Star Trek Online, A FUN but FLAWED Final Frontier!!!!

[@tri-clawgaming7682]

One area i think is worth mentioning is the frankly awful and rediculous rates on inflation on the player controlled market. It really is pointless using it to buy gear when you have some folks posting big standard items for rediculous amounts.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

Yeah, in hindsight I should have brought this up. I 100% agree!

[@Klif]

I totally agree. The community greed is off the charts. I was levelling a new character recently and wanted to pick up a couple of traits off the exchange only to find that people are selling them for tens of millions of EC. It's ridiculous at this point and a huge hurdle for new players to jump over to try and get decent stuff.

[@erikhawkke4861]

I think your take here is pretty flawed.. it is a problem of lack of supply.

[@NightridingDoom]

being with 3 jem accounts, i love to drop low priced items just to bring the market back down every now and then...too bad lockbox ships are likely to get more expensive lol

[@johnkennedy7234]

The best part of STO is the end game... SPACE BARBIE!! And i love the story missions. Been playing since the day before it went free to play, absolutely love it.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

Space barbie is peak endgame!

[@Tirpitz7]

I hope some how, some way that they migrate it to a new engine and completely overhaul it. The ground combat is atrocious.

[@zoneofendless.]

Using shooter controls for ground segments. Good man.

[@LightDragonSlayer]

I stopped playing STO about a year ago... I have thousand of hours invested into this game. At some point i realized its getting harder and harder to progess. Some ground-missions were near impossible to clear (because as a casual player u most likly don't have epic gear, and the crafting system is just... ) and the Space-missions and TFOs u needed the highest Ships to clear. In additon the Dilithium/Zen Exchange is flatout broken and doesn't worked the last I played. The player controlled Economy is, as another person mentioned, terribly inflated. I would love to play an ST-MMO again, but I believe it wont be STO. I think Its time for a new one. With a new engine and more polished Game-mechanics. STO was fun to play, even as soloplayer, but for me, it had its last dance.

[@NightridingDoom]

If you have problems with the story missions, just make 3 jem hadar characters, one for each profession. then do advanced tfos in them. don't mind the constantly dieing, you are just doing it for dilithium. also use jem hadar to craft everything. boom, suddenly you have everything except a t6 ship. takes about a year to get those as you need to take part in multiple event campaign events to fill the bar. Game is grindey, and jumps up very suddenly at lvl 55+

[@Ken19700]

The black friday sale is on now.

[@Arcboltkonrad13]

I agree the game is old and kinda jank, but I've been with her and love her so deeply. I'm also over the moon that it's started getting proper recognition within the fandom, with ships and story ideas from it starting to pop up in canon shows as well as the wonderful Star Trek Adventures tabletop rpg by Modiphius. Also, Sutherland-class Advanced Research Vessel (T6-X2) is the GOAT, my favorite ship in all of canon.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

@Arcboltkonrad13 That is how I feel. I know about all the issues it has, but sometimes I just really enjoy hopping on once in a while and having some fun :)

[@rabidrednek]

I played this game for so long, I started in it's season 3, essentially soon after it's beta. It was back when if you wanted to play a Klingon, you had to level a fed character to lvl 25 I think. Even then, the Klingons had almost no story content of their own. I loved watching the game grow and evolve over the years, when the Romulan faction was added it was a huge deal, with an incredible storyline, all new ships with unique mechanics and one of the most scenery chewing villains up to that point. I stopped playing a few years ago, mainly because there was nothing left for me to do. I had max level characters from each faction, a massive fleet of ships to pick from, I was part of a fairly small player fleet but had still managed to max out every fleet holding available ( it took YEARS to accomplish that). and there were several gameplay decisions that I didn't really agree with. Primarily when they made all ships available to players regardless of faction. Up to that point, Federation could only fly federation ships, Klingons could only fly Klingon ships, Romulans had their unique Romulan ships but by aligning with another faction could gain access to those ships. Not to mention making the Tier 6 ships available at level one. Yes they were very limited at that level and as your character leveled more of their capabilities would open up, but a T6 ship at level 1 still broke all the early game mission difficulty. And your not kidding when the game engine is janky at times, their using the original engine just heavily modified over the years. If they were to ever make a STO 2.0, it would be amazing.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

@rabidrednek I also really slowed my playtime a few years ago, but my largest amount of time on it came during Legacy of Romulus. I love the Romulans, and a whole faction and story for them was perfect for me!

