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Moon Slayer posted:Speaking of sets, what are some good ones that don't involve too much grinding and definitely don't involve spending any money? My Faeht keeps exploding when I go back and play old missions. I've seen the quantum phase set (from replaying the mission Sunrise) recommended a lot.
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Moon Slayer posted:Speaking of sets, what are some good ones that don't involve too much grinding and definitely don't involve spending any money? My Faeht keeps exploding when I go back and play old missions. Quantum Phase weapons are pretty good. For Deflector, Engine, Core and Shield you could look at Quantum Phase, Solenae, Breen or Jem’Hadar sets. I could also hook you up with an Aegis set.
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SET CHAT! There's a couple sets that synergize well with one another but they heavily favor phasers or disruptors. Phasers! Torpedo + Console: torpedo spread with the 2-piece will absolutely wreck shields. Quantum Phase Catalysts from "Sunrise" + Weapon + Console: shoot faster, fly faster and get some nice EPS from the console. You can slot the omni AND a regular omni Trilithium-Laced Weapony from "Beyond The Nexus" Disruptors! Full set! The torpedo does disruptor damage and a shitload of it. The hull pen and boost is nice and you get EPS from the console. Entoiled Technology Set from "Echoes of Light" + Omni + Console The console has some nice defensive bonuses and the two piece is a big chunk of crit chance. You can slot the omni AND a regular omni. House Martok Skirmisher Configuration from "Brushfire" As for your main ship components: Sto Builds posted:The Iconian set still works, but there are better options.
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Tigey posted:I wonder if there is a special reason this time. Are they missing their internal monthly sales targets? The special reason is stunning desperation. They only run sales when they're missing targets and there were a lot of sales the past month
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Mondian posted:The special reason is stunning desperation. They only run sales when they're missing targets and there were a lot of sales the past month Also potentially an attempt to deplete zen stockpiles ahead of the release of the regular ship pack to compliment the anniversary dildo.
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It's this:DancingShade posted:Punters want Enterprises, Defiants and stuff because they liked the old shows. STD is basically a bomb so the purchase demand of STD in-game products is simply going to be that much lower. Look at how amazingly popular the DS9 expansion was with the players and how much of a wet fart the Disco stuff was. Completely independently of the actual quality of the content, people were just happy to have more stories involving the DS9 locations, DS9 crew, and DS9 voice actors. They also managed to fold it into the tzenkethi poo poo in a way that actually worked, which retroactively made the whole Lukari arc more interesting. Oh, and in doing so they slotted the whole thing into a neat little rare niche of ST lore that wasn't explored to death by a TV show or a movie or a bunch of awful books. It massively filled out the Klingon lore using a few small hooks from basically one episode of DS9 where worf finds a sword. Looked at from a stand point of doing good fan service while also not freaking out the suits at CBS it threaded a needle really cleverly. Oh, and it all involves all the fans' favorite series and favorite setting. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was just good old fashioned fun fan service. That's what the community wants at this point and that's not a bad thing. It was refined nostalgia snorted off convention cosplay titties. Then, right on the heels of what was probably the best direction they'd taken this thing in since basically forever . . . they have to go balls deep on a property that's controversial at best with the kind of trek fans who are into it enough to play an MMO. Worse, it's a story that a lot of people are simply indifferent to since they just aren't watching it due to CBS on deman. Even ignoring that aspect it's a story that's still being told with characters that we're still getting to know. No one does an embarrassingly dorky "OOOH" when they see the back of Tilly's head and then hear her voice. Major Kira? Odo? Even loving Nog? Yeah, you're going to get that. Not even because the characters and the stories they were in are that much better than disco (they are) but because they're a beloved thing. I'm sure some CBS exec though this was going to drive engagement with Disco and get people to watch it, but really it's just driving what few people still bother logging into STO away. So, yeah, that's why they're having trouble moving a bunch of un-iconic new ships from a show that only some people watch and a lot of people, rightly or wrongly, actively despise. Look at how well the Jem Hadar and Cardassian poo poo sold when the DS9 stuff landed. If they were running season 3 of a DS9 arc and offering up some lockbox T6 defiant they probably wouldn't be having these issues.
