What happened to the CPs that were on our account before the switch to PWE? Mine now says 0 Zen?
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
*The gap between the header and content needs reducing, its too large and creates an eyesore.
*The forum buttons are gif's with white backgrounds, they need to be on dark backgrounds (very shoddy work)
*The post reply text box needs restyling, it is far to bright and strains the eyes, which is a terrable thing on a forum!
*None of the original authers can post in thier stickied threads, so many of them will need to be remade.
*No icon showing whichs threads you have actually posted in (that I can see atleast)
*The List tag does not work (it isn't styled as a list)
*The Galaxy class in the background image is the old one from launch that was incorrect, should use the uptodate version!
*Ability to set posts per page is gone
*The last visisted date shows 1969 (seriously, I can't believe even the dates wern't set up properly when making this)
*The header and menus take up too much screen real estate at the top of the page.
*The spacing on the menu dropdowns is too big
*The alignment of the 'reply' and 'preview' buttons is 1-2 pixels off (sloppy)
*You can use Comic Sans!
*Original join dates are lost, this is a kick in the teeth to some of us that have been here since the very beginning 4 years ago.
*No icon showing whichs threads you have actually posted in (that I can see atleast)
*Too late now, but we realy should of been given an FAQ about this merger before it happened so we would of been informed and/or could of given feedback, by not doing this it just gives the impression that Cryptic/PWI don't care, which is a very bad impression for your customer to have!
*It is blatantly apparent that no user testing was used at all for the new forum/site, this screams shoddy web design practices, if user testing did happen, I'd actually pretend it didn't, because either the results wern't listened to or the user testing was not performed properly.
I will also say that archiving everything is a 'very bad thing', there is alot of psycology at play when creating and running a forum, one of the main things you want to achieve is to get users to have a sence of ownership and standing, to archive peoples posts and reset thier join dates completely smashes down all that has been built up by longstanding forum users (like myself who has been here for 4 years). I'm quite shocked that these changes were not advertised more clearly, more so what was going to happen to everyones posts, to just dump these changes on a forum community like this was very badly thought out.
As a multimedia and web designer, I have to say I am hugely dissapointed with the implementation of the new site design. I don't mean to insult anyone here, but it really looks like the changes were done by someone that didn't really know what they were doing, some of the most very basic mistkaes have been made on these new forums and some very huge mistakes in regards to runnign a community marketing wise have also been made.
Consider myself very dissapointed.
Word of mouth is the most important way of marketing a game, right now that part of the marketing is been seriously damaged. I used o be happy telling people I played WoW back in the day, i had no issues even telling people to try it out. I can not sadly say teh same for STO, I feel shy admiting I play it, and I don't feel the urge to tell people to try it as I feel it would damage my credability.
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No warning, no information, no likely Q&A.......not sure what to say that wouldn't get an infraction or make Cryptic sit up and take notice. Every single thing about this change is a complete TRIBBLE up short of it going belly up and the whole forum being wiped (though this isn't much better).
I'm not doing anything to my account until Cryptic explains to me what they have done, doing and what they are going to do to my account and what issues are present that they need to fix.
This looks like a precedence for a mandatory merge with PWE so we'll have no choice soon and be forced to merge right? Damnit Cryptic try informing your userbase or you won't have a userbase at all.
Yeap .... and these forums look awful. Was forced to use a username that is DIFFERENT from my in-game handle.
C-Store points are needed for the store but you can no longer BUY C-store points.
All I can say is that assimilation has taken place and Cryptic's STO website has fallen.
In order to post on the forums, you must be signed in with a PWE Account. You may notice a few other changes, so if you have any questions, post them in here and I will do my best to answer them Also, if you notice anything strange, please let me know in here and I will pass along your feedback to the web team as it comes in.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
At the risk of making my criticism not constructive, I have to say:
"THIS ... SUCKS.. THIS SUCKS... HARD"
I really don't *WANT* yet another user name and password to memorize and to manage. Why do we insist on breaking what's working?
Your forum display name here is your PWE display name.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Okay, this is irritating as all heck... Can we get our old names back? daemonheld is not a name I've used in *years* ... No avatar, completely new name.. no one is going to know who I am...
And why has our account date been completely obliterated? Is that going to be addressed? I mean, my PWE account is older than STO.. but I've been with STO since before closed beta. Why are they using the merge date?
This is all really jarring.. change is good, but this is a holy mess!
Is there any hope of reverting SOME of our lost things? (STO name is of utmost importance!!!)
Do we really need the huge side bars? Unfortunately the Stylish add-on for Firefox isn't letting me override that.
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PROS:
*Getting to use my PWE handle means the listener confusion of "who is this guy again" is gone.
