"I have nothing left to do in this game."

thunderfoot

Title says it. All chars at 60 with max Spec Points and more Fleet and Rep gear than I'll ever use. All purple Boffs with max skills. All purple DOffs as well. Rare indeed when I don't Crit on a DOff mission. Fleet's coming along nicely and will be T5/T3 right on schedule. Twenty five plus ships. So the Admiralty system is starting to come into line as well. Gave away eight Malon Battlecruisers to junior Fleet members the other day just because I felt like it. Will probably do the same thing again in the near future. Bought everything a player could buy in the Z Store. Sitting on a gi-normous pile of both Dil and EC. Have a KDF char where every BOff is outfitted with KHG Ground gear. Fun to go harass the Borg and the Heralds. Apparently, they do not like nor want grenade launchers. And when the mortars kick in... do you want your Harbringer cooked Medium Well or Well?

Now what?

Mind you, I'm not complaining here. I worked my tail off to get this far and I have no regrets about either that or being in this state. I've had a ton of fun and met some really fine folks along the way.

And no, you can't haz my stufs. "Cuz this ain't an 'I quit!' thread.

Again, now what?

How can I keep enjoying myself while playing STO? This is not a frivolous or sarcastic question. Others before me have reached this state and are still playing and enjoying this game. How'd they do it?

Ding! Answered my own question! Or at least it is one answer. I think I'll go back and do the whole storyline again. From the beginning. And when I'm done with this, I'll try making a Foundry Mission or two.

So, how do you deal with this and keep enjoying this fine Cryptic product?

jorantomalak

Go shoot stuffz that always makes me feel better

test different variations gear, stuff that others will scratch thier heads and think your nuts , go leeroy jenkins on a hard mission on defera alone just to see if you can.

or go shoot a tac cube not to kill it just to TRIBBLE in its wheaties a bit , this is stuff i do when i get that way do weird and strange things that make people think ive lost my mind

anyways theres plenty of ways to keep yourself occupied you just got to stop thinking mainstream and just do weird stuff not because it works because its fun

rooster707

You should play Warframe!

Seriously, it's a great game, and it's free. And it has SPACE NINJAS.

jonsills

I have a terrible case of altitis, so my main just hit 60 less than a week ago. However, I've still got plenty of storyline to catch up on - never did get around to finishing the Borg missions, gave a pass to a lot of the stuff with the Voth that I really ought to fill in at some point, I think I'm about halfway through the other DQ missions, and I only know the outcome of the Iconian War because I played those as Featured Episodes when they launched. I've got a lot to do, and even more on my Rom and Klink toons!

thunderfoot

@jarontomalak:
I already shoot stuff every day. Shooting stuff every day is how I got to here in the first place, lol. I've done the 'What Does This DO?' bit as well. One of the fastest ways to get my undvided attention in STO is to pop off in Chat or over TS something which begins with the phrase, "Everybody knows __ isn't any good!" This is how I got my 15K Tetryon build. I wanted to find out for myself why everyone seemed to be down on Tetryon as a weapon type. I have to work at it to get it there and keep it there but 15k DPS is more than enough to successfully complete any content in the game. I'm not a min/maxer nor a DPS monster, though. What I wanted was when I put something down, it stayed down. A former member of a former Fleet used to fill TS with technobabble about how Tetryon builds were not good. Yet whenever I offered her a go in PvP, she would decline or her computer would develop, ahem, 'connection problems'. Now ain't that odd? I am also not an expert PvPer by any means. Which is why my principle PvP ship is always called U.S.S. Shot Magnet or I.K,S. Torpedo Attractor or R.R.W. Clueless. lol.

@rooster707:
Currently STO is my first and so far only MMO. Looks to be staying that way, too. I've spent enough time with my chars that playing another game would be like cheating on my wife. Also, I don't know if I have the patience to learn another game's ins and outs at this point.

@jonsills:
"Altitis" is an old disease of mine. Fortunately, there is a cure. Cryptic called it Delta Rising. This is the best expansion ever and the players love it! Ask Geko if you don't believe me. I had twelve chars at various levels. Delta Rising intervened and my desire to experience the game from a slighly different viewpoint withered and died in its tracks right then. Cut myself back to just four chars. It became fun to play STO again, at least for awhile.

I do appreciate the effort guys. Thank you for attempting to help an old warhorse show it isn't time for the glue factory just yet.

jonsills

Delta Rising wasn't a cure for my altitis. Hell, it wasn't even a palliative treatment - I still have thirteen characters across three accounts, and play them all from time to time (each one plays slightly differently, just enough to keep my interest in a few cases). Currently, I'm mostly playing Kehel, a Reman/Romulan hybrid whose backstory is that she's used by D'Tan because she refused to openly join his fleet or wear the uniform, so she's a deniable asset, and Tarvek, a Vulcan tac captain who (thanks to the Black Friday sale) now commands a T5U Excelsior-class (which should anyway fly a little differently than the T6 Nandi most of my toons have).​​

rattler2

I'm working towards a new C-Store item myself since I can't just outright buy things. But mostly... I play for fun.

thunderfoot

I took a page from your book, Rattler and started collecting Zen for a Pack. But then RL reared its ugly head. Playing the storyline on the Elite setting with a lvl 60 char has been entertaining today. Especially since the NPCs level to match a char, I had forgotten this and I am embarrassed to report I got my head handed to me by that d'Deridex. Again. And you all know which d'Deridex I am speaking of, too.

rattler2

A certain named one I believe.
And yea... C-Store projects can be a good thing to work towards.

hawku001x

Ya, making your own goals is good. I play, partly, to build my mains so they match with their ranks and ships in my fanfics. Same with BOFFs. The process of getting them there is fun for me.