On the heels of last weeks changes to Tachyon Beams, and the followup by Cryptic that it wouldn’t buff the Borg in STF’s (it does), Tribble is seeing a number of major updates including several not mentioned in the notes below. No formal bug fixes yet for the increasingly annoying HUD ability lags or the performance lags in group activities.  Devs are actively investigating. Highlights … Continue reading HUGE Tribble Update: Plasma Doping Downgraded, Delta XP reduced, & much much more…

The [redaction] of exploration areas in the game left many with a bad taste in their mouths. Whether you used them for duty officer missions, to acquire resources, or to simply fulfill an existential need that Star Trek must have exploration even though you didn’t use it – losing these regions was a buzz kill for many. Exploration in all it’s forms is the foundation … Continue reading #STO Foundry: Rediscovering the Love of Exploration

Update: ZeronimusRex replied earlier tonight (below the video). An example of the unusual performance characteristics with peoples HUD display, which may be the unintended result of the range of new abilities at play: ZERO HERE! Hmm, lacks the oomph of Kurland. We’ll work on that. This ability thing, we’ve all seen it and we all know it’s … undesirable. I’d like to gather some data … Continue reading UPDATE 2: Tribble Update: Benthans finally have fix, Growing HUD issues is ‘undesirable’

A post this afternoon on the forums by borticuscryptic has a number of positive (YAY) improvements coming to command powers sometime in the next few releases. Here’s the full text of the post: Reroute Power From Life Support causes you to suffer a temporary Cooldown Penalty – it’s definitely not a buff. As to whether or not that trade-off is currently worth the cost… well, … Continue reading Command Abilities Improvements Inbound

While there is certainly a litany of player-suggested improvements, the following 5 stand out as being no-brainers* in terms of things that would go a long way to improve quality of life for Star Trek Online players.  This list doesn’t mean love isn’t required for issues with PvP, bugs, reward imbalances etc,  but are what we think are simple improvements  that would have immediate benefits … Continue reading UPDATED: 5 Game Improvements that could positively impact STO’s Quality of Life for Everyone.

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

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

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.

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.

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