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Borticus posted:Also, Attack Pattern Beta was apparently the #2 culprit [in server lag], as I understand it. So... consider laying off the Recluse spam? CrypticFlyingTarg posted:This might make more sense if we talk about what Attack Pattern Beta does. Attack Pattern Beta adds a brand new effect to all of your weapons fire. It adds a Damage Resistance effect that wasn't there before. Borticus posted:Activating APB basically causes all of your powers (all of them - even the hidden/secret/things-you-don't-know-exist) to get re-checked and then re-loaded, so that the powers system knows which ones gain this extra effect for the next 10 seconds. 
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That sounds like nearly the dumbest way possible to implement an enemy debuff.
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May 14, 2015 03:08
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Dootman posted:That sounds like nearly the dumbest way we've seen so farto implement an enemy debuff. Fixed that for you. I'd make a better joke but even that's not worth it anymore.
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I've said before that STO was an absolute slipshod clusterfuck of a game that was desperately rushed to launch with just over thirteen months of panicked development, that the current team has had to rebuild entire sections of the game (kits, bridge officers, talents, etc.) from the ground up to actually get them to work properly and be expandable, but even I'm still sometimes surprised at how bad the code is.
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May 14, 2015 03:58
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SKY COQ posted:The worst part about flying into ESD is having to back up, turn the ship upside down and then trying to dock again The T7 version will be reversible!
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Preechr posted:Wow. So they took a look at people like poor Tonto over here, grinding out 1000 pearls and Q portraits on 12 different characters, and went "Haha, nope, gently caress you. You don't get to skip the grind for the next 12 years." I'm not too pissed off since I didn't grind up the pearls. What I did do is grind up Q pictures to buy the Breen raider 2 years ago and then I realized that it sucked and didn't buy it. The next year they came out with the alt discount, so I only had to use a couple pictures to get the ships on all my characters. I still have a shitload of them on some of my characters though.
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The Breen raider is actually really good. It's bit behind the curve now thanks to T6 but it's still a great ship.
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Dootman posted:That sounds like nearly the dumbest way possible to implement an enemy debuff. Especially for an ability everything needs.
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Lagomorphic posted:The Breen raider is actually really good. It's bit behind the curve now thanks to T6 but it's still a great ship.  Unguided posted:Especially for an ability everything needs. STO was and isa trainwreck. It's a miracle it ever got fun at all, and a lot of it was due to hard work spent literally recording entire systems (traits, bridge officers, kits, etc.) from scratch so they actually worked correctly and could be expanded later. And now think of how quickly Geko and company have flushed those years of work down the drain. 
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May 14, 2015 07:26
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Is this still a thing? If so, I'm going to spam the gently caress out of it for the next 2 hours.
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BombermanX posted:Is this still a thing? If so, I'm going to spam the gently caress out of it for the next 2 hours. If you want to break the game, get some 10 or 20 man all-command-ship queues going... 
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Lorak posted:So, I hope you guys didn't want to fly bright pink ships on any new characters. Cryptic posted:** NOTE: Specialization Point packages may only be purchased by Level 60 characters. g0del fucked around with this message at 07:51 on May 14, 2015 |
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May 14, 2015 07:28
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Huh, I just noticed that the spec point packages are... cheaper than I expected. That's not too bad. Pity my pearls are on the wrong characters. Guessing the emotes'll be in the c-store soon. And probably buyable with horga'us or something during the event.
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MikeJF posted:Huh, I just noticed that the spec point packages are... cheaper than I expected. That's not too bad. Pity my pearls are on the wrong characters. emotes are going in the GPL shop according to either the blog or trendy or something
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Asimo posted:Yeah, though it's apparently only a fraction of the server-destroying fuckery that the Command ships were doing. SB24 with 20 command ships
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1458671 thread of the day
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I...don't even understand what's causing all this. Is it something specific or just plain overload of shiny effects or something? I apologise for my dumbness here. I watch it, I see the stuff, but I do not comprehend.
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Bloodly posted:I...don't even understand what's causing all this. Is it something specific or just plain overload of shiny effects or something? I apologise for my dumbness here. I watch it, I see the stuff, but I do not comprehend. I'm pretty sure the server is actually blocking. As in, it cannot execute all the stuff that has to happen fast enough, which is why everything stops for a second. The comman powersd have some sort of really horrible scaling factor that's bringing the server cpu (or memory bus or something) to its knees.
