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Okay so I stopped playing before the whole romulus expansion hit. What's new? Are we still all rear admirals fulfilling our starfleet destinies?
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We're Fleet Admirals and Dahar Masters choosing which group of talaxians get brutally massacred.
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I started playing a few weeks ago, got a engineer to 60. still have no idea what i am doing, so i rolled a Tactical. Any chance for access to the wiki/in-game channel ziggy@dkbreen
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DonDoodles posted:Will removing all party popper effects woo you back? Is it me or his forum pic the online equivalent of the picture that comes in a new wallet?
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Dec 18, 2014 15:31
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New wallets still come with stock pictures?
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Dec 18, 2014 16:14
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His pictures are all lifted from elsewhere. He uses another one for his website that is obviously taken from a Facebook profile. Pubbies need to believe that Olivia is actually a female, though, hence the ridiculous amount of white-knighting. What's worse is he blatantly uses those pics for attention. When ESD is off on its usual "boobs or rear end: which is better" topic, Olivia will link the pic and say "here are boobs for ya  "Also lol at Aleth's warning. I was in transit all day yesterday so I missed whatever post mentioned my posting history. I like how Bluegeek warned you for inappropriate comments but he himself admitted he wasn't entirely sure. He's cracking.
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I'm sitting in the mid 50's level wise with my Sci captain, and am tired of flying around in my mirror recon science vessel. I've got about 500 zen hanging around. Is there anything I can upgrade to? Suggestions for science vessels to work toward with minimal grinding? Edit: should specify Fed Toon CyanideRush fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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Dec 18, 2014 19:43
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CyanideRush posted:I'm sitting in the mid 50's level wise with my Sci captain, and am tired of flying around in my mirror recon science vessel. How many EC do you have? That said, you don't necessarily need a sci vessel on a sci toon. Have you been keeping up with your breen ship grind?
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The main problem right now is that with delta rising, there's now two extra ship tiers (T5U/T6, then T5U fleet/T6 fleet, though only the lockbox/event ships are at that level at the moment) and all of them cost either zen or a boatload of energy credits on the exchange. The mirror ships are still... sufficient, but they're quite a bit behind the curve now. And yes, this is incredibly hostile to newbies but that's just one yet another subtle element of PWE's player-loving in DR.  You can survive without a top-tier ship, but you're probably going to feel it until you get your gear up to spec, get a decent build, or both.As noted, the best option right now is probably to just finish off the Breen Sarr Thein carrier and use that; it's not a science vessel, but it's pretty science heavy, it's tier 6, and it doesn't cost a cent. If you have alt slots you can grind out the Chell Grett, Plesh Brek, or both; they're not T6, but a free T5u is hard to pass up. Not sure if it's too late to start an alt grind yet, but if not, go to it. Also, as noted you don't really need to fly the same "type" of ship as your captain, so don't be afraid to try something else if it looks tempting.
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I'm pretty behind on the Grind actually (house remodeling sapping up time). I've only won a handful of races. What's my deadline date?
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WW ends 15th January, so even if you started now you've still got time for the 1000 photos.
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CyanideRush posted:I'm sitting in the mid 50's level wise with my Sci captain, and am tired of flying around in my mirror recon science vessel. Get the Chell Gret. That thing was a godsend to me as a space-poor fed sci when I was starting out. Also roll alts and get the the other two Breen ships.
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Yeah, if you do alts you can have three characters running the race, have each work on a different ship, then buy the other two for the discount rate. Three free ships is really hard to pass up, especially since the race itself is pretty quick and easy.
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Just to clarify- after the first time you buy a ship for 1000, every other character gets that ship for 40. It's one of the only really nice improvements cryptic has recently made to the game. (also get three alts, so next year you'll have a hoard of pics for the new ship)
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Tunicate posted:Just to clarify- after the first time you buy a ship for 1000, every other character gets that ship for 40.
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So when I am upgrading, no matter what I do, it tells me that the accelerator I have selected will bind the result to my account. This is with no accelerator selected, an unbound beam weapon, and an upgrade made with no bound catalysts or anything.
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Dec 18, 2014 23:15
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Yeah. Whatever your opinion of Cryptic's development, they've always been really good about making casual and accessible games, and making them moreso as they've gone along. Delta Rising is such a regression from the previous dev trends that there has to be some "monetization specialist" fuckwit calling the shots, kind of like the same idiots that hosed over GW2's cash shop before launch. The fact Cryptic is studiously avoiding even discussing the big elephants in the room (the hard fail conditions in queues, the massive paywall in front of newbies, etc) while making improvements and nerfs in tangential areas (heavily nerfing CCA and other queues, reducing enemy health, etc) makes it really clear that they're being forced to keep that poo poo in. I imagine the office politics at the moment must be pretty toxic at the moment, especially considering how dramatically the player base has dropped. It's even worse if the actual revenue coming in (due to the pre-order packs, folks buying lots of dilithium for upgrades, etc) didn't drop, since on PWE's end it would look like everything's fine even as the game is rotted away from under them. "Luckily", considering how sparse the Sheshar is I suspect any boost in revenue with the expansion launch was really, really short lived.
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Good news, everyone! Cryptic has finally decided to tackle that pesky bug which is causing the STF queues to not work. You might have foolishly believed that the queues weren't popping because no one wanted to play them with the current nerfed rewards and hard-fail condition, but you'd be wrong. It's obviously a bug, otherwise why would they need their players to list which queues were Edit: Obviously, the same bug is affecting their metrics. Otherwise they wouldn't have to ask the players. And this certainly can't be a cynical attempt to get a bunch of people to queue up for testing, thus causing the queues to start quickly. g0del fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2014 00:39
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Hah, he seems to be going out of his way not to call it a bug. Just a 'problem' or an 'issue'. Because the 'issue' is the players not joining. Also, for a mod his grammar is atrocious.
