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Alright after playing it I really think we need more things like this

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Just got done from a one-explore-mission-long session of STO on tribble to check out the new scanning mini-game/mechanic/thing. What would have been a brain suckingly boring click five undergound consoles mission was actually quite fun because of the wandering around space and ground and the little bit of excitement that I only had five seconds to match the waveforms. Really it was a good thing.

So I want to know what you guys think, if you've tried it or not do you think diversity in the gameplay and little extras like a crafting mini-game where you make your weapon/armour better for 15 minutes is fun, or just an annoying distraction that you feel you'll always have to do? Because I can definitly see myself in a month going "GAH! I hate this stupid matching waveform stuff! I feel like I have to do it every single time and it's just annoying!". Even though right now I'm REALLY loving it.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    eventually, the mini games will get old. Hopefully, if they keep coming out with new ones, they can randomize them a bit.

    crafting to improve your weapon a bit, almost as good as getting the next class of weapon. Maybe instead of a temporary boost, a way to craft the in game bomuses onto the weapon itself, instad of always finding/buying a new weapon and discarding the old. Maybe we can put a weapons locker on the ship to store all the old weapons?! nah. that'd be too much.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    So I want to know what you guys think, if you've tried it or not do you think diversity in the gameplay and little extras like a crafting mini-game where you make your weapon/armour better for 15 minutes is fun, or just an annoying distraction that you feel you'll always have to do? Because I can definitly see myself in a month going "GAH! I hate this stupid matching waveform stuff! I feel like I have to do it every single time and it's just annoying!". Even though right now I'm REALLY loving it.

    I've tried it. It's not bad. I sometimes skip it if I'm really focused on doing something else. (A lot of times I want to get the anomaly off the board so my scanner can point me better at what I'm really there for and when I'm rushing around on a mission like that I'll skip it). It's a nice little boost. I sometimes feel I'm not getting anything out of the experience. Like earlier today I "won" the mini-game and got a single technical schematic. Just one. I didn't feel like I got anything "extra" out of that, lol.

    I am not a fan of temp buffs. I think it plays to the bad side of my fear of OCD. Like I'd have to have a way to keep a temp buff up as often as possible or feel like I fail. So for me as a gamer, the idea of mini-games to activate temp buffs ... probably not something I myself would want. But others mileage obviously varies.

    :)

    In short ... mini-games are cool. As long as people don't expect too much out of them, they're fine.
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