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Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
Eh, I'm stashing up components so I can run as many beams as possible during the time to get more xp, but yeah, it's not really gonna amount to dick.

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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Hey, if you aren't willing to grind crafting until november, you're a worthless scrub who doesn't deserve even the slimmest chance at endgame gear :colbert:

Northerneye
Oct 28, 2013
OP doesn't get what he wants so he wants the game to die.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1178841

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
:byodood:

I want to play a Star Trek game. This game stopped being a Star Trek MMO. I'm not that vested in Cryptic's corporate future. I really only like Star Trek.

So it's not that I want the game to shut down. I just want the game I paid for. A fun, engaging Star Trek game.

Under D'Angelo we're getting a treadmill.

Look at crafting. There's nothing Trek about that.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=18225671&postcount=7

Morglon
Jan 13, 2010

Safe and sound, detached from reality.
Just like your posting.

Northerneye posted:

OP doesn't get what he wants so he wants the game to die.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1178841

Some people just want to watch the world burn, nothing wrong with that.

Pretty clear though that the game won't fail any time soon, there's enough idiots around who just eat that poo poo up regardless of how much they get hosed over.

Bloodly
Nov 3, 2008

Not as strong as you'd expect.
I get the issue. Most people do. We're a long loving way from any of the series or even the movies. But CBS/Paramount/whoever haven't said 'No' or 'Stop' yet. And you know they would drop that hammer. Hell, they did with Activision(I think) back in the day. They thought a 'city-builder' where you controlled the Borg and assimilated worlds was too damm much. This from the company who had a hand in Armada(The Borg win their campaign outright, but shenanigans ensue) and Armada 2(campaign ends as Borg and Feds vs Undine to drive them back into their own dimension, because they're just that badass).

Bloodly fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jul 27, 2014

Lorak
Apr 7, 2009

Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

Northerneye posted:

OP doesn't get what he wants so he wants the game to die.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1178841
The OP has a heck of a blog.

quote:

Space Alien Sexuality: Okay, I get that it's a family show, so to speak. I'm not saying we need explicitly pornographic imagery here. I wouldn't even go as far as God of War. I would, however, make mention of LaForge's creepy holorelationship with Dr. Leigh Brahms. And Barclay's implied-to-be-weird holofantasies. What about Nog's "favorite holoprogram?" Then there was pretty much the entire crew of Voyager. Remember Tuvok's Pon'Farr? I also remember multiple instances of bat'leth foreplay between Dax and Worf (not to mention Worf and Troi taking a "stimulating" walk on the beach...). OH, and didn't Commander Tucker get knocked up in a holodeck? Yeah, safe bet the holodecks could use a touch of romance somewhere, even if only implied.

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


Cryptic should really hand out free pharmaceuticals with the monthly zen stipend because everyone on this game is insane.

az
Dec 2, 2005

I forgot, is there a way to show my team mates targets next to their bars?

Zarc
Jul 25, 2014
Just registered on the wiki under Zarc. Been a while since I played last. Is the romulan tactical advice on the first page still valid? Looking to start a new character

az
Dec 2, 2005

I wonder, what did it take to unlock the second row of skills? We levelled up to 10, Centurion, got 35k points in the first row and it says the other should unlock over 33k, but didnt. What gives?

Lorak
Apr 7, 2009

Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

az posted:

I wonder, what did it take to unlock the second row of skills? We levelled up to 10, Centurion, got 35k points in the first row and it says the other should unlock over 33k, but didnt. What gives?
You used up the 2,000 you would've put into second-tier skills. Those cost 1,500 per unit.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Zarc posted:

Just registered on the wiki under Zarc. Been a while since I played last. Is the romulan tactical advice on the first page still valid? Looking to start a new character
Yeah, rom tacs are still the most over-powered race/class combo. However, 99% of the content is easy enough that you don't need to min/max, so play whatever makes you happy.

az
Dec 2, 2005

Lorak posted:

You used up the 2,000 you would've put into second-tier skills. Those cost 1,500 per unit.

