This mission is awesome. Such a grand scale, with so much Star Trek stuff, a bit of Stonewall mixed in, a great plot, some twists and turns, and, yes, an awful lot of running. And even some punch-the-air scenes. Everything you want from STO and from Trek in general.
Try it!
Major spoilers below, so no peeking if you haven't already played it.
OK, the starship names are fab, although I have to confess I thought of That 70's Show's Kelso before remembering Lt Kelso from TOS.
The forest in the ship is my favorite place ever, in real life or STO. Love the lamp post. Found Alimac and co. I never knew Hawk was Hawk's son. And a troll! So many Easter eggs, so little time. I'm hoping the volcanic flowers come into play later.
One unfortunate crewmember on the Kelso was doing a sit_chair instead of a sit on the observation deck. Looks uncomfortable to have her legs cut off like that.
Intriguing plot. Are the Klingons up to something? Or is Cmdr Jorja really an Undine trying to get us into a war?
Beautiful space map of the city. Very cool!
A Ferengi named Boson.
I'm getting vertigo, walking around this city. Extremely cool map.
I like Lizz. And the fish guy. 2309. Must remember 2309. All those races! No wonder it took 4 months to make.
"Blow the bloody doors off" is my favorite mission objective EVER! With the possible exception of "Energiiiiiiiize!" That actually made me laugh out loud.
Aargh! It was HIM all along. Well done. Sad ending, though. (Although I really hope we haven't seen the last of the Polmar Ree. I'm thinking we need "Revenge of the Polmar Ree," or "Return of the Polmar Ree," or "Curse of the Polmar Ree" next. Make it a mystery, where it seems like they're back, but maybe they aren't.)
The story raises some excellent Star-Trekky questions. Absolutely phenomenal! Really captures what STO and Star Trek are about. Great job!
In most games I play I always go good before I go bad. The one exception being WoW in which I started Horde then went Alliance later. Although, it can be argued that good and bad is all a matter of which side you're on. ;)
Alimac, I remember having the same problem after playing Ramok Nor, I just don't know what to say. I loved it.
Loved the story, loved the environments and I'd recommend it to anybody.
I'm going to put the rest of it in spoiler tags just so I don't ruin anything. Don't read them if you haven't played it yet.
You wanted constructive feedback so I'll say what I've got:
I'm not the best or the quickest reader and have always despised reading lots of texts and yours is one of the few missions that has had me wanting to read it all, which is why I think I had certain problems with the Polmar Ree city section.
I had to talk to the Vulcan (sorry I'm bad with names) but I ignored her and talked to everyone else worried that I would then end up missing the text If speaking to her trigged the next section. As such when I finally got to her and was told to run around and talk to people it feel a little bit like wasted time (but this was probably my fault).
Also when I was speaking with the dancer who tells me the Klingon dude loves Bloodwine because I had already spoke to the Ferengi I went straight for him. He told me to see his associate, but I couldn't. I had to run to the other contact to finish that section (the opposite side of the city map) before then getting the instruction to find bloodwine. It would have been a little slicker for me If I could have got the bloodwine off my own back rather than waiting for the mission text to instruct me so.
I loved the entire mission (are the Klingons doing Yoga or something in the explosive room? lol) but the ending almost made me feel that I had failed. Which isn't something I experience much in Star Trek Online so while that is good it does leave me wanting more.
So I just wanted to say how much I hope you return to the Polmar Ree story in the future if you have any desire to do so :) I'd love to hear they survived somehow.
That whole "up to 5 days" thing bothers me. My friend preordered recently and he and I want to level up together. I preordered in september or october, so I may be in "up to 5 days" ahead of him, meaning (at the rate I level up currently) that I will have to wait "up to 5 days" to start playing unless I want to out level him.
interesting points. It may be more a fps thing, but also, many people say you don't really realize how sluggish the regular keyboards and mice are until you try the ones for gaming.
Also, there are cool features like extra buttons on the side of the mouse or special configurable buttons on the kb, which can be great to have. I haven't figured it out yet though, still researching.
That whole "up to 5 days" thing bothers me. My friend preordered recently and he and I want to level up together. I preordered in september or october, so I may be in "up to 5 days" ahead of him, meaning (at the rate I level up currently) that I will have to wait "up to 5 days" to start playing unless I want to out level him.
I use my laptop's keyboard (and a tiny mouse that came with my previous laptop). Never noticed any such problem while playing games. The only key combos are the number keys with shift, ctrl and alt. There are no other fancy key combos necessary in mmorpg's. Maybe it's a fps thing?
I currently play LOTRO. I took me one year to level my one toon from zero to level 65. I don not expect it will take me a lot less to get to level 50 in SWTOR. I'm not a raider/PVP-er, for me the fun is in the levelling. When i reached level cap in LOTRO i got bored with it. It's now fun again levelling to 75.
