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DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
Smokebaily "modeled" that character after herself. I believe she also mentioned that his characters are also all futanari types.

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FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Nita posted:

Looks like the CGI was stolen from an ATI All in Wonder box from 1998 and repurposed.

Ruby had more effort put into her than those

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

Oh he's been making art of this Cassy Morrison character for years now:





quote:

Well, here's how her species is like (and she has no idea where she came from, mind you, she was found as an infant in a box with a note to take good care of her), both sexes are pretty much girls, just different plumbing. I mean if Trek can have people with handle bar-like noses, ears big enough to make Prince Chuck look small, and killer cybernetic zombies, than this is no real big deal, either.

While Cassy is biologically "a boy", she still is a she, if that seems less confusing or more for you. The universe is a weird and amazing place, I mean we have animals on earth with both sex organs and creatures who reproduce asexually, and I have been doing a good deal of research UFO and alien topic (despite what some of the naysayers on this forum will say other wise, since it seems to be a dirty issue), and there's so many amazing sort of aliens encounter by us, that a species of alien that are rather feminine in nature, despite whether they have a hole or a pole.

I also made Cassy with another reason as well: To both test the waters and push the envelope on characters in science fiction and fantasy, to make a heroine who not either the run of the mill porn star with big tits you see in comic books or the frumpy, plain Jane's you see in Star Wars (the non royalty and non sex slave types) or Aliens. To have a smart, strong likable, and beautiful character that can either fight Daleks and giant centipedes or able to sit down and discuss hyper-dimensional physics and quantum theory, and pretty much take traditional gender roles and toss them out the window, so much the better. I mean if someone has issues with the character of Cassy because of what's lurking under her thong, then they need to probably stop and think for a little bit about themselves.

This defence of her design by claiming to be somehow progressively pushing gender boundaries would be more credible if 1) he didn't spend so much time going into almost festishistic levels of detail about it, 2) he actually referred to Cassy as a 'he' rather than as a 'she' all the time, and 3) if Cassy wasn't literally just jailbait catgirl wankfodder poser porn. I mean some of this art is literally Sea Patrol levels of bad (and even then, most of the stuff he uses is actually stolen from other artists with zero credit given).


The 2012 thread this comes from is a genuine goldmine - in a rush at the minute so someone else may want to pull out the rest of the juicy bits:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/one-of-my-main-characters.186809/

Tigey fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Feb 20, 2017

Tuskin38
May 1, 2013

Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.
New ground Queue

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10398253-the-arena-of-sompek-special-event%21

Looks like No Win Scenario, but ground.

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
I don't believe in a no win scenario.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Expect your team to be filled with people using mk X green polaron rifles and such that don't know what kit powers are.

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



DancingShade posted:

Expect your team to be filled with people using mk X green polaron rifles and such that don't know what kit powers are.

This is totally me.

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.

DancingShade posted:

Expect your team to be filled with people using mk X green polaron rifles and such that don't know what kit powers are.

Fire and forget, baby.

I bought the Herald staff and upgraded all of my kits last weekend. It is time.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Ah, that explains why they nerfed engineer pets. The devs were upset people with dedicated turtling builds could turtle up and win.

Nita
Apr 27, 2008
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO LEFT CLICK FOR 2 HOURS TO CLEAR OUR NEW GRINDFEST!?

Only the spergiest of poopsockers will clear 100 rounds of terrible ground combat for mediocre rewards, such as 500 WHOLE DILITHIUM ORE!

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
This is also why they nerfed security escorts. Everyone knows a full platoon of redshirts will curbstomp anything they're thrown at.

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.

Nita posted:

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO LEFT CLICK FOR 2 HOURS TO CLEAR OUR NEW GRINDFEST!?

Only the spergiest of poopsockers will clear 100 rounds of terrible ground combat for mediocre rewards, such as 500 WHOLE DILITHIUM ORE!

Clicking is for scrubs. Go into the controls menu, scroll to the bottom of the ground controls section and turn auto fire on. Then right click your primary weapon attack.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Coq au Nandos posted:

Clicking is for scrubs. Go into the controls menu, scroll to the bottom of the ground controls section and turn auto fire on. Then right click your primary weapon attack.

Go into controls, select 'automatically target attacker when attacked'.

Rightclick a party member, select 'follow'.

AFK penalty doesn't kick in if you're killing things.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Tunicate posted:

Go into controls, select 'automatically target attacker when attacked'.

Rightclick a party member, select 'follow'.

AFK penalty doesn't kick in if you're killing things.
This is how I do the mirror event. It's the only way to get through it without contemplating suicide by the end of the event.

