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Psycho Landlord posted:Read a few posts above for Galor chat, but the Risian Corvette is still pretty baller in most situations. Fedside, most of the really good traits are locked behind Z Store T6 ships, and many of those T6 ships will be a better choice to fly at the moment. If you can get a free ride to 60 that will alleviate a ton of grind, but you'll still have to worry about spec points, dil grinding, etc if you want to max everything out. Okay but like ... which are the traits to look out for? 3000 zen per ship is a nightmare grind already, and I'd rather not waste that on something I don't actually need. I liked doing the rainbow beam boat Corvette at full speed thing. I would like to keep doing that.
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Well Pulse is the coolest guy. He gave me 1 billion EC for no real reason.
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Alright, I got my care package (holy poo poo thank you) so I'm probably gonna do the same thing the other new guy did and sell one for some spending cash since I'm broke. Not sure what the hell I'm doing still in general, the game has so much more poo poo going on now than last time I played. Went ahead and made an account on the Wesley wiki, name is Sevorast there same as here.
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Sevorast posted:Alright, I got my care package (holy poo poo thank you) so I'm probably gonna do the same thing the other new guy did and sell one for some spending cash since I'm broke. Not sure what the hell I'm doing still in general, the game has so much more poo poo going on now than last time I played. Wiki account approved.
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Oct 26, 2015 02:02
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kafziel posted:Okay but like ... which are the traits to look out for? 3000 zen per ship is a nightmare grind already, and I'd rather not waste that on something I don't actually need. Phantom - Reciprocity: Reduces cooldowns on Intel and Tac powers whenever you dodge and attack. Depends on having aggro, but makes certain low-tac-slot ships more viable than they would be without hundreds of millions worth of attack pattern doffs. Arbiter - Weapon System Efficiency: Quicker-firing energy weapons that take less weapon power to fire while EPTW is active. You should always have EPTW active. Basically a straight and sizable damage buff. Presidio - All Hands on Deck: Reduces the cooldowns of science and captain powers whenever you use a tactical power, with a short delay between activations. Absurdly good for tac captains due to the shorter APA cooldown, and good for everyone due to every ship using tac powers constantly. Icarus - Subwarp Sheath: Bonus armor penetration depending on how fast you're going. Astika - Supremacy: Bonus power levels while FAW or CSV are active. Not quite a replacement for plasleech, but close enough. Also stacks with it to basically max out every power level while both are up. Lockbox ship though. There's also Pedal to the Metal (bonus damage at max speed) from the Pilot spec, which is basically free and there's no reason not to rush for it on a beamboat.
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I am curious, given the old love for the Excelsior, what people feel is the appropriate T6 equivalent. The new T6 Excelsior, or if something else fills that role better (as in something players can buy from the C-Store), what that would be.
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Oct 26, 2015 02:34
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If the corvette is your thing, think about a pilot ship. They are incredibly fun, the best escorts atm and can pack a punch. I'm seriously thinking of corraling my Galor for my Icarus.
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Lorak posted:I am curious, given the old love for the Excelsior, what people feel is the appropriate T6 equivalent. The new T6 Excelsior, or if something else fills that role better (as in something players can buy from the C-Store), what that would be. My love still burns for the Excelsior in all it's incarnations. I found a way to make it work and the two-piece set is ok.
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Oct 26, 2015 03:42
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Is it possible to make the new Excelsior look like the old one?
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Oct 26, 2015 03:44
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-Troika- posted:Is it possible to make the new Excelsior look like the old one? Yes. Just go to the ship yard and have at it.
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Burning_Monk posted:If the corvette is your thing, think about a pilot ship. They are incredibly fun, the best escorts atm and can pack a punch. I'm seriously thinking of corraling my Galor for my Icarus. Yeah, I'd say this. Beamscort the pilot ships up and swing around in circles shouting WHEEE. God I'd murder for a T6 Pilot Vette. -Troika- posted:Well Pulse is the coolest guy. He gave me 1 billion EC for no real reason.  Well gently caress me.I remember back in my early days he did dole out the fleet modules to me like candy. Much fun. It's a pity all those T5 fleet ships are wasted now, damnit cryptic. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 26, 2015 05:03
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I was thinking of grinding up the zen for the pilot ships, but was leery. I don't really have any good escorts! Other than the steamrunner 
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Oct 26, 2015 05:07
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Acer Pilot posted:all pulse gave me was feline aids
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^^ Yeah, earlier this evening Pulse was giving lots of money to anyone in chat complaining about being space poor. Obviously, the devs told him the game is dying and he's trying to give some happiness to the hoi polloi before it goes.Psycho Landlord posted:Yeah, seriously, some real bad advice about those Jem ships up in here. The Jem Dread is one of the best vanilla Carrier classes in the game currently, even at T-5U, and has access to the other side of the "best hangar pets" argument - ramming speed is a monster on those things. But this is a dumb thing to argue about, especially when giving advice to a new player. I think the best advice has already been given - sell the jhec, run either the jhdc or bugship based on what you like to fly, use the EC from the jhec to buy some essentials.
