How broke is it? That title/comment isn’t directed at Star Trek Online. It’s context for this rather long post. In varying roles over my career, I have heard that comment more than a few times. It’s cringe worthy. In a recent case it came from an engineer refereeing to a problem unconnected to what we make, but that in the media, we most certainly would … Continue reading How broke is it? #BugSmashing

General: Resolved an issue related to toggle, auto-attack, and passive powers which was causing performance lag. Resolved an issue in “Butterfly” where occasionally, while in a group of 5 players, some players would spawn underground in the Beta simulation. Resolved an issue that was causing Subspace Vortex FX to not clean up correctly at the end of their duration. Added Junior Officer Weekend to the … Continue reading Holodeck Release Notes: August 20th, 2015

One of the long-running complaints with Star Trek Online has been the serious lack of science ships for the KDF and Romulan factions. This is understandable as each factions strengths produce ships with unique capabilities. The Federation has an abundance of decent T6 and T5-U science options. The Romulans have Battle Cloaks, singularity abilities and access to the current king of DPS – The Scimidar Scimitar. The KDF have… … Continue reading First Impressions – T6 Krenim Annorax Science Dreadnought – FULL POST

..my wallet. In 2012 my first experience with ‘chasing the lockbox prize‘ was the Wells Temporal Science Vessel. Somehow I had gotten it into my mind that not only would I have this ship, but I would buy it’s mirror counterpart the Mobius Temporal Destroyer from the lobi store.  I was fascinated by the console from each ship, the cool design and that both could easily … Continue reading T6 Krenim Annorax Science Dreadnought Stats – Ouch, this is going to hurt…

Trendy is on a role today with a couple of other noteworthy blog posts: The Return of the Crystalline Entity Event From August 13 at 9:00AM PDT to September 3 at 10:00AM PDT, Captains between levels 50-60 can queue up for our 10-captain “Crystalline Cataclysm” event to defeat the Crystalline Entity and earn one Crystal Shard every 20 hours. After collecting 14 of them, players can complete a … Continue reading Crystalline Entity Returns, Plus Giveaways from the C-Store

This was just posted by @LaughingTrendy a short time ago. General: “Broken Circle” has been made into a level 60 episode and moved into the Iconian War tab in the journal. The new Featured Episode “Butterfly” has been added to the Featured Episode tab in the journal. This episode can be played by captains who are level 10 or higher. The NPC ears for Preservers … Continue reading Holodeck Patch Notes for August 13th, 2015

Definitely worth checking out – a nice short (11 min) tutorial of the benefits, settings and value for your fleet when considering the new Armada system in Star Trek Online. Check out his other videos here on his youtube.com channel.  And you can more resources like this, as always on stocontinuum.com. Continue reading Sweet Armada System Tutorial from Mr. Valikin

Well, we knew this was going to happen – just how soon was the question.  And it’s been renamed the Annorax Science Dreadnought.  What’s even more interesting is that this ship can utilize the Tipler Cylinder and the Manheim Device from the Temporal Destroyer and time ships.  Both consoles recently had performance fixes which makes them possibly viable.  I was planning on using this on my Sci-toon … Continue reading It’s Real – T6 Krenim Annorax Science Dreadnought

Thanks again to @TrekRadio for providing the simulcast via Periscope. Note sure if this  It was recorded (may be a limited viewing window!)- but lets start with the new Official Announcement Trailer for Season XI: New Dawn. Here’s what we were able to gleen: The panel started with the Executive Producer @Salami_Inferno, Lead Artist @SWall_Art, and Star Trek Onlines Lead Designer @CaptainGeko.  The panel was moderated by a coordinator from CBS @hollyamos22. Look … Continue reading UPDATED – STLV STO PANEL 2015: We’re Explorers Again, new video, and a few details.

Tribble Patch Notes – Performance Improvements! http://t.co/0GAAKNOuVT — Jeremy Randall (@BorticusCryptic) August 7, 2015 Coldsnapped just added an updated the release notes for Tribble: We will be bringing down the Tribble server for maintenance to apply a new update: ST.52.20150726a.7. General: R&D Special Consumable Projects: Removed “x5” from project titles. Updated descriptions on all of these items to indicate that players will receive 5x on … Continue reading BUG SMASH: Tribble Maintenance and Release Notes – August 7, 2015