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Pilot's a given, but beyond that... miracle worker escort, maybe?
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Mar 26, 2019 22:25
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Wizard of the Deep posted:
loving finally.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:31
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They've never given away a ship with the full spec powers so I'll be shocked if it gets pilot maneuvers. But probably a Pilot Commander (without the maneuvers) like the Bajoran escort.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:39
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As long as it keeps the absurd impulse modifier it'll be fine.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:41
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Asimo posted:As long as it keeps the absurd impulse modifier it'll be fine. Yup. The manoeuvres are great and I love flying ships with them enabled but at the speeds that ship is capable of they’re almost counter-intuitive. Back in the day the idea was to stick beams on it even though beamscorting was was bad, because it’s speed made it really difficult to keep cannons on target.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:01
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If you set it up right, going into full impulse would slow you down.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:11
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I'm kinda sad it won't have flippy powers, but just existing is  I'd blow a shitload on a lockbox flippy version though if you can hear me, Cryptic.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:11
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I've been snagging a ton of ship speed endeavor perks and it's making stuff like the D4x fly around at 90 impulse on full throttle while full impulse is scraping 300. It's pretty cool. I've gotten pretty lucky on the perk system all around:  
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Mar 26, 2019 23:18
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Also fun, parking at 0 impulse in the new event in a pilot escort and murdering swarms as they warp in along one of two very predictable vectors and not giving a poo poo about incoming damage because it’s a normal queue. On speed and Defense, apparently the Defense bonus from Going Fast caps out at Impulse 24. Anything above that doesn’t increase Defense, but it does increase Coolness. I like to think Cryptic built in a cap to the calculation to prevent goons from hitting Impulse 300 and receiving negative damage from getting shot.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:27
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Have they done the "Do events to get C-Store ships" before? If so, what kind of events are typically featured?
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Mar 27, 2019 00:17
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Technowolf posted:Have they done the "Do events to get C-Store ships" before? If so, what kind of events are typically featured? Only if you count ‘receive T2 or T3 ships from giveaways’ as doing events. It looks new. The actual value will depend on which ships, of course.
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Mar 27, 2019 00:28
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Coq au Nandos posted:Only if you count ‘receive T2 or T3 ships from giveaways’ as doing events. It looks new. The actual value will depend on which ships, of course.
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Mar 27, 2019 05:52
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FuturePastNow posted:They've never given away a ship with the full spec powers so I'll be shocked if it gets pilot maneuvers. But probably a Pilot Commander (without the maneuvers) like the Bajoran escort.  It's going to be a T6 upgrade to the T5 in the most minimal effort way. Expect an additional fin or something stuck to the hull, slightly boosted base stats and an extra bridge officer skill slot somewhere. Anyone out there with a newish account or who doesn't want to spend dollarbucks on internet spaceship pixels should probably get one during the Xmas event. It is unlikely to suck.
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Mar 27, 2019 09:19
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Info from todays stream: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/b6bs7h/roadmap_stream_highlights/
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Mar 28, 2019 01:36
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greasythepirate posted:Info from todays stream: Disco Connie, Disco D7, Disco Section 31 ship. That’s either a hell of a c store bundle or (more likely) the Red Angel Lockbox. Also a move away from pure Disco content seems like a good thing. The show is great but it’s clear that the game isn’t well-placed to release complimentary content for a range of reasons. Taking a more holistic look at the franchise and including nods to Discovery is a better approach.
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Mar 28, 2019 02:14
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Coq au Nandos posted:Disco Connie, Disco D7, Disco Section 31 ship. That’s either a hell of a c store bundle or (more likely) the Red Angel Lockbox. Wouldn't mind a Red Angel lockbox if you can get the timesuit as a costume unlock. Probably Lobi, but eh.
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Coq au Nandos posted:the game isn’t well-placed to release content for a range of reasons Pretty much yeah.
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greasythepirate posted:Info from todays stream: quote:Entire romulan arc being redone with updated dialogue and cut-scenes. Figures.
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The old poo poo looks good enough. I get going back and redoing some early mission with new dialogue when you get a ST actor in the sound booth, like with Nog and the Fed intro. But otherwise? gently caress it. Concentrate on developing new content not rehashing stuff that is out there.
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20% ship sale starts Fake Edit: oops, forgot to post this yesterday. It probably starts in a few hours after the patch. From March 28th at 8am PT to April 1st at 10am PT, we are having a 20% ship sale. Enjoy not just a discount on our ships, but fleet modules, dry dock slots and ship upgrade tokens as well! Have you been eyeing a new ship or ship bundle in the C-store? Now is the time to grab the ship you've always dreamt of commanding! All ships and dry dock slots in the C-Store are 20% off. This includes bundles which are comprised only of ships. This does not include bundles that have items other than ships in them. The ship upgrade token, ship upgrade token bundle, and the fleet module are all 20% off as well. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Mar 28, 2019 15:00
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Cyrano4747 posted:The old poo poo looks good enough. I get going back and redoing some early mission with new dialogue when you get a ST actor in the sound booth, like with Nog and the Fed intro. But otherwise? gently caress it. Concentrate on developing new content not rehashing stuff that is out there. I just got done doing most of that and it was already fantastic. I liked Empress Sela in it. Now I want to finish it before they change it
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Cyrano4747 posted:The old poo poo looks good enough. I get going back and redoing some early mission with new dialogue when you get a ST actor in the sound booth, like with Nog and the Fed intro. But otherwise? gently caress it. Concentrate on developing new content not rehashing stuff that is out there. Meanwhile, there's a couple of Klingon missions that have never been retouched, ever, beyond killing blatant exploits.
