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![[*]](./images/bettyford08/default_icon.gif) posted on 12-1-2010 at 20:05 |
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Star Trek online
Star Trek online goes into open beta today anyone taking a look at it? http://www.startrekonline.com
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ClanBones
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| posted on 12-1-2010 at 21:12 |
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I'm in the open beta now.
Destroyed a pile of borg drones, spheres and cubes so far.
I'm happy !
"Pass me another Elf, Sergeant. This one's split ..." - General Ashnak, Orc Commander
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| posted on 12-1-2010 at 21:29 |
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is it any good?
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ClanBones
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| posted on 12-1-2010 at 22:07 |
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It's early days ... looks very Trekky (in a cartoony'ish way?), space combat looks promising, ground combat currently a steaming pile of lagfest.
Its definately fun while its free - hopefully they'll get the client/server bugs ironed out before the end of the month.
I'm trying to remember to log into the betty vent while playing in case anyone wants to ask WTF was I thinking of when I ordered it 
[Edited on 12-1-2010 by ClanBones]
Argh ... level loading between various ground/space zones is annoying ... it's kinda random - you either connect to the zone or disconnect from the
server.
And everytime you log back in, it's as fiddly as trying to thread a burning cat through the eye of a needle ...
[Edited on 12-1-2010 by ClanBones]
1st space combat mission - found several alien artifacts floating around in space and looted a whole new ship weapons system. Yay?
[Edited on 12-1-2010 by ClanBones]
Space combat is definately fun !
[Edited on 13-1-2010 by ClanBones]
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dirge
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| posted on 13-1-2010 at 09:10 |
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yeah space combat looks good, how does it compare with pirates of the burning sea?
sounds like the game is exactly like pirates atm lol, lag in ports and okay when ship battling.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
 
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
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| posted on 13-1-2010 at 13:04 |
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Thanks Dirge - I was struggling to think what STO space combat reminded me of so much - POTBS is spot on ! Without having to take into account the
prevailing solar wind ...
Space combat is kind of a 3rd person shooter - you need to keep manouvering your ship so as to keep your target within the firing arc of your various
weapons.
The starter ship I'm currently flying has primary weapon slots in fore/aft positions fitted with standard phaser banks that each do relatively low
damage but with wide firing arcs that overlap round to the sides - by keeping my target to one side means I can fire both banks at the same time.
The ion disrupters I looted do way more damage but have limited firing arcs so are only suitable for head-on engagements. I like head-on engagements
("Eat ion plasma you filthy Orion pirate scum!!")
So far, its been loads of Borg, Orion pirates and 1 Klingon bird of prey (an unintentional encounter that sent me back to a starbase with a painful
repair bill)
If you haven't already worked it out - The space combat side of STO is my favorite Hopefully when the server throughput gets tuned up and made more stable, the ground-side stuff will become less of a chore.
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dirge
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Is the combat varied enought to make it less of a grind? Grouped up for space missions? Sounds like lots of ships may be lots of fun.
Read that the progression was in jumps of 10 so you get a promotion after so long. Hope that doesn't stop you grouping with the tier below.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
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Missions so far have been explore / rescue / escort / destroy - pretty standard mmo fare so far, I'll soon find out how varied they can get.
Combat tactics - both ground & space - have the opportunity to become fairly involved as they involve you collecting Officer NPCs of varying abilities
& skills to either accompany you in away missions or man your ship consoles, then assigning them various modes (Assist / Buff / Heals / Repairs /
DeBuff / Crowd Control / etc) prior to combat that they automatically follow unless given direct orders to use other abilities. Set up right - you can
then just concentrate on whatever your objectives are and they'll take care of the flack, or you can micro-manage the entire proceedings if you're a
control-freak
I don't yet know what the allowable grouping level differences are or what penalties apply, but it's definately oriented to large fleet
engagements.
