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I can't believe I am going to say this but..............I have gotten bored with STO.
So I will take a break for it for awhile, and play on other MMO games.
That being said................
What do you feel would make STO a better game? I will post my thoughts in a minute, but I want to hear a few other people 1st.
Thx.
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Ok I am back this is my 2 cents on the topic I started.
What would make STO a better game IMO:
1. Make the Bridge of your ship more interactive.
2. All PvE space combat should mirror Bridge Commander style of game play.
3. Travel between missions should have the option to take longer travel times. Why? see #4.
4. Have more interaction with ships crew, and add more social events on ship. (Play cards, play in a band, hangout with friends)
5. More min games that are based on your career path.
6. More exploring and less fighting. Give perks and bonuses to finding new things, and discovery of other cultures.
7. Add a story that helps you interact with your bridge crew.
Well that's a start for me, outside of blowing up the game, and starting over.
There is like one big thing in that the leveling is really patchwork. You can tell how they had to patch in fixes and in the end everything feels like it doesn't quite fit. I think they should just redo that from the start. Remove the classes (they hardly do anything now) change how BO's work, and prune a lot off stats and abilities. It's not really possible, but it's what I would want.
The more important change would be a kind of latticework for non-combat gameplay. You know meta games for hacking, fixing, scanning, other things. It's no fail the buggiest issue you find well playing is when a quest stops being about combat and you have to hobble through some really lame number puzzle. If they had a small for of actions that they could repeat, they could add a lot of depth and complexity to them rather then reinventing the wheel on each quest.
For me? Two pretty substantial things:
Have a different company run it?
Less pay walls for the better ships.
Less grinding for good rewards. Rep grinds suck IMO.
Did i mention a new company running it? Never again will i play anything by Cryptic. Never seen a worse CS service...ever. And that is saying something, after all my years of dealing with games and other online businesses.
--John Ruskin
Get a company that doesn't do lazy programming.. example, the Romulans are still just a cut and paste allied faction. If you go Fed, you get the same quests and dialogue a Fed character does. Go KDF and you get called an "honorable warrior" and told how good a Klingon you are, even though you are Romulan.. Another example, the power board race on Risa where you have to grab a flag that spawns at the end of the race that anyone else can grab, because they were too lazy to program in a timer or rewards based on your actual finish position.
Less P2W.. if you want to be good at this game you eventually will have to open up the wallet unless you love grinding the same things over and over till your eyes bleed.
Actual choices in missions that have consequences, instead of just reading text and clicking 'F'. Half of the time it's your bridge officers telling you what to do like you are some idiot captain that doesn't know how to make decisions.
Whole list of other things but don't want to write a long wall of text. Recently came back after being gone over a year. Bored less than a month in.
I like the idea of more to do on the ship itself. So add ship quests. Also finish the ships as a lot of ship are bridge only. I liked the relationships you could develop with your crew in games like Mass Effect series and SWTOR.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
At this point nothing. Poor design choices and basically taking CO and reskinning it have doomed this game.
pandas and pet battles
since wow has copied some features from STO, they should simply turn the table