Woo! Good to know that there's gonna be some Malaysians in game . I'm gonna get mine from gamestop. Digital Deluxe Edition .

Anyone else gonna preorder?

Ah and for those curious about the pricing its, USD 49.99 for a standard game edition and USD 59.99 for the Deluxe Edition

Links:
Standard
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDet...roduct_id=73923
Deluxe
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDet...roduct_id=76783

And does anyone by chance know someone in UK? Its going for a wee bit cheaper there than in the US.

LoL I felt the same way when I checked out Amazon. The links that I gave are digital downloads, so no shipping costs will be involved in the transaction. D2D recently made their STO available for worldwide purchase as well.

You should also note, different retailers provide different pre-order bonuses. So it'd probably be a good idea to check them out before purchasing from either D2D or gamestop.

It sucks that Amazon doesn't have the DDE version or any digital means for obtaining STO, their pre-order bonus is IMO the best bonus.

@Morpheus2be, do you happen to know any particulars about the D2D bonus? The "Multi-Spatial Personal Sheild"? I prefer D2D for their reliability but I prefer the TOS Constitution Class ship bonus. Decisions, decisions.

P.S. Even if you're not too sure on the details of the item, I'd value any views you may have on the topic.

So is the Multi-Spatial Shield isn't it? Its only a starting bonus. But at least the TOS Connie has some collectors value, you can show it off at events, etc.

I can totally relate! I love Voyager too, where's my Seven of Nine! Why Amazon?! Why?!

LoL, coming back to the topic at hand, I saw the Chronodynamic Armor on Steam as well. Do think that's a better bonus than the one from D2D? It's apparantly a constantly regenerating personal shield which also heals you.

With regards to race, I'll probably make a unique race, or just go human for their unique racial trait (I believe it's Leadership, a passive +5% damage? to the crew). Hmm, about your decision to make a Betazoid with telekinesis, is that a concept? or for the ability? TK doesnt seem to do much, 7ft knockback on a 1 min cooldown.

BTW, here's a link the list of traits you can choose, it however does not list unique racial traits (such as my example earlier, Human Leadership)

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/4107/stotraits1.jpg

Oh and you guys should check out STOked on youtube for some inside beta info. And here's their forum, for those of you who are interested www.jupitercolony.com

Uh, *looks for post on traits* yep it's still there... Just above your post RoloTomasi... What are you? Blind?! You're relieved from duty crewman. Report to Sickbay at once!

I joke of course lol

The link in my earlier post directs you to a list which all the generic racial traits. And btw, were you asking for me or frega

And to be fair the game isn't out yet, so its really hard to say what's the best race/class combination at this point in time. Even with that list I provided, most of its mechanics are still untested (or if they are tested they have not yet been discussed in any public forums), so until we see how it applies to the game we won't know for sure.

Here's a video for the character creator, hopefully it'll help some of you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIRGoVMARTc

And here's a list from that video (courtesy of OwnNav from JupiterColony, http://www.jupitercolony.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2796), so you don't have to keep clicking pause.

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Classes
Engineering - Survivability, support generators, and controlling the paths of enemy advance with fieldworks. The Engineering Officer can withstand the most damage by improving the performance of their own personal shields, while supporting his away team with power generators or by bottlenecking the enemy's advance with defensive minefields. The Engineer's own combat effectiveness is improved by modifications to their firearms or support fire from fabricated turrets and drones.

Science - Weakening or incapacitating the enemy over time, erecting energy fields that damage or hinder, and healing their away team from such effects. The Science Officer has the greatest potential to quickly react to a chaotic combat situation through direct enemy holds, weakening an enemy group's combat strength or resistance, or responding to enemy attacks by quickly healing damage. The Science Officer's combat effectiveness is their versatility.

Tactical - Combat damage, stealth recon, and squad tactics. The Tactical Officer can deliver damage in the widest variety of methods, while supporting his away team by drawing off enemy threat or bolstering their combat effectiveness with tactics and squad commands.

Races Available
Human - Leadership 10% Crew Powers, Teamwork 5% Team Bonus to Exploit Damage
Andorian - Acute Senses 20% StealthSight
Bajoran - Creative 5% Damage and Healing with Kits, 10% Heals Received, 10% Regeneration
Bolian - Corrosive blood 20% Resistance to Toxic Damage, Deals Toxic Damage when Bitten
Vulcan - Logical 30% Resistance to Psionic Damage, Confuse, and Clacate Physical strength 10% melee physical damage
Ferengi - Acute senses 20% StealthSight, Natural Immunities 33% Radiation Damage resist, 33% Toxic Damage resist
Unknown - 4 Traits from the pool.

Also you get a total of 4 traits it looks like. So Humans will get to select two from the pool below, Andorians three, etc.

