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Mondian posted:The problem is the list of trash loot in the Infinity box is almost infinitely long, on the other hand if you actually manage to win the ship you'd definitely rather have the infinity choice pack. Yeah, after looking into it for a while, I realized how overpriced lobi is. I have about 180 mil left over from starting to sell a ton of farmed omega particles right before I quit (and now I'm left with 1,000s of account bound particles lol). After looking at recommended consoles and traits I realized I could by many for 9-17 million, where lobi is apparently about 5 per box. So to buy one 200 lobi item I would have to spend 280 million on keys (at 7 million a piece).
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Nipponophile posted:The only reps I have any time into are New Romulus and Task Force Omega, at 5 and 4 respectively. What other reputations are worth a poo poo, and is there a handy guide to optimizing your daily mark gains? Sent. And honestly a ship full of weirdo sexual predator businessmen being named after Trump is pretty fitting.
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Huh, I think a Phoenix upgrade of mine took a crafted disruptor DHC ftom Mk II Ultra Rare Mk IX, then today I applied a different upgrade with a 10% chance or so... and now it's a not-yet-bound Epic Mk X.
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Jul 28, 2020 13:02
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It's official, Risa event starts next week.
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Jul 28, 2020 23:01
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Additionally, it runs for almost a month simultaneously for PC and console (PS4/XB1) and participating in any Risa activities will grant progress towards the Risian Weather Control Vessel [T6] unlock, and besides cosmetic stuff and a pet/a tribble there's also two new Risian Universal Kit Modules and a Universal Kit Frame which boosts weapon damage based on how many Risian kit modules you have equipped, along with "a chance to cause the effects of any Risian Kit Module whenever you activate any other Risian Kit Module – even kit modules you can’t or don’t have equipped!" As for the Risian Weather Control Vessel [T6]… courtesy of r/sto's Discord I understand that it's a science vessel in both ship gear and seat layouts:   The Exotic Particle Generators set is now a 3-piece thanks to the event ship's new Eddy Generator console (anecdotally I'm told that the new set bonus is that "Party Mode (Risa 3-piece) gives recharge speed to Pilot abilities and Rock & Roll, and makes Rock & Roll launch fireworks"):  And its new Starship Trait: 
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Jul 29, 2020 00:29
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Excellent. I run the pilot vette as a party ship with every speed boost and damage from speed item or ability I can stack, it's not minmaxing but it's super fun, I just do pirouettes face-slamming the enemy over and over making GBS threads out hazards while I shoot.
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Jul 29, 2020 00:41
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ah, good, finally, some sort of Eddie Genner
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Mr. Maggy posted:ah, good, finally, some sort of Eddie Genner If I was Eddie Genner Would you like me any better?
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Jul 29, 2020 00:53
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With FYAD now rightfully reopened we need to remember that the Chupaculo IX Accord is still in effect and that as part of the Settlement our thread has undertaken not to send random people from STO to FYAD to apply for our space clan anymore.
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Dick Trauma posted:There are too many game mechanics! The secret to enjoying the game is to not learn any of them and just fly around space pew-pewing things and then respawning when you die. Periodically I click "Collect Reward" and then numbers pop up and I can do more things that bring up the "Collect Reward" button again. Basically I just metaroleplay an IRL Pakled.
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In case anyone here is a really massive nerd, the current Humble Bundle is a bunch of Star Trek Adventures rulebooks and "Star Trek Online: Original DS9 Uniform and Elite Services Starter Pack" at the 8USD tier. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/star-trek-adventures-rpg-modiphius-books
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If anybody plays elfgames and hasn't played Star Trek Adventures it's fun. I'm running a game of it right now and having a blast.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Sent. Thanks for that. It looks like a pretty big upgrade from what I'd been driving around, though it's going to take me a bit to build up a new set of gear and retrain my boffs since I'm going from cannons and turrets to beamboat. I ran a TFO and managed to not die constantly, so I got that going for me. How can I get an invite back to the fleet? I'm still in a channel from ages ago, TheNextGooneration I think. Is there a better way to contact folks? I'm logging out for now, but I'll probably be back on in 2-3 hours.
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FWIW cannons might be ~*~the meta~*~ but beam boats are still viable and suuuuuper lazy to play. My main ship just drives around and spams fire at will at the universe and is great for sweeping up daily BS.
