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I need an invite for my guy. Rodney@Drifter25. I miss the EVE Online days of pissing people off.
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The level of self entitlement in this thread is truly epic: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1191001 "I'm willing to hold judgement on the new ship plans since I really don't know anything about what's going to happen, but I will warn you that the main reason I play this game at all is because of the actual Star Trek ships." "Not the "Star Trek-ish" ships that have been invented for this game, but the actual ships from the shows. Even though I know they aren't the "best" in the game, I love my Ambassador, Galaxy-X, and D'Deridex. It gives me a giddy sense of joy to see my Warbird warping in, or move the camera around to see every angle as it glides through sector space." He goes on for a while and ends with this masterpiece: "TLDR: I like my ships, and I'm not going to abandon them. Don't try to make me, find a way to work with me." Sorry I forgot the best part. His thread title? "A caution to the devs" DancingShade fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 06:28
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DancingShade posted:The level of self entitlement in this thread is truly epic: EPIC!
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Aug 9, 2014 06:38
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Drifter25 posted:EPIC! Well I personally wouldn't go that far but it applies. Come to think of it "mind boggling" doesn't really work with the user base here because nothing they do should surprise anyone anymore.
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Aug 9, 2014 09:58
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His tone is poo poo, but I don't disagree with him. Leaving the iconic ships in a state where they're permanently outclassed by whatever they dream up for publish 10 and beyond would probably upset a good number of players. Not that Cryptic wouldn't have figured that out for themselves. Posting your lovely manifesto to the forums is shouting into the wind, though.
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Aug 9, 2014 10:07
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Oh, yeah, there's no chance the series ships won't be upgraded. But that's just obvious.
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Aug 9, 2014 10:14
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But for real, how do we get added to the Fleet? The link provided did not work for me.
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Aug 9, 2014 10:22
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Bieeardo posted:His tone is poo poo, but I don't disagree with him. Leaving the iconic ships in a state where they're permanently outclassed by whatever they dream up for publish 10 and beyond would probably upset a good number of players. Not that Cryptic wouldn't have figured that out for themselves. By the same token though, the Galaxy class is, in universe, a 50 year-old ship.
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Cryptic posted:It has been fantastic to see the community’s interest in our announcement of Delta Rising! This expansion includes our first level cap increase in four years, and the players have many questions about how these changes will affect them. Translation: Oh my god you loving drama queens, shut up about your ships. We KNOW. At the end of the day we all know what's going to happen. There will be fleet/upgraded versions of the current endgame ships, with the new T6 ones being slightly better. And that's fine.
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Aug 9, 2014 14:20
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The way they keep phrasing it as 'competitive' makes me think that all the uprated current ones are going to suck slightly compared to the new ones, which has me slightly apprehensive.
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Aug 9, 2014 14:23
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MikeJF posted:The way they keep phrasing it as 'competitive' makes me think that all the uprated current ones are going to suck slightly compared to the new ones, which has me slightly apprehensive. It might be "they have identical stats but not $DUMB_CLICKY_POWER_X."
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Aug 9, 2014 14:27
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MikeJF posted:The way they keep phrasing it as 'competitive' makes me think that all the uprated current ones are going to suck slightly compared to the new ones, which has me slightly apprehensive.
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Aug 9, 2014 15:34
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wdarkk posted:It might be "they have identical stats but not $DUMB_CLICKY_POWER_X."
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Aug 9, 2014 15:48
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SKY COQ posted:By the same token though, the Galaxy class is, in universe, a 50 year-old ship. Mirandas and Excelsiors showed up in the TOS movies and were used through the end of DS9. Those ships are probably like, 200 years old.
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Aug 9, 2014 17:19
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Admittedly the real reason for that is because the models were already done and on ahnd, everyone knew they were Trek ships and looked it, so throwing them in as "extras" in space shots was infinitely easier and cheaper than trying to do a bunch of new ship models. Any other explanation for the long Miranda/Excelsior service is just the usual spergy nerd over-rationalization.  Not that STO has quite the same excuse, but it really all comes down to brand management and audience expectation. It's a Trek game, people expect classic Trek ships, so they're in. However implausible it may be.
