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DancingShade posted:Nobody left to ban you dude. That would require a "staff". Still debating on throwing either a meat cube or an ice cube through the window with a laminated letter explaining why andorians shouldnt exist.
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The meatcube would attract rats who would then gnaw on the server wiring putting the game out of it's misery at long last.
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Do it with Dry Ice. They'll have a shattered window, a note about Andorians, and no way of knowing how either happened.
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Technical Analysis posted:Do it with Dry Ice. They'll have a shattered window, a note about Andorians, and no way of knowing how either happened. Fold the note into a paper airplane, encase it in dry ice, and then throw it through the window.
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DAVE!!!(c)(tm) posted:Fold the note into a paper airplane, encase it in dry ice, and then throw it through the window. This is a nice idea on paper but how do you propose somone encase something in dry ice? It isn't exactly like you just put some carbon dioxide in a shoe box in the freezer with a note in the middle. More practical idea is just to break the window with dry ice and then throw the paper airplane through the hole.
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I don't get it - why would you use an ice cube or whatever when they have a post box which, conveniently, serves double-duty as a urinal?
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I should just knit a pair of socks for the handles to their office. They probably get cold in the morning. But then I'd have to learn to knit.
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Security is important, which is why I suggest using an epoxy gun overnight to fill up any external keyholes on their access doors or windows.
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Mar 20, 2015 23:50
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I hope Cryptic isn't reading any of this thread.
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IPCRESS posted:I don't get it - why would you use an ice cube or whatever when they have a post box which, conveniently, serves double-duty as a urinal? I doubt there'd be any change in smell.
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BombermanX posted:I hope Cryptic isn't reading any of this thread. You're presuming they even bother showing up to work sober enough to read in the first place,
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Oh hey, Surgical Strikes nerf http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1405231
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Dreadwroth posted:You're presuming they even bother
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Tunicate posted:Oh hey, Surgical Strikes nerf quote:KDF players do not appear in the scoreboard at the end of a PVP match. Amazing.
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Aleth posted:Amazing. Since it broke at some point, and Cryptic has no idea how their PVP maps work. Literally no idea. The person who made them left years ago and the code is apparently as much of an incoherent lovely mess as the rest of the launch-era game, so making any fixes basically requires recoding PVP maps and matches from scratch. Which they're not in a big rush to do since nobody gives a gently caress about PVP in STO. This is also the same reason why they haven't released a new PVP map or battlezone since launch either; they don't know how to. Cryptic games!  Dreadwroth posted:You're presuming they even bother showing up to work sober enough to read in the first place, Although  at...Borticus posted:If multi-target modes (FAW and CSV) outperform SS when fighting multiple opponents, that's acceptable.
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Also considering it's a PvP AND KDF bug, it's never getting fixed.
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I'm surprised anyone even noticed it, who plays PvP these days?
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Asimo posted:Since it broke at some point, and Cryptic has no idea how their PVP maps work. Literally no idea. The person who made them left years ago and the code is apparently as much of an incoherent lovely mess as the rest of the launch-era game, so making any fixes basically requires recoding PVP maps and matches from scratch. Which they're not in a big rush to do since nobody gives a gently caress about PVP in STO. This is also the same reason why they haven't released a new PVP map or battlezone since launch either; they don't know how to. Hey they learned from the best. Remember, this is the studio that hired Bill Motherfucking Roper post-Hellgate as a lead designer. Bill "We don't know how our gameplay systems work and game is still in beta" Roper.
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Tunicate posted:Oh hey, Surgical Strikes nerf Actually more bummed about the AMP nerf... I thought everyone switched from SS back to FAW ages ago anyway?
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Soviet Commubot posted:I'm surprised anyone even noticed it, who plays PvP these days? I tried to do some PvP simply because the game gave me those PvP tutorial quests and I wanted them out of my log. 
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Mondian posted:Actually more bummed about the AMP nerf... I thought everyone switched from SS back to FAW ages ago anyway? Oh wow, didn't spot that. That sucks. Wonder how honest they're being about the change. Could nerf it into the ground, or just make it marginally less the obvious best choice.
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WarLocke posted:I tried to do some PvP simply because the game gave me those PvP tutorial quests and I wanted them out of my log. You can get those done with private matches. Just ask in the chat and one of us will come blow you up.
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Mondian posted:Actually more bummed about the AMP nerf... I thought everyone switched from SS back to FAW ages ago anyway? Only real change I guess beyond an overall DPS nerf would be that the obelisk beam+core would now be a competitive choice on under geared AP beamboats that can't reliably keep all four power levels at 75+.
