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So I haven't really played in the last few months. Logged in and really enjoyed the Ambassador Class mission, but then didn't stick around. I thought the New Romulus idea fit more with Star Trek in terms of exploration, but it wasn't fun and I didn't want to grind clicking on plants for hours to maybe be able to click on more plants. And after doing about 300 STFs to finally get my mk-12 set I didn't feel like grinding the borg reputation system either.
I've really enjoyed STO a ton and got a lot of mileage out of the STFs for a while. The foundry is neat and I've seen some fun missions too, but it's uneven and not enough to keep me interested for the long haul. The dofs are terrific too, but it's not quite enough to make me excited about logging in. So I guess my question is what are all you guys and gals doing? What's still fun? What are we looking forward to? What could/should I be doing?
I've really enjoyed STO a ton and got a lot of mileage out of the STFs for a while. The foundry is neat and I've seen some fun missions too, but it's uneven and not enough to keep me interested for the long haul. The dofs are terrific too, but it's not quite enough to make me excited about logging in. So I guess my question is what are all you guys and gals doing? What's still fun? What are we looking forward to? What could/should I be doing?
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Oh, and the female Orions.
As for your questions about "what's fun?", you'll have to answer that yourself. What we can look forward to is the May update (or "wait cautiously" as some on the forum would say). The only thing I can really recommend to you is maybe replay some old FEs with your completed gear, wander the sector blocks, try your hand some pvp, maybe try some Fleet actions?
If anything, poke around in parts of STO you don't normally spend much time in and if anything you can always take another break and come back in May.
Best of luck!
(UFP) Ragnar
1) The fact it's based on Star Trek (I've been a Star Trek fan since 1969)
2) The fact it's NOT a 'High Fantasy' genre MMO with swords, orcs, elves, magic, etc. (And not to say I hate that setting as I enjoyed my time spent in EQ, Dark Age of Camelot, WoW et al - but I'm more a science fiction fan then a high-fantasy fan.)
3) The RL friends who play and are members of my Fleet - as well as the new friends I've made online in the games as I've done stuff in game <---- This usually ties me to an MMO more than anytjhing else after the newness factor wears off. I really got tired of WoW after the second year ( which was mostly high level end game raiding) - but because of the friends I had, and new friends I made in the game - played another two years - but now I'm so burned out on WoW, even those friends who play that I'm still in contact with can't fill me with enough desire to return for Cataclysm or Mists of Panderia.
4) The fact I still find this game fun, and think that overall, Cryptic has done an okay job try to mesh 45+ years of on screen Star Trek history across 5 major Star Trek eras (and series) spanning 300 or so (in universe) years. It's definitely not perfect, and I don't agree with everything they've done - but I can say that about almost anything else I've been a part of, and overall, I'm okay with the work done on the game to date.
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If I had only the feds to play in this game, i wouldn't because it isn't really Star Trek except in looks.
But as long as I play a KDF character, i can pretend that this game is Star Trek and that the feds don't go around shooting up bars.
Even though the KDF is by a long shot the worst faction in all MMO's, it is the only thing keeping me here.
Just like I don't watch only 1 television show X hours a day, 7 days a week, I don't play only 1 game X hours a day, 7 days a week. Variety is the spark of life.
2. Teaching new players how the game works
3. Teaming through the story missions
4. Mine Trap (and trying to figure out how to make it convert over to Champions Online and still be just as much fun)
5. Every second spent in an MMO that isn't fantasy
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
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Tell me about it, casual players, people who work a lot, (Zero that includes you, going by the podcast
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2). I've not done all the storyline missions yet, so I mix grinding, dil mining, DO missions and storyline missions (plus general puttering around and exploring) to keep me interested.
3). My fleetmates. I tend to play during the "night shift", but there are typically some folks on to chat with, group with and generally hang out with. Having people in game you enjoy spending time with helps a lot.
4). It's not EVE Online. I played EVE, and enjoyed it, but my GOD I don't have the time to dedicate to that game to really reach any level of competence/survivability. I like just being able to hop in, casually play in the evening for an hour or two and then log off.
I'm in pretty much the same boat. I got bored and took a bit of a break from the game; came back for the Anniversary Event, and but it only took me a few days to realize that it was too soon. My STO batteries haven't recharged yet.
I did give New Romulus and the reputation stuff a bit of a trial run while I was on, and while I thought they were good additions to the game, grinding out the same tasks over and over isn't something I can really get into.
I'm mostly just hanging around here to keep up on the news, and to push for certain things I feel would have made it harder to get bored in the first place (like improvements to exploration for example; now that's repeatable content I could get into, if it wasn't so horribly done).
"Hope is all we have." -Babylon 5
Was a pretty big Trekkie in my younger days, so I have a vested interest and familiarity in the IP.
There is no other game out there handles starship management with such a fine balance between fun action and tactical depth. Most are either so convoluted the actual gameplay is cumbersome(EVE, X series, etc.).. or are fun to play but have the re-playability and depth of a puddle(countless 'space shooters'). I still have some alts with some crazy ship builds that I still haven't managed to wrap my mind around why they are as effective as they are..
