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I've got to apologize for those of you that invited me (reekaro) to my very first KSE. I kept trying to play through a flaky router that had been acting up all night, and it went out in the middle of the mission. Nothing like having some goons try and help me out only to ratfuck them while helping me. Sorry about that, back to pubbing for a while, I don't care what happens there.
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^^^^ You don't have to pub, no one cares what happens in goon STFs either.Woolie Wool posted:DPS needs to be taken down a few pegs, while tanks and especially offensive sci need a massive boost.
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CrushedWill posted:I've got to apologize for those of you that invited me (reekaro) to my very first KSE. I kept trying to play through a flaky router that had been acting up all night, and it went out in the middle of the mission. Nothing like having some goons try and help me out only to ratfuck them while helping me. You are literally the worst and ruined everything forever. We hate you and all that you stand for. Sincerely, Those goons that tried to run a terrible KSE to screw with you but you ruined it by dropping 
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CrushedWill posted:I've got to apologize for those of you that invited me (reekaro) to my very first KSE. I kept trying to play through a flaky router that had been acting up all night, and it went out in the middle of the mission. Nothing like having some goons try and help me out only to ratfuck them while helping me. From what I heard in mumble that KSE going to poo poo wasn't your fault at all. Goon has trolled goon. Seriously though don't worry about loving up, those of us who've done this poo poo a billion times can practically solo the borg missions by now, just go with the flow and ask a bunch of questions on how to get better at internet spaceships.
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Jul 21, 2014 07:38
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Is it just me, or is the drop rate for the purple crafting mats absolutely abysmal? I can't see them keeping it like this once everyone hits max craft level.
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I vaguely remember seeing something about a doff that increases your crafting XP. Was I imagining that?
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Second Sun posted:Is it just me, or is the drop rate for the purple crafting mats absolutely abysmal?
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Is there anything craftable that isn't BOE? With the pubbies desire to A. See numbers go up and B. Undercut each other via the exchange I'm not seeing a real season to start using time or dil to craft.
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I don't see much reason to craft but some of these traits for getting to level 15 in some schools might be fun.quote:Beams The science one should be fun with feedback pulse in PvP.
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Asimo posted:But you can craft them for dilithium...! :iamafag: This is exactly it. This whole thing? The real point was to turn it into a cash sink-note the buyable set of crafting materials. Not that the stuff you make can't be usable if you're lucky enough or slow enough that you can craft something before you outlevel it or some such. And there's some things that are always useful such as Field Generators for your Sci slots. But of course it's gonna fall into that old trap of 'the crafting can't keep pace with you'. EDIT: Not that the new mods in the crafting system aren't worth it. 5% flight speed and turn rate per weapon(Thrust)? -4.8% speed and turn for what you hit(Snare)? A free Beam Overload(over)? The Disruptor's 2.5% chance proc on any weapon, minus the 2.5% chance(Pen)? Bloodly fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Well once you finish the rep grind you can turn your attention to the slightly-less-irrelevant crafting grind. I especially like how it keeps a doff busy so they can't be used on other non-crafting doff missions, and also how you can't queue anything, and everything takes time to craft. Super awesome and highly inconvenient.
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Jul 21, 2014 15:17
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With crafting you really should just be setting up the 20 hour research project once a day. Trying to actually make anything at this point in the grind is useless unless you have new alts that could use mk iv gear or whatever.
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Lagomorphic posted:With crafting you really should just be setting up the 20 hour research project once a day. Trying to actually make anything at this point in the grind is useless unless you have new alts that could use mk iv gear or whatever. This. And if anyone hasn't noticed, you can run multiple research runs from the same branch at once. I've got two beam researches going on right now as I only have two slots unlocked. Number 3 should be up tonight since I needed 12k more for level 4. I'm focusing on slots first mainly because you can run multiple researches at once.
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Lagomorphic posted:With crafting you really should just be setting up the 20 hour research project once a day. Trying to actually make anything at this point in the grind is useless unless you have new alts that could use mk iv gear or whatever. That's pretty much what I'm doing. It's not like I have a shortage of materials because I run STFs on four characters and consolidate the crafting boxes on one character. I was playing around with the system a bit to get a feel for it, and the feel I get is that it's dumb and overly clunky. When you want to make something, you have to make each of the components one at a time, with no way to queue them. If you want to make more than one of something your work increases exponentially, instead of a simple 'craft all' button, or a 'make x number of this component' button.
