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Or did they change the definition of these recently?

Sorry, I know it's a nitpick, but come on. Seriously?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Its Cryptic and they live up to there name!! Just look at the Skill Descriptions!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Loxanna wrote:
    Its Cryptic and they live up to there name!! Just look at the Skill Descriptions!!
    Tried the new skill sorting feature to see what abilities are affected by what? It's a step in the right direction.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Tried the new skill sorting feature to see what abilities are affected by what? It's a step in the right direction.

    Starship Photon projectiles affect Quantum Mines?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    just like Starships have "Injuries" now......

    I N J U R I E S !!!

    that makes as much sense as this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184&#t=0m28s
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    just like Starships have "Injuries" now......

    I N J U R I E S !!!

    that makes as much sense as this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184&#t=0m28s

    it makes perfect sense :) :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Aeleys wrote:
    it makes perfect sense :) :rolleyes:

    maybe if you fly an Undine Bioship...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    maybe if you fly an Undine Bioship...

    actually, i fly a vorlon cruiser... im just here on holiday :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Aeleys wrote:
    actually, i fly a vorlon cruiser... im just here on holiday :rolleyes:

    carry on then :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I demand that a Dev show his face and account for calling this a "Slider".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    just like Starships have "Injuries" now......

    I N J U R I E S !!!

    that makes as much sense as this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184&#t=0m28s

    Yes i noticed that too,first i LMFAF (laughed my ****ing TRIBBLE of),then discusted it with fleet members and was like...really?come on...seriously....really?
    Hey,maybe our ships are Undine and we didn't know it....again NICE JOB CRYPTIC seriously....what?really?

    Ps:cant be more sarcastic then this or i'll get another infraction point :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I did not want to point out that a 3 point choice menu is not a slider.
    I perceive a slider to give me a scalable choice of difficulty along a pre-determined range.
    Of course had I mentioned it first I'd again be attacked for being 'negative'
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I did not want to point out that a 3 point choice menu is not a slider.
    I perceive a slider to give me a scalable choice of difficulty along a pre-determined range.
    Of course had I mentioned it first I'd again be attacked for being 'negative'

    This has nothing to do with "negativity",it has everything to do with COMMON SENSE,calling this a slider is like saying a square is ROUND...come on,seriously???:D
    But maybe the problem is us...maybe we "dont get it"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    just like Starships have "Injuries" now......

    I N J U R I E S !!!

    that makes as much sense as this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184&#t=0m28s

    Brian Don't!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Loxanna wrote:
    Its Cryptic and they live up to there name!! Just look at the Skill Descriptions!!

    hahahaha, indeed. Even Jack, their CCO, laughed at his own product for the descriptions. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I demand recompense!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Freeport wrote:
    I demand recompense!

    Cryptic should pay you back ... IN SLIDERS!

    Yummy!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    to be fair - I at least tried to call it "Difficulty Settings" in the release notes :p

    Who knows - maybe I'll start a trend!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    god is there anything that someone won't find to complain about? my 3 year old daughter doesnt whine so much! :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    josall wrote:
    god is there anything that someone won't find to complain about? my 3 year old daughter doesnt whine so much! :rolleyes:

    I don't understand how the internet has managed to so effectively re-define the concept of Criticism as Complaining.

    Are you really upset that someone has made a legitimate observation here?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    josall wrote:
    god is there anything that someone won't find to complain about? my 3 year old daughter doesnt whine so much! :rolleyes:

    No. No there is not.

    One of the few things that I am quite certain of, is that no matter WHAT Cryptic does, someone, somewhere, will complain about it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    to be fair - even in the industry I work in things are called "Sliders" when the end user is given the ability to change something on a scale - even when the UI presented to the end user isn't actually a "slider" mechanism at all, in the end.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    plexaura wrote:
    Starship Photon projectiles affect Quantum Mines?

    At this point? Wouldn't surprise me.

    As to the OP, though, good grief.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Aeleys wrote:
    STAR TREK ONLINE ISN'T CANON,AND NEVER WILL BE, DEAL WITH IT.

    I have to disagree with this statement. STO and the most recent book, Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many are the new sources of canon.

    In the absence of a new TV series or a movie, STO is it. CBS who owns the IP has backed both the game and the book. That makes them canon, as much as any other iteration of the Star Trek property.

    The fact that we are "watching" new Star Trek canon unfold before our eyes is even more exciting. On top of that, in some small measure, we are actually guiding some of that path as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Are we just looking for dumb reasons to complain. People want a difficulty setting, so they give it to us. Now its not exactly how a couple of people figure they want it so its not good enough. Here is a tip, quit crying and complaining. stop looking for reasons to start a thread thats is pointless and play the game.

    And yes star ships get injurys, I like to call it "damage".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Freeport wrote:
    I don't understand how the internet has managed to so effectively re-define the concept of Criticism as Complaining.

    Are you really upset that someone has made a legitimate observation here?

    No, I' m still LOOKING for a 'legiotimite observation' in your OP, as it's NOT. We now have a sliding difficulty scale in game. The graphical representation is honestly irrelivent.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Freeport wrote:
    I don't understand how the internet has managed to so effectively re-define the concept of Criticism as Complaining.

    Are you really upset that someone has made a legitimate observation here?

    I understand your point, but it's a little petty. It's like asking someone for a cup of water, getting it in a mug, and complaining about the receptacle the water arrived in. It just seems silly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    To the OP...seriously?
    Blodveard wrote: »
    I have to disagree with this statement. STO and the most recent book, Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many are the new sources of canon.

    In the absence of a new TV series or a movie, STO is it. CBS who owns the IP has backed both the game and the book. That makes them canon, as much as any other iteration of the Star Trek property.

    The fact that we are "watching" new Star Trek canon unfold before our eyes is even more exciting. On top of that, in some small measure, we are actually guiding some of that path as well.

    Uh..actually, according to a few dev posts, STO is NOT canon, it's considered 'soft canon' by CBS, the same as every OTHER non-film Star Trek media is considered 'soft canon', which has been the standard used for what is 'hard' and what is 'soft' canon since the this topic was first brought up around 40 years ago.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Freeport wrote:
    Or did they change the definition of these recently?

    Sorry, I know it's a nitpick, but come on. Seriously?

    The skill level is on a sliding scale. Not how you select the level itself.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Freeport wrote:
    I demand that a Dev show his face and account for calling this a "Slider".
    The component arrived with a dev from a parallel game who was holding what looked like a tarted up TV remote.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Blodveard wrote: »
    I have to disagree with this statement. STO and the most recent book, Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many are the new sources of canon.

    In the absence of a new TV series or a movie, STO is it. CBS who owns the IP has backed both the game and the book. That makes them canon, as much as any other iteration of the Star Trek property.

    The fact that we are "watching" new Star Trek canon unfold before our eyes is even more exciting. On top of that, in some small measure, we are actually guiding some of that path as well.

    nonsense.


    true canon ended with Rodenberry selling the rights. He no longer needed a continuity archive, which is all canon ever was. It's the fans that have turned it into some kind of mythical bible. What remains now is the property of CBS and they decide what is Star Trek and what is not. Books, games, tie-ins and other such things licensed by CBS consumer products are just capitalising on owned property and have no actual bearing on the continuity of the Star Trek universe ( or 'canon' if you are obsessed enough to need to use that word still )
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