So I've been pestering my girlfriend to play this game with me for a few weeks now. Today is the day, finally. She spent an hour creating a character. And then.. when going down to click on height/stance buttons, this happened:
3:19 PM - Emcitement: son of a *****
3:19 PM - Emcitement: im sorry
3:19 PM - Emcitement: im not doin this right now.
3:19 PM - Rachel: whats wrong?
3:19 PM - Emcitement: I clicked species
3:19 PM - Emcitement: and it reset everything
3:19 PM - Emcitement: im done.
3:19 PM - Rachel: click back to romulan, it may not have altered everything
3:19 PM - Emcitement: It changed everything.
3:19 PM - Rachel:

3:20 PM - Emcitement: ****ty game.
3:20 PM - Emcitement: one click erases everything
3:20 PM - Emcitement: ****ing stupid as hell
3:20 PM - Rachel: I knew I should have told you
3:20 PM - Rachel: to click the save costume button
3:20 PM - Emcitement: yeah I really spent an hour sitting here
3:20 PM - Emcitement: because I wanted one click with no confirmation
3:20 PM - Emcitement: to erase it all
3:21 PM - Rachel: *sigh*
GG guys, who knows if she will even want to bother after this. Put a ****ing confirmation dialogue and warning for going back from the costume area of character creation. Also, maybe try auto-saving feature for costumes.
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But it's kinda-sorta funny too...
Every where else in the game, it constantly asks if ya really want to do 'that'...
Usually with Three pop up windows.
:rolleyes:
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Sure, but why should someone have to do that?
A completely new person would easily do this if they wanted to go back and change their class. She isn't even a trek fan.
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Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Sounds more like she was doing this mostly to get you to stop bugging her, not because she was going to enjoy playing. And having someone who isn't into the game not play it doesn't exactly spell our DOOOOMMM!!!!!
Me and all my fleet-mates call the beginning character creator the spore editor. We call it this because the only thing its good for with the flaw that you pointed out is for just messing around and trying to make funny looking characters for free. We tell anyone in our fleet that if they decide to make a new character to pretty much skip it (choose faction, species, gender, and department (tac/sci/eng)), and edit their character at a tailor where they can't mess up by doing that.
I did the exact same thing your friend did when I made my last two characters. Even with experience making characters, everyone will at some point TRIBBLE up and delete all their work.
Besides, I think you get a free uniform change immediately after the tutorial anyway.
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absolutely terrible and no excuse at all for there not being a confirmation, I have had people in my fleet crying because it was payday, they finally have enough money to buy some keys to sell and buy that ship they wanted for the last two months and make one mistake and it all down the drain and PWE/Cryptic won't even attempt to help in this case and really it IS their fault due to no confirmation when posting items for sale on the exchange...:mad:
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I think you posted in the wrong thread.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
No I did not, its about no confirmations where they are actually needed and confirmations in other areas of the game where they are not needed like if I want to warp away from ESD why would I need a confirmation there? And yet no confirmation when making a character or posting something on the exchange which are BOTH cases where it would be a real help to have a confirmation?
Right thread for sure..;)
I don't need your opinion on my relationship. We're both grown women, we don't need your input.
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my brother plays medival type games and watches such stuff, stuff like LOTRO, anything medieval with Sean Bean. the only part of that sort of sword play i have any interest in is RTW1, since its new sequel is TRIBBLE. beyond that it doesnt interest me at all, thanks to ********* when i was a kid when it first came out in 2004 and runeite was the best thing around until dragon armor and scimmy and then the abyssal whip and such, i had no further interest in it, the first sci-fi game i played was Star trek armada, been hooked ever since but my brother hates the sort of stuff i like.
same with people who cant seem to seperate Star wars and Star trek :P.
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My apologies, I just skimmed over your post and it seemed more like it belonged in the thread "I just lost $50..."
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Partial edit: I was out of line.
This is about the new player experience at the character creation being garbage.
Not my relationship.
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Didn't sound like he was saying anything about your relationship, just that your friend didn't want to stick around was humoring you in this one case. If that's a statement on your relationship as a whole... well... anything I will say after this WOULD be my opinion on your relationship.
Does the character editor suck. Yes, not saying it doesn't. Is it worth quitting an entire game over when you're not sure if the actual game is great or not. Probably not, unless you're looking for an excuse to bug out, which is exactly what happened.
The nail has been hit on the head.
But what a ROYAL PAIN this would be if you're posting 40 copies of the same item on the Exchange...
They should at least put back the damn 'undo' button there and also make it so one uncautious click on the presets (that are in the way of everything) doesn't ruin the entire effort you've put in creating your character.
... just saying.
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just saying, if i wasnt into trek i wouldnt even bother playing the game in the first place. i would flat out say no in the most polite way possible and i will just say i am are not interested in it and that would be the end of it.
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Then why bother putting in a confirmation in a useless place like when I want to warp away from ESD? There is no need for a confirmation there however where there is a real need for one there is none...
The worst instance of this is when I give my boffs the order to go to Beta Ursae sector and I am leaving from outside of Sol system.
Every single time my ship will bump into the exit to Delta Volanis and my idiot boffs bring the ship to a screeching halt and ask me "do you want to warp into Delta Volanis?"
There was absolutely no mention of Delta Volanis in the order I gave them yet Cryptic thinks it is necessary to get them to stop the ship and ask me anyway.
Yet they can't be bothered to put in a confirmation where it could really do some good like when posting items for sale on the exchange where you actually stand to loose hard earned money, or in character creation where you stand the chance of loosing your last hours work on making the character look just how you wanted it to.
It is called priorities and Cryptic has them all wrong in many cases with STO, I am not sure if it is their fault because they did not design the original game but they could I am sure at least put these confirmations in place where they are needed now.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I was thinking the same thing myself. She didn't seem to be too much into the idea to begin with.
The real point of this thread stands: The UI in the character creator needs some work.. either a confirmation button, or the ability to go back to that screen without losing progress.
It's a design oversight.
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Exactly.
Yes, she fully admits to me she may not like it. All I want from her is an honest chance.
I don't blame her for rage-quitting when that happened, I would be super angry too.
This isn't about her though, it's about the creator needing some work -_-
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I miss that game x.x
Sorry for calling you an idiot earlier, I was just mad at the situation.
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I still recommend giving her my original advice.
Other than that, I'll agree that the current system needs work, at the very least the return of the undo button.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Yeah why the hell did they remove undo? That's so infuriating.
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Sadly the changes to the tailor were meant to make things easier..... yeah.... sometimes I wonder if the devs aren't secretly passive aggressive toward STO. I'd like to think that's the case at least, otherwise they're just massively incompetent.