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That big dumb ship seems like a compelling enough reason to log back in and dump the 100$ or whatever has accumulated as zen in my year and a half away on keys to sell. And then get tired of again in 7-10 days and disappear for another 16 months. Edit: Or not, I logged in to see what I was up to and just staring at the UI and my dumb ship floating in an empty void I became instantly depressed and turned it off. Dr. Lariat fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Apparently it's the Kelvin Constitution skin, I guess you'll be able to use the JJ-Connie and Vengeance skins on other ships? From this album
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Jul 5, 2016 09:33
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Hrm. Are there any shield skins with a white/grey hull and red nacelle caps? Copper deflector would be good too. EDIT: drat, looks like the bussards on the Kelvin Connie don't change with the shield FX.. (dread) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Jul 5, 2016 09:42
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Feels like everything new for the expansion is behind a lockbox, c-store package deal, or lobi store which, would make it just about the same as it has ever been. Favorite part of this game is how its subreddit insists it has one of the best f2p models out there.
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Jul 5, 2016 09:46
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Berke Negri posted:Feels like everything new for the expansion is behind a lockbox, c-store package deal, or lobi store which, would make it just about the same as it has ever been. To be fair, it did three years ago. They're just in denial.
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Jul 5, 2016 09:55
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MikeJF posted:To be fair, it did three years ago. They're just in denial. I mean, they've almost not technically wrong, a good player with a T5 ship back in the day bought cheap off the market with MK12 rep gear could probably still do better than most players in this game but it's like, those ships are now a lot more expensive due to admiralty and so many other things. Its almost less the cost and more just the huge info barrier getting in. MAybe the game would still resemble something reasonable if they just sold ship skins instead of actual real stat-based ships but that has sailed long ago. Thing with T6 is there's basically always a new ship coming out every week.
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It was also reasonable because for the stuff you did want to buy, the Dil to Zen rate was totally doable. Now it's five times what it was.
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Jul 5, 2016 10:07
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Yeah when I started playing dil to zen was like 130 or something. You didn't even need an elaborate contra alt chain, just maybe two or three alts running dyson every day over an hour and a half and you could get a new top of the line ship a month. Which, imo, is still kind of too much but it was doable for little effort. Now if d>z is close to 500 why bother. Lobi ships were always absolutely ridiculous though.
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Jul 5, 2016 10:10
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And for lifetimers with a stipend you're talking a new ship every 6 months, not much of an exciting pace. And F2P aside if you're buying the big packs as an expansion you're paying about 4x the price of most other games' expansions and getting a pittance of content in return. Sweet, I got all these temporal starships, time to play through this new storyline in a week and then back to chasing that darned crystaline entity in 7 new ships. Gee Whiz!Berke Negri posted:Yeah when I started playing dil to zen was like 130 or something. You didn't even need an elaborate contra alt chain, just maybe two or three alts running dyson every day over an hour and a half and you could get a new top of the line ship a month. Which, imo, is still kind of too much but it was doable for little effort. Now if d>z is close to 500 why bother. Shooooot there was a time when it was like around 80-90 AND through busted rear end player created missions you could get 2000 per character a day in about 1 minute. (I could be running two different events together in my head, this game has been out a lot longer than I like to remember) Edit: I was just looking over the wikipedia page, remember when Veteran rewards were a thing? 2344 days and counting for me. Where is my 2000 day veteran reward Craptic!? Dr. Lariat fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Jul 5, 2016 10:14
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I had enough Zen for 153 keys and keys are selling right now for almost 6mil. How do the exchange prices for new lockbox ships normally go? I'm looking at getting a Kelvin ship, should I buy the ship I want early or wait it out? I'm probably going to start a TOS character so I wouldn't be able to use the ship right away so I'm in no rush to buy.
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Don't buy one immediately, wait for the market to steady after a few days of people opening boxes. The first few that go up will usually be stupidly high and pubs will undercut each other by several million at a time.
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Also don't sell your keys until the box comes out and everyone is going apeshit over it.
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Yeah it normally takes 1-2 weeks for the New Hotness to stabilize in price and drop a bit once the super rich early adopters get theirs and stop pushing the prices up. Keys will remain high for quite a while but peak right after the new boxes go live - definitely the best time to sell if you want EC. When the prizes are REALLY desirable (i.e. Annorax) the prices can actually rise after the first week so that's something to keep in mind too. In this obviously lots of people are going to want JJprizes etc but the ship itself isn't anything spectacular compared to readily available Z-store ships so that'll stop it getting too mad. Maybe. Depends how popular JJ Trek really is - guess we'll see.
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Dr. Lariat posted:And for lifetimers with a stipend you're talking a new ship every 6 months, not much of an exciting pace. And F2P aside if you're buying the big packs as an expansion you're paying about 4x the price of most other games' expansions and getting a pittance of content in return. Sweet, I got all these temporal starships, time to play through this new storyline in a week and then back to chasing that darned crystaline entity in 7 new ships. Gee Whiz! I bought the Romulan starter pack, ignored entirely the Delta pack and have gone all in this time on the Temporal Agent pack. I'm reasonably happy with the value for money involved, this time around. Obviously the expansion's not out yet but it's looking good, I really like the aesthetics of the ships, and I love the idea of cross faction endgame ships like the 31st century trio. Plus, more ships for the Admiralty mill.
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Veotax posted:Apparently it's the Kelvin Constitution skin, I guess you'll be able to use the JJ-Connie and Vengeance skins on other ships? These images were taken via Demo editing, I wouldn't trust them.
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That carrier has wierd seating.
