Should I try out Star Trek Online?

[Steve]

Hey TRR, what's your name in STO? I mean the @whatever part? I'm @stgjr. Thinking of playing again, wouldn't mind filling out the friend list a bit more

[Elheru Aran]

Undine taking DS9? OK, that's new. I was done with DS9 before I got into the Undine stuff, and they didn't bother DS9 from what I recall. Guess they changed that.

And yeah, the Sirius sector Klingon encounter zones are just... ridiculous. You can clean them out in a matter of minutes. All the drops are useless at your level, though.

[Steve]

It pops up when you do the War Games mission. You approach DS9 and you get a distress signal pop-up that enables said episode.

[The Romulan Republic]

Undine taking DS9? OK, that's new. I was done with DS9 before I got into the Undine stuff, and they didn't bother DS9 from what I recall. Guess they changed that.

And yeah, the Sirius sector Klingon encounter zones are just... ridiculous. You can clean them out in a matter of minutes. All the drops are useless at your level, though.

I often just recycle/sell the loot for energy. Its good for that much, or at least some of it is.

[The Romulan Republic]

Making my first trip to the Gamma Quadrant. This should be interesting.

[Lord Revan]

Making my first trip to the Gamma Quadrant. This should be interesting.

tbh they could have done more with it, it's nothing you don't see in the Alpha/beta quadrants.

[The Romulan Republic]

Well, I haven't found out yet because part way through the wormhole the game quit.

Edit: The wormhole's interior was pretty interesting though.

[Lord Revan]

Well, I haven't found out yet because part way through the wormhole the game quit.

Edit: The wormhole's interior was pretty interesting though.

there's 2 missions involving the Bajoran Wormhole, "Rapier" which never exits to the Gamma Quadrant side and "Operation Gamma" which involves a short collection quest in the Idran System and some dialoge with a Vorta that ends the same way no matter your choices.

It's not bad per se but it is under used. Especially compared to the Delta Quadrant.

[RogueIce]

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-t ... ecruitment

Being a Delta Recruit means more than just racing up the levels. Recruits who are at least level 30 get a task to join a Fleet. This brings with it some fantastic rewards that will really help Fleets achieve whatever projects they are working on completing.

So for those of you rolling an alt during the Delta Recruit event, make sure you wait until 30 to join your Fleet!

[Lord Revan]

btw I need names for 2 ships for foundry Project, these kind big carrier type ships (I'm using the Narcine-class to repesent them in-game) used to protect a specific star system by the local goverment as a gift from the Federation Council so I thinking of a "protector" them for the ship names (apart from the third ship of the class which is named after the start system) though the name "protector" out as it's name of class in-game so I don't want to use that.

[Steve]

Hrm. Sentinel, Guardian, and Warden all come to mind.

[Steve]

Also, played again this morning for the first time in six months. I find that my biggest issue is... the Delta stuff presumes the players, well, give a fuck about Voyager. That the players are excited to be revisiting the places Voyager saw in the Delta Quadrant and dealing with the races, having old stuff picked up, etc.

If you're like me and you keep failing your Give a Fuck checks about Voyager stuff... then the XP doesn't have any hooks. I mean, I remember feeling hooked on the Romulan campaign after the Romulan expansion. It was engaging to me, I wanted to see the story. Not this one. I don't really know who the fuck the Vaadwaur are or the Ten-somethings or the Bethans, I only know about the Sontar... er, the Hierarchy thanks to Chuck's OVEG videos. And since I don't give a fuck... I don't feel the need to finish the story.

[Lord Revan]

I had to look the Vaadwaur up in Memory Alpha but I had no problems getting into the story.

[Skywalker_T-65]

My problem with the Vaddwaur is they are annoying to fight. Especially on the ground, since even (IIRC, I haven't done the early Fed missions in a long time) the Klingons don't have guys who charge you, forcing you to spin around while getting shot from different directions.

As for the story, I'm more interested in the fact they finally seem to be giving us the Iconians soon.

[Lord Revan]

My problem with the Vaddwaur is they are annoying to fight. Especially on the ground, since even (IIRC, I haven't done the early Fed missions in a long time) the Klingons don't have guys who charge you, forcing you to spin around while getting shot from different directions.

As for the story, I'm more interested in the fact they finally seem to be giving us the Iconians soon.

the charging part doesn't bother me as much as the fact that they can go immune to damage if you don't find and kill a very small drone or specific mob, there's races that charge like that before but normally you just shot them or put mines in the charging path but that doesn't work with Vaadwaur.

[The Romulan Republic]

Also, played again this morning for the first time in six months. I find that my biggest issue is... the Delta stuff presumes the players, well, give a fuck about Voyager. That the players are excited to be revisiting the places Voyager saw in the Delta Quadrant and dealing with the races, having old stuff picked up, etc.

If you're like me and you keep failing your Give a Fuck checks about Voyager stuff... then the XP doesn't have any hooks. I mean, I remember feeling hooked on the Romulan campaign after the Romulan expansion. It was engaging to me, I wanted to see the story. Not this one. I don't really know who the fuck the Vaadwaur are or the Ten-somethings or the Bethans, I only know about the Sontar... er, the Hierarchy thanks to Chuck's OVEG videos. And since I don't give a fuck... I don't feel the need to finish the story.

Voyager's a mixed bag for me. It had a great premise that was poorly executed, but I mostly like Seven, the Doctor, and Tom Paris. I also adore the Intrepid and Delta Flyer designs, incidentally, though I have access to those without playing the Delta Quadrant stuff. And I like to see old stuff followed up on in general. I like continuity.

[Lord Revan]

I just published my first Foundry Project (well technically it was publishing it when I typed this) I'd love to hear your honest opinions about it the name is "Price of Peace".

[The Romulan Republic]

Is it something I'll be able to handle at level 42 with a Sovereign class ship?

[Lord Revan]

Is it something I'll be able to handle at level 42 with a Sovereign class ship?

well it's still in the review process so it's not "out" technically and it has a lvl 50+ level limit and I strongly recomend that you so the mission "Fluid Tension" first as there's some rather major spoilers for that mission in my Project.

though a Sovvie should be just fine though, there's only 2 parts of space combat neither of which is all that hard. To be honest there level limit is mostly there for story reasons.

[The Romulan Republic]

Well, level 50 should only take a week or so at the rate I'm going. I'll let you know what I think of it then.

[Elheru Aran]

Ahh, the wormhole. That was both fun and frustrating. Like that one episode where you tool around trying to find this random ship. Then you find it, and you have to nursemaid that sucker back, and Jem beetles keep popping up. And the other ship is just toodling along, taking its own sweet damn time. Though that's not bad because then you can run ahead and blow up the beetles without having to worry about them attacking the other ship... but damn that's annoying and WHY can't it HURRY UP ALREADY.

[The Romulan Republic]

The little Jem Hadar ships aren't very formidable.

The Keldon class, on the other hand, made quite a fine opponent for my Sovereign.

[The Romulan Republic]

Among my loot are a lot of these lockboxes which apparently I need a key I'd have to pay for to open. As I am not rich enough to spend actual money on this game right now, I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do with them. If not, I'm just going to have to give them away because they take up space in my inventory.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Personally, I get a decent stock of them and then just don't pick up more. The older lockboxes can sometimes go for a decent amount on the Exchange, depending on content/rarity.

[The Romulan Republic]

Can anyone recommend some good Foundry missions?