Should I try out Star Trek Online?

[The Romulan Republic]

So I hailed this moon and some local Orion jackass decided to pick a fight with an Intrepid class starship. With Orion corvettes... I felt so bad for the crews of those things who were being sent to pointless deaths by their moronic boss.

[FaxModem1]

To be fair, they're pirates, they know what they're getting into when they decided to go fight a Starfleet ship.

[The Romulan Republic]

Its just so pointless.

Going into a mine full of thugs and monsters and I'm only allowed to take one man as back up (naturally I took my main tactical officer). Starfleet can't be paying me enough for this.

[Lord Revan]

Its just so pointless.

Going into a mine full of thugs and monsters and I'm only allowed to take one man as back up (naturally I took my main tactical officer). Starfleet can't be paying me enough for this.

personally I take my CMO when I have to take just 1 person, if you're sci it might be different but atm I'm at max chars unless I buy more slot so I can't make a sci officer.

and if you think that's bad there's a lvl 50 mission where you have to solo an undine infested space station (what station it is, is a spoiler so I won't reveal it here(oh and that fanfic I'm writing is built around that mission so obviously spoilers)).

and tbh if got 1 EC for everytime some local pirate captain/admiral in AQ desided he can take on a top of the line warship built to take on borg tactical cubes and have a realistic chance of winning, take only problem with EC I would have would hitting the hard cap. No pirate from the Alpha Quadrant has a chance against the Helsinki and even less of a chance against the Siren's Song, hell even RRW Shadowblade (aka my rommie officer's ship) would be too much for them. Yet they keep comming.

[White Haven]

The believability of the ground game suffers from having to cram the 50-crew Defiant and the 3000-crew Atrox and everything in between into the same frame of reference. Given that I usually fly large, heavy things, I'm often struck by the desire to say 'Deploy Bravo Company today' and then sip tea rather than beaming down myself.

[Lord Revan]

The believability of the ground game suffers from having to cram the 50-crew Defiant and the 3000-crew Atrox and everything in between into the same frame of reference. Given that I usually fly large, heavy things, I'm often struck by the desire to say 'Deploy Bravo Company today' and then sip tea rather than beaming down myself.

Atrox is the Caitian carrier right? so it might actually have just as many ground pounders as the Defiant and most of the 3000 figure is taken by the flight crews and assorted support staff.

At least with my Orion it makes sense why she would go into combat personally rather then just sending in some redshirts, you don't gain prestige in the KDF by just sitting on your bridge and letting others do the fighting.

[Lord Revan]

looks like I don't get to play today unless the servers come back online soon, damn I really wished to do so too.

[Lord Revan]

looks like I don't get to play today unless the servers come back online soon, damn I really wished to do so too.

if they want to make the servers unuseble for hours on end they should at have seperate EU servers so that we wouldn't have to deal with this BS

[RogueIce]

The believability of the ground game suffers from having to cram the 50-crew Defiant and the 3000-crew Atrox and everything in between into the same frame of reference. Given that I usually fly large, heavy things, I'm often struck by the desire to say 'Deploy Bravo Company today' and then sip tea rather than beaming down myself.

This is why I make use of my patently absurd number of costume slots and create a "Security Officer" and other such 'costumes' that look nothing like my Captain (except for sharing the same gender, of course). Thus my "Captain" never actually beams down himself, but some junior officer or Chief leads my dedicated away team(s); because I have a frankly absurd number of Boff slots and thus dedicated away teams as well, rather than my Senior Staff.

looks like I don't get to play today unless the servers come back online soon, damn I really wished to do so too.

if they want to make the servers unuseble for hours on end they should at have seperate EU servers so that we wouldn't have to deal with this BS

What makes you think any theoretical dedicated EU servers would fare much better whenever they have these issues applying patches? Because most of these extended outages are during maintenance. Unless you figure they'd do so at different, more EU appropriate times. But then, they'd just be splitting the player base so I'm not sure it would really be advantageous in the end.

[Iroscato]

It would actually be kind of cool to take a more 'Field Commander' (you can call it lazy, I suppose, depends on your outlook) approach to ground missions. You choose a specially made character to lead the away teams to fight the NPC enemies whilst you hold off the enemy ships in orbit. The space combat is so utterly superior to the ground combat it's not even funny.