Durp, thanks I totally didn't consider that.

Archonex
May 2, 2012

MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Berke Negri posted:

Cryptic should really hand out free pharmaceuticals with the monthly zen stipend because everyone on this game is insane.

Trekkies and MMOs do not mix well. You've got the OCD inducing activities of a MMO environment with the general sperginess of some of the portions of the Trek fandom. poo poo flinging ensues.

g0del posted:

Yeah, rom tacs are still the most over-powered race/class combo. However, 99% of the content is easy enough that you don't need to min/max, so play whatever makes you happy.

If they haven't changed it then Liberated Borg tactical or science officers are probably just as bullshit for instance running.

You get slightly more versatility in space, and more importantly no STF boss in the game has immunity to their racial attack. Which slows them down for sixty seconds and periodically stuns them randomly. It pretty much trivializes any melee centric boss. Unless they fixed it I think the tactical officer's cooldown resetting/lowering power also works on it, meaning you can solo bosses that require groups with a bit of intelligent kiting.

Archonex fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jul 28, 2014

naz1911
Feb 10, 2014
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=18246541#post18246541

I heard HOBO's have severe Tooth decay lately....

Skurf, Zelda's little lap dog from HOBOS is ready for the picking if you guys so choose.

Enjoy...

naz1911 fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 28, 2014

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

Well, that was painful to read. Remind me again why we should care? Did PvP and/or Hobo have a surprise surge back to relevance I missed somewhere?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
They're near dead as far as I can tell.

BombermanX
Jan 13, 2011

I'm afraid of other people's opinions when they differ from my own. Please do not hurt my feelings.
Any new pubbie stories?

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

naz1911 posted:

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=18246541#post18246541

I heard HOBO's have severe Tooth decay lately....

Skurf, Zelda's little lap dog from HOBOS is ready for the picking if you guys so choose.

Enjoy...

I forget - which one are you?

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

naz1911 posted:

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=18246541#post18246541

I heard HOBO's have severe Tooth decay lately....

Skurf, Zelda's little lap dog from HOBOS is ready for the picking if you guys so choose.

Enjoy...

Nobody cares about your lovely publord forum drama. :frogout:

Mondian
Apr 24, 2007

Funny, it seems all you spergs do is drool over lovely publord drama in here...

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
http://pastebin.com/FubzuN6B

So the "Johnny" guy is back on Droz again and decided to spend a few hours sending tells to me.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007
I find very little about the official forums to be as funny as some others do but that completely aside, a 2014 reg linking to their own post on the official forums "owning" some pubbie idiot certainly does not qualify as funny or amusing in any sense of those words

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Yeah he sure is a special little snowflake.

(10:55:05 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: like it does any difference
(10:55:14 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: is that really all you can do??
(10:55:21 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: LOL
(10:55:47 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: yea use your lil virtual baloon gun kid
(10:56:07 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: push the buttons push the bottons
(10:56:16 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: show that keyboard how angry you are
(10:56:35 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: work it out girl go go mash the buttons
(10:56:57 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: and that gun is supposed to intimidate me?
(10:57:05 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: hahahahahahaha
(10:57:36 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: getting tired in your finger?
(11:00:25 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: fyi I dont have any fx sound on so I dont hear your lil virtual baboon gun
(11:01:17 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: and even if I did I couldnt care less
(11:01:40 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: how old are you kid? must be very young this one

My crime? Standing AFK next to him on Drozana with a party popper, spraying balloons into the room. :v:

Not shown: Two hours of spammed team invites, PVP challenges and a friend request.

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer

Psycho Landlord posted:

Well, that was painful to read. Remind me again why we should care? Did PvP and/or Hobo have a surprise surge back to relevance I missed somewhere?

HoBO is the self-proclaimed best PvP fleet in the game at the moment. Why? Because every other PvP fleet left the game months ago. Still counts though, right?

