What do you like in STO season 2?

I've heard a lot of bellyaching about S2, but how about some love for the game and its developers.

So here's a thread for people to post what they like about STO in general, and S2 in particular. Feel free to post more than once. Share the love!

The thing I love most about the game overall is the attention to detail in the world design. I get the impression the devs are as devoted to Star Trek as a lot of us are.

One example of things that made me smile in S2 is the warped glass (or more likely transparent aluminum) in the Klingon mess hall windows. (I think that's where it was--somewhere on the Klingon ship interior.) What a fabulous effect, and a great way to indicate a difference between them and the Feds!

Your turn!

Im enjoying it, it has a few minor issues, but im sure they will be fixed in the not too distant future. The Diplo is a good addition. I think they did a good job.

I love diplomacy. I'm trying to get to Ambassador as quickly as possible. I can't wait to get an Intrepid with Ablative hull armor. I think ship interiors is a nice addition, but i'd really like some differentiation or functionality to it.

I've loved the Diplomacy missions I've done so far, though however that's been limited to the storyline ones. I haven't gotten to do a First Contact one.

The ship interiors are amazing. For an RPer like me, they are a dream come true. I cant' wait to get more use out of them in the coming weeks as the fleet does more RP events.

The Borg and Undine missions they added in Season 2 are also fantastic. The fluidic space missions were fantastic storywise. This is the first time I've ever been left wanting more from an MMO story!

Well I like that Diplomacy is in, although, it seems to me when the system was designed the Devs were only really thinking about FDX naturally being collected at the same time as skill points, as a character levels up. The system isn't very friendly toward VA1 players looking to start a whole new, separate, branch of advancement. I didn't expect FDX to be easily earnt, but I really wasn't expecting to have to play hide-and-seek with diplomatic missions through exploration sectors just to find them. That sucks a little, but otherwise, pleased its in anyway. And I hear the diplomatic story missions (e.g. Vulcan , etc.) are having the FDX they reward upped from 10, so I'll probably not hurry to get into Diplomacy until that happens.

Of course, I'd been looking forward to ship interiors for a while. Naturally, they need a lot more interactivity and functionality, and I'd love to be able to have a ship's pet (like Spot or Porthos). I've seen the Klingon's Targ pet, and they just follow at their owners' heels unless their pathing bugs. I think it'd be charismatic if you had a pet that lived in your quarters, but was quite capable of breaking out when it felt like it, so you'd just randomly run into it in the corridor, or in Engineering, etc.

I love the Slip-Stream drive, even though they've been pretty Scrooge with the duration. To be honest, on the whole there's nothing that's blown me away as 'awesome', but that's not what I was looking for in it. There are some good improvements generally (really looking forward to the new style sector space rolling to the rest of the galaxy, for instance), and the foundations for some great improvements in the future. So for now, I'm happy... :-)

I definitely agree that diplomacy is not friendly to VA1 players. However, that said, I think it's good they're encouraging players to create a new toon. I'm really looking forward to playing my LC Science toon now that I have this extra track to play with!

I like the Diplomacy missions. Especially that one where you mediate between the 2 Cardassians. The name escapes me atm, but you have to prove that one of them is not a True Way sympathizer. That felt really Star Trek-ish.

I haven't done any of the 1st contact missions yet, but I'm looking forward to them.

Oh, and I like the big spaceships visible through the windows of the Earth starbase. (Yeah, I'm all about aesthetics. Sue me, I'm gay!) ;)

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Oh, and I like the big spaceships visible through the windows of the Earth starbase. (Yeah, I'm all about aesthetics. Sue me, I'm gay!) ;)

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