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bierstein
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Just a for fun thread, anything from the game to the series to stuff even related to STO. Try to keep each below 3 lines making an easy read for players looking for a fun read. Feel free to disagree, that's the best part right?
1. Sisko didn't deserve a promotion. He would have been considered lucky to keep his post as a commander let alone be straight up promoted.
2. Janeway deserved a prison sentence not a promotion (in fact can we pretend that last episode never existed? Thanks!)
3. Cryptic modeled the Talaxians after Neelix when it was clear he was an exception not the rule. If anything they seemed very human like as a whole, Neelix was the annoying fuzzface he is due to serious mental trauma suffered during the war.
4. Seven of Nine agreed to do the voice of herself in game without making them fix her face, cmon cryptic seriously her face looks beyond messed up.
5. I can't have the TR-116 scope in real life.
6. Pre-emptive Cryptic when you "close out" the DR story lines don't forget about the Talaxians drinking problem, seriously did anyone else notice they are all ALWAYS drinking? I wonder what's in those drinks, I almost expected the smuggling op in the DR story to involve it.
7. DR storyline, increase the rewards to compensate for NPCs you remove from missions when you rewrite new content in the place of the patrol spam missions (seriously there's so much story you could fit in whoever wrote that should be fired).
1. Sisko didn't deserve a promotion. He would have been considered lucky to keep his post as a commander let alone be straight up promoted.
2. Janeway deserved a prison sentence not a promotion (in fact can we pretend that last episode never existed? Thanks!)
3. Cryptic modeled the Talaxians after Neelix when it was clear he was an exception not the rule. If anything they seemed very human like as a whole, Neelix was the annoying fuzzface he is due to serious mental trauma suffered during the war.
4. Seven of Nine agreed to do the voice of herself in game without making them fix her face, cmon cryptic seriously her face looks beyond messed up.
5. I can't have the TR-116 scope in real life.
6. Pre-emptive Cryptic when you "close out" the DR story lines don't forget about the Talaxians drinking problem, seriously did anyone else notice they are all ALWAYS drinking? I wonder what's in those drinks, I almost expected the smuggling op in the DR story to involve it.
7. DR storyline, increase the rewards to compensate for NPCs you remove from missions when you rewrite new content in the place of the patrol spam missions (seriously there's so much story you could fit in whoever wrote that should be fired).
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This is just a method to try and invalidate the other persons opinion or when the other person starts poking holes in the name callers argument.
11. Merging the Preservers and the Ancient Humanoids into one species, despite the Ancient Humanoids having died out sometime when other life was beginning.
12. Species 8472 (Undine) are not actual natural shape shifters, they used genetic modification.
Sorry if I'm wrong about anything in 11 & 12.
-Edmund Blackadder-
14 People who ignore clearly canon material and pretend it did not happen (Look at #1, #2)
17. Mutara sector and nebula location, you have to fly through a transwarp conduit to reach them and on the new map they are way beyond federation space. Funny how Kirk with cadets got there at warp 5 during a training cruise in ST II & in a few hours in ST III.
- People who spend RL currency on a Scimitar and expect it to perform like a BoP
- People who spend RL currency on a Vesta and expect it to perform like an Avenger
- People who expect RL currency to be an acceptable substitute for knowledge and skill.
EDIT: Just thought of a few more
- People who expect me to be awed by the size of their epeen.
- That Ferengi running around the back of the warehouse. Seriously, what genius decided to inflict this on players? He should be locked in a room with every Justin Bieber song ever recorded playing at maximum volume until his ears bleed.
- The word, 'n00b'. I do not think it means what most people hope it does.
Im not adding a point but you do realize that in 2409 we are at WAR after so many wars the federation attitude has changed. And our rewards are what you cal lsegregation of story and gameplay. We are not actually getting dilithium astorywise. What the hell do you think our captains would do with dilithium? Its not that kind of commodity. I'm sure that in star trek people actually get paid but humanity no longer strives for wealth having moved beyond greed. But if they were beyond money entirely trade would be difficult in many areas.
