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Empress Theonora posted:Also: is there any way to get more permanent admiralty ships beyond just whatever ships we leveled up in? Using admiralty to try to make up for the dumb xp gap in later levels would be easier if I didn't have half my fleet in maintenance constantly. Basically you gotta get more ships. Each ship you buy comes with a corresponding admiralty card. You also get an admiralty reward for hitting level 10 in a campaign. They also sometimes release them as an event or mission reward.
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May 5, 2016 21:50
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Asimo posted:Well, the ships are listed as "usable by TOS and Federation characters" so presumably existing Feds can use them too. Rolling alts wouldn't be so bad if Doffs and rep were account wide unlocks instead of being character bound. Hell, I might as well dream for lobi store items getting made account wide as well while I'm at it 
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May 5, 2016 21:52
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Tuskin38 posted:This is the ship IQ Fleet though was going to be a T6 Vesta. Well now I'm sad there isn't a T6 Vesta. One ship I'd be willing to actually get. Vesta is Besta!
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May 5, 2016 21:54
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Burning_Monk posted:Well now I'm sad there isn't a T6 Vesta. One ship I'd be willing to actually get. Rumor has it licensing issues killed it.
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Tuskin38 posted:This is the ship IQ Fleet though was going to be a T6 Vesta. It's still a 3/3 science vessel with a hanger bay. I wouldn't be surprised if it could mount the Vesta consoles.
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Empress Theonora posted:Also: is there any way to get more permanent admiralty ships beyond just whatever ships we leveled up in? Using admiralty to try to make up for the dumb xp gap in later levels would be easier if I didn't have half my fleet in maintenance constantly. You can buy mirror universe ships off the exchange, boring base ships for dil, or ships from the z-store, ignore the actual ship and just use its card. It's a transparent 'pay for progress' dealie. You also get a ship card for maxing out each campaign.
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SKY COQ posted:It's still a 3/3 science vessel with a hanger bay. I wouldn't be surprised if it could mount the Vesta consoles. It doesn't have a hanger, IQ was wrong. some screens from twitter https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/728299068884062208 https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/728302630020075521 https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/728304543000186881 https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/728332089708273664
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Tuskin38 posted:It doesn't have a hanger, IQ was wrong. Oh nooooooooo E: screens look good though
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May 5, 2016 22:28
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Tuskin38 posted:Salami_Inferno on Twitter: "If you own a TOS ship and its T6 equivalent, you can put the TOS costume on your T6 ship!" Well poo poo, I guess I'm getting that T6 ballship. Time to start upgrading some screechbeams.
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Tunicate posted:You can buy mirror universe ships off the exchange, boring base ships for dil, or ships from the z-store, ignore the actual ship and just use its card. Oh, I have some dil to burn so I might get a few ships from the store. Edit: Anyway, I'm like legitimately excited for this expansion? Time travel missions are always cool and I love the TOS aesthetic. Assuming I manage to limp to level 60 somehow.
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Empress Theonora posted:Edit: Anyway, I'm like legitimately excited for this expansion? Time travel missions are always cool and I love the TOS aesthetic. Assuming I manage to limp to level 60 somehow. I bet the TOS specific stories end at 45-50 like the Romulan faction. So you probably would have no need to go to 60.
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Empress Theonora posted:Oh, I have some dil to burn so I might get a few ships from the store. Just buy some mirror ships off the exchange and save your dil (you're gonna need it).
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Empress Theonora posted:Oh, I have some dil to burn so I might get a few ships from the store. Yeah I'm excited too. The game's been on a long upwards swing since the low of Delta Rising and this seems like a good step. Also worth noting Trendy's point from Twitter - this is the first announcement in a long campaign. The predditors are incredibly butt hurt.
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Same as DR and LOR, they didn't reveal everything at once. I wonder when tribble testing will start.
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Venom posted:Rolling alts wouldn't be so bad if Doffs and rep were account wide unlocks instead of being character bound. Hell, I might as well dream for lobi store items getting made account wide as well while I'm at it Basically, STO desperately needs a legacy system like in the old republic. They could charge dil for it and get a dil sink that people might actually like.
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Tuskin38 posted:I bet the TOS specific stories end at 45-50 like the Romulan faction. Oh, I meant limp to 60 on my current character so I can play later missions, since I'm in the 55-60 slog right now.
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g0del posted:It's a lot more than that - rep isn't even that bad, it's merely time-gated. But fully kitting out an alt now means getting super-expensive, super-rare doffs from the exchange. And getting a bunch of lockbox/lobi/c-store ships just for the trait. And lockbox space traits. And grinding up crafting for those traits. And plasmonic leech if you're a fed. Plus hundreds of thousands of dil to get all your equipment up to mk XIV after you finally get it all. Oh, and don't forget to grind fleet credits the whole time, to buy all the fleet equipment you'll need. I've just shifted the goalposts for 'fully knitting out' an alt. I've got a good set of account bound weapons, you can unlock ship traits from event ships, then maybe do rep if you're feeling ambitious. Park in good Marauding space, boom done.
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SKY COQ posted:I've just shifted the goalposts for 'fully knitting out' an alt. I've got a good set of account bound weapons, you can unlock ship traits from event ships, then maybe do rep if you're feeling ambitious. Park in good Marauding space, boom done. I just have a set of mk 14 aegis that I swap around, so I can look stylish
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DancingShade posted:Rumor has it licensing issues killed it.
