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DonDoodles: Aug 18, 2010; by general anime

brodoyouevengif posted:

Today was the first time i've logged onto STO in almost a year. Drozana, my favorite place, has clearly been ruined. Thanks Cryptic/Perfect World. I also see that they've added traits now? Last time I was on, I hit tier 5 omega rep, then was fairly burnt out after that.

It's all about Disco and Risa right now. The only people who come to Droz worth messing with are Suzanna (in a show of defiance), Corsairs of Shadow, and occasionally Grom.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:37

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# ? May 9, 2024 22:48

brodoyouevengif: Jun 15, 2013; The pubbie blood must flow for le mighty Brodo.

DonDoodles posted:

It's all about Disco and Risa right now. The only people who come to Droz worth messing with are Suzanna (in a show of defiance), Corsairs of Shadow, and occasionally Grom.

Yea I went and bought a full body wetsuit and made it to match skin color. Constant threats in pm's of people saying, "I'm reporting you", or "There's children playing this game". It's good to be back. There certainly is a noticeable amount of bots on Risa though farming favors.

Also, can I get access on the wiki? Same name as here, just never registered before.

brodoyouevengif fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Jul 1, 2014

# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:56

EnnuiDay: Jul 4, 2008

I'd love to get an invite to the channel since I've almost gotten my Romulan KDF character to 50. As my neckbeard is thick and willpower weak, I jumped in headfirst and bought a LTS. I am so lost.

sarok@treker20 <- game
sarok <- wiki

# ? Jul 1, 2014 19:55

MapleCarnage: Dec 30, 2010

Just started playing about an hour ago and I have no idea what the gently caress oh god please help. Also I would like an invite to the channel in-game and access to the wiki as well please. I'm Ruvol@maplecarnage in-game and maplecarnage on the wiki. Thanks.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 20:09

naz1911: Feb 10, 2014

Anything worth coming back to in season 9 or is is the same old rebadged garbage Craptic are famous for?

# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:50

brodoyouevengif: Jun 15, 2013; The pubbie blood must flow for le mighty Brodo.

naz1911 posted:

Anything worth coming back to in season 9 or is is the same old rebadged garbage Craptic are famous for?

Undine rep & ships is all that i'm really interested that i've seen so far.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 04:14

Tighclops: Jan 23, 2008; Unable to deal with it; Grimey Drawer

naz1911 posted:

Anything worth coming back to in season 9 or is is the same old rebadged garbage Craptic are famous for?

Post more then come back and ask that

# ? Jul 2, 2014 04:16

Korgan: Feb 14, 2012

brodoyouevengif posted:

Yea I went and bought a full body wetsuit and made it to match skin color. Constant threats in pm's of people saying, "I'm reporting you", or "There's children playing this game". It's good to be back. There certainly is a noticeable amount of bots on Risa though farming favors.

Also, can I get access on the wiki? Same name as here, just never registered before.

EnnuiDay posted:

I'd love to get an invite to the channel since I've almost gotten my Romulan KDF character to 50. As my neckbeard is thick and willpower weak, I jumped in headfirst and bought a LTS. I am so lost.

sarok@treker20 <- game
sarok <- wiki

MapleCarnage posted:

Just started playing about an hour ago and I have no idea what the gently caress oh god please help. Also I would like an invite to the channel in-game and access to the wiki as well please. I'm Ruvol@maplecarnage in-game and maplecarnage on the wiki. Thanks.

You're all invited to TheNextGooneration and/or the wiki.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:49

Mondian: Apr 24, 2007

naz1911 posted:

Anything worth coming back to in season 9 or is is the same old rebadged garbage Craptic are famous for?

Hey, haven't seen ya in a long while. Same poo poo, plus an extra long and grindy new crafting system for marginally improved gear.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 06:10

LordCo: Jun 25, 2005

News from the Cote d'Ivoire front...

Chuck has finally been granted membership in COCK and proudly displays his certificate:

His friends join him in his moment of joy:

Now he starts the long, long process of obtaining funding for his re-education. Initially he wanted to study Business Administration, but in a recent letter to Bishop Gash Vagisil he changed his mind and decided that his path to fame and fortune was in the lucrative field of Water Borehole Drilling.