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We're finally getting a Tommy Gun, after all this time! I bet the stats suck.
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Hello - I came back to STO after a year or so off, can I get an invite please back to Dental? I'm @seazip I'm not on all that much but since I started again I love that the PvE queues are instantaneous. So is spraying everyone with the fire extinguisher still a thing, cause I still do that. And my USS Incisor is hungry for furries Thanks and god bless
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Cyrano4747 posted:The old poo poo looks good enough. I get going back and redoing some early mission with new dialogue when you get a ST actor in the sound booth, like with Nog and the Fed intro. But otherwise? gently caress it. Concentrate on developing new content not rehashing stuff that is out there. Reminds me of Marvel Heroes near the end, when the devs stopped making content and kept retooling systems that didn't need changing for grognard reasons.
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Post your HUDs I hate everything I make. And, I caved and dropped Real Money during the sale if anyone has a word on how to get the most out of my Paladin (first T6 for me).
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I just did a cannon build for the first time since I started playing years ago. Why the gently caress did I not do this sooner? I think I might get myself a JH Recon ship.
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timjin posted:I think I might get myself a JH Recon ship. When power levels mattered more, strike ship was the obvious superior choice for oss, but now... I'm actually still struggling to see why you'd pick recon. You don't get pilot maneuvers so what's the point. Pretty much all the pilot skills blow
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Post your HUDs I hate everything I make. And, I caved and dropped Real Money during the sale if anyone has a word on how to get the most out of my Paladin (first T6 for me). Congrats I guess - the Paladin is a nice cruiser but it’s massively overshadowed by other options in the cash shop. What the Paladin does have going for it is the Temporal gimmick, which means you can kind of fudge things for a weird off-meta energy weapon/scihole mix build. For weapons, slot dual cannons up the front and turrets in the back. The standard go-to is phasers but for exotic fuckery, you should consider Polaron - the Morphogenic Armaments and Chronometric Calculations sets are both strong and available for free from mission replays. Also have a look at Piezo-Polaron Weapons from the Lukari rep - the advanced version is really good, and the proc from the weapons is a nice way to keep your health up. For your bridge officers Lt Com Tac: Cannon Scatter Volley II, Attack Pattern Beta 1, Tactical Team 1 Lt Tac: Distributed Targeting II, Kemocite-Laced Weaponry 1 (should be cheapish on the Exchange) Com Eng/TempOps: Timeline Collapse III, Chronometric Inversion Field II, Entropic Cascade I, Causal Reversion I Lt Sci: Photonic Officer I, Science Team I Lt Eng: Emergency Power to Weapons II, Emergency Power to Engines I Because you’re doing a lot of exotic stuff, you’ll want to run at least two pieces from the Temporal space set. This is based very loosely on a really good Temporal Destroyer build from STOBuilds. Check it out and use it as a target.
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timjin posted:I just did a cannon build for the first time since I started playing years ago. Why the gently caress did I not do this sooner? I think I might get myself a JH Recon ship. Just buy the T6 Valiant (trait extends CSV to 14 seconds) and save yourself a billion EC. For most content, you’ll be running against clustered enemies way more than one big one.
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Mondian posted:When power levels mattered more, strike ship was the obvious superior choice for oss, but now... I'm actually still struggling to see why you'd pick recon. You don't get pilot maneuvers so what's the point. Pretty much all the pilot skills blow I'd be getting it just for the trait. I'm a space junkie farm whore who is rich from all of my alts.
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Your buttbuddy @blackshap9#1072 is bragging about selling the hax you gave him again. He just had another daily meltdown on Risa and ragequit. Knew you'd care. Also - lel I been Found Out! He also knows my real names Staci! Help! I must go into hiding! He knows everything! :V 
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Apr 2, 2019 04:52
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timjin posted:I'd be getting it just for the trait. I'm a space junkie farm whore who is rich from all of my alts. Yeah I did that a couple of months ago, it was fun to have >95% uptime on crf and the parses revealed some absurd dps spikes but god drat... it got tedious real fast doing any stfs. Pretty much wanted to switch to csv instantly, there just aren't enough big spongy hp sacks nowadays, its all endlessly respawning trash clouds instead
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Coq au Nandos posted:
Kemocite got majorly nerfed in the last patch because they completely reworked how it functions under the hood. Like 90% damage reduction. They're looking at "fixing" it but I wouldn't recommend picking it up until we know where the final numbers settle.
