Originally posted on Heidy's Highly Wily MMORPG Blog:
More so than most other MMORPGs, a good chunk of STO’s playerbase plays the game because it’s Star Trek, and immersion in game’s theme and setting is vitally important to these players. Star Trek is a very fleshed out universe as defined by multiple TV shows, movies, novels and other media, and for the most part… Continue reading Breaking Immersion, STO edition

This past weekends connection issues proved to be frustrating for many players (not me*), and while Cryptic was clearly the recipient of the issue and not the cause, the team stepped up again and extended the Crystalline Entity Event Until September 7th. This is very good news. First off it’s a chance to finish off existing projects, which for some players is two separate rewards.  While I … Continue reading Some Good News after A Stormy Weekend

…coming soon… Continue reading Rule of Acquisition #22 – “Wise men can hear profit in the wind.”

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