Star Trek Online – Day 12
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.
3 Responses so far
Ardent Defender
February 11th, 2010
10:36 pm
Thanks again for the ship Bridge invitation tour. It was Aeesome! The screenshots are awesome as well.
Can’t wait to get to Captain as well for the new ships, but got to get to Commander next first, probably over the weekend. Been working last few days at nights so haven’t done too much since then and since being promoted to Lt Cmdr and picking up my new Vesper Class Cruiser.
Berns
February 21st, 2010
3:53 am
Very cool log. What is the runabout for at DS9? Is it a pet or ship you can fly?
alex
March 2nd, 2010
1:41 pm
The Runabout is purchasable from DS9 for about 150,000 credits and is a full ship you can pilot around as a normal ship – it obviously has limited capabilities and is not as durable as bigger ships, but is loads of fun!
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