By alex
Captains Log, Stardate 63579.4.
Made captain over the weekend – Have to say I’m absolutely loving the defiant class starship. This thing puts out some serious damage – with all my cool downs active I can rip through most ships before I even turn away to make another pass at the ship.
I’ll be making another video this weekend of just how amazing this “tough little ship” really is!
Its been a fun ride through the galaxy so far, gotten some really cool upgrades, no epics as yet though! Mind you saying that, if I did get an epic drop I would probably try to sell it on the Exchange.
I’ve also created 2 alts – 1 science officer (see below) and 1 Engineering officer. I plan to level these guys up after I’ve reached the level cap – I’m most interested in the science officer – I’ve sort of created a back story – The captain of the USS Cardassia – the first federation ship of all cardassians.
That’s going to be lots of fun from what I’ve seen other science vessels doing its pretty amazing stuff actually – such a new and interesting way to look at “healing”
I’ve also been on a bit of a spending spree and purchased a couple of the major cannon starships from the shows/movies that are currently available to me!
My Danube Class Runabout.
This is my Galaxy Class starship the USS Portsmouth(called the Isle of Wight at the time of the photo’s being taken, but I changed it as the name was a bit long even if the starship does turn like an island!)
I had my first bridge visitor over to see my Galaxy starship! Galo from Ardent Defender!
Captain Spock came to visit too!
My Intrepid Class starship, the USS Discovery – In honour of the USS Voyager!
Here’s some pics of my defiant and a few other screenies from in game encounters!
Its worth noting that while it is possible for you to buy most if not all of the starships in the game, its not all that great to use a ship that’s not you specification (engineering/tactical/science) as you’ve built your skills to suit your class – therefore they wont be as affective even with all the same gear/bridge officers.
What the heck is that ship??
So with all things being equal I should make Admiral this weekend at some point! People out there are eager to get into more content – I’m just happy with what I can do at the moment in game – I have 3 characters to level up total, I will also be playing a Klingon at some point once they unlock the ability to buy more character slots – or give us more – seems a bit tight to only give people 3 slots – mind you I’ve not tried to make any more! Might be more! Who knows! Will take a look tonight.
One of the more annoying things I’ve encountered in game so far is the apparent lack of missions if you seem to be able to solo a lot of the missions you can pick up ahead of time. While Cryptic have given us some repeatable exploration missions these seem to be a little uninteresting to me due to the fact that I want more story driven missions. For the first time in ages I’ve been reading mission logs, unlike in WoW where I wouldn’t care what I was doing going from quest to quest just following quest helper and ignoring the plot. You miss so many things.
By alex
Captains Log, Stardate 63560.3.
3 Days have passed since my last log entry, and its been a bumpy ride. The crew and I have been bought together through thick and thin and we’ve made it.
We’ve battled the Romulans, Remans, and Hirogen in his sector of space, and its been tough – we even bumped into a Crystaline Entity. (wow I forgot how corny the first season of TNG was..!)
Obviously I took a few pictures to chronicle my adventures – not nearly enough though!
Rescuing the crew from a Runabout.
Fighting Some Romulans.
Me in my TNG Uniform I got with the Collectors Edition.
To seek out new life….with HUGE Heads!!
On the Bridge of the Retribution-A
Large Federation Fleet fighting a massive Romulan Fleet.
Promoted to Commander…
This evening I was promoted to Commander. The USS Retribution NCC-94155-A has been mothballed and my new command, USS Retribution NCC-94155-B, has been commissioned. Some pictures below of her.
By alex
Captains Log, Stardate 63552.0.
My first full day at Lieutenant Commander yesterday was filled with intrigue and danger as we were ordered on a few secret missions into regions of space filled with Klingon’s!
First was a mission that sent me into the Briar Patch – made famous by Captain Picard in Insurrection. This was a particularly dangerous mission – Stay away from the clouds of Metreon Gas. Or use them to your advantage! Luring the Klingon’s towards you while staying at least 4km’s away from the clouds but making sure they get close then firing on them! BOOOOM!!
This was all a long line of missions where I had to save Mirral Paris, the daughter of Tom Paris and B’lenna Tores, the Kuva’magh, the Klingon that held the key to restoring the Klingon’s of the TOS era back to their former ridge-headed glory. Eventually that lead me to the Guardian of Forever.
The guardian explained that Mirral had been taken back in time to 2270 and that I had to go back in time to restore the time-line as history had changed – the Klingon ambassador who had gone back in time had used the star ship and technology to destroy the then smaller and weaker Federation.
When we were transported back in time by the Guardian the crew and I found that the Enterprise was being attacked by the ambassador and 2 K7 class Klingon vessels – quickly we saw them off and the Ambassador fled the area – Commander Spoke hailed us and we were quick to respond that we were there to help – but didn’t want to give away too much to him.
I’m now Leuitenant Command 3rd grade (out of 10) – Well on my way to Commander which I should hopefully make by the end of the week!
The servers went down for an hour and a bit last night again, as things started to get busy – I’m hoping that Cryptic sort this out as tomorrow there’s the potential for even more people to get into the game.
They introduced a queuing system similar to Aeon when it was busy – but no-where near as bad.
If you do ever decide to play the game, dont go on the forums when the servers are offline – the amount of bitter twisted selfish people on there moaning about how they should be online and not anyone else, or griping about how they should get their money back or they’ll sue Cryptic! I mean seriously – its not even that bad. I think they might be good to make a European server to help spread the load then at least they might not have to deal with too many people sitting on 1 shard. But I guess you cant start second guessing how many people will be playing your game till things settle down.
Personally I hope this game keeps going for a while – I’m really enjoying it so far! A little too much actually! If thats possible. Who am I kidding – of course it is!
I’m really glad i decided to go with the escort class as my starting ship – I’ll be trying to make a video later on of a typical space battle and uploading it to Youtube. Not sure how Fraps works in the game yet so fingers crossed!
On a side note, bumping into the Enterprise like that and hearing Spock talking to me was simply epic. Towards the end of that mission the Enterprise turns up to help out again again and for the smallest second I felt like I was there… Cryptic have managed to capture things of the shows that I didn’t think possible in a game.
By alex
Captains Log, Stardate 63549.3.
Yesterday I made the rank of Lieutenant Commander, but it wasn’t easy! I was thwarted at 8pm till midnight by the server! I was minutes away from being promoted and the server went down for emergency maintenance – I’m not sure what happened – no read anything official as yet, but all is not lost – I made it.
Now my Reliant vessel is put out to pasture and is renamed USS Protection.
My new ship is a cross between Saber and Rapier class escort ships. She’s faster, quicker and with 4 forward facing weapons, she’s Deadly.
I give you the USS Retribution NCC 94155-A.
She’s devastating compared to the Reliant i was using – its great to be back in this ship after loosing here in the beta cleanup. Now begins my long slog to Commander and my 3rd tier vessel – The Akira class.
Here are a few pictures of my antics around the quadrant from yesterday prior to getting my new ship.
Even given the 4 hour outage last night – STO has had the cleanest launch of any MMO I’ve had a part of – its stable, and more importantly – loads of fun! See you out there!
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