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We have 60 year old airframes still in active service. It isn't much of a stretch to assume that you could upgrade a Miranda to perform a mission. If the Feds had a proper carrier Mirandas would probably be the frigates.
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AirborneNinja posted:If the Feds had a proper carrier Mirandas would probably be the frigates. A Miranda is still a full starship so it makes very little sense to have them as carrier pets. Something like the Aquarius is a better fit to be honest.
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Asimo posted:Admittedly the real reason for that is because the models were already done and on ahnd, everyone knew they were Trek ships and looked it, so throwing them in as "extras" in space shots was infinitely easier and cheaper than trying to do a bunch of new ship models. Any other explanation for the long Miranda/Excelsior service is just the usual spergy nerd over-rationalization. But not as big as her captain.
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Aug 9, 2014 19:52
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g0del posted:We all got spoiled by the disco balls (they were like easy-mode for trolling). Now that the people most bothered by them can turn them off, we need to figure out other ways to drive them crazy. Triolic Pattern Enhancers seem to piss them off. Can't ogle what you can't see.
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Aug 9, 2014 20:08
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Mr Wikstroem posted:A Miranda is still a full starship so it makes very little sense to have them as carrier pets. Something like the Aquarius is a better fit to be honest.
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I will actually play my boring fed alt if there is a fed ship that farts out mirandas.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:You can have BoPs as carrier pets, though. The Miranda class is a 200 man vessel (according to STO) whereas the Klingon Bird of Prey has a crew complement of 6 or so according to canon and 30 in-game. There is also a significant size difference.
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Aug 9, 2014 21:30
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Speaking of carrier pets, is there a certain type of fighter I should look at getting? Or are the Scorpions that came with the Scimitar good?
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Danaru posted:Speaking of carrier pets, is there a certain type of fighter I should look at getting? Or are the Scorpions that came with the Scimitar good? Romulan drone ships
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The general rule of thumb is that you always want the ship-specific frigate that comes with the carrier, and for some reason the Scimitar has one of these despite not being a full carrier because Cryptic wants an actual P2W ship I guess.
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Aug 9, 2014 22:14
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g0del posted:Have you ever run parses on pubbie matches? I've done quite a few, and most STO players have no idea how to properly fit a ship. And cryptic has to tune all their end-game content to those players, not to the 10% who know that universal consoles don't belong in tac slots. I'm sure that we'll see the same thing here that we've seen the whole game - a player who knows what they're doing can do ESTFs in any ship. Seriously, it's kinda hard to overstate how bad most pubbies are at this game. Some are ok but I parse most of my ISE matches and I've out-DPSed lots of level 40 and 50 ships in my NX-01, the USS Long Road. Also, goons really shouldn't be afraid of pugging PVP queues. Occasionally you run into an organized team or some PvP superstar but I've been doing them a lot in my fleet Nebula lately and I'm pretty much always on the top half of the damage charts, Go shoot bad pubbies, it's fun. e: I should add that I'm space-dumb and bad at this game, if you can figure out Cryptic math you'll do way better than I do. Soviet Commubot fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 22:17
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Flagrant Abuse posted:You can have BoPs as carrier pets, though. That's because the Vo'Quv is an absolute hulk of a vessel(Even in game terms) to hold the damm things. The thing is probably capable of not only finding a new system for the Empire, but conquering it and holding it without assistance. If the thing had resource harvesting, it'd be a mobile Starbase.(Though now I think I'm just talking it up...) In game terms, an enemy Vo'Quv is Dreadnaught-class, like the Tethys or even the Odyssey-only shows up if the players have enough force to warrant it. It's also been used as a multiplay boss twice. Everyone remembers Cure Found, but an earlier fed scenario also had a Vo'Quv as the final boss. Bloodly fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 22:56
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A combination of watching DS9 on Netflix (I joined the military in '94 so I missed ST:DS9 and Voyager) and reading this hilarious thread has caused me to download this game. Some of the stuff posted is pure comedy gold. From the scam-baiting to the "Dukat was Right" joke, to some of the creepy pubbie weirdos, I was laughing quite a bit. I rolled a tactical Klingon to start. I'm gathering from this thread that playing a Klingon as a first character is just fine. Is this accurate? Also, is STO like EVE where one can PVP even as a newbie? Or is there some minimum character level that one has to grind out to at first? I'm a little unsure about how a character@handle works, but I think it's charactername@arcusername so mine would be Klonk@REDACTED. I registered on the Wesley Wiki as moralhazard. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 23:13
