Aaron wrote:Wandering around a city talking to people.
Yeah, it is lame. Kinda useful, inasmuch as good luck finding out where everything is otherwise. But I guess they gifure by the time you hit level 25 Fed-side you should know how to shoot things on the ground and in space.
But I find most all MMO tutorials rather boring so eh.
I have to say that the Fed tutorial at least answers the question why exactly you get promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant and given the command of a starship. If you skip it instead you go straight to the academy and you just happen to be promoted for no real reason other than 'lol we need you to command ships just because'.
Kerrat war zone, waiting on reset after objectives complete. There's about a dozen Fed players in there and one KDF player who is taking on a Fed heavy cruiser. I am nearby and begin to render assistance. Before we can destroy him, instance resets, everybody warps...
...and warps back in, in formation, with the KDF player's BoP at the centre.
As it's core exploded, a Fed player commented, "That was evil."
"also it really shits my mum so it's a good way of winding her up"
man i love it when i decide to try a new mmo and download the latest version of the installer and then after registering and installing i have to wait for it to download and install a 1GB+ patch before actually being able to play the game
i cannot remember the last time this didn't happen
how hard is it for the latest installer to be for the latest version of the game
what is the deal here
Ralin wrote:Finally I realized that when Walker fights the Satanic ponies I need to mention how his 'lower horn' is glowing and sparkling as it draws in and focuses Equestria's ambient magic.
Manus Dei wrote:man i love it when i decide to try a new mmo and download the latest version of the installer and then after registering and installing i have to wait for it to download and install a 1GB+ patch before actually being able to play the game
i cannot remember the last time this didn't happen
how hard is it for the latest installer to be for the latest version of the game
what is the deal here
that's the kind of bullshit that keeps me from playing mmos
download the main game
then spend 12 hours downloading 20gb worth of patches
timmy wrote:I haven't experienced that yet. Should I be worried?
I'm surprised the reward:player ratio is so bad you're waiting at all
Why don't they just instance it out
Eh, if you do this particular one three times in a row you get a shitload of dilithium. Each time you get a loot drop appropriate to your level. Reset time of three minutes isn't a big problem because it's an XP boost zone and usually remains a target rich environment even after objectives have been completed.
So yeah, a bit grindy, but not pointlessly so.
"also it really shits my mum so it's a good way of winding her up"
i seem to spend more time shitting around on foot that in the damn spaceship
Although I have to say the starship customiser is pretty fun, even if it has no effect on gameplay. Mashing together bits from a Miranda and Centaur to get something beautiful is oddly satisfying.
Ralin wrote:Finally I realized that when Walker fights the Satanic ponies I need to mention how his 'lower horn' is glowing and sparkling as it draws in and focuses Equestria's ambient magic.
I put banks on my cruiser and just pointed and shot, with a torp from the rear as I passed overhead. it was entertaining for a while. Plus I have a decent 360° disrupted turret that lets me stay engaged from anywhere.
For me, the Akira (and then the Defiant) livened up the gameplay from the tier 2 cruiser. I haven't given science vessels a go though, on paper their turn rate seems high enough that you don't have to be broadsiding all the damn time. I want to believe that the endgame cruisers have their virtues.
Part of the problem Aaron might be you're not playing in a team (i don't know if you aren't, I'm just guessing). Playing solo does get boring whatever ship you play. The cruiser is both a tank and support/healer ship, and if you're not helping allies with extend shield or engineering teams, then you may not be enjoying it to its fullest. Even escort ships need someone to tank damage for them (the Defiant is tough but doesn't have the same capacity to tank damage than a cruiser, and it does feel good to be in a team fight where I get healed by our cruiser guy while timmy debuffs enemies and contributes DPS in his science vessel).
I play solo but I'm planing on getting a Luna next promotion, and sticking banks in the front, using her as a cross between an escort and a cruiser. With transphasic mines of course.
