Ok, this was posted today on the official forums so some of you may have seen it or may stumble upon it but I'm posting it here just for those of you who might miss it.

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Tough decision. They're all really good!

Favourite Male: E
Favourite Female: G

Zepari wrote:

B and F. Love them all though.

this :)

B and F. Love them all though.

I vote for E and H I really dig the redish color and choice in boots and arm dressings! I would want to party with these guys cause of their Badass fashion sense!!!!

Fooy, I thought it was on the 28th.

I vote for B and F

Thanks again to everybody who voted. Your votes have been counted, and we now have the winners of the contest, as well as the new KDF Fleet Uniforms.

And the winners are!

@silver101


@h4z

Congratulations guys! Start looking out for other folks in the fleet to be wearing your uniforms!

Episode 15 - TOS - "Balance of Terror" - 12/15/1966

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Parts 2-5:

Found from the above link in the related videos section

Enjoy!

Loving the multiple path RP missions. Took my loyalist gunslinger through one and "interrogated" the resistance leader in the end by breaking his hand for information. xD (Then afterwards, since my loyalist has a vendetta against the resistance, I broke his other hand. :evil: )

Even though a lot of the choices within the path I have chosen (fame and glory) seem to lead in the same direction, anyway, I still really like it and it makes it feel like I've got a little more control over my character's ongoing story. ^.^


Handy tip for the badge hunters out there:

I jumped off of Nova Praetoria and headed south to the little peninsula at top speed (Ninja Run ftw ^.^) I made it through the DoT barrier and onto the beach and then as I was running to the trees I got teleported back into the water with a new badge. ^.^

I found another badge when exploring the little "Stair" doors at the base of a lot of the Praetorian buildings. Popped up to the roof of the PPD station and there is a badge on the roof.

Another is on one of the ledges of the tower. I used the (veteran?) Jump Pack to get up there as a lowbie.

Halish wrote:

There's something about that paragraph that I really don't like. I'm far too tired to post the reply required to make my point clear but I will say this.

You know what? I get what you're saying. I didn't realize that I would come across the way I did, and I apologize to those of you whom I rubbed the wrong way.

I didn't mean to imply that our being gay is the reason many of us are unhappy with the game, and I didn't mean to dismiss the valid concerns people have over Cryptic's slow response to existing bugs. I guess the point I really wanted to make (but got diverted by my interest in how our experience of life as glbtq people is different from those who have the luxury of never thinking about such things) was that many people here seem to be convinced of the worst regarding this new game stealing resources from STO. We don't know yet if that will happen.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. For now. And if you guys are right, and Cryptic abandons us, I'll be right next to you with my cleverly worded sign--and possibly a flaming torch--as we march on their headquarters. (Well, it makes for a fun image anyway.)

Episode 14 - TOS - "The Concience of the King" - 12/08/1966

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Found from the above link in the related videos section

Enjoy!

I agree with Halish and Jeremy, although I'm still "hopeful" but even that sentiment is beginning to wane. I've been accused of "bellyaching" and being "negative" toward Cryptic so these last few days I've only made my discontent known privately.

Like everyone else I was eager to purchase this game and once I did canceled my subscription to World of Warcraft, which I had played uninterrupted since 2005. Then I got to RA 5 and regretted that decision. But then Season 2 was announced and soon after it went live on Holodeck. I was exited about STO again. Then the bugs came...(not going into specifics but if you're curious just read my replies to other posts...lol). Not implying other MMOs don't have bugs, they do, World of Warcraft always has issues after a major patch and the game is pretty much unplayable for a day or two...but never for consecutive weeks...the same is true of Perfect World International, a free-to-play MMO I play once in a while, where updates and patches run smoothly.

I believe many (myself included) are experiencing what I call the "bad bf" syndrome with Cryptic. He apologizes when he hurts you, says he loves you and the sex is great. However, he steals your money (C-Store?), uses some of that money to buy you flowers and rather than looking for work cruises for hookups. You know he's bad for you but you love him...perhaps many of us, after being fed so much hype during STO's development, want to hang on to that constructed illusion and Cryptic feeds into this.

Probably not the best analogy but wanted to express myself without seeming to just repeat what others have said/written :P

For now, I'll log on if I have nothing better to do, solo Btran and maybe run the daily fleet action (so long as it is not Big Dig :angry: ). Lately, I've just been socializing with a few fleeties and at the moment believe that's justification enough to continue paying my monthly subscription. Yet I'm confident that if Cryptic doesn't make significant progress with STO soon I'll reconsider.

We need to fight the good fight!

Margali13 wrote:

I've been playing on and off. Mostly my toons on Guardian, but I rolled up a "Margali" on Virtue. I'm sort of monitoring the Stonewall global channel, but I never see anyone else on it.

I'd be happy to join you guys on Virtue some time, just need to let me know when.

