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Am i doing something wrong or is sector space travel an absolute crawl as a new character ?

doylem33doylem33 Member Posts: 25 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I decided to start a new Romulan toon. Put a purple mk II hyper impulse engine and 3 points in driver coils and OMG ? Its been close to 10 mins to travel halfway from the Romulan Flotilla to the Helix mission. I have 105 in engine power subsystem.

Am i doing something wrong here or is this a oversight on the Dev's part and the travel speed of a lower levelled toon with the sector map enlargement ?

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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,569 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    You are very limited for maximum Warp at lower levels, which means substantially slower speeds for Sector Travel.
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  • doylem33doylem33 Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    So basically travelling system to system levelling up is going to be as big a pain as going from level 54-60 i.e will feel like very little progress is being made. Dam it
  • commanderkassycommanderkassy Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    Just pay the pocket change to transwarp around instead.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,569 Arc User
    And you can't use the Quantum Slipstream Drive until you are level 50, when you are granted that Ability.
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,512 Arc User
    I check mail, make a cup of tea, eat a sandwich or read a book or two while waiting with new alts.
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    You are pretty much limited to Warp 5 with the Mark I warp/singularity cores, and can't get to Warp 9.9 until you can equip the Mark VIII ones upon your promotion at level 30.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    doylem33 wrote: »
    So basically travelling system to system levelling up is going to be as big a pain as going from level 54-60 i.e will feel like very little progress is being made. Dam it
    At those levels, you're a lot faster, and you have access to quantum slipstream. And you can often spend the time travelling doing Duty Officer missions and Admirality.

    At low levels, your destinations usually won't be all that far away from each other.
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  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    KDF has also some 'long' travels at low level (low level long travel). You can grow out of it fast, but, yeah, one of the pains for leveling up. A new player doesn't know better, but someone that is doing it a second or third time, it is a drag.

    Good thing is that this leveling goes fast. In other games you have a veteran feature, you can skip the starting levels. Something we had with KDF when those started at level 20.
  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    Side effect of the map expansion. But it does give and idea of how big the Trek Universe is.
  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    Most transpwarp gates are still broken and you usually end up farther away from your target and several thousand EC poorer... >:(
  • commanderkassycommanderkassy Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    ruinthefun wrote: »
    commanderkassy wrote: »
    Just pay the pocket change to transwarp around instead.
    At 20-50K a warp, it stopped being merely pocket change awhile ago.

    Going anywhere at low levels is such a massive pain in the TRIBBLE that it is best to avoid any sector-space motion prior to level 50. Park yourself in an adventure zone or a doffship and doff it.

    20-50k is still pocket change for anyone who plays this game even semi-regularly. Hell, it's nothing to me and I never play more than a week or two at a time before leaving for months.

    Learn to economy.
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  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    doylem33 wrote: »
    I decided to start a new Romulan toon. Put a purple mk II hyper impulse engine and 3 points in driver coils and OMG ? Its been close to 10 mins to travel halfway from the Romulan Flotilla to the Helix mission. I have 105 in engine power subsystem.

    Am i doing something wrong here or is this a oversight on the Dev's part and the travel speed of a lower levelled toon with the sector map enlargement ?

    yep, indeed this is really boring, and when you leave the flotilla, you appear near the sol system, so you have a long long long travel to do for reaching again the romulan area.
  • nyxadrillnyxadrill Member Posts: 1,242 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    doylem33 wrote: »
    I decided to start a new Romulan toon. Put a purple mk II hyper impulse engine and 3 points in driver coils and OMG ? Its been close to 10 mins to travel halfway from the Romulan Flotilla to the Helix mission. I have 105 in engine power subsystem.

    Am i doing something wrong here or is this a oversight on the Dev's part and the travel speed of a lower levelled toon with the sector map enlargement ?

    I did the exact same thing on Friday, decided to remake a Romulan liberated borg. I'd forgotten how Sloooooooooooow sector travel is at the lower levels. In fact I fell asleep during one trek last night!