Within the next week he get a copy of the Educational Grant brochure and from there I'll have to make it up on the fly.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:56

Aleth: Aug 2, 2008; Pillbug

/\ Amazing.

Speaking of crafting...

quote:

Secondly, let�s talk about Traits! After your crew has spent countless hours studying the inner workings of their technology, they emerge with a greater knowledge of how it works in combat. This is represented by Trait unlocks at Level 15 of each school. Keep in mind that all of this is on our Tribble Test Server right now and is subject to change, but presently, here is how the R&D Traits work:

Beams
On activating Beam skill, gain 2% Beam damage for 20 sec. Stacks x3.
Cannons
On activating Cannon skill, gain +1 Turn Rate, +1 Inertia for 20 sec. Stacks x3.
Projectiles
Your Torpedoes and Mines penetrate an extra 10% of your target�s shields
Shields & Arrays
Activating a Shield Heal gives the target 99% Shield DR for 1 second
Science
Your Particle Generator skill gives up to 25% bonus Crit chance on Science powers (at 100 PartGens)
Engineering
Activating any Engineering Bridge Officer ability gives 20% Damage Reduction for 3 seconds.
Ground Weapons
All of your ground weapon attacks penetrate 10 armor rating.

Finally, there are some unique item modifiers, or �mods�, that can only be found on items created by the R&D system. These item modifiers have a chance to appear on any crafted item of Blue quality or higher. Here are some example mods for various types of item � as with the traits, all of these are subject to change pending testing on Tribble:

Beams:
[Over] � This mod gives all of its weapons� attacks a small chance to trigger a free Beam Overload for the next beam weapon that fires.
Cannons:
[Rapid] � This mod gives all of its weapons� attacks a small chance to trigger a 4 second duration Cannon Rapid Fire buff.
Torpedo:
[Pen] � This mod causes all of its weapons attacks to ignore 10 points of Damage Resistance Rating on their target.
Shield:
[Amp] � This mod increases the strength of all heals used on the equipped starship by 10%.
Engines:
[Damp] � This mod increases the owner�s resistance to all crowd control effects.
Deflector:
[CdrS] � This mod grants Cooldown Reduction on all non-damaging Science powers.
Ground Weapons:
[Run] � This mod increases the run speed of the owner by 20%.

Depending on the proc chance on some of these this could be quite horrific.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 08:46

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Apparently if you crit on crafting mods to your crafting-endgame items, you get an Ultra-Rare Ultraviolet quality item instead of a Very Rare Purple.

Also, people who understand stats, how does the New Aegis Set bear up?

quote:

Ground Weapons:
[Run] � This mod increases the run speed of the owner by 20%.

I MUST HAVE THIS ON EVERY CHARACTER not for combat just for impatience

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jul 2, 2014

# ? Jul 2, 2014 09:03

FrostyJones: Sep 23, 2012

No way to tell what the baseline stats are for the Shields and Engines. I would assume that the cap on the shield will be much higher because it's a Covariant, but the +resists are the armor type; so it will count for hull, not shields.

The Engines may be slow for Hyper-Impulse, but the defense bonus looks good for speedtank ships that don't need the inertia bonus from the Counter Command Engines.

The Deflector is nothing special in my eyes.

From what I recall, the set will be Bind to Account, and if old versions get bumped up to be BoA along with the upgrade... The set will be really good for alts when they hit 50.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 10:50

Lafarg: Jul 23, 2012

naz1911 posted:

Anything worth coming back to in season 9 or is is the same old rebadged garbage Craptic are famous for?

I smell a Panda

# ? Jul 2, 2014 14:03

Burning_Monk: Jan 11, 2005; Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know

FrostyJones posted:

No way to tell what the baseline stats are for the Shields and Engines. I would assume that the cap on the shield will be much higher because it's a Covariant, but the +resists are the armor type; so it will count for hull, not shields.