Brr... 'Treshold' and 'canon'.
19. Mutara nebula is not in the Mutara sector.
Surely, if they weren't evil they wouldn't be called Demons of Air and Darkness?
I've personally blown up so many ships in every STF and queued event that I couldn't describe my actions as anything but war crimes.
Even if I were to grant you that the Federation attitude has changed because of all the wars, that doesn't make the Fed's new attitude right. All it does is show you're making a terrible argument in favour of war and murder. It's a glorification of bloodlust and that is not what humanity is supposed to be about in Star Trek, even in the bloodiest pitched battles seen on screen.
You're missing the entire point of why I have a problem with it. Perhaps our characters aren't receiving dilithium and energy credits and marks in the strictest sense, but the game still offers those things as a reward for gameplay. Cryptic has decided we should be paid (and should in turn pay through the nose for new toys) to feel like being a starship captain in the future is a rewarding experience, when the point of trek was that the activity and experience is its own reward.
It's not that far beyond Federation space, the sector you are in used to be Federation space until the Borg claimed it, it's only about 200 light years from Earth.
I'd say that's a flaw with the films, not the game, because those travel times are rather ridiculous. Even if the Mutara Nebula was the same distance from Earth, say Alpha Centauri is that would mean we'd be looking at a rather ridiculous travel time (so ridiculous in fact that Voyager could have been back on Earth in less than a year unaided at warp 9).
It is in canon. It's Cryptic who got it wrong.
That's what I meant. I was just expanding on what he wrote.
and do what a few other real trek fans have done. stop playing as the federation and play KDF only its the only thing resembling trek left in the game. all the things we are forced to kill fits KDF and our new rank ( TITLE ) Dahar Master is fitting for a warrior with so many KILLS. and no need to worry about money the Empire is still openly greedy LOL
This. I main KDF because here i can blow up stuff without having to feel bad about it.
Having ships being destroy left and right, and nobody cares. Hierarchy destroys benthan ships ? No big deal, you say it's bad and let them leave. Players destroy ships ? Doing it all day, no big deal either. Some arguments ? Let's fight to the deaths !
That's not because you can't see the crew inside that it doesn't mean they are not there. Everytime a ship is destroyed, that's hundreds, maybe thousands dead. And before someone say "escape pods", how many time do you see escape pods ? Once, twice perhaps, in scripted story mission. And even if they were escape pod, we left them to die in space anyway.
Today, if a ship sink, it's a tragedy, in STO, it's just another day at work.
They way I've always viewed it, the STFs and queued missions happened one time. All the other times they are done, they are just replays or holodeck recreations. Just like replaying the same mission again to get the reward again.
Agreed, the time frames do seem out sometimes. I always got the impression though that it was deep inside Federation space, not out passed Kingon space as it is on the STO map.
Well the Star Charts have it well outwith Federation space altogether, and that's normally the basis for the STO map, so this is certainly fairly reasonable.
I would point out of course that a nebula is normally huge, some are hundreds of light years across (at least according to my quick read through over Wikipedia). If the Mutara Nebula was within a few hours of Earth, you'd know all about it. Then again you've got the JJ-verse where they can reach Vulcan in three minutes, so 200 light years seems fairly reasonable.
At least they are usually visually pleasing which was probably the point (or Cryptic sucks at physics).
Welcome to TOS where the entire galaxy was accessible in a reasonable amount of time if necessary and the Starships didn't explode if you looked at them funny.
But seriously TOS didn't operate on the TNG rules since it wasn't even a gleam in Roddenberry's eye yet. So trying to apply TNG era rules seems rather pointless.
-Nimbus 3, walking out of Paradise city and instantly thinking I've somehow switched to WoW.
To be fair to Cryptic on that point, it's not like Star Trek has ever been overly concerned with realistic physics.
Same goes for Janeway's coffee order!
Seriously... if my phone can learn to not say 'ducking' after a few corrections, a replicator should be able to learn a drink order!
Also, what's with all the low beams in Enterprise? You'd think they'd at least build the cabins big enough for people to not hit their heads every 2 seconds!
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