The game is painfully repetitive.

[ShadowHunter]

I have played 308 hours to date and I have been in this game for years now. The thing is, the gameplay is boring, especially when it comes to away missions. It is always the same thing. They should take some guidance from First Person shooters.

Space combat, the missions and all, after a while it all blends into one single scenario. It does not feel different at all. I feel like I am in the loop, no matter how many extra storylines they add. They are very uninspired and boring.

I tend to ignore the game up to 6 months at a time, to come back and find how nothing has changed. The devs need to change something about the game. It simply is not attractive to play.

[Metallicus]

As long as people unlock loot boxes with real money and buy stuff from the pay to win shop they have no motivation to change their dynamic. Also, consider that this game is fairly close to the end of its life cycle and you get what you get.

[Immortalis]

So, what would the devs need to change to make the game "more attractive to play", in your opinion?

[Nimbull]

Originally posted by Immortalis:

So, what would the devs need to change to make the game "more attractive to play", in your opinion?

Funding and more developers. This thing is running on an ancient game engine and none of the original developers are left from what I hear. There are only two people working on it last I heard. Right now more money comes from from whales and lock boxes.

Fun fact when they updated the lighting in the game years ago it broke day/night cycles on the planets. Used to be you could go to Risa and watch the sun set there and on other worlds.

[Jaq]

Any game you play for years is going to be repetitive, especially a non-competitive game where you only play against the CPU. The devs couldn't create new content faster than you could play it at this point even if they had ingenuity to come up with something new and unique and this ancient taped-together game engine had the capacity to implement it.

Play something else. This is a 2010 game. It's become all it's ever going to be by now. It did that years ago, frankly. RPGs should have a beginning and an end. If STO won't write one, you'll have to write it for yourself.

I'm on at least my 6th break from this game. I don't currently have it installed. But I check the update page once in awhile and will reinstall if something comes up that interests me, or I just get a bit of nostalgia for pressing the space bar to fire phasers. But I know this game isn't going to magically become something else. It's impossible. There's too many systems buried under systems buried under piles of spaghetti code, and too many obligations to players who paid money for components in those old systems. To make anything fresh they'd need to start over with a blank slate and a new game engine better suited to a space exploration/combat game. And they'd need to discontinue this one. I've had my fill and would be fine with that, but I don't foresee that happening.

[x1Heavy]

This game has been played for ten years on my end. Nothing new.

Several times a year the people come for the keys, dil and ships and so on etc. Then when its all consumed it goes rather dead until several months later. And do it again.

Its been 10 years with this game. Its at the end of it's lifespan.

I have lived long enough to see the beginning, middle and ending of many computer games, many online games and a beginning of a future that will be quite something provided it extracts money from people constantly. Theres been I think two generations born now in my lifetime coming of age who do not know the experience of going to a computer store and picking a full game product for 60 dollars complete. And computer stuff. That was eliminated 20 years ago give or take.

Online games migrated to microtransactions. I am a lifer in this game which means I get 5 US Dollars in Zen 500 of them once a month. That makes it a self supporting economy but its a very dead one.

Participation.

I log in daily when I can. Spend maybe 5 minutes cashing out the dailies. Then pounce on the economic oppertunities on the exchange. Then do the event which takes another few minutes. Then craft something. and 30 minutes later thats it. Log out.

Interaction? Ha. that died off years ago.

Its not a BAD game product. Just a ancient one at this point. LOLDELETE the borg at this point with very strong starships. poof cube gone. Next. A cloud of probes, spheres and the rest? Poof. Next cloud please. All poof.

Now recently they made a event where a single cube make a mockery of our powerful ships. The people end up tuning again and poof no more cube.

Now they are getting ready to puff up earth so big and a starbase tossed for a little picard one with a few other things changed or tossed. Its 2025.

I hope you enjoy the game.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by ShadowHunter:

The game is painfully repetitive. I have played 308 hours to date and I have been in this game for years now.

It's been like that since day 1. They have a formula (space in - fight, beam down - fight, beam up - final fight) and they're not going to change it now.

You either put up with it cuz it's Star Trek or walk away, but yeah they could have done so much more with the game.

