You know you are a true STO veteran when...

rahmkota19

First of all, in this thread Veteran will be about your time in the game, not about whatever subscription days you have.

A simple game. I can explain pretty long, but it should explain itself.

My first entry.


You know you are a true STO veteran when you remember turning in Terradome.

lindaleff

1: I remember Atari owning STO. And I remember the day everyone's join date reset to June 2012. And I remember the rage over everyone's post count resetting, as if the post count meant something important.

2: I remember filming a playthrough of Terradome, the entire mission! The mission took forever, but the end result was a video that was absolutely hilarious! This was also how we discovered that when you talk into the microphone, your character's mouth moves as if he was talking!

3: I miss the days when Task Force Omega meant getting a shiny thing after a mission, and you use that to buy a shiny weapon. That was how I fully equipped all of my ships. And I miss needing to go to DS9 to do this.

4: I remember the days when you needed to reach a certain rank to unlock the ability to create a KDF character.

5: My KDF characters have been in the same fleet for 2 full years. And I eventually ended up becoming THE leader of that fleet. And the fleet is still going as strong as it ever did. Yes, I take pride in that.

cookiecrook

When you still have a retro Gorn.

xtern1ty

You know you're a veteran when you have made at least 1 contribution (not meaning money and in my case many) to advance the failure of cyberbullies.

... and when you can play STO scrabble using a complete dictionary of purple doffs. :cool:

z3ndor99

When you could craft the delta flyer.

grandnaguszek1

When delta rising was not the best expansion ever that the players loved.

ashkrik23

When you remember how the STFs used to work.

altechachan

When you remember the early mission (long since removed) in which you went to a mining colony which has disgruntled workers. You then talk to all of them, who in turn quiz you on whether your actually read what they said. Then you tell the Mine supervisor.

Then you get back to fighting Klingons.

ashkrik23

When the highest item marks were MK X and XI and the game was balanced for them. Which led to good, balanced content that wasn't a rofl stomp but had decent challenge overall.

lordmalak1

Yer a vet when you have to spend BNP's because you don't have room in the bank to store the 2nd or 3rd stack of them.

ashkrik23

When you remember defeating the original crystal entity that wasn't really hard so long as you did not pug with people screaming, "DON'T SHOOT TORPEDOES"

lunasto

When I would talk to friends and family via chat channel, since Champions Online went F2P before Star Trek Online.

I Joined STO the day it went F2P!

captainransom

When you used to go to Memory Alpha and trade mats, and there was no progress bar on the Aegis gear that you were crafting.

daqhegh

...when you remember doing the DS9 Fleet Action.

...when you had to actually GO to the systems the STF's were at.

...when it took longer than the entire STF just to get enough people to run a STF with a Klingon.

...when you remember what the game was like before the red box bugship dealys.

...in fact, there was a time before Winter events, too.

...and I remember the year-long content drought.

...and lastly I remember when certain species had to be purchased, like Ferengi and the original Joined Trill.

askray

When you remember tribbles getting bigger than players when you pet them..

Or when the KDF invaded the federation and launched an attack on earth space dock, which also resulted in borg ships attacking.

Or when the system was so overloaded that you would sometimes beam down as your ship, or beam up as your player and could move around

bberge1701

I still have a "Celebration: Year One!" accolade in progress that I'll never be able to complete. Didn't get shape-changed by Q enough times at the time.

neoakiraii

You remember Cannons were King, and anything else would never come close

z3ndor99

When all science powers could destroy everything!

reginamala78

Damn, I was just gonna joke about D'deridex Defenders or the fun of combining the Jem'Hadar shield with a Shield Distribution Officer, but you people are truly old.

z3ndor99

When you could change the colour of you're energy weapons! ( green antiproton's for the win ).

cptjhunter

You Still Have Space Weapons With The (Borg) Mod On Them In Your Inventory.

generalmoco

askray wrote: »

Or when the KDF invaded the federation and launched an attack on earth space dock, which also resulted in borg ships attacking.

I remember that one!!! I was there when it happen..

When you needed Tokens to buy Omega Gear at the old DS9 Store
which only dropped randomly to random players...

ashkrik23

When you remember the rage and whine fest that accompanied the first Jem'hadar giveaway.

generalmoco

When the borg Space Set used to the a 4 item set that included:

Assimilated Graviton Deflector Array
Assimilated Transwarp Engines
Assimilated Regenerative Shield Array
Assimilated Module

rattler2

I remember when the Terran Empire ships were purple.

ashkrik23

generalmoco wrote: »

When the borg Space Set used to the a 4 item set that included:

Assimilated Graviton Deflector Array
Assimilated Transwarp Engines
Assimilated Regenerative Shield Array
Assimilated Module

When everyone used this set because it was the only end-game set obtainable through PVE.

drogyn1701

When you've seen 8 or 9 of these threads before and understand that they're usually just full of rose-colored-glasses nostalgia complaints

rattler2

I'm not complaining. I just said one of the things I remember.

kintisho

when you remember failing 3 hour STFs since 4 people left in hour 2

markhawkman

cptjhunter wrote: »

You Still Have Space Weapons With The (Borg) Mod On Them In Your Inventory.

When you have a Boff that carries around a Full-Auto Plasma Rifle with [Borg].

ashkrik23

When you remember how hard the original ground portion of Cure and first space portion of Khitomer were.