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DonDoodles: Aug 18, 2010; by general anime

Raekwon_Chef posted:

Election season is here goons, who is your candidate?

Countdown to forum pubbies demanding that sig be removed because of the POTENTIAL for epileptic seizures in people that don't exist on the STO forums.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 14:39

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Raekwon_Chef: Apr 9, 2013

DonDoodles posted:

Countdown to forum pubbies demanding that sig be removed because of the POTENTIAL for epileptic seizures in people that don't exist on the STO forums.

#TriggerWarning for possible seizure, and use of comic sans.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 16:04

wjs5: Aug 22, 2009

Just to double check I can safely chose the weapons that have the color I want it it isnt a big deal right?

# ? Sep 8, 2016 16:58

Lorak: Apr 7, 2009; Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

wjs5 posted:

Just to double check I can safely chose the weapons that have the color I want it it isnt a big deal right?

So long as your tactical consoles match your energy weapon damage type (or if you're that level, you grab fleet Beam CrtH consoles from the Spire, if you like mixing energy weapon damage types), you're fine.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 17:07

Raekwon_Chef: Apr 9, 2013

Lorak posted:

So long as your tactical consoles match your energy weapon damage type (or if you're that level, you grab fleet Beam CrtH consoles from the Spire, if you like mixing energy weapon damage types), you're fine.

You can get lesser purple versions of these tac consoles from repeating the mission Terminal Expanse.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 17:57

wjs5: Aug 22, 2009

Ok thanks, because I was gonna go with purple beams but pink seems good to. Just didnt want to nerf myself to bad doing it.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:54

Lunimeow: Oct 6, 2012; Shaken, not purred.

fakemirage posted:

You can start looking over your equipment and get your items upgraded. The wiki should have some recommended builds for inspiration.

Yeah I definitely need to get my equipment caught up i'm way behind right now, I registered an account on the wiki username: Lunimeow

# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:56

Hail Mr. Satan!: Oct 3, 2009; by zen death robot

wjs5 posted:

Ok thanks, because I was gonna go with purple beams but pink seems good to. Just didnt want to nerf myself to bad doing it.

Honestly if you use a proper weapon load out and proper skills, you'll be ahead of pubbies no matter if your beams are all the same color

# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:09

Aleth: Aug 2, 2008; Pillbug

Disco beams from temporal rep are the only way to go now.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:35

cheesetriangles: Jan 5, 2011

So I just came back and last time I came back I bought a science pilot escort and now I am finally getting it equipped. I did sphere of influence twice to get the 2 very rare items. Which I guess was a warp core and a ancient beam thingy. I still need 2 fore weapons which I think should be dual antiproton beam banks? I also need all my consoles. So I read a few posts ago I can get tactical consoles from that terminal expanse quest. Is there any specific ones I should or just gets ones that match my weapons over and over? Where can I get science and engineering consoles?

http://gateway.startrekonline.com/#char(Sueil@cheese_the_third)/

In case anyone wants to see my ship.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:43

MREBoy: Mar 14, 2005; MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !

cheesetriangles posted:

So I just came back and last time I came back I bought a science pilot escort and now I am finally getting it equipped. I did sphere of influence twice to get the 2 very rare items. Which I guess was a warp core and a ancient beam thingy. I still need 2 fore weapons which I think should be dual antiproton beam banks? I also need all my consoles. So I read a few posts ago I can get tactical consoles from that terminal expanse quest. Is there any specific ones I should or just gets ones that match my weapons over and over? Where can I get science and engineering consoles?

http://gateway.startrekonline.com/#char(Sueil@cheese_the_third)/

In case anyone wants to see my ship.

