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About a year back, I got a bugship that I could never conceivably afford for being the first hopeful applicant to successfully complete the Dental application test. Rather than do the smart thing and immediately flip it on the exchange for space riches, I decided that a ship that magical needed an equally magical character to go with it. 80s goons should not have a problem guessing her name.  (The Holograms all have SRO.  )(...and the ship is in mark X and XI gear.  )
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The last DR mission was pointlessly long and unrewarding, a jumbled mess of plot points to which more questions were raised than answers given. It was truly Voyager.
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Oct 17, 2014 12:54
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 Flying the Vaadwaur ship in one of the story missions and it was armed with these in the rear slots. Upcoming weapons for the next lockbox? A hint of cannon upgrades so broadsiders have better choices? Cryptic loving up and putting front-only weapons in rear slots? Time will tell.
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Oct 17, 2014 13:04
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Dely Apple posted:The last DR mission was pointlessly long and unrewarding, a jumbled mess of plot points to which more questions were raised than answers given. It was truly Voyager. The answer is always Iconians
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Oct 17, 2014 15:30
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Trying to get back into this game after being out for a while and I am so very lost. Could anyone give me some advice on how I should re-skill my (science) captain? Are the Tier 6 ships worth picking up? I do note that Cryptic still makes science vessels look like poo poo.
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Oct 17, 2014 15:41
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Without spoiling anything wrt story missions, do we get any free ships out of this? So far it's been two 'of bajors', two patrols, and maybe one or two actual story missions.
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Oct 17, 2014 15:45
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Sorus posted:Trying to get back into this game after being out for a while and I am so very lost. Could anyone give me some advice on how I should re-skill my (science) captain? Are the Tier 6 ships worth picking up? Yeah, I tried to play a bit the other day and felt completely lost and overwhelmed with all the new poo poo.
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Oct 17, 2014 16:05
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Stunt Rock posted:Yeah, I tried to play a bit the other day and felt completely lost and overwhelmed with all the new poo poo. I just started playing last week and thought I kind of had it figured out, hit 50 and jesus gently caress I am completely lost. There has been an awesome bro helping me out though and being super patient with all of my stupid rear end questions. Not sure his name on the forums but christ he's been a life saver. tldr; still lost.
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Oct 17, 2014 16:25
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We're always here to help other goons, and ridicule you relentlessly for absolutely nothing. Also, to the chump who's talking poo poo about science ships, the nova/rhode island is a nice old trek aesthetic, almost looks like a shrunk down sovereign class. The new science ship is a space bottle opener, what's not to love?
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Oct 17, 2014 16:36
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Technical Analysis posted:Also, to the chump who's talking poo poo about science ships, the nova/rhode island is a nice old trek aesthetic, almost looks like a shrunk down sovereign class. The new science ship is a space bottle opener, what's not to love? The saucer on the Scryer looks a little goofy, but I do retract my statement about the other science vessels as, looking back through my ships, they're not so bad. My memory made them worse.
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Stunt Rock posted:Yeah, I tried to play a bit the other day and felt completely lost and overwhelmed with all the new poo poo.
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Oct 17, 2014 17:05
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I'd like an invite please handle is Krevat@Sacrate. I thought I could just put around picking stuff up, but this game is so loving boring without goon input. I also need wiki access as well, username is Sacrate.
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Oct 17, 2014 18:12
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Likewise with the wiki, username of Sorus.
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Oct 17, 2014 18:18
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Crypticgeko posted:Welcome to Delta Rising. A lot has changed in the game difficulty, and we are looking for your feedback.
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Oct 17, 2014 18:34
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Need a Wiki Add since it is time for me to start getting real about STO. Also I found out I forgot everything! Name is Axe-man, though the profile says axe-man 
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Oct 17, 2014 19:19
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So reading between the lines, over 50 get that wallet open and grab the Zen?
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Ratzap posted:So reading between the lines, over 50 get that wallet open and grab the Zen? And your ankles.
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Oct 17, 2014 20:56
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It's really hard to say how things will suss out at level 60 for advanced and elite difficulties without being there, but are all these people bitching doing so before hitting the new level cap? If so, that seems kind of disingenuous.
