Star Trek Online

[CaptainRAVE]

Quick question for those that have played, do you just create the captain and get assigned a bridge crew or do you get any say in their race/creation?

Also much less importantly, reckon you could knock up a decent approximation of teenwolf in the character creator?

You get to choose your bridge crew - not a huge choice for your first one, but you get a little more selection for the rest.

And no, probably not

 

[CaptainRAVE]

TY

I've got a few friends from old guilds together on vent, and no one is having any luck in adding each other.

If your friend is in your team, you can also right click on their portrait. On the menu there is an add friend option

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Great fun sofar!

This ^^

The game is a little bugged, rough around the edges and needs some story content for the Klingons. However, it certainly is fun and gets a lot more fun the further you get e.g. fleet actions - and you don't even have to wait until you are a high level

We couldn't even add each other to a team during the first part of the tutorial

Shall try again later when I can actually get back into the game

As soon as you exist the tutorial and arrive on the starbase around Earth you can. Glad you guys are enjoying it.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

having difficulties

That made me laugh

 

[CaptainRAVE]

hm... still not having any luck adding people as friends =/

do I need to use their full account name?

e.g. to add me, you'd use nikebee@Kryler

nikebee is the account name and kryler or the character?

Kryler is your "handle" i.e. your account name. nikebee must be what you called your capatain. I think the friends system is down at the moment.

Edit: I added you fine though as nikebee > are you sure you arent Kryler@nikebee?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

im neil armstrong feel free to add me

Is that your account name or captains name?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Got my characters made, but can't get any further than that now, server full messages, feel free to add me:

Belief

Fayanna

Will be on either of those!

Also, epic beard IS epic!

You mean you have two accounts or two characters? If the latter we need your accound name i.e. your @handle

As for the server full messages, the devs say they are working on it.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Have updated our friends list. Let me know if I have missed anyone . Seems like you are all enjoying it. Not really playing much since I have already gone through a lot of this a few times, but I did prefer it when there were less people in closed beta

 

[CaptainRAVE]

This is so wrong, got into work using the spare 8mb BT line we have here and I've downloaded 1GB since 8:40am... I need to get me one of these BT lines. Nearly done now not far off.

At least the servers will be stable by the time you get into the game.

What level are you all now?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I tried it again this morning... Seemed a little more stable. Needs AA for certain, but I think it looks fine to me. Certainly enjoy the ground based combat.

AA should be added for release. It was screwing up ATI cards. It is seriously needed though, looks rubbish without! Plus I need something to push my 5970 and warm it up a little

Edit: Post your characters if you get time. Would be great to see what everyone created. I will post mine when I get home from the office.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Well I have to say that last night was a bittersweet evening for me. I've always said that if I played STO at all, it'd be a stop-gap whilst awaiting SW:TOR. Last night I receieved the horrible news that lucasarts released an estimated release date of Spring 2011 for it, which shocked me a little due to it seeming so fleshed out already, it's good and bad news, good that they aren't rushing it, bad that it's going to be so long before I get my hands on it! So, that was the bitter part of the evening.

On to the sweet!! I had a blast in the beta last night, despite the bugs, despite the lag - both of which were fully expected in OB. I found that the game played very much like some of the videos i'd been watching in anticipation on youtube, the space combat feels good, the controls take a bit of getting used to, but I can work with it for sure. I thought the ground combat was going to be the weakest link, but it's actually a lot better than I expected it to be, I guess I had pretty low expectations, but was definitely pleasantly surprised.

So far the only thing I find disappointing is the fact that the difference between the ships in each tier is nothing more than cosmetic - for example, nothing changes other than looks if you select Miranda, ShiKahr or Centaur class. I think it'd be nice if it altered things like bridge officer slots, or device slots, or console upgrades etc. etc.

Most epic moment so far was a borg cube warping in virtually on top of my ship, then proceeding to give the assimilation speech. Just awesome.

Captain Jarakin Fyr of the USS Conquistador. Going full tactical, with a view to rockin' the escort ships.

