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Asimo posted:Ahaha no it's clearly quite intentional. Oh I know it's intentional and I don't really blame them for making the change. I'm just hoping that they gently caress up their attempt to turn off the bonus because I've got a bunch of contra mules sitting on Delta rep and I really want to get one last big payday out of gaming the rep system.
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I'm thinking about playing STO, but there are a few things I'd like to know before joining in: 1. Is ground combat still bad? Can it be avoided if all I want are spess battles? 2. Are there any 'essential' premium packages I should get?
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Feb 5, 2015 01:20
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Ground combat is easy as poo poo these days in that it basically consists of "Bring the proper weapon/armor, win the game" Early game it's not a problem no matter what you have, late game, once you get the right gear, ground combat is a joke. As for essentials? No, not really, but the Steam Starter pack is nice, you get a Fleet level starship for something like 10 bucks.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:42
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SirPhoebos posted:I'm thinking about playing STO, but there are a few things I'd like to know before joining in: 1. Ground combat isn't as bad as it once was. There's a couple ways to approach it now. 2. There is nothing really essential to playing this game other than the bank expansion that allows you to have more than 10 million ec. I would suggest getting that through hording the dilithium currency in-game and transferring some of it to zen in order to buy it. There's no real reason to spend real-world money on this game. There are plenty of fun toys to play with but none of them are mandatory to play the game as long as you outfit your ships half-way intelligently.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:46
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If you'd told me that space combat and ground combat would swap places entirely in terms of preference... well, I'd believe it, because Cryptic makes no sense and everything is designed by dartboard.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:05
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And even if despite it being not so bad now, you find ground combat isn't for you, it can be entirely avoided once you get past some initial stuff and only engaged with if you desire some of the items from those missions. It's hardly mandatory for endgame crap. Some of the stuff that comes from them like crafting materials can just be bought off the in-game exchange.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:07
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Space combat hasn't really gotten worse, it's more than the assorted improvements to ground combat have finally reached a point where it's almost as fun. A lot of it comes down to the fact that the easiest elite queues (Bug Hunt, Transdimensional Tactics, Undine Infiltration) at the moment are all ground queues too. Honestly the only reason I tend to avoid ground these days is because it's a pain in the rear end to swap traits for it. 
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Feb 5, 2015 02:09
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The secret to ground combat is to turn on autofire, and wear energy damp armor until you get a set of MKXI jem'hadar gear for free and then you can do 90% of the content better than most.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:09
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To add to the point about buying poo poo - I've regretted every ship purchase I've made in the game with the sole exception of the Vesta. Particularly now that tier 6 ships are in and have totally outclassed most of the T5 crop.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:15
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Thanks for the feedback. What server/faction should I get on to roll with Starfleet Dental?
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Feb 5, 2015 02:21
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SirPhoebos posted:Thanks for the feedback. There's only one server aside from the test server. Dental is Fed side, Nerds of Prey is our Klingon fleet.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:24
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Romulans pick a faction after the tutorial. Roll a romulan.
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Feb 5, 2015 02:31
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Okay I requested access to the wiki. My username is the same as here.
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I'd like to swagger my way into the wiki - Signed up as drfarrakhan.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:11
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To add on to what the others were saying, most end-game content is cross-faction, so it doesn't matter which faction you pick when it comes to doing things with goons. And most of the regulars have alts in both factions so even for the few faction specific things you can usually get enough people to help. Romulans can choose to be either faction, but they have a few advantages over the other factions. Their biggest advantage is probably that they can get a full bridge crew of officers with the trait "Superior Romulan Operative", which is pretty much the best possible space trait for a bridge officer. When it comes time to choose a faction, there are a few benefits for being a fed, but you're probably better off going klingon. They get easy access to contraband which can be sold or turned into dilithium, and they have the easiest access to the plasmonic leech console which is one of the best end-game ship items. Oh and since the latest expansion cryptic has made DPS more important than anything else so you might as well roll a Tactical captain. tl;dr: Roll a Tac Romulan and join the Klingons when you get a chance.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:42
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g0del posted:To add on to what the others were saying, most end-game content is cross-faction, so it doesn't matter which faction you pick when it comes to doing things with goons. And most of the regulars have alts in both factions so even for the few faction specific things you can usually get enough people to help. Fedroms get slightly better faction uniforms and also get access to Earth Spacedock, which is a better and way more convenient home base than Kronos. Leech is a deal breaker though 
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Feb 5, 2015 03:53
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It wasn't until the boff revamp did I even realize how many superior romulan operatives I had. Now that I can switch abilities out on the fly I'm always rolling with a full deck.
