Thread 1849552

Does anyone else playing Star Trek Online?

>>1849552 (OP)
I stopped back when it still ran fine on Windows 7.

Maybe I should try it again, it is still installed on my Windows 7 computer.

It does kinda suck though.

Pic unrelated, I wanted to post a M'Ress pic but this is what you ban-happy shitters get from policy-aware malcontented folks.

>>1849743
>bridge crew all caitians
>human male TOS captain
>everyone in WoK uniforms
>WoK era Miranda-class ship
as God intended

Man, I was really hoping for at least a few people.

>>1850647
meh

>get your first piece of gear
>equip it
>nothing changes on your character
>move on and play something else.
My Star Trek Online experience.

i genuinely loved the game, but can't justify spending the ridiculous amount of money they ask of you for a game that might shut down tomorrow

>>1849743
Game won't run on Windows 7 anymore. You need Windows 8 or later.

>>1849552 (OP)
I still do. Not necessarily every day unless there's an event going on. But I enjoy the story.

That said I really only play 1 character, despite having a dozen. The idea of grinding through some episodes multiple times to get all of the gear / unlock traits from ships on each character just doesn't appeal to me.

>>1851770
>Game won't run on Windows 7 anymore. You need Windows 8 or later.
Already uninstalled, does not matter, Try "Deep Rock Galactic" sometime. It still runs on W7, tho steam is starting to fuck up on DRG updates now unless I start up the steam program on a windows10 computer, with that Steam File Sharing enabled in "Downloads", so strange, I should figure out how to report a bug to valve...

>>1849772
As far as I remember, caitians were premium-currency shit, correct?

I do still have some caitian illustrations but posting them would get the thread moved to /trash/ again because the art is too good.

I remember sending a lot of my hologram crew members to vacation, so that my remaining human crew could actually do some work.

>>1854708
>premium shit
Yeah, but well worth the price considering how ugly most alien races are.

I had fun doing the random exploration encounters as KDF (Shoot random aliens all day). Not interested since they removed it.

>>1857531
I think they're back in, if you mean Deep Space encounters or Patrols.

love my vor'cha

I played it a shitton but it's unironically over. Unless you reeeeally like star trek.

>>1866788
it's been over since they started with disco shit

>>1869468
Hey, the Crossfield is a fucking beautiful ship. Absolutely criminal it was used in the second worst scifi show I've ever seen, only beaten by the audiovisual warcrime that is Galactica 1980.

just reinstalled today after a long break, time to keep working through the story episodes on my Klingon captain

>>1849552 (OP)
I recently started playing. I got my character to 65 now I kind of want to level again.

I love my Assault Cruiser.

>>1849552 (OP)
Used to play, years and years ago, when they still had player made custom missions.
It was ok.

>>1876969
Such bullshit they removed that. Also sucks they stopped doing interiors for so long. At least the Tarantula got a custom interior, even if it was just one weird room, but then they release cross-faction flying and don't even replace the crews with correct factions. Such strange decisions. They should let you customize your extended crew imo, any of the factions, plus some specific aliens like all caitians on the aspero, ferasans on the slithus, or all ferengi on the quark marauder.

>>1849743
Holy truke

>temporal agent event starting tomorrow
>new monthly event too
Good time to come back.

I could never figure out the ship tiers. Like I get 1-5 and the basic of 6 upgrading with you. After that, though, it's like there's fleet and T-6 fleet, and then there's legendary c-store ships that are... fleet quality? But then there's other c-store ships like the Terran Adamant that are labeled and priced normally, but still count as fleet quality? It's a mess. That's not even mentioning the boxes, be it phoenix or infinity, which have ships ranging from literal OP meta to basically unplayable, plus all the lobi ships that seem to only be good for their consoles.

It is like Fallout 76, they don't release enough new content. So better off playing it again after a couple years to catch up on missions.

>>1884686
Sadly unlike FO76, they have a decent excuse. That being Paramount kneecapping their release schedule so they can approve every minor detail. Honestly they should have made every character a Temporal Agent regardless of faction so they could use it as an excuse to just do whatever and not worry about Paramount throwing a hissy fit every time. Then again, without the lore accuracy there's a good chance they'd give the character even more ridiculous god complexes. They need to introduce milk run stories for people who don't want to 1v1 the borg every other arc. I want to enjoy the hijinks of dealing with backwards societies and get into interdiction shenanigans.

Tarantula a best.