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the disco ship was really popular in sto their problem is that they keep loving up the game itself, letting these talentless hack unemployable poo poo people they hire monkey with stuff hakimashou fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:offering up some lockbox T6 defiant God, I'd spend whale money for a defiant with flips...
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Is this why dil is (as of this post) in the 350 per Zen range right now ?
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm sure some CBS exec though this was going to drive engagement with Disco and get people to watch it, but really it's just driving what few people still bother logging into STO away. It might work as intended after a few seasons if/when STD finds its feet (and an audience), but forcing Cryptic to pivot so abruptly, and in time for STD S2, left the expansion rather barebones. Doesn't help that anyone halfway competent was already moved over to the mtg mmo long ago.
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Moon Slayer posted:Speaking of sets, what are some good ones that don't involve too much grinding and definitely don't involve spending any money? My Faeht keeps exploding when I go back and play old missions. there are some mission sets you could grind like the Quantum Phase set or the Bajor set but most of the better ones all come from reputations which means grinding their respective marks also the Faeht has one of the lowest hull hitpoints of any T6 ship so thats also a reason
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Mondian posted:It might work as intended after a few seasons if/when STD finds its feet (and an audience), but forcing Cryptic to pivot so abruptly, and in time for STD S2, left the expansion rather barebones. Doesn't help that anyone halfway competent was already moved over to the mtg mmo long ago. *shakes magic 8-ball* It says there won't be a season 3 of STD.
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Can I get an invite to the chat channel? Casyeen@inflatableglobe I quite like Discovery but I promise not to talk about it
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Heads up, if you order the upcoming Eaglemoss Enterprise-F, you can get a code for the Tactical Odyssey.
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The lobi sale was such a success that there is another one immediately after it, albeit 20% instead of 50%. Monthly revenue must be panic inducing.
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Never opened a lockbox in my life, and I don't plan to start. I will, however, wait till the price of dilzen becomes sane again. 3teens, I can handle, but not 350 or so.
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[quote="Cythereal" post="492205902"] Never opened a lockbox in my life, and I don't plan to start. /quote] I never planned on it either, but then in a fit of poor judgment, I wasted thirty bucks on keys when I came back to this a couple of months ago. My very last key popped a T6 ship.
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Hexenritter posted:I never planned on it either, but then in a fit of poor judgment, I wasted thirty bucks on keys when I came back to this a couple of months ago. My very last key popped a T6 ship. Congratulations. Though I'm at the point where I'd shrug at getting a T6 ship. I already have a ship on my main that I'm super happy with and nothing has impressed me enough to change. And my alt legion are just for admiralty now because I've felt no reason to play through Age of Discovery nonsense with them. I'd be interested if you could pay dil or zen to make a lockbox ship you have account-bound, though, and available to all your alts.
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Cythereal posted:Congratulations. Though I'm at the point where I'd shrug at getting a T6 ship. I already have a ship on my main that I'm super happy with and nothing has impressed me enough to change. And my alt legion are just for admiralty now because I've felt no reason to play through Age of Discovery nonsense with them. you can it just costs a lot
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I got a key from Alienware Arena for 2 R&D packs and some skin. Enjoy ydeixaL8
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Lister posted:I got a key from Alienware Arena for 2 R&D packs and some skin. Enjoy Someone's already claimed that key, but you can get your own (for now) from Alienware Arena. Free account needed.
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Kovalian posted:Someone's already claimed that key, but you can get your own (for now) from Alienware Arena. Free account needed. More detail: Free Tier 1 TOS Constitution + R&D packs, about 500ish keys left as of this post (got mine). Appears under the Promotion tab in ZStore
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So now that I'm in my 50's on my new character, what marks should I be farming for maximum efficiency?
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Zotix posted:So now that I'm in my 50's on my new character, what marks should I be farming for maximum efficiency? All of them. There's a daily bonus of +50 marks the first time you earn marks on a given day so you want to spread your earning around if you still need to do all 12 reps. Also don't bother with the hourly xp projects just do the daily. The hourly is a waste of marks for a pittance of actual progress. There's a big dil/marks payout at tier 5 for each rep so you want to do all of them.