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Feb 5, 2015 04:08
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SKY COQ posted:Fedroms get slightly better faction uniforms and also get access to Earth Spacedock, which is a better and way more convenient home base than Kronos. Leech is a deal breaker though When will Qo'noS blow up/whatever so they finally remake the first city? It's been garbage since release.
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Feb 5, 2015 04:41
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Haerc posted:When will Qo'noS blow up/whatever so they finally remake the first city? It's been garbage since release. Never. The Klingon faction is small enough they'll never bother.
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Feb 5, 2015 04:45
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With the more Mass Effect aesthetic they've been doing when not mucking with experience rates, I think they could really put out something cool with a Qo'Nos redesign. 
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Haerc posted:When will Qo'noS blow up/whatever so they finally remake the first city? It's been garbage since release.
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Feb 5, 2015 04:58
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Haerc posted:When will Qo'noS blow up/whatever so they finally remake the first city? It's been garbage since release. I was pretty sure they had at least blown up the shipyard in last year's fluidic anniversary episode, but nope, it's still there afterwards. Realistically since everyone's at peace now anyway they should implement a new cross-faction hub in the centre of the redesigned Galaxy map next season.
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Feb 5, 2015 05:05
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Lorak posted:They already did, some time back. Honestly the current one isn't that bad, it just needs to have the utilities be a bit more centralized, and maybe have at least one part of it with decent lighting.
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Feb 5, 2015 05:33
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Lorak posted:They already did, some time back. Yeah, the current First City map is the second incarnation of Qo'noS and believe it or not it's an enormous improvement over the old High Command building/maze.
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Asimo posted:Honestly the current one isn't that bad, it just needs to have the utilities be a bit more centralized, and maybe have at least one part of it with decent lighting. A decent retexture would go a very long way, especially if they threw in a bit more contrast. The current textures are arse. They could throw in a few decorative assets they've developed since then that they've got lying around, too. That and bring the shipyard onto the same map. Or hell, just the same loading 'map'. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Yeah that too really. Maybe linking up the Academy with the Qo'nos map? Or making a "Qo'nos spacedock" map that's as fancy as the ESD one, rather than a single room. Really Klingons in general need some love still. Cryptic doesn't want to spend money on them because nobody plays them, and nobody plays them because they're clearly neglected. But as long as there's so much faction-specific stuff there's no reason for anyone to ever reroll.
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Asimo posted:Yeah that too really. Maybe linking up the Academy with the Qo'nos map? Or making a "Qo'nos spacedock" map that's as fancy as the ESD one, rather than a single room. gently caress, just steal the big room with the big windows from Klingon Starbase and plonk a few ships outside. Or the Boreth Bridge with some of the interior replaced. There's a lot of really cheap, kinda lame ways like that that they could make the Klingon experience look a lot better without much effort or cost. Like I said, a retexture and relight of Qo'nos would do most of the work making it look good and that wouldn't require them to retrigger and rerig the map for all of the old missions. (Please relight the Klingon bridges whilst you're at it, Cryptic? Although come to think of it, I seem to recall the shoddy lighting was to cover up the shoddy work) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Asimo posted:Yeah that too really. Maybe linking up the Academy with the Qo'nos map? Or making a "Qo'nos spacedock" map that's as fancy as the ESD one, rather than a single room. Not to mention there's very little variety to Klingon ships. Romulans suffer from this too, though it isn't as big a problem as they're so good at everything. Klingons get cruisers and escorts, but so does everyone else. Their carriers are old and you need to get the fleet version of a free ship to be able to at least upgrade it to T5U. BoPs are a fun niche but they just get what, one? For the end game. Meanwhile my eyes just kind of glaze over when I look at fed ships because A) most of them are crap but B) you've got like, six of every type of ship to choose from.
