Either I'm leveling one of my other characters which isn't often. Since my main 3 takes up most of my time. Some times I will hang in the local RPer places and chat with those guys. Other than that, I'm not on the game.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
sundays are motor racing packed, being a petrol head i watch these. apart from that, havent played any games for a few days mostly because of a nasty sinus infection that developed into a full blown cold attack. feel half dead as i have yesterday as well and occasional bouts of just wanting to sleep for an hour. on top of the lack of sleep during the nights.
so thats what im doing right now. dying :P.
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I love my Plesh brek, but the avenger stomps it outrageously for tankiness. Atm, I'm flying it as a cannon single aux2bat build with aux2damp apo and epte1...still not as nimble as the Plesh brek, but getting there.
Play something else. 'Cause if you're not grinding, you're not playing STO. :P
I had that thought.
At the moment I'm working on finals. I have my blog I'm working on (DS9 in progress...*shakes fist at college*). Sometimes I clean my apartment and do landry.
I live an exiting life. :rolleyes:
My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
I made a new char 3 days ago already at admiral lvl now, and god I wish cryptic made Fed Girl Captains look better they're hideous and walk like a drunk human
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Simple - I play games to relax and mess around in, not to just grind out the same old content you got bored of the first time you ran it, but has rewards which are better than everything else to do. If I wanted to do that I would do overtime at my job, pays far better.
Unfortunately, STO as a game very much discourages this sort of playing unless you have thousands of pounds/dollars/real world currency of choice, so I just do Storyline missions, exchange speculation, foundry missions, random flying around, Tour the Galaxy, Pi Canis Repeatables, occasional Starbase 24 and STFs, Borg Invasion's, contributing Doffs to the Fleet saving up Fleet credits and ship/character customisation.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
I do a little bit of everything in rotation to keep the variety fresh. I got my Borg space and MACO ground sets LONG ago and it's all I feel I really need.
I have Romulan rep maxed out, but the others are 2-3. I just take it as it comes rather that grind/farm until I am sick of something.
LOTS of Foundry. While there is a fair share of TRIBBLE in there, you can also find some truly golden missions which give me the feeling I am playing an episode of my own Star Trek series. Which is why I started playing this game to begin with.
not sure how that happened, i just started reading up french history and then the Napoleon as emperor of france. didnt realize france had such a brutal few decades between 1790 and 1820. was that bored :P. according to some sources the Naploleon indirectly united germany into one country half a century before the world wars in the 1900's...
feeling a bit better after taking a painkiller tablet, so i may get to some grinding in on a game and it would have to be light, probably swtor on oricon as that place reminds me so much of the nostalgia from champions online and the qliphothic realm and the feeling of familiarity to it.
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Same here. There are plenty of Foundry missions that rival if not surpass most of Cryptic's own missions, and are a great way to shift gears in between grinding sessions. Knowing where/how to find them (other than the spotlighted ones) amongst all the crappy loot-farmers and such is still the hard part, until Cryptic ever gets around to revamping the Foundry search feature.
I don't know what all the fuss is about grinding. I grind. I don't mind it.
When I get tired of grinding, I doff.
I check the exchange to see if there is anything there I want and if I can't afford it, I will do farm missions to get the ec to get it or sell something I have to get the ec.
I do STFs and pug exclusively and although I do enjoy randomly seeing a familiar face, the pug group is seldom the same, so a pug STF is always a new, albeit at times frustrating, experience but hardly boring. If the STF gets me a purple drop item I don't need, I sell it for 10% less (such a deal! One time only sale!) on the exchange or more often just give it to some random person whose toon I like the looks of.
I pick a random, or the latest, foundry mission and see if I like it. I leave a comment on it either way.
When I need a dose of humility and/or want to check the worth and wisdom of my build, I pvp. Sometimes I put XII and/fleet gear on a tier 3 or 4 ship and see if I can survive a challenge match against a "pvp-god". They are always more than happy to blow you up (if they can, and more often than not, they can)
I like to stand around in spacedocks sometimes and just look at some of the incredible time and talent some people put in to creating the appearance of their toons (but please, no more Orion girls in bikinis). Some of the faces and uniforms and shapes and sizes of so many of these aliens, as well as "canon" races just leaves me awestruck. Also, have you ever taken the time to read some of the biography information people sometimes put in their character info/profiles? Some of it is humorous and some of it is just downright worthy of a novel or a screen play.