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Okay thanks. Also I'm going to get my bridge crew in order tonight since I've neglected them for so long. When it comes to bridge crew should I only be investing into very rare officers? Or is it okay to invest in lower rarity if they have traits that are sought after? Also which traits should I be on the look out for and do traits stack if I have multiple officers with the same traits?
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I actually picked this up again thanks to Moon Slayer's LP and FFXIV being in a bit of a lull in the expac buildup. I ran through the ToS and Disco openings because why not...is there anything more to them once you get to the point of the same Fed missions as everything else, or was that it? Also debating making a new KDF alt because I have no idea what was going on with the one I have.
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Hahaha I thought the tardigrade pet would be a cute little baby one.
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Zotix posted:Okay thanks. Also I'm going to get my bridge crew in order tonight since I've neglected them for so long. When it comes to bridge crew should I only be investing into very rare officers? Or is it okay to invest in lower rarity if they have traits that are sought after? Also which traits should I be on the look out for and do traits stack if I have multiple officers with the same traits? Ideally you'll want the ones with space traits, which are few and far between. This guy is good and easy to get. If you're Klingon you can stock up on Naussican officers to get the same trait fairly easily. Same thing with a Romulan captain, as you can get officers with "Superior Romulan Operative" which is pretty good. If you're playing a Fed character your options for good space bridge officers are sadly more limited. You can join a fleet and get a Krenim and a Kentari, both of which are pretty good. Joining a fleet is also the only way to get an SRO officer on a Fed character. You can also get several DS9 characters off of the exchange (Weyoun is really the only good one though). None of this is really necessary, however, as you can do whatever you want in this game and be successful without making your numbers go up a little bit. Lacermonia fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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For. While the community manager would give out a free box of TOS hologram boffs, which had great space traits.
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So what did you people waste your free t6 rep fleet ship modules on? Is there anything worth getting for free that I won't regret not having the trait and consoles for?
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Pioneer42 posted:So what did you people waste your free t6 rep fleet ship modules on? Is there anything worth getting for free that I won't regret not having the trait and consoles for? I used some of them to fill out my Admiralty science roster. I'll probably use what's left to fill in my tac/escort holes, when I get finally stop being lazy. T6F ships are really lackluster against even mid-tier lockbox/lobi/C-store ships. Once you start comparing them to the 31st Century or Cardassian set, they're an outright downgrade.
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A shot in the dark, but I tried recording the next Klingon episode (the mission's actual name is Manhunt) for the LP while I have time tonight and been encountering a weird ?glitch?. It's a one-boff mission, and for some reason the game overwrites the shoulders, gauntlets, and boots of whatever boff I bring with me in favor of big, fancy crap I don't want them wearing. It's happening with any boff I bring. Anyone heard of a glitch like this and how to fix it?
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Cythereal posted:A shot in the dark, but I tried recording the next Klingon episode (the mission's actual name is Manhunt) for the LP while I have time tonight and been encountering a weird ?glitch?. It's a one-boff mission, and for some reason the game overwrites the shoulders, gauntlets, and boots of whatever boff I bring with me in favor of big, fancy crap I don't want them wearing. It's happening with any boff I bring. That episode overrides your costume on Rura Penthe to give you a fur-lined coat (it's actually the KHG jacket and furry shoulders). But it's also a really old mission so I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't exactly working right anymore. But it is normal.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I used some of them to fill out my Admiralty science roster. I'll probably use what's left to fill in my tac/escort holes, when I get finally stop being lazy. Ok, by C-store, you mean the C-store only ships (e.g. Odysseys/Vestas, etc)? Well, I'll save a few for the Lukari ship and throw the rest at something else. Maybe the New Orleans or Reliant.
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That was how it happened in the timeline before Yesterday's Enterprise.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Meanwhile Yep that sounds more like Rick.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Meanwhile I think that singed my eyebrows off all the way from over here.
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Pioneer42 posted:So what did you people waste your free t6 rep fleet ship modules on? Is there anything worth getting for free that I won't regret not having the trait and consoles for? if your fleet has a T5 colony buy the Lukari science ship with it, otherwise most people use it to fill out their admiralty roster also if you happen to already have a c-store ship its fleet version will only cost you one fleet module instead of 5
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