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MoraleHazard posted:I rolled a tactical Klingon to start. I'm gathering from this thread that playing a Klingon as a first character is just fine. Is this accurate? Klingons are better characters in the sense that they'll make more loot which you can turn into in-game cash to buy things that would otherwise cost real money, but for a first time character just pick whatever takes your fancy. Also I want to say Lv. 10 is the PvP level and even then I'm think you'll still want to be near end game before doing PvP, although pubbies in this game are so awful you could most likely take them at Lv. 10
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Aug 9, 2014 23:23
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If you try to pvp at low levels it will segregate you to a separate instance/queue for people who are at your rank. This means pvp queues will almost never pop for you since nearly everyone is level 50 already. Your best bet is to go to Ker'rat and look for feds. Ker'rat is a space area with a dumb PVE mission against borg and open pvp. It'll be a barren wasteland for the most part but you can sometimes find some lonely low-level fed trying to do the PVE part and then kill him over and over again. That said, it doesn't take long to get to 50 so you might want to just power level it before you bother with PVP. Goat Pillager posted:Romulan drone ships You want the elite drones from the fleet store. Just use the default ships until you can afford them.
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Aug 9, 2014 23:47
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SKY COQ posted:By the same token though, the Galaxy class is, in universe, a 50 year-old ship. The M16 is 68 years old, but the M16A4 revision is still the primary armament for America's military, and more than half of our aircraft carriers are the 39-year-old Nimitz class. Just because it's a tried and true design doesn't mean the internals aren't state-of-the-art.
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Aug 10, 2014 00:55
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Registered with the wiki as Drifter25.
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MoraleHazard posted:I'm a little unsure about how a character@handle works, but I think it's charactername@arcusername so mine would be Klonk@REDACTED. I registered on the Wesley Wiki as moralhazard. Probably want to remove that username, if that's the one you use to log in to the game. @handle is easy to find, when you're on the ground as your captain right click your character portrait in the top left corner. It'll show your name@handle. Either way, I invited that @handle to the channel and you're on the wiki. Brownview posted:I registered on the wiki as Brownview and am in-game as Brownview@blzybub1 (or @blzybub, I don't know how this works!). Major Spag posted:Since I continue to be bad at everything, I would like to request wiki access. Drifter25 posted:Registered with the wiki as Drifter25. Kmpec posted:Could I get an invite? Katal@norgura Thanks! You're all on the wiki and invited to TheNextGooneration now.
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Aug 10, 2014 04:19
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Thanks for the invite. My login name is different, but thanks for the right click tip. For shits and giggles I rolled a Federation tactical captain and my God, I'm sticking with the Klingon. The fed captain was like cheesy trek bingo where you blow up some Klingons, rescue a whole colony, and destroy a Borg cube in your little dipshit obsolescent frigate with the ink on your Academy diploma still wet. That said, the Federation does give the option to have annoying ship names plastered on the hull.
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Aug 10, 2014 04:50
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Major Spag posted:Since I continue to be bad at everything, I would like to request wiki access. Spag you shitbird
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Aug 10, 2014 04:57
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Grimrak is the greatest
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Aug 10, 2014 05:17
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Hm, game's saying I have insufficient permissions to access TheNextGooneration. Can you double check to make sure I was added?
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Aug 10, 2014 05:45
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Drifter25 posted:Hm, game's saying I have insufficient permissions to access TheNextGooneration. Can you double check to make sure I was added? You weren't added before but you are now, enjoy!
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Aug 10, 2014 05:48
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Anyone have advice on how to get a microphone to stop feeding back into speakers? Mumble starts screeching the moment any sound comes out of the speakers, even when I have push-to-talk enabled, and the button not pressed. I dunno if that's related to mumble crashing on me or not - I'm guessing that means it's an issue with my audio drivers, but I really don't have a clue.
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Just set your Mumble microphone input to a lower level so it doesn't pick your speakers up.
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