CONS:
*The theme is poorly done. Not enough contrast between category headers and actual categories. Too much is below the fold on a standard resolution.
*The theme just feels shoddily done. The buttons look like TRIBBLE.
*Gotta rework all sorts of links over the web now. Google search is gonna break in a few days.
*After attempting to buy some Zen with my credit card a few days back, I've decided that its not worth it. Why? Because "Moneybookers.com" (the service PWE uses for CC processing to buy Zen) is flagged as a suspicious transaction. I'm not dealing with my bank every time I want to by cryptic points, and I can't exactly go down the local Gamestop or Best Buy to get a Zen card (since they are over an hour away), so I'm sticking with Steam Wallet. And when Steam Wallet is no longer allowed, I'll just stop buying Cryptic Points and grind dilithium.
*All old posts were attributed to "Archived User." Talk about a slap in the face.
*Post counts reset. Yet another slap in the face.
*Original join dates are lost, yet another slap in the face, especially for those of us who have been here for a while.
*A heads up would have been nice so we could have braced for it. And saved our signatures.
*No custom avatars. This is a HUGE slap in the face, especially since someone's avatar was a great way of identifying them on the forums.
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Click on "edit your avatar"
shame that i can't use the same forum name i was using for over two years
shame i have to now put up with adds on the forums (in house adds or not)
shame that the avatar pic are so bland could you not have added some of tomasthecrypticcats's mission patches??
Looks like we just had a live update on the forums. Just did an edit of a post and it was edited within the actual post instead of a load of a new page.
Not liking the whole change of "forum name". I was happy with my Darkthunder (uppercase) name, on the old forums. Any chance for a possibility to change display name?
New home of the Romulan Republic.
I have an idea for what Season 11 should be; Season 11: The Big Bug Fix.
I have not been able to read my bug tickets in over a year, not even the tickets about not being able to see my tickets.
I find the drama of your signature proof of your immaturity, this means you, DR whiners.
shame that i can't use the same forum name i was using for over two years
shame i have to now put up with adds on the forums (in house adds or not)
shame that the avatar pic are so bland could you not have added some of tomasthecrypticcats's mission patches??
Not liking the whole change of "forum name". I was happy with my Darkthunder (uppercase) name, on the old forums. Any chance for a possibility to change display name?
I agree with ya'll.
I can't even get my old name inl lower case thanks to changes. I've ran with Captain_Zero for nearly 3 years now.
I'm all for a display name change to allow for the old names.
I've been gone for a couple of days and I come back to ...This...??
Guess I be mostly reading what others have to say instead of posting my thoughts around here anymore...
Probably not much of a loss for either...
Was fun while it lasted.
STO Member since February 2009. I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born! Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I've been logging into STO website using my PWE account since i started playing so nothing has effected me logging back in after the change. :cool:
I notice that now i can add my character to my PWE page (Didn't notice it before), although when i try nothing comes up, my question is, what is the method of doing this, since with all these changes i'm a little confused.
Yeah, I haven't been active on the forums for a while and don't plan to do so now. This was an incredibly pointless change and will cause nothing but frustration for all parties involved.
Way to demonstrate how NOT to deal with a community, Cryptic.
Force people to change their names
Make sure the names don't actually match the ingame handles anymore
Remove their avatars
Remove their signatures
Reset their join dates
Muck up all the old posts, including all the fleet recruitment threads.
Basically reset everyone's identify, all without any prior notice.
Over the last 4 years you've managed to build up a vibrant community here (and yes, I joined in July 2008, not that you'd know it now).
Now the members of that community can't even recognize each other anymore, nor associate each other with past accomplishments and reputation. In other words, the community has to start over.
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I got ore. Mine wasn't refined.
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=569601
We have a php tag? And a code tag?....
I will also say that archiving everything is a 'very bad thing', there is alot of psycology at play when creating and running a forum, one of the main things you want to achieve is to get users to have a sence of ownership and standing, to archive peoples posts and reset thier join dates completely smashes down all that has been built up by longstanding forum users (like myself who has been here for 4 years). I'm quite shocked that these changes were not advertised more clearly, more so what was going to happen to everyones posts, to just dump these changes on a forum community like this was very badly thought out.
As a multimedia and web designer, I have to say I am hugely dissapointed with the implementation of the new site design. I don't mean to insult anyone here, but it really looks like the changes were done by someone that didn't really know what they were doing, some of the most very basic mistkaes have been made on these new forums and some very huge mistakes in regards to runnign a community marketing wise have also been made.
Consider myself very dissapointed.
Word of mouth is the most important way of marketing a game, right now that part of the marketing is been seriously damaged. I used o be happy telling people I played WoW back in the day, i had no issues even telling people to try it out. I can not sadly say teh same for STO, I feel shy admiting I play it, and I don't feel the urge to tell people to try it as I feel it would damage my credability.