The Engines may be slow for Hyper-Impulse, but the defense bonus looks good for speedtank ships that don't need the inertia bonus from the Counter Command Engines.

The Deflector is nothing special in my eyes.

From what I recall, the set will be Bind to Account, and if old versions get bumped up to be BoA along with the upgrade... The set will be really good for alts when they hit 50.

If it is BoA, that will most likely speed things up a lot since you can use alts for other Schools.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:13

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

Also for the record, existing Aegis sets are going to be upgraded. And the set bonuses;

Cryptic posted:

2pc: Energy Negation: Every 30 seconds, gain a buff that completely negates the next incoming hit.
3pc: Energy Feedback Conductor: Long recharge click power. Gives +100 Res All Energy, Reduces Shield damage taken by 30%. 10 sec duration. For each second while this buff is active that you take Energy Damage, gain +2% bonus energy damage for 10 seconds. Duration of buff refreshes with each hit.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:30

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

I'm surprised they didn't throw a warp core in.

# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:23

Mr Wikstroem: Nov 22, 2007; And now you read this in a seally Svedisch accent Jå?

MikeJF posted:

I'm surprised they didn't throw a warp core in.

Too much work since then they'd have to make a singularity as well or the sheer amount of whining would DDOS the servers.

# ? Jul 3, 2014 04:08

JuffoWup: Mar 28, 2012

Bloodly posted:

Yes, both are viable. The Luxury Cruiser is essentially a fleet Excelsior, trading some minor base HP for better turn and inertia(And the Excelsior is already best in it's class for turning and speed).

The Corvette I can't speak on effectively. I understand it's basically the fastest possible ship, and gets defence bonuses over and above the standard for going so fast. So what if it's paper-it should never be hit with how fast it can go, more so now Counter-Command is giving out engineering consoles with +defence. It's so fast the general escort recommendation for cannons and full-frontal assault goes out the window because you're likely to fly right past your target in half a second.

Going back a bit to this but.. fartcelsior for everyone! Oh, and you get green cloud from the impulse engines using the undine rep shield.

# ? Jul 3, 2014 05:38

Tuskin38: May 1, 2013; Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.

I don't know if anyone cares about uniforms here, but here are the new Fleet Odyssey Variants, they just hit tribble.

Here is the "Dress Uniform" Variant

There are 4 of them: Command, Science, Operation and "Generic" all they change is the badge on the shoulder strap. There are also 2 new combadges, the one seen there, plus a variant without the gold backing. Also has its own belt

http://puu.sh/9VLUq/9d30f6fab0.jpg

Here is the "Tactical Variant" Only one of these. The pockets on the arms and legs are optional. They under arm and leg attachments. has its own belt

http://puu.sh/9VMiR/7aec0bee6f.jpg

There is also a 200 Day vet variant. Only a top for this version. This is for all 200 day vets, not a fleet uniform.

http://puu.sh/9VMo5/62ca6d1518.jpg

# ? Jul 4, 2014 00:52

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

Huh, the klingon Bortas one in yet too?

I'm kinda glad they're moving to the Odyssey ones as standard though. I never hated the old Jupiter ones, but they both have crappy low-res textures these days and never felt quite "right" as Fed uniforms.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:04

Berke Negri: Feb 15, 2012; Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao

I heard the fleet KDF will be the new "default" uniform which thank god because all the KDF stuff is crap. And the fleet version will get a new look too.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:16

Dely Apple: Apr 22, 2006; Sing me Spanish Techno

I was wondering how I got the standard belt everyone in Starfleet wears.

Which doesn't matter at all I guess since I'm a Fedrom and we don't get to wear anything except catsuits.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:35

Tuskin38: May 1, 2013; Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.

Asimo posted:

Huh, the klingon Bortas one in yet too?

Yeah, the Fleet Bortasqu uniforms are free for KDF players, they're not NPC standard like the Odyssey uniforms are though.

