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I got two T6 connies from the same stack of 20 boxes 
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Jul 7, 2016 05:37
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Name one "JJ Trek Best Trek," fly around ESD and Sector for a couple hours, record the tells, then ditch it and fly a Vengeance because it's better. Organize a Goon giveaway for the other one, because gently caress giving those to pubbies, they're worth money.
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Jul 7, 2016 06:45
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Acer Pilot posted:it's july Temporal Bullshit.
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Jul 7, 2016 06:49
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I'm in this weird, awful game as Saif@jamukha and I have no idea what i'm doing but my space ship can disappear and I think that's Neat
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Jul 7, 2016 07:08
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Sixto Lezcano posted:I'm in this weird, awful game as Saif@jamukha and I have no idea what i'm doing but my space ship can disappear and I think that's Neat Hey I gave you some advice in the chat earlier but I just wanted to mention that you should at some point in the next 8 weeks or so make a TOS character and run it to the end of the tutorial section. There's an event that started today with some nice rewards you'll never be able to get again if you don't get the character past the tutorial during the event. Once you're past the tutorial you can ignore that character safely until you actually feel like checking out the fed content.
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Jul 7, 2016 07:53
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The sad thing about the game's fall is that there are still devs who are clearly having fun with it.
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Jul 7, 2016 08:29
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MikeJF posted:The sad thing about the game's fall is that there are still devs who are clearly having fun with it. The art team seems to have the remaining good, competent people who know what they're doing. Well, there's Trendy too. But the code jockeys seem to have lost track of what species they're riding, let alone which of its many appendages bite, claw, or breathe fire,
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Jul 7, 2016 08:40
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Tunicate posted:The art team seems to have the remaining good, competent people who know what they're doing. Eh, I don't think the current code jockeys are much to blame, they're just holding together with spit and duct tape an engine that needs far more resources dropped into it than they're getting. The game designers, though.
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Jul 7, 2016 08:49
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Tunicate posted:The art team seems to have the remaining good, competent people who know what they're doing. I like to imagine that starting work on the STO legacy code base is like a descent into hell. People start out with the very best of intentions and clear-eyed zeal to get in there and improve the way things are done. They then gaze upon the writhing mass of spaghetti code, some of which is probably in fortran running on a custom undocumented emulator which ports it to COBOL running on yet another emulator. Before they know what's happened they find themselves coding values directly into the body of the code because no-one knows what that variable actually does.
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Jul 7, 2016 08:49
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This is your regular reminder that there are entire subsystems of the game where the current staff literally, unironically have no idea how they function at all. Less of them than they was a year ago after they completely revamped BOFFs and kits and skills, sure, but there's still stuff like the DOFF system where the original dev left and there's massive lingering bugs in it due to other changes that the current devs can't fix because the guy who made it and was the only one who knew how it worked left ages ago.
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Jul 7, 2016 08:55
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That and the mind-boggling fact that nobody knows how to relate much of the database together in a useful way for updating things.
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Jul 7, 2016 08:56
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That's because their database software is, I'm pretty sure, some semi-proprietary or atypical insanity that's utterly useless in practice. I don't know the specifics but I know CoH had similar under the hood issues that Paragon struggled with for ages after Cryptic split off.
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Jul 7, 2016 09:15
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This is why we document! This is why. .. 
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Jul 7, 2016 09:29
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Asimo posted:That's because their database software is, I'm pretty sure, some semi-proprietary or atypical insanity that's utterly useless in practice. I don't know the specifics but I know CoH had similar under the hood issues that Paragon struggled with for ages after Cryptic split off. We talked about this a few pages ago: it's a self-rolled flat database held entirely in virtualised ram the entire time it's on that uses straight c macros to access data.
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Jul 7, 2016 09:31
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Ah, right. 
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Jul 7, 2016 09:54
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 So much better than the 'real' hull colouring. Anyone got a shot of the 31st century bridge? Is it the same as the 29th century ships? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Jul 7, 2016 10:28
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MikeJF posted:We talked about this a few pages ago: it's a self-rolled flat database held entirely in virtualised ram the entire time it's on that uses straight c macros to access data. Much like your posting.
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Jul 7, 2016 10:58
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MikeJF posted:
Also the 31st century ships just share the Wells bridge, despite not being able to use the Wells/Aeon/Paradox skins and consoles. 
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Jul 7, 2016 11:30
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Asimo posted:The 6th century ships look so much better in the type 0 (TOS) skins than in their own type 8 skin. It's crazy, it actually looks more like it should be their natural skin than the actual one. I'd take a screenshot but I'm not at my PC at the moment. That's a shame, that bridge isn't great. You straight up can't use any other skins on the good ships either, even the standard ones. Just got my poo poo pushed in on one of the early AoY missions - Battle of Caleb IV I think? It turns out a Constitution cruiser is not as good at fighting swarms of Klingons as a Paradox dreadnought.
