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Pubbies get real mad when you criticize Branflakes. This is a post responding to a swipe I made at Bran's professionalism. "wildthyme467989 posted:I've been considering carefully how to respond to all this bile you've been typing in this thread. Smirk rushed in and closed the thread, but it's still visible: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1394231&page=6
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Tunicate posted:Consistency? What's that wat DonDoodles posted:Pubbies get real mad when you criticize Branflakes. This is a post responding to a swipe I made at Bran's professionalism. I love you guys BombermanX fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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So just to get the lowdown on upgrading... I want eight type X beams for my Presidio. I was going to give the AntiProton Mk II Beam Array [CrtD]x2 [over] a go.. So it costs (Assuming I am Lvl 15), 1 Radiogenic particle, 1 firing sequencer, 1power surge regulator + 15k ec per upgrade. And I will need 6 x 7 Upgrades to end up with a Mk X. Let's break down the costs. 1 x Radiogenic particle (115,000) 1 x Firing sequencer (130,000) 1 x Power surge regulator (94,000). So that's 354,000 for the upgrade. Assuming I get away with six, that's 2,124,000 for one. If I want eight, that's 16,992,000 EC. Is that about right, taking them to a type X? And they are Account Bound. I heard that one route to do this was to grind Bug Hunt Elite and CCA for the experimental beam tech upgrade and upgrade things that way. Does that sound about right?
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So what's changed in this game over the past 2-3 years? I played for a while up until they had those lockboxes you could buy that were supposed to contain some limited edition Spoonhead ship (a Kheldon, I think?), but mostly just contained sweet gently caress all.
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Jethro_E7 posted:So just to get the lowdown on upgrading... I was finding one of the specific ingredients in upgrades was running me out of house and home, I cant remember which one but the cost came out to about the same as buying them, the difference being small enough to negate the hassle of clicking all the bullshit. And don't forget your 2x research boosters. Here is me bitching about it. Cyberball 2072 posted:I have had an assfull of these Z-Particle prices. 650k for ten of em, the drat recipe for the upgrade components use 3 and 2 each. EACH. I can see using experimental upgrades if you have something really decent but keep in mind those research boosts are going to reset every time the guns level, it gets pricey fast. That's a big part of why those anniversary upgrades are so sweet, the research carried over giving you more chances to hit on that 20-40% Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 09:41
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Drunk in Space posted:So what's changed in this game over the past 2-3 years? I played for a while up until they had those lockboxes you could buy that were supposed to contain some limited edition Spoonhead ship (a Kheldon, I think?), but mostly just contained sweet gently caress all. NOTHING! There's a new race and over 15 different kinds of lockboxes. All of which contain FUCKALL. Pubbies still hate us. Devs- the ones that are left anyway- hate us. Theres 4-5 lovely radio stations and it's easy to get space rich.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:02
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And that new race is Talaxians.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:04
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I'm downloading a 10gb patch in order to experience ultimate bij.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:53
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Jethro_E7 posted:So just to get the lowdown on upgrading...
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Mar 10, 2015 19:32
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You can't actually pick up a [pvp dmg] mod or any of the crafting mods when upgrading. That said you still get hosed over by [dmg]: the original bad mod with alarming frequency.
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Mar 10, 2015 19:36
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I haven't actually run the data but I'm positive the game heavily weights for [Dmg] when you upgrade. Like 40% of the time rather than the 25% it should be.  Also, for the record, [Over] is pretty poo poo. While the actual effect is really good, it doesn't seem to proc if you're using Fire at Will or some other weapon skill, so the only time you'll ever have a chance of seeing it happen is the few seconds of global cooldown between FAW uses. You're better off with [Pen] or another [CrtD].
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I doubt that it's weighted for [dmg] but the rng is really terrible and tends to spit out the same results if you try multiple upgrades in quick succession. I've had multiple instances of the quality chance procing for the exact same mod at the exact same time. It happened with [crtd] a few time so I'm not complaining but yeah that's going to gently caress up your sample. Also if you get a [dmg] you may want to wait a minute before you try to upgrade another piece of gear. I'd also second that if it's not crtdx3 or crtdx2 pen it's not worth gambling on upgrades. crtdx3 + a bad mod will usually sell for less than the accelerator you wasted on it. Started with a bad mod dooms means you lose money at best and spend a couple mil on double bad mod vendor trash at least half the time. I could see [over] maybe being useful on a dedicated scihole build that runs almost no tac powers but that's just not a thing anymore.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:09
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So what is coming in Season 10? Sector Space revamp and...?
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Mar 10, 2015 23:51
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Asimo posted:I haven't actually run the data but I'm positive the game heavily weights for [Dmg] when you upgrade. Like 40% of the time rather than the 25% it should be. This is not true. Over the course of 80 weapons upgraded, I received 21 [Dmg] mods. It does average out over sufficiently large samples. As poo poo as Cryptic is right now, they're not rigging it this way; rather, the rigging is in the addition of many useless mods to crafting.
