Star Trek Online

[kaiotheforsaken]

Seriously, my Klingon should be pushing admiral by the time live hits ...what can I say, it's been a super relaxed weekend.

[David Hingtgen]

Kaoi--that is last year's ToyFair you linked to. But they showed the Ent-B again this year---with the wrong nacelle endcaps (Excelsior style, not Ent-B style).

[Ghost Train]

I think this thread needs moar away-team / beautiful people avatars. (It is half of the game after all, the half no ones cares about )

Here is "Team Fabulous" about to go tactical on some unsuspecting Nausicans in the other room. It's my standard setup. 2x Engineers + 1x Tactical up front, and I hang back with my Sci-Officer sniping away and respawning turrets, with always a nice double layer of mines surrounding my dudes. Before start of battle I always keep a concealed phaser turret next to the door for a nasty flanking surprise when I pull the enemy to my camp. I can't wait to get drones.

Ground battle is a nice change of pace, sometimes I burn out from just staring at my ship for too long. It's great when you flank an enemy with Sniper Shot for critical, and they evaporate like on the shows... I like the mechanics of away team missions, almost like a ghetto version of Mass Effect.

Also the obligatory, RAMIREZ DON'T AIM DOWN SIGHTS, SPRAY BULLETS ALL OVER TEH PLACE shot:

(btw, I hide my armor, it looks truly awful)

Edited February 28, 2010 by Ghost Train

[kaiotheforsaken]

Kaoi--that is last year's ToyFair you linked to. But they showed the Ent-B again this year---with the wrong nacelle endcaps (Excelsior style, not Ent-B style).

Yeah I noticed that after the fact, I read that they were releasing them, went to find pictures and posted, shoulda read more carefully.

[Max Jenius]

Got Captain the other night, went for a slightly modded Galaxy with a bigger hull and busier neck. God, this thing handles like a floating innertube. Took a pic over my hometown in Anchorage, Alaska. They seem to be doing well in the 24th century.

Edited February 28, 2010 by Max Jenius

[mikeszekely]

I think this thread needs moar away-team / beautiful people avatars. (It is half of the game after all, the half no ones cares about )

Not my whole away team, buy my captain had some fun on Risa...

[Zentrandude]

Not my whole away team, buy my captain had some fun on Risa...

Kinda overdress for the environment.

[David Hingtgen]

The most epic painting ever:

"The Death of Jennifer Sisko"

http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Scree...egory_Code=BIRD

[Dangaioh]

Battle 7 fleet is now online. Talk to me (Tochiro@MazinKaiser), @eugimon, or @gtrain for invite.. as for me I am offline and sleeping after you read this post (well after I read the HG/Macross debate of course).

- Sincerely, the Fleet Commander (Good lord, I'm in charge)

http://www.xfire.com/communities/battle7/, using Xfire for chat and guild site. :/

Edited March 2, 2010 by Dangaioh

[Uxi]

If I use a 10 day pass, would I still be able to get the bennies from buying a full edition later?

[eugimon]

If I use a 10 day pass, would I still be able to get the bennies from buying a full edition later?

you should, your character and stuff is tied to your cryptic account and not the game key

[UN Spacy]

Shouldn't it be the Macross 7 fleet?

Just saying is all.

[eugimon]

And where were you with your bright ideas when we were putting this together, hmmmmmmmm?

[David Hingtgen]

I would argue that the Macross *FRONTIER* fleet has the most Trekky name by far, followed by Galaxy.

[eugimon]

right, no one says a word weeks ago when we asked for name contributions, now that we actually managed to get enough players together to put it together, everyone chimes in.

[Ghost Train]

I like our fleet's name, simple, macross-ish, and tactical sounding.

I just got to Commander. After much dilly-dallying I picked a Heavy Escort. Went with a 50/50 Akira & Oslo design. Though I love the classic Akira build, I think a more elongated hull would make more sense for a ship with narrow forward firing arc. I present the USS Vigilant Tengu.

Named after the long-nosed mythological bird man (天狗) of Japanese folklore. Strangely, the Kanji literally means sky-dog in Chinese.

[Dangaioh]

Last stupid edit I make http://www.xfire.com/communities/battle7/, using Xfire for chat and guild site. :/

Edited March 2, 2010 by Dangaioh

[Warmaker]

My Vulcan Federation character, T'Pal. CO of USS Relentless, NCC-93570, a LtCmdr at the time of this screenie. Just recently got her to Cmdr. My whole crew is decked out TWOK style, but to keep my character a bit different, elected to go with non-canon white trousers + maroon stripe. Interestingly and not by design, half my Bridge Officers, including the skipper, are Vulcan.

USS Relentless. Constitution Class Ships: STILL going where no man has gone before.

Sitting in Spacedock over Earth for repairs & upgrades

Edited March 2, 2010 by Warmaker

[kaiotheforsaken]

Strait from the devs, a list of stuff being tested, investigated and planned for STO. I'll post the full list so people dont have to sift through the wasteland that can be those forums.

In Testing

* Respec options

* Ground anomalies are not consistently giving the correct level resources

* PVP Queue updates

* Fleet Actions will be level banded so that players in the map are within range of each other to make scoring fairer.

* Renaming your account @name

* AI pathing and mission fixes for Cage of Fire (Bajoran Fire Caves)

* Unique items should not be allowed to be equipped multiple times on the same character.

