So i have played every MMOPG ever made and because i am a trekkie really wanted this to be good, i was in open and closed BETA and im glad to see that some of the problems/bugs were fixed. That being said after release i have noticed more bugs and problems and the response that i get from Gm's when submitting these bugs is sometimes downright rude, and is automated, i was told to expect this from Cryptic Studios, however i think you guys can do a lot better and remember that without your playerbase being trekkies or NOT you wont have a game that lasts.
1.) Numerous quests that have you destroying cardassian ships or romulan ships start out with Birds of prey from Klingon ships yet that is not part of the quest. Gotta get thisr ight, birds of prey are part of KLINGON origin not cardassian or romulan so they shouldnt even be there or count as part of the quest unless assigned to be there.
2.) Crystalline Entity quest is seriously fubbard we spent 3-5 hours numerous times in every instance trying to take it down, now granted we had many newbs in there who did not pay attention or do what they needed to d that being said there is no reason why when u have it down to 29 percent that it automatically goes up to 99 percent and u start over.
3.) Gm response times to petitions is really bad, on numerous occasions my ship was stuck in an asteroid or a base, like the center of it and i couldnt get it out no matter what i done except for on a few occasions some fancy maneuviering and logging in and out of server, however the response time for stuck character was 3 days, that is unacceptable and there should be priority issues such as that that need immediate gm assistance
4.) Items dropping are CHANGING, for example after killing a klingon and the yellow globe appears i click on take item well the item could be a weapon or someting but immeidately upon clicking take all it converts to a crappy food item, that is unacceptable and the players should be reinbursed for the items we should have had. i spent like my first two days with crappy weapons and an antire bank filled with TRIBBLE food and hypos sprays. the Gm reaponse was automated that they have added it to their bug list but they cannot respond indiviudally to every "COMPLAINT". its not a complaint its a frigging bug, fix it.
5.) STICK WITH THE STORYLINES, do not destroy Star trek by altering the dialogues and story because you will just lose us trekkies and with that there is a lot of us. Your devs need to seriously research espeially if ever coming out with an expansion the charactters and their storylines and their places.
6.) WHen zoning into an instance there should not be a ton of mobs when u zone in that kill you instantly, they need to be away fromt he zone in or spawn point especially if you guys insert a death penalty because its not fair tot he players who zone in that they are swamped by 50 frigging ships that fire at once and instantly kill anyone who zones in.
As i think of more going on i will add it in. OVERALL i gave you guys a C during Beta, and i still hold it as a C because each player should be allowed to decide how their character goes not have it pre arranged by a game, for example during dialogues instead of one option which is the required one there should be multiple options for the players to decide how they want to do it and how they want to respond such as diplomatically, aggressivly or defenseivly this decides the path their characters and ship take. Granted this takes more coding but it allows STO to be unique and not like the other games your company has distributed.