Star Trek Online

Are you seriously comparing a night out to the sadness of staying in and living in an internet world?

^^^ All for free, of course. Just keeping that in perspective.

I think it should be one of two ways: Either charge for the game or charge for the service.

It should be, but they know Trek fans are willing to shell out tons of money for a mediocre product. If you're on the fence about it, I'd hold off for a while. They've been having a lot of downtime lately.

Right, how do I get my special edition goodies? I paid extra to have TOS uniforms and I don't know how to get them.

Should be a code in the box that adds it to your account.

That's if the preorder hasn't been cancelled yet, Amazon and HMV, Game have started to cancel some of them as they over sold.

Free internet and power? It's more the time thing that is the issue, TKO was making the point that it isn't a bad price if you get a lot of fun time out of it.

I think we can blame WoW and EverQuest for that one. "Hey look, guys! Nerds will pay $60 for the game and then $15 a month to play the game they just bought! It's easy money!"

Wouldn't that be a breach of contract?

OK, you got me. However, most of those posts date back over four years ago now.

I grabbed a spoon.

Give the lag a few days. If it doesn't clear up by, say, Thursday, then they've got serious problems.

Friday is when it's released in the EU, so if it's still crashing and lagging out like it has been for the 20% (max) subscribers, then they are in for a rough time.

Oh and a screenie from a few hours ago.

It's worth playing to at least explore the galaxy. However, I'm not sure if it's worth the $50+ to get it at first. For myself, it was a gift from 2 friends who felt bad that I got them something for Christmas, but they didn't get me anything. So far, I've landed on Vulcan, Deep Space Nine, and a few other planets I don't remember. It's strange walking around DS9 and fills you with a great sense of nostalgia.

If they can keep adding new content and adding new worlds, this will become a very good game, especially since it is already fun to fly around and land on new worlds.

The ship battles all sort of become the same after awhile, but that just might have to do with the starter ship kinda not having a lot to do. I mean, you get 2 forward weapons and 1 aft weapon. One of those should be a torpedo, and you have to wait about 15(?) seconds to shoot and reload. So in a lot of battles, you are just waiting for the torp to reload so you can fire it. The other two are usually your phasers, which auto-fire. Between that, you have some other options like evasive maneuvers, and maybe a computer jammer.

It's kinda fun now, but you have to put up with the bugs and the server crashes. I'd wait till the game is at least a year old (and most likely cheaper) if you are serious about wanting to get into it. Right now, it's in the "early adopter's" phase, and there are some very annoying headaches you have to deal with.

Wait, you get to walk around DS9?!?

I may have to re-think my position on this....

Any lingering doubts I had have been averted by an afternoon flying round in my Constitution class starship with my bridge officers in TOS uniforms.

ONLY if you can visit the temple, the Klingon restaurant in the promenade, Odo's office, and QUARK'S!!

You can visit Quark's. And you can walk right into the temple and say your prayers too. I think there is a Klingon thing in the promenade, but I'm not sure if it's a restaurant or something else. Odo's office looked like it was closed or restricted to certain missions. There is a new Gorn character selling weapons in one of the booths too.

I am actually surprised at how much more of the promenade you see. In DS9, they really only showed us about a quarter of it onscreen, and the rest had to be imagined. I think they did an OK job here, but the storefronts could've used more variety in the way they look.

And yes, there is the wormhole that opens every once in awhile, but I have yet to fly through it. :flow2:

Here is my ship, the USS Excalubur, at DS9:

How do trill charactes work?

Not got my Box yet so no DS9 uniform.

A needle comes out of your monitor and injects you right in the eye.

That injection gives you all the memories of the past hosts!

Buy it Baba! Buy it!

Here is the latest press release for it:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...ly-goes-online-but-should-you-enlist-/1387671

I can be found @ehrie in game. Here's the USS Siren's Song. I shit a brick the first time the wormhole opened exploring DS9.

Hey Ehrie, I've seen the Siren's Song flying around before. Had no idea it was you.

I am Captain Johaan (forget the last name) of the USS Excalubur.

How are you guys getting screencaps? Every time I try to take a screencap I get just a black screen.

How extensively are you allowed to upgrade ship systems? Can I make a "hot rod sleeper" out of an old Connie refit?

You can upgrade pretty much everything on the ship, as in weapons shields engines deflectors and all sorts of other bits.

http://www.startrekonline.com/ship_overview

Cruisers turn really slowly but can take a beating all day, the escorts just zip around faceraping everything.

I got mine into windowed mode, somehow. Not sure what button I hit. Then all I did was go alt-printscreen and then paste into photoshop. Not sure how others here are doing it.

The first ship they give you, you have two forward weapon slots, and one aft weapon slot. Then there is one space for deflector, warp engine, impulse engine, tactical, science, and engineering computer systems that can give minor improvements to various things like shields, rate of turn, speed, etc. Not sure if the next level up you will get more slots to work with, but that seems to be the case because there is plenty of space next to those things I just mentioned.

So far, from what I've seen, you can get engine upgrades all the way up to Mark IV or Mark V. I managed to beat a Neg'Var Klingon ship into submission by myself and got a Mark III impulse engine upgrade, which, according to my other friends playing, was pretty good for the first day of ST Online.

I am pretty sure you could make a lil hot rod out of your ship, but each upgrade in engines, from say, Mark I to Mark III, seems marginal. Most people will just try to power their way to the best ships instead of spending time/money upgrading their existing one.