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RE: Del Taco?
By Reclaimer77 on 1/28/2010 1:06:47 PM , Rating: 1
I'd venture to say most DT readers are "older"

Lol oh how I wish that were the case. You haven't been around her long have you ?

WoW's predominately immature community and WoW's cartoony graphics and WoW's over hype.

I've played almost every MMO. They all have "immature" communities because it only takes a few bad experiences to stick in your mind. The other 3000000 mature responsible players keeping to themselves don't make an impact, negative players do.

Cartoony graphics ? For a game engine approaching almost a decade old, I think they are doing damn good with the technology available. I have played other MMO's that supposedly have "realer" graphics like DDO, and you know what ? They are just darker, with matted colors and lots of brown everywhere. That doesn't make things more real.

If STO is "WoW in space" it's a disappointment.

That doesn't even make sense. The two games aren't comparable. They just aren't.

I had high hopes for this game.

So did I. But it looks like just a bad ripoff of Eve Online reskinned to look like 'Trek.

RE: Del Taco?
By lightfoot on 1/28/2010 2:10:01 PM , Rating: 2

Actually having played both games, and spoken with several others, this is actually a good compairison. Star Trek Online is much more like EVE Online than other MMO's. However from my experiance it is a good ripoff of EVE online, not bad. EVE suffered from the problem of being enormously boring where you were rewarded for spending time, not for doing things. ST Online is much more quest based and combat oriented (which is a good thing, despite the lack of consistancy with the license.) The only aspect of EVE online that was much better was the complexity of the economy. The economy in ST online seems crippled at best, possibly because it is based on a fictional society that has no currency...

But the public beta of ST Online improved VASTLY in the last week when two MAJOR patches were released (over a GB of changes.) The Borg invasion on the final day of the Beta was definitely a blast, and I look forward to the official launch.

RE: Del Taco?
By Reclaimer77 on 1/28/2010 4:04:31 PM , Rating: 2
I agree with you about Eve. It *can* be fun, but the real time training system means it realistically will take you months before you have the skills to be even remotely sufficient at whatever you choose to do.

Also the real time system insures that you can never, and I mean NEVER, catch up to veteran players no matter how much more you play. I don't agree with that system.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna log in and see what I can blow up in my Raven battleship that took me months to learn to fly, equipped with weapon systems that took me moths to learn to fire, defended with shield systems that took me months to learn to use....


RE: Del Taco?
By FITCamaro on 1/28/2010 9:41:47 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah I was in the beta for EVE and played until SWG came out (regret leaving for that disaster but I'm a huge SW geek). The real time training had pros and cons. The pro was that you didn't have to play constantly to keep your skills up with everyone else's. The con was that if you were a new player, you'd never catch up.

RE: Del Taco?
By Jalek on 1/29/2010 2:41:23 PM , Rating: 2

That's what I've heard, I have a copy of Eve I've never installed, I have plenty of other time sinks available, and being perpetually outclassed is like being a retail investor in the stock market.


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