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Another noob question for you guys - I see a lot of talk of buying/selling ships on the exchange but I don't see a ship category on the exchange you get to from terminals, and the only other places I've seen with ships are the zen store and the ship requisition guy. Am I missing something really obvious? I'm not level 50 yet so maybe it unlocks after that?
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They are listed under the reward packs. They go from about 150,000EC (mirror universe ships) to the max exchange price of 500 million EC (for the occasional bugship). If you don't already have it, the zen store purchase to unlock your EC cap is a must to be able to buy ships off the exchange.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:54
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Ships on the exchange are in 'reward packs' and come from opening lockboxes or being bought on the Lobi store.
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God drat I was hoping for an answer that didn't make me look like an idiot, maybe next time. Thanks though. That also answered my other question about what to buy first with my dil.
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Dynamite Dog posted:God drat I was hoping for an answer that didn't make me look like an idiot, maybe next time. Thanks though. That also answered my other question about what to buy first with my dil. You should've figured out what to do with your dil by the time you were like 12.
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When did they nerf the poo poo out of elite slavers? 8 hours at Mars last night netted me a total of 2 contraband.
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At least a month now. The wiki article notes that contra farming doesn't work anymore against invincible targets.
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I can't really bitch, I got way more value into those slavers than I paid for them. Guess it's time to go marauding.
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I did the numbers on those lobi ships last night and it is absolutely insane. Barring hitting the jackpot in an unlock or a rerun event it'll cost you at most something like $200 a ship if you pay for keys. At current exchange values you can't even refine enough dil a day between two characters to buy a key a day. Are they even that much better to warrant that kind of investment? (Ignoring if that level of improvement is even warranted in a game where you can excel in almost all the endgame content with non-rep, non-fleet gear to begin with.)
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Berke Negri posted:I did the numbers on those lobi ships last night and it is absolutely insane. Barring hitting the jackpot in an unlock or a rerun event it'll cost you at most something like $200 a ship if you pay for keys. At current exchange values you can't even refine enough dil a day between two characters to buy a key a day. Are they even that much better to warrant that kind of investment? (Ignoring if that level of improvement is even warranted in a game where you can excel in almost all the endgame content with non-rep, non-fleet gear to begin with.) How else is pwe supposed to earn money?
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Berke Negri posted:Are they even that much better to warrant that kind of investment? No, not remotely. In fact for the majority of faction/ship type options the best ship you can get will be a Fleet or Zen store ship, with lockbox/lobi ships drawing equal if they're lucky. That said, right now I have about 650 lobi saved from various in-game lobi giveaways over the past year or two, so whatever, maybe at some point. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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I was asking in the channel last night and got some good tidbits but I'm bad at Internet spaceships so I was wondering if anyone has a good mirror VoQuv build.
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A Fancy Bloke posted:I was asking in the channel last night and got some good tidbits but I'm bad at Internet spaceships so I was wondering if anyone has a good mirror VoQuv build. I fly a mirror vo'quv on my orion and what I do (disclaimer I am terrible) is put beam arrays in all the weapon slots, with the solonae mission reward set for deflector/engines/shields (because I have no rep stuff for this alt), obelisk warp core, weapon damage tac consoles and a mixture of those +turn engi consoles and monotanium armor for kinetic resists and then just pick science consoles to fit your powers. Then use b'rel frigates for the hangar. That might be terrible for all I know but it works out pretty alright for me and is cheap/simple to put together.
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I also fly a Mirror Vo'Quv. Additions to the above: Though you CAN go all beams, you'll eventually hit something that will punish you for that. Until you can get the Kinetic Cutting Beam, have one torpedo. Once you do get the Cutter, throw out the torpedo. Get the Assimilated Module along with the Cutting Beam for the two-piece bonus. Never put a Universal console in a Tactical slot. I'd have said Field Generators(Direct +Shield Capacity) for Science, except that's a relative problem now, being in the crafting system. I think you can still get green level-scaled ones from a story mission as KDF. Thanks to my own weapon choice of Plasma(Back in the day when Borg and Romulan Rep were all there was) my own Science Consoles have the Fleet Embassy ones due to the plasma boost.
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Vo'Quv piloting tip #1: All turrets, all the time.
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Can I get an invite to the goon chat channel or something? I think my handle is @Kitchner. I say I think because my name is also Kitchner so I'm Kitchner@Kitchner which makes me sound like a schizophrenic twitter user.
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Kitchner posted:Can I get an invite to the goon chat channel or something? I think my handle is @Kitchner. I say I think because my name is also Kitchner so I'm Kitchner@Kitchner which makes me sound like a schizophrenic twitter user. Invited, if you can't join then that's the wrong name. Easy way to check is get on a ground map and right click your character portrait in the top left of the screen.
