[quote name='metaly']I'm ready to retract my quote of despair based on the potential of this new patch. I'll have to spend some more time with it but the game feels much better now.
As far as leveling/ranking up, you gain one type of points which go to the white bar across the top of the screen and that affects your grade for your current rank. But you also need to spend a certain amount of points (which I
think is the yellow bar underneath the white one) to progress to the next rank, which is only possible after you reach a certain grade. I agree it's extremely convoluted and I (obviously) haven't spent much time learning the specifics.
Do you have a bunch of cannons on your escort? Escorts seem to be extremely powerful when attacking head on, but I've definitely heard others complain about them taking a ton of damage. I just got a cruiser cruiser last night and while I'm disappointed that it's much slower than my old ship, it can take a lot of punishment. Also it's great having a rear torpedo launcher.
I think I'll probably buy an escort as well just to try it out, since the beta is a great excuse to experiment like jp0213 mentioned. Science vessels don't really appeal to me.[/QUOTE]
On my escort I have 1 Cannon, and 2 phaser banks for foreward. For Aft I have photon mines. Dispite what the movies/shows have show us, Quantum torps aren't very powerful.
I am really glad they fixed the Klingon Alpha Strike heavy use bug. It was making it super impossible to take out a Raptor with those attacks.
One mission required me to go back in time to the TOS area and fight some D7 battlecruisers. Guess who took a beating? Yes my advanced ship from 200 years in the future could not take on a D7 from the TOS area. WHAT THE HELL!!?!?!?!
Since we have gotten so use to the size of stations via the movies and tv shows...why the hell is DS9 have giant turbo lift doors? Everything seems way out of proportion. Is this to prevent people getting stuck if there are like 30 people in the same area?
Anyone found the Doomsday machine yet? I heard some people talk about it.
I think the game is just about to hit GOLD status and being ready to ship out sometime next week for retail. Then when we log in, it's going to hit us with a mega patch
What would be nice is if the developers reduce the skill point costs for everything now just to let everyone play thru the different classes, ranks and ships.
What's this area in the system that you can "Buy" additional items with your CC about?!?!
I wonder if the Gamma and Delta Quadrents are going to be offered as an expansion in 6 months?