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AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

...I only just realized I can launch "Wanted" from the queue menu instead of flying out to the system whenever it's time to level a new hull

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Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

AfroSquirrel posted:

...I only just realized I can launch "Wanted" from the queue menu instead of flying out to the system whenever it's time to level a new hull

:laffo:

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

AfroSquirrel posted:

...I only just realized I can launch "Wanted" from the queue menu instead of flying out to the system whenever it's time to level a new hull

Other subpage on that same menu allows you to launch 1-player instances of team operations, for example if you have a endeavor that needs 30 Borg ships or such, and you fly a ship that can take a reasonable amount of beating.

Bloodly
Nov 3, 2008

Not as strong as you'd expect.

Cythereal posted:

Welp the dilex is backlogged again. That didn't last long.

Odds that due to spaghetti code the wingman mechanics genuinely only allow for the JH ships?

60% minimum.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Cythereal posted:

Welp the dilex is backlogged again. That didn't last long.
I'm not too worried yet. If you look at the graphs of the backlog for the last few months, it was a pretty steady drop starting in late Dec, right up until a couple days before it hit zero, when the drop accelerated greatly. Without that final drop in the last couple days it probably would have taken another couple of weeks for the backlog to disappear.

I know for a fact that some players with large holdings in zen were trading them for dil trying to get orders in at 500 before the backlog disappeared - if the dilex goes down they make extra zen, and if it doesn't go down they lose nothing, so it was a good bet. I figure that is what caused the steep drop, and those same speculators selling back at below 500 to make a few zen is what's keeping it yo-yoing at the cap. But unless the bot-farms find a way to start back up again, I think we'll still end up below 500 eventually, it just might take a bit longer.

It probably doesn't help that after over a year of a capped dilex, players who buy zen specifically to trade for dil have gotten spoiled and expect that zen will always get them 500 dil. You can see this whenever the price drops below 500 briefly, there's always a huge sell wall at 500 from all the players who just refuse to accept that their zen might be worth less now.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I like to think that if a ship was coded to have a wingmen mechanic, a singularity core, cruiser commands and a hanger it would instead crash the entire database and wipe all character data.

Rx King
Mar 4, 2003

Thanks to the dilex fix I was finally able to convert all my hoarded dil and made 18k zen. I have no idea why I still play this stupid loving game.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Rx King posted:

Thanks to the dilex fix I was finally able to convert all my hoarded dil and made 18k zen. I have no idea why I still play this stupid loving game.
. . . It wasn't broken? You could have done that anytime in the past year, you just would have had to wait a few weeks for the zen. Though I suspect everyone who thought it was broken now selling their dil is part of why it keeps bouncing around 500 instead of dropping lower.

Rx King
Mar 4, 2003

g0del posted:

. . . It wasn't broken? You could have done that anytime in the past year, you just would have had to wait a few weeks for the zen. Though I suspect everyone who thought it was broken now selling their dil is part of why it keeps bouncing around 500 instead of dropping lower.

Last time I did that it took over a month and a half. This time I did it when there were tons of Zen to buy in the 495 range before it went back to 500.

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


Is there a good tfo to afk or mostly afk like new sb1 for this event?

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Eimi posted:

Is there a good tfo to afk or mostly afk like new sb1 for this event?
I think you can almost AFK storming the spire - kill the first 6 enemies and then AFK, it'll finish eventually. But capping a single voth ground point will be faster.

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


g0del posted:

I think you can almost AFK storming the spire - kill the first 6 enemies and then AFK, it'll finish eventually. But capping a single voth ground point will be faster.

Oh the battlezone poo poo is just capture one thing, not finish out the place?

Wizard of the Deep
Sep 25, 2005

Another productive workday
Yea, it’s literally just “be present when any objective is captured”. Stupid fast. Don’t even have to interact with the quest-giver at the command center.

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


nice

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Eimi posted:

Oh the battlezone poo poo is just capture one thing, not finish out the place?

Stupidly enough finish out the place isn't one of the things that rewards the daily progress, killing the T-Rex does nothing. :D

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

Wizard of the Deep posted:

Yea, it’s literally just “be present when any objective is captured”. Stupid fast. Don’t even have to interact with the quest-giver at the command center.

I like the easy dil while doing damage endeavors. Zone out and back instead of running back.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Eimi posted:

Oh the battlezone poo poo is just capture one thing, not finish out the place?

I got the completion for doing the quest to kill 40+ lizard soldiers or something. Maybe other things trip it too. I missed a day so today was my first shot.

Non scientific observation.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

So has anyone formed any opinions yet on S3 Picard?

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


I think it's the same flavor of poo poo as the previous two seasons only they dragged your favorite TNG actors back in to ruin their characters too. Do you like grimdark Starfleet with lots of violent murder? Then you'll like this. If you actually want Star Trek again, pass.

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

So has anyone formed any opinions yet on S3 Picard?

