The completionist in me has me suffering through Trexels (which I disparaged here) so that I can clear all the missions. It’s still a horrible game, but right now I don’t have another casual alternative. So on I go.

The farming isn’t even most infuriating thing – I can live with that (because that is what kills time). I can even get around the UI bugs now because I know what they are and can avoid them. It’s the poor software that is to blame (some bugs, some not). I even made a list!

• There are rooms that give adjacent rooms a bonus. One would think if you put a room between two bonus rooms, that room should get double bonuses right? Nope!
• Upgrading room takes time in a sequence (30 min -> 10 hours -> 24 hours). However after you move an upgraded room, every once in a while it gets reset down to level 1. Now you have to invest another 2 days into leveling it (and losing the associated farming)
• There is a bug where if you do a holodeck simulation and gain command/research/power, those values do not reset after you are awarded the resource. Instead, each subsequent award is added to the previous (so first time you get 500, then next time you get 1000, then 1500, etc). Meaning, it is possible to get unlimited command/research/power at a much faster rate than farming
• There is a holodeck simulation that costs 0 resources to attempt (Sector 2 – Mura Tapa away mission). Not a big deal when you have unlimited resources, but good to start out with. Later you can use Sector 7’s Arodna Prime to get a lot of resources really quickly once it is stacked.
• There are some missions that assume you have a specific character – for example, the Lore mission assumes you have Data as a helmsman as the dialog talks from Data’s perspective. Except…Data is not free and costs a large amount of premium currency to obtain. Also, you get Sulu for free and he is a helmsman, so a lot of players will probably not invest their hard earned premium currency on Data. Why is Sulu talking like Lore is his brother??
• In general, not a lot of attention was paid to who is speaking the dialog. Often the captain refers to him/herself in third person!
• There are some missions that are just bugged and cannot be completed (i.e., Sector 2’s Mendel mission which many people have complained online about – yet has not been fixed!)
• The later missions are impossibly hard even with fully leveled crew members (300 in all stats). I’ve even resorted to using character bonuses (i.e., +Combat) on top of the 300 stat in an attempt to pass them (they ask for only 240 average stats) and it doesn’t work. Basically it is now impossible for me, through skill, to pass any space or hand-to-hand combat missions. I have to wait for a fix or wait until the random number generator is in my favour.

Wow, that’s a lot of bugs!

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: complaining, games, startrek