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime

quote:

...and I have been doing a good deal of research UFO and alien topic (despite what some of the naysayers on this forum will say other wise, since it seems to be a dirty issue), and there's so many amazing sort of aliens encounter by us...

lol. Hey Druk, I think we found the space elves Elite guy.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug

Tigey posted:

I mean some of this art is literally Sea Patrol levels of bad

Sea Patrol was a work of art you philistine!

Aleth fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Feb 21, 2017

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
Trendy was so good at her job all that's left on the STO forums are the inane, droning pubbies, not the batshit pubbies of yesteryear.

It's a bittersweet feeling.

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1228593/tribble-maintenance-and-release-notes-february-21-2017

All Eng/Sci kit mods get a recharge speed buff
All Engy constructs now have more HP & shields, Mortars got a RoF buff, Turrets & Drones got a damage buff.
A number of Sci powers got their duration cut but damage was buffed
Pistols of apparently all kinds got a damage buff
Ground mines arm a little bit faster

:crossarms: :hawaaaafap:

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Yay science stuff. It's a start anyway.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Well, that's a bit better anyway. Luckily Eng and Sci will still suck in space though! :toot:

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

MREBoy posted:

Pistols of apparently all kinds got a damage buff

If this is true then the Kelvin pistols are likely beastly as hell right now.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug
The Elachi disruptor pistol was always nasty, too.

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !

Psycho Landlord posted:

If this is true then the Kelvin pistols are likely beastly as hell right now.

The exact wording in the patch notes is literally "Pistols do more damage". It could be Cryptic-ese that means they actually got a 95% damage nerf, Snowballs can be used on NPCs & hit like a quad-damage AoE Boolean cannon, and you can swap your player model to a ship model while on a ground map at will now :shrug: . I don't have Tribble installed anymore so I can't check.

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !
Rewards for the Arena of Woodpecker are up - http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10410173-the-arena-of-sompek-rewards%21

tl,dr you need to go at least 99 rounds to get max rewards on everything - 130 marks, 4560 dil and 7 R&D boxes

Just did a round with randoms, we got to 25 before we all got nuked. This thing throws every enemy group and boss grade NPC at you at some point. We had Borg (yes you have to remodulate), dinomechs, the Spawnmother, Assimilated Undine and others. Red Alert is permanent, so no swapping modules mid match.

And as an added bonus or possibly gently caress you, if you get to round 4 a couple of times you get voucher things to trade in for a kit module that calls in lightning strikes. Said module is apparently an account unlock too.

MREBoy fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 23, 2017

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

So those pistol buffs

Jesus Christ, those pistol buffs

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug

MREBoy posted:

We had Borg (yes you have to remodulate)

How do you remodulate your shotgun?

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
FYI it's an account unlock so you only have to do it on one char. Also there's looooong pauses with nothing happening between waves so we* probably want to run a group that suicides on wave 5 because the queue is loving torture as it is now.

*We being the five of us left who still play this loving game.

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.
https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/834939097273663488

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012



hahahahahaha

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
That's the Cryptic I remember.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

The familiar is comforting.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


:thumbsup:

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
It probably took too long to get up to round 70 or whatever so they didnt bother testing it.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Ok I actually like this arena thing. It's not terrible anyway, which for STO means good.

Also kelvin phaser pistol & cochrane shotgun are a good combo.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




LfG 4 Arena round 5 run

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Feb 24, 2017

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Apparently engie fortifications gently caress up the round timers, forcing you to wait long periods between each wave of combatants.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


I'm guessing they don't want you spawn-camping the enemies with mines and turrets, so it waits for all that stuff to despawn before starting the next wave. Useful if you need time for everyone's paradox correctors and other powers to reset.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

FuturePastNow posted:

I'm guessing they don't want you spawn-camping the enemies with mines and turrets, so it waits for all that stuff to despawn before starting the next wave. Useful if you need time for everyone's paradox correctors and other powers to reset.

It doesn't wait for them to despawn, though, just slows down massively

I suspect it's checking to see if 'red alert' status is off on all entities, since that's been a problem for structures in the past.

It's fun to keep dragging things out long beyond round 5, while teammates ask to be left to die, only to be forcibly resurrected over and over again.

Mondian
Apr 24, 2007

Tunicate posted:

I suspect it's checking to see if 'red alert' status is off on all entities, since that's been a problem for structures in the past.

Yeah what's up with red alert lasting for loving ever during that arena. Like once every thirty rounds or so it'll randomly drop for a few seconds, but mostly it just locks you into combat while nothing happens for 30 seconds at a time. What's happening there?

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Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

Apparently the idea was that you go in with your build and that's it, you can never change. Despite Borg being in the spawn rotation.

What I'm getting at is that this event sounds real loving stupid.

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