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Oct 17, 2014 21:05
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 Guys, these space barbie sliders. Guys. These sliders. You guys.
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Melchior posted:It's really hard to say how things will suss out at level 60 for advanced and elite difficulties without being there, but are all these people bitching doing so before hitting the new level cap? If so, that seems kind of disingenuous. There are a few big problems that are obvious even now. Before release the devs said that advanced would be like the old elite, but it's manifestly not. Most things have vastly increased HP (and optionals are now requireds), but even that is inconsistent. In viscous cycle the ships that shoot at you got buffed but the baby planet killers didn't. And you only have to kill the planet killers, you can ignore the buffed ships. The CE went from 1.2 million HP to 21 million, while retaining it's healing abilities and damage resistance. Good luck ever killing that. Borg have all been buffed, but it doesn't seem uniform, more like a bunch of different people plugged random large numbers in for HP. Meanwhile, queue rewards were cut in half. STFs take longer (even for a good pre-made team) and give fewer rewards. You don't need to be 60 to see why people don't like that. Oh, and as a final 'gently caress you' to new players, you can't get rep equipment without the various rep drops, which only drop on advanced or higher. So the only way to get the gear required to run advanced STFs is by running lots of advanced STFs without the required gear.
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g0del posted:Oh, and as a final 'gently caress you' to new players, you can't get rep equipment without the various rep drops, which only drop on advanced or higher. So the only way to get the gear required to run advanced STFs is by running lots of advanced STFs without the required gear. O rly, gently caress this game then. New people gearing their characters will basically hit a brick wall. This expansion seems to be geared towards making people decide to play other games.
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Oct 17, 2014 21:44
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Is the old conventional wisdom on energy flavors altered now that people can craft and upgrade low-mark energy weapons? The wiki page on energy stuff hasn't been updated in a few months.
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Oct 17, 2014 22:31
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Whilst there are quest rewards you can work with and get for most slots that will serve(There's at least one quest in the new content that is giving out Mark 13 Phasers), that also means potentially dealing with the upgrade system for months/years. ...Anyone checked old missions to see whether rewards for earlier content keep scaling up or not? Bloodly fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Oct 17, 2014 22:36
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g0del posted:Oh, and as a final 'gently caress you' to new players, you can't get rep equipment without the various rep drops, which only drop on advanced or higher. So the only way to get the gear required to run advanced STFs is by running lots of advanced STFs without the required gear.
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Oct 17, 2014 22:37
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Has anyone else had one of these emails? I haven't heard anything about Zen expiring before.
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g0del posted:Yes, but the complaints have some merit. Ships don't get stronger as you level up so anyone who's struggling at level 50 will still be struggling at 60. I'm not sure how much difference maxing out the various specializations will make since that requires levelling significantly past 60, but it's unlikely to make people 5-10 times as effective (the enemies in advanced generally have 5-10 times the HP of old elites). The T6 and T5U ships do level up a bit, they unlock some passives and gain some hull. Escorts and Destroyers get the damage-boosting passives, of course, while cruisers get shafted with passives focused on resistance (which is subject to such severe diminishing returns that a +25 only looks good on a tooltip). But overall, an upgraded level 60 character is going to do about 30% more damage while the enemies have about 500% more HP. Everything takes a minimum of 5x longer, sometimes more, and the STFs have hard-fail time limits that are pretty brutal to people who aren't DPS freaks.
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Veotax posted:Has anyone else had one of these emails? Nessus posted:Ahahahahah no poo poo?  Valatar posted:Is the old conventional wisdom on energy flavors altered now that people can craft and upgrade low-mark energy weapons? The wiki page on energy stuff hasn't been updated in a few months. Asimo fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Veotax posted:Has anyone else had one of these emails? I got an email about that too. Turns out I had 10 zen sitting around in the main arc account system that I never bought. I think its just to force you to commit your monopoly money to one of their specific games. Really stupid system regardless.