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Berke Negri posted:Not to mention there's very little variety to Klingon ships. Romulans suffer from this too, though it isn't as big a problem as they're so good at everything. Klingons get cruisers and escorts, but so does everyone else. Their carriers are old and you need to get the fleet version of a free ship to be able to at least upgrade it to T5U. BoPs are a fun niche but they just get what, one? For the end game. Meanwhile my eyes just kind of glaze over when I look at fed ships because A) most of them are crap but B) you've got like, six of every type of ship to choose from. They'd have decent variety if they pushed all of the lower-level ones to Fleet, including all the C-store ones. Where's my Fleet Guramba.
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Where's my T6 carrier
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Berke Negri posted:Not to mention there's very little variety to Klingon ships. Romulans suffer from this too, though it isn't as big a problem as they're so good at everything. Klingons get cruisers and escorts, but so does everyone else. Their carriers are old and you need to get the fleet version of a free ship to be able to at least upgrade it to T5U. BoPs are a fun niche but they just get what, one? For the end game. Meanwhile my eyes just kind of glaze over when I look at fed ships because A) most of them are crap but B) you've got like, six of every type of ship to choose from. SKY COQ posted:Where's my T6 carrier 
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Decided to roll straight Klingon cause I'm a hipster douchebag.
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SirPhoebos posted:Okay I requested access to the wiki. My username is the same as here. lotion posted:I'd like to swagger my way into the wiki - Signed up as drfarrakhan. You're both in. SirPhoebos posted:Decided to roll straight Klingon cause I'm a hipster douchebag. Good choice, pros pick pure Klingon.
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If I were rolling a new account now, not having billions of space dollars sunk into a federation main character but still knowing what I do about the game, I'd probably be rolling a klank main right now myself. Yeah yeah Romulans are better, and they really are, but klingons have way more variety in ships (having access to Gorn, Nausicaan, and Orion designs for example) and even if Pirate is not SRO it's still better than the crapass space traits Feds get access to. The duty officer missions are infinitely better, and being much worse supported means there's way less things to need to buy.  Really though, as I think about it, it's kind of sad that Klingons have so much more visual ship variety. Why don't we see more Vulcan ships? Andorian? Hell, even Caitian? I know I know, the answer is probably "CBS is dumb", but...
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Romulans do shooting stuff well, but they still have no good nonlockbox science ships.
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Mondian posted:Yet they are the canonical science race They were never really a science race, and that was only a postulation back before they were released that the Federation was engineering-focused, Klingons were tactical-focused, and Romulans would logically be science-focused. Except Cryptic decided not to go that route. And if you go by the TV show, Romulans are the canonical cocktease race, always around and threatening but almost never seen actually fighting.
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Mondian posted:Yet they are the canonical science race That was the Federation, was it not? The Feds were the scientists and explorers. And they at least get the Vesta.
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Engineers, the federation was so renowned for its engineering prowess that even a Vorta from the Gamma quadrant remarked "I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators". As opposed to repairing and creating technologies, the Romulans seemed more adept at actually manipulating all the various made up particles and energy fields in Star Trek to suit their whims. Not to mention every Romulan we were introduced to who wasn't Military or Tal Shiar seemed to be a scientist. We never met any engineers or doctors or....?
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Mondian posted:Engineers, the federation was so renowned for its engineering prowess that even a Vorta from the Gamma quadrant remarked "I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators". Well yeah, but I think that the two kinda went hand in hand. And the Enterprise was kicking energy field rear end every other week after a requisite 45 minutes of problems.
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