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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Looks like they just implemented version 1 with none of the subsequent changes.

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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.
With the respec, seriously consider speccing into the Tactical Ultimate if you were previously heavily invested in the Science Ult. Science got hit hard.

Codex Occultus
Apr 12, 2009

A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

DancingShade posted:

"Someone and their friend..."

aka

"A screaming autistic child we'll lock in the care facility on 6 deck while their mother downs 30 cocktails with Jonathan Frakes"

That would be the most awkward cruise. You just know that the STO person is being tossed in as an unwanted free rider promo thing to tie in with some other promotion (probably whatever the next ST movie is) and a nice smiling PR man will ensure the "lucky winner" would have minimal interaction with the actors to avoid bothering them.

poo poo I couldn't even make conversation with most of them. "So you were in that next generation thing huh? Got to be honest I really didn't like that show when it aired. I guess a couple bits were ok but I don't remember you in them, sorry."

"So what was it like going to work in an adult romper suit most of the time?"

Oh god an image of a pubbie trying to explain their character bio of Troi/Rikers grandaughter who is also a secret star child and immortal who looks like a 12 year old girl to Frakes just flashed into my head.

Meanwhile I'd just ask him lots of questions about the Leverage episodes he directed like a REAL fan who is totally not a creepy weirdo like the rest of these losers.

MeatloafCat
Apr 10, 2007
I can't think of anything to put here.

DancingShade posted:

Looks like they just implemented version 1 with none of the subsequent changes.

Now that I look at it again, the space stuff is a post from back in March. I guess that's why they had the subject to changes stuff on it.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Coq au Nandos posted:

With the respec, seriously consider speccing into the Tactical Ultimate if you were previously heavily invested in the Science Ult. Science got hit hard.

Surely most people were already all the way in Tactical? It Just Worked.

Anyway I took screenshots so I can remember what points go where when the respecs happen. Having skill tree wipes is normal for STO.

Hang on are there fleet / dil store / random drop escort heavy weapons? Or is it exclusive to certain cash shop transactions?

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 25, 2017

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Eh, I branched out a bit since it's nice to have a little durability and some vague competence with science skills when I wanted to gently caress around in a paradox or something. Clicky abilities over passive stuff never seemed like a good trade.

But dropping most of your points in tac is still the smart idea yeah. It's stuff you're always using.

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.

Asimo posted:

Eh, I branched out a bit since it's nice to have a little durability and some vague competence with science skills when I wanted to gently caress around in a paradox or something. Clicky abilities over passive stuff never seemed like a good trade.

But dropping most of your points in tac is still the smart idea yeah. It's stuff you're always using.

This is also good advice.

They're just giving away respec tokens anyway, so you can afford to wait and see where the DPS wizards land in a week or so before pulling the trigger.

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
Hell I'm probably gonna invest in torps as well as energy now since I'm generally running both.

I'm sure I've got a few points I can spare come tomorrow.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

DancingShade posted:

Hang on are there fleet / dil store / random drop escort heavy weapons? Or is it exclusive to certain cash shop transactions?

Right now now there is just the railgun from the catscort ships. They said that they'll add more once they add the heavy weapon slot to the older ships. Same deal as when the solonae secondary deflector was exclusive for a while.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Lagomorphic posted:

Right now now there is just the railgun from the catscort ships. They said that they'll add more once they add the heavy weapon slot to the older ships. Same deal as when the solonae secondary deflector was exclusive for a while.

Ah. Makes sense I guess.

Probably won't add them to regular content until they go through another 2-3 lockbox ships with cool/sick/awesome/amazing/verb heavy weapons which are the only redeeming aspect of otherwise garbage raiders. Since nobody wants to fly raiders.

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:

Ah. Makes sense I guess.

Probably won't add them to regular content until they go through another 2-3 lockbox ships with cool/sick/awesome/amazing/verb heavy weapons which are the only redeeming aspect of otherwise garbage raiders. Since nobody wants to fly raiders.

There's apparently one for free in the dil store, and the new lockbox escort does in fact come with one.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug

quote:

Known Issues:

PVP has been temporarily disabled.

A good PvP revamp.

Rahhmi
Aug 18, 2015

GO WEEDJI!

[05/28/2016 12:40:42 AM] Pulse: don't stir up my
personal drama, please
I keep asking people to give me Mod privz. I promise to abuse said power, violate rules, ban people for no reason, and generally create chaos.

Facebook Groups, STO Chat Channels, Discords.. other places.... and now...



You know the various DPS Channels in sto? like 10k 50k etc? yeah. I'm a mod now.

Worst part is they've never seen my dps, my builds, or anything beyond me saying mocking comments like "what the gently caress is power to weapons?" and "I finally hit 2k!"

...worse yet, when I actually do go through and abuse this, they encourage me. I don't get it.....

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
The correct skill build is no points in anything at all. Doubly so if you've managed to wind up on one of the DPS lists and can join their groups.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
You should be able to autofire and meet their requirements.

Zoerp
Sep 29, 2012


Lord of the Seas
Season of PvP

[System] [PvPGeneral] Queue parameters are invalid for "Challenge Match".

Habits
Feb 25, 2008


Assume an accursed shape
cleanse through purity within

Zoerp posted:

Season of PvP

[System] [PvPGeneral] Queue parameters are invalid for "Challenge Match".





