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thetraveler82
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Dear Star Trek Online "Tribblers",
Allow me to re-re-introduce myself. I am a 30 years-old "Trekkian" who likes to... observe things. And, from what I observed so far, there are a few things that trouble me even though I don't pay to play,... yet.
So, with your permission, here's my list of those few things that trouble me.
1.) The game launcher "frozen" numerous times while trying to "patch". Granted, now, that I barely updated it - at the expense of 12+ GBs of hard drive? - and registered myself to both Tribble and Redshirt - the latter one is quite confusing, to be honest -, it doesn't quite do so as before.
2.) The game itself "crashes" on me on a regular basis, but especially after a half or one full hour of gaming. And, let's say, 80+% of those cases are accompanied by the "BSoD".
And that irritates me beyond words... I mean, it's always some memory dump with this game which runs under "Windows 7 Enterprise" on 32 bits with SP 1.
3.) In-game, on ground, my characters suffer either from temporary impairment or (very) poor AI because they always get stuck in some wall while running or simply following someone. And, on occasion, I can't even shoot or jab because I can't actually draw the weapon from its holster! Interesting... Not to mention that the *geometry*(?!) of the fencing arm is wrong in my character when battling beasts and/or foes. As for the ESD, it sometimes *disappears*! Just like in the "Remember me..." episode, section by section. And it has a hard time re-appearing. Also, most of the AI-ed NPCs are shown either *translucid* or *halfened*. And the: "Do you want to delete this character?", "Report as spam" and "Reset options to default?" messages continue to pop-up... Beside the routinely "X just unlocked a Jem'Hadar Attack Cruiser" or "Y bought himself/herself a Temporal Science Wessel" - to quote the "W" from Mr. Chekov -, of course.
4.) In-game, in space, my ship sometimes can't fire its weapons when pressing "Fire All Weapons" even though I selected the target and it's sitting right in front of me! This happens especially in the PvEs and STFs. Oh, and when I reach a system, why do I have to circle around it several times so that I can get the: "Enter... / Patrol... / Continue..." button? I mean, I have to turn my ship around, navigate upwards and/or downwards and, on a fourth or fifth try, I succeed!
5.) In-game, my Account Bank is still not reachable. Why is that, please? I can't seem to access this account for none of my characters!... Be they Holodeck or Tribble or Redshirt. Furthermore, my Dilithium-for-Zen transaction proved to be a bust some 10 days ago - I don't remember exactly - when I tried and did spend 7.5 K worth of Dilithium for some 300 pieces of Zen. The obvious thing is that, so far, I got NO Zen.
Any thoughts, please? Sorry to nag you with these, but you know...
~ Silviu
Allow me to re-re-introduce myself. I am a 30 years-old "Trekkian" who likes to... observe things. And, from what I observed so far, there are a few things that trouble me even though I don't pay to play,... yet.
So, with your permission, here's my list of those few things that trouble me.1.) The game launcher "frozen" numerous times while trying to "patch". Granted, now, that I barely updated it - at the expense of 12+ GBs of hard drive? - and registered myself to both Tribble and Redshirt - the latter one is quite confusing, to be honest -, it doesn't quite do so as before.
2.) The game itself "crashes" on me on a regular basis, but especially after a half or one full hour of gaming. And, let's say, 80+% of those cases are accompanied by the "BSoD".
And that irritates me beyond words... I mean, it's always some memory dump with this game which runs under "Windows 7 Enterprise" on 32 bits with SP 1.3.) In-game, on ground, my characters suffer either from temporary impairment or (very) poor AI because they always get stuck in some wall while running or simply following someone. And, on occasion, I can't even shoot or jab because I can't actually draw the weapon from its holster! Interesting... Not to mention that the *geometry*(?!) of the fencing arm is wrong in my character when battling beasts and/or foes. As for the ESD, it sometimes *disappears*! Just like in the "Remember me..." episode, section by section. And it has a hard time re-appearing. Also, most of the AI-ed NPCs are shown either *translucid* or *halfened*. And the: "Do you want to delete this character?", "Report as spam" and "Reset options to default?" messages continue to pop-up... Beside the routinely "X just unlocked a Jem'Hadar Attack Cruiser" or "Y bought himself/herself a Temporal Science Wessel" - to quote the "W" from Mr. Chekov -, of course.
