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prierin
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This isnt a goodbye thread. I have no intention of deleting my account, etc. I just
am bored of the game, sad to say.
After running around to collect the Omega shards, etc. and getting my Kobali Cruiser (which, for an engineer officer, isnt bad, really. My Rom will stick with her T5U Scim and my Sci Off with her Breen Carrier, but all in all the Kobali ship wasnt that bad) I find myself now repeating missions, running the same things over and over again. Even the Foundry is starting to get a little dry for me. Ill probably log into run Dust to Dust one final time to complete the Kobali set before taking a break.
I love Star Trek. Always have. Probably always will. I dont mind the JJ Abrams vision as, although there are some story plot holes and rather idiotic faux pas (which fall more on the writers and story editors than the director) I found them entertaining enough. The game, however, I feel has become stagnant and repetitive, disappointingly so.
Ill also continue to frequent the forums and toss in my two cents from time to time, see what changes are coming and possibly sneak into the game to see if any changes have actually occurred, all with the hopes that it will suddenly amaze me again. I do want to get my engineer to lvl 15 in all R&D schools almost there, I may even try my hand at a few foundry missions myself so no, I am not leaving the game forever just taking a step back for a while, which saddens me greatly, to be honest like coming to the conclusion that you have to break up with your partner because he/she just isnt brining anything to the table any more. Youre still fond of them and care for them greatly, but the relationship just isnt working any more.
I wonder how many other players, both long-time and new, feel the same way. I cant imagine I am alone in this issue. Have others more or less left the game but still pop in here and there to see, just in case something wonderful has happened?
After running around to collect the Omega shards, etc. and getting my Kobali Cruiser (which, for an engineer officer, isnt bad, really. My Rom will stick with her T5U Scim and my Sci Off with her Breen Carrier, but all in all the Kobali ship wasnt that bad) I find myself now repeating missions, running the same things over and over again. Even the Foundry is starting to get a little dry for me. Ill probably log into run Dust to Dust one final time to complete the Kobali set before taking a break.
I love Star Trek. Always have. Probably always will. I dont mind the JJ Abrams vision as, although there are some story plot holes and rather idiotic faux pas (which fall more on the writers and story editors than the director) I found them entertaining enough. The game, however, I feel has become stagnant and repetitive, disappointingly so.
Ill also continue to frequent the forums and toss in my two cents from time to time, see what changes are coming and possibly sneak into the game to see if any changes have actually occurred, all with the hopes that it will suddenly amaze me again. I do want to get my engineer to lvl 15 in all R&D schools almost there, I may even try my hand at a few foundry missions myself so no, I am not leaving the game forever just taking a step back for a while, which saddens me greatly, to be honest like coming to the conclusion that you have to break up with your partner because he/she just isnt brining anything to the table any more. Youre still fond of them and care for them greatly, but the relationship just isnt working any more.
I wonder how many other players, both long-time and new, feel the same way. I cant imagine I am alone in this issue. Have others more or less left the game but still pop in here and there to see, just in case something wonderful has happened?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
You will forever be missed and never forgotten.
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More seriously, creating new content costs money. Hiring the Voyage actors costs money.
Cryptic can't possibly create new content fast enough to keep you from needing to repeat old content if you want to keep playing.
When you're tired of all the existing content, that's a signal to go away and do something else for awhile.
He just said he's going away for a while.
So why have you posted this?
Free Tibet!
...#LLAP...
So I could have his stuffs, duh. Stuffs is gooder than no stuffs!
I lost hope when the anniversary event was turned from a fun mission to a grind.
That knocked the wind out of my sails to be honest, and the winder event just gone was my last until some of the forced grinds are removed.
So for now, I'll collect my LTS Zen.
Not going to lay down hundreds of $$$ 'just in case' get excited about the game agian....
Your not the only one that feels that way. I usually come back when there's a event or something worth doing.
Things I do like are the ships and space combat. The story is so so, some good some bad but none were too memorable.
What sucks is the player made ones has no voice overs, kind of disappointed in that. That and the mindless grind for x currency. Also the way cryptic been handling things, meh. It is what it is and I play less because of it.
On the other hand, "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" have pretty much run their course. During the first ten years of the new millennium, "Stargate: SG-1" and "Stargate: Atlantis" laid the ground work for an entirely new science-fiction generation.
JJ's version of "Star Trek" is trying to recapture the glory days. "Star Trek '09" and "Star Trek: Into Darkness" were all about repackaging old concepts. Do you know what the problem is? JJ's version of "Star Trek" represents the overall issue. Instead of discovering new worlds and species, JJ's movies recycled old species, civilizations, and stories. ...and, that is what caused "Star Trek: Enterprise" to become cancelled.