Level progression - you start off with the rank of Officer and go though rank promotions up to Admiral - complete with desk, office & paperwork to
sign 
Each rank is split into 10 levels - I'm currently a level 3 Officer - 7 more levels and I get another rank pin to add to my collar
Each rank unlocks a new tier of skill trees & Federation equipment that you can qualify to use. Character customisation is through allocating skill XP
to your own class skill tree, you also aquire Officer XP to spend on your various Officers that you aquire through missions, levelling and discovering
by chance.
And the ingame currency is energy.
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BlackKnight
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| posted on 14-1-2010 at 14:47 |
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Well sounds good Clan, I've ordered it but not been able to get my hands on a key yet 
Got my key and on my way 
[Edited on 14-1-2010 by BlackKnight]
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| posted on 14-1-2010 at 18:05 |
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My future Federation warlord admiral is Quinn T Zabrasky captaining the U.S.S. Titanic
Usually on betty vent as well.
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frosted
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| posted on 14-1-2010 at 22:58 |
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fella's - anyone got a spare key then?
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dirge
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| posted on 15-1-2010 at 08:40 |
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yup frosty sent mine check your u2u
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
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| posted on 16-1-2010 at 00:53 |
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cheers fella
Downloading over night - will let you know details
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ClanBones
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Finally met up with another Inbreeder in-game !
Shame the team missions are still so buggy, but at least I got to introduce BlackKnight to the joys of fondling tribbles for health purposes
Equip your bridge officers with one each, sit back, and be amazed at the resulting disturbing scenes of group tribble-molestation ...
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dirge
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sounds so gay im tempted to lock this thred
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
Thinking about things isn't the same as doing things. Otherwise everybody would be in jail. |
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ClanBones
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| posted on 19-1-2010 at 22:36 |
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I kid thee not - Tribbles give buffs !
If that's not incentive enough to stump up the £153 lifetime subscription fee, then you have no soul ...
[Edited on 19-1-2010 by ClanBones]
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BlackKnight
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| posted on 20-1-2010 at 21:04 |
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It is a good game despite the bugs it has, I've managed to get the next class of ship and gone for escort for dps which I'm loving if only I could
remember it can't tank too well.. and yeah thanks for the Tribble tip I'm swapped in them now :s
I am tempted for the life time subscription though...
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dirge
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lord of the rings was the lifetime subs thing too, if they shitcan the software in 5 years do you get a refund? or do they give you the servers?
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
Thinking about things isn't the same as doing things. Otherwise everybody would be in jail. |
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ClanBones
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The lifetime subs are about 2 years-worth of regular subs - if LOTRO & STO last over 2 years, I'm quids-in and after 5y I probably wouldn't give a
toss anyway as I'd still be trying to get my 1st WoW character to max level.
If not, I suspect the lifetime fees will have been pwnd by the creditors winding the business up.
Anyway - quit griping, log in and start molesting tribbles.
"Pass me another Elf, Sergeant. This one's split ..." - General Ashnak, Orc Commander
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I doubt this will disappear so quickly it has a much wider following than LOTR and Cryptic seem to be big trekkies themselves which always helps...
New patch today lifted the level cap and I'm off to find DS9 as soon as I can get in....
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| posted on 22-1-2010 at 12:19 |
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Just reading all the posts. This game sounds amazing!!
Whens it out officially? I tried to get a Key via other countries, but no avail -all gone
I will be playing this......
SuS
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dirge
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| posted on 22-1-2010 at 16:33 |
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ask frosty if he's using the one i got?
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.
I think God is a sentient tractor called Terry who lives underground.
Terry is amazing.
Consequences.... are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all the time.
Thinking about things isn't the same as doing things. Otherwise everybody would be in jail. |
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SuSaT
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| posted on 22-1-2010 at 17:36 |
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Frosty?
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite" - Sir Winston Churchill
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| posted on 23-1-2010 at 21:07 |
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sorry guys - using however I'm sure i can share the details.... have we created a Fleet yet?
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| posted on 24-1-2010 at 00:27 |
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sus...
Check your U2U
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