[LunarNightmare]

It was intended as a joke, but the server is down for me.

Here's a piece of advice, DO NOT go to the ST:O Forums, that place reminds me of the pits of hell... or my closet.... Seriously though, Cryptic said something about putting an ETA of when the server would be going up, but I can't find it, it's 40+ pages of flame in less than 2 hours.

Edit: Almost at page 90 now, with maybe 3 useful posts out of that... I'm glad I signed up for this forum and not that one.

[Liberator]

I"ll never understand the propensity of people, particularly those that apparently don't speak english all that well, to absolutely lose their minds over not being able to access something as paltry as an MMO.  They behave like an addict who can't get their hit.  Maybe it's my ITJS showing itself, but I have a hard time having that reaction to ANYTHING long enough to take the time to make a forum post about it.  But, at least it shows that the game itself has grown in popularity.

[Enzo03]

Got my first critical success on a doff assignment.

I"ll never understand the propensity of people, particularly those that apparently don't speak english all that well, to absolutely lose their minds over not being able to access something as paltry as an MMO.  They behave like an addict who can't get their hit.  Maybe it's my ITJS showing itself, but I have a hard time having that reaction to ANYTHING long enough to take the time to make a forum post about it.  But, at least it shows that the game itself has grown in popularity.

Oh dear Lord don't even talk about **** like that.  It gives me nightmares of the lunatics you describe and I lose sleep for days on end.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Back in the day when I played WoW, I was fairly active on my server's forums, but dear god the supernova of whining, QQing, kvetching, *****ing, pissing and moaning kept me away from the general forums. Now I pretty much avoid forums like the plague, the two notable exceptions being here at HLP and Equestria Daily. People whine about the dumbest things, especially when it's a property that's been around for a while. Unpleasable fanbases tend to develop.

Bit more OT: I've been having more and more fun on ground missions lately for some odd reason. I've got my whole away team decked out with TOS phasers. What are everyone's thoughts on the weekly episode, if you've done it?

Spoiler:

I love the inside of the prison facility, I'm hoping it means we'll get some more interior environments to play around in, and for the people who like creating missions to use. The Jem'Hadar bridge officer is crazy good as well, and I just found the mission to be very fun to play, especially for a ground-based mission.

[Scotty]

Spoiler:

It won't let me start the last mission in the episode for some strange reason.  Still, I've enjoyed it greatly up until then, even if Operation Gamma did irritate me a bit.  Until I ditched the torpedo launcher and phaser for a pair of plasma arrays.  I'll probably end up replaying a few of those missions for the Jem'Hadar gear when I'm a higher level and it's scaled appropriately.  I'm not a huge Trekkie, so the ultimate historical significance of this particular fleet was lost on me, but my friend was positively geeking out about it (big DS9 fan).

[crizza]

Since starting to play I often spent huors reading in the memory Alpha wiki

[TrashMan]

Damn you...now I ahve to start playing it..


Ugh..tempted to buy the Galaxy-X dreadnought.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Damn you...now I ahve to start playing it..


Ugh..tempted to buy the Galaxy-X dreadnought.

I would recommend against it unless you have some personal or nostalgia reason. It handles like a slug on Xanax. The cannons are pointless if you can't keep them on target. Generally I think the Sovereign is more than good enough, although I did buy the Excelsior refit, because the Excel was my favorite ship as a kid. None of the pay ships are REALLY more awesome than the free ones. Some just have convenience benefits, mostly, like the Excelsior and its transwarp drives. I think the game did a pretty good job at avoiding pay-to-win.

[NGTM-1R]

The Galaxy-X is a serious skill ship. They were quite common before f2p hit apparently, but now they're far outnumbered by Multivector Advanced Escorts, which are much easier to handle. I wouldn't recommend anybody buy one without a few weeks of handling a Star Cruiser or Exploration Cruiser under their belts.

[TrashMan]

Damn you...now I ahve to start playing it..


Ugh..tempted to buy the Galaxy-X dreadnought.

I would recommend against it unless you have some personal or nostalgia reason. It handles like a slug on Xanax. The cannons are pointless if you can't keep them on target. Generally I think the Sovereign is more than good enough, although I did buy the Excelsior refit, because the Excel was my favorite ship as a kid. None of the pay ships are REALLY more awesome than the free ones. Some just have convenience benefits, mostly, like the Excelsior and its transwarp drives. I think the game did a pretty good job at avoiding pay-to-win.

There are times when I hate MMO balance ya know...
I LUV the Galaxy-X and it kicked so much ass in the show. Figures the in-game version would be weak in comparison.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Damn you...now I ahve to start playing it..


Ugh..tempted to buy the Galaxy-X dreadnought.

I would recommend against it unless you have some personal or nostalgia reason. It handles like a slug on Xanax. The cannons are pointless if you can't keep them on target. Generally I think the Sovereign is more than good enough, although I did buy the Excelsior refit, because the Excel was my favorite ship as a kid. None of the pay ships are REALLY more awesome than the free ones. Some just have convenience benefits, mostly, like the Excelsior and its transwarp drives. I think the game did a pretty good job at avoiding pay-to-win.

There are times when I hate MMO balance ya know...
I LUV the Galaxy-X and it kicked so much ass in the show. Figures the in-game version would be weak in comparison.

Oh I wouldn't say it's weak. Like NGTM says, it's just difficult to handle. IF you can keep the cannons on target, it's great. In STFs or fleet action, you could probably find it easier to get away with if the enemies are focusing on someone else. A few people in my fleet have it and use it for STFs that we do. Try the original Galaxy (or some variant thereof), if you haven't already, and decide for yourself if you can stand flying it. Personally, I may love cruisers but I do like to have a little more maneuverability than that, so I didn't like the Galaxy in-game, and I got an assault cruiser instead of the star cruiser.

I personally think it's hideous, but I never liked the original Galaxy, either. 

[crizza]

Just played another STF, something with a gates and so on...after my mates managed to destroy the guardian, I focused on bringing down any borg ship trying to use the gate...worked just fine, untill an asshole decided it would be funny to lure three spheres to me. When I finished them, too much ships had entered the gate and we lost...****ing great man...

[Retsof]

... I keep forgetting what STF stands for...

[Commander Zane]

Special Task Force?

[BloodEagle]

Star Trek Fans

[NGTM-1R]

... I keep forgetting what STF stands for...

does it really matter?

[Retsof]

By the way, I haven't been doing many solo missions and such, so feel free to shoot me a team invite if I'm on.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Just got the Borg set from doing STFs, and I've gotta say, it's actually pretty interesting. Not sold on the shield thanks to its low capacity, but the set bonuses aren't bad, so I'll give it a few more trial runs. Having a tractor beam without having to have a bridge officer trained in it is nice. I do what the Borg do: deplete a shield quadrant, tractor beam the ship to make sure it can't turn away, and shove a heavy plasma torpedo into the hull. Nasty.    Also constantly moving at warp 21 in sector space is nice.

The Twilight Sparkle in all of her Borgified glory:

[Crybertrance]

If feel like a noob asking this, but what exactly are STFs? Where do I get them?

[TwentyPercentCooler]

If feel like a noob asking this, but what exactly are STFs? Where do I get them?

Special Task Force. I think you have to be level 44 to start them. Anyway, they're ST:Os version of dungeons. General consensus is to avoid the ground ones, although your mileage may vary.