    Oh by the way, love that little cutie in your sig pic!
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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    there was a time I was in orbit of Qo'nos and barely moving even at full throttle and then realised somehow I had unslotted my impulse drive so I was moving on thrusters only, might be worth just checking you have a warp core fitted and your not traversing sector space on your impulse drive only.

    I only ask because you mention your purple mk II hyper impulse engine but didn't say about your warp core.

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  • doylem33doylem33 Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    nyxadrill wrote: »
    doylem33 wrote: »
    Oh by the way, love that little cutie in your sig pic!

    My Dad has a Westie, thats not him thou pictured, they are a cute breed. He's called Toby but i've started calling him Teddy as in Teddy Bear.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,343 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    Seriously, the speed at which you are travelling at is waaaaaaaaaaay faster than canon, otherwise you'd be waiting alot longer to travel between systems (2 years to cross the entire Federation according to canon). Considering how fast you can level to 50 these days, I'd say, just suck it up. Too many people wanting so much instant-gratification these days. Use that time, whilst travelling, to do Doffing, I do, even when I'm travelling Warp 20.93!
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  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    "Canon" has little or nothing to do with good gameplay. Sector space travel on the new maps, at low level, especially with Rom & KDF characters who have to go across several blocks at warp 5, is a massive drag.

    (And no, doffing isn't the answer. At low level, there's almost none to do. And when you talk to your department heads - which is where I do most of my doffing - you stop moving.)
  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    edit: double
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,343 Arc User
    kiralyn wrote: »
    "Canon" has little or nothing to do with good gameplay. Sector space travel on the new maps, at low level, especially with Rom & KDF characters who have to go across several blocks at warp 5, is a massive drag.

    (And no, doffing isn't the answer. At low level, there's almost none to do. And when you talk to your department heads - which is where I do most of my doffing - you stop moving.)

    It is not a drag in the slightest, merely a few minutes to wait, giving you a break, a chance to drink, smoke or whatever. My point is, you don't spend that much time at low levels for it to be even considered an issue. With-in a week you're at 9.97 on a level 30+ toon. This is a case of instant-gratification being impatient!
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • teknesiateknesia Member Posts: 860 Arc User
    doylem33 wrote: »
    I decided to start a new Romulan toon. Put a purple mk II hyper impulse engine and 3 points in driver coils and OMG ? Its been close to 10 mins to travel halfway from the Romulan Flotilla to the Helix mission. I have 105 in engine power subsystem.

    Am i doing something wrong here or is this a oversight on the Dev's part and the travel speed of a lower levelled toon with the sector map enlargement ?

    This'll probably sound weird and granted, I find it slightly annoying every now and then, but for the most part, I consider it a feature.

    Space is supposed to be huge and it's supposed to take time to cross the void
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  • dragnridrdragnridr Member Posts: 671 Arc User
    I don't understand the reason why people are always in such a rush during sector space travel. Nothing happens there except some menu stuff, and no combat. All those people spending points and getting gear just to leap across sector space, to me, is a waste. If I am starting a new character, I expect slow travel so I can get acquainted with the game. Even going through leveling 3 or 4 alts, the slow travel still doesn't bother me. I guess I am one of those patient few.
  • doylem33doylem33 Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    The time it takes to travel
    dragnridr wrote: »
    I don't understand the reason why people are always in such a rush during sector space travel. Nothing happens there except some menu stuff, and no combat. All those people spending points and getting gear just to leap across sector space, to me, is a waste. If I am starting a new character, I expect slow travel so I can get acquainted with the game. Even going through leveling 3 or 4 alts, the slow travel still doesn't bother me. I guess I am one of those patient few.

    say it takes 5 mins to travel from one system to another to start a mission. Thats 5 mins of actual playing time that could be spent proactively playing and completing that mission instead its 5 mins of my play time wasted
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