Star Trek Online

[CaptainRAVE]

None, you cant land on a planet and explore, major dissapointment for me. I have cancelled may take a look when real reviews arrive.

Infinite I think? They are randomly generated by the Genesis Engine. For actual Star Trek planets, the only ones I know of that you can beam too are Vulcan and Risa.

This ^^...well almost. Cryptic actually create random missions using the genesis system, then upload them to us in patches. Think there are over 600 so far. There are plenty of star systems and planets to explore in the star clusters.

 

[VaderDSL]

A BOP is a bird of prey and dont think starfleet academyis in yet. if at all.

 

[chris.dante]

I think this is one of the only gamea I've spent some serious coin on.
Got the steam delux edition £49.99 and then the lifetime membership £170.
From what i've seen and played should last me at least a couple of years as i loved starfleet command 1,2 and 3.
Still buyers remorse lol.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I think this is one of the only gamea I've spent some serious coin on.
Got the steam delux edition £49.99 and then the lifetime membership £170.
From what i've seen and played should last me at least a couple of years as i loved starfleet command 1,2 and 3.
Still buyers remorse lol.

Same here - will not be playing anything else for a while (may also have bought a certain rainforest copy with a Borg BO - still debtaing that preorder! )

Then of course there is the prospect of them selling stuff in the Cryptic store - ships, uniforms, races etc - not good for my bank balance!

 

[West]

West!

And on topic, I actually found mine on a mission, one of those drop containers. Although I cant really use it as it takes my fore beam slot. So I ended up with a quantum and photon torp at the front and a beam at the back, useless!
So had to go back to the default beam/photon at front

Oh Hai

 

[West]

I've gotta say.. i've more or less give up EVE lol

 

[Pyroblaze]

Updated info on all ships on both factions : http://suricatasblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/stoshiptierchart.png

Klingon ships are looking better and better at higher tiers. Just need info on the hull size for the heavier types

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Why do this and Mass Effect 2 have to be coming out at the same time

 

[Daniee]

Beta key that I stole and don't need:

SBOB1Y6PEVQ7JCHRW48JCB4KV

 

[Barno]

Starting to quite like STO, its slowly growing on me. Theres a lot of negativity flying around the official forums but in 2 years cryptic haven;t done badly. Sure its not finished but few mmorpgs are when they're released.

Few questions - is there a shortuct for your BO's skills or do they use them automatically?

How do I get new abilities for my BO's?

And is there anywhere that tells you what abilities you'll get when you increase a skill? I seem to be increasing lots of skills but I don't see the effect.

 

[EDDS]

Starting to quite like STO, its slowly growing on me. Theres a lot of negativity flying around the official forums but in 2 years cryptic haven;t done badly. Sure its not finished but few mmorpgs are when they're released.

Few questions - is there a shortuct for your BO's skills or do they use them automatically?
right click and drag the ability into the quick bar

How do I get new abilities for my BO's?
you either have to rank up to lt commander, or you can switch old skills for new ones at the earth space dock, there's a npc behind the gal who sells bo's

And is there anywhere that tells you what abilities you'll get when you increase a skill? I seem to be increasing lots of skills but I don't see the effect.
you dont get abilities based on what skills you level, you get them based on what class you are.

 

[Last Kronin]

going to give it a break for a few days, finally reached lvl 16 ( lt Cmd 6 ) and reported quite a few bugs.

 

[VaderDSL]

Also don't do what I did I promoted my Tactical officer, got a nice new skill I put points in and bought a cruiser I didn't realise at the time the relationship between BO ranks and the station ranks on the ships. So I had a Lt. Tactical officer but only had the ability to use Ensign tactical abilities on the cruiser.

So always check what ship you want and what stations are available. So the tier 1 escorts can use the Lt. Tactical ability. T1 Cruisers the Lt. Engineering ability and T1 Science vessels can use the Lt. Science ability But other ships can't use the other class Lt. BO abilities at T1.

As you progress up the ship tiers the higher rank BOs you can have stationed there with their appropriate level abilities accessble.

 

[SkeeterUK]

How is the other races, can u do a kirk and spock and go look for new life forms and civs?

 

[Pyroblaze]

Also don't do what I did I promoted my Tactical officer, got a nice new skill I put points in and bought a cruiser I didn't realise at the time the relationship between BO ranks and the station ranks on the ships. So I had a Lt. Tactical officer but only had the ability to use Ensign tactical abilities on the cruiser.

So always check what ship you want and what stations are available. So the tier 1 escorts can use the Lt. Tactical ability. T1 Cruisers the Lt. Engineering ability and T1 Science vessels can use the Lt. Science ability But other ships can't use the other class Lt. BO abilities at T1.

As you progress up the ship tiers the higher rank BOs you can have stationed there with their appropriate level abilities accessble.

On an alternate note, ranking them up doesn't just give benefits for the available slots on the ship. Ground missions don't have the same restrictions, all your BO's can use their abilities up to a rank below your own there, so it's not all bad if you rank them up when your ship can't use that rank.

 

[XPE]

Beta key that I stole and don't need:

SBOB1Y6PEVQ7JCHRW48JCB4KV

Yonk, thank you very much

 

[Braka]

looks like a pritty expensive hobbie in the long run compared to 1 off 30 quid games ;x but i guess a lot of mmos are like this

 

[SkeeterUK]

Any tips for a newb on st online, havent really read anything just grabed a key and just finished dling it. Is the tutorials good as well?

 

[EDDS]

Any tips for a newb on st online, havent really read anything just grabed a key and just finished dling it. Is the tutorials good as well?

i suggest giving this a good read through.

STO A Beginner's Guide V 2.0

 

[SkeeterUK]

Hmm not too bad, shame a lot of the stuff is press f to work like the lifts etc. The lag is a bit bad in station u start on and less lag in space iirc. Combat is not too bad its basically a mix of legacy and sfc games with a bit of bc thrown in.