I have had this problem for the last 2 hours. I've reinstalled the game and managed to get on briefly to find out many other people running into trouble. One player has had a character stuck in a turbolift for several hours! Someone please call cryptic maintenance team to get him out.
This would be nice. There are not a large number of STO players that do PvP so we can't expect Cryptic to spend the large amount of time and money it takes to do major changes until we attract more players. Lets start with simple, small changes. Attract more players which will lead to larger changes in the long run.
That's an interesting idea. Many games have a timer a system on PvP matches. It might encourage a lot more players to do PvP as well if they have clear idea of how long a match is going to take - reducing waiting times in the que. The PvP purists will probably try to kill you for suggesting it though. :)
Saying you should leave one problem in place to solve another problem just means we'll end up with two problems instead of one. I would suggest it would be more productive to report these players that are cheating.
These Dyson Science Destroyers have got me back playing STO after giving up playing 3 months ago due to the heavy favoritism given to DPS. I see these new ships as a chance to try and build a proper star trek vessel, one like the movies and series where it can tank, dps and use science abilities in fairly equal measure. It…