GORDON wrote:When you are with an allied ship, can you set yourself to auto-follow it?
Sure. You can also auto-follow other players you aren't grouped with. Just select the ship you want to follow, then right-click and there's a follow option. It's not very smart about it, though, you'll tend to either fly around them in circles if you go too fast, or ram into them. Pressing a WASD key will make it stop following and start flying under your control again.
And where did you get all of your money? I only make a couple thousand selling a full load of stuff from a string of missions. You've given me 300k so far, and spent a mill on a new ship the other night.
So where is the money tree?
I sell a lot of stuff on the Exchange. A lot a lot. Pretty much anything rated Uncommon or higher is worth selling on the exchange, and some Common items as well (mostly ship's weapons). But the really big money has come from 72% food. The 72% food items are used to breed fancy tribbles, so some of them will sell for as much as 400k a pop. It's dropping though, and some of the 64% food used to be worth selling but isn't anymore, so try to make some cash off of it while you still can.
The tribbles have totally inflated the economy of the game, really. That's why stuff in the Exchange is so darn pricey. On the bright side money really isn't all that important. Truth is the fancy equipment isn't all that much more powerful than the basic cheap stuff, and the differences are overshadowed by the bonus of just having the next tier of ship.
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It seems like every other character I meet in the game is descended from a major character from one of the series. I met Chief O'Brien's son the other night. Sulu's great grandson is one of the first peeps you meet in the game.
Obviously I haven't met any Picards, ha ha.
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GORDON wrote:and TPR is around now and then to get me through tough missions (and give me money) is a plus.
Has there ever been an MMOG where you didn't need someone giving you money?!
I owned the market in Star Wars online. In certain commodities, I was buying up EVERYTHING for sale of a particular item, marking it up, and putting it back up for sale at a higher price. I was spending 5 million dollars and making 7 million back.
But that was time consuming and the game wasn't exciting enough to keep me interested.
And... I recently realized I could start doing the same thing in the Star Trek market place. *evil laugh* At each rank you get the next 2 higher tiers of items.... and the higher tiers are, obviously, more in demand. I may start cornering markets.
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I think if it goes on sale on Steam again, I'll grab it.
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The space battles are "Star Fleet Command," lite. The ground "away team" missions are Star Wars Online.
Actually, the space battles may not be as "lite" as I think. As you get better ships you are able to do more of the "swiss army knife" things you were able to do in Star Fleet Command.
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GORDON wrote:The space battles are "Star Fleet Command," lite. The ground "away team" missions are Star Wars Online.
Actually, the space battles may not be as "lite" as I think. As you get better ships you are able to do more of the "swiss army knife" things you were able to do in Star Fleet Command.
In SFC you could use tractor beams to stop enemy ships, transport mines in the path of your enemy, use the tractor beam as "point defense" to stop incoming missiles, target particular shield quadrants of the enemy, make high-speed impulse turns, etc.
It was fairly decent "naval" strategy, and simple enough to still be fun.
Looks like a large chunk of that stuff may be possible with higher ranks and better ships.
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Yeah, as you go up there's a much wider array of more interesting abilities to use. My current favorite is Ramming Speed which is really hard to pull off in the cow of a ship I'm driving but when I am able to get it lined up and pull it off I often nearly insta-kill whatever it is I've run into.
I'd have to say it's similar to Eve combat. At lower levels it's like Eve lite, but it's getting some traction. Only instead of the skills you can use in combat being based on installed equipment they're based on what skills you've trained for yourself and your bridge crew. Ship equipment just provides bonuses to those skills. Except the weapons themselves, of course, those are purely equipment driven. But skills do still give bonuses to the weapons.
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Well, there is that. The max range is 10km, which is close enough to actually see the ships. That's a nice difference. And flying the ship is a bit more like a flight sim than a point-and-click adventure.
So not completely like Eve.
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I think that is a big part of what made EVE so bland. In STO I can see the ship I am fighting, see when he is coming about to get me in the arcs of his forward weapons, and see when I have damaged it.
It is a lot more interesting than looking at dots circling you in a radar screen.
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I went to "Sell," dragged an item from inventory into that top bar, put a price in the box, hit the "post" button. Nothing seems to have happened. Item is still in my inventory. What am I doing wrong?
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TPRJones wrote:Sounds right to me, GORDON. Sometimes it can take a few seconds because of lag. Try waiting a bit after hitting post and see what happens.
If it fails because of that you should get a message saying so when it finally actually tries to do it and fails.
Must have been broken last night. Nothing was happening after 30-60 seconds.
Just now, it worked just fine.
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