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    FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Meh, it's pretty hard to play or even communicate with all the lag. :x

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    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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    DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Okay, I got through the tutorials only for the thing to hang at a loading screen when entering earth spacedock.

    Space combat looks pretty damned amazing, but is an enormous pain. Is there some way I can set ship weapons to autofire so I only have to worry about manuvering? Managing both is a headache I don't want to deal with.

    Gonna go post some bugs to their forums now, I think.

    Did anyone else see the 5'12" bug?

    You can set 2 ship weapons to auto fire by right clicking them. You'll know you did it right if they have a green box around the icons. You still have to initiate, but it continues them from there.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ha made it to level 3, clicked to go back to sector space, server crashes

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    DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hardtarget wrote: »
    ha made it to level 3, clicked to go back to sector space, server crashes

    The launcher doesnt even work for me at the moment.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    aww boo i was playing for a good house and now i can't get back in *sniff*

    edit - any time the sever crashes i'm making sure just to leave the game open and not go back to the launcher

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    DudBoltDudBolt Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    so I decide it was time to leave space dock. I ordered my crew to beam me up. Loading screen pops up. it goes away and apparently I am completely invisible and it failed to beam me to my ship. So now I am this disembodied ghost running around in space and, while the thought amuses me, all I want to do is fly around in space.

    I tried re-logging into the game and it's back to it's old shenanigans with it's log in servers. I'm itching for more, but it won't let me!

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    MordrackMordrack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Decoy wrote: »
    Okay, I got through the tutorials only for the thing to hang at a loading screen when entering earth spacedock.

    Space combat looks pretty damned amazing, but is an enormous pain. Is there some way I can set ship weapons to autofire so I only have to worry about manuvering? Managing both is a headache I don't want to deal with.

    Gonna go post some bugs to their forums now, I think.

    Did anyone else see the 5'12" bug?

    You can set 2 ship weapons to auto fire by right clicking them. You'll know you did it right if they have a green box around the icons. You still have to initiate, but it continues them from there.
    It's also not any two. It's one fore and one aft.

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    AeolusdallasAeolusdallas Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    My character in SPACE!!!!
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    DudBoltDudBolt Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    he is quite literally, his own star ship.

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    DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Mordrack wrote: »
    Decoy wrote: »
    Okay, I got through the tutorials only for the thing to hang at a loading screen when entering earth spacedock.

    Space combat looks pretty damned amazing, but is an enormous pain. Is there some way I can set ship weapons to autofire so I only have to worry about manuvering? Managing both is a headache I don't want to deal with.

    Gonna go post some bugs to their forums now, I think.

    Did anyone else see the 5'12" bug?

    You can set 2 ship weapons to auto fire by right clicking them. You'll know you did it right if they have a green box around the icons. You still have to initiate, but it continues them from there.
    It's also not any two. It's one fore and one aft.

    Ah thanks Mordrack. I just assumed give the auto fire to my to highest phasers pointing in each directions. I wonder why they restrict you to 2.

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    CorbiusCorbius Shepard Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Heh, even the sto website is being slow. Servers are crying out in pain. Its glorious.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    haha that's the best bug

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    AeolusdallasAeolusdallas Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DudBolt wrote: »
    he is quite literally, his own star ship.
    That's just how i roll :mrgreen:

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    MordrackMordrack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ships, on land!
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    PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    That's... that's new.

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    DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Today was apparently a good day for the servers to die.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    beta was fun
    than it crashed again
    now i'm sad :(
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    i was pewpewing against some orion raiders

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    kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Decoy wrote: »
    Okay, I got through the tutorials only for the thing to hang at a loading screen when entering earth spacedock.

    Space combat looks pretty damned amazing, but is an enormous pain. Is there some way I can set ship weapons to autofire so I only have to worry about manuvering? Managing both is a headache I don't want to deal with.

    Gonna go post some bugs to their forums now, I think.

    Did anyone else see the 5'12" bug?

    You can set 2 ship weapons to auto fire by right clicking them. You'll know you did it right if they have a green box around the icons. You still have to initiate, but it continues them from there.

    Unless this changed, it's more limited than that: you can set one fore and one aft weapon to auto. Which is lame.

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Decoy wrote: »
    Today was apparently a good day for the servers to die.

    bravo.

    I'm jealous. I want to be in rigid anticipation of the occasional 20 minutes of playtime. I have to work though, it sucks.

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    DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    And now all the maps are full again. I guess I'll load up Animal Crossing and fish for awhile..... at least til the servers come back.

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    InvisibleInvisible Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I made a Betazoid then was promptly told the map was full. :(
    Not shocked since open beta is always this bad, but I was pleased with what I saw of the character creator.

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    ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    God damn it the que for the fileplanet download manager is stuck at 41 minutes. LIES! TERRIBLE LIES!

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    AeolusdallasAeolusdallas Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Invisible wrote: »
    I made a Betazoid then was promptly told the map was full. :(
    Not shocked since open beta is always this bad, but I was pleased with what I saw of the character creator.

    For some reason they rolled back a few of the other pre generated races. I hope they add them back in soon.

