HUD Issues Evolve; Game Client Crashes Persist

Last weeks update dealt with the hideous delay times in activating powers/abilities on your ships.  While the delay times were reduced, a new issue has appeared where your whole HUD goes offline for 1-2 seconds are random intervals.  Cryptic is aware of the issue and we look forward to feedback sometime this week. A growing number of players have noted they are experiencing regular CTD’s … Continue reading HUD Issues Evolve; Game Client Crashes Persist

UPDATED: First Impressions of the New Command Battlecruisers: Overwhelming and Fun

I’m sitting here tonight a little overwhelmed by my choice to buy the Super pack.  Lets be honest, there’s a lot going on in the game right now.  The Kobali ship is fun to use, and the Anniversary gear set is well work the effort to get.  And it’s free.  My OCD is telling me to downsize a BOFF collection bordering on being unmanageable.  And … Continue reading UPDATED: First Impressions of the New Command Battlecruisers: Overwhelming and Fun

Patch Update: Bigger Banks, BOFF to Manual conversion, & UI updates.

LaughingTrendy just posted this weeks (2/12/2015)  updates.  Patch goes live tomorrow morning. General: Added the ability to purchase additional slots for the following Services in the C-Store: Players can now purchase 36 additional Main Inventory slots for a total potential of 198 slots. Players can now purchase 60 additional Bank Storage slots for a total potential of 324 slots. Players can now purchase 60 additional … Continue reading Patch Update: Bigger Banks, BOFF to Manual conversion, & UI updates.

WAI Moment: Lvl 30 alt joins his first Borg RED ALERT.

Just thought this was a lot of fun as we squeaked under the time limit with a 2-Man Red Alert with me leveling a 30th level alt.  Needless to say, we worked our aft’s off.  Kudo’s to the Euro player who stayed with me throughout the process. Not exactly sure what ‘stomme idioot’ means, but I think I got the gist. I know this isn’t … Continue reading WAI Moment: Lvl 30 alt joins his first Borg RED ALERT.

INFO DUMP – Command Battlecruiser Stats

Imagine for a moment you’re in a board room with 7 other people negotiating a fairly sizable B2B contract.  Everyone is intent on making this meeting work and the discussion ranges from high-level planning to deep dives into metrics only a savant could grasp. And one guy is staring at his iPad distracted with Command Battlecruiser stats.  Yup, that’s me. LaughingTrendy just dropped three blog … Continue reading INFO DUMP – Command Battlecruiser Stats

Simple Communication Rule #1: Don’t make light of peoples problems. Ever.

I’ve held back touching upon CaptainGecko’s less than stellar interview on Priority One’s most recent podcast for a couple of reasons. The first is that nothing really new was talked about.  PvP is a non starter, the KDF represent a small percentage of the player base etc. The second was his poor comedic attempt at making light of loadout issues, the ‘hey everything else works’ … Continue reading Simple Communication Rule #1: Don’t make light of peoples problems. Ever.

STO Command Ships Officially Revealed – Details still missing

Following last weeks leak of the new Command Ships, Trendy has posted a general overview of the new Command ships.  As predicted the command ships will come individually for 3000 Zen, as a per faction set of three for 6000 Zen, and a mega-set for the low-low price of 12000 Zen.  Without knowing what these ships will have in terms of load-outs, traits and console … Continue reading STO Command Ships Officially Revealed – Details still missing

Weekend Update: New Command Ship HiRes Images leak; BOFF Candidate conversion to manuals coming soon

Two updates this weekend: A quick tweet from CaptainGecko this evening confirms what we’ve already heard, that bridge officer candidates will be convertible to training manuals.  I seriously foresee a KDF duty officer assignment “Render Bridge Applicant for Recycling”. We are finishing up the system that will allow you to convert boff candidates to manuals. Just a few things to work out. Coming soon. — … Continue reading Weekend Update: New Command Ship HiRes Images leak; BOFF Candidate conversion to manuals coming soon

Tribble Update: Resolved Power Tray Lag (Hallelujah)

Tribble is being brought down for maintenance to update it to build ST.47.20150112a.26. General: Resolved an issue which was causing a delay in the power tray UI when clicking on a power that has a countdown timer. This will also resolve a number of other minor delays in the UI. Resolved an issue which was causing the ability to set quantities to create in R&D … Continue reading Tribble Update: Resolved Power Tray Lag (Hallelujah)

Updated: Fixes inbound for Neutronic Torpedo; Plasma Doping to be dealt with ‘Soon’

A couple of development updates from BorticusCryptic: Neutronic Torpedo Behaviors Yes, the torpedo is bugged (see full post here): The current magnitude values being referenced by all ranks of Torpedo Spread is incorrect, pointing to the wrong variables, which results in far more damage output than is intended for any torpedo launcher. The same is also true for this weapon when used with Rank II … Continue reading Updated: Fixes inbound for Neutronic Torpedo; Plasma Doping to be dealt with ‘Soon’