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Nipponophile posted:Thanks for that. It looks like a pretty big upgrade from what I'd been driving around, though it's going to take me a bit to build up a new set of gear and retrain my boffs since I'm going from cannons and turrets to beamboat. I ran a TFO and managed to not die constantly, so I got that going for me. Yeah just ask in TheNextGooneration next time you're on. If noone is around shoot a mail to @lagomorphic and I'll invite you when I log in to feed the cats in the morning.
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I'm a dumb rear end and never asked for a invite to that channel. Dietrich@indystruck#9405 is the ingame name.
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Someone in #TheNextGooneration just told me that Dental is dead and there isn't a goon fleet anymore. What's up with that?
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Nipponophile posted:Someone in #TheNextGooneration just told me that Dental is dead and there isn't a goon fleet anymore. What's up with that? In all seriousness, Starfleet Dental and Nerds of Prey still exist as fleets, and there are a few people who still log on daily. There's not much chatting in the channel, but it's kind of a dead time right now. There hasn't been a new content drop in weeks, and other than the Borg red alert, there's not much to do until the summer event starts next week.
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g0del posted:Nah, it's only mostly dead. What's this Borg red alert and how is it different from the one from 2010?
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HiroProtagonist posted:What's this Borg red alert and how is it different from the one from 2010? They changed it so you get a choice of marks instead of just borg marks and they made it an event so you can only run it on select weekends. It is otherwise completely unchanged.
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Lagomorphic posted:They changed it so you get a choice of marks instead of just borg marks and they made it an event so you can only run it on select weekends. It is otherwise completely unchanged. Ah quite fidelitious
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Full stats for the summer ship. It looks okay, science vessel with a ltcom uni/pilot seat, but the main attraction, I think, is the mastery trait for science builds.
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Jul 30, 2020 22:59
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I like the looks of the Risa science boat and the trait looks cool. Shame about the seating.
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The real star is the 17 turn rate and impulse modifier. Staggeringly mediocre otherwise, but not like the other Risian ships were anything exciting beyond the mobility.
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Asimo posted:The real star is the 17 turn rate and impulse modifier. Staggeringly mediocre otherwise, but not like the other Risian ships were anything exciting beyond the mobility. It's the Party Daemosh. In the spirit of being helpful, you REALLY want a commander + lt. commander science seat AND a lt. commander tactical. You want to be able to slot Grav Well III, Subspace Vortex III, and Delayed Overload Cascade III and have Spread III and II on your tac for your gravimetric torpedo and particle torp. You don't have to have all that but if you wanna do science extra hard, that's the jam. Some folks really like Very Cold In Space but I think it's mediocre and unnecessary with a super mean Gravity Well. Delayed Overload Cascade III will delete spawns of raiders, escorts, and pretty much anything else with less than cruiser hull capacity with a single cast in stuff like the redone patrol missions. bij fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Is there anything good from the phoenix store between rare and very rare? I got a few very rare tokens and traded them down, but some of those consoles in the very rare section look... interesting? The Interphasic Instability one I guess mostly. I don't think I screwed up just wondering if I should spend the dilz on any of it once I'm done getting all those phoenix upgrade tokens. BTW, g0del, it took me until now to realize you were right and I had been for approximately two weeks looking at a Mk IV weapon and somehow ignoring the lack of an 'X' in front of it, thinking it was Mk XIV. Corrected now, anyway. I also sold off the rest of the zen I had left sitting around (only about 350) for dilz and replaced the other one I was apparently blind about with the quad phasers from the Sao Paolo ship req. Somewhat related, is there a better combat impulse engine available than the Quantum Phase Combat Impulse ones? Literally none of the fleet/elite fleet versions of engines seem like they're viable, it's like the QC is just stupidly overbudget. The aux boost I don't think you can get on anything even remotely comparable. Now that all my core consoles are upgraded to XV I was going to start spending future phoenix upgrades on either warp core or engines, don't want to waste that poo poo on set gear that's not actually as good as it looks like.