Lafarg
Jul 23, 2012

Thought they were the remnants of what was left of PVP for the last few months. Then again I have not queued up for PVP in almost a year. I'm a little sad about that really. PVP was actually kind of fun before all the PVE grinding just to be somewhat competitive without spending a dime. I didn't care so much about the exploits and the power creep because most of us had access to that stuff.

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

UoI posted:

HoBO is the self-proclaimed best PvP fleet in the game at the moment. Why? Because every other PvP fleet left the game months ago. Still counts though, right?

No.

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

:dukedog:

If I login later tonight and collect my contra rewards from last night, will it be the dil weekend amount or normal? I'm thinking of just leaving them til next time if that's the case.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Acer Pilot posted:

If I login later tonight and collect my contra rewards from last night, will it be the dil weekend amount or normal? I'm thinking of just leaving them til next time if that's the case.

It's based on when you collect, not when you start.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




I just did the maths, and it seems like at 150 dil to a zen and current exchange prices, buying stacks of contra and converting to Zen would give you 1 zen per 15882 EC. And buying Master Key 10-packs and selling them for EC would give you 25688 EC per zen. It seems like you could make money from nothing simply by buying contra, converting to zen, buying keys, and selling on the exchange, in an infinite cycle assuming they hold near current prices. Did my maths gently caress up somewhere?

az
Dec 2, 2005

MikeJF posted:

I just did the maths, and it seems like at 150 dil to a zen and current exchange prices, buying stacks of contra and converting to Zen would give you 1 zen per 15882 EC. And buying Master Key 10-packs and selling them for EC would give you 25688 EC per zen. It seems like you could make money from nothing simply by buying contra, converting to zen, buying keys, and selling on the exchange, in an infinite cycle assuming they hold near current prices. Did my maths gently caress up somewhere?

Just out of curiosity, where do you buy contra and how do you exchange it for Zen?

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




az posted:

Just out of curiosity, where do you buy contra and how do you exchange it for Zen?

Contraband's a reward from certain Duty Officer missions or can be bought on the exchange, and can be handed in at 5 Contraband for 2000 Dilithium at security officers. Dilithium can be turned into Zen on the Dil Exchange, under the little drop-down menu off your minimap.

It takes a few hours for a hand-in to happen. I have a feeling that ultimately you'd make money faster simply using your alts to run the missions that generate the contraband and selling it directly on the exchange.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

MikeJF posted:

I just did the maths, and it seems like at 150 dil to a zen and current exchange prices, buying stacks of contra and converting to Zen would give you 1 zen per 15882 EC. And buying Master Key 10-packs and selling them for EC would give you 25688 EC per zen. It seems like you could make money from nothing simply by buying contra, converting to zen, buying keys, and selling on the exchange, in an infinite cycle assuming they hold near current prices. Did my maths gently caress up somewhere?

Well your limited by the actual time constraints of turning in the contra but otherwise yeah you can grind out EC by "selling" your excess contra processing capacity.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

MikeJF posted:

I just did the maths, and it seems like at 150 dil to a zen and current exchange prices, buying stacks of contra and converting to Zen would give you 1 zen per 15882 EC. And buying Master Key 10-packs and selling them for EC would give you 25688 EC per zen. It seems like you could make money from nothing simply by buying contra, converting to zen, buying keys, and selling on the exchange, in an infinite cycle assuming they hold near current prices. Did my maths gently caress up somewhere?

Basically it boils down to refined dil being worth way more than unrefined.

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
Uh what the gently caress is this:

quote:

A new item has been added to GPL stores: The Subspace Party Nullifier.
This will render its owner immune to the jovial effects of the Subspace Party Amplifier for as long as it is held in the inventory.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Objective proof that the playerbase of STO are manchildren. :mmmsmug:

Dootman
Jun 15, 2000

fishbulb

DonDoodles posted:

Uh what the gently caress is this:

Cryptic caved to the whiners.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Can't believe they didn't even make it cost Zen.

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Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
Has anyone tested that using it prevents you getting the EptP buff?

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