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Asimo posted:Cryptic keeps desperately trying to make torpedoes viable through random buffs while continuing to miss the key issues that have kept them from being so. Namely, the firing arc incompatible with beam broadsiding, and the opportunity cost of needing to buy/equip both torpedo and energy weapon skills and tac powers. Unless both those are fixed nobody with any sense will be using torpedoes much in PVE. Even the assorted buffs they keep tossing at torpedoes has opportunity costs for rep powers and consoles and such, which means they're basically useless picks. Remember when the enterprise equipped a torpedo to track some kind of emission stuff that the bald guy's cloak leaked, and they fired it out the back of the ship, it detected the cloaked ship, circled around to the front of the enterprise and hit it? Causing a spontaneous Shakespeare quotation? Or whatever human thing he liked quoting, I forget? Didn't a science officer do that? hakimashou posted:
Damnit. I gave up on the escapist because it's nonstop link bait. Are you sucking me back in?
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Those drat trolls at IQ Fleet are at it again! IQ posted:Dreadnaughts ... Dreadnaughts everywhere What could it mean?
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SKY COQ posted:What could it mean?  Also the admirality system on tribble accidentally leaked a bunch of stuff that nobody at all anywhere knew was coming, including T6 variants of the Gal-x, Defiant, Ha'apax, T'varo, B'rel, the herald lockbox ships, etc. Cryptic's trying to put hardworking dataminers out of business here it seems! 
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Nobody's doing a piece on Derek Smart because he actually pays for his games himself. Or who the gently caress knows how he keeps coming up with the money. Chris Roberts on the other hand is doing a good job ruining his reputation all by himself and he got what, 90 million now? Look what you made me do Chris Roberts. I'm actually siding with Doctor Derek "Desktop Commander" Smart.
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Morglon posted:Nobody's doing a piece on Derek Smart because he actually pays for his games himself. Or who the gently caress knows how he keeps coming up with the money. Chris Roberts on the other hand is doing a good job ruining his reputation all by himself and he got what, 90 million now? Look what you made me do Chris Roberts. I'm actually siding with Doctor Derek "Desktop Commander" Smart. Chris Roberts is correct that Derek Smart has a long history of being a gigantic shitheel and is currently continuing to be a giant shitheel. That said, yes Star Citizen is a massive fraud and he's probably going to get Jack Ruby'd on stage at CitizenCon next weekend.
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kafziel posted:Chris Roberts is correct that Derek Smart has a long history of being a gigantic shitheel and is currently continuing to be a giant shitheel. That said, yes Star Citizen is a massive fraud and he's probably going to get Jack Ruby'd on stage at CitizenCon next weekend. Derek Smart saw his chance to stand up and say "at least I'm not this guy." And he's right. God help us all, he's right.
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Asimo posted:Cryptic keeps desperately trying to make torpedoes viable through random buffs while continuing to miss the key issues that have kept them from being so. Namely, the firing arc incompatible with beam broadsiding, and the opportunity cost of needing to buy/equip both torpedo and energy weapon skills and tac powers. Unless both those are fixed nobody with any sense will be using torpedoes much in PVE. Even the assorted buffs they keep tossing at torpedoes has opportunity costs for rep powers and consoles and such, which means they're basically useless picks.
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Asimo posted:Limited-time promo ships forever!! gently caress this lovely game. Hahahahaha and still no T6 flagships. Most interesting of the leaks is the T6 Vesta. Long may she reign.
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Korgan posted:You're invited to TheNextGooneration, we'll sort you out with fleet invites and whatever else from there. Didn't see an invite? Am I looking in the wrong place?
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rocket_man38 posted:Didn't see an invite? Am I looking in the wrong place? The game doesn't give you any notification when you get a chat channel invite. Go into chat settings (gear icon in the chat window > chat settings), go into the "Channels" tab, and you should be able to join it from there.
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The Terran Rep ground stuff is a huge step up from the glowing Iconian underwire gimp suit and laser tag shotgun. Here's some high res pics that aren't linked in the news blog post because ~Cryptic~  
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The rep is on tribble for testing, no visuals outside of space weapons at the momentquote:Secondary Torpedo Launchers (3 piece) – Click Enhancement But holy poo poo, so many torpedoes Your ship fires an additional torpedo every time one of your torpedos impacts.  The power even counts for the point defence launcher and Torpedo Spread. So you just have a swarm of torpedos. Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Potential BFF posted:The Terran Rep ground stuff is a huge step up from the glowing Iconian underwire gimp suit and laser tag shotgun. Looks like a firewarrior.
