![]() ![]() All of this, of course, doesn't count torpedoes, mines, and missiles. Each of those weapon types comes in over 20 different energy types. Each weapon can be either a beam, dual beam, cannon, dual cannon, heavy cannon, dual heavy cannon, turret, or omnidirectional beam. You then hand pick each of the minimum eight weapons you put on that ship. After that, you pick out of the 80+ ships in the game, each having an entirely different style, with differing health, speed, turning radius, shield modifier, warp core type, and size. Then, you pick up to 70 duty officers, each having their own set of skills. Ok, done right? Now you do that again a minimum of EIGHT times since you customize skills and traits for each bridge officer. ![]() Then, you move on to your skills tree (yes, it's a completely separate thing from traits). First, you need to fill out your traits, of which there are about 40 to choose from. If you think you've made a 'build' in a game, you don't know what a build is until you've played STO. The biggest thing, however, is versatility. I have been playing the game now for SEVEN years, and I still am ways away from reaching end game level, nevermind being competitive. So, I went from dominating in PvP to getting my ass whooped when I went from level 59 to level 60. Little did I know that in PvE and PvP level 60 players are pooled together. And, once I finally reached level 60, I thought I was done. Regarding the skill cap, it took me two years of competitive playing to get to level 60, not because the game forces you to farm, but because of the immense amount of in-game content. However, there are so many aspects to the combat, including the fact that you are fighting in a 3d space, not 2d like WoW, you need to position your ship to attack the weakened side of a ship, whilst protecting your weak shields, and all the weapons have a specific firing arc, meaning you need to bring your guns to bear. I quickly learned that this game is absolutely fantastic. As a gamer who has played WoW and League, I was led to believe that this game was horrible since the space battles are auto-targeting and the skill cap is super low. These are completely false do not be misguided. I've not actually ever come across someone like yourself who doesn't refute that, but is just basically being very nitpicky and IMO unrealistic.I have read many reviews that say this mmo falls short. ![]() Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene.Īs I said though, most people who jeer at the scene do so on the mistaken assumption that the software scene on screen didn't exist. > You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Same thing, with the only difference being Unix refers to a variety of operating systems not just one particular OS.Īnd you're making a big deal about how she probably wouldn't have known IRIX and all this, but that doesn't really make sense and it's extremely nitpicky. It's pretty similar to the hypothetical situation of a kid finding a mac and saying "This is a Macintosh, I know this" and using the finder to browse and look for a program to run. She didn't say she knew a program which exists on one version of Unix, she just said she recognized the type of system. > Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix I don't think that's a ridiculous response to what you're claiming at all. ![]() I'm just disagreeing with you, and pointing out that IMO your point doesn't have much merit. > And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous. The Hyperbolic Browser was the clear winner, with Windows Explorer coming in second, and the DOS command-line doing pretty well until it came to comparison questions like "Which planet is also the name of a car brand?" where both categories in the ontology needed to be compared. On a related note, The Great CHI ’97 Browse-Off was a non-rigorous head-to-head contest between different hierarchical browsers. Here's what the IRIX 2D file browser looked like in 1990: Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene. You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix, and which was not distributed with the OS, and which was less helpful at file system exploration than both the 2d file manager and 1970s-based Unix shell tools. And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous. ![]()
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