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Yeah the Iconians seem like cool dudes. Should be an option to just kill Sela and hang out in the past with the cool guys. Whatever was attacking my ship could probably take it.
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I tried playing the FE yesterday. With all the disconnects that I was getting it was near unplayable. The last part I saw was Shon quoting the Charge of the Light Brigade as we were going through the portal. And then it disconnected again. I took that as a sign to quit trying for the day. Maximum corn had been reached.
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Morglon posted:Yeah the Iconians seem like cool dudes. Should be an option to just kill Sela and hang out in the past with the cool guys. Whatever was attacking my ship could probably take it. We could've easily solved the problem by just flying to Dewa 3 and handing them the Heart and Sela's bullet-riddled corpse and going 'hey guys sorry about that we cool bro?'. Sela: the cause of all the universe's problems.
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Sep 11, 2015 15:16
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Asimo posted:Yeah, it'd be easy to fix. But they didn't.
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MikeJF posted:We could've easily solved the problem by just flying to Dewa 3 and handing them the Heart and Sela's bullet-riddled corpse and going 'hey guys sorry about that we cool bro?'.  Seems about right. Apparently also Popeye the sailor man
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Sep 11, 2015 15:20
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debating giving sela the death penalty in star trek online for her terrible crimes http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1203563/yay-we-won-and-sela-doesnt-get-locked-up-for-war-crimes-wait-what#latest
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Sep 11, 2015 15:36
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Sela was right. I actually agreed with her all the way up to the end when suddenly it was immaterial what choices I'd made up until then and the mission had determined I would be 'the good guy' and not allow me to accomplish my objective of saving the galaxy because the Iconians were just so damned nice.
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Sep 11, 2015 15:42
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Aleth posted:Sela was right. Not really just because it was so loving obvious that we were going to be the cause of the iconians getting so vengeful. Narrativium.
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hakimashou posted:debating giving sela the death penalty in star trek online Ah! Was almost disappointed when I didn't see Starswordsc in that thread, but there he is, spouting "firing squad" for all mass murderers.
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DonDoodles posted:Ah! Was almost disappointed when I didn't see Starswordsc in that thread, but there he is, spouting "firing squad" for all mass murderers. Let's be real. With any modern phaser or disruptor, multiple shooters is a) overkill and b) not going to obfuscate the 'killer' whatsoever, since the beam makes it readily apparent which weapons struck where. Can't we be civilized and maroon a war criminal on a planetoid scheduled for genesis device deployment?
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Just space her and be done with it.
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I always find it funny when for story reasons a character is 'stunned' despite their body lying atop a pile of shotgun shells.
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AfroSquirrel posted:I always find it funny when for story reasons a character is 'stunned' despite their body lying atop a pile of shotgun shells. I refuse to play the Bajor ground STF with anything besides my romulan flamethrower, which has been set to "stun".
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Sep 12, 2015 01:51
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:Let's be real. They could set 4/5 phasers to 'stun'. Just like they do on Bajor.
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Some of the original plans for the last episode were, blowing up earth/the other homeworlds One idea was the 2001 route and turn Jupiter into a sun for somereason. I liked the bridge design at the very end.
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Tuskin38 posted:I liked the bridge design at the very end. 
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Asimo posted:It's a shame we'll never see it again, and certainly not on a lockbox ship. Peace Treaty Terms: The iconians go away but they leave a limited number of their ships behind in large boxes scattered around space.
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A Ferengi WOULD try to barter with an Iconian. But you run right up against "What's in it for me?" from the Iconian. Then again, that's never stopped them. I remember Armada and Armada 2 where the Ferengi would gladly drag off a Borg Cube for salvage given half a chance.
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Bloodly posted:A Ferengi WOULD try to barter with an Iconian. But you run right up against "What's in it for me?" from the Iconian. Ear massages.
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Technical Analysis posted:Just space her and be done with it.
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Bagpuss posted:Then hit her with the krenim eraser beam, problem solved. billions of lives saved
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Cryptic email this morning posted:Elite Rewards for Captains like You! No, Cryptic. I set this nonsense down with the launch of Delta Rising and you'll have to do a lot more than this to bring me back.
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If nothing else the 10 spec points will let you play through all of the dumb story episodes without any grinding if you ever decide to check out the thrilling conclusion to the Iconian war.
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Alternately you could do what I did and claim the code via the website with the link they even conveniently put in the email, and then proceed to still not log in or even bother reinstalling the game. If Cryptic ever manages to make the game worth playing again, it'll be there waiting for me.
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Apparently the crew isn't as small as people think but with Gozer MkII at the helm the game isn't going anywhere but down.