Sometimes I even replay old episode missions for "episode gear" I put on my shuttle or to "avenge" myself on an old enemy who gave me such grief while I was still building myself up.
I also, for some reason, don't mind farming some marks or dil in "repeatables" once in awhile. I like the deferi chain best, I think.
There are plenty of things to do other than so-called grinding. I like to just cruise through space sometimes and just look at the incredible space graphics. It would be sort of novel to just find a random item floating in sector space once in awhile but I have actually found a key or token (once only in over 2 years though) in an exploration zone/nebula while I was scanning anomolies looking for worlds/particles during exploration missions. I would like to see more of that, but not too much more because that would ruin the novelty
Life is a grind. At least STO is fun and full of more interesting looking people and creatures.
I'm gaming the exchange, window shopping, or hanging out in my fleet holdings to enjoy the solitude and appreciate the environmental art, or I'm roleplaying with my friends, or socializing in private messages.
Most of the time though, I'm doing what people consider grinding. Except I don't really consider it grinding if I'm actually having fun doing it.
If I ever want to stop, I can. And then I go do something else in-game.
I also have been known to post my opinion, that nobody cares about, on the STO forums from time to time.
I've also spent the last few years in the Foundry creating 2 unpublished missions off-and-on. At this point it's just polish, but I'm not comfortable publishing them just yet.
I'm gaming the exchange, window shopping, or hanging out in my fleet holdings to enjoy the solitude and appreciate the environmental art, or I'm roleplaying with my friends, or socializing in private messages.
Most of the time though, I'm doing what people consider grinding. Except I don't really consider it grinding if I'm actually having fun doing it.
If I ever want to stop, I can. And then I go do something else in-game.
I also have been known to post my opinion, that nobody cares about, on the STO forums from time to time.
Heh. Seriously, I don't "grind" because I'm not in a rush for anything in-game.
I log on to have fun, if I get a few Marks here and there, then that is good
I think people will realize there is no grind when they come to recognize that those rep systems will still be there when they feel like doing them, and are by no means necessary for game progression.
I find creating the 'grind' in STO is a lot like fashioning your own noose, hanging yourself, and then blaming Cryptic for providing you the rope.
I get on the forums and check people's grammar. The title should be "What do you do when you're not grinding" with a question mark at the end.
Now for a serious answer. For me, working on foundry projects is as far away from grinding as it gets in this game. The foundry has no mmo item grind/management diversion that gets in the way of what star trek is about. Star trek is about exploration. The foundry adds the ability to create, think, and make something new for others to explore which the rest of sto kinda lacks. Well, enough time checking the forums. Now it's back to the current rep grind.
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Play something else. 'Cause if you're not grinding, you're not playing STO. :P
It's a shame you can't wear Risian swimwear while up there.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
gets a little chilly for that :-P
that right there! lol
True!
STO's true endgame.
so thats what im doing right now. dying :P.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Typically i'm grinding another game. GTA, War Thunder. You get the picture.
Gaming today is all about the grind.
If i'm not gaming, i'm watching Netflix or RT.
I love my Plesh brek, but the avenger stomps it outrageously for tankiness. Atm, I'm flying it as a cannon single aux2bat build with aux2damp apo and epte1...still not as nimble as the Plesh brek, but getting there.
Thinking of going dbbs...
Not in game...babies...
My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
I had that thought.
At the moment I'm working on finals. I have my blog I'm working on (DS9 in progress...*shakes fist at college*). Sometimes I clean my apartment and do landry.
I live an exiting life. :rolleyes:
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Or...
Doing something else.
Unfortunately, STO as a game very much discourages this sort of playing unless you have thousands of pounds/dollars/real world currency of choice, so I just do Storyline missions, exchange speculation, foundry missions, random flying around, Tour the Galaxy, Pi Canis Repeatables, occasional Starbase 24 and STFs, Borg Invasion's, contributing Doffs to the Fleet saving up Fleet credits and ship/character customisation.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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I do a little bit of everything in rotation to keep the variety fresh. I got my Borg space and MACO ground sets LONG ago and it's all I feel I really need.