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That stuff looks cool. Did they ever add the missing outfit pieces to the delta rep armor?
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DancingShade posted:it looks like poo poo
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DancingShade posted:No idea what's missing from the delta armor but it looks like poo poo anyway so If I remember right it doesnt have gloves or a helmet, for no reason since everything else does.
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Berke Negri posted:If I remember right it doesnt have gloves or a helmet, for no reason since everything else does. I'm pretty sure the pieces exist in the assets, it's just broken. You can select Delta Alliance Helmet but it just makes your character bald.
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Hey guys, I just want you to know that we're all responsible for gold sellers in STO:quote:[10/2 4:09] James Vega@commandershep1: I just got a random pm from a spammer asking me to go to some site. When did the spammers start sending personal messages?
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Dental moves your car keys when you aren't looking and makes you forget why you entered a room.
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Unguided posted:Dental moves your car keys when you aren't looking and makes you forget why you entered a room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE
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here is the terran ground set at epic mkxiv http://imgur.com/a/xSbGf
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Nita posted:Hey guys, I just want you to know that we're all responsible for gold sellers in STO: It's me, its part of my doxing process
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Nita posted:Hey guys, I just want you to know that we're all responsible for gold sellers in STO: Shh, don't tell anyone that my personal website is http://www.totsnothaxorzinyouraccount.cn
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I have been blessed by Dear Leader.quote:[10/2 2:38] Spacedonz@Starwars_was_better: dear leader! Glory be to Dear Leader.
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So I found an interesting bug (?) with the terran taskforce space set. It is applying to itself, so it fires more torpedoes when the extra torpedoes hit. Which means if you're fighting an invincible enemy you just keep firing.. forever. Or at least until you fly out of range. Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Nita posted:I have been blessed by Dear Leader. Been crying all evening. It's moments like these that keep me going.
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Out of curiosity does any one know how the rights to produce a game like this work out? Like, since ARC is running a current MMO with the Star Trek license, does that block any other company from doing it as well? I was talking about it with a friend and its just such a shame that this game is your only option for a Star Trek ship game right now.
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Rights are usually exclusive, yes, though usually only in certain areas. EA for example has pretty much exclusive rights to any sort of Star Wars game, but Perfect World/Cryptic only has MMO rights to Star Trek and it's possible another company could release a different type of Trek game. This is furthered muddled by Trek's rights being split between CBS (TV show) and Paramount (Movies), and there's other further issues if you want to use EU-sourced material since the creator may or may not have some rights to it as well. Basically media licensing is a baroque clusterfuck. Asimo fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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Cryptic/Perfect World have the rights to the Prime Timeline in the MMO space. Off the top of my head, there's that awful cover-shooter from JJTrek that was released a few years back, and there's Star Trek Gems (a bad match-three game) and Star Trek Trexels (a bad Tiny Tower kind of knockoff) on mobile devices right now. There's also Star Trek Timelines coming to web and mobile at some point in the indeterminate future. In fact, I think at one point someone said Cryptic explicitly does not have rights to release a Star Trek app for mobile devices, which is why there's no Gateway, even though it would make perfect sense. Well, that and I doubt Cryptic has the skills on-staff necessary for a passable mobile application. Really, STO is just one of the many marvelously bad Star Trek games that have been released over the past two decades. Wizard of the Deep fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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There's also Star Trek: Alien Domain, a browser based strategy game that I happen to have a bunch promo codes from STLV for, if anyone hates themselves enough to try.
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Mondian posted:There's also Star Trek: Alien Domain, a browser based strategy game that I happen to have a bunch promo codes from STLV for, if anyone hates themselves enough to try. It's less a strategy game and more farmville.
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Oh I missed dear leader!
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Wizard of the Deep posted:In fact, I think at one point someone said Cryptic explicitly does not have rights to release a Star Trek app for mobile devices, which is why there's no Gateway, even though it would make perfect sense. Well, that and I doubt Cryptic has the skills on-staff necessary for a passable mobile application. Could always just make a responsive webapp- oh wait yeah no skills.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRo9fdxPII A video of that torpedo bug I was talking about with the new rep set. hilarious.
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Does this torpedo bug mean a torpedo-focused boat is actually viable now?
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