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The real question is: Will there still be enough pubbies to troll?
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They've fixed a good deal of the poo poo wrong with DR. Featured episodes and ec-> spec xp have ameliorated the spec point grind, and they got rid of the hard fails and lockouts on the pve queues. Also they still sell computer models of start trek space ships and continue to expand space Barbie. Pubs aren't going anywhere.
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Yeah but they're also not doing anything and they added more hard failure conditions to the elites.
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Lagomorphic posted:If nothing else the 10 spec points will let you play through all of the dumb story episodes without any grinding if you ever decide to check out the thrilling conclusion to the Iconian war. Is there a particularly good way to grind these days? I got left short of what I need for the next DR mission and logged out, defeated.
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Nope. fake edit: Patrols, maaaaybe red alerts, those lockbox temporal doff jobs, uhhh.....
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Honestly? Just queue up a full suite of doff jobs and run the featured episode every week for the weekly reward, along with whatever queues you feel like bothering with. You could grind, but this will get you 2-3 spec points per week for minimal effort. You honestly don't really need more than 30 points in a primary and 15 points in a secondary; the only thing you can't get off the exchange instead are the ship traits, and the only one of those worth bothering with is Pedal to the Metal anyway. Yeah it's still a dumb grindy system, but Cryptic's gone out of their way to remove the easy options and why spend more work on it than you have to? 
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Yeah once you get to 60 they don't have anymore content gated behind the XP grind at least. If you're still sub-60 and just want to get to the end of the episode arc your best bet is hitting up the Tholian alerts in the beta quadrant. Just swap instances in sector space until an alert comes up. If it's Tholian go do it and warp out before with 5/6 enemy groups dead and repeat. There's a 30 minute cooldown on doing the alert that you dodge by warping out early and the bulk of the xp comes from killing the enemies. There's lots of them and you get 5x the xp for ship kills in an alert. If you're not in a hurry to get to your next spec point just doff and run the featured episodes when they're running for the weekly spec point.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I refuse to play the Bajor ground STF with anything besides my romulan flamethrower, which has been set to "Fun!". Fixed that for you
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I always used that undine hand cannon thing that makes lava eruptions. Definitely set to fun when used on Bijor. There is something more appropriate about using the flamethrower though. I can't believe I forgot about that weapon, it's definitely the most appropriate.
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DancingShade posted:I always used that undine hand cannon thing that makes lava eruptions. There were so many strange and weird weapons from early in the game's life that kinda fell by the wayside as new stuff outpowered them massively. At least the upgrade system has made some of them usable again.
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MikeJF posted:There were so many strange and weird weapons from early in the game's life that kinda fell by the wayside as new stuff outpowered them massively. At least the upgrade system has made some of them usable again. I still regret spending lobi on the temporal ground phasers a few years back to match my Mobius and Wells + temporal uniform + temporal consoles and all the other temporal bits and bobs. They were depressingly bad compared to even an advanced fleet AP splitbeam - at least I got the majority of the lobi from an event and not lockboxes though.
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MikeJF posted:There were so many strange and weird weapons from early in the game's life that kinda fell by the wayside as new stuff outpowered them massively. At least the upgrade system has made some of them usable again. DarkMalfunction posted:I still regret spending lobi on the temporal ground phasers a few years back to match my Mobius and Wells + temporal uniform + temporal consoles and all the other temporal bits and bobs. The rifle is pretty irredeemable though and as far as I can tell worse off from just using a splitbeam or full auto rifle and doesn't even get fun SFX for the tradeoff.I have a personal fondness for the Vaadwaur miniguns from the lockbox. Unlike most (all?) minigun variants they don't have that 1-2 second charge time before the secondary fire gets going, you just click it and it goes right away and it's satisfying to watch while it ejects a torrent of empty shells.
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I gave up caring about ground weapons when they prevented you from using the Voth minigun HTH attack in social zones.
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IPCRESS posted:I gave up caring about ground weapons when they prevented you from using the Voth minigun HTH attack in social zones. I never got how you could freely open fire on your starship bridge by going into that annoying first-person mode, but not in social zones. Especially from a lore sense, but even from a gameplay sense, why allow it on a sensitive bridge but not on a starbase or whatever?
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Asimo posted:Pretty much everything's useful on ground if you get it up to MkXIV or whatever. I mean some things are certainly more useful than others, but no part of this game is hard in a pre-made and if you're pugging who gives a gently caress what they think. Shell casings + Weakens shields on the target for the whole group if I remember right. I think its the only ground thing I bothered to get up to MkXIV. Did they ever reintroduce the vendors selling those romulan full-auto rifles? Those were like the funnest guns in the game.
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