To their credit, they have added in 'research' offerings and expanded skills. Unfortunately each of these directly relate to increasing effectiveness with warfare. When I was young, I kicked back by the river and saw a bear fishing with his paws, more effective than any fisherman I had ever seen. It both scared the TRIBBLE…
I'm not a brawler in real life, I prefer the noggin remain intact. SO I 'role played' the 'fighter', but that gets boring after a while. So I role played my real life character, who doesn't fight, makes the game way different. "There's other ways to fight beyond being in the ring"
LOL! I was a play tester for EQ and WOW when they first came out, and long time RPGer - and my play style has always focused on skills and player enhancements, you know, once combat is done, the things that typically make a game sustainable and fun to return to when you've put down the latest fad FPS. In any case, after…
Long time umm. you know that other rpg game with a world and a war and some kind of craft in it... How many times I would waltz into a city and all the NPC vendors are toast? That games was pretty darn cool because it allowed the funky things to occur within it - which made it so addictively fun at times! If you could get…
So the first interior is still 'in there' and rendered? Wow! No wonder this game suffers laggies and memory leaks with all that stuff loaded up in memory. I remember EQ suffered a similar problem with getting stuck in the terrain and falling through the terrain. With STO, I have never fallen through like you've described,…
LOL! You are truly awesome, sir! Thank you!!!! You know, anymore, I find the chat and sounds annoying, so when I play it's typically with Avicii or some other podcast going on in the background, and I have all but closed chat logs. It 'helps' with the immersion with a minimalistic interface anyways! Thank you, kind sir,…
You know, I have been to about 38 countries, and counterfeiting as an issue is roughly similar to the problems STO encounters. Every country deals with it differently, and the only system which seems to work is tightly managed exchange banks. Some countries 'micromanage content' - China, which is whose corporate hands PWE…
Attagirl, way to swallow that indoctrinated historical entry ;-) In any case, I appreciate your (indignant) feedback, but I prefer a rating system for the reasons I outlined. Just a personal thing. I you disagree with it, and my perspective, that's cool, you're entitled to that. I'd just prefer seeing it no matter the…
#2 and #3: You know. If I handed you a gun, would the first thing you would do is take it and point it at your foot and shoot? As long as you assume the worst about people's behavior, you're going to continue playing a game limited by your own imagination - that is - a game tailored for people with paranoid imaginations.…
The purpose of a rating system isn't just to censor content. It's also to encourage diversity in the content being offered. You do realize that's why they started throwing ratings on music and video games, right? It was actually a challenge to the creators to create a wider range of content, as music and video games - at…
Let's be clear about this: TO YOU it's fiction. To me, someone who's accepted Multiple Realities as fact and the holographic universe as a part of that fact - in much the same way you would accept God or Allah or Buddha or the Big Bang as your basis of reality. With this, you seem to carry absolutely no respect for my…
I had a similar theory at first, tried pushing myself into the corner, with no luck. Didn't fall through the cracks. The character would never respond, either. I would wave, send messages, etc. to no end, and the name changed every time with a new character generated every ten seconds. I am suspecting it's either a form of…
Now I am fairly new to the forums, but it's my belief that Cryptic's spent SO much time balancing, that the seesaws barely a millimeter off and - like WOW - people will always complain and ruin the game. Now I would agree about the bug fixes - in my opinion they need to pay attention to optimizing what they do have, and I…
Personally, I am not a fan of boosting up rewards for playing this content, that reminds me of a dog waiting for a treat. It's me belief that the foundry mission 'reward system' is actually fairly decent. It segments the economics of player created missions much like you'd segment real life economies. Now what I think…
Try Greenshot, it's a personal favorite and seems to do a great job isolating key screen areas. It's free and open source - get it here: http://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
I made the same mistake. I am homeless, and don't have any money, so I grinded for dilithium, converted that to zen, and bumped that up to 1 billion. Just like the "you must be at a mailbox" to receive items sent via mail, once these items and/or currency is lost, it's freaking lost.
HI there, I'm your 'in and out of game nutjob' here to represent. I started a thread asking people about 'weirdness' in game, I have levelled several toons up without combat - and have spent a lot of time just kicking back observing. Me, I'm a believer that the vast majority of players and contributors to this forum are…
Yeah, I have multiple personalities and schizophrenia. You say that like it's a bad thing... Definitely helps with the perspective based writing and creativity and makes life more interesting too. I'm working on conjuring a love interest by my imagination only. Although my imagination isn't cooperating that well at the…
Bored? I'm a homeless former 'corporate programmer', man, too much time on my hands and only wielding an underpowered netbook as my sword! If it's any consolation, I have several 'side programming' projects going, nothing spectacular, I am more working on tools and ideas for creating a real life holodeck - but you can…
Agreed. This is something I have considered is more than a distinct possibility. Hopefully this helps ya understand why I am 'looking' - wherever I can - for evidence on how to cross boundaries of reality beyond MMORPGs. Source Code. Computer Code. I suspect is a key 'tying' the fabric of all of reality together. It's a…