>scans monitor
>"Ensign. Bring up a late 22nd century historical film. Shwarma Shags Seattle."
>"A classic cross-cultural exchange between Human and Andorian mating customs."
>smirks
>"A classic indeed."

>>1895354
kek what

Setting aside the meta hexacannons, you have to admit the Achilles is stunningly beautiful. Especially the dorsal torpedo barrage animation.

Ya, know. I don't mind these Strange New World uniforms.

I only want female Orion crew.

My PC is a female Andorian and I LOVE her.

>>1898673
That's funny. My PC is a Human male who exclusively fucks Andorians .However. I'm not a gay faggot so that's as far as that will ever go.

>>1898673
Back when I played I made female Orion with a skimpy outfit, but with a crown and all of that. Looked cool but sexy.

What do you guys usually play? Lately I have been leveling a Temporal Agent TOS Engineering Officer. It's fun to larp as Kirk but I think I like the beam in and out animations better on regular Starfleet characters.

>>1902592
Temporal agent engineer as well, though my main is also a TOS character, he's tactical, which I much prefer.

Know of any based fleets?

>>1876969
>player made custom missions
This was my favorite part of it and I don't feel too much draw to come back without it, sadly.
I'm also not too interested in any support of nu-canon, but I might've been able to tolerate it if they still had the foundry.

>>1876969
>>1877343
>>1902910
Fuck Cryptic. They promised Champions the Foundry, but only gave it to STO and NW and eventually took it from both of them as well. The company was a disaster and I for one am glad it is officially dead and gone. Fucking idiots, any talent in the company left during the City of Heroes years or before Champions released.

>>1902888
It seems like there might be enough people here to start one. We'd have to work all our fleet stuff back up though.

>>1902953
I didn't think I'd ever remember Champions again. It was a fun one too even though I was never into capeshit.

>>1902953
It really is unbelievable how strong of a fanbase they built over multiple games and how much they fucked them over in the end. The only one I can think of that was worse was Smedley's SWG NGE shenanigans, and that was only one game, well two if you count EQ2 but EQ2 players didn't really give much of a shit about it.

>fall in love with the ark royal and decide to go balls deep into carriers
>now have to spend 6 gorillion aeons grinding starship traits for like 4 or 5 mediocre ships

>>1903017
How long does that take? I just hit 65 on one character.

>>1903024
I get the urge to play it all the time but unlike STO I don't have a lifetime sub and I don't feel like dropping $300 on a game that's deader than this one.

>>1903024
It was fun but it also was stillbirthed. As a decade veteran of the game who saw it rise and fall, it breaks my heart to know that so much that was planned and made for the game was scrapped in the end, while employees were kept unpaid and expansions for the game and promises made undelivered so the suits could keep their paychecks going. The community went to shit as well once the City of Heroes players - mainly from the Virtue shard, invaded CO and demanded everything be added into Champions Online Role Playing, or CORP. Turned into years of cliques, sexual predators and backstabbing manipulators slowly but surely killing off the native RP scene all to be able to get a crumb of "power" in the community.
>>1903129
Yeah, they squandered an amazing amount of goodwill and deserved to die out as a company after all the stunts they pulled and lies they told.

>>1904334
>cliques, sexual predators and backstabbing manipulators
That's generally all RP communities.

I can see why my crew prefers human men

>>1904344
>tos chad vs the ds9 virgin

>>1904316
Google results say weeks to months, makes sense since it's basically the rep grind while also sacrificing doffs.

>>1904340
>That's generally all RP communities.
There were or are criminals trading CP using the game as a means to do so.

>>1904392
That's pretty gross. Totally unrelated but it's gay seeing hoe many people use holographic officers from the shows. I want to use my created ones. That seems much more fun.

So then, we must have all quit

>>1906887
I mean yeah. I'm surprised to even see a thread for this game in 2025, it has had so many changes that made it worse since what? 2020? Probably longer?

>>1906927
It's sad. It's an incredibly fun game under the hood.

>>1906968
Does it have private servers yet

>>1907014
None that I know of.

My bridge finally put my officer's where they go.

>>1908849
That's a short skirt...

>>1909260
Starfleet regulation, I assure you.

>>1911068
Nta, but no wonder my Andorian captain got issued a new uniform. It doesn't work well in combat with how short the skirt is, but at least it looks cute.

Anyone else find it funny being a TOS era captain fighting the Borg?

Got lifetime sub for this crap and I haven't played in years, I probably have asstons of p2w coins by now

>>1912612
Congratulations, now you can get the legendary Vor'cha.