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Preechr posted:This is not true. Over the course of 80 weapons upgraded, I received 21 [Dmg] mods. It does average out over sufficiently large samples. As poo poo as Cryptic is right now, they're not rigging it this way; rather, the rigging is in the addition of many useless mods to crafting. Well, partly wrong. Go go [PVPDmg] and [PVPRes]!  Berke Negri posted:So what is coming in Season 10? Sector Space revamp and...?
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Mar 11, 2015 00:19
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Berke Negri posted:So what is coming in Season 10? Sector Space revamp and...? Delta Recruit characters will get a Temporal Admiral Janeway bridge officer that you cannot modify or delete, just like Tovan Khev on the Romulan side.
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Mar 11, 2015 00:24
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WarLocke posted:Delta Recruit characters will get a Temporal Admiral Janeway bridge officer that you cannot modify or delete, just like Tovan Khev on the Romulan side. Haha, so everyone gets their own person Derp Fox voice of bad decisions on their bridge. Nice.
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Mar 11, 2015 00:34
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WarLocke posted:Delta Recruit characters will get a Temporal Admiral Janeway bridge officer that you cannot modify or delete, just like Tovan Khev on the Romulan side. If this is true, it is the best possible news and will save the game. It's not true, is it.
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Mar 11, 2015 00:39
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Of course not, Mulgrew would cost more than this game could get in its budget.
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Mar 11, 2015 00:53
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WarLocke posted:Delta Recruit characters will get a Temporal Admiral Janeway bridge officer that you cannot modify or delete, just like Tovan Khev on the Romulan side. Season 10's new currency will be coffee.
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kafziel posted:If this is true, it is the best possible news and will save the game. Yeah, I lied and the boff is the account-wide reward. AfroSquirrel posted:Season 10's new currency will be coffee. Exploration clusters are being changed to coffee nebulas.
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Mar 11, 2015 01:00
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Wait, there's a new race? Huh.
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ERP... ERP never changes From a nude orion toon with a ferengi whip on Risa.
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I love how pubbies automatically assume that, because of a minor change to one instance, they are completely free of all Dental shenanigans forever. All it takes is a little typo to get them riled up again. 
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DonDoodles posted:I love how pubbies automatically assume that, because of a minor change to one instance, they are completely free of all Dental shenanigans forever. All it takes is a little typo to get them riled up again.
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Mar 11, 2015 06:00
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Is it a hard lock on disco or is it like force fields on Risa?
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Mar 11, 2015 07:13
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drat it - if I had known that pubbies were still getting wound up over party favourites at the dead Spock celebration centre, I would never have left the exclusion bubble.
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Mar 11, 2015 07:18
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One more question: did the nullifier happen around the same time the good devs quit?
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A bit after, yes.
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Complete coincidence of course.
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Speaking of all the good devs quitting, I wonder how many things will go wrong with the sector space update and how many of them will be not fixable because of the skills drain.
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Mar 11, 2015 12:38
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This will be the excuse for them to shut the game down.
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DancingShade posted:Speaking of all the good devs quitting, I wonder how many things will go wrong with the sector space update and how many of them will be not fixable because of the skills drain. The spirit of Sword of the Stars II will live on in STO. Prepare for weekly patch notes of "Fixed: Ships spawned in the middle of a sun"
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AfroSquirrel posted:The spirit of Sword of the Stars II will live on in STO. Prepare for weekly patch notes of "Fixed: Ships spawned in the middle of a sun" STO has a looong way to fall before it even approaches SotS2 levels. Still pissed that I paid $50 to preorder that shitheap because SotS1 was a classic and I actually though kerberos/Mecron knew what they were doing.
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WarLocke posted:STO has a looong way to fall before it even approaches SotS2 levels. SoTS 1 was just as bad on release and only became passable after two of it's three expansions and a shitload of paradox money. Anybody who pre-ordered SoTS 2 expecting anything different was a loving moron. I'm a loving moron too
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Psycho Landlord posted:SoTS 1 was just as bad on release and only became passable after two of it's three expansions and a shitload of paradox money. Anybody who pre-ordered SoTS 2 expecting anything different was a loving moron. I still have to disagree. SotS1 was rough at release, that's true. And the expansions made it a hell of a lot better both with QoL stuff and adding/fixing stuff that should have been there from the beginning. But SotS1 actually worked at release. SotS2 right now is in a worse state (after all the patches its gotten) than Sots1 was released at.
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DancingShade posted:Speaking of all the good devs quitting, I wonder how many things will go wrong with the sector space update and how many of them will be not fixable because of the skills drain.
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Asimo posted:I'm going to admit that I have no goddamn idea why Cryptic is actually going forward with the sector space revamp. It seems like one of those things that is a minor cosmetic benefit but is an absolute shitload of work and completely guaranteed to gently caress up a wide variety of things (duty officer missions, foundry missions, transwarps, sector alerts, etc) in a staggering diversity of ways. Even if it works perfectly fine - and it won't - I can't help but feel like it's a bunch of time that the coders and artists could have better spent on almost anything else in this dying game. I imagine its been in the works for at least a year, if not more, so less something they just put together now right after DR but the culmination of previous development. That's my guess.
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