As of 21 Aug 2014 the test server was closed to Silver members. Only gold (and lifetime) players have access. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1200601
I have the same problem. Starts up the game, shows me the Cryptic logo screen, then crashes with a message that the "on-demand patching server took to long to respond." So I opened up the options in my launcher and disable on-demand patching, then spend over an hour while it downloads and patches in 4gb of data. Start the…
Oh good heavens, that is quite a mouthful. I'd dare say though, with that many potential procs, that weapon really should be purple without any addon buffs. Just having all 5 procs makes it 5x more likely to get a bonus effect than any regular weapon. It should totally fire either pure white (from the tons of energy poured…
@mikewendall is correct: the only way to increase the rank of the slots on your ship is to get a higher-rank ship. That said, even Vice-Admiral ships have Ensign-rank slots. Ultimately, its a way for them to differentiate the different classes of ships - Only cruisers get Commander Engineer slots, only Escorts get…