. And they basically give you the entire game for free. Except for a few minor features that are locked away and some of the swoopier, more exotic spaceship models, it’s all there for free…and those other things are purchasable.
I just got to Lt. Commander and got my first big-boy Cruiser and fitted it up with a bunch of new weapons and engines and unlocked a bunch of Duty Officers to run it. I imagine that it’ll start getting repetitive soon like most MMOs, but for now I’m enjoying the hell out of being a space captain.
These posts make me want to try the game, which I inexplicably haven’t played before, but f2p doesn’t start for another week. Should I just wait? As far as I can tell, it looks like it would be a total waste to pay the $15.00 they are currently asking just to play now.
Well the F2P vs. Premium matrix is here: http://www.startrekonline.com/f2p_features
Personally, I don’t feel like $15 is worth it for what you get. I’d rather pay for the few things I need. The only big thing I can see that you don’t get is free respecs, but I’ve never been to endgame so I don’t know how important that is.
If you didn’t get into the early-bird program, I’d say wait. It’s only a few days now.
yep I’ve gone back too, and it is far better than it was at launch. I’m getting addicted to the duty officer minigame…gotta get them all!!
Hit level 45, which got me promoted to Rear Admiral, Upper Half. Only 6 more until I hit the 51 level cap. Which means I went from 27 to 45 since Thursday. According to an interview I read with Cryptic, under F2P it’ll be possible to go from level 1 to the level cap in a single day, though I have no idea how. Still, I’ve advanced a lot faster than those 2 months that I played the game at launch.
Word of advice: The Big Dig Fleet Action FUCKING SUCKS. Don’t try it unless you have a solid fleet of at least 7-8 committed and competent teammates you can rely on, and you have three or four hours to spare. Unfortunately, the rest of us who try that thing are boned hard. I finally managed to pull it off with a group of four random people (we had the prerequisite five that are needed to launch the mission originally, but #5 finally gave up around hour 2. Yes, it’s that bad.) Considering that the remaining four of us were doing a fleet action that required five (and, really, should need about 8 as a minimum), the next 2 hours were full of such mind-numbing torture that the only reason we didn’t quit was being haunted by the thought of having to do the goddamn thing over again from scratch. There are so many things that are fucking WRONG about that goddamn mission. But we did it. I had to stay up till 3am to do it, and I made friends with 3 of the four random teammates, but we are never, ever fucking doing that thing ever again.
Razgon
1634
A Big Dig Fleet Operation sounds kinda nasty - on purpose? And is it the equivalent of raiding in other MMO’s?
I’m vaguely interested in the game again, but man it was boring back in the day.
What are the most significant changes in recent months?
I tried it, like, 6 months ago or so - and found it to be very stale and boring at length. I think it was just as they changed Starfleet HQ layout?
Hah, sounds like an original CoH Task Force…
Remember they were level-locked? Once you out-leveled them, you couldn’t do them. Ever. Then they introduced Exemplars. So you could buddy up with someone to artificially lower your level. But if you or your buddy got disconnected you were ejected from the Task Force. Good times. They also took several hours.
I’m somewhat disappointed. I never made it past Lieutenant at launch, but I’m not seeing much difference. Looks like they spent most of their time adding content.
They added interiors to your ship, but they’re silly, crazy large. The captain’s quarters are bigger then my son’s school gym. The corridors are 30’ wide and 30’ high. Filled with mute NPCs who wander aimlessly and completely ignore you. They also walk off the mezzanine in the engineering section. I would expect this at launch, but after two years?
Animations are still poor. When standing at idle my default male puts his hands behind his lower back. When I start moving forward the hands and forarms move through the torso and into the running position. What? The bridge officers on my bridge sit about a foot above their chairs.
Ground combat is still painful. I was fighting Gorn last night. A big one picked up a boulder and threw it at me. I did the dodge/roll thing to avoid it… nope, the boulder just followed me.
This game has been out for two years.
Space combat is still kinda fun, though.
Hmm… Thanks for info.
Won’t bother to even try it, then.
Well, I hit the level cap days ago, and I’ve pretty much gone through all of the episode missions that Cryptic has built. So now I’m just doing some elite, Starfleet Task Force PVE missions to get the really good upgrades for my Sovereign-class assault cruiser. I just got all four pieces of the Borg set, so now my ship is pretty awesome looking. I also bought from the C-Store a Defiant retrofit-class escort and I’m experimenting with it. Tons of firepower, but it doesn’t take too much damage.
Also have really been putting a lot of stuff on the exchange, especially high-level drops that aren’t geared toward my build. So far I’ve got 1,250,000 energy credits, which I can use to potentially buy some other crazy gear on the exchange, though I’m only now getting in the range of buying one of the truly elite pieces of gear. I’ve got a long way to go to outfit an entire ship.
I’ve started to also play around with the Duty Officer minigame. Ugh, I’ve already bought three more packs of officers.
I think the game’s main issue is that there really isn’t a ton of content, especially now with the accelerated, free-to-play gameplay model, which makes going from level 1 to 50 relatively easy. On the plus side, there’s not as much grinding. But it does want make you want to spend money to buy premium gear and items. I think I’ve dropped $30 on the game thus far.
And I think Cryptic’s great hope is community-created content. Being obsessive and legendary nerds that they are, I’m sure there are enough hardcore Star Trek fans out there capable of creating some good stuff. I just did a user-created mission. It was pretty average (fly around and blow lots of shit up), but it did drop some pretty hefty loot, which seems like a pretty huge loophole.
If you look around a little bit you’ll find much better, more interesting, missions. That is if you don’t mind dialogue and Trekkish futzing about with consoles and things. I kinda like that myself. The Episode missions by Cryptic are the only thing that come close to the best player generated content there.
Also:
http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/tag/sto-foundry/
This site provides resources, information, and tutorials for Star Trek Online user-generated-content. If you’re an author, player, or STO enthusiast, then you’ve come to the right place.
We encourage all of our members to contribute to the blog and add their missions to the foundry section of STOwiki.
That’s a fan site but a very good one. Lots of useful information there.
