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Preechr posted:It is my pleasure to report that the hangar consoles are ridiculous. With 5 of them on my Valkis, I had a romulan drone (with independent wingman) landing 125k+ beam overload hits at rank 5. Be interesting to see if full carriers are now viable for the lazy bones in us (me).
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I built a couple of those advanced carrier consoles, haven't actually tested them yet. They look very promising for a more passive playstyle. The question is... what ship to build and use them on? Connie is right out as I don't want to break the build on it. I have a freebie fek'Ihri dreadnought carrier from a while back, unused. Could try and get my hands on the T6 tholian carrier of course. Those are always nice lookers. But then the hiawatha class space [redacted] leapt out and slapped me across the forehead. I don't have one yet and no point until I force myself to get all the other necessary build parts but I think that one must be the winner. A nice ferengi green baseball vanity shield of course.
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Best bet would probably be a pure sad obsolete-style 3/3 science carrier really since you're getting as much out of stuff that boosts weapon damage. Can't push the scihole stuff as far either without a secondary deflector but it's easy enough to take a boosted up grav well with a bunch of control expertise and just sort of sit in place while the fighters do all the actual work.
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The Donnie/Disco D7 are the best simply because they have a ton of space for the consoles. Any MW carrier can equip two more than their Eng slots if brought to T6-X. I might grab the fleet Ra'donaire on one of my alts who hasn't spent their free fleet modules yet. It won't be as effective, but being able to use two hangars of drone ships would be amazing.
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Remind me what the game does to Elite TFOs to make them more annoying ? I vaguely remember a significant boost to the HP of everything but beyond that I am clueless. I haven't done an Elite anything in so long but now with the new consoles I'd like to work towards getting a couple without having to pay large (to me) sums of EC for stuff off the Exchange.
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MREBoy posted:Remind me what the game does to Elite TFOs to make them more annoying ? I vaguely remember a significant boost to the HP of everything but beyond that I am clueless. I haven't done an Elite anything in so long but now with the new consoles I'd like to work towards getting a couple without having to pay large (to me) sums of EC for stuff off the Exchange. Damage and health boosts mostly, if you’re paying attention to build advice, elites are not anything to be afraid of
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Jxforema posted:Damage and health boosts mostly, if you’re paying attention to build advice, elites are not anything to be afraid of Also, hard failure conditions that a large number of pubbies cannot grasp. Anyway, numbers! This is off a complete spacebar spam minimum effort Valkis with 5 of the lovely new hangar consoles in a random ISE run, using The Only Frigate That Doesn't Suck: code:code:e: Current biggest single hit from one of my drones so far: 451k Preechr fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Preechr posted:In conclusion, a loadout of two romulan drone hangars is worth approximately 5.4 pubbies. This was functionally true before the new advanced consoles.
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MREBoy posted:Remind me what the game does to Elite TFOs to make them more annoying ? I vaguely remember a significant boost to the HP of everything but beyond that I am clueless. I haven't done an Elite anything in so long but now with the new consoles I'd like to work towards getting a couple without having to pay large (to me) sums of EC for stuff off the Exchange. You can get permanent damage that acts as a permanent debuff unless you happen to have some spare parts in your inventory to get rid of them, or visit an engineering station at a space station.
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Has anyone looked at the (edit - advanced) science consoles that boost damage? Any good? I built a few (mk2 still due to non upgrade event) but I've never been a science boater person. So I can't tell if they were a waste or a good idea.
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These added about 2000 damage to the secondary deflector, spore explosion, and various sci clickies. Gravity Well III scored an additional 1500 or so. They're a decent replacement for some of the less interesting clickies but I would t sacrifice something like the Delphic console or the Borg vortex.
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DancingShade posted:Has anyone looked at the (edit - advanced) science consoles that boost damage? Any good? I built a few (mk2 still due to non upgrade event) but I've never been a science boater person. So I can't tell if they were a waste or a good idea.
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g0del posted:The sci ones struggle a bit. They increase damage based on your EPG, but take up sci console slots, which is where a lot of your big EPG boosts are coming from. There are a lot more trade-offs inherent in using them than there are for the advanced eng consoles. Gotcha, thanks. They can stay mk2 in the bank then.