You are on the right starting track, keeping to 1 energy type (Antiproton) + one weapon type (Beams). You definitely need more stuff to put on your ship. Do you have any reputations maxed out ? How much fleet credit do you have, if any ? Dilithium ? There are Tac consoles in the Fleet Spire holding that are better than anything you can get from a mission or off the Exchange. If you feel the need to do Terminal Expanse a few times, you'd pick the Directed Energy Distribution Manifold Mk XI as the reward. Just be aware those will be for temporary use only as they aren't that good. If you get into the in-game channel, you can ask questions & maybe get some free goodies from nice people. Running with White Mk X stuff is not a good situation to be in.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:05

g0del: Jan 9, 2001; Fun Shoe

A Fancy Bloke posted:

Honestly if you use a proper weapon load out and proper skills, you'll be ahead of pubbies no matter if your beams are all the same color

For anyone just gearing up, the difference between the +beam spire consoles and the +damage_type consoles is pretty minimal. I would recommend getting +beam consoles so that you can run with any color beams you want, and change anytime without buying/upgrading all new consoles.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:15

18 Character Limit: Apr 6, 2007; Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!; Nap Ghost

A Fancy Bloke posted:

There's only 108 days til Christmas goons. Are you looking for the perfect gift for your average pubbie that will delight and likely arouse them? Star Trek's official shop has got you fam.

It's in the wild now.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1221620/whisky-tango-foxtrot

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:18

Defiance Industries: Jul 22, 2010; A five-star manufacturer

g0del posted:

For anyone just gearing up, the difference between the +beam spire consoles and the +damage_type consoles is pretty minimal. I would recommend getting +beam consoles so that you can run with any color beams you want, and change anytime without buying/upgrading all new consoles.

I wish I had done this but I rushed to buy all my consoles early when there weren't a lot of options for special beam types.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:18

cheesetriangles: Jan 5, 2011

MREBoy posted:

You are on the right starting track, keeping to 1 energy type (Antiproton) + one weapon type (Beams). You definitely need more stuff to put on your ship. Do you have any reputations maxed out ? How much fleet credit do you have, if any ? Dilithium ? There are Tac consoles in the Fleet Spire holding that are better than anything you can get from a mission or off the Exchange. If you feel the need to do Terminal Expanse a few times, you'd pick the Directed Energy Distribution Manifold Mk XI as the reward. Just be aware those will be for temporary use only as they aren't that good. If you get into the in-game channel, you can ask questions & maybe get some free goodies from nice people. Running with White Mk X stuff is not a good situation to be in.

I have zero reputation of any kind. I have basically no EC and no dilithium. I do have 15,000 zen I could trade for some dilithium from lifetime sub. I have barely any fleet credits as well. If I could just buy some gear so I am not so weak that would be nice.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:20

fakemirage: Nov 6, 2012; Can't see the haters.

cheesetriangles posted:

Where can I get science and engineering consoles?

[pla] science consoles from the fleet embassy are usually pretty good if you want to do damage, but you'll have to score some fleet credits before you can buy them. Engineering console slots are often filled with universal consoles, like Plasmonic Leech, which you can get from the exchange.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:29

g0del: Jan 9, 2001; Fun Shoe

cheesetriangles posted:

I have zero reputation of any kind. I have basically no EC and no dilithium. I do have 15,000 zen I could trade for some dilithium from lifetime sub. I have barely any fleet credits as well. If I could just buy some gear so I am not so weak that would be nice.

Start working on at least iconian rep, and probably the omega and nukara reps as well, since pugging ISA and CCA is easy and fast. Run mirror normal to get iconian marks for the next week, run ISA for omega rep, and if you want you could also run CCA for nukara marks. The ISA and CCA queues pop fairly quickly, and are usually full of enough high-DPS players to carry you. Running a single one will get you the marks + daily rewards marks, which should be enough for 2 or 3 days worth of rep projects, so you don't need to run them all every day.

Each day you should do the daily rep project. It'll take 40 days to get to Tier 5, so you want to start now. When you finish T5 you'll get enough marks/dil to buy a single piece of rep gear. If you've been doing the STFs fairly often, you'll probably have enough to buy even rep gear. You want the 4-piece iconian space set, the kinetic cutting beam from Omega, and the assimilated console from Omega. Just putting those on will make a large difference in how well your ship survives and kills other stuff.

For consoles, you'll ideally want the spire tactical vulnerability locators, +beam. As many as you have tac slots in your ship. For science consoles, you want the Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Nullifier Mk X [DrainX], again as many as you have sci slots. For engineering, you want Plasmonic Leech (buy it from the exchange, or beg alms in channel) and any decent universal consoles you have.