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Oct 26, 2015 07:16
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I fly T5U Fleet Excelsior with no regrets 
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Oct 26, 2015 07:31
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Dermit posted:Decided to start playing this on a whim, actually sort of enjoying it so far. Space combat is way more fun than ground, though. Could use an invite to whatever goon thingy is appropriate: Serestria@dermit1 (Starfleet, if that matters) You're invited to TheNextGooneration, type /channel_join thenextgooneration and we'll give you free poo poo I guess. Also fleet invites.
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Anyone who says anything bad about the JHDC is a liar and likely a communist, don't listen to them. It's a loving monster with bugship pets, and the scramble fighters trait makes it just bonkers. Because the only thing better than a ship with tons of hull and four badass frigates is a ship with tons of hull and four invulnerable badass frigates. I could just park next to the crystalline entity and be all 'ha ha, get hosed' when it would do its explosion, promptly doing zero damage to the ship or the pets while the bugships continuously unloaded into it. The carrier itself is only decent; a 4/3 layout with four tac consoles isn't really a combat god and it turns like a dead yak, so just cover it in beams and FAW at anything that comes close while your bugships eat everything around you and you'll do great. Just keep an eye on the health of the pets and don't let them get too low unless you want them to ram something, because once they're under half hull they're liable to kamikaze into somebody.
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g0del posted:^^ Yeah, earlier this evening Pulse was giving lots of money to anyone in chat complaining about being space poor. Obviously, the devs told him the game is dying and he's trying to give some happiness to the hoi polloi before it goes. Never awake for the good NAgoon giveaways.  Also if random pub fleets ask me about getting into NoP Armada, is it okay to let them in? There was no one around when I was asked, so I bailed on the guy.
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^^^^ I'd say no, not on the spur like that. If someone wants in, send a mail or a tell to one of our ranking guys, and let them do a bit of research. It's cool that people want in and all, but image and all that.Valatar posted:Just keep an eye on the health of the pets and don't let them get too low unless you want them to ram something, because once they're under half hull they're liable to kamikaze into somebody. Which does a metric fuckload of through-shields damage, so what he's saying is "just make sure you have a copy of your bugship launch ability off cooldown before you let one get hurt too bad." Psycho Landlord fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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fakemirage posted:Fine! Just a follow up on our favorite furry fundie:  Adventure Rat posted:+Paul Kaiser Yeah i was quite sure the F5 you guys used to tear though me wasent aimed at Trendy. heh  Adventure Rat posted:Found this in my mailbox, i only checked the one link....but from what i gather, Dental thinks me the height of disgusting. Coming from people who are of this world, I'll take that as a compliment! The ways of the world are the enemy of God, I'll choose my master carefully....because people, Political Correctness wont get you into heaven!! (James 4:4) I know they profess to be for the greater good, but their true colors come out as soon as the camera is shut off. Like in (2 Peter 2:22) The tags themselves are pretty entertaining:  EDIT: Looks like Adventure Rat decided to take on homosexuality on his deviantart page (oh the irony): Adventure Rat posted:How do I know it's even true, what proof could you give me to show it isn't a waste of my time or some fairy tale? Simple, the homosexual like any other sinner, has a lot of guilt pent up deep inside of them, it generates a lot of resentment to anyone like an addiction, they become violent and volatile to defend and legitimize it. I wouldn't really have posted this if it wasn't for this comment: Adventure Rat posted:Due to recent discussions and encounters ive had on the web and gaming, ive had to take a step back and overlook things from a reality point of view, since we as a people have managed to derail into social chaos. My encounter with Cryptic's need to enforce it's homosexual overtones, and to condensendly label those who question it as "Homophobes" this has become the new fad, accepted by the public as a way to disqualify someones position. Because as we all know, names and labels made by offenders of the law will always ease their judgement, like calling a cop a pig. (sarcasm)  This guy is a writer? Adventure Rat posted:So heres a reality check submission for those who think there is no penalty for our actions....and yes I said our, we are all sinners. Ive no delusion about my own as well, I just know where to go for forgiveness once i realize ive committed sin. fakemirage fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Valatar posted:the scramble fighters trait makes it just bonkers. Is it worth running scramble fighters on a flight deck cruiser? Or just a full carrier.
