How I spent my Saturdays during Season 3 or Bring back the original STF's and Terradome

sandee777

Bring back the original STF’s and Terradome. Actually have two sets short and original. For the original STF’s the reward would be the retro Borg gear just as it was before. Originally I thought this would be the only way to get the Borg set but then realized most of the STO community would collectively groan followed by the rising sound of cackling hens from the chicken farm. There could be 2 ways to get the Borg set one would be by the Omega Reputation system or do the original Borg STF’s. Let the new people experience the original STF’s as we, those that have been here since launch, the veterans have experienced it in all its glory with the same benefits. I am sure the complaining of the present day STF’s will drop dramatically if anyone decided to try the original STF’s then again there might be other people who would do the exact opposite. There’s also that ultra small portion, .0025%, of the STO community that would go around saying “That wasn't hard.” Well...we won't talk about them here. Seriously how many of us veteran players have sat 5 to 6 hours doing the back to back STF’s just to get the remaining 3 pieces of the Borg set and only come out with 1 for that day? Raises hand...I did. There were no optional, timer or death penalties in those days...only death over and over again and again. We would actually plan a day for STF’s so that we could prepare to waste a portion of our day in our lives in a game. We would have a pot of coffee made, an essential ingredient to any STF, a bowl of snacks and a sandwich at our desk. We would gather on Teamspeak or Ventrilo or whatever internet chat room the guild was using at the time and just....go....and have fun...dying a lot.
Then there was Terradome before it got nerfed. It was 5 versus 500. The first statement anyone made was "Why won't these ships die?" Followed by the "I've been watching this group for 5 minutes and none of these guys have flipped a coin yet". To "Holy cow there's a lot of Undine in here!" "Don't shoot the sacks hanging from the ceiling" was a common statement. Followed by the "Who aggro'd the room?" statement. I was playing Terradome with a fleet mate and some others that had formed a team in Gamma Orinis. In an old man voice “In my younger days we had to go to Gamma Orinis and find people to team up with there. And it was up hill both ways.” When we had gotten into the end room and the team began to shoot at the Sulu's and the Undine my fleet mate started screaming "the sky is falling the sky is falling!" While shooting wildly into the hordes of Undine I became confused and said "What?" In a adrenalized caffeinated moment he frantically replied "Look up Undine Rangers!" I looked up to see a hundreds of Undines drop down from the ceiling. Good times good times.
We didn’t have que’s we didn’t have optional’s or timer’s or even death penalties. We had weekends where anyone who was geared went to Gamma Orinis and watched zone chat for someone that was forming a team. Everyone had a variety of internet chat rooms such as Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Mumble or Dolby or some such thing so they could join the team in chat rooms.
I propose that the original STF’s and Terradome be re-vitalized. Arc would have two sets of STF’s and Terradome. The original and the nerfed versions would be available to everyone although I think the originals should be a private que rather than public since there are more mechanics involved and would require some kind of internet chat room in which to communicate in but that’s just me. I would like to add that bringing the original STF’s and Terradome back would also probably bring the original player base, before F2P, back into the game as well.
I submit this proposal to Arc, Cryptic Studios, and the Star Trek Online community to its logical conclusion.

bernatk

/wall of text critted you. You're dead and buried.