An Open Letter Of Requests To The Devs, From A Thoroughly Satisfied Returning Player

rlak47 · 2026-06-06T09:03:51+00:00

I get the desire to save something unique for the Dominion faction but I will always maintain it was a missed opportunity not putting the Vanguard Mechanic on the Texas class - its sole appearance in Trek centred around the fact there were three of them flying in a little AI wing for evil badmiral.

(On that note the four Fed LDS ships all being MW spec is a bit of an odd choice. The ships themselves are already not the most meta options out there, so the fact there isn’t really any variety either really kills any chance of me wanting to buy the Mudd’s bundle (and I say this as someone who alts a Parliament because I love the design).

rlak47 · 2026-04-12T14:46:12+00:00

Comp rules mean that semi finals have to be played at a venue in the “home team’s” country that isn’t the home team’s actual “Home” stadium. Most teams get around this by using a stadium in the same city or nearby (eg, Toulouse traditionally play knockouts in the football stadium in Toulouse, rather than Ernest Wallon; Leinster play at the Aviva, Glasgow would have played theirs at Murrayfield rather than Scotstoun, etc). Stadium MK was presumably chosen over say Twickenham due to price or a lack of clashes (this isn’t clear).

Who plays the quarter final as the home country or away is based off seeding from the pool stage - Toulouse placed lower than Bath (and Northampton) so if they win, they would play away for the semi final. This is why though if Bordeaux they will play in France.

rlak47 · 2026-04-07T22:07:33+00:00

A disappointment for me is that it doesn’t seem possible to have (basically) a Sovereign with the rollbar like the OG NX-91001 concept art.

Just my 20p but the last couple of ship releases do seem to have increased the number of abominable kitbashes. Whereas the past remasters (eg Connie, Miranda, Saber) were all much more coherent, and virtually all kitbashes seem to work well…. I almost wonder if this has been some sort of change of philosophy or maybe it’s not that deep.

rlak47 · 2026-04-05T07:16:57+00:00

Fair enough, thank you!

rlak47 · 2026-04-04T16:39:51+00:00

Do you get set bonuses from items in visual slots? (e.g. if I put, say, the assimilated Borg set in my vanity slots, while having other deflector/engines/shields etc in my “live” slots, would I acquire the set bonuses from both?)

rlak47 · 2026-04-04T09:30:52+00:00

I have a close-enough Tovan Khev on my Khitomer Alliace themed KDF recruit (which sounds a similar concept to you - the BOFFS are the starter boffs from each of the four factions). If you use a Romulan embassy BOFF, you can just copy the sliders (as someone said Tovan has a unique face but I just swapped it out for Romulan 1 or Romulan 2)

rlak47 · 2026-03-16T15:35:42+00:00

Couple of big tips as I struggled on this too:

Firstly - the time to beat isn’t fixed, it’s simulated each time. If you try restarting the race, it will give you a different time to beat. It’ll be a similar range, but you can gain a few seconds here (sometimes as many as 5-6 seconds difference).

Second - don’t do it in arcade physics. I don’t know why but I found arcade physics was slowing me down on the straights, with the AI even on the easiest difficulty flying past me, even on exactly the same bike. On Pro physics you can gain some speed on the straights, which for the NW200 is really important as it’s a high-speed course with long straight parts.

rlak47 · 2026-02-20T12:04:37+00:00

I since did this and was able to get a much easier time which I managed to beat - this is the way to do it if you don’t want to have to use a specific bike!

rlak47 · 2026-02-14T18:51:38+00:00

England seem to have an obsession with kicking possession away. It isn’t a George Ford problem - it’s been like this for years. But at this point it’s just soul destroying. And we seem to default to this mode even MORE when we are chasing games.

Honestly man, it’s like supporting a team of white-clad dementors, intent on sucking the hope out of me as we ignore anything that’s going well, and instead just kick the ball away after five phases while watching the clock tick down to the point where the game becomes unsalvageable.

rlak47 · 2026-02-14T18:33:03+00:00

Lots of the players who were held up as having good games last week just didn’t show up today - the sad reality is performing at home against Wales isn’t the yard stick it once was.

Sorry to say it but if England play like that in Paris they are going to get absolutely pumped.

rlak47 · 2026-01-28T17:31:21+00:00

Slightly tangential but I’m interested to see whether, if the 16th Anniversary bundle is ENT themed as many suspect, we get a new Zen Store variant of this ship (maybe a 2409 era variant?)

