The next Star Trek MMORPG: Another Epic Fail?

[Grey Fox]

Poor Berkut.

Damn, lifetime is expensive.

[katmai]

Poor Berkut.

Damn, lifetime is expensive.

Aye comes with playable borg incentive.

And the app is up for me, must be your sucky mac beeb.

[Caliga]

As I was telling FD in-game, you can fly all around earth and it's neat to see how it looks from space... like the eastern half of the US is one giant city.  Oh and Haiti is still a P.O.S. 

Also there are colonies all over the moon. 

[Barrister]

It's really funny.  My Mac is usually super quiet.  But when I fire up STO the fan soon starts going full blast.  I just quit STO, and within a few seconds it starts spooling down.

I guess it just is really demanding on the processor/graphics card causing a lot of heat, but no other game has ever done that to it.

[Tamas]

I like the space battles so far, they are like the simplified, or rather MMO-izied version of the star fleet battles games for the PC. Altough, despite it feels simplified, I haven't found the element which simplifies it, because it does have shield and weapon arcs, energy distribution management, plus officer skills.

Yeah it doesn't take a Nelson to win the battles but hey, the shield and weapon arcs alone raise the complexity well above normal MMO level.

And Berkut, why don't you redownload this thing, I have yet to get anything more serious than some lag, and I live on the other side of the world FFS.

[Grey Fox]

It's really funny.  My Mac is usually super quiet.  But when I fire up STO the fan soon starts going full blast.  I just quit STO, and within a few seconds it starts spooling down.

I guess it just is really demanding on the processor/graphics card causing a lot of heat, but no other game has ever done that to it.

I'm not alone! My computer is also super quiet but STO makes the HDD spin like a motherfucker.

[Tamas]

Not enough RAM

[Grey Fox]

That's true but Windows XP 32bit can only handle so much.

[Tamas]

Beeb, no not every enemy has personal shields.

So can you disintegrate those enemies with a single phaser blast?

Rifle, aim, use sniping ability from a flanking position and the guy is very dead. Even from non-flanink he gets near-dead at the very least

[Tamas]

That's true but Windows XP 32bit can only handle so much.

Hm strange, I also have only that much but no problems, probably then there is (are) memory leak(s)

[Grey Fox]

It's just a fast spinning, I'm not worried, just surprised.

[Berkut]

PLayed the tutorial alst night, crashed after we killed the Borg shield array and I was supposed to bean back to my ship.

The space combat so far is kind of anemic. Seems like the ships are all right on top of each other flying around in a circle blasting away.

The ground combat seems pretty fun though. I like the importance of flanking.

Will play some more tonight I imagine.

[Caliga]

Yeah, in my limited experience so far I like ground ops much better than ship ops.  Part of that could be getting used to the controls.  Because I'm left-handed I *hate* WASD keyboard configs and usually remap ASAP, but given the other hotkeys right near WASD you need for ship combat, I am trying not doing that, for at least a little while.

[Grey Fox]

I'm also Left Handed. I have remapped everything.

[Caliga]

What setup did you create for yourself?

I should note that, with ground combat at least, it's already possible to use the arrow keys to move around.  I think you need the arrow keys (by default) in space for shield power redirection.