Star Trek Online

[G-Man]

Few things I read today:

Maximum level is now 45 (Admiral Rank 5)
Players can't get infinite skill points now, so no maxing everything out

Apparantly it was from some interview with a Cryptic developer.

Saw this as well, bit worrying really.

Going by the current beta we have access to the whole skill tree system just doesn't seem setup for limited points, theres far too many specialised skills that (based on available ingame information) might not even do anything after you gain your next promotion.
Like the Lt. Commander ship skills, the tooltip isn't clear on whether skilling up Cruiser Captain benefits EVERY tier of crusier or not. If it does affect all tiers then the game needs an easy and fairly cheap respec system otherwise you'd be gimped if you wanted to change ship type at any point.


Of course there is also the fact the playerbase had to find this out via a 3rd party interview and not some sort of announcement or even dev post on the offical site...

 

[Swifty55]

Not having infinite skill points is a good thing, then at least you have to specialize in a certain ship.

But they do need to sort out the skill tree!

 

[EDDS]

the limited skill points don't bother me, but what does is what g-man said, i want to and need to know exactly what the skills do so i know which ones are worth leveling up.

 

[Clairvoyant]

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/899

The Cap raise was posted by Cryptic.

Level Cap

Have no fear! The current level cap will be removed sometime this week.

We’re really looking forward to opening up the entire game for our testers. You’ll get to visit DS9, Memory Alpha and advance your characters past Lt. Commander.

 

[SkeeterUK]

I think i picked myself as engineer and picked crewman as science officer i mean we need a spock dont we.

 

[.:MBK:.]

limiting is fine, but they need to overhaul their tooltips sharpish, i have never seen so much text say so little

 

[CaptainRAVE]

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/899

The Cap raise was posted by Cryptic.

Level Cap

Have no fear! The current level cap will be removed sometime this week.

We’re really looking forward to opening up the entire game for our testers. You’ll get to visit DS9, Memory Alpha and advance your characters past Lt. Commander.

Not the beta cap. They are limiting the release level cap to Admiral 5 - so about level 45 if I understand it correctly.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Hmm how do i talk to npc like bartender to get a romulan ale or somit and how to sit in a chair?

Btw i am in the station after killing some borg then a cube. Accepted 3 missions and just a bit lost, i duno what to skill up on i.e duno what i need or want, i duno what im supose to be aiming for i guess i want a cony and some crew to man it i guess.

Any advice?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Hmm how do i talk to npc like bartender to get a romulan ale or somit and how to sit in a chair?

Btw i am in the station after killing some borg then a cube. Accepted 3 missions and just a bit lost, i duno what to skill up on i.e duno what i need or want, i duno what im supose to be aiming for i guess i want a cony and some crew to man it i guess.

Any advice?

To talk to the bartender - walk upto him and press F when the notification comes up on the screen. Or just click on the notification. You can't sit on a chair. Some npcs cant be interacted with - the ones that can will have a symbol above their head.

Don't worry too much about skills. I always level up "Starship Command" and "Energy weapons" - can't remember their exact names!

A Constitution class ship is a cruiser. So at level 11 you will want to start spending skills in the cruiser specialisation.

Hope this helps to answer some of your questions a little.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Hmm bartender didnt have a thing above his head, thats a shame i cant talk to all npcs. Wanted to talk about goss see whats happening in the trek universe there lol.

Cant sit hmm shame.

Skills ok any reason why just them?

K about the ship stuff.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Hmm bartender didnt have a thing above his head, thats a shame i cant talk to all npcs. Wanted to talk about goss see whats happening in the trek universe there lol.

Cant sit hmm shame.

Skills ok any reason why just them?

K about the ship stuff.

To be honest none of us really know what the skills are affecting. I just go with whatever seems to be affecting my ship at the time e.g. Starship command seems to improve ship efficiency and energy weapons, well, I am always using phasers . Someone might (and probably will) give a better answer...

 

[SkeeterUK]

I know how to auto fire on ground battles with phaser but shift and phaser button clicked on doesnt seem to do the same thing. Any tips on that as its bloody annoying pressin stuff all the time.

 

[Teaf]

I know how to auto fire on ground battles with phaser but shift and phaser button clicked on doesnt seem to do the same thing. Any tips on that as its bloody annoying pressin stuff all the time.

You mean you want auto fire in space as well? If so just right click on the skill, although you can only set 2 things to auto fire.

If that's not what you mean, sorry, didn't really understand the post well

 

[SkeeterUK]

Yeah auto fire so one click then dont need to bother with clickin phaser or torps all the time on the one ship.

 

[gord]

The lag tonight made it unplayable for me. Trying to do the ice breaker fleet action was impossible. I was a ship, the mission bugged, i was a frozen man and i was a ship again.. first time its actually stopped me playing.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Yeah auto fire so one click then dont need to bother with clickin phaser or torps all the time on the one ship.

Yup - right click on the weapon you want to be on auto. Remember you can only have one forward weapon and one rear weapon on auto. Also, targetting a new enemy requires you to press fire again (at least it does for me).

 

[Teaf]

The lag tonight made it unplayable for me. Trying to do the ice breaker fleet action was impossible. I was a ship, the mission bugged, i was a frozen man and i was a ship again.. first time its actually stopped me playing.

Yeah, it gets really bad for us post 8pm. I'm really hoping this is sorted for head start. I know they have new servers coming but I think this is just to up the capacity, and the lag is due to bandwidth issues.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Yeah, it gets really bad for us post 8pm. I'm really hoping this is sorted for head start. I know they have new servers coming but I think this is just to up the capacity, and the lag is due to bandwidth issues.

I really hope they are too. Hopefully with the server upgrade, combined with all the open beta people leaving will help reduce our lag! It must be bad, because I never get lag in Champions Online - and I know lots of UK people did. At least the open beta is doing what it should be - pushing the servers.

 

[Landy]

apart from the man in space ship on ground lag bug and little spikes every now and then, i aint had any lag since day 2 of OB

 

[SkeeterUK]

Yeah i hope the servers come while betas on. And yep lag was horrendous pushing my fps from 60-80 down to 20-30 grr.

Plus got disconected from server just as was on the ship fighting orions and had to get to warp core.

Had a strange bug. I think it was using ground speed not space speed when fighting the orions cos didnt look like i was moving at all my speed was set to full impulse yet barely moves and couldnt turn at all well did but took 5 mins to turn a bit. Also took ages to reach the damaged ship as full impulse burst thing wasnt working.

How can i check the ping to the server i couldnt find a way in the game but maybe i missed something?