Tbh I am looking at STO in the same way. Didn't realise they had pushed TOR to 2011! I think it is best that they don't rush it, I just hope the game isn't dated by the time it finally comes out.

Ground combat was my biggest concern in STO, but Cryptic listened to us in closed beta and improved it a fair bit (certainly compared to where it was).

The thing is, the game gets so much better once you get your next tier of ship - the missions become much more diverse and dynamic, ship combat becomes much more complex with many new abilities and enemy ships get abilities that must be taken into consideration before engaging.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I only had chance to make my Character last night - called 'Corkhead' account name is alphabeta765. Blimey theres loads of options in the character creation!

I tried to install the client on my laptop. All seemed well but when i ran the launcher the patching info said that had a 10GB patch to run through. err??

My main comp only had a really small patch to apply and did that really quick.

Anyone had this? any ideas?

Do i have to download the client again from D2D and try installing again?

Cheers

It would seem that it installed incorrectly on your laptop. I remember this happening a number of times in Champions Online. If you have the ability to, you can just copy the files across from your main PC. Otherwise your options are to either re-download the client from D2D (which might not solve your problem) or just let it patch.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I cant believe i havent even started playing yet, just been so tired i literally fell asleep as soon as i arrived home... at least work was closed today.

anyone else receive this from the rainforest

Dear Customer,

Greetings from rainforest.co.uk.

Unfortunately, the release date for the item(s) listed below was changed by the supplier, and we need to provide you with a new estimated delivery date based on the new release date:

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Estimated arrival date: February 05 2010 - February 10 2010

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You have not been charged for this item. We do not debit money from your payment card until just before your items are dispatched. We will send you a dispatch confirmation email on the date of dispatch.

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As long as you have your open beta/headstart code it won't matter. There will be a grace period of about 7 days for the retail key to be applied.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

when does the open beta finish . sorry if this has been asked a zillion times

***Released 2nd Feb 2010 in the USA and 5th Feb 2010 in Europe***
************ Open Beta 1/12/10 – 1/26/10 *****************
************* Head Start 1/29/10-2/2/10 ******************

I've added everyone from the list I think - my username is jamief00

Added

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Er which username do we give to add characters? Is it the character nickname? Or account name (guessing not this)!

Basically you will have - yourcaptainname@youraccountname

e.g. If I call my captain bob then I would be Bob@captainrave

If I were to add this guy, captainrave, because he is such a cool guy I would need to add "captainrave" (without the " ") in the add friend section of the game or website.

You can have a different account and forum STO name - and probably should. Mine is the same, but no one would crack my password.

Don't be surprised if they extend the open beta to get more data in and only have a day or two downtime before it goes retail, they did with Champions and this game seems as much of a rush job as that one was. Better game mind you, but still rushed.

Very likely imo.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I can't even get this god damn thing dloaded, last night i had a 40 minute wait that lasted over three hours before i couldn;t be bothered and shut the computer down, this morning it was 18 minutes which show upto over 100 pretty quickly, now its saying 200 minutes...

The beta will be up for quite a while yet . At least you miss all of the connection issues!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Quite enjoying this so far, when can you get a new ship?

Level 11 i.e. Lt Cmdr.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Is the group chat broken? Because during that mission nobody in my group said a single word, not even a Hi at the beginning. Total silence from start to finish and then all just disbanded. I know its a beta and all, but hell..its still community building to at least talk when encountering other people. Unless as I say the group chat is broken at the moment.

Seemed to work OK when I teamed up eith some OcUK people earlier. Zone chat does seem a bit hit or miss at times though. I think the server is still struggling!

Btw, had fun guys! Look forward to teaming with more of you at the headstart. Trying not to play too much at the moment

 

[CaptainRAVE]

So in terms of end game, what is there?

Not a single person know and the devs won't tell us :s

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Make sure you post your @handles here if you want to team with us

To sum my feelings up so far: very bugged and messy, but soooooooooo much fun and with so much potential.