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I pretty much just come by occasionally hoping to see news about Cryptic's MTG MMO so I can pre-order the $150 founder pack (BEST VALUE) for smart people who make good decisions.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Congrats I guess - the Paladin is a nice cruiser but it’s massively overshadowed by other options in the cash shop. Awesome, thanks for the help! And yeah I figured there's better options but 2000 Zen for it plus another ship and some outfits is just fine for a start. Everyone on Reddit loves the Arbiter but aesthetically it's not my jam and I'm prioritizing aesthetics - but what would you recommend? The other ship I was eyeing is the Caitian Shikaris Escort but I figured I'd wait on that until I can just buy the cross faction bundle. Edit: How are you making lots of money farm whore? I was able to make 17M EC this weekend and I can typically make 8K unrefined daily but I still feel like I'm crawling. Perry Mason Jar fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Edit: How are you making lots of money farm whore? I was able to make 17M EC this weekend and I can typically make 8K unrefined daily but I still feel like I'm crawling. My account is maxed with alts and half of them are KDF for Marauding. I do Admiralty on all of them for dilithium, prisoner, and colonist missions and sell the KDF prisoners, colonists, and Fed Colonists. Each Colonist from KDF usually sells from 20k+ and prisoners are 15k-20k each. If I manage to sell all of them in one day, that's easily 5 million EC or more on a maxed toon account. I sell the Contraband stacks after 2 weeks which is about 100m+ It takes about an hour and a half to cycle through all of my alts for farming and by the end of one month, I am able to make at least 10-15k zen depending on the market. Sometimes I'll get really good EC Admiralty missions as well that I will do and can make 200k+ per toon just from that. I use the Zen to buy keys or promo packs when they're on sale and open them or sell them depending if I am feeling lucky. It took me several months to save the Zen to buy the slots for characters but in the end it was worth it not having to spend any money in the game. It's kind of insane of how much work goes into it for one month to save up enough Zen to buy one of those $120 ship bundles if I wanted to. The more the dilithium exchange goes up, the less enticing farming is for me and if it hits 400 I will probably quit the game for awhile.
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timjin posted:My account is maxed with alts and half of them are KDF for Marauding. I do Admiralty on all of them for dilithium, prisoner, and colonist missions and sell the KDF prisoners, colonists, and Fed Colonists. Each Colonist from KDF usually sells from 20k+ and prisoners are 15k-20k each. If I manage to sell all of them in one day, that's easily 5 million EC or more on a maxed toon account. I sell the Contraband stacks after 2 weeks which is about 100m+ It takes about an hour and a half to cycle through all of my alts for farming and by the end of one month, I am able to make at least 10-15k zen depending on the market. Sometimes I'll get really good EC Admiralty missions as well that I will do and can make 200k+ per toon just from that. I use the Zen to buy keys or promo packs when they're on sale and open them or sell them depending if I am feeling lucky. Jesus. I don’t have that kind of patience, though I could see maybe doing it as an idle game thing if I had a windows tablet. Perry Mason Jar posted:Awesome, thanks for the help! And yeah I figured there's better options but 2000 Zen for it plus another ship and some outfits is just fine for a start. Everyone on Reddit loves the Arbiter but aesthetically it's not my jam and I'm prioritizing aesthetics - but what would you recommend? The other ship I was eyeing is the Caitian Shikaris Escort but I figured I'd wait on that until I can just buy the cross faction bundle. Oh I’m glad you did the 2000 Zen deal. I was worried you might have bought it as a single item for 3000. The thing to remember about essential ship purchases is they’re usually not about the ship at all - you buy them for the trait. - The Arbiter gives you Emergency Weapon Cycle, which is stupidly powerful and can have almost permanent uptime. - The Valiant gives you a trait I’ve forgotten the name of that gives you 95% uptime on Cannon: Scatter Volley. It’s a really useful boost. - The Cardassian Intel Science ship gives you Call Before the Storm, which is another very powerful boost to weapon haste and cooldown reduction. - The new Gagarin gives you Entwined Tactical Matrices, which give you bonus energy spread or torpedo spread skills for activating torpedo spread or energy spread skills, respectively. You can game this to do really dumb poo poo, like have 100% uptime on Beam: Fire at Will or spam torpedo spread without running the actual skill. - The newer pilot escort bundle is worth a look - Promise of Ferocity is apparently a really strong boost to weapon damage, and Improved Gravity Well is mandatory for running a sciboat. For aesthetics, nobody’s going to fault whatever ship you fly, but the above are all really good purchases because they unlock game-breakingly good traits for every fed-aligned character on your account.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Jesus. I don’t have that kind of patience, though I could see maybe doing it as an idle game thing if I had a windows tablet. lol. Coffee, muscle memory, and some Spotify or Netflix helps. I almost forget that I farming when I have something else going on to distract me from the monotony.
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