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sineris245
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Here is a list of the reasons why I have not been spending much time playing STO lately. I think that all of these are fixable, but ultimately it makes me sad that a game I had so much fun playing over the last nearly 5 years has become nothing but frustration for me.
1. I can't listen to the game anymore when I play. My headset, I have determined is crashing the game to desktop.(this only started with the launch of Delta Rising) I have updated every driver I can, and yet, when I play STO, I have to completely unplug my headset and play without that added immersion. This is especially bothersome given that one of the key selling points of this game is the voice over work you have had the actors/actresses come in and do, and I haven't heard any of it.
2. Lag. This is a killer to most online games, but it becomes extremely irritating when I nearly finish a mission only to have the server kick me off, and have to start back at the beginning when I log back in.
3. The amount of experience required to level from 51-60. This expansion came out last october iirc, and my highest character to date is 57, which I only achieved in the past few days. There are not enough missions available to make this seem like anything but a massive grind, and if that is the case, there are other games I would rather play, that make it seem like I'm actually making a dent in my leveling progress. This also happens to be the main reason I stopped playing SWTOR, as I was getting fed up with time consuming missions with little experience reward.
I miss what this game was, and I sincerely hope that you are able to fix the issues, because I do love that I am able to captain my own starship in a star trek universe, but until it is, I don't forsee myself pushing to continue playing. I'm sorry, but I have had enough. Gaming is supposed to be fun, not a constant drain on my free time that ends up causing more stress than it relieves.
1. I can't listen to the game anymore when I play. My headset, I have determined is crashing the game to desktop.(this only started with the launch of Delta Rising) I have updated every driver I can, and yet, when I play STO, I have to completely unplug my headset and play without that added immersion. This is especially bothersome given that one of the key selling points of this game is the voice over work you have had the actors/actresses come in and do, and I haven't heard any of it.
2. Lag. This is a killer to most online games, but it becomes extremely irritating when I nearly finish a mission only to have the server kick me off, and have to start back at the beginning when I log back in.
3. The amount of experience required to level from 51-60. This expansion came out last october iirc, and my highest character to date is 57, which I only achieved in the past few days. There are not enough missions available to make this seem like anything but a massive grind, and if that is the case, there are other games I would rather play, that make it seem like I'm actually making a dent in my leveling progress. This also happens to be the main reason I stopped playing SWTOR, as I was getting fed up with time consuming missions with little experience reward.
I miss what this game was, and I sincerely hope that you are able to fix the issues, because I do love that I am able to captain my own starship in a star trek universe, but until it is, I don't forsee myself pushing to continue playing. I'm sorry, but I have had enough. Gaming is supposed to be fun, not a constant drain on my free time that ends up causing more stress than it relieves.
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And that's the problem, lots of sinks, very little content. I can't even be bothered to level up my last ship. I have played the same missions too many times and the missions reward nothing to put into the sinks. Oh well, there are plenty of games in the sea. I am not sure why but I still login to rotate the R&D missions for my final few schools. 5 minutes of game time a day.
1). You really need to ask this question in the Technical side. There could be many issues such as the game is trying to use a different sound device than what you have plugged in and such. I cannot assist you with this but maybe someone in the tech portion of the forums can. I highly doubt this is a widespread problem and is more than likely something locally with your system.
2). All games have lag. Again, this is something to ask in the Tech forums. There are MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY (etc) paths from your PC to the servers in Boston. At ANY point along the way, there can be a bottleneck that will slow performance down (looking at you Cogentco). Again, this is the wrong forum to try to help you with it.
3). The level 50-60 is a journey. It IS BY DESIGN going to take some time to get there. When you understand that, then you can start to look at it as I will get there when I get there. There is nothing besides some DR story and Elite queues that requires level 60. Enjoy some PvE queues in between the journey.
Fun is what YOU make of it. What is fun for my may not be fun for you or the next person reading this. You need to make your own fun. Cryptic can help but you have to know what is fun to you. Is blowing things up in 0.0001 secs fun? Maybe for you but not me.
Anyways, I wish you the best of luck. Again, ask questions 1 and 2 in the Tech Forums to see if there is anything those guys can do for your issues.
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I waited 3 weeks to pop my Delta rep cap because like all other T5 reps you got some skill points or BNP's or something besides dilith. I spend an hour looking for the claim T5 delta project in the rep tabs, and travelling to/from Dyson command looking for an officer I gotta speak to, only to have it indicate it auto-claimed. After a few more minutes opening and closing other tabs to see if the trait awarded (it didn't) I go back to see it finally decided to list the project, so I take it- feed it it's 5 marks, and claim the results. What do I get for all the headache's ? Nada + 50k dilith. I then spend the next 3 hours doing stupid stuff just to get the 20K in exp points I expected from the T5 rep claim so that I can finally reach T60 on my toon.
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
No, levels 50-60 aren't a journey. They're a corralled, long patrol mission grind. Perhaps if XP rewards in the rest of the game hadn't been nerfed to hell, it might be a journey. As it is? Nah.
I play about 10-15 hours a week and do not go out of my way to grind spec points yet i seem to have them almost complete on my main toon.
The biggest thing for me is the Alt issue and how it will take about 3-4 months on every toon to get to the same stage as my main soooo i hope they do something about this soon so alts can get a discount or something..
BUT!! if not then no harm no foul it will give me something to work towards in between updates and content adds.
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Your really think they did on purpose to make the grind from 50 to 60 day longer? It feels like that but just don't know what going on there in PWE, CA local offices.
Lag can be cleaned up by the computer systems files gets a lot of junk data files from game client. If you do a simple cleanup and run ipconfig /flushdns might help some. Depends where they live too. ISP could be working on the connections. All sort of things.
Time will only tell!
Yes, this. This a million times. People say "oh, every MMO has grind" but not every MMO feels the need to make leveling up a decades-long epic slog.
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