Trait Pool
Acute Senses 20% StealthSight
Accurate 0.1 Accuracy
Aggressive 2 Sec *+5% All Damage Bonus Strength, +5% Threat Generation
Astrophysicist 10 Starship Operations Training
Cold Blooded 10% Plasma Damage Resistance*, 25% Fire Damage Resistance
Covert 10% Aggression stealth strength, 10% Perception Stealth Strength
Creative Enhancement Enhances Specific Powers +5% All Damage Bonus Strength, +5% Hit points Bonus Strength
Efficient 5% Starship Shield Efficiency, Engine Efficiency, Energy Weapon Efficiency, Auxillary Systems Efficiency
Elusive 0.1 Defense
Lucky 3% Crit Chance
Mental Discipline 3 sec 15% Psionic Damage Resist, 20% Confuse Resist, 20% Placate Resist
Natural Immunities +33% Radiation Damage resist, 33% Toxic Damage resist
Peak Health10% Toxic Damage Resist, 10% Max HP
Physical Strength 10% Physical Damage Bonus Strength
Resilient 5% Physical Damage resist, 5% All Energy Damage resist
Soldier 2 sec 5% All Energy Damage Bonus Strength*, +10 Crit Severity
Stubborn 3 sec 40% Run speed resist, 20% Hold resist, 50% Placate resist
Sure Footed 40% Root resist, 12% Knockback resist
Techie 10 Starship Engineering Training
Telekinesis Targets Foe 22.86 Meter Range .75 sec activate 1 in recharge Knocks back +7 feet
Telepathic 20% StealthSight, .75% chance to Expose, +.5 sec Expose duration
Warp Theorist 10 Starship Warp Core Training

*Only affects certain things

I may have missed some of the *, if I did let me know and I'll correct. Also I noticed three types of traits: Innate, Enhancement, and Passive. I'm not sure what the difference between the three is. I thought Passive meant all the time non activated trait, but some of the passives listed have times associated with them :? At least we can pick what traits we want though! Cheers

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Yep that's one of the most comprehensive lists out there. To those of you who are going to play, please leave your Cryptic @handle name, so we can meet up . Also feel free to list your race/career/ship choices. Lets keep the discussion alive people

Edit: Added link to quote
Edit2: Fixed broken link

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 01:40 PM

Hate to break it to you, but you can't play a Klingon... they're not part of the Federation... I suppose you could custom build a Klingon though.

Ah and a slight elaboration to that - Federation Klingon peace treaty ended, thus igniting a war - so it is in these desperate times that we join the Federation - Klingons are available for play but they're very pvp-centric (they only lvl from PvP) and I do think you need to play Starfleet for a while before unlocking Klingon content.

Haha, Klingon's are more warlike compared to the Federation. I do however think that The U.S.S. Prometheus would at least be at par if not more powerful than any Klingon Vessel.

Have you made an account on Cryptic yet RoloTomasi? If so what's your @name there?

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Added on January 6, 2010, 4:39 pmI'm sorry, I don't quite understand your question. How do you mean "like an old Interplay Star Trek game"?

Lets see, STO is first and foremost online (duh), so you'll get to create your own character/ avatar, you'll also get to customize your own ships. Its combat interface will be approximately 50/50 space combat and ground combat (away missions). Space combat will lean more to a tactical combat scenario where you'll have to weaken the enemy's ship with phasers and destroy the hull with photon torpedoes. Ground combat is more fast paced, comparing it to WoW would be a crude comparison, it takes up its combat engine from Champions, so its quite fast paced, not much downtime. There will also be chances in the game to partake in non combat situations, such as a research mission to save a planet from a disease (if I'm not mistaken).

Did that in anyway answer your question?

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 04:39 PM

No worries

So can I expect to see you in game as well? Haha

Yep. Server will be in U.S.

Edit: Also there are some previews around the web, most of them are quite positive .

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 06:33 PM

Open Beta starts on the 12th of January (Western Date). Its not a free for all entrance though, you either need to pre-order or get it by winning contests etc.

A toast to you my friend. Many many thanks

I'm in OB right now, not much latency issues... or if I do have them, they're not really noticeable.

There are some disconnects, but that appears to happen to everyone from the stress test. They are working at stabilizing the server, there's a patch today to address this issue.


Edit: Feel free to ask me any questions you may have on the game, I'll answer what I can.

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 14 2010, 02:31 PM

I'm in fine. If you have any proxy(s) turn them off, that may help.

I got mine from a contest . And I've just pre-ordered . You can still get in if you pre-order

Well I'm playing So if any of you guys wanna meet up in game just add me. @Arbitrator

And despite some of the game's flaws I do think it has potential. I'm currently in a guild which likes to RP, it really adds to the game's flavor.

I'll be in the headstart program too. So see you guys then

I'm RA5, but I kinda took a break from the game. Had a few friends want to try Champions till more Task Forces were added to the game.

I'll prolly head back by next month. I'll see you guys then if you're still playing.