I have Romulan rep maxed out, but the others are 2-3. I just take it as it comes rather that grind/farm until I am sick of something.
LOTS of Foundry. While there is a fair share of TRIBBLE in there, you can also find some truly golden missions which give me the feeling I am playing an episode of my own Star Trek series. Which is why I started playing this game to begin with.
Grind can suck it.
feeling a bit better after taking a painkiller tablet, so i may get to some grinding in on a game and it would have to be light, probably swtor on oricon as that place reminds me so much of the nostalgia from champions online and the qliphothic realm and the feeling of familiarity to it.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Same here. There are plenty of Foundry missions that rival if not surpass most of Cryptic's own missions, and are a great way to shift gears in between grinding sessions. Knowing where/how to find them (other than the spotlighted ones) amongst all the crappy loot-farmers and such is still the hard part, until Cryptic ever gets around to revamping the Foundry search feature.
My Foundry missions | My STO Wiki page | My Twitter home page
When I get tired of grinding, I doff.
I check the exchange to see if there is anything there I want and if I can't afford it, I will do farm missions to get the ec to get it or sell something I have to get the ec.
I do STFs and pug exclusively and although I do enjoy randomly seeing a familiar face, the pug group is seldom the same, so a pug STF is always a new, albeit at times frustrating, experience but hardly boring. If the STF gets me a purple drop item I don't need, I sell it for 10% less (such a deal! One time only sale!) on the exchange or more often just give it to some random person whose toon I like the looks of.
I pick a random, or the latest, foundry mission and see if I like it. I leave a comment on it either way.
When I need a dose of humility and/or want to check the worth and wisdom of my build, I pvp. Sometimes I put XII and/fleet gear on a tier 3 or 4 ship and see if I can survive a challenge match against a "pvp-god". They are always more than happy to blow you up (if they can, and more often than not, they can)
I like to stand around in spacedocks sometimes and just look at some of the incredible time and talent some people put in to creating the appearance of their toons (but please, no more Orion girls in bikinis). Some of the faces and uniforms and shapes and sizes of so many of these aliens, as well as "canon" races just leaves me awestruck. Also, have you ever taken the time to read some of the biography information people sometimes put in their character info/profiles? Some of it is humorous and some of it is just downright worthy of a novel or a screen play.
Sometimes I even replay old episode missions for "episode gear" I put on my shuttle or to "avenge" myself on an old enemy who gave me such grief while I was still building myself up.
I also, for some reason, don't mind farming some marks or dil in "repeatables" once in awhile. I like the deferi chain best, I think.
There are plenty of things to do other than so-called grinding. I like to just cruise through space sometimes and just look at the incredible space graphics. It would be sort of novel to just find a random item floating in sector space once in awhile but I have actually found a key or token (once only in over 2 years though) in an exploration zone/nebula while I was scanning anomolies looking for worlds/particles during exploration missions. I would like to see more of that, but not too much more because that would ruin the novelty
Life is a grind. At least STO is fun and full of more interesting looking people and creatures.
Most of the time though, I'm doing what people consider grinding. Except I don't really consider it grinding if I'm actually having fun doing it.
If I ever want to stop, I can. And then I go do something else in-game.
I also have been known to post my opinion, that nobody cares about, on the STO forums from time to time.
I've also spent the last few years in the Foundry creating 2 unpublished missions off-and-on. At this point it's just polish, but I'm not comfortable publishing them just yet.
Woah, that's me word-for-word.
I can't tell if I should love or pity you.
I log on to have fun, if I get a few Marks here and there, then that is good
I think people will realize there is no grind when they come to recognize that those rep systems will still be there when they feel like doing them, and are by no means necessary for game progression.
I find creating the 'grind' in STO is a lot like fashioning your own noose, hanging yourself, and then blaming Cryptic for providing you the rope.
Eat
Sleep
Bathe
.
.
.
The list goes on...
Now for a serious answer. For me, working on foundry projects is as far away from grinding as it gets in this game. The foundry has no mmo item grind/management diversion that gets in the way of what star trek is about. Star trek is about exploration. The foundry adds the ability to create, think, and make something new for others to explore which the rest of sto kinda lacks. Well, enough time checking the forums. Now it's back to the current rep grind.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
That reckless maverick lifestyle of yours is going to catch up with you one day.