I wish you could damage other ships by putting full power to forward shields and ramming them :( But, uh, yeah, anyway. Mogai Retrofit. It's totally cool, that's what I'm using right now. I do tend to die several times per elite STF, but that's because I tend to draw aggro like a game developer draws hate mail.
It's like the stock market. Meaning it's controlled by the whim and emotion of those who invest in the system. I'm going to see how far the zen rate drops, buy zen up when it's dirt cheap, then sell for dilithium when it gets expensive again. That was I can afford the omega MKXII set....
Well, my Mogai Retrofit is doing pretty well. Not sure what reputation set to get though. Right now I'm aiming for the Borg set (I'm almost to Tier 3 Omega), since I have the kinetic cutting beam and the console.
I'm mostly a pve'er for now, I've been playing for little under a month but still love what I'm seeing. I decided to go with the Mogai-retrofit with a dual heavy cannon setup using nanite disruptor MKXI dhc's. I can take down a cube pretty easily in normal stf's alone, though on elite they'll still swat me away.
Doesn't work for me either, tried with three different maps, zero drops from any enemies in all maps. The loot drops were the only reason I paid any attention to the foundry stuff... Not going to bother with it anymore.
Join a fleet. The game is an MMO for a reason. Join a nice sized fleet, make some friends, and play with them. Go play Star Trek Armada if you don't like the idea of playing with others.
There isn't a very good ability to get Federation stuff and Klingon stuff as a Romulan, I agree. I bought a mirror assault cruiser for my FedRom, but can't use it apparently. :(
Guild Wars 2. In maps with big events going on, you'll get shunted to an overflow server where the event likely isn't happening. Similar, not the same, but still godfracking annoying.
There's something called "gameplay and story segregation". STO is a case of this, the necessities of an MMO (levels, items available equally if you put the effort in) and being something that could appeal outside of hard core Trekkies (I don't consider myself a hardcore Trekkie, I enjoy science fiction of every flavor)…
One that I've found because I'm stuck in queuing still: The queuing numbers will randomly jump from 400 to 22,000. And then sometimes will crash my modem.