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Asimo posted:Haven't seen that before. I think it's some specific dumbass system perfect world has that's going away and will take zen with it, rather than something about their space fun bucks in general, but yeah not very reassuring regardless. quote:Sorta. The main thing crafting and upgrading did was make it much, much easier to get specific combinations of mods since you can crank out very rare MkII weapons for a pittance until you get the mods you want. This also lets you get a few combinations that were previously impossible, like CrtDx3 antiprotons. In general, for PVE, these days you're going to want as much CrtD as possible and probably plasma; a bit less crit damage than AP but it's boosted by the embassy consoles which means it makes science boats, carriers, sci-Odys, and other less used ships suddenly potent and valuable. The good news is, annoying ERPers is still free!
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g0del posted:If you're cheap go phaser since there's a bunch of new missions which reward MkXIII [ACC]x3 phasers. And yeah, definitely plasma. The embassy consoles are a not insignificant boost to damage, and you'll probably want to stack flow caps anyway if you've got plasmonic leech.
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People keep mentioning these embassy consoles, but I've never been able to figure out what they are or how to get them. Help?
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Moon Slayer posted:People keep mentioning these embassy consoles, but I've never been able to figure out what they are or how to get them. Help? You can get them from the fleet embassy on New Romulus. You probably want the plasma-infused [-TH] ones, though the threat-scaling features are practically worthless. If you can do decent damage you will pull aggro no matter how many -Th consoles you have.
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Even factoring in the increased power from specializations, T5U or T6 ships, and mk xiv equipment, the new advanced queues are much tougher than the old elites. Though to be honest the old elites were way too easy. The real problem seems to be the decreased rewards. I'm pretty sure this was intentional; Infected Elite was never meant to be run in 5 minutes, that was the result of years of power creep. So the new ones giving less reward for time spent is almost certainly by design. The rewards aren't nerfed as bad as they sound either; apparently they included a dilithium bonus for getting the optional, so when I did Infected Normal I got 480 dil instead of the 240 reward listed for "normal" queues. Next time I do Advanced I'll make a note to check out how much dilithium I get as well. The Borg Neural Processors and other rep rewards are a big problem, though, and they should probably make them start dropping in normal so new players can get rep gear.
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Yeah, it's plainly obvious that Cryptic hated the reward you got from the borg STFs and were just itching for an opportunity to nerf it into the ground. Honestly I could probably live with that if it wasn't accompanied by massive tedium, increased costs, and all the other bullshit of the expansion. Or that it's plainly obvious that Cryptic really really wants you to get at most 1 mark/20 dil per minute of a queue despite the fact this is tedious as gently caress and everyone invariably migrating to the queues with better time/reward. There's also the matter that having some five or ten minute queues wasn't really a bad thing either from the player's end...
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Yeah, part of the reason I liked the game was the fact that I could log in and blow up some borg in bite-sized chunks whenever I felt like it. I was planning on spending some cash on new goodies when the expansion was announced like I did last time, but I haven't even logged in since it hit and every time I read this thread I get less motivated to do so with all the bullshit they've put in.
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Korgan, would it be possible for you to reset my ID to the wiki? It seems the system is not recognizing my username when I try to reset the password. My username is VeridianLeviathan. Thanks!
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Crate! posted:I'd like an invite please handle is Krevat@Sacrate. I thought I could just put around picking stuff up, but this game is so loving boring without goon input. Sorus posted:Likewise with the wiki, username of Sorus. Axe-man posted:Need a Wiki Add since it is time for me to start getting real about STO. Also I found out I forgot everything! Name is Axe-man, though the profile says axe-man You're all in. LeviathanGunship posted:Korgan, would it be possible for you to reset my ID to the wiki? It seems the system is not recognizing my username when I try to reset the password. My username is VeridianLeviathan. Thanks! I wish. We don't have a mail system hooked up so password resets don't work and I can't do them either. I've deleted your account, remake it and I'll authorise you.
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Asimo posted:By "a bunch" he means "almost all of them", since you can get six MkXII ACCx3 very rare phaser beam arrays by questing. It almost makes me think that those were placeholders that made it past QA or something... 6 seems a little loving ridiculous when you can just replay a mission to get more.
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Decided to peek in since I heard about a new expansion and now there's this arc online poo poo and what the hell is going on and then I see this... This is, for some reason, the most hilarious thing I've seen all week.
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Captain Candiru posted:Decided to peek in since I heard about a new expansion and now there's this arc online poo poo and what the hell is going on and then I see this... fed captain: bitch you best not be getting in the way of my selfie here~
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