Star Trek: Online

[J. Allen]

Arthur Frelling Dent wrote:

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Thanks, I don't want to disparage the wrong company. It's just that I read many posts on many websites about my specific brand and model of hard drive having a high failure rate.

Edited to add: I've since come across several polls and articles indicating that Western Digital is 2nd only to Seagate in reliability and value. Now I don't know who to believe!

Actually, we replaced thousands of drives a week, and the vast majority of them were Seagate drives that we switched out and replaced with Western Digital drives. We also replaced a TON of Fujitsu drives, mainly for laptops, though.

scifiguy wrote:

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Its very little like WoW. STO is quite combat centered, which may turn off some people who were hoping for more of a simulator style game for role playing. Most of the time you destroy enemy ships or you beam down and have a fire fight on the ground. Occasionally you perform some scans to investigate something.

Where the game shines is its "story episodes". I don't want to give too much spoiler but you might just revisit a very famous location from original Trek and go on an epic journey to rescue the descendant of characters we all know and love so you can save the Federation. These types of missions have different stages of space dogfights, away team missions, warping to new planets to follow leads, etc. that make them feel very much like you are participating in a TV show episode. Cryptic promises more of this to come but to be honest I feel they are leaning on the repetitive content to get the game out early. If you are concerned about not enough of these types of story oriented missions I would wait a few months for them to get some big content patches out because they have already announced some big stuff coming.

I don't care for PvP so I didn't do any of that and can't comment on it. What I can say is that I tried for a week to convince myself I didn't want to get it until they had some patches out. I just couldn't stop thinking about the game so I ended up buying it after all.

Ah. I was hoping for more of an exploratory game. Even in WoW you can just explore the map. Granted you can get killed mighty easily if you're out of your element, but you can go everywhere you want (well, that's accessible by foot).

That being said, it still looks like a lot of fun, and I am positively drooling to get my hands on a Galaxy Class vessel.

[Brent]

So, I'm addicted to Star Trek Online, I just sat and played for 7 hours straight, 3 AM, I should go to bed

[Rincewiend]

Well, we Steam buyers have to wait a couple of more hours until we get our retail keys...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/901222/

[teacake]

Quick question because I am a lazy ass: can you have more than one ship/char? My kid is getting Star Trek Online but I am not willing to swap WoW for it or pay for 2 games, hoping that I will be able to mess around on my own char on his account to see what it is like. He is EXTREMELY excited but a lot of it is meh to me, not being into ships or commanding crew or battles.

[Aeolusdallas]

teacake wrote:

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Quick question because I am a lazy ass: can you have more than one ship/char? My kid is getting Star Trek Online but I am not willing to swap WoW for it or pay for 2 games, hoping that I will be able to mess around on my own char on his account to see what it is like. He is EXTREMELY excited but a lot of it is meh to me, not being into ships or commanding crew or battles.

2 at first then a third when you unlock the klingons

[Rincewiend]

Aeolusdallas wrote:

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2 at first then a third when you unlock the klingons

As well as a 4th...
You can make 2 Federation characters and 2 Klingon Empire characters once your 1st Federation character becomes Luitenant 6th class/level 6...

[Arthur Frelling Dent]

Well, I got my copy of STO from Amazon. Now I just need a working computer. Dell's dragging their feet. They're supposed to be calling me back later today (after "more research" into my supposedly "never before seen problem"). Every error message and diagnostic result clearly indicates a bad hard drive and yet they're not willing to admit that. One way or another I'm getting a new hard drive from them today even if I have to go Klingon on their butts.

[J. Allen]

Arthur Frelling Dent wrote:

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Well, I got my copy of STO from Amazon. Now I just need a working computer. Dell's dragging their feet. They're supposed to be calling me back later today (after "more research" into my supposedly "never before seen problem"). Every error message and diagnostic result clearly indicates a bad hard drive and yet they're not willing to admit that. One way or another I'm getting a new hard drive from them today even if I have to go Klingon on their butts.

Call them and tell them you want a new hard drive right now, and that it is covered under your warranty. They are going to drag their feet as long as they can. So you need to call them and be very firm.

"Never before seen problem", my ass.

[Arthur Frelling Dent]

Axiom wrote:

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Call them and tell them you want a new hard drive right now, and that it is covered under your warranty. They are going to drag their feet as long as they can. So you need to call them and be very firm.

"Never before seen problem", my ass.

My problem has always been that I'm too patient for my own good. However, I already emailed them some follow-up diagnostic results, further solidifying the obvious, and did demand that they send me a new hard drive.

[J. Allen]

Arthur Frelling Dent wrote:

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My problem has always been that I'm too patient for my own good. However, I already emailed them some follow-up diagnostic results, further solidifying the obvious, and did demand that they send me a new hard drive.

Which warranty do you have?

[Arthur Frelling Dent]

Axiom wrote:

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Which warranty do you have?

Standard 1 year warranty.

[strikefalcon]

STO allows you to just free roam to any system available. You don't have to sign up for any missions right away. I haven't done much myself, but you're not forced to do one mission right after another.

[J. Allen]

Arthur Frelling Dent wrote:

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Standard 1 year warranty.

In that case, they're going to ignore your diagnostics and drag their feet. They'll send you a standard form email in response to your email. You'll need to call them and talk to a Supervisor. Otherwise, you'll be lucky to get your hard drive in the next two weeks.

[Arthur Frelling Dent]

Axiom wrote:

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In that case, they're going to ignore your diagnostics and drag their feet. They'll send you a standard form email in response to your email. You'll need to call them and talk to a Supervisor. Otherwise, you'll be lucky to get your hard drive in the next two weeks.

They're supposed to call me back at 6:00 (shortly after I get home). If not, I'll call them. I will get my hard drive.

[PICARD]The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done![/PICARD]

[J. Allen]

Arthur Frelling Dent wrote:

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They're supposed to call me back at 6:00 (shortly after I get home). If not, I'll call them. I will get my hard drive.

[PICARD]The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done![/PICARD]

Make sure you hold their feet to the fire. You are very low priority because you just have a standard warranty. Make them get your drive to you as fast as possible.