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Has anyone ever encountered a bug where the doffs you get from assignments just...disappear? Literally every doff I was supposed to be awarded today from assignments are not on my roster. I've relogged, restarted the game, reset filters, checked/unchecked every option, etc.
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g0del posted:Good news, everyone! Cryptic has finally decided to tackle that pesky bug which is causing the STF queues to not work. You might have foolishly believed that the queues weren't popping because no one wanted to play them with the current nerfed rewards and hard-fail condition, but you'd be wrong. It's obviously a bug, otherwise why would they need their players to list which queues were I mean it's possible to nerf a lot of queues into the ground so hard that the failure condition is basically meaningless... look at CCA right now where I'm not sure it's even possible to fail without actively trying to since you can effortlessly face tank both explosions. The problem is, if the queue is that trivial then why even have a normal/advanced split? And there's a few queues where the failure condition relies on teamwork (Borg Disconnected, frex) where nerfing the enemies will only go so far and your average pug will still have a non-zero failure chance, making sure they stay empty. It was just a clusterfuck of a change all around and anyone with two firing neurons and experience with STO's playerbase could have seen it coming weeks ahead of time.
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Welshy posted:I started playing a few weeks ago, got a engineer to 60. still have no idea what i am doing, so i rolled a Tactical. You're invited to TheNextGooneration, what's your wiki name?
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Asimo posted:On a slightly less cynical note, it does prove Cryptic is fully aware of the issue and what it is. The question is whether they're trying to gather player responses to shove in PWE's face about the absolute failure of the queue changes, or whether they're still stuck with those and are just trying to find which to nerf hard. I think they're just hoping everyone complaining about it will post in that thread instead of making new ones every day.
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CAT BRUSH posted:So when I am upgrading, no matter what I do, it tells me that the accelerator I have selected will bind the result to my account. This is with no accelerator selected, an unbound beam weapon, and an upgrade made with no bound catalysts or anything. If you log out, and then log in, this issue clears. I hope this helps before anyone accidentally binds their upgraded items to their account. I guess if you slot a bound accelerator, and then clear the slot, the game keeps the bound flag flipped. :cryptic:
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Korgan posted:You're invited to TheNextGooneration, what's your wiki name? Its the same as my user. thanks man
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Welshy posted:Its the same as my user. thanks man No worries, you're on the wiki now too. EDIT hahahahaha Xtern1ty is melting down again. xtern1ty posted:What they don't read, they will see. This and much more. Korgan fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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I like how he makes us to be the bad guys yet he literally tells people to kill themselves, oh Xean, never change!.
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quote:Do not reply to this post. I insist you never refer to me or my fleet. Please do not say my name, or speak to me, or send anyone else to do so - ever; in game, in the forums or anywhere else. HAHAHAHAHAHA God dammit just as I was getting too burned out to play this. Also hey, I'm in the beginning of that video. I got xean street cred. 
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quote:Do not reply to this post. I insist you never refer to me or my fleet. Please do not say my name, or speak to me, or send anyone else to do so - ever; in game, in the forums or anywhere else. I hear if you post "Bloody Xean" three times on an MMO forum he appears.
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I have renamed my NextGooneration tab "Devs". It's mostly accurate. Also, hi Olivia.
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Hot off the press from the man himself! direct quotes from Xean and a slightly ad-libbed ending.
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DataDyne posted:Hot off the press from the man himself! direct quotes from Xean and a slightly ad-libbed ending. Man, how did you get Xean@Xtern1ty to read his post for you???
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With the help of devs, obviousry. Ly.
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DataDyne posted:Hot off the press from the man himself! direct quotes from Xean and a slightly ad-libbed ending. XEAN@XTERN1TY is the best voice actor there ever was. If I only there was some way to inform XEAN@XTERN1TY how hilarious this is and how it benefits him, his channel XTERN1TY and his friends in the fleet XTERN1TY. But sadly XEAN@XTERN1TY has made it illegal to ever refer to him, XEAN@XTERN1TY or his fleet, XTERN1TY ever again.
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bubbles depo posted:XEAN@XTERN1TY is the best voice actor there ever was. If I only there was some way to inform XEAN@XTERN1TY how hilarious this is and how it benefits him, his channel XTERN1TY and his friends in the fleet XTERN1TY. But sadly XEAN@XTERN1TY has made it illegal to ever refer to him, XEAN@XTERN1TY or his fleet, XTERN1TY ever again. I've risked a lawsuit by doing this but I've posted the video in response to him, keep an eye on the thread to see if he responds to his brilliant voice acting. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=21343181&posted=1#post21343181 EDIT Also it looks like Xtern1ty still hasn't hit T5 despite being in the game since the fleet system first appeared. His poor fleetmates are forced to use NoP Public Service to buy anything good. 
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I expect that Cryptic will look at the response to their STF survey and decide that since BHE is doing so well, it means that we all want more ground content.
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Korgan posted:EDIT hahahahaha Xtern1ty is melting down again. RIP Xean of XTERN1TY's post, forever bleached by bluegeek.
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Actually, Grim, the reason he muted me forever from his channel was because I went on offering T5 invites. Some of his channel minions actually took me up on the offer, and he flipped out. He muted anyone who told him to relax, as well as anyone who suggested that maybe I was actually doing a good thing by offering invites. It was a wonderful meltdown. I cannot wait for his next inevitable forums meltdown after seeing a mod warning in his forum inbox.
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Didn't take long:
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Whoever it was, post that "official warning" you got from Xean when he kicked you out of his channel.
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