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Mr Wikstroem
Nov 22, 2007

And now you read this in a seally Svedisch accent Jå?

Tuskin38 posted:

I was kind of hoping for a TOS Style Miranda.

I want a T6 Miranda refit.

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FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Asimo posted:

I can only assume this is the sole reason they didn't throw a hangar bay on it despite being a multi-mission science vessel. :v:

They'll probably add a hangar to it a week after launch like the Ar'kif.

Buschmaki
Dec 26, 2012

‿︵‿︵‿︵‿Lean Addict︵‿︵‿︵‿
I can't believe this jag wanted wiki access...

Buschmaki
Dec 26, 2012

‿︵‿︵‿︵‿Lean Addict︵‿︵‿︵‿
He's gonna get on the wiki, read things, maybe write things, and Dental is loving finished, nice job!

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
At least the NoP datamining logs should be safe, doubt he has the tor client he needs to access those.

Edit: poo poo, thought this was the secure thread.

Aleth fucked around with this message at 21:04 on May 7, 2016

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
OpSec you British piece of poo poo.

Ambaire
Sep 4, 2009

by Shine
Oven Wrangler

Aleth posted:

At least the NoP datamining logs should be safe, doubt he has the tor client he needs to access those.

Edit: poo poo, thought this was the secure thread.

Oh poo poo, I think I found them.

18 Character Limit
Apr 6, 2007

Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!
Nap Ghost

Mr Wikstroem posted:

I want a T6 Miranda refit.

This but can only be flown by nonfed faction.

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

Ambaire posted:

Also, requesting access to the wesley wiki again so this terrible example of humanity can see all the shenanigans on it.

Lol no, get the gently caress out of here you whiny piece of poo poo.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Psycho Landlord posted:

Lol no, get the gently caress out of here you whiny piece of poo poo.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Can someone invite him to gooneration please I want to kick him out.

Empress Theonora
Feb 19, 2001

She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.
Who has better episodes, Klingons or Romulans? I'm thinking of rolling an alt just to see what the other factions' leveling experiences are like (i.e., not to get to high levels or play at endgame or anything) but I'm not sure which to start with.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Romneys.

Align with klanks so you'll have a marauding alt.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

Tunicate posted:

Romneys.

Align with klanks so you'll have a marauding alt.

Yup. Maybe wait till June though and make the alt a Temporal recruit.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

If it's like delta you'll get a free slot for the alt.

Then again I still have a level 3 delta recruit I'm not using, because :effort:

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Tunicate posted:

If it's like delta you'll get a free slot for the alt.

Then again I still have a level 3 delta recruit I'm not using, because :effort:

At least get it to level 11 and park it by DS9.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


May as well spend a weekend leveling it and then promptly ignore it to some bonus dilithium and stuff really. :geno:

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug

Tunicate posted:

Romneys.

Align with klanks so you'll have a marauding alt.

Do Space Elves get to punch Ferengi in the face?

Morglon
Jan 13, 2010

Safe and sound, detached from reality.
Just like your posting.
Wait just a second. Aleth... Alth. I'm on to you you knife eared bastard.

AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

Shamelessly stolen from some dude's twitter:

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
What do you think the occupation was about?

Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot

AfroSquirrel posted:

Shamelessly stolen from some dude's twitter:


The best hasparat is on Terok Nor! I love Bajorans!

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.

A Fancy Bloke posted:

The best hasparat is on Terok Nor! I love Bajorans!

He loves Bajorans alright. Physically.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Free Scorpion fighters - haven't seen a giveaway for them before.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek

Roadie
Jun 30, 2013

SKY COQ posted:

Free Scorpion fighters - haven't seen a giveaway for them before.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek

Where do I even redeem the key that gives? Their link just sends me to one of the Arc Games splash pages.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

Roadie posted:

Where do I even redeem the key that gives? Their link just sends me to one of the Arc Games splash pages.

https://www.arcgames.com/en/redeem

Roadie
Jun 30, 2013

Thanks, that one worked.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Hm, it's actually not a bad ship. +10 stats per any ship in Admiralty, and comes with a Romulan battle cloak for the few missions that call for a shuttle. You could do way worse.

18 Character Limit
Apr 6, 2007

Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!
Nap Ghost

SKY COQ posted:

Free Scorpion fighters - haven't seen a giveaway for them before.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek

Cool, another fighter KDF can't use.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Has cannon rapid fire as its singularity skill too. I think the klank fighter is better since it gets the same power but none of the singularity downsides, but the scorpion is definitely a close second.