>>1912612
I logged in after about 10 years and had like 1,500,000,000 dilithium and something like 70K spacebucks.

>>1911068
I was about to ask...

>>1912462
With all the time shenanigans in the game, not really. Especially not if you're a temporal agent, it's in the job description after all.

>>1914363
I guess. They're such a TNG era thing though.

Post ships

>>1849552 (OP)
I started playing it a week ago. I played it a little around launch but it didn't keep my interest.

Recently I've been rewatching TNG and DS9 so it got me in the mood and I started a new character. I'm just doing the story missions. There seems to be a lot. Not sure what else there is to do. The community mostly talks about the drop rate of ships, so I guess that's the end game.

It's keeping me entertained for now.

Anyone got a fleet I can join with a T5 starbase?
The one I'm in only has tier 4 and it'll take like 25 years to get T5 at the rate it's progressing

>>1915287
I may have a slight obsession.

>>1916077
Please ignore my meshweavers, they refuse to cooperate.

I've really been enjoying the Temporal Agent thing as a TOS era Captain. I mostly play the story missions. I think there is a small rp scene I see people on Bajor I think they were rping once.

>>1916630
DS9 1 is the usual RP hangout, but you occasionally see some in other zones.

I started playing again months ago
>>1902888
Vidya Trek is still around. I have a few alts in it and it seems there's still a few people from back in the day keeping the lights on with fleet projects. Not sure if the fleet is recruiting though. No one seems to talk in chat anymore.

So, why is the Odyssey-class the poster ship for all the loading screens in the game? I mean, don't get me wrong, she's a beautiful ship, but it definitely seems overrepresented.

>>1912621
What the fuck is legendary ship?

>>1922715
It's a fleet-quality ship that also has a unique sixth-level starship trait. The fifth level trait is also unique or has multiple sometimes.

>>1926531
Got the legendary battlecruiser pack because Avenger is sex and the klingon junk is kinda neat too

Best beamboat? fuck gay ass cannons

>>1928753
Pretty much any dreadnought is made for it. My Tarantula with tetryon everything is practically indestructible and burns through elite TFOs with impunity, and tetryon is the worst type of damage you can use. I imagine a fed dread with full phaser build would be even more broken.

>>1849552 (OP)
I got out when Craptic killed the Dilithium in-game grind
>>1849743
>still ran fine on Windows 7
and killed the fucking launcher's W7 compatibility.
It's still dead, I bet.

>>1930453
I'm running t6x-2 worldrazer with zhat vash disruptors, shit slaps hard but it's kinda squishy

new lockbox ship dropped

>>1935591
>good looking ship
>have to wait 3 years to get it if doing f2p
Many such cases!

>>1935591
Looks like a pussyfied version of World Razer

>>1936715
you are wrong

>>1936715
???
It's an Excelsior with 50s tailfins.

>>1942514
>Excelsior with Excelsior-ified Atlas nacelles
Based and sexy

The ship from the new event looks like shit, decent stats but I'd never fly it.

>>1942387
>>1942514
I mean the skills etc not the visuals.

>>1851770
who has win 7 anymore lol

>>1947566
who has win 95 anymore lol
who has win98 anymore lol
who has win2k anymore lol
who has winXP64 anymore lol
who has a working computer that bill gates corporations can have difficulty in their task of disabling previously-purchased tool functionality of one's computer operating system, so we do not all need to start contributing to ReactOS development.

>>1949039
I got a win98/XP dual boot system for native DOS and early 00s games. It's nice.

>be Starfleet Admiral
>daily endeavor is doing 20,000 physical damage
>run around chopping up Gorn by the dozens with Abraham Lincoln's axe
Truly, I am an exemplar of diplomatic peace and cultural interaction.

>>1952335
>not using the sniper rifle

>>1952788
You can't feel the tearing of sinew from muscle with the sniper rifle, nor Leck's knives. You gotta really get in their with your hands for proper diplomacy.

>>1952802
Fair point

>>1849552 (OP)
I play STO since a veryyyyyyyyy long time and Im glad there is a general now. I love Star Trek, I love STO, it's one my two comfort games and the one I play every single day, long cession or just event/random stuff

>>1953574
Oh yeah, it's Star Trek day and they also started the Klingon recruitment event again. Time to finally get a ship that allows me to use Withering Barrage.

>the ship with Withering Barrage from the Klingon recruitment event is one of the butt ugly Discovery ships
suffering