Fan videos come in all shapes and sizes, and to be honest I’m one of those guys who nitpicks everything from the use of imagery to the music.  The new Delta Rising fan video from Tom caught me by surprise, and I have to say – I love it. The opening uses the BSG classic voice-over “there are those who believe…“, which has been done to … Continue reading Fan Video of Delta Recruits Captures ‘The Best’ of STO (with a healthy nod to BSG and SG-1)

UPDATE: The queues have died down after the weekend.  Managed to have 2 hours on Tuesday evening without a single queue wait. I actually saw the login queues for the first time Sunday.  I started as 148 out of 155 waiting to enter.  The wait was about 20 seconds.  Not a big deal. My frame of mind: I have not really played much in the … Continue reading Congrats Cryptic! Delta Recruit Campaign is working. Now lets chat about the login queues…

As the clock rolled over to a new week, we finally got to see some details on the new Romulan Imperial Navy Kits (details from Reddit master-poser Atheonyirh). Regardless of class, it adds a base damage bonus of 20% to Plasma, 2.2% Critical chance and 8.8% bonus to Severity and a whopping 52.5% bonus to your personal shields.  Given we’re weeks away from the Iconian Reputation, this is … Continue reading Romulan Imperial Navy Kit Details

Busy news day at Star Trek Online.  This post has been updated too many times to count. Delta Vanguard Upgrades now BoC A last-minute change to the bind-to rules for the Delta Vanguard upgrade.  Originally promoted as bind-to-account (BoA), it has since been changed to BoC (bind-to-character) BorticusCrytpic explains: I deeply apologize for not having updated our communication on this matter, but this is working … Continue reading Updated: Prelude to Season X: Quality of Life Improvements , Foundry & Iconian Reputation.

Apple’s newest emoji is boldly going to go where no pixellated emotion has gone before. The newest betas of both Apple’s next OS X and iOS operating systems will include an emoji based on Spock of Star Trek‘s famous gesture, the “Live Long and Prosper” salute. Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed Spock on TV and films for decades, passed away on Feb. 27. But his salute, which he adapted … Continue reading An emoji for Spock’s “Live Long and Prosper” sign is coming to Apple devices

First and foremost: I’m not disappointed in the new T6 versions of the Star Trek’s iconic line of starships.  I don’t regret buying them.  But it’s clear that regardless of the impressive design work on the new versions, they do not represent the next generation in terms of starship capability. To be honest, the new T6 versions of the fan-favorites are ‘just good enough’ that … Continue reading First Impressions of the T6 Iconic Ships: More vanity than practicality.

Come-on Cryptic.  This is was a no-brainer. You take the time to create a well thought-out marketing campaign (Delta Recruits) to rebuild the player base, to introduce new players to the best of Star Trek Online, and to remind ‘us’ jaded players about the game we fell in love with. I am getting frustrated having to rerun the same episode 2-3 times, while checking Reddit, … Continue reading Reliving the Fun of Leveling a Fed Alt. Frustrated at the new bugs.

One of the things that bothered me when I first joined Star Trek Online was how unfun the Galaxy Class – and to a greater extent the Galaxy Dreadnaught – was to play with.  Outclassed by just about everything and anything in it’s tier (or at least due to my poor piloting skills), the Galaxy was a non-starter.  It fizzled.  I wasn’t the only one … Continue reading It finally feels worthwhile to use a Galaxy Class. It’s not a T6. Honest.

Reading through the rewards list, I kept saying to myself that ‘this’ was extremely well thought out. Designed to impact not only new players (It’s a great time to start STO), but to offer a sugar coated “we miss you” to every player who for one reason or another has taken a step back from Star Trek Online. It’s as if there has been a … Continue reading Delta Recruit Rewards – Holy $#!@ So what’s the Goal?

UPDATE:  On Reddit Tumerboy replied with a significantly lower expectation on the number of ships – but still large enough to scare the crap out of you – 70 trillion ships.  See the full response at the bottom of this post. The following is math performed by an idiot.  On a napkin.  While drinking.  View accordingly. Lets assume that the surface of the Iconian Dyson Sphere is ‘slightly’ … Continue reading Updated: How Many Iconians Starships would it take to “Blot out the Sun”?