Well there is a great gun that tracks the target and the Preds are visable, but with Marines I think you'd have to stick together in order to survive long

I hope star trek will put up more servers this is the reason

their only having one server I think but they are planning to increase the population cap this weekend

That is ridiculous. If they put a population cap on an MMO they're shooting themselves in the foot. "No, we have enough money now thank you. Go away." And to set a purposefully implemented cap so low as to max out after a few days... Stoo-piiid .

( ^Sour grapes; Harewood wants to be able to play when his copy arrives^ )

Hare I normally find that the server is full from 9pm, mainly when the Yanks turn up but problems like this are to be expected on a MMO in it's first week, Aion had the same problem with server population issues

I woundn't be surprise if SWTOR has some type of population cap at the beginning, WoW did have other problems so I've heard as for STO I've not crashed once and it's been one of the better launches I've been in.

Really? Guess I must have been really lucky with WoW - I've been with them since the 2004 closed beta and never had a single issue (except a 10min wait to go through the Dark Portal when it first opened at midnight.)

One thing I REALLY hated about the other recent Cryptic Studios launch - being Champions Online - you actually needed a Credit Card to sign up, even to the trial - this is after you got your box through the post or download from steam btw - so if you didn't have a credit card, you couldn't play.
You couldn't use a debit card or paypal or anything. Unbelievably they didn't fix this FOR A WHOLE WEEK and even then you had to phone a UK or US number (there were no others) to get a rep to "unlock" the game you just paid money for. I personally had to phone up and pretend to be 2 different people to help out some of my mates on steam - one from Sweden and the other from Italy because, believe it or not, Cryptic actually wanted them to phone the UK!

Unbelievably bad form in this day and age.

PLEASE tell me STO lets you sign up with more than just freakin' credit cards....PLEASE say they learnt from only 31% of people who bought the game actually continuing after the trial and subbing up? I quite like ST and I'd hate to see Cryptic balls it up...

well credit cards and Paypal so that a step in the right direction i guess

They added PayPal? Woohoo! I might actually be able to play it!

£29.99 is a fair amount to pay if its not awesome though, I'll wait for those who already have it to put their verdict here; I'd like a game to play with EPOCHians though, I enjoyed the interaction we had going in lotro, even if the game itself got a wee bit dull.

I've never personally been in an MMO at launch, so I've never had first hand experience of any type of problems or population cap.

I suspect it mainly for marketing purposes. They're probably wanting the gaming press to report that the 'response was overwhelming' and folks had to 'que for hours' to get into the game.

I just find it incredible that in this day and age an MMO would get a full release (ie past a capped beta phase) and restrict player nos. Isn't that part of what the open betas are for? To test the infrastructure and stress the servers?

Download Command & Conquer for free free its higly recommended its one of my most favorite games ever.

wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooowww awesome find Nord - I'll be downloading the bad boys for my laptop

...er....assuming they work on Vistard that is.