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I love that the D4 has BoP seating
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FuturePastNow posted:Cryptic accidentally posted the ship stats blog early and almost immediately pulled it down. Haha, whoops, Trendy must have accidentally put PM instead of AM Edit: It is actually out now https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10057893 Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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I really enjoy using carriers in games. I haven't played in a few years. Right now I have a rom fed at level 50 but I'm willing to level whatever side has the best carriers. Or do they just suck to the point that I should just level for a Dread? What side has the best carriers.
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The Bunny posted:I really enjoy using carriers in games. I haven't played in a few years. Right now I have a rom fed at level 50 but I'm willing to level whatever side has the best carriers. Or do they just suck to the point that I should just level for a Dread? What side has the best carriers. I think Fed has the MOST carriers since they have the Jupiter and the other factions don't have the equivalent. No idea about the best.
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Aren't the "best" carriers still the cross faction tholian ships?
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Nah man, the best carrier is totally the Jupiter  In all fairness, though, it does have some really good unique pets, as far as Fed options are concerned.
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I love my Jupiter, I've been using it since they launched it. Fleet Callistos are great. Probably the longest I've used a single Starship. Downtime tomorrow is 9:00 - 12:30 Eastern. Doesn't sound right, normally patches like these it is a lot longer. Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Jul 5, 2016 23:27
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I remember when only the KDF had a carrier. 
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Tuskin38 posted:I love my Jupiter, I've been using it since they launched it. Fleet Callistos are great. I love the concept of the Jupiter and I have one, but I've not had great luck with it. Is there a good way to get the hanger pets from engagement to engagement? If they're actually on scene they're quite potent and fun to watch, but if a map involves full impulsing from fight to fight (like most do) I end up sitting there acting like an oversized sci boat until the escorts meander over.
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Any word on if having the existing temporal ships will let you select them as a skin for the new temporal ships, or having the Aeon shuttle gives you access to the black hull variant?
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Would murder for a T6 Space Hell carrier.
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MikeJF posted:Would murder for a T6 Space Hell carrier. My old KDF main still few his kar'fi after leveling up to 50 the hard way before all the KDF revamps and bought the kar'fi with the level 50 free ship token. It was good enough to keep pace with pubbies and looked great with aegis shields, so that was all I wanted to fly. Probably lovely now I'm guessing. Been looking at reinstalling this game and it sounds like only one of the three characters I played much with will be able to keep their ship through all the post-Romulus stuff. Had a Scimitar on my Romulan, Kar'Fi on my Klingon, and Orb Weaver on my Feddie.
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Conskill posted:I love the concept of the Jupiter and I have one, but I've not had great luck with it. Is there a good way to get the hanger pets from engagement to engagement? If they're actually on scene they're quite potent and fun to watch, but if a map involves full impulsing from fight to fight (like most do) I end up sitting there acting like an oversized sci boat until the escorts meander over. Hit the button to recall the pets back into your ship before you go full impulse. Because yeah, otherwise they take ten minutes to bumble their way over to you. That isn't how hangar pets used to behave, either. Something relatively recent broke it.
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Cythereal posted:My old KDF main still few his kar'fi after leveling up to 50 the hard way before all the KDF revamps and bought the kar'fi with the level 50 free ship token. It was good enough to keep pace with pubbies and looked great with aegis shields, so that was all I wanted to fly. The fleet Kar'fi isn't exactly high-end, but it's playable enough and has pretty great frigs. Slam a DBB build on it, give it grav well 3, and just surf up to poo poo, trap them in front of you, and pummel the poo poo out of them, it's still drat effective and nimble enough to be fun to whiz around. I played the Sarr Theln in the same way at T6 for a while, but it didn't feel the same. Rocking a Paradox now, gone full scihole.
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Cythereal posted:My old KDF main still few his kar'fi after leveling up to 50 the hard way before all the KDF revamps and bought the kar'fi with the level 50 free ship token. It was good enough to keep pace with pubbies and looked great with aegis shields, so that was all I wanted to fly. The skill revamp buffed everyone across the board, you can ISA in a connie.
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http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10059403-star-trek-online%3A-expansion-notes%3A-july-6th%2C-2016 Patch Notes for tomorrow. Includes 2 additional missions and a space queue that were not on Tribble. Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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Is the vorgon bonus mine trait as worthless as it seems?
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Thinking about the character I want to make tomorrow. Is there any merit at all to rolling an Engineer? I have 3 tacs and 2 science wizards.
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SKY COQ posted:Thinking about the character I want to make tomorrow. Is there any merit at all to rolling an Engineer? I have 3 tacs and 2 science wizards. Fun as hell on the ground (SPACE LASER), pointless in space.
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Well you don't particularly need plas leech which is nice. And in ground missions you can just lay out a turret farm and go AFK.
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MikeJF posted:The fleet Kar'fi isn't exactly high-end, but it's playable enough and has pretty great frigs. Slam a DBB build on it, give it grav well 3, and just surf up to poo poo, trap them in front of you, and pummel the poo poo out of them, it's still drat effective and nimble enough to be fun to whiz around. DBBs? Those are useful now? When did that happen?
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Cythereal posted:DBBs? Those are useful now? When did that happen? When AP and Tet got secondary Omni arrays, so you can put two beam omnis and the Kinetic Cutting Beam in the rear of the ship. It only works for ships with three rear weapon slots but it lets you blast sci powers straight ahead and fire all beams at the same time. It's great for sciholes. Ten's slightly better than AP for this build for set reasons right now, I think. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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Which one of these would you guys say is the most "fun" and best looking ship to fly? Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier Na'kuhl Acheros Battlecruiser Xindi-Primate Cruiser
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