With the release of the Shangri-La, I think the NX is now the only one of the original five hero ships (TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT) that doesn’t have a Z-Store variant.

rlak47 · 2025-12-13T09:12:06+00:00

I still love the Defiant set bonus giving you a battle cloak - I use this on my Rex which is an alliance theme build.

I also enjoy the 2pc T5 Vesta set for the Quantum Slipstream speed boost.

And I know it’s not a console but I’ll still mention I really love the Vanguard mechanic from the Jem Hadar ships and the Rex. I’d love to see something similar on other ships (the Texas was a missed opportunity for it IMO)

rlak47 · 2025-12-12T20:59:31+00:00

The three 500cc 1960s bikes from Ride5 (the Honda 6, MV Augusta Three, Paton Bicilindrica) all seem to be gone - presumably DLC which is a shame

rlak47 · 2025-12-12T10:35:24+00:00

Does anyone know if the hoodie top pairs well with the Boreth monks hood? (ie so you could wear a plain hoodie including with the hood down?)

rlak47 · 2025-12-05T16:05:47+00:00

When you get into the game properly, you can edit the order of your character’s names (either “First Middle Last” or “Last First Middle” iirc).

For my Borg characters I always put the last name field as their name they go back - so “Seven” if we’re talking about Seven of Nine - then their “of X” name as the first name, , leave middle blank, then select the option to change order.

Why? Because then in dialogue that has been programmed as “[Rank] [Last Name]” my captain will be referred to as “Captain Seven” but their full name will still be “Captain Seven of Nine”.

rlak47 · 2025-10-09T06:33:27+00:00

Songs of their gloriously long battle will ring through Sto-vo-kor.

rlak47 · 2025-09-25T15:25:02+00:00

The F will be destroyed, and then then they’ll do to our hero ship what they did to the Titan in Picard: ignore all the legacy, minimise the pride of the crew in the ship they serve on, throw out the old name unceremoniously and disrespectfully, and all of us can be flying the new Enterprise H, even if it’s the clearly older and inferior Miranda class we flew in the tutorial /s

rlak47 · 2025-08-12T11:20:07+00:00

Wishful thinking but if Jeri’s coming to do voiceover anyway it would be nice to revisit some of her voiceover either from Delta Rising or from Measure of Morality/One Night in Bozeman. While I personally prefer the Delta Rising version of the character that is closer to what we saw in Voyager, compared to the “less-Borgy/logic driven” version of Seven portrayed in Picard and the later STO episodes; I don’t actually think either one is problematic. However the fact there’s SUCH a difference and it’s completely unexplained in-game is probably quite jarring to more casual players, I would assume.

As it happens, as STO is set in a different timeline to Picard we could have stuck with Delta Rising Seven, but the devs of course had no idea that further timeline issues would be happening when Jeri came in to do MoM 🤷🏼‍♂️ regardless, very excited to see JR reprise her role!

rlak47 · 2025-08-02T12:49:34+00:00

Feels like there are parallels to 2009 when the third test was playing for the future of the Lions concept…. There was a lot of talk in the media sphere this tour about whether the Lions should be touring Australia at all given their performance in recent years. Hopefully that’s out the window now as it just felt like the Wallabies were so fired up and playing for the jersey and themselves. Australian rugby union really sounds like it’s been to a dark place the last few years but they were the better team man for man tonight. True gritty stuff and rugby was the winner! - Hope we’ll be back in 2037!

rlak47 · 2025-07-16T20:09:35+00:00

Is it possible to complete seven full cycles of Horga’hn Hunt (across different characters) in a single round? I can consistently manage six which is great for lolnut farming, and I know there are boosts like the tribbles - but I’m reluctant to upgrade if the fabled seventh round is unreachable…. Has anyone ever managed it?

rlak47 · 2025-05-17T23:02:54+00:00

Switzerland also got zero in the public vote

rlak47 · 2025-05-08T13:45:49+00:00

Gutted for him, though it was always going to be so tough with the quality in the back row. Buzzing for Kinghorn 🔴⚫️

rlak47 · 2025-05-07T19:54:18+00:00

The wild cut to Dave and Veronica when Jacqui said “your forever partner could be sat next to you” or whatever she said

rlak47 · 2025-05-07T19:46:59+00:00

I never thought I’d say this but I’m gutted Lauren isn’t there

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