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Bloodly posted:I...don't even understand what's causing all this. Is it something specific or just plain overload of shiny effects or something? I apologise for my dumbness here. I watch it, I see the stuff, but I do not comprehend. The lovely programming of the command powers is putting such a heavy burden on the server that it's making GBS threads the bed.
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I'm sure they'll fix it soon, it's not like all the better devs have left due to recent game-bottoming-out, right? Oh.
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The thing is, this was a problem on Tribble before they came out, and it was worse. 2-3 command ships on the same map would cause lag.
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And there was that infinite loop with the breen nanite aura trait, where one ship could crash an instance.
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Tunicate posted:And there was that infinite loop with the breen nanite aura trait, where one ship could crash an instance. 
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It's been years but I maintain that STO cannot be complete without an "extend docking tube" emote that works in space and sector space.
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Star Trek Online Season 10: loving *throws
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More like Star Trek Online Season 10: Are you sure you want to delete all local content? Yes.
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Guy's don't leave just yet, I've got an exclusive sneak peak at the Summer Event content
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Mondian posted:Guy's don't leave just yet, I've got an exclusive sneak peak at the Summer Event content 
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Picking this up again because i hate myself, can i get an invite to denalt please? Syoda@butternubz7
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Really, don't bother. Half of the dozen people that show up in chat are using pidgin and there are no endgame content goon runs because there is no endgame content. You'll blast through stuff up to level 50 thinking everything is just fine, you'll run out of content before you hit 60, and then when you do, there's nothing to do but grind out endless patrols for spec points. That and endlessly running the same 3 STF's until the end of time for essentially no tangible reward. The game has evolved into a skinner box where you receive absolutely nothing when you pull the lever.
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Mondian posted:Guy's don't leave just yet, I've got an exclusive sneak peak at the Summer Event content Sad thing is, it'd probably earn 'em money. To quote Kirk, let them die.
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 Yes, it's not as strong a disrupt or boost as a aspire console, but I like this new set and I am going to hold it close to my bosom.
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SKY COQ posted:
To do what? Shoot a glorified snowflake 0.01% better?
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Dootman posted:To do what? Shoot a glorified snowflake 0.01% better? Yes.
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SKY COQ posted:Yes. Carry on then, I guess.
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Dootman posted:To do what? Shoot a glorified snowflake 0.01% better? Just like every RPG ever made. 
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Burning_Monk posted:Just like every RPG ever made. Except that it's extra meaningless here. There is nothing to do with your bigger numbers. Hell, you can't even really try to get the biggest numbers because the game is so broken that you can't even play the single benchmark STF without lagging out.
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Let me use a JRPG analogy: You have the sword of ultimate godliness, you have killed all of the heavenly host and also space satan. With your amazing powers to defeat anything you are killing 1 HP slimes outside the starting town for all eternity to make your numbers slightly bigger. You will never have any opponents other than 1 HP slimes.
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DancingShade posted:Let me use a JRPG analogy: I find myself deeply offended and insulted by your insinuation from this analogy. There are also the occasional 2 HP slimes.
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You don't need a +12 Hackmaster to do any of that in this game. You can beat all of the endgame content with white gear and half a brain. The problem is that there isn't any content. There is a giant list of various endgame Things you can queue up for, but they are either 1) boring to play, 2) have no worthwhile reward, 3) are impossible to play in a group of random people because of the hard fail conditions, 4) are flat out broken, and/or 5) all of the above. You can't queue up for Breach Elite anymore and carry a group of 4 clueless pubbies on the back of your superior gear, knowledge, and experience. Hell, you can't even queue up for Breach of any difficulty because no one plays it. Nobody in the channel runs anything on a regular basis. At best, you can hope for some bored goon asking for a Bug Hunt run, which won't get filled and winds up running with some randoms from reddit or one of the dps channels. I guess what this boils down to is that I cannot defend this game any longer in any way. The player base is horrible, the game design is bad on just about every level, the project lead is a terrible sperg who is only compounding the game's problems, and the engine is such a giant pile of poo poo that everything they try to add or change makes the situation worse. Elaborating on that last point, the new sector space thing which was intended to break down barriers and open up the game world has done the exact opposite. The new design has a sector instance population so low that I saw a grand total of 5 other people in space since it went live. I guess they thought that since you wind up leveling/grinding through the various episodes/features/leveling content/foundry missions etc. alone, that you might appreciate logging into a universe populated only by yourself, not unlike this episode. Unless you have an extreme hardon for spraying down erpers with fire extinguishers, play a different game. Dootman fucked around with this message at 02:03 on May 15, 2015 |
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