* Klingon stores selling items for the wrong currency

* Leveling up and Promotion bugs

* Klingon skill tree review to remove reference to Fed skills

* Additional Federation and Klingon Bridges

* Klingon Star Cluster missions

* Additional Star Cluster mission types

* Klingon ship customization for T0 and T5 ships

* New Fleet Actions and Fleet Action updates for both Fed/Klingon (DS9 Invasion, Gorn Minefield, Breaking the Planet, Romulan Temple, Crystalline Entity)

* Borg Special Task Forces (For Fed and Klingon players)

* Klingon access to Borg Sector

* Multi-faction Borg Deepspace encounters (Fed+Klg players vs Borg)

* More emotes

* More Fed ship variants

* New Klingon Cruiser

* Race specific transporter FX

* Off Duty Outfits

* Updates to the ship selection rooms

* Removing the bug where missions would sometimes get stuck in partial complete progress

* Rereleasing iPVP maps

* Players getting trapped in geometry in the mission TRAPPED

Under Investigation

* Loading screens freezing the client

* Players will sometimes encounter mobs much higher than expected in Deepspace encounters

* Skill descriptions that are confusing or incorrect (on a per case basis)

* Latency when moving around inventory

* Long load times when entering Sol System or Earth Space Dock

* /Stuck command not working in all cases

* Objective griefing on the Borg Hunt PVP maps

* Klingon stores not selling expected items

* Weapon beam FX do not stop and attach to the player as they move around the map

* Admiral Zelle issues on the Divide et Impera mission

* Temple Offerings mission is not completing properly

* Updating the timers on Klingon repeatable missions

* Faction settings are not being applied properly and powers like “Seduce” can be misused

* Stealth powers allow interactions that bypass content

* Problems when applying pips to costumes

In Development

* Death Penalty Options

* Memory Alpha/Crafting

* Cross level teaming

* Multi-Faction “Neutral” social area

* Improvements to Repeatable Mission UI

* Updating player status windows to show the proper ship silhouettes

* Better notification when players are at the skillcap and skillpoints are converted to BOFF points

* More non-combat mission varieties

* Options to make missions more difficult

* More replayable mission types

* Ability to trade bridge officers

* Revamp of commodity missions

[Vostok 7]

Off duty uniforms!!!

[Ghost Train]

So many people already crying about DP. I suspect much /ragequit if it gets implemented.

Ensign set course to Azeroth system, maximum quit.

I'm a bit intrigued about the ability to trade officers. As an Engineer Commander who likes to fly Escorts, I would love to have a Tac BOFF with HYT & Rapid Fire III . Though the tier II for those skills are more than sufficient for my needs at the moment. I doubt that they'd implement it in a way that would allow for the scenario I just described.

[Chewie]

First, this "late" in the game, death penalty seems like a bad afterthought. Why mess with a good thing. It's enjoyable now and adding it seems pointless. Secondly, it's way too easy to die multiple times in a few seconds depending on the situation. Some kind of death penalty could make that even easier.

I just need a respec.

[eugimon]

I dunno, I think a DP could be good, heighten up the tension. I'd like it for it to be something like you can't use a BO for X amount of time rather than the usual loss of XP or whatever.

But yeah, I'm all for the respec, followed by a clarification of the whole skill tree

[Warmaker]

So many people already crying about DP. I suspect much /ragequit if it gets implemented.

Ensign set course to Azeroth system, maximum quit.

Hilarious!

IMO, why add the DP? Right now it is very easy to get rolled and die multiple times in a short span. Most especially so if you're in a Escort type of ship. It's a pain in the ass already that your skill cooldowns do not reset on respawn.

I would have figured the devs find ways to ENTICE people to play PvP, not give them any more reasons to not try it. Especially for the KDF, since it is supposedly a "PvP oriented" faction.

Edited March 4, 2010 by Warmaker

[Ghost Train]

I'm generally ok with some sort of DP (doesn't have to be exp-based, my preference would be financial like repair costs), but they should really fix some of the patrols so that the "Flagship Armada" is not hovering out the entry point for the zones, and pretty much ready to raep anything that happens to fly in.

[Chewie]

patrols so that the "Flagship Armada" is not hovering out the entry point for the zones,

Pretty much what I was referring to in my earlier post. Get snagged by an enemy contact and then die 14 times trying to get out of range.

[Grand Admiral]

I played the Infected "raidisode" mission yesterday. I came away with a mix of feelings. Some bits were good, others not so good. I feel the rewards aren't worth the effort.

Anyone else done it? Thoughts?

[Warmaker]

Didn't get too far into it with my KDF toon. I stopped playing there when I realized that the mission counters for beating those enemy signals / zones weren't working.

Still, it was kind of funny going into those areas with the Feds, and not trying to blow each other up. Hell, my Negv'har was geared for PvP tanking and with Extend Shields, I was saving many Fed players. Too bad support doesn't garner you points for loot.

[Dangaioh]

Battle 7 fleet has a total number of 80 members.

[eugimon]

wow

[Ghost Train]

Yeah... I got a /tell from a member saying that he was recruiting non-stop and he was asking to be promoted. within fleet.

Wasn't sure what to do, so I made him a Junior Officer

Edit: Wasn't sure whether to congratulate or slap.

Edited March 7, 2010 by Ghost Train

[eugimon]

errr... so it's not people we actually know or have played with?

[Ghost Train]

Well, I highly doubt we have 80 forum members who also play the game . Gentlemen ... I believe we have encountered a case of "Tribble Exponentiation"

[Dangaioh]

errr... so it's not people we actually know or have played with?

Correct... but I noticed that 2 or 3 left... give it a week, and players will be fleet jumping soon.

[eugimon]

Correct... but I noticed that 2 or 3 left... give it a week, and players will be fleet jumping soon.

well, I won't be putting anything in the fleet bank until we get a hold on who's in and who's there to loot.