Star Trek Online Oddness
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Star Trek Online is an enjoyable and fun atmosphere for flying around and being an Admiral in Starfleet.
However there are a few pieces of oddness about, and it's hard to cram the data into the bug report window... so here goes.
The Exchange
Apparently much like a tag based image board, CircleMUD style system, or say a wiki there are categories items fit into. Here and there there exist loopholes, or at the very least tag issues with so9me items.
Observe this search for "Plasma Turret mk X" -a Plasma Turret for Rear Admirals and better. Done as an Any Rank to have one less thing to click.
Note the search parameters (Any Quality) (Any Rank) in (All)
Note the search parameters (Common) (Any Rank) in (All)
Note the search parameters (Common) (Any Rank) in (Ship Weapons)
See what I mean?
How would you fix this? Well At this point there is a serious load of legacy data sitting and rotting in the Exchange. If all the recent auctions were bought and paid for, you'd still have at least 20 left over per auction that are festering leftovers from the first weeks the game went live. So would returning all auctions to players help? Not really. Most don't have the room for the load. Some aren't coming back until they can "play their Free Borg Taco Faction and craft Excelsior Class vessels in the Gamma Quadrant for their all Player Character Crews." Some are dead accounts that won't be back for 6 months or more. Thus allowing everyone say unlimited overflow space and then purging the Exchange would be a strain on the character data database. Hell many would jsut jump ship so to speak right there. 'I'm not putting 124262352^24245 auctions back up by hand!' Well maybe you shouldn't sell everything you get -even if you can SEE it's worthless with a search- up on the Exchange.
Rant Rant. Complain Complain. Here I was only trying to make note of an odd situation and here I am bickering at the wall -.-;
Anyfey, I can't be the only one who sometimes forgoes the dearth of whittle downs in favor of just spelling out what I'm looking for. Not like we can specify "No Disruptor Turret Mk X in results" or " Exact Match: 'Impulse Engine mk X'" but at least Common shouldn't miss things only under Ship Weapons.