For weapons, get whatever you want. The exchange usually has almost perfect weapon mods for dirt cheap (i.e. a [pen][crtd]x3 might be 75m ec, while a [pen][crth][crtd]x2 will be 75k ec). You can ask in channel if any crafters have any leftover junk too.

Once you have all that, you can start asking about upgrading advice (don't upgrade rarity unless you hate yourself/your money) and starship traits to look for.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:09

cheesetriangles: Jan 5, 2011

g0del posted:

Start working on at least iconian rep, and probably the omega and nukara reps as well, since pugging ISA and CCA is easy and fast. Run mirror normal to get iconian marks for the next week, run ISA for omega rep, and if you want you could also run CCA for nukara marks. The ISA and CCA queues pop fairly quickly, and are usually full of enough high-DPS players to carry you. Running a single one will get you the marks + daily rewards marks, which should be enough for 2 or 3 days worth of rep projects, so you don't need to run them all every day.

Each day you should do the daily rep project. It'll take 40 days to get to Tier 5, so you want to start now. When you finish T5 you'll get enough marks/dil to buy a single piece of rep gear. If you've been doing the STFs fairly often, you'll probably have enough to buy even rep gear. You want the 4-piece iconian space set, the kinetic cutting beam from Omega, and the assimilated console from Omega. Just putting those on will make a large difference in how well your ship survives and kills other stuff.

For consoles, you'll ideally want the spire tactical vulnerability locators, +beam. As many as you have tac slots in your ship. For science consoles, you want the Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Nullifier Mk X [DrainX], again as many as you have sci slots. For engineering, you want Plasmonic Leech (buy it from the exchange, or beg alms in channel) and any decent universal consoles you have.

For weapons, get whatever you want. The exchange usually has almost perfect weapon mods for dirt cheap (i.e. a [pen][crtd]x3 might be 75m ec, while a [pen][crth][crtd]x2 will be 75k ec). You can ask in channel if any crafters have any leftover junk too.

Once you have all that, you can start asking about upgrading advice (don't upgrade rarity unless you hate yourself/your money) and starship traits to look for.

I guess Mirror = mirror invasion? what does ISA and CCA stand for?

# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:34

MREBoy: Mar 14, 2005; MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !

cheesetriangles posted:

I guess Mirror = mirror invasion? what does ISA and CCA stand for?

ISA = Infected Space Advanced, CCA = Crystalline Catastrophy Advanced. First one is a Borg queue that just about anyone in the game knows how to do, 2nd is a shoot crystal thing repeatedly until done event. Both are on the reasonably easy end of the difficulty scale, therefore pubs have a lesser chance of loving them up.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:48

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.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10153362-star-trek-online-50th-anniversary-giveaway

:toot:

# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:10

Raekwon_Chef: Apr 9, 2013

SKY COQ posted:

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10153362-star-trek-online-50th-anniversary-giveaway

"I think it's a slap in the face. Many already own this. Couldn't they come with something new? They've had plenty of time. What a complete joke. Maybe the end is truly nigh."
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1221630/50th-anniversary-free-gift

# ? Sep 8, 2016 23:21

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.

It's not a slap in the face but it is pretty sad. They managed to release a new doff and Admiralty card for the 20th anniversary of First Contact. Making existing content free seems a bit tame by comparison.

# ? Sep 8, 2016 23:27

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Unique The Cage themed doff would have been easy

# ? Sep 9, 2016 00:02

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

Lol, a bundle that doesn't even have the regular 23rd Century uniforms. Oh well, better than nothing I guess.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 00:06

Lorak: Apr 7, 2009; Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

I hadn't ever bothered to get the bundle, so having it for free is nice to me. I imagine people wanting it for their Temporal pack TOS-era-skinned ships will be happy to have an appropriate bridge, even if the schematic on it is for the Constitution-class.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 00:07

Raekwon_Chef: Apr 9, 2013

Tunicate posted:

Unique The Cage themed doff would have been easy

Number One would be my choice if they did that.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 00:08

Berke Negri: Feb 15, 2012; Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
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Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
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Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
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Lorak posted:

I hadn't ever bothered to get the bundle, so having it for free is nice to me. I imagine people wanting it for their Temporal pack TOS-era-skinned ships will be happy to have an appropriate bridge, even if the schematic on it is for the Constitution-class.