I play around 4am-9am (GMT) in Praetoria on one of two toons: HK-109 or Cyber Slinger

I agree halish. i was looking for all the good suff when i first bought this game. And the first two weeks were good. After RA thoughi realised how small and limited this game was. One zone in WoW feels bigger then the whole STO universe :-/
I don't think we're being picky "cuz we're gay". I think we're being picky because the game is NOT delivering. Like halish said, check out official forums. Its nothing different. This just may end up being an MMO flop. I'm sorry for the lifers :(
I'm kinda tired of people defending this game. Honestly take a looong look at it. Now ifyou've played any other MMO, think back to your first experiences with that. Compare. STO was fail outta the box. Reaching max level in 2.5 weeks of regular game play.... that's not how they are supposed to work, unless all the good stuffs at the end game... but that's not even the case in STO. UGH, just writing about it frustrates me...

Propecius wrote:

I don't mean this observation to be directed at anyone in particular, but sometimes it seems we're looking so hard for problems that we can't just enjoy things for what they are. I don't know if it comes from being gay in a society that often treats us as second class citizens (or worse), if we're just dealing with abandonment issues, or if it's part of a larger zeitgeist.

There's something about that paragraph that I really don't like. I'm far too tired to post the reply required to make my point clear but I will say this.

Everyone who bought Star Trek Online, Subscription payers and Life-timers, certainly didn't go into the game "looking so hard for problems". We bought Star Trek Online to have fun, to take part in the Star Trek Universe we all love. The problems that we found aren't something we've looked for, they're been thrown at us left, right and center. Take a look at the official forums. People outside of the game have looked upon them as "flame-fests". Just a bunch of people moaning for the hell of it. I've actually being really impressed with the official forums because the problems people talk about over there aren't little things there massive problems with the game. And there's a lot of long, well written and absolutely correct posts that go overlooked.

I honestly believe the human spirit goes a long way in the world. We can overlook a lot of stuff and sometimes we put up with things we simply shouldn't put up with so we can at least get a "taste" of what we want. We put up with things that simply aren't good enough.

Is it really too much to ask that they dedicate time to a major feature just for Star Trek Online? To improve Star Trek Online and not their next cash-cow? If the answer is yes then that proves my point that we as humans put up with unsatisfactory stuff far too often.

I also didn't appreciate the gay society remark.

Magic carpet ride trumping the Star Trek theme? Lame...

Be warned, this may be a little Nerd Rage-y...

I'm glad so many of you are eagerly waiting for this. IMO, it won't do much. At least not for me. Right now, no matter how you spin it, the game is fail. Months and months I gave it time, gave it a chance to prove to me it was a good game. And still, months later, it feels like I'm playing some alpha mmo test game. Once I had my first RA I felt like canceling. its so linear of a game, the replay value, for me, is ZERO. I'm trying my engineer who's captain now, but I just don't get any enjoyment from it anymore.
I now log into my VA to do my daily (the only thing to do) and my first BTran is bugged. I can't handle it. The game frustrates me more then I get any enjoyment from it anymore. I play games with flat monthly fees because I can't really invest into entertainment. Single guy, single paycheck. The C-Store kills me. All this great content that would enrich the game in general, but it must be bought, and not cheaply.
I enjoy this guild, but even that's not enough to keep me motivated, as there isn't anything to do WITH the fleet. Grouping is still broken. I don't pvp. Fleet actions are.... ugh... Diplomacy is a neat idea, but its JUST as linear and boring. Nothing fresh, nothing captivatingf.
Sadly I haven't played in about a week. I'm pretty convinced this game is not going in the direction I would like it to. I honestly don't think I'm gonna be playing much longer. I'm a huge trekkie, and really looked forward to this. I guess I'm not "casual" enough to enjoy this game. Whatever.
Sorry if that was whiney, but I'm sure not too many are going to whole heartedly disagree. If you do, well you probably haven't played a good, polished, content filled MMO before.

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I've been with CoH/V since first wave of beta invites but lately been playing on and off, since I currently bounce between STO and Age of Conan. Will probably pick up GR this weekend but won't install it until I know I can devote the full free month of game time to it.

CoH/V was my very first MMO and still holds a special place in my gaming heart. Most of my toons are on the Victory server. :)

PjhN wrote:
chemkarate wrote:

Hell, I'd probably be dumping my own Weekly Content on you guys.

Filthy boy. :P

lol! Yeah, that was pretty nasty of me. ;)

PjhN wrote:

I hear the whole "annoyed at all the bugs argument", and agree to an extent. But at the same time I'm conscious of how much harder it must be to make an MMO than a single player game, and considering the number of those I've bought that have turned out to be more bug-ridden than the entomology department of the British Natural History Museum, I honestly don't think STO's been doing so badly.

That's certainly true with regard to comparing it to single-player games and it is not the worst. However, I am comparing it to a number of other big-budget MMOs I've played. Right now, the rate at which serious bugs and other issues are being remedied is much slower than games like World of Warcraft. Right now, STO is getting dangerously close to the trajectory that has nearly killed Champions Online, where bugs continue to persist and build up over time, and their continued existence cannot be excused because new compelling content is also largely absent.

I really hope that this user-generated content goes a long way to fixing that, and I like that the STO team has announced their changing their priorities to polish the game as it exists. However, I've also heard these same promises before from them, so I guess I'm saying I'll believe it when I see it, and the recent announcement that Forge is multi-game only makes me think more that this is more of the same from Cryptic instead of a new direction.