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fakemirage posted:Looks like Adventure Rat decided to take on homosexuality on his deviantart page (oh the irony): I, um, think that may actually be against DA's terms of service.
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Oct 26, 2015 12:36
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For the new guys just starting out, it's worth rolling 4 more Klingon characters and getting them to 11. It will take you 30mins for all 4 while double exp is live. It will take much longer after Thursday. Maybe you will quit, maybe you won't but you will need them for dill farming so save yourself some pain and roll them now while it only takes 30mins to do all 4.
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Bieeardo posted:I, um, think that may actually be against DA's terms of service. Making a DA account just to report him.
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 Well, the Sheshar certainly seems pretty good. I decided to go all in and also loaded mine with a set of Elachi beam arrays.
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Tai posted:For the new guys just starting out, it's worth rolling 4 more Klingon characters and getting them to 11. It will take you 30mins for all 4 while double exp is live. It will take much longer after Thursday. Maybe you will quit, maybe you won't but you will need them for dill farming so save yourself some pain and roll them now while it only takes 30mins to do all 4. Appreciate this advice, gonna do this right now. Also was wondering if weapon energy type actually matters? Inflation is insane and all the beams on the exchange are really expensive so if it doesn't matter I'm just gonna try to get whatever is cheapest.
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Type doesn't matter (as long as they are the same), go with cheap or pretty. Ask in chat, some crafters probably have a few beams sitting around.
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DonDoodles posted:Making a DA account just to report him. Or specifically hand his post to one of the multitude of DeviantART Admins that have tried to get in your pants in the past and mention that this guys not cool. Not that this in any way applies to me.
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Looks like Omega won. Also today you get a free T5U token on your account. Just the one.
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Sevorast posted:Appreciate this advice, gonna do this right now. Seriously, don't waste money on exchange weapons right now. Normally you can level just fine with whatever drops/mission rewards you pick up. Right now with the XP bonus you level so fast that it doesn't quite work, but that's still no reason to hit the exchange for weapons.
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Aleth posted:Looks like Omega won. Also today you get a free T5U token on your account. Just the one. What does that token actually do? I haven't played this game in ages, but I'm thinking about coming back. (Should I come back? The New Dawn stuff seems like it might have some redeeming qualities?)
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Kesper North posted:What does that token actually do? I haven't played this game in ages, but I'm thinking about coming back. (Should I come back? The New Dawn stuff seems like it might have some redeeming qualities?) Upgrades a Tier5 ship to Tier5-U
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Which basically adds a console slot and hp to bring it on par with T6 stuff.
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Aleth posted:Which basically adds a console slot and hp to bring it on par with T6 stuff. It also gives some nice little mini-traits depending on what kind of ship it is.
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And since a lot of people don't seem to realize, if you upgrade a ship to T5U, it makes the T5U upgrade for that specific ship and its fleet version free for your other characters. So just getting one token isn't a big problem.
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I logged in today to see how STO is these days. I had a rather large amount of zen thanks to the lifetime sub thing so I bought the dreadnaught 3 pack and a bunch of keys while they're 15% down (those things are still good for selling/trade right?). I was looking at the T6 siege destroyer to replace my T5-U fleet scourge but I'm not sure it's really much better. Then again, all my gear is mk 12 so the ship probably doesn't make much difference. I used the free L60 token on the char that has a Recluse (upgraded I think), is that still going to be remotely useful?
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Aleth posted:Looks like Omega won. Also today you get a free T5U token on your account. Just the one.  Also, Herald ship stats. http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9617543
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MikeJF posted:Is it worth running scramble fighters on a flight deck cruiser? Or just a full carrier. I wouldn't blow the spacebux on the scramble fighter trait for anything less than a full carrier. Normal fighters pop almost instantly when attacked, there's almost no window in which to see them taking damage, think 'oh gently caress, better push butan', and trigger the trait. It's really only beneficial to ships that have frigate pets.
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