However, I’m not going to be playing Rift today because Star Trek Online’s 3rd Feature Episode series, focusing on the Romulans, begins tomorrow. Once that happens, the special end reward from the second series, the Ophidian Cane, will no longer be awarded, so I need to deal with those pesky Devidians tonight. Not because I particularly need the cane, nice though it is, but I can never stand [...]

STO: In which I rush to defeat the Devidians is a post from: Ark's Ark

The Rift beta NDA has dropped while I’ve [...]

In Which The Best Is Yet To Come is a post from: Ark's Ark

This is a major update, with a lot of features that players have been waiting for. I’ve included the patch notes under this brief post, but I’m particularly looking forward to the newly expanded crafting. From the sounds of it, the Federation will actually be [...]

Star Trek Online Season 3 to launch today. is a post from: Ark's Ark

My greatest annoyance though was how, when I cancelled my subscription, it was re-activated and they carried on charging me for a couple of months. I am not a rich [...]

Star Trek Online: The Return of Arkturos Reh. is a post from: Ark's Ark

Imagine my surprise when leafing through this month’s bank statement, I saw that I was still being billed.

In fact, I was billed twice. On the 5th of March they initially billed me 30 dollars. Then they billed me another 15 dollars, just for fun. Then they refunded the thirty dollars. Of course, they didn’t refund the international transaction fees I [...]

Star Trek Online won’t take no for an answer. Reactivates account and bills me. is a post from: Ark's Ark

Maps that are confirmed to be causing this include Cracked Planetoids, and Shanty Town, but my advice would be to avoid all PvP until it [...]

Star Trek Online: PvP Skill-Loss Issues Plague the Galaxy is a post from: Ark's Ark

Jackalope, on the Champions Online forum yesterday:

100% of our focus is on making the current PC product the best it can be. There are no current plans for a console version of Champions.

Some guy, a couple of months back, talking about Star Trek Online:

1. [...]

On designing MMOs for both PCs and Consoles. is a post from: Ark's Ark

For a time, Atari.com displayed a new offer. Star Trek Online’s price was dropped by 10 dollars, and it came with an additional 60 days of playtime, adding to the 30 days you’d normally get, for a full quarter of a year of playtime.

It was an excellent idea, in my opinion. 90 days would give Cryptic long enough to prove that they intend to do great things [...]

Star Trek Online – I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further. is a post from: Ark's Ark

The great STO meme is “Where’s Sulu?”. New players would often not be able to find him, even though he was standing in the same room as Admiral Quinn, the man who told you to speak to him. This was tackled by adding random NPC comments down in the starbase stating exactly where he was. Apparently this was still not enough, as from today he will be added to your contact list at level 2, meaning [...]

Star Trek Online ST.0.20100217c.4 patch notes, 18th February 2010 is a post from: Ark's Ark

My favourite change is that the annoying wait after completing an exploration mission should be gone too, making it much easier to build up a decent stack of [...]

Star Trek Online ST.0.20100208b.4 patch notes, 11th February 2010 is a post from: Ark's Ark

Ramming Speed!

The Crystalline Entity fleet action, found in the level 15-19 Alpha Centauri sector block, is similar to a simple public quest in Warhammer Online. The table on [...]

Star Trek Online : Ramming Speed is a post from: Ark's Ark

The new Character Selection Screen for STO.

This time around, instead of going for a Science Vessel, which are the most heavily shielded, and of middling manoeuvrability, I have gone for an Escort. Escorts are much quicker on their toes, and have most of [...]

Ongoing Star Trek Online thoughts, and ST.0.20100202a.3 patch notes. is a post from: Ark's Ark