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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Expansions , Previews , News Items , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play Just because you’re playing a Romulan in Star Trek Online ’s first expansion doesn’t mean every other Romulan is your friend. Empress Sela’s Tal Shiar are a huge threat not just to the nascent Romulan Republic but to all sentient life throughout the galaxy, epitomized with their insectoid ships that fuse Romulan, Borg, and Elachi technology together. Needless to say, these ships are never good to see on the horizon.

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It’s a ship in a box in Star Trek Online

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , MMO Industry , Neverwinter , Buy-to-Play This weekend, a massive exploit plagued Perfect World Entertainment ’s Neverwinter beta as players discovered a way to make billions off of the auction house and Astral Diamond Exchange. After initially closing the economy to explore the company’s options, PWE decided to do a seven-hour rollback of the servers that affects the progress made between 5:20 a.m. PDT (8:20 a.m.

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Neverwinter returns with seven-hour rollback after exploit

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Expansions , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , News Items , PvE , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play Cryptic is pumping out the Star Trek Online dev blogs as the game’s Legacy of Romulus expansion draws near. The latest comes to us from content designer Sean ” Commander Ander ” McCann, and it’s all about the Nimbus adventure zone

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STO’s Legacy of Romulus expansion adding Nimbus adventure zone

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Expansions , Game Mechanics , Lore , Patches , Endgame , Opinion , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play , Captain’s Log Now that Star Trek Online’s expansion, The Legacy of Romulus has moved into open beta on the Tribble test server, I think it’s high time I wrote about one of the biggest changes the game has ever seen. It’s not just about what will occur in the game’s story; it’s how the story is being told

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Captain’s Log: Story takes center stage in Star Trek Online

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Filed under: Massively Meta , Livestream , Miscellaneous , The Stream Team Nothing beats an MLT, especially when the tomato is nice and ripe! Except maybe Massively TV . MMmm mmmm.

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The Stream Team: MLT edition, May 13 – 19, 2013

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Filed under: Fantasy , Patches , Previews , Free-to-Play , Neverwinter Cryptic’s got a tiny surprise for Neverwinter players today: a teaser page for its module 1 update . The studio posted a splash page featuring a mystical forest with the phrase “They would seize from the moon the way to ruin and riches” floating above it.

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Neverwinter teases module 1 update

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Patches , Free-to-Play , Neverwinter , Player-Generated Content Cryptic is cracking down on player-created missions that utilize certain exploits to gain XP faster than normal in Neverwinter’s Foundry. While the studio temporarily banned authors for making these missions in the Foundry, it looks as though a recent patch has addressed the situation by “tweaking” the amount of XP that a player can gain within a set period of time. Apparently some Foundry authors had been creating missions designed to pay out the maximum amount of XP by allowing near-nonstop combat.

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Neverwinter counters Foundry exploit by nerfing XP rate

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Filed under: Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Lord of the Rings Online , Expansions , Game Mechanics , Patches , Opinion , Star Trek Online , Hands-On , Captain’s Log In just over two weeks, Star Trek Online’s first expansion, The Legacy of Romulus , will be released. The developers at Cryptic Studios have been working furiously, and we’ll all get to see the results of all of the hard work on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013. I’ve had the opportunity to jump into the Star Trek Online’s test server, Tribble, to catch a few glimpses of some of the character works in progress.

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Captain’s Log: Playing with Legacy of Romulus characters in Star Trek Online

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Expansions , News Items , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play , Dev Diaries Star Trek Online ’s Legacy of Romulus expansion is slated for release in just over two weeks from now, and if you’ve been keeping up with the onslaught of dev diaries, you know that means new ships , new fashions , and of course, new playable alien species. The most recent dev diary from the folks at Cryptic Studios focuses on the Romulans’ slightly nastier counterparts, the Remans. Players will be able to unlock Remans as a playable species in one of two ways: They can either purchase it from the C-Store (standalone or as part of the Legacy Pack) or “achieve Tier 5 in the New Romulus Reputation.” Remans, of course, come with their own unique racial traits, including the powerful Mind Drain ability, described as “a powerful single-target psychic attack which drains vital essence from the victim to the caster.” Sounds rather unpleasant to us.

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Star Trek Online dev diary details new species: The Remans

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Culture , News Items , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play , Dev Diaries No expansion is complete without its own fashion spread. Star Trek Online is covering its bases with the most recent Legacy of Romulus dev blog, which goes into the process of designing the Romulan Republic uniforms

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Star Trek Online showcases Romulan uniforms

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