2 I'm really enjoying the space combat and PVP
3 Waiting till i can create my Romulan toon
4 community on the forums/in the fleet
5 my KDF main still hasn't got all accolades, all rare DOFF's...
6 sometimes zone chat is fun
I come back every now and then because I've some good online friends here and I'd like to touch base at least once in a while. But the game just isn't drawing me back anymore. And I have a lifetime subscription -- so I really, really wish it would.
Overall, there hasn't been anything that's really held my interest since the death of the Featured Episodes. I come back for a bit when anything new comes out, but none of it has been of any long-term interest so far. It was fun playing the Temporal Ambassador mission -- that's done, I'm gone.
I'll certainly come have a look in May when whatever they manage with Romulans hits, but until then, I'll probably be elsewhere. How long that may or may not hold my interest is yet to be seen.
In general, I dislike the grindfest that the game has become since F2P, and find very little of interest. What I'm looking for is more Trek story content, and it just seems that's no longer on Cryptic's agenda.
I went lifer early so it's all free now, might not be here if I had not.
I enjoy MMO's
I do get a lot of fun from the space/ground combat
Nothing better to play right now.
The gated grind just about did me in, left for months, stupidest system ever, it punishes casual and hard core gamers alike.
New Romulus: what a nice looking and utterly boring place, 90% of it is "go fetch" and Epohh tagging makes me want to vomit, bunch of armored starship captains and klingon warriors, running around chasing fuzzy bunnies! who's ridiculous Idea was that?
It was a huge surprise to find these excellent (voiced, animated and one is even inside an active volcano!) awesome missions locked away under the stupid rep/grind system... would have liked to do it with a friend, but he doesn't find any enjoyment in the rep system.. he would rather pay taxes and stare at a blank wall for 3 hours. then play that slider resource game, (it's more about spending EC then it is about completing missions anyway), forcing people to log in every 20h and buy Hypos or whatever...*Really* Cryptic?!?! I won't even get started on the Dilithium refining cap/system.
Guess that turned into a bit of a rant! ;P
reguardless I am still here, and lifer status will probably keep me checking in every 6 months or so.
Cheers
1) Trek! If I'm going to play an MMO at all, I have to care about its IP. I've been a Trek fan forever, so there we go. Since it looks like Sega is waffling on Phantasy Star Online 2 in English, STO will have my undivided attention for a while yet.
2) For all its problems, this is still one of the best Trek games ever made and one of the very very few that's still supported. It also does a pretty good job of representing the lore, both canonical and otherwise, without getting too bogged down in minutiae.
3) The space combat is exactly what it should be, give or take a few nips and tucks. It's tactical without being too simmy and it's fast without being too arcadey. The ground combat is... adequate. There's better out there, there's worse out there. But the space stuff is what really sells it. There ain't much else in the MMO space that's comparable, so nothing else is scratching that itch.
4) I'd rather be social in a sci-fi setting than a fantasy one and modern-themed MMOs aren't abundant enough to challenge either. Secret World is promising, but has a higher barrier to entry at the moment. But STO is still probably better equipped for social shenanigans than most. Yeah, I'm the guy running around with a party popper with my fleetmates. Deal with it!
5) This F2P model is better than most. Have you seen what EA is doing with Old Republic? Ugh. That is the wrong way to go. Say what you want about lockboxes (Team Fortress 2 says hi) but at least no one's forcing you to open them.
6) STO lends itself to "background gaming" or "default gaming" pretty well, without being an Excel spreadsheet like EVE. It's something I can just jump into at anytime and mess around with, for eight hours straight or eight minutes, sometimes while I play other things, sometimes on its own. Other games will come and go but STO will persist, even if it's just in the background somewhere. Having one game that I'm always playing also keeps me from dropping $60 on a bunch of other games that I'll finish in 10 to 20 hours and never touch again.
MMO's are generally horrible and a genre for the damned, but the grind in this game is overall quite mild and tolerable, so it's better than most. The lack of a PvP focus for an MMO also keeps this game from being totally overrun by the worst kind of video game players imaginable like a good number of these games, which is nice.
The foundry isn't very good yet but I hold out hope the concept could actually be salvaged at some point too. It's amazing how much some people have managed with it given how relatively limited the mission mechanics in this game are. Cryptic seems aware the story missions in general really aren't a strength of what the game mechanics do well and have smartly moved away from it, and hopefully that continues so we're spared any more 15+ mission chains of "read frivolous text where you have no meaningful choices to make, press F over 5 consoles" kind of stuff. Those are dreadful. The PvE stuff that has got away from that nonsense is quite pleasant and a far better gaming experience.
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It actually amazes me how they managed it really,to not have the ability to produce non-linear dialogue / missions... but then they did port the engine over it's not like it was designed for the Trekian experience it was modified for it.
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Also, ground combat. But without the community I wouldn't play.
CO noob and STO veteran.
1 - There are very few space opera MMOs with space combat I enjoy. Also STO seems to be the only game that manages to have put a lot of effort in both ground AND space. Oh and I'm a starship cruiser fan. Shame I dropped them because escorts are so much better in this game.
2 - PvP. Seriously, if it wasn't for this I'd have probably left the game by now. Got addicted to it a month after the games release. While it does highlight a good portion of issues regarding space combat, it still manages to keep pulling me back.
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