The main type of mission you tend to get in mmorpgs is kill x amount of mobs to gain y amount of items and then repeat in a different location with the location and it’s design being the main thing that changes. Doing the same thing over and over again can be acceptable if the location and mobs vary enough to hide the fact that you are doing the same thing but this is where STO falls down badly.

STO’s version of this is to fly around a planet whilst killing or scanning x amount of mobs or items which is ok at first until you then have to do it again and the only thing that has changed is the planets texture and the models for the ships you’re destroying or the items you’re meant to be scanning. It really does feel like you’re doing the same mission over and over again with nothing but cosmetic changes.

Unfortunately ground missions aren’t much better and tend to be of the scan item x and then scan four or five more items of that type or fight your way to a location before fighting your way back out but the combat is lacklustre and the locations are bland and lifeless. It was one of these missions that I played today which finally convinced me to give the game up. Fighting through a Klingon base to then defend a computer console (yet again) whilst data uploads is fun at a first but not when this is the third mission with the same type of objectives that you’ve seen and you’re only LVL 12.

Like I say I’m only LVL 12 but if the repetition is getting to be unbearable this early on in the game I dread to think what it will be like later. Obviously these aren’t the only types of missions that you will be given but they are repeated so often that it feels that way,  in fact I get the impression that the game has been so rushed that in order to get enough missions in there for release they opted for this copy and paste approach.

My biggest gripe with the game though is the fact that it’s almost entirely instanced and to be honest it feels like the multiplayer aspect of a single player game rather than a true mmorpg. On the plus side though the large fleet space battles are a lot of fun and for me they are the best part of the game but not good enough to make me pay the £10 odd a month that they think they can charge for an unfinished game.

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Next time I must remember to take a lens cloth.

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The good news is that I received the 16GB RCP-I-S7016-C yesterday and it works fine, was very easy to install and has made my XP installation run far quicker than it had previously even though I’d already upgraded the memory to 2GB.

I don’t know if all models of Runcore SSDs built for eeePCs will work and I don’t know if the model number mentioned will work with different versions of  the 701 but if you have a 701SD it’s worth getting.

To install it’s simply a matter of removing the back panel of the eeePC and then replacing the original SSD by removing a couple of screws. One thing to keep in mind is that you will have to reinstall your operating system so you will either need an external DVD drive or a bootable memory device with the needed files.

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I’m not sure what album the original was originally released on but it can be found on I Put a Spell on You: The Best of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. The cover is on the Marilyn Manson album Smells Like Children.

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The song covered is A Small Victory by Faith No More and it has been given a very strange reworking by Germ Theory with vocals that sound for the most part like they have been sung under water or highly distorted and instruments that go from being very clear to blasts of distortion and static noise this isn’t going to be for everyone.

A Small Victory can be found on Faith No More’s album Angel Dust whilst the cover is on Tribute Of The Year A Tribute To Faith No More.

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This is what caused my dillema as it’s an album full of covers all done in a heavy metal style and pretty much everyone of them is worth a different versions post. Unfortunately as I’m trying not to use any particular artist more than once for these posts it left me with the difficult choice of just picking one of the tracks.

In the end I decided to go for the cover of Ring of Fire as whilst it’s not my favourite track on the album it’s the track that I originally set out to find and by sticking with it it makes my life a little easier.

The original version is by Johnny Cash and can be found on his Ring of Fire album whilst the cover can be found on Leningrad Cowboys Zombies Paradise.

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Seems to be pretty good value at £11.99 but I might take that back after I’ve seen the film.

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