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HiroProtagonist posted:Is there anything good from the phoenix store between rare and very rare? quote:Somewhat related, is there a better combat impulse engine available than the Quantum Phase Combat Impulse ones? Literally none of the fleet/elite fleet versions of engines seem like they're viable, it's like the QC is just stupidly overbudget. The aux boost I don't think you can get on anything even remotely comparable. Now that all my core consoles are upgraded to XV I was going to start spending future phoenix upgrades on either warp core or engines, don't want to waste that poo poo on set gear that's not actually as good as it looks like. Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array [EPS] [ColCrit] from the colony. Prevailing Innervated Impulse Engines from T3 competitive rep. Mycelial Harmonic Core from T4 disco rep. Tilly’s Review-Pending Modified Shield from T5 disco rep. And while you're there the Lorca console is good, even if you're not running a phaser build. Grabbing the matching torpedo for the two-piece bonus is nice if you're planning to run a torp. These aren't too hard to get if you've got your reps done. If not, this is the perfect time to start since the summer event makes getting marks pretty easy. This doesn't mean that everyone needs to drop everything right now if they're using other gear - this game is easy enough that just having some set items will get you through any normal content. But if you're basically starting from nothing, might as well get the current hotness. The Prevailing impulse engines are a lot of fun, too. Every time you hit a firing mode boff ability you get a free mini-evasive maneuvers from it.
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g0del posted:Epic and UR are heavily dependant on whether or not you got the ships when they were account unlocks. If not, and if you ever do get an Epic, the bajoran interceptor has the DOMINO console which is one of the best universals in the game. Probably only behind the DPRM, which is extremely expensive for Feds. For VR, I'm not sure if any of the consoles are really worth it, but the Prolonged phaser is good. And I believe all the Prolonged Engagement stuff is account unlock despite what the phoenix store says. This is correct, the Prolonged Engagement stuff shows up in the event store or the dil store reclaim, one of the two, once you buy them once. The two-piece bonus for the set is very good. And if you don't have the TR Sniper Rifle or the Tommy Gun, grab the Shotgun.
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The prolonged engagement torpedo is a wide-angle/180-degree torpedo too, which isn't immediately obvious if you don't look closely at the stats. This makes it pretty convenient for broadsiding beam boats since there isn't much competition there and most of the alternatives do way less damage.
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After rewatching some DS9, I got the hankering to download this game again. Does the core gameplay basically revolve around the rep grind and paying real money for overpowered ships/consoles? I haven't played since 2017 so it's been a while.
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OGS-Remix posted:After rewatching some DS9, I got the hankering to download this game again. Does the core gameplay basically revolve around the rep grind and paying real money for overpowered ships/consoles? Somewhat. Rep grind is the reliable way to get T6 ships and good gear, thought he 'Fleet' ships don't come with the special traits storebought ships do. But you're in luck, the summer event stats Tuesday and it gives away a free full-T6 ship for doing it enough days.
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OGS-Remix posted:After rewatching some DS9, I got the hankering to download this game again. Does the core gameplay basically revolve around the rep grind and paying real money for overpowered ships/consoles? If you haven't played in years, you should probably do the episodes. There are a lot of them, and some of them are pretty good. You can generally do missions with gear that you've picked up or mission rewards, or you can ask in chat and hopefully someone will be around to craft you some basic stuff. All the overpowered consoles/traits/ships in gamble boxes and expensive z-store bundles are there, but not necessary. People who have too much money or too much time spent in the game chase them, but you can make a build that will easily handle normal and advanced queues with free stuff.
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Cyrano4747 posted:You can do all the story content with random poo poo you find on the ground. The best advice. If anyone is worried about min maxing for uber efficiency that's great and it's a long term goal worth thinking about. In STO that isn't mandatory. Particularly not with the current skill tree which is about as user friendly as it's ever been. Just set weapons power on your ship to max and you're halfway there already. You don't want to know what the original skill tree looked like.
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Yeah when I quit I finished all the rep grinds and the time displaced old Star Trek starbase with protomatter bombs and Kzinti? or whatever just came out. I guess I'll download the game and see what's changed. I did like the episodic content so if the quality of that remained "high" since Iconian War that's worth however many gigs the game is now.
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OGS-Remix posted:Yeah when I quit I finished all the rep grinds and the time displaced old Star Trek starbase with protomatter bombs and Kzinti? or whatever just came out. There are new reputations to grind now. And all the reputations go up to T6 so you can grind your old reps some more too. It takes forever, but there are decent rewards for doing it.
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Cyrano4747 posted:You can do all the story content with random poo poo you find on the ground. Until you hit 50+. Then it'll get rougher. At that point you'll probably have to start worrying.
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