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


I'm an idiot and have decided to start playing this game again after a long time away (I think I stopped playing before delta rising came out) to scratch my pew pew spaceship game itch. It looks like they went and changed some poo poo on me since the last time I played, so I have a couple newbie questions:

1) It looks like they drastically changed the level up skill upgrade system; is there a guide that tells me what the best build is (I'm a tac officer and I like beam cruisers) or does it not matter too much?

2) Is crafting a thing that I can safely ignore? When I used to play, I used to just ignore it and sell mats on the exchange for easy money; just making sure I'm not loving myself if I continue to do that, like maybe they've hidden away important endgame stuff behind crafting?

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

SKY COQ posted:

Free Scorpion fighters - haven't seen a giveaway for them before.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek

Getting this also got me a 'first time purchase' reward, with 3 free keys, an R&D pack, and 10k xp bonus, so even better.

Trebuchet King
Jul 5, 2005

This post...

...is a
WORK OF FICTION!!



i'm scraping the rust off my brain and trying to build without aux2batt for the first time in years...specifically focusing on boffs for the sci pilot escort. Right now the biggest mystery is: which class do I put in the universal station?

fullTimeLurker
Nov 10, 2010

SKY COQ posted:

Free Scorpion fighters - haven't seen a giveaway for them before.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek



Thanks for this, just snagged mine.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Perfect World's internal incompetence continues to amuse

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/4i0jpd/new_star_trek_online_expansion_announced/d2urif9 posted:

Hi. I worked on that engine and, while it has its issues, Perfect World's idiotic marketing team continue to put out screenshots, like these in the linked article, that have the graphics settings turned down to literally a lower setting than what we would have shipped Champions Online with had the XBox 360 port of it not been cancelled.

This is something I dealt with a bit while I was there, and managed to convince them to put out at least one slightly decent Neverwinter trailer, but these screenshots show that the old "how to make promo visuals" guide has apparently risen from the dead and is once again wreaking visual havoc and making both graphics tech and artists who work on the game cringe and weep.

The dynamic lighting in the screenshots is dramatically downgraded here. There are no actual shadows cast by anything, with ugly blob shadows under characters as a replacement, despite the engine supporting full dynamic shadows for everything when the option is enabled. You also see a complete lack of dynamic lights from visual effects, which are also enabled by default on any modern machine. Finally, the number of lights allowed to affect each object is reduced to one or two, so attempts to arrange environments to give an approximation of three point lighting will fail.

I'm personally disgusted. I bent over backwards to make that engine able to produce as much of the desires of the artists as possible, and marketing continues to this to day to poo poo all over my work and the work of the artists at Cryptic.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

A huge section of the playerbase is probably playing with those settings.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Unguided posted:

A huge section of the playerbase is probably playing with those settings.

Or lower, on burner computers.

PWE are just marketing towards their majority demographic. Shut ins playing on ghetto junkyard machines.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Trebuchet King posted:

i'm scraping the rust off my brain and trying to build without aux2batt for the first time in years...specifically focusing on boffs for the sci pilot escort. Right now the biggest mystery is: which class do I put in the universal station?

You want an eng in the universal otherwise you're flying with only 2 eng powers which means either breaking up the EPtX chain or going without a hull heal. You want epts and eptw along with aux to struct, use the 4th slot for either eng team for an extra hull heal or a pilot skill for more zoom.

For cooldown reductions you want the ship traits reciprocity and all hands on deck along with 3 damage control eng doffs to handle your eng stuff. That will get you running at or near full reduction without aux2bat.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
Technically Hazard Emitters is a sci hull heal, plus there are traits (or was it a doff?) that you can slot to heal you as you blow things up.

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g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Ainsley McTree posted:

I'm an idiot and have decided to start playing this game again after a long time away (I think I stopped playing before delta rising came out) to scratch my pew pew spaceship game itch. It looks like they went and changed some poo poo on me since the last time I played, so I have a couple newbie questions:

1) It looks like they drastically changed the level up skill upgrade system; is there a guide that tells me what the best build is (I'm a tac officer and I like beam cruisers) or does it not matter too much?

2) Is crafting a thing that I can safely ignore? When I used to play, I used to just ignore it and sell mats on the exchange for easy money; just making sure I'm not loving myself if I continue to do that, like maybe they've hidden away important endgame stuff behind crafting?
I think if you dig around on reddit you can find guides, but if you just put points in anything which says it boosts damage, and then the rest wherever you feel like, you'll be fine.

For 2 you probably shouldn't ignore crafting. At least do the research dailies - it takes a couple of seconds to queue them up, and each school gives you a trait when you hit level 15 in it. And once your beams skill is higher, you can craft masses of mk II beams while annoying pubbies on Risa and possibly hit the lottery and make some EC from it.

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