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Preechr posted:It is my pleasure to report that the hangar consoles are ridiculous. With 5 of them on my Valkis, I had a romulan drone (with independent wingman) landing 125k+ beam overload hits at rank 5. A YouTuber threw a carrier together with 6 or 7 of those consoles and the valkyrie fighters (From the Norway? I think? I don't have that ship) and was doing about 200k+ dps pets alone in a testing environnment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=live?2ADE2OtaWmU edit - when checking later this link comes as broken for some reason. Thanks YouTube. Try this link https://www.youtube.com/@CasualSAB/streams Disclaimer: I have not watched all 4 hours of that. Not even close. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Hunter Noventa posted:The Donnie/Disco D7 are the best simply because they have a ton of space for the consoles. Any MW carrier can equip two more than their Eng slots if brought to T6-X. The only real problem is that the Disco D7 doesn't let you give it a giant tacky 60's warbird decal instead of the klangon logo. 
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DancingShade posted:A YouTuber threw a carrier together with 6 or 7 of those consoles and the valkyrie fighters (From the Norway? I think? I don't have that ship) and was doing about 200k+ dps pets alone in a testing environnment.
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They've given the T5 Patrol Escort access to the new hull materials, so I'd lay odds we're getting a T6 update soon.
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MikeJF posted:They've given the T5 Patrol Escort access to the new hull materials, so I'd lay odds we're getting a T6 update soon. Memories of the old T5 patrol escort being the last ship released before the T6's dropped. However since T6-X is basically already T7 I don't think we'll see that happen again. Maybe a T6-X-plus-plus using another one time cash money token.
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DancingShade posted:Memories of the old T5 patrol escort being the last ship released before the T6's dropped. People are envisioning a token to add a universal ensign boff slot to a ship.
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DancingShade posted:Memories of the old T5 patrol escort being the last ship released before the T6's dropped. Yeah if they make people full out re-buy ships there will be a riot. They kinda already did with the legendaries but oof. A cash shop upgrade though feels very possible.
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Speaking of upgrading things I have a question about the Elite BOff upgrade. Im assuming that a boff gets whatever +xx stats are on whatever kit you give them but what if the kit has some sort of click power, will they use it? and do they get whatever extra powers/buffs there might be from using multiple pcs of or an entire set of ground gerar, ie Breen Cryo Shaper ?
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MREBoy posted:Speaking of upgrading things I have a question about the Elite BOff upgrade. Im assuming that a boff gets whatever +xx stats are on whatever kit you give them but what if the kit has some sort of click power, will they use it? and do they get whatever extra powers/buffs there might be from using multiple pcs of or an entire set of ground gerar, ie Breen Cryo Shaper ? Boffs can definitely use the full set of Breen Cryoshaper; I’ve seen them trigger the ice armor ability and they blaze away at ludicrous speed. I haven’t been paying attention but I can’t see why they couldn’t use kit clickies.
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Hunter Noventa posted:People are envisioning a token to add a universal ensign boff slot to a ship. Even better, do a 1-2-4-8 tokens needed and make players burn 15 tokens per ship to get a universal commander boff seat.
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anyone else unable to connect? edit: nm, looks like it's Steam that's down. Oh well back to Diablo!
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New ship based on one from from IDW Comics. Infinity Lockbox Theseus Miracle Worker Destroyer. Ignore that we already have a Theseus Temporal Escort.    
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I really wanna see a side profile because that will make or break my feelings on it. It's an interesting visual design that I don't immediately hate at least. Also probably my favorite use of the Nasa-core color scheme.
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And this is the summer ship, the LARPer ship from LD, Hysperian Intel Battlecruiser  Concept art-  Trait-  They also renamed all the small traits you get while leveling. Orichalcum Scales, Claws of the dragon. Same as a regular battlecruiser, just with different names. Seating-  It has the full intel suite for scanning despite not having the commander intel seat, which is new. And it breathes fire. 
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Hunter Noventa posted:New ship based on one from from IDW Comics. Infinity Lockbox Theseus Miracle Worker Destroyer. Ignore that we already have a Theseus Temporal Escort. they're the same ship
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Hunter Noventa posted:It has the full intel suite for scanning despite not having the commander intel seat, which is new.
