clusters used to have those random missions for lost ships, investigate what cause it, ruins to explore for artifacts or virus, or local races revert to primal origins, discover any "distress" signals, or to harvest resources, and locate crash sites.
i am at the point of getting tired of most of newer epidoses with heavy combats and clicky-fest, my fingers are little sore from almost non-stop combat clickings.
that why i am in mood for relaxing and to explore strange worlds or find lost ships, and little bit of some clicking but not too excessive, maybe puzzle themes.
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Hopefully Season 11 will include a revamped system that isn't as repetitive. Something similar with way more variation and a much larger scale would be nice. Rather than a small cluster with the same 2-3 repeating missions.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Since their removal I find myself more and more dissatisfied with the un-trekkiness of STO, sure it is obviously Star Trek, but it just doesn't feel quite right...
"Exploration" was always a misnomer for the star clusters. You weren't *exploring* anything. They were really patrols, because you were patrolling known areas and fighting known enemies. And yet, like you, I enjoyed the randomness and simplicity of it. When it comes to video games, I support giving people the CHOICE to play content if they enjoy it, and to not play it if you don't. Cryptic took that choice away from us, which is a shame.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
i know the exploring can be boring, but it help taking a break from que'ings and heavy combat epidoses or missions.
But no really, I liked the old exploration system, warts and all. Yes, there were warts. Things like badly placed buildings allowing npcs the ability to go up into them from below so they can shoot at you while you can't even see them or your boffs might go up into them and get hopelessly stuck.
Even so, I'd love to see that stuff come back in some form.
Glad it's gone. More interested in what Season 11 will have in store for exploration.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
And then there was the Third Borg Dynasty. WTF? Who wrote that in when the Borg never had a Dynasty! Especially if it was in like Delta Volanis which was practically RIGHT NEXT DOOR to Sol System.
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Yeah, that was cool. And to the folks saying the missions sucked, I get it. But like I said earlier, no one forced you to play them if you didn't like them. I have no problem with someone not liking something I like. But I do have a problem with someone saying I shouldn't be able to do something just because they don't like it.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Borg history is completely unexplained in canon. We really don't know anything about them. Who is to say they weren't different in the past and have since changed?
This might as well have been said by me, word by word. My sentiments exactly.
less rough terrain mean better pathings for BoFFs, yes, i have encounter some bad rough landscapes that break or fell thru also.
Nah, it'll probably be "EXPLORE this EXCITING rep system!" and/or "CHART this UNKNOWN lockbox!"
I.e, the same as before, but without any details being released before.
Yea... but there's a difference between not knowing about their past and knowing an artifact is from the Thrid Dynasty, which implies knowing they even had Dynasties.
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Why wouldn't they know such a fact? I mean, that's just data, and they are part machine/computer. So why wouldn't they have a full history of their origins?
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
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You are talking about the "modern day" Borg, in the hive-mind collective form. Any artifact would be from their ancient history, prior to the creation of the hive mind collective. While it hasn't been put down in canon, some ancient species originally became the Borg, and that ancient species may have had a Third Dynasty and various artifacts. Now, why would the modern day Borg collective be interested in such an artifact? I have no idea. I never said it was good writing or made sense, I was only answering your question of how the Borg could hypothetically know about a Third Dynasty.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
That's assuming that the "third borg dynasty" thing is real. Perhaps the borg that say this are crazy, damaged or otherwise compromised that makes them think of the tbd?
In reality, it is a "bug"/mistake. Those missions were made to have interchangeable enemies. One time you have Klingon, another time you have Romulan, etc. The dialog about the "third dynasty" can make sense for most species(if you stretch if really hard), but always stood out of the Borg, and became a running joke about the star clusters.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I think its STILL the running joke.
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