[cnroddball]

I'm a bit of a collector and completionist, so I like to collect the unique weapons and tribbles, as well as try and get all the accolades. The different outfits are nice too, so I get those when I can. With my alien character, I make her look like all kinds of things: different Trek species, a Helldiver, Venus Bluegenes from Rogue Trooper, and a bunch of others. I find it fun, even 4,000 hours in.

[x1Heavy]

Yea my bank is full. Just about more slots in it too.

Its like computer parts in the closet, build two or three computers out of the boxes in the bottom of the place. You have a hundred starships and can only fly one at a time. Imagine if you could have bots fly them somewhere around the universe while you fly just one. Or have four bot starships with yours that you built and crafted yourself. Thats pretty op.

Thats why I like carriers so much, the newest one with the right traits can put up like 30 valkaries. And delete your opponets before you get into range with the phaser cannon or somehing. You can put up 30 starships with yours in the same server battle. Your teammates would have 30 each times four humans and you will have something that will lag their server datacenter.

The game on the ground is nice and pretty creative and wild. Worlds to explore. In the end its all the same. If you played Doom you played STO. Pew pew time.

[Chrisfort]

Originally posted by ShadowHunter:

I have played 308 hours to date and I have been in this game for years now. The thing is, the gameplay is boring, especially when it comes to away missions. It is always the same thing. They should take some guidance from First Person shooters.

Space combat, the missions and all, after a while it all blends into one single scenario. It does not feel different at all. I feel like I am in the loop, no matter how many extra storylines they add. They are very uninspired and boring.

I tend to ignore the game up to 6 months at a time, to come back and find how nothing has changed. The devs need to change something about the game. It simply is not attractive to play.

agreed.

thats why i only play the kerrat map for pvp

[NuclearSnail]

Yeah it is. And then when there's nothing else to do, the point become to buy buy buy. If you'd have told me when I was a kid that in the futuristic year of 2025, I'd be spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a video game spin off of an elderly tv show I wouldn't have believed it. But here we are. lol

[x1Heavy]

Theres alot of things I talked about as a child that my parents would slap me for being sassy and wild minded. Science fictions stuff was crazy to them.

Well here we are. Most of it fulfilled in their lifetime.

Star trek was not accepted at first. We were having the civil rights rioting which resulted in formal US Military Infantry invasion of Baltimore and several other cities as a battlefield to destroy the rioting.

Uhura was black on that show and in those days we did not have things for the black. So she stayed on as a Civil Rights thing which worked out all around.

I remember one Black Diplomat which was a REAL BIG DEAL in our area growing up tried to visit a resturant to buy dinner while traveling (The Bonnie Brae to be specific, year 1961, US 40 Pulaski Highway near Aberdeen Maryland) and they told him to get out. No food. (Laws existed for divided coloreds and whites) and that created a hell of a scandal that eventually broke those old laws.

Star Trek in original form was dealing with USSR (Klingons) and other lands (Romulan) etc. the diversity within the show made it woke long before there was such a term. We were also watching "All in the Family" which was outrageous for its time.

Alot of it was science fiction and in some ways pushed our life in a certain direction such as the show went then movies etc.

Whatever you do, do not watch the first original ST Movie. Its two hours of your life you will not get back.

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

You mean a video game in the MMO genre is repetitive? Say it isn't so.

Life is repetition, it doesn't matter what game it is. This game just may not be the one for you. I've spent thousands of hours because not only is it Star Trek, but because of the unique builds you can create with different ships, and more. If that's not something you care about, it's unlikely you'll get far in the first place.

Now, could they improve it further, add more features, improve animations, etc? Absolutely, but they never will. This game is in life support. They're more concerned with getting you to spend money than anything else, it is evident in releases where they simply do not care to fix problems that have been around for a long time, even problems in packs that cost over $100. It has been 15 years since its release, nothing will change at this point, except for the total shutdown of servers.

It's unfortunate, but hey, at least it's not disgustingly outdated as Lord of the Rings Online, so there's that.

[NIkto Barada]

doffing got me up. armada ui put me down.

[Daimo]

I feel like you're supposed to socialise

[NIkto Barada]

daimo, fleets for instance. but it s descartes that said hell is other ppl. in our case it is ppl that try to lure zone to make comments theey can post on x or truth