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Jul 7, 2016 12:20
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I like the Heavy Phaser turret device from the Paladin that also doubles as a universal damage upper. I'm pretty sure the stationary multiform suicide turret does more for BZs than most actual players.
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Jul 7, 2016 12:49
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Psycho Landlord posted:Name one "JJ Trek Best Trek," fly around ESD and Sector for a couple hours, record the tells, then ditch it and fly a Vengeance because it's better. Ooh ooh, if you want to do a Goon giveaway for a JJPrize, I'd gladly sign up!
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Jul 7, 2016 13:22
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if you ever get a lockbox ship but you're not sure if you want it, you could always copy your character to Tribble and open it there and test it The Boolean Gun Melee animation is pretty great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9C1ozZAMbs Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Jul 7, 2016 13:30
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Dely Apple posted:This is why we document! Every game programmer is like "I'm going to going to document everything. I'll be the one who actually does it." MikeJF posted:
Last night when I was trying to adjust how that ship looked I swear it wasn't taking the material into effect at all.
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Jul 7, 2016 18:10
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The Ferengi dance isn't working anymore 
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Jul 7, 2016 18:20
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Took some screens of the Vengeance https://imgur.com/a/HFaMc
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Jul 7, 2016 19:35
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The Vengeance is poo poo: Days of Doom: * Aleth on base defence in his sci pilot raptor = we win * 2 SHAMEFUL goons in Vengeances on base defence = station blows up in under 5m Sure, the SHAMEFUL goons will complain 'lag' and 'I didn't have leech slotted' but really, it's because the Vengeance is poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:05
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Lagomorphic posted:Hey I gave you some advice in the chat earlier but I just wanted to mention that you should at some point in the next 8 weeks or so make a TOS character and run it to the end of the tutorial section. There's an event that started today with some nice rewards you'll never be able to get again if you don't get the character past the tutorial during the event. Once you're past the tutorial you can ignore that character safely until you actually feel like checking out the fed content.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:09
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Pierson posted:When the does tutorial end? I did the first mission and just started 'In the Shadow of Cestus', which feels like the first post-tutorial mission but I didn't get anything. When you get to the future.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:13
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Aleth posted:The Vengeance is poo poo: You couldn't hold the waves back on Advanced and needed to be rescued. The next run was on elite, and the Vengeances indeed were overwhelmed, but it was mainly due to Tech's inability to signal when merging  The third run was back to advanced, and it was a cakewalk. Even with intentional sabotage by Aotc. Vengeance owns, smelly Klingon Untermenschen get out 
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Jul 7, 2016 20:15
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Tunicate posted:When you get to the future.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:17
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Psycho Landlord posted:You couldn't hold the waves back on Advanced and needed to be rescued. The next run was on elite, and the Vengeances indeed were overwhelmed, but it was mainly due to Tech's inability to signal when merging Lies. It's also smaller than the tarantula making it an inferior dread.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:19
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Vengeance is indeed a very good ship but the Archeros is far better because of that turn & impulse modifier.
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Jul 7, 2016 21:57
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On a scale of Voquov to Snail eating a stick, how poorly does the Vengeance fly?
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Jul 7, 2016 21:58
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Dely Apple posted:On a scale of Voquov to Snail eating a stick, how poorly does the Vengeance fly? Base turn 7 and an impulse speed higher than your average cruiser so making hard turns at full throttle is surprisingly difficult. I'd say it handles like a pig. Doesn't matter for PVE but if PVP was still a thing I'd fly something else because it definitely matters there.
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Jul 7, 2016 22:18
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It's got roughly the same handling characteristics as an Odyssey. Terrible, but if you're used to spacewhales it's ok. The broadside cannons console it comes with actually works pretty well.
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Jul 8, 2016 00:44
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Lol you people still think turn rates matter in this day and age.
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Jul 8, 2016 00:59
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Asimo posted:The 6th century ships look so much better in the type 0 (TOS) skins than in their own type 8 skin. It's crazy, it actually looks more like it should be their natural skin than the actual one. I'd take a screenshot but I'm not at my PC at the moment. Well, crap. Was really hoping that would be a thing, but I guess not.
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Jul 8, 2016 01:03
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Psycho Landlord posted:Lol you people still think turn rates matter in this day and age. So how do you 'fix' such a thing?
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APO and Aux to Dampeners go a long way, without getting into skills or any of the huge amount of awesome universal consoles that have been a part of every build for the past two years that just so happen to buff turn. I'm honestly surprised you're asking this question.
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