4.) In-game, in space, my ship sometimes can't fire its weapons when pressing "Fire All Weapons" even though I selected the target and it's sitting right in front of me! This happens especially in the PvEs and STFs. Oh, and when I reach a system, why do I have to circle around it several times so that I can get the: "Enter... / Patrol... / Continue..." button? I mean, I have to turn my ship around, navigate upwards and/or downwards and, on a fourth or fifth try, I succeed!
5.) In-game, my Account Bank is still not reachable. Why is that, please? I can't seem to access this account for none of my characters!... Be they Holodeck or Tribble or Redshirt. Furthermore, my Dilithium-for-Zen transaction proved to be a bust some 10 days ago - I don't remember exactly - when I tried and did spend 7.5 K worth of Dilithium for some 300 pieces of Zen. The obvious thing is that, so far, I got NO Zen.
Any thoughts, please? Sorry to nag you with these, but you know...
~ Silviu
I love Science! STO science. 
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uh. no. at no point in this games history have you been able to buy 300 zen for 7500 dilithium, so I don't know where you're getting that from
*Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us.
*Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
Of course I bug reported them. What do you think?
P.S. All right... No Zen for me, then. I have to pay actual money for it, huh?
Thanks for your promptness, though!
the AI sucks.. in a few missions they run off or just run in circles.. the ones that come to mind are the breen missions and the klingon after life missions.
on my computer in the klingon afterlife mission most of the large room is missing. its just black textures.. been that way since the game came out..
as far as your account bank.. if you werent gold or lts you have to buy it with zen before it works.
also. as far as zen to dil go..did you take it out of the "zen bank" ?
you have to collect it before you can spend it.
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
Plenty of things will disable weapons: weapon power, abilities, cooldowns, weapon arcs...
Not sure 'bout this, but any meaningful use of the account bank for silver players requires zen.
Number 5... are you a free player?... if you are; do you purchase the account bank slots from the store?, i you don't that's why you don't have accest to the account bank.
Also.. Nobody will give you 300 zen for 7500 dilithium, at current prices on the dil exchange you will need around 39000 dilithium for 300 Zen
In every place,
The deeds of men remain the same..."
Duly noted, Aarons!
Qatlho'! ^_^
The fix is using a Weapon Battery or EPtW, otherwise you just have to wait for the debuff to clear.
Right...
For ground stuff, keep in mind you have controls available to manually move and position your bridge officers if needed.
For weapon firing, besides the numerous disables that enemies might do, weapons also have a firing time, and if they just fired, and you switch targets and hit space, they may not fire again right away because they can't yet.
As for crashing, check for updated drivers and all that. I play STO a lot (including Tribble and Redshirt), and I haven't seen it crash in at least 8 months now.
Guess what? I can't fight the Breen!
Thx!
Probably because of the huge patch that just hit Tribble. I have the same problem.
Thx, TangoLight! I'll look into the transactions "manual" right now. Concerning the Away Team... I know of the Way Points. I was just worried about my occasional inability to fire.
Here, here! ^_^
Are you clicking the fire button with your mouse or using the keyboard? Former seems to bug for some people.
So, I'll have to start collecting Dilithium very seriously from "farming"... I'll grow OLD in those mines!
With the mouse pad. I also use the laptop. :P
Many times when the game crashes on me, I find the cryptic error logger process running in the background. I need to kill the game client process tree, restart the launcher and log in, and then restart the launcher yet again. Same thing when I try using the verify files option from the launcher
I've experienced just one of these problems, the launcher crashing
Everything else is either a problem with your computer or your lack of understanding of STO game mechanics.
possible ,but I know how to use a pc
You're *half* right. My understanding of the "STO"... 'mechanics' grows with each hour, day by day.
The crashing could also be a RAM issue - one of your RAM cards is bad and slamming your system off when it gets stressed. There's no way of knowing about that without doing a RAM test, though.
NONE of this is new this game has been around for years now these are known problems always remember .....fourm search is your friend
Actually...no, most of those aren't actual problems with the game, but just lack of knowledge about STO, or computer issues not directly related to STO, or at least, not something Cryptic can fix.