Check your options, almost everything, including the majority of windows and all the combat numbers junk can be disabled. You can strip it back to a pretty clean looking experience. Sure there are things, that intelligence targeting thing for example is horrible. One non-disableable thing that still ticks me off is…
Show player names - Disabled (or target only) I hope the emotes can also be disabled Same goes for this whole currency/ship retirement idea. Anyway more than 50 pages of almost unanimous complaints in just a few hours, should be enough for them to reconsider.
Ship emotes? what the hell does that mean? If I see one pokemon-style emersion-breaking childish cartoon stupid smiley face on my supposed adult trek game there's going to be trouble.
So you are penalising those with the intelligence to plan ahead. I knew I wouldn't have much time this summer to play, so I spent far too much extra time last summer getting all the pearls I would need to still get the new ship for 2015. I also knew I would be visiting family this Christmas so wouldn't be able to play at…