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Hi, I'm looking for big ship game but didn't want to play 20$ a month on eve and star trek sounds like a good time for a few months at least. Since all the links in the OP are understandably dead, is the fandom wiki still a good source of info/usable? Aaand would there happen to be any quick new player guides or videos? Understandable if not, game's ancient!
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I think the best place to look for builds is here https://www.sto-league.com The info in the wiki is accurate but you don't want to take build advice from random people. Good news is once you understand the basics (what skills to put where, what basic consoles are good), the game is so easy even the worst ship in the game will be able to comfortably clear all content.
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Meeko posted:Hi, I'm looking for big ship game but didn't want to play 20$ a month on eve and star trek sounds like a good time for a few months at least. Since all the links in the OP are understandably dead, is the fandom wiki still a good source of info/usable? Aaand would there happen to be any quick new player guides or videos? Understandable if not, game's ancient! STO Wiki is the non-fandom wiki and its being updated regularly. STO Better is another guide site more geared towards F2P or small spenders. If you start playing now, you ought to be high enough level to join the summer event, which can get you the fire-breathing ship I posted above for free as a T6 ship. T6 being the best level of ships you can get generally, you'll only get up to T5 ships playing normally for free, but you can do all the normal content in a T5 ship.
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thanks both for the advice! Hunter Noventa posted:STO Wiki is the non-fandom wiki and its being updated regularly. oh sounds cool! i'll try to prioritze that after i get out of the various tutorials, that ship looks real cool.
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Meeko posted:thanks both for the advice! Yeah you level up really fast early game, so I wouldn't worry too much about not being leveled enough for the event if you play regularly for a few days. T6 ships can also be used at any level, so once you unlock it you can hop into it, and do the same for any alts you create.
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Hunter Noventa posted:And this is the summer ship, the LARPer ship from LD, Hysperian Intel Battlecruiser I love this. Best summer ship in loving years.
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Meeko posted:thanks both for the advice! You definitely want to log on and do the summer event for the free ship. STO does regular giveaways on other sites. You'll want to grab them whenever they're posted as they usually contain a free Elite Services Starter Pack and you can open multiple packs until you've maxed your slots. (normally sells for 1000 zen on the market) 36 Inventory slots 36 Bank slots 2 Bridge Officer Slots 3 Captain Retrain Token Here's the link to redeem codes without using the Arc launcher: https://www.arcgames.com/en/code-redemption https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/show/2168281/boards/contest-and-giveaways-global/Giveaway/star-trek-online-tholian-incursion-pack-giveaway Contains a sword, a non-combat pet, and an elite services starter pack SteelSeries has a current giveaway but you have to download their app. Don't forget to hit the options and turn off "launch at startup." https://games.steelseries.com/home The giveaway is for a console and an elite services starter pack Console: https://antifandom.com/sto/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Plasma_Wave
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Cyrano4747 posted:I love this. Best summer ship in loving years.
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Hunter Noventa posted:And this is the summer ship, the LARPer ship from LD, Hysperian Intel Battlecruiser  Seems like a reason to maybe actually use that Breen cryo omni beam too after Cryptic nerfed it.
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Hunter Noventa posted:And this is the summer ship, the LARPer ship from LD, Hysperian Intel Battlecruiser Yesssssssssssssssssssssss
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Meeko posted:Hi, I'm looking for big ship game but didn't want to play 20$ a month on eve and star trek sounds like a good time for a few months at least. Since all the links in the OP are understandably dead, is the fandom wiki still a good source of info/usable? Aaand would there happen to be any quick new player guides or videos? Understandable if not, game's ancient! Also, if you're starting off now they're running a promo thing for the next week or so where any new TOS characters started during this event get bonuses as they level up and unlock some extra boosts, including a few that can be real handy at the endgame. (I think you have to start the character and complete the tutorial missions by the 29th to qualify) TOS characters basically become the same as other Starfleet characters once the tutorial is over (at the end of the tutorial mission set they get thrown into the 25th century and the main game), after that they just keep a few bits of TOS aesthetic flair like the original series transporter effect. So yeah, that's an option if you want.
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