[@Nearly_Quality]

I've played STO since the 5th grade, and I loved it for a long time. However after a while when you run out of story it just feels way too grindy. At some point I played more like it was a job than entertainment, and it just wasn't fun anymore

[@BreadApologist]

Never cared for pvp in most games. Of course in STO it’s likely good it’s dead. An issue plaguing many games of the type, no matter how well you might perform and what gear you might have, it means next to nothing when put up against 2 specific player types. 1. The no life zealot who can spend 8hr plus a day everyday on the game and meticulously fine tune characters and have 30 alts to get dilithium to exchange for zen and finish 10 different reputation systems in a month. 2. The rich A hole, the type who can toss more money at the game in a day than you can in a year. Neither type are fun nor fair to fight. Some aspects of the game have gotten better, long ago they klingon side suffered terribly from severe afterthought disease. Being so less developed and realized and smoothed out like the romulan and starfleet sides. I remember first starting, I didn’t really need to run many patrols to level up for main story on my starfleet character. However on my KDF, most certainly not the case. Worse, it was agonizing to find patrols back then on kdf. Having to do what felt like 5x more work just to progress. Worse again when it means just repeating missions and other bs over and over again. Also original delta quadrant stuff was torture. Even at the time using top tier equipment and ships, vaudwar fights felt like they went on and on and on, firing on 1 ship for ages just to repeat it 10 or more times. By the end making one question how there’s any more vaudwar left in the universe after the act of near geneocide you just carried out blowing up 30 or more ships per mission. Thankfully most of that was improved. Still it’s become unfortunate my list of usable characters has gone down to 1. My romulan main, best ships, max level gear etc. all costing over 1k usd over many many months and years. Back when XII and tier 6 ships were end game I could use my alts like my former main a starfleet character and my cautian captains and gorn character. Now with XV epics around and t6x2 upgrades, my alts are so dramatically underpowered. As for events, some do give neat items, though the event missions/ TFO whatevers can get extremely repetitive. Also some rewards are practically useless depending on character type, play style and equipment. A bit of gear coming out as XII very rare to an end game max level character needs a good deal of upgrades. Otherwise it’s a massive drop in defense or offense to use. Not to mention if you have already superior gear or sets. By far one of the absolute best rewards is the ultimate upgrades. Which makes any 1 bit of gear instantly 100% maxxed out. It’s one of the few things that make me want to play the events. As for general gameplay, eh. If played casually maybe not bad but doing it more and more daily? It starts to get old. Go here, shoot things in space, talk to someone, shoot things, talk beam down or over to a ground scenario, shoot ground things, talk shoot ground things, go to ship shoot space things. It starts to blend together and get tiresome. Be nice to have more missions where combat is avoidable or something. There were a few patrols that just involved scanning stuff on a planet. Which I kinda liked, was nice doing starfleet-ish stuff instead of go wipe out more klingon/ cardassian etc ships than have ever appeared on screen in the entire tv series of ds9 or tng etc. Was another patrol where you just end up facilitating trade between a few different characters. Again kind of a nice break from destroying entire fleets. It’s all in all not a bad game, it does get old though and certainly encourages one to pay to win.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

@BreadApologist I agree with you. It's why I gave the game a 7/10, it still is fun to hop on once in a while to mess around in, but it is still held back by some aspects. It is still F2P so you aren't paying anything if you want to just try it out. :)

[@cwiggy34]

You forgot to mention the bugs that they refuse to fix....ie Loadouts randomly resetting or patching issues . Btw those Loadouts issue has been a thing since 2014...

[@NightridingDoom]

might want to learn development, get hired at deca, fix a bug, then leave lol

[@davidkopecky6687]

My biggest problem with STO is that there is no more foundry.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

@davidkopecky6687 OMG i legit forgot about that! Yeah that was a big L for me when they took that away. There were sone missions that were better than the actual main missions. I am sad now lol.

[@Andres0082]

One thing i hate is how monetized it is. Not only that but after i had the game for years and cultivated a lot on the PS4 to then having to sell it, just to find out that it doesnt cross save to PC. Meaning i would have to buy or grind all over again to get even half of what i had on PS. No thank you.

[@TheGamingCowboy2553]

Oh man! I've only ever played it on PC so I never realized that!

[@rudyrobles8294]

Why don't you just talk with your normal speaking voice?