[The Romulan Republic]

On the one hand, while I'm no expert in naval protocol, I would think a captain really should be commanding their ship from the relative safety of the bridge, not fighting on the ground. On the other hand, Star Trek has never really followed that way of thinking.

[Iroscato]

See if they wanted to be really faithful to the show, create an item called 'Character Shield MK Picard/Riker/Kirk'. All shots fired by the enemy are diverted around and away from you and hit your poor dumb lackeys 20 feet away

[Lord Revan]

the way I deal with it is that my fed character is an Andorian (race know to be bit aggressive and militant by UFP standards), also she's a fairly fresh academy graduate so she might feel she needs to "prove" herself by doing as much as possible by herself.

my KDF character is an Orion fem and her standard solo boff is the XO and "speaker" basically an officer who speak in her stead so that few meet "Dahar Master Morai" in person, while Morai herself will play a part of a concubine or a servant thus disguising the fact the female Orion present is in fact a senior officer and not just a "worthless" crewmember. Except in times I deem that it would important for the story for Morai to be "present" officially for which I have a Honor Guard outfit for her or times when the people present wouldn't care about ranks (say like in times against the borg or Undine) in which cases I have more practical outfit.

and my Rommie has more then a little bit of survivor's guilt on her so she probably takes grounds cause she might get killed.

[The Romulan Republic]

I really like the Romulan stories for this game. Its so epic and tragic seeing this great civilization in ruins and fighting to rebuild itself. And all the references to other stuff.

Edits: Cool little action scene moment. I was storming a secret Romulan base and one of the personal (who I'd initially overlooked) attacked my captain (who was on the level above her) and tried to jump the rail at him as he opened fire, resulting in her getting a face full of phaser rifle butt and getting knocked off the second floor. Just by chance.

[Lord Revan]

my Andorian has at least few times whacked an opponent a few times with her rifle then kicked said opponent in the face so finish it off and it's good thing there's no realistic cuts or any melee hits from the HG pulseweave would cause some really nasty wounds with those blades it has.

[Scottish Ninja]

So I just had a look at the new Command Battlecruisers.

Wait a minute, isn't that -



FUZZY MODEM YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, THEY FINALLY DID IT!

[The Romulan Republic]

I remember that.

So that's what the new Fed. battlecruisers look like?

[The Romulan Republic]

Despite some flaws, the Romulan plot continues to deliver some good ideas. We've got quite the interesting and complex villain in Obisek, though I can't actually sympathize with him. I like that he's capable of respecting his opponents.

[RogueIce]

Despite some flaws, the Romulan plot continues to deliver some good ideas. We've got quite the interesting and complex villain in Obisek, though I can't actually sympathize with him. I like that he's capable of respecting his opponents.

He's not really a villain though, not really. More of an anti-hero I'd say.

[The Romulan Republic]

Well, he is a pretty ruthless chap and he's a bit bigoted against Romulans, though God knows he's been provoked.

Anyway, I get the feeling I'm nearing the end of the Romulan centric stuff. I have orders to arrest that bastard Hakeev. I'm looking forward to that.

Also, the focus of the story seems to be shifting to the Iconians as villains. I don't know much about them other than that they're old and powerful and have gates.

[Elheru Aran]

The Iconians are supposedly part of the whole long-term story arc. I kinda feel like they shoehorned them in once they introduced the Romulan storyline, though. Not sure if there was much about them before then, although there were implications when they pulled out the Elachi.

[Lord Revan]

personally I don't mind the Iconians being the main "bad guy" faction, since we know next to nothing about them from canon trek it allows the cryptic people have quite alot of freedom while still tying while still having the connection to trek TV-series and since Iconians like to use minions you can a "story line bad guy" without having problem of having the main bad guy seem too easy to defeat.

[The Romulan Republic]

Obisek you blood thirsty dumb ass, I was supposed to capture Hakeev for intelligence, and you went and shot him.

[RogueIce]

Obisek you blood thirsty dumb ass, I was supposed to capture Hakeev for intelligence, and you went and shot him.

Play it as your Romulan Captain.

[The Romulan Republic]

I look forward to it, but I suspect it will be a while. My Romulan character is still only at level 12.