The next Star Trek MMORPG: Another Epic Fail?

[Sophie Scholl]

I am in.   BenedictArnold.  I figured out how to make a close aproximation of TOS Uniforms:  Use the TNG Movie uniform and adjust the colors to make only the undershit black, with either Red, Yellow, or Blue on the rest.

[citizen k]

But anyways, look for me in the 25th century this weekend.

We always look for you in the 25th century, BB. 

[katmai]

The basic problem I see right now with the spaceship combat is that it isn't ranged.

You basically have to be right on top of the other guy to shoot. So there really isn't any "maneuver" per se, just circling trying to keep a stronger shield facing their weaker shield, which is going to be done by running around in circles, then running around in a circle in the other direction.

Interstellar combat at knife fighting range. I suspect fleet battles will be a giant swirling mess of ships blasting away, with no reason to have any kind of formation.

Stop trying to make decisions from just playing tutorial, it's like judging wow from starter areas only

[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.

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

It's not my HDD though.  It's the system fan than runs at full blast throughout the entire game.

It's been awhile so I'm going to blast some compressed air and clean it out.  See if that helps at all.

Found a thread on the Tech help forums.  I'm not alone with the game causing overheating issues.

[katmai]

Crap was gonna log in and see that server is down for 1hr maintenance.

[Barrister]

Crap was gonna log in and see that server is down for 1hr maintenance.

Same.

[Grey Fox]

Obviously.

[katmai]

Silly website is saying server down, but GF if playing

[jimmy olsen]

I finished the tutorials as Andorian "female" tac person. I have a human female engineer and a female betazoid science officer. 

And I have a Miranda class ship.

Andorians have 4 genders, it's not as simple as male or female.

[Barrister]

I finished the tutorials as Andorian "female" tac person. I have a human female engineer and a female betazoid science officer. 

And I have a Miranda class ship.

Andorians have 4 genders, it's not as simple as male or female.

That's non-canon.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Andorian

[Syt]

I finished the tutorials as Andorian "female" tac person. I have a human female engineer and a female betazoid science officer. 

And I have a Miranda class ship.

Andorians have 4 genders, it's not as simple as male or female.

I know that. Which is why I put female in quotation marks.

[Syt]

I also guess that while Andorians find fourways pretty normal, they probably frown on threesomes or fivesomes. Swinger parties would take one heck of an organization effort.

[Berkut]

The basic problem I see right now with the spaceship combat is that it isn't ranged.

You basically have to be right on top of the other guy to shoot. So there really isn't any "maneuver" per se, just circling trying to keep a stronger shield facing their weaker shield, which is going to be done by running around in circles, then running around in a circle in the other direction.

Interstellar combat at knife fighting range. I suspect fleet battles will be a giant swirling mess of ships blasting away, with no reason to have any kind of formation.

Stop trying to make decisions from just playing tutorial, it's like judging wow from starter areas only

Where is the fun in that???

[Barrister]

Crap - another emergency maintenance?




On an unrelated note:  the Barrister's house guests have got to go.  It was a Friday night, wife is out of town, I planned to geek out on STO.  But the resident nine year old just had to hang out in my man-cave/office, just had to watch crappy Disney channels shows, and generally hover around and engage me in inane conversations.  Now he's a decent kid, but he's not my kid, so I just retreated into my bedroom. 

Now it's 10:20, I can come back to my mancave/office, and the damn servers are down.

(by the way it isn't a cave at all - several nice big windows with mountain views.  But you get the idea)

[katmai]

I thought they leave next month.