Boldly waiting for Strange New Worlds season 2 premier.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Eimi posted:

I think it's the same flavor of poo poo as the previous two seasons only they dragged your favorite TNG actors back in to ruin their characters too. Do you like grimdark Starfleet with lots of violent murder? Then you'll like this. If you actually want Star Trek again, pass.

I guess my one question is have they at least figured out how to plot a story across 10 (or 5 now) episodes? Since they couldn’t really manage that last season.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

I guess my one question is have they at least figured out how to plot a story across 10 (or 5 now) episodes? Since they couldn’t really manage that last season.

Five episodes in it's still hard to say. Threads seem to be coming together but there's still quite a bit of poo poo that is still unexplained/mystery box bullshit and this show has a pattern of revealing the box to be full of turds in episode 9. It's nice to see Worf again at least.

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.

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

So has anyone formed any opinions yet on S3 Picard?

It’s what the show should have been since the beginning. Do not skip.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


They've got plenty of time to whiff it but so far it's much better than season 2

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Yeah but people said that about S2 v S1 too. If there's any pattern in the series so far it's utterly loving things up in th4 back half while utterly squandering any good concepts it started with.

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

My plan is to wait for it to finish and gauge the reaction.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Cyrano4747 posted:

My plan is to wait for it to finish and gauge the reaction.

The sensible approach.

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

DancingShade posted:

The sensible approach.

Honestly it's kind of my go-to for TV shows these days. So many of them just drop the ball mid-season, and there's enough quality TV out there that I literally don't have time to watch everything I'd want to. So just wait for it all to shake out, watch the good stuff, leave the crap behind.

That said, I'm going to watch Ted Lasso as it airs because my wife will strangle me in my sleep if we don't, and I'm pretty sure if they gently caress that one up there will be city-destroying riots.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

DancingShade posted:

The sensible approach.

I hate weekly watching so I am also waiting for it to get fully out and then binge it during one weekend.

If it turns out it was poo poo all along I waste 1 day instead of 10 evenings on watching it. I mean, seasons 1 and 2 almost are excusable as two 10-hour long movies where you can just zone out for the stupider parts.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
So today's update seems to have included a stealth update to add more variety to the Federation NPC fleet.

In tonight's breach I saw a California, Seneca, and Grissom all as generic Fed NPC ships.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007
Lmfao pretty sure it took them two tears to get around to flagging this, let alone WHY it needed to be flagged in the first place

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

HiroProtagonist posted:

Lmfao pretty sure it took them two tears to get around to flagging this, let alone WHY it needed to be flagged in the first place



Just change your ship name to "Spank Machine" or "Grass Toucher". Relatively innocuous but you know someone won't like it.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President

HiroProtagonist posted:

Lmfao pretty sure it took them two tears to get around to flagging this, let alone WHY it needed to be flagged in the first place



Pretty sure they don’t give a poo poo about the feelings of Nazis, but they do care about any iteration of the word “kill” in a ship name. They badnamed EpsteinDidn’tKillHimself, but are perfectly ok with Little St. James.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Anyone know what's going on with NoPPS these days? I just noticed today that I've been muted and kicked.

Lorak
Apr 7, 2009

Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

Lagomorphic posted:

Anyone know what's going on with NoPPS these days? I just noticed today that I've been muted and kicked.
Presumably, the Drozana Orion sleeper agents have activated.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
Don’t we own the channel? I don’t remember who the actual owner is.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
New ship is the legendary Akira as expected. The skin, though, is meant to be a TOS movie era variant, a stablemate to the Enterprise-A and Excelsior.

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


What's weird is that it's a loving cruiser. 5/3 4/2/5 though it can only get lt tac abilities. Cmdr Engi/command, lt comm sci/mw, lt tac, e tac, lt uni. Weird setup. The model looks great though. I love all the TMP era models they've made, like the one for the Walker class is also brilliant. It comes paired with the L Valdore for the people dumb enough to want to try and make romulan ships work, let alone a temp ops escort. It looks substantially less good appearance wise too.

Eimi fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Mar 29, 2023

Hunter Noventa
Apr 21, 2010

Eimi posted:

What's weird is that it's a loving cruiser. 5/3 4/2/5 though it can only get lt tac abilities. Cmdr Engi/command, lt comm sci/mw, lt tac, e tac, lt uni. Weird setup. The model looks great though. I love all the TMP era models they've made, like the one for the Walker class is also brilliant. It comes paired with the L Valdore for the people dumb enough to want to try and make romulan ships work, let alone a temp ops escort. It looks substantially less good appearance wise too.



Yeah, it absolutely looked better in Lower Decks. Definitely a pack I can pass on safely.

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Preechr posted:

Don’t we own the channel? I don’t remember who the actual owner is.

I don't remember. Think it was a decade plus back when it was set up. I've got operator though.

Lagomorphic posted:

Anyone know what's going on with NoPPS these days? I just noticed today that I've been muted and kicked.

Unmuted.

edit - best guess someone misclicked when trying to boot someone else. I don't play during prime time so I'm just plucking straws. Any lingering problems let me or someone else know.

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Mar 30, 2023

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