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!
By alex
Captains Log, Stardate 63546.6.
6pm last night Cryptic activated the servers, and after 5 mins or so I was able to log into the game and create my first Character on the live servers.
You start the game as a Federation Ensign on board your first ship – Miranda Class – USS (Insert Name you chose) in the middle of a massive battle with the Borg!
Quickly you’re told to rush to the bridge where the captain needs to see you! Once there, he orders you across to a nearby ship in need of help! Off to the transporter room!
Wow that transporter pad is BIG! A few seconds later I’m aboard the other ship – ready to meet up with their Emergency Medical Hologram who’s the highest ranking officer left on board. The Borg have oddly been killing all the senior officers on the ship…curious…I hope my ship’s crew will be ok??? So after I learn how to use my tri-corder its off to help some of the crew.
I bumped into some Borg on the way – took quick action and finished them off pretty quick with my phaser. That showed em!
Moving through the ship quickly helping to fix sub systems, and restore power to the crippled starship I beamed back to my ship to find that a Borg boarding party had beamed across while I was aboard the other ship and had killed all the officers! Oh no! And, by some bizarre twist of fate, I was now the highest ranking member of the crew!
I was now in command of the USS Retribution. My first job was to quickly beam off some hurt people from stranded ships nearby before they blew up, then meet up with another ship who repaired my major systems on board and then it was off to fight the Borg! A quick battle ensued – the Borg were having some problems it seems, but needless to say – the Federation won the day!
However the victory was bitter sweet – my captain was dead, and all the other officers. I was quickly promoted to captain of my vessel and began my voyages around the alpha quadrant!
By alex
….these are the voyages of the Starship Retribution…her mission, to seek out strange new life, and new civilisations…
…To Boldy Go Where No MMO-Player Has Gone Before…
Yes that’s right folks! Its here! Star Trek Online has finally come to the masses. Starting in just under 30 minutes the headstart of the latest MMO from Cryptic begins.
I’ve been playing the open beta for 3 weeks now and I’ve loved every minute. Cryptic has managed to capture the magic that made Star Trek the show/movies special.
The beta was loads of fun – I managed to make myself to Lieutenant Commander 5th grade before they shut down the servers on Wednesday in preparation for the head start. I’ve logged into WoW twice in that time and that was only to chat to a friend for a bit. Warcraft has lost its edge for me as we get closed to Cataclysm – even the draw of being able to finish the Arthas story line was not enough to pull me away from STO.
The site will be changing a little in the coming week or so – I’m going to still write about WoW but I think it’ll be little to none until Cataclysm arrives.
I’m going to update a few of the graphics around the above theme/pictures I took in the beta. More posts will follow my exploits in the Alpha quadrant as I work my way to Admiral and into the end game content.
Here follows some nice screen shots I took from the Beta – coming soon will be more stuff from the live servers.
I hope to see a few of you out there!