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The Vesta design itself is owned by the creator, they get paid for the use of it AFAIK. Unlike the Luna-Class and the Odyssey, they were chosen in a contest where the rules said the rights are given to CBS. Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 6, 2016 |
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I weep for the state of humanity when people here are actually looking forward to Cryptic written Star Trek time travel stories. The best you can hope to get out of a time travel story is Back to the Future or Terminator, for different reasons obviously but Trek writing in general has rarely reached anything people would consider good. Time travel is handled much worse, Cryptic Trek writing reaches inoffensive and forgettable at the very best and Cryptic time travel writing manages to excavate an entirely new sub basement of bad writing and people are looking forward to that. I mean I am here sperging pretty hard about that and yet I'm embarrassed for all of you. I mean wow, this is just so much worse than melting down over being called a space brony.
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Based on the trailer alone, we're going to be going back to some classic TOS episodes. However, the official twitter tweeted out a location that hasn't been in any episode of TOS, so we're getting new stuff as well. There is also a shot of the Doomsday machine, with a Romulan TOS Bird of Pray helping fight it. I wonder what that is about.
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Morglon posted:I weep for the state of humanity when people here are actually looking forward to Cryptic written Star Trek time travel stories. The best you can hope to get out of a time travel story is Back to the Future or Terminator, for different reasons obviously but Trek writing in general has rarely reached anything people would consider good. Time travel is handled much worse, Cryptic Trek writing reaches inoffensive and forgettable at the very best and Cryptic time travel writing manages to excavate an entirely new sub basement of bad writing and people are looking forward to that. I mean I am here sperging pretty hard about that and yet I'm embarrassed for all of you. I mean wow, this is just so much worse than melting down over being called a space brony. Star Trek IV is good 
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Tunicate posted:New R&D pack promo ship: Whale Probe They'd give it a power drain trait that would be either useless, busted as all hell, or mutually exclusive with plasmonic leech.
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From the official press-release "In Agents of Yesterday, five new TOS-era playable starships will also join the classic Enterprise, Constitution class starship, including the Daedalus class Science Vessel. " Only five? That would only be the ones in the C-Store bundle then. There was a 6th ship seen in the trailer during the big space battle, it looked similar to the Ranger, but it didn't have the Torpedo roll bar.
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Tuskin38 posted:Salami_Inferno on Twitter: "If you own a TOS ship and its T6 equivalent, you can put the TOS costume on your T6 ship!"
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CBS won't allow it. Back when the original Connie came out, apparently cryptic had to beg them to let them do it.
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Tuskin38 posted:CBS won't allow it. The condition was that Connies had to be starter ships only because they didn't make sense as powerful in the 25th. Because apparently that's a big concern. They only got Excelsior because it shows up all the time in TNG and also that one dev who really wanted it basically had to blow all of Cbs. I wonder if the TOS 'faction' might actually be its entire own little miniature instance of the game. Its own sector space, its own maps, its own progressions, its own missions, its own STFs and Reps, no meeting 25th century. Then they'd use Daedalus to Connie as the advancement ship tiers, but you have to buy to use them in the regular game. Actually, they could do that with the TOS faction, but have 25th century characters able to travel to the TOS faction sector space and maps with the time portal! And use slightly modified Time Agent versions of the TOS faction missions for the normal faction missions. Save on asset development. And if you join a TOS Stf or rep, you're doing it to 'restore' the timeline instead. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 04:11 on May 6, 2016 |
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So are we getting a featured episode where we have to go back in time and make sure the holocaust happens, because  Temporal Cold War ?
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if the TOS 'faction' might actually be its entire own little miniature instance of the game. Its own sector space, its own maps, its own progressions, its own missions, its own STFs and Reps, no meeting 25th century.
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if the TOS 'faction' might actually be its entire own little miniature instance of the game. Its own sector space, its own maps, its own progressions, its own missions, its own STFs and Reps, no meeting 25th century. That sounds like work. I imagine they'll have a shitload of timeline contamination at some point.
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Asimo posted:Not a chance, for basically the same reason games try to avoid WoW-style faction splits these days. It creates a shitload more work and dev time that only a fraction of the playerbase will use. Actually, what they'll probably do is have a TOS sector space with a time portal, separated like the Delta Quadrant, and TOS characters also become time agents as part of their story and can access the 25th and the rest of the game. Like the rommie thing with tau dewa sector block. wdarkk posted:That sounds like work. I imagine they'll have a shitload of timeline contamination at some point. Our ships and characters use temporal holodisguises in the past but we have filters to see through them. 
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g0del posted:Too bad that there doesn't appear to be a T6 connie equivalent. It is a glory that there is no t6 connie. You guys remember stoleviathan99? He was in NoP PS blabbering about how BUT IN FACT they never said no t6 connie you see it will be a lockbox ship blah blah blah. We were trying to explain to him NO t6 connie EVER, not NOW not EVER, and he got upset and said NOPPS was a troll channel and disappeared
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How did everyone miss the best new info in that post? Non-hideous Tellarites with pig noses!
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Mesh replace avenger with Connie refit.
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Preechr posted:So are we getting a featured episode where we have to go back in time and make sure the holocaust happens, because 'Course not. ...The geographers would murder them for inaccurate set design.
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