Formerly Suricata - Join Date July 2008
Yeap .... and these forums look awful. Was forced to use a username that is DIFFERENT from my in-game handle.
C-Store points are needed for the store but you can no longer BUY C-store points.
All I can say is that assimilation has taken place and Cryptic's STO website has fallen.
U.S.S. Maelstrom, NCC-71417 (Constitution III-class/flagship) --- Fleet Admiral Hauk' --|-- Dahar Master Hauk --- I.K.S. qu'In 'an bortaS (D7-class / flagship)
- The division line between posts that separate them is not fully displayed at 1366 x 760 and the font size adjusted downward.
- Basic layout of the post content is also broken. I can submit a screen cap if you want one.
At the risk of making my criticism not constructive, I have to say:
"THIS ... SUCKS.. THIS SUCKS... HARD"
I really don't *WANT* yet another user name and password to memorize and to manage. Why do we insist on breaking what's working?
EB
Okay, this is irritating as all heck... Can we get our old names back? daemonheld is not a name I've used in *years* ... No avatar, completely new name.. no one is going to know who I am...
And why has our account date been completely obliterated? Is that going to be addressed? I mean, my PWE account is older than STO.. but I've been with STO since before closed beta. Why are they using the merge date?
This is all really jarring.. change is good, but this is a holy mess!
Is there any hope of reverting SOME of our lost things? (STO name is of utmost importance!!!)
GalanVaurek ... dammit!
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PROS:
*Getting to use my PWE handle means the listener confusion of "who is this guy again" is gone.
CONS:
*The theme is poorly done. Not enough contrast between category headers and actual categories. Too much is below the fold on a standard resolution.
*The theme just feels shoddily done. The buttons look like TRIBBLE.
*Gotta rework all sorts of links over the web now. Google search is gonna break in a few days.
*After attempting to buy some Zen with my credit card a few days back, I've decided that its not worth it. Why? Because "Moneybookers.com" (the service PWE uses for CC processing to buy Zen) is flagged as a suspicious transaction. I'm not dealing with my bank every time I want to by cryptic points, and I can't exactly go down the local Gamestop or Best Buy to get a Zen card (since they are over an hour away), so I'm sticking with Steam Wallet. And when Steam Wallet is no longer allowed, I'll just stop buying Cryptic Points and grind dilithium.
*All old posts were attributed to "Archived User." Talk about a slap in the face.
*Post counts reset. Yet another slap in the face.
*Original join dates are lost, yet another slap in the face, especially for those of us who have been here for a while.
*A heads up would have been nice so we could have braced for it. And saved our signatures.
*No custom avatars. This is a HUGE slap in the face, especially since someone's avatar was a great way of identifying them on the forums.
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How did you get your title to show? (Career Officer)
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Worse: No ignore list.
(At least not that I can find.)
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shame that i can't use the same forum name i was using for over two years
shame i have to now put up with adds on the forums (in house adds or not)
shame that the avatar pic are so bland could you not have added some of tomasthecrypticcats's mission patches??
the whole thing is just a shame:frown:
the icons have been changed too.
I have an idea for what Season 11 should be; Season 11: The Big Bug Fix.
I have not been able to read my bug tickets in over a year, not even the tickets about not being able to see my tickets.
I find the drama of your signature proof of your immaturity, this means you, DR whiners.
-Have to change my forum handle:frown:
-Have to switch to a LESS secure password:mad:
-Now have forum ads:mad:
-All old posts are archived:mad:
PWE's takeover just keeps getting better and better.
I agree with ya'll.
I can't even get my old name inl lower case thanks to changes. I've ran with Captain_Zero for nearly 3 years now.
I'm all for a display name change to allow for the old names.
I wonder if C points will be completely converted to zen down the line.
Guess I be mostly reading what others have to say instead of posting my thoughts around here anymore...
Probably not much of a loss for either...
Was fun while it lasted.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I notice that now i can add my character to my PWE page (Didn't notice it before), although when i try nothing comes up, my question is, what is the method of doing this, since with all these changes i'm a little confused.
Thanks Mr Flakes :biggrin:
Thank you in advance for answering.
Force people to change their names
Make sure the names don't actually match the ingame handles anymore
Remove their avatars
Remove their signatures
Reset their join dates
Muck up all the old posts, including all the fleet recruitment threads.
Basically reset everyone's identify, all without any prior notice.
Over the last 4 years you've managed to build up a vibrant community here (and yes, I joined in July 2008, not that you'd know it now).
Now the members of that community can't even recognize each other anymore, nor associate each other with past accomplishments and reputation. In other words, the community has to start over.
I won't. Too bad.