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Where did the name "gozertorp" come from? I know they're what gives the gateway its seemingly magical ability to make people instantly die for no apparent reason and why I never get closer to 9km when shooting at it.
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Gozer was a dev who used to work on STO. I'm not sure if it was him but someone there wanted some missions to be impossible so they had NPCs have cheaty powers that insta-killed you. e: Sit 3km under the gate for a good time.
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Actually the Gatway usually shreds you with a cutting beam. Gozertorps are generally high yield torpedoes fired by cubes that aren't rendered visually. They're called that because Gozer, the cryptic dev that redesigned the STFs the first time, thought that instakill bullshit like that is exactly what STO needed and defended that position until he left to impose his idiocy on Ubisoft.
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Acer Pilot posted:Gozer was a dev who used to work on STO. I'm not sure if it was him but someone there wanted some missions to be impossible so they had NPCs have cheaty powers that insta-killed you. I'll try that. Normally I get behind the gate (so the tactical cube can't reach me) and pummel it at around 9.5 km distance, which is almost always safe, but not very efficient in an escort. Beats those idiots who sit there shooting at it while directly in the path of the tac cube though. Enjoy your imminent death!  Mondian posted:Actually the Gatway usually shreds you with a cutting beam. Gozertorps are generally high yield torpedoes fired by cubes that aren't rendered visually. They're called that because Gozer, the cryptic dev that redesigned the STFs the first time, thought that instakill bullshit like that is exactly what STO needed and defended that position until he left to impose his idiocy on Ubisoft. So is the gateway's cutting beam like some bullshit cheating cutting beam that does 30k damage a pop or something? Because I've literally seen 5 digit red numbers pop up when I gently caress up and get too close to the gateway. And while we're talking about bullshitty STFs, can someone explain how the gently caress you survive the second stage of Hive Onslaught Elite? If you charge "under the guns" you get ripped to pieces by the combined fire of the unimatrices and a fuckload of probes, and if you draw the probes away you waste huge amounts of time and then, once they're gone, the unimatrices pick you off like clay pigeons as you approach. I once saw a video tutorial with the team in tight formation whaling on a unimatrix from the front at 9.9km, which would have been completely impossible in the instance I tried because you're within easy gently caress-you distance (between knife-fight range and 20km) of the dildo ray. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Mondian posted:Actually the Gatway usually shreds you with a cutting beam. Gozertorps are generally high yield torpedoes fired by cubes that aren't rendered visually. They're called that because Gozer, the cryptic dev that redesigned the STFs the first time, thought that instakill bullshit like that is exactly what STO needed and defended that position until he left to impose his idiocy on Ubisoft. He didn't just leave. All signs point to him having gone out in a blaze of autistic glory defending his vision. Emmert told him to cut that poo poo out in a memo since he plays STO and even he found what he was doing to be ridiculous. So Gozer proceeded to do the mature thing and gently caress up one of the revamps of STF's, making the optionals for the ground segment of one of the more playable STF's completely impossible. And then he added in mandatory stacking respawn timers on top of the Gozertorps, which were still bugged and in game at the time. Mind you, this was the revamp that was supposed to make STF's more accessible and replayable. So yeah. Not long after that an admin let slip that Gozer was "resigning" to seek "better opportunities" on the forums. This was confirmed by Gozer not long after. This was after he had went on in a thread and interview about the PVP revamp he was doing. Which apparently he was bullshitting about, since another admin/PR guy said he had done no work on it in a passing comment a month or so later. Archonex fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Here's a tip. Don't run STFs with pubbies unless you want to do something amusing.
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Woolie Wool posted:And while we're talking about bullshitty STFs, can someone explain how the gently caress you survive the second stage of Hive Onslaught Elite? If you charge "under the guns" you get ripped to pieces by the combined fire of the unimatrices and a fuckload of probes, and if you draw the probes away you waste huge amounts of time and then, once they're gone, the unimatrices pick you off like clay pigeons as you approach. I once saw a video tutorial with the team in tight formation whaling on a unimatrix from the front at 9.9km, which would have been completely impossible in the instance I tried because you're within easy gently caress-you distance (between knife-fight range and 20km) of the dildo ray. Generally you just get under the guns and dps hard, stopping only for the Feedback Pulse (unless you can remove it). I've never really had a problem with that with well-geared goons. EDIT: Feedback Pulse can really wreck you if you're not expecting it.
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Cryptic posted:Resolved an issue which was allowing players to run multiple Research Training projects from the same school simultaneously.
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