Cryptic setting the bar again. :golfclap:

Habits fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 25, 2017

GioSPL
Apr 5, 2017

Ask me about spending 10BUX to play with GOONS on a dead game!


amazing.

Tuskin38
May 1, 2013

Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.
Someone messed up, the next summer event ship is in the Rep Reclaim store. No info other then name though.

GioSPL
Apr 5, 2017

Ask me about spending 10BUX to play with GOONS on a dead game!

Tuskin38 posted:

Someone messed up, the next summer event ship is in the Rep Reclaim store. No info other then name though.



some console, probably its, is also available for purchase in the Dil store for free.

Cryptic...

GioSPL fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Apr 25, 2017

Tuskin38
May 1, 2013

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

GioSPL posted:

some console, probably its, is also available for purchase in the Dil store for free.

Cryptic...

If you mean the Ion Stream Projector, that is the free heavy weapon everyone gets for their qualifying ships. It isn't a mistake.

Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Apr 25, 2017

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Tuskin38 posted:

Someone messed up, the next summer event ship is in the Rep Reclaim store. No info other then name though.



Goddamnit Jeremy.

GioSPL
Apr 5, 2017

Ask me about spending 10BUX to play with GOONS on a dead game!

Tuskin38 posted:

If you mean the Ion Stream Projector, that is the free heavy weapon everyone gets for their qualifying ships. It isn't a mistake.

nevermind then. thanks for clarification

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan
I know people ragging on raiders, but I like the temporal raider. Flying around in a batman logo, making sick turns and shooting dual heavy cannons at things is fun.
Like wet tissue paper, but fun.

Tuskin38
May 1, 2013

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

GioSPL posted:

nevermind then. thanks for clarification

It looks pretty cool



I'm flying a tiny escort so it might look better on bigger escorts.

GioSPL
Apr 5, 2017

Ask me about spending 10BUX to play with GOONS on a dead game!
wow, it really does look cool. I wonder how it would look on something really small like a Defiant or that new Miradorn raider that i need to buy anyway because perfect PvP ship...

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Aleph Null posted:

I know people ragging on raiders, but I like the temporal raider. Flying around in a batman logo, making sick turns and shooting dual heavy cannons at things is fun.
Like wet tissue paper, but fun.

Like all raiders, it begs for pilot thrusters.

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !
Did they take down the servers and not bother telling anyone ? Trying to log in right now and I'm not getting past a "Connecting to the login server..." message, and then it times out.

Cyntalan
Jun 28, 2011

MREBoy posted:

Did they take down the servers and not bother telling anyone ? Trying to log in right now and I'm not getting past a "Connecting to the login server..." message, and then it times out.

It died in the middle of me playing with no warning. My guess is they Cryptic'd.

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.

MREBoy posted:

Did they take down the servers and not bother telling anyone ? Trying to log in right now and I'm not getting past a "Connecting to the login server..." message, and then it times out.

https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/856994049802223616

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

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

Yeah instead of login server timeouts it just now goes to Server not available at this time & dumps me back to the login screen :hurr: .

Also lol @ blaming it on protomatter. Yes lets jokingly blame it on a substance that is known to blow up entire planets when used incorrectly. Seems very fitting actually.

So question - Are the changes to FAW and BO enough to justify actually using BO now ?

e2a:

:siren: PSA: If you happen to obtain any Privateer Disruptor Weapons Packs be aware they are currently bugged to make whatever comes out Bound to Character instead of Bound to Account. per Borticus on reddit, this is a bug and will not be retroactively fixed.

MREBoy fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 26, 2017

GioSPL
Apr 5, 2017

Ask me about spending 10BUX to play with GOONS on a dead game!

MikeJF posted:

Like all raiders, it begs for pilot thrusters.

the new lock box raider has pilot maneuvers, hopefully it will apply to future raiders too

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan
still down
now I have to find some other way to give my life meaning and purpose

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


MREBoy posted:


:siren: PSA: If you happen to obtain any Privateer Disruptor Weapons Packs be aware they are currently bugged to make whatever comes out Bound to Character instead of Bound to Account. per Borticus on reddit, this is a bug and will not be retroactively fixed.

Just the ground weapons it looks like, and it also makes them all come out as [Dmg]x3 lol

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Aleph Null posted:

still down
now I have to find some other way to give my life meaning and purpose
could always play a good game instead?

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

Asimo posted:

could always play a good game instead?

How many games can I play where I can also study because waiting for PvE queues can take 15 minutes sometimes and the at the last second, one person doesn't click "engage" so it starts over again?

Edit: I'm also a lifetime subscriber. I want to get my $200 worth (bought on sale).

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !
Hey guys good job convincing the devs to make Sensor Analysis a Universal Kit Module for us :



Extra buff/debuff and an easy to see "Spike this guy now!!" sign for ground PvP

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
These competitive queues are so dead. Nice brand new feature :laffo:

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

If you're talking about the new ones, I think it's less that they're dead and more that the actual process of queuing and accepting match starts is kinda loving weird right now and pubbies are dumb. We got a number of decent runs as the day went on.

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I finally got into the ground one (normal because advanced was d.e.a.d. even after 20 minutes). Yeah I can see why people aren't rushing to repeat it.

Easy marks but at what point do you just look at a rep tree and go "nah". I think this might be such a case for the general pop.

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