Those don't already come with a 23rd century bridge?

# ? Sep 9, 2016 00:12

cheesetriangles: Jan 5, 2011

Hey I just logged in and thanks whoever sent me a bunch of gear. It is a big help.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 01:03

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

wjs5 posted:

Ok thanks, because I was gonna go with purple beams but pink seems good to. Just didnt want to nerf myself to bad doing it.

If you go with antiproton, you'll eventually unlock ~*~rainbow~*~

# ? Sep 9, 2016 01:14

Lorak: Apr 7, 2009; Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

Berke Negri posted:

Those don't already come with a 23rd century bridge?

Surprisingly, nope. At least, I know the 26th century ones that can use the skins don't. I forget if the lower tier versions get the Pioneer bridge.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 01:21

Hail Mr. Satan!: Oct 3, 2009; by zen death robot

Lorak posted:

Surprisingly, nope. At least, I know the 26th century ones that can use the skins don't. I forget if the lower tier versions get the Pioneer bridge.

Yeah the lower tier ones get the Pioneer bridge but it's not available for the T6 ones no matter how you skin it

# ? Sep 9, 2016 01:32

Bieeanshee: Aug 21, 2000; Not keen on keening.; Grimey Drawer

Raekwon_Chef posted:

Number One would be my choice if they did that.

Old lady with head-butt for me.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 02:11

Raekwon_Chef: Apr 9, 2013

Do we have fleets set up on console yet? I'm on PS4.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 02:40

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Not that I know of, but if they're using an earlier version that means the bridge of death should still work, right?'

More importantly: do temporal engines give your ship rainbow farts?

Tunicate fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Sep 9, 2016

# ? Sep 9, 2016 02:47

Dr. Lariat: Jul 1, 2004; by Lowtax

I will be dicking around with the Ps4 version this weekend so if no one gets any fleet related stuff going on that side by then I will start setting us up there.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 04:13

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

Hi guys. I have too many kids and not enough free time and I am on my eKnees asking for your help getting STO to run on my laptop. It's a pretty new ASUS....something I bought like a year ago for around $1300 off newegg so it's probably not a total piece of poo poo. I'm running Windows 10 with an nvidia card. I've tried added that string of code that bypasses directx 11 to the options in the launcher and I've tried running in safe mode and I've tried launching from Steam vs the game exe and god I only get an hour of leisure time per day and I'm on day three of trying to get this game to run properly. Is there a magic bullet to convince this game to run without a bunch of flickering, static, and crashing?

# ? Sep 9, 2016 04:35

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.

Why cookie Rocket posted:

Hi guys. I have too many kids and not enough free time and I am on my eKnees asking for your help getting STO to run on my laptop. It's a pretty new ASUS....something I bought like a year ago for around $1300 off newegg so it's probably not a total piece of poo poo. I'm running Windows 10 with an nvidia card. I've tried added that string of code that bypasses directx 11 to the options in the launcher and I've tried running in safe mode and I've tried launching from Steam vs the game exe and god I only get an hour of leisure time per day and I'm on day three of trying to get this game to run properly. Is there a magic bullet to convince this game to run without a bunch of flickering, static, and crashing?

Have you changed down to DX9?

# ? Sep 9, 2016 04:37

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

SKY COQ posted:

Have you changed down to DX9?

According to Google you can't downgrade DirectX, but you can tell change the version of DirectX it uses with that piece of code you can add via the options menu in the launcher. Do you mean actually switching the version of DirectX I have installed or changing what STO uses?

# ? Sep 9, 2016 04:46

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.

I mean changing which version STO uses. The game runs like a dog for me in DX11 but runs fine in dx9 mode. The option is in settings.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 04:49

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 16:03

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

SKY COQ posted:

I mean changing which version STO uses. The game runs like a dog for me in DX11 but runs fine in dx9 mode. The option is in settings.

Settings as in the properties menu when you right-click the exe? I can't seem to find it there or in the game options. Really sorry if I'm just being dense, I freely admit I'm usually a console gamer that's out of his depth.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 05:07

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