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    kildykildy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Invisible wrote: »
    I made a Betazoid then was promptly told the map was full. :(
    Not shocked since open beta is always this bad, but I was pleased with what I saw of the character creator.

    For some reason they rolled back a few of the other pre generated races. I hope they add them back in soon.

    This is apparently the build before the build CB was testing this weekend. Which is a really odd choice, but torpedo buffs cannon nerfs and all are not in this build iirc.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ok a fleet has been made, people in PA Channel can do invites

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    FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The WangFleet is founded. Me (O'Hir@Ferrus88), Hardtarget, Evigilant and Bandros should be able to invite you.

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Sweet! Must get home to play....

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    and with that server crashes again :(

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ok so for those of you with some experience from the Closed Beta, I have a couple questions.

    How soon should I requisition another officer? I've got my starter from the tutorial and I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be advantageous to blow my first bit of credits on a second officer, or if perhaps I should hold off for now. Any of you know if you get any officers as mission rewards soon?

    Also, with regards to skills and crap, I'm a science officer. Anyone have suggestions on kits to use, or what type of ship I should be using?

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    ZeonZeon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    So I pre-ordered off Amazon last night, havent gotten my Beta Key yet.

    Sent them an e-mail last night and thismorning. The reply I got back said to wait till tomorrow at midnight before complaining again.

    Should I complain anyway? Or Call in and complain by voice>?

    I had the same problem, email support again and highlight the fact that the preorder said you would receive your key BEFORE the start of open beta, and that it has infact started. Ask them to look it up for you, they must all be in a database because the guy had mine for me less than 15 minutes after i emailed. Tell them youre going to keep emailing until someone looks it up for you.

    Also people have had success with the phone support, but ive never used it. Apparently it connects you to an american so you might have better luck without the language barrier in the way.

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    AeolusdallasAeolusdallas Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok so for those of you with some experience from the Closed Beta, I have a couple questions.

    How soon should I requisition another officer? I've got my starter from the tutorial and I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be advantageous to blow my first bit of credits on a second officer, or if perhaps I should hold off for now. Any of you know if you get any officers as mission rewards soon?

    Also, with regards to skills and crap, I'm a science officer. Anyone have suggestions on kits to use, or what type of ship I should be using?
    You can get new officers at any time they are not expensive. just talk to the requisition officer. Well Med kits and vascular regenerators are nice if you want to be a healer. Read the stats. Some give you expose's those are important.

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    ben_botben_bot Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Downloading the beta and patching over the next couple days. Maybe I'll get a chance to play a bit by Friday.

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    MasterOfPupetsMasterOfPupets Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Maybe the servers will be to the point you can log in by then...

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    darkmayodarkmayo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok so for those of you with some experience from the Closed Beta, I have a couple questions.

    How soon should I requisition another officer? I've got my starter from the tutorial and I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be advantageous to blow my first bit of credits on a second officer, or if perhaps I should hold off for now. Any of you know if you get any officers as mission rewards soon?

    Also, with regards to skills and crap, I'm a science officer. Anyone have suggestions on kits to use, or what type of ship I should be using?
    You can get new officers at any time they are not expensive. just talk to the requisition officer. Well Med kits and vascular regenerators are nice if you want to be a healer. Read the stats. Some give you expose's those are important.

    The first few episode missions will give you the rest of your officers, now if you hate the skills they have then you would have to buy.

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    PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok so for those of you with some experience from the Closed Beta, I have a couple questions.

    How soon should I requisition another officer? I've got my starter from the tutorial and I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be advantageous to blow my first bit of credits on a second officer, or if perhaps I should hold off for now. Any of you know if you get any officers as mission rewards soon?

    Also, with regards to skills and crap, I'm a science officer. Anyone have suggestions on kits to use, or what type of ship I should be using?
    You can get new officers at any time they are not expensive. just talk to the requisition officer. Well Med kits and vascular regenerators are nice if you want to be a healer. Read the stats. Some give you expose's those are important.
    quests will give you at least two more officers if you want to wait. but you'll probably buy some sooner or later to get what you want anyways.

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    TerroricTerroric Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm game, Terroric@Moon-Guardian. Captain of the U.S.S. Cerberus. I've just pulled into the Earth Spacedock.

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    WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So, apart from server crashes, i'm really enjoying it! It's surprisingly detailed and fun. I am Zolanai of the U.S.S Damocles. Overall it's been quite fun so far. My only gripe is that the skill system can be rather confusing, and I still haven't allocated my points because i'm figuring out what everything does engineer wise.

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    The Count Of Midget FistoThe Count Of Midget Fisto Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm not able to get in the game so I wanted to to take screenshots of all of the Races and traits you can choose, But apparently when you take a screen shot it doesn't save the menu you are looking at. Here's a shot of the character creator without the menu.
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    AeolusdallasAeolusdallas Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm not able to get in the game so I wanted to to take screenshots of all of the Races and traits you can choose, But apparently when you take a screen shot it doesn't save the menu you are looking at.
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    Once you are in game there are /em commands to take pics of the UI

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    goodtimesgoodtimes Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    map is not accepting logins because it is full....

    No que? they literally expect people to spam login info until they hit the lotto and get in?

    strike one

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