Anyone who has bought the odyssey uniform on live already will get the 2 new variants for free, you will need to grab them from the fleet tailor store.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:42

the Pixies fukken SUCKED: Jul 16, 2003; Figure 2 in a series of 3

Jaris was really really mad that i picked up his command marks running through the point he captured. I felt like pointing out to zonechat what an upstanding citizen he was.

quote:

[Tell] Jaris@RedSartgate: gently caress CHICKEN AFFRAIND YOULL GETR YOUR rear end KICK

http://pastebin.com/Qgc6AJdr

# ? Jul 5, 2014 19:12

Lagomorphic: Apr 21, 2008; AKA: Orthonormal

Nice, you should really have a separate tab setup for grabbing pastebins that has stuff like NoP PS filtered out. Just set one up with only tells,team, local and zone and call it "tears".

# ? Jul 5, 2014 19:15

Goat Pillager: Mar 1, 2013

Melchior posted:

Jaris was really really mad that i picked up his command marks running through the point he captured. I felt like pointing out to zonechat what an upstanding citizen he was.

http://pastebin.com/iAunyuBB

Same chatlog, but minus NoP chat and so on. Note that after switching from an underequipped alt to a "finished" character, he no longer wanted to fight me when I sent him challenge invites.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 19:33

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

Dely Apple posted:

I was wondering how I got the standard belt everyone in Starfleet wears.

Which doesn't matter at all I guess since I'm a Fedrom and we don't get to wear anything except catsuits.

Costumes for Roms are kinda buggy as hell. I think there's supposed to be some limited overlap with faction unifirms, but what gets shared varies from character to character. My klankrom has the bolt-on eyepatch for example, :shrug:

# ? Jul 5, 2014 20:38

Acer Pilot: Feb 17, 2007; put the 'the' in therapist

Goat Pillager posted:

Note that after switching from an underequipped alt to a "finished" character, he no longer wanted to fight me when I sent him challenge invites.

Typical.

# ? Jul 5, 2014 22:05

Dely Apple: Apr 22, 2006; Sing me Spanish Techno

So is the only thing carrying over from the old crafting system these "Dabbler" and "Genius" titles for trying/mastering the system?

:cryptic:

# ? Jul 6, 2014 07:41

Aleth: Aug 2, 2008; Pillbug

Supposedly all the materials are going to be able to be converted to the new stuff but otherwise yeah, looks like it.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 11:02

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

So I've gotten back into this a bit lately. They're upgrading the crafting system into something less clunky? That's certainly good to hear.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:11

Technical Analysis: Nov 21, 2007; I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.

Less clunky, less useful, more bullshit, and of course dice rolls!

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:30

Deep Thoreau: Aug 16, 2008

I played this a long rear end time ago, when it first came out. Gonna give it a shot. I'm Bash Ironfist on the wiki and Blast Hardcheese@deedemons in game. I'd like to talk in that chat thing maybe.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:31

GoatSeeGuy: Dec 26, 2003; What if Jerome Walton made me a champion?

Technical Analysis posted:

Less clunky, less useful, more bullshit, and of course dice rolls!

Bigger dil sink.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:28

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

Way bigger dil sink.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:55

Bloodly: Nov 3, 2008; Not as strong as you'd expect.

And didn't the patch notes note they were throwing out most of the Dil store for this? Most of it wasn't useful but there's still a few things. Field Generators, for example.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 23:12

Korgan: Feb 14, 2012

derriere demons posted:

I played this a long rear end time ago, when it first came out. Gonna give it a shot. I'm Bash Ironfist on the wiki and Blast Hardcheese@deedemons in game. I'd like to talk in that chat thing maybe.

You're in.

# ? Jul 7, 2014 05:24

Hunter Noventa: Apr 21, 2010

Come to think of it, it would be nice to talk to people while blasting Romulans.

I'm Ibis@Valsione in game.

# ? Jul 7, 2014 11:25

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# ? May 9, 2024 22:48

the Pixies fukken SUCKED: Jul 16, 2003; Figure 2 in a series of 3

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1157641

Sixty three pages of people grousing about content that I only visit to look at doff missions being removed (with the doff missions being moved to a point of interest in existing sectors). If you ever want to see a cross section of the playerbase, this thread is it.

# ? Jul 7, 2014 13:23

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