The Federation News Service (our fleet/guild in Star Trek Online) had its first fleet event tonight. Organized by Longasc, Commanders, Captains and Admirals gathered to take on some fleet actions. We headed to Tortig in the Regulus sector block and —
Well, that didn’t work. Level banding meant we couldn’t all join the same instance. We decided to see if we could do some damage in some Deep Space Encounters, and “encountered” our SECOND mess-up; there can only be five ships in a DSE. Who knew? So if someone else was already in the encounter, some people would be sent into a new instance. I could have SWORN there used to be room for lots more ships in DSEs….
Well, once we knew what was happening, we were able to find a good DSE to call our own in Zeta Andromedae, and blew up Jem’Haddar ships with wild abandon. Enemy Dreadnoughts do a lot of damage, true, but they settle right down when hit with a Viral Matrix and a Tylen’s Rift and the beams of five ships.
Was a lot of fun 🙂 Missions got done, loot got won. Someday enough people will be Admiral-level to do the special task forces, but just fighting together worked out well enough. We got to see each other’s ships, get an idea for the roles everyone would play in a group. This will make task forces roll much more smoothly when we do get to them.
But, really. If we’re grouped, we should always be able to move into instances as a group. This being split between instances? Not cool.
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It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun. I can’t to join in.
Such a shame that the fleet action didn’t work out. But the DSE was fun. I was also shocked that we didn’t zone in as a group. It’s never happened to me before, but the groups I was in usually consisted of only 2-3 people.
Man, I need to get back into STO. You guys are leaving me in the dust. :^(
Yup, it was very cool. Thanks to the Jem’Hadar and Mirror Universe dudes. 🙂
The upcoming “Squadron System” is probably just the thing we are asking for. I also wonder, in the Beta and early I swear there were far more than 5 peeps in a Deep Space Encounter. I bitched in the #TTS channel about that, also about the current Beam Overload bug that disables Beam Arrays till death or you zone. It never hit me until today, but then I got it 5 times in a row.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Longascimages/StarTrekOnlineSeasonOne#5463632405974719954 <- this shows our whole fleet team in action, blowing up a Mirror Universe Typhoon Battleship.
There’s no equivalent of mentoring/sidekicking, etc.?
I’ve been playing since launch and am still only level Lt. 3. Given how slow I’m taking the game in I guess I’ll never be able to play with you guys.
Lars, not yet but there’s one coming in the Season 1.2 May update according to the most recent Engineering Report.
Level gating and instance splitting (thanks to nonscaling group content) are two of those pesky things that punish grouping. Mind, I’m not a huge fan of grouping, but it shouldn’t be something that’s hard to do if you want to.