Star Trek Online

Blackride · February 04, 2010, 05:01:08 AM

My last observation is that ship control is VERY clunky. I am not sure if this is because I am only level 9 and the ship(reliant) I am using is just bad or what.....

Rico · February 04, 2010, 05:09:12 AM

One question - is the game solo friendly? In other words can you handle the space battles and away missions by yourself for the most part, or do you need to group up?

P.S. 70% space battles?? Have these guys watched "Star Trek?"

billybob476 · February 04, 2010, 05:41:52 AM

Most things I've run into aside from the Fleet Actions and "defend x sector" missions are soloable. The interesting thing about this game is that if you are on a mission you will (by default) enter an 'open instance group'. If there are other people who are on the same mission it will auto-group you with them.
You can turn off this option in the social interface but I personally really like it. So far no one has acted up.

Blackride · February 04, 2010, 08:58:12 AM

I could see in the future if there is nobody in those open instances, you will not be able to solo them. Luckily there are usually people in the instances.

Rico · February 04, 2010, 09:53:52 AM

In my experience they have to be very careful about solo vs. group play. I've played quite a few MMO's and one of the biggest things that made WOW so popular is ease of play - and especially ease of solo play. If Trek online relies to much on grouping it will have problems. Even having some bot type ships around would be fine if you need the fire power. I do hope to finally get some time this coming weekend to really get into the game and give it a go.

Blackride · February 04, 2010, 12:25:57 PM

Quote from: Rico on February 04, 2010, 09:53:52 AM
In my experience they have to be very careful about solo vs. group play. I've played quite a few MMO's and one of the biggest things that made WOW so popular is ease of play - and especially ease of solo play. If Trek online relies to much on grouping it will have problems. Even having some bot type ships around would be fine if you need the fire power. I do hope to finally get some time this coming weekend to really get into the game and give it a go.

I would say that there seems to be balance on solo vs grp stuff so far.

billybob476 · February 04, 2010, 12:54:47 PM

Rico what's your account name? That's how you add friends, that way you don't have to know everyone's alts.

So since my mains name is Rasht my 'full' name for chat purposes is Rasht@billybob476

I should be on this weekend in the mornings.

Rico · February 04, 2010, 01:05:27 PM

I think my account name is: treksf@gmail.com

dataskatt · February 04, 2010, 03:48:28 PM

Thanks for the info everyone! Mine is one of the first Intel Macs. It handle graphics and even recording music pretty well. I probably will need to get more RAM though. Better yet, I may wait for my tax refund, and put that toward a new Mac! ;D

billybob476 · February 06, 2010, 10:07:56 AM

Visited everyone's favorite (formerly) tribble infested space station today.

Rico · February 06, 2010, 11:14:08 AM

Oh - cool! Can you visit the inside of the station too?

sheldor · February 06, 2010, 11:32:53 AM

So, has anyone played it enough to render a verdict?

billybob476 · February 06, 2010, 12:09:53 PM

Yeah you can beam on to the station. Thanks to it's proximity to the Klingon border it serves as a front line base for the federation.

Mark I've been playing since open beta and to me this game is awesome. It's very much Trek. There are exploration missions where the solution isn't just shooting everything up. At this point I feel like I can reccomend it to anyone on these forums.

Blackride · February 06, 2010, 12:10:33 PM

Quote from: sheldar on February 06, 2010, 11:32:53 AM
So, has anyone played it enough to render a verdict?

I am level 11 Lt. Commander. Do you consider that enough? Not exactly level 20+ like some of these people in game. I played a total of 15 hours so far. And about 20 hrs in Beta...

Blackride · February 06, 2010, 12:18:35 PM

The game is decent, but I would not say great imo. If you like Trek you will like the game. Unfortunately I think that if you aren't into Trek at all this game is not going to satisfy the consumers like WoW does/did. There is a real lack of community or world for me so far. I feel like this is a single player game right now. Even when you are in big battles with 20 different people, it still feels very much single player. This is not a bad thing if you are into that.

There is also a lot less feeling of satisfaction in the game when compared to EQII,WoW,SWG, and DAOC. For example you SHOULD get xp for every new place you enter, but you don't. You should get more XP for destroying or killing things, but you don't.

Please don't mis-understand me, I am enjoying the game because I enjoy Trek. I am just giving you my honest opinion of someone who put TONS of hours into MMO's over the last 10 years. If you like Trek you will overcome the things I said above :)