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Asimo posted:It's annoying, but it will still be far and away the best and only option on cores. The obelisk also increases max aux power, right? So that should contribute to the nukara offense trait. Or am I thinking of the solonae?
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It does yeah. I think you're still better off with a spire core with [amp] and [w->a]
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Yeah, I think the base AMP bonus is... 3.3% per power level above 75? So if you have all four it's clearly ahead, and it applies to any other effects you'd do besides just antiproton damage.
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Game is dead. Thread is dead. Deader than Nimoy.
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rip sto
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Did something happen recently or get announced or what caused this sudden tide of RIPs?
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Yeah, I'm at a loss too. Haven't seen anything earth-shattering anywhere on their site or anywhere else.
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WarLocke posted:Did something happen recently or get announced or what caused this sudden tide of RIPs? Massive layoffs at Cryptic, plus the devs who are left probably won't make any changes that will turn the game around. It's not dead, it's stuck in the Captain Pike wheelchair.
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WarLocke posted:Did something happen recently or get announced or what caused this sudden tide of RIPs?  ) to further alienate anyone who isn't a crazy whale.Things could have been fixed early on if the lead developer wasn't a manchild grognard, but by this point the game dying is the new normal and everyone realizes it. And instead of replacing STO's leadership, PWE is doing the (perhaps wiser) move of pulling the competent people off of STO's staff to other games, just making things worse in the long run. Or in other words, Unguided posted:It's not dead, it's stuck in the Captain Pike wheelchair. Asimo fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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And you know what happened to Captain Pike in the end. That's right. He went off to live with the psychic old ladies with butts on their heads.
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Asimo posted:It's more the hilarious bad decisions that Yeah not only just releasing a T6 Bugship but putting the packs on sale at a 25% discount two weeks into the promo just to boost their numbers at the expense of training customers to just not pay full price for anything. The root of the doom and gloom is that we have confirmed that the general shittiness of the games current direction is internal to cryptic and not from external pressure from PWE. So no amount of bad numbers will be enough for them to back off since the game is being run by a shitlord who is convinced that he can do no wrong. Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah not only just releasing a T6 Bugship but putting the packs on sale at a 25% discount two weeks into the promo just to boost their numbers at the expense of training customers to just not pay full price for anything. I said it when the promo started, but this was basically the worst possible decision for the game's long term finances, and arguably even more so than the broken queues and XP grind. The promotion (lockbox/lobi/pack) ships have always been a "safe" investment in the past, and Cryptic went out of their way to update them to fleet level and then T5U level for free. There's a very good reason for this; you really, really don't want to give buyer's remorse to the whales who spend lots of money on these virtual gambling items. If that remorse happens a year or two after the fact it still leaves a bitter taste and makes them far less likely to drop large sums of money on you in the future. Imagine you're one of those pubbies who spent fifty, a hundred, five hundred, whatever dollars on those dumb packs trying to get a boat, some unreasonable sum of money, and you finally got it. And then a few months later Cryptic up and does a new promotion, with an incrementally better version of the same thing, and the unstated but blatant implication that not only your toy is instantly obsolete but the new one will be similarly obsoleted at some point in the not too distant future. Who but the most desperate diehard insane fan would give them the time of day after that? Yet this is what Cryptic did with their flagship special promo ship. And then they put the packs on sale almost immediately! It's insane.  I can't even imagine how bad their revenue numbers must be at the moment if they made a mistake that big in a desperate attempt to shore them up.
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Asimo posted:Stuff You know, what bothers me is the apologist tone of priority one podcast this morning. They actually got on some expert to say "everything is going to be fine" that the guys posting things to the contrary are just trolls, and that the company is just trying to be come more profitable, or in their words, "raise the margins from 10% o 12%" and that these layoffs were cyclical in nature. They put words in his mouths when he was a MMO specialist and had no real knowledge of STO itself. What really drives me nuts is when community podcasters just crumble and become fanbois at the expense of the community itself because they are afraid of the dev's/company saying no to future interview requests at the expense of the local podcast. Guard frequency is a bit more critical than P1P (Star Citizen) but Batgirl (do does community podcasts for SC as well) has gone all gushy with praise over the last six months and has lost that healthy cynicism / realism that is needed.
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah not only just releasing a T6 Bugship but putting the packs on sale at a 25% discount two weeks into the promo just to boost their numbers at the expense of training customers to just not pay full price for anything. Don't forget that the Command cruisers went on sale almost immediately after their release. They've never put a new ship on sale so soon before.
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