Franchise fatigue is what killed the "Star Trek" brand.
"Star Trek", the franchise, needs to take a thirty to forty year hiatus.
*nods*
"Star Trek: Online '15" is not the same as "Star Trek: Online '11".
I miss the hourly calender events.
Anniversary ship giveaways made me feel appreciated. Once the anniversary was turned into a grinding event, I realized that Cryptic only cared about 'the whales'. Although you and I had spent allot of money, the reality is that $300-$600 means nothing to Cryptic.
Would you still be bored if you could do lowly advanced runs with random people in the ques without being almost certain to fail in the first 2 minutes?
Would you still be bored if STO hadent been reduced to Argala Patrols and Crystalline Entity runs?
Or is that just me?
That would be nice, sure. I miss PUGging... but I hate autofail.
My character Tsin'xing
Are you kidding? STO's leveling is still generous compared to many others even post Delta Rising. Final Fantasy XI was a slog...
FFXIV is far faster to level in. It's still reasonably demanding of skill, however. Positioning is a major component of many higher level battles, even outside of end-game content (actually, to train you for end-game content).
You must really like Stargate. It was alright. There were other, better series out there, several more innovative. Stargate did have a good combination of (some) quality actors alongside decent production values.
But, comparatively, BSG marked what should have been a paradigm shift in how Hollywood approaches sci-fi.
Enterprise managed to get itself cancelled all on its own.
I'd love to know who selected that theme song. They went all Plaxico Burress on it.
Personally, I think the writers and executives involved in the IP failed to read the changing times; they tried to embrace the Trek they had grown up with in the 60s and 70s, reduxed for 90s PC culture, and it turned out to be extremely shallow.
I mean, they didn't even have the presence of mind to use the intro monologue in DS9 or Voyager. What fools.
But, there definitely was an oversaturation of Trek for a solid decade or more. One could almost be persuaded that CBS had been trying to cash in for all it was worth.
also still on my break from sto, keep wanting to finish the samsar cruiser q thing, but each time something else more interesting is taking my attention away. now have 10 days to do it and the most laughable thing is that it only takes 10 minutes a day to complete it at most. so i got no excuse to not of already done it, except the that i had a internet fault line almost lasting a week and a hard crash of the hdd requiring a complete format. so really, a few days recently was my doing.
why you feel any need to explain yourself to anyone for your taking a break, i can not understand. what you do is your business.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
^ this. The anniversary showed me Cryptic's direction and they are going full steam ahead with the grind. This anniversary took the wind from my sails as well... And it makes me A little bit sad. STO was the bee's knees for me and my friends pre-DR.
SG-1 and Atlantis laid the groundwork, all right. And Universe went and demolished it.
Well, I still get a kick out of watching most SGA or SG-1 episodes, so I guess it got something right.
Wasn't Universe pretty much BSG with Stargates, though? Not a very good paradigm shift, that. :P
Anyway, on topic: Now that I have the Samsars, I'm pretty much taking the same approach. I do log in when I can't think of anything else to do - fight a couple of skirmishes, then get out. Not even bothering to do anything that would be considered 'endgame', though - I went through Korfez (a lot of luck saw me win my second run
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
That was the gist of it - wandering the galaxy, blah blah blah, everybody suspects everybody else is a villain...
Edit: Basically, in my eyes, SG-1 and SGA were sort of like DS9's non-Prophet parts. You have really light-hearted episodes, like 'Window of Opportunity' (or 'Little Green Men'), you have some comparably insignificant episodes exploring the inner workings of a specific planet - some do advance the overall plot, but others don't ('The Torment of Tantalus' or 'Children of Time'), you have big battles ('Camelot' or 'Way of the Warrior'), and you have a season-spanning struggle to defeat a superior opponent. (Apophis, Goa'uld in general, Apophis again, Anubis with a touch of Replicators and the Ori, or the Dominion. Admittedly, DS9's early seasons focused more on struggling to keep things running.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I'm sure most people complaining about the grind are new to mmos. There is a grind for sure but it's all pretty doable.
Also, I find the new location-based Foundry popups offer quite a lot of variety.
Sometimes you do just need to take a break. Go play some MechWarror Online (for action) or The Secret World (for story and atmosphere) or whatever turns your fancy.
After a while you will likely feel an urge to fly your space pixels once again...
Universe ended up being the best Stargate show, despite only running for 2 series. They absolutely nailed series 2 and the time travel episodes.