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g0del posted:If they're leaving the individual admiralty mission dil rewards alone (the ones that give you 500-2k dil), then people who already have a bunch of event and c-store ships will still be able to make dil (at a lower rate, admittedly), while totally screwing over newer players. I'm thinking rep grinding is going to be the new way to go. Patrols and random TFO queues award 500 dil, plus the 340 in every rep box, with one-time-per-character big bonuses at tier 5. It's going to be slower than admiralty farming for sure, but it might still award dil (and for new players, EC and rep box gear) at a decent rate.
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That free lobi ship is tempting, even if they aren't account wide. Mostly because I really love the Voth Science Ship. The Paradox looks tasty too, but account-wide T6 is really hard to pass up, because I could always grab the Eternal, the Chronos or the Damar. I guess I have some time to decide.
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Eh, here's an update for the gameplay info I did that made it into the op: Help! I'm a new player with lots of zen and want to buy a new ship (or got a free t6 ship token)! I've already got the unlock essentials! What should I buy? Excellent question, and to be fair, there's no particularly wrong answer. Anything tier 5 and above is perfectly serviceable. So, here's a few guidelines: 1. Z-Store Bundles are always a good deal if you're interested in buying each ship as it is. This is particularly true for universal ships and cross-faction bundles. 2. Fly what you think looks good. This is the number one rule of being a happy STO player. If you really insist you can try to maximize your performance, but that's on you. 3. Ships come with admiralty tokens, which can be very useful, especially for new players. 3a. Don't forget to take the admiralty reward from the Temporal story arc "Time and Tide." The USS Pastak is a terrific card. 4. As of a recent update, all Romulan ships are cross-faction. Some suggested buys: 1. T6 Battlecruiser. Available as T6 Cross Faction Battlecruiser Bundle, Arbiter Class Battlecruiser (Fed), Kurak Battlecruiser (Klingon), and Morrigu Heavy Warbird (Romulan). If you have to have a z-store ship, this is probably the best choice - the Morrigu being cross-faction makes it perhaps the single best bang for your buck ship in the entire z-store. It's nimble, fighty, doesn't look terrible (and can be downright pleasant with judicious kitbashing), and comes with a terrific starship trait that's well worth the grind. If you're into playing alts in multiple factions, the bundle is one of the best value buys in the z-store. If you're just going to get one, the Morrigu is a top choice. 2. Cardassian Intel Ship Bundle. This is a pack of four ships that can be used on any faction - two cruisers, an escort, and a science vessel. That's four admiralty tokens for every character you make, and a fine ship of each major archetype to get you started and see what you prefer. For 6k zen, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better bargain. 3. 31st Century Temporal Ship Bundle. As above, but three cross-faction ships rather than four. 4. Science Allied Pilot Escort. Available in the Allied Pilot Escort Mega Bundle, or as the Chimesh (Fed), Nemosin (KDF), or Ikkabar (Romulan) allied pilot escorts. If you want to fly an escort, this is probably the single best choice as a new player. It's both a strong ship in general, and comes with an excellent mastery trait - and remember that Romulan ships are now cross-faction, so if you're new and really want escorts, the Ikkabar is the magic space sparkle squid for you. 5. T6 Escort Carrier. Available as T6 Cross Faction Heavy Escort Carrier Bundle, Alita Class Heavy Escort Carrier (Fed), Qa'Tel Flight Deck Raptor (Klingon), and Jhu'ael Tactical Carrier Warbird. If you want to fly a carrier, especially as the Federation, this is your stop barring lockbox options. For Feds, this is your t6 Akira.
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greasythepirate posted:New event thing announced:
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Also I guess they're adding this abomination from Discovery. Probably yet another promo box thing since they haven't made any real hints of putting in the work of an actual lockbox and the borg one dropped relatively recently. https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1232742123687907329?s=20 Oh boy yet another probably fed-only ship. The real advantage to maining klankroms is never having to buy a boat again. 
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Asimo posted:The real advantage to maining klankroms is never having to buy a boat again. Huzzah. And I'm still keeping my klankrom as my main because the Vonph is still one of my favorite looking ships in the game.
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Asimo posted:I guess they really aren't planning to add any more lobi ships, are they? Hasn't been one in ages and there's no way they'd toss out 1000 lobi for "free" if there was any in the works in the near future. With that said, I don't think a lobi ship is the best thing to do with the new event reward. If you need a ship, the z store ones are account-wide. And if you get the lobi, it's probably better spent on lobi consoles or weapons, or other things that you can't buy on the exchange.
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Coq au Nandos posted:This is entirely wrong. I just unlocked a ship trait by running two patrols. Good to know. I took the nerf statement at face value. Asimo posted:Also I guess they're adding this abomination from Discovery. Probably yet another promo box thing since they haven't made any real hints of putting in the work of an actual lockbox and the borg one dropped relatively recently. Super expensive and exclusive R&D promo ship is my guess - that gif they revealed showed a "hero" level of detail on a player asset. If it only costs "merely" money that will be an interesting development. Very happy to be wrong. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Feb 27, 2020 07:23
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/bind XYZ "camdist 200" I think that's the syntax. The normal zoom-out distance is 100. You can bind a key (I use Home) to zoom you out to 200 in space. It's an old City of Heroes bind that found it's way into this engine. You can get all sorts of silly with it on ground and zoom out to completely unusable distances way above the map if you bind the key to values over 200. 3 key "spacebar" macro: Space "GenSendMessage +TrayExecByTray 9 0 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 1 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 2 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 3 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 4 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 5 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 6 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 8 $$ +TrayExecByTray 9 9" z "GenSendMessage HUD_Root Fireall" c "GenSendMessage +Power_Exec Distribute_Shields $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 0 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 1 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 2 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 3 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 4 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 5 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 6 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 8 $$ +TrayExecByTray 8 9 $$ Lootrollneed $$ InteractWindow" Put your attack on the spacebar, defense on the c key, and fire button on the z key. Having +Power_Exec Distribute_Shields decreases your DPS apparently, so it's on the c key rather than being on the space like normal spacebar-macros.
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Asimo posted:Also I guess they're adding this abomination from Discovery. Probably yet another promo box thing since they haven't made any real hints of putting in the work of an actual lockbox and the borg one dropped relatively recently. after the new event reward announcement I hope its a Lobi one but given the EP its gonna be a gamblebox one, after the Admiralty nerf they are gonna go hard with zen sales this year
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Feb 27, 2020 11:01
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If it isn't an obvious bundle or if it has some flashy newly coded gimmick it is 120% gonna be a promo box bullshit reward. I say over 100% because I wouldn't put it past Cryptic fo somehow require multiple jackpots.
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Feb 27, 2020 11:08
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The lockboxes can only be obtained with Phoenix tokens. They will still require keys.
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Jxforema posted:Doing an escort cannon build for the first time in a long while, is there a better rear weapons slot option than turrets? A little late to respond, but I put the borg kinetic beam in one of the rear slots for all my ships, because it and the assimilated module with their 2-piece bonus give boosts that are always useful.
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Feb 27, 2020 18:32
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/558855894 You guys got credit for me screwing with people and I'm not even in your fleet.
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Rahhmi posted:I'm not even in your fleet. There’s a reason for that.
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Coq au Nandos posted:There’s a reason for that. yes there is, and I'm more than happy to mock aotc any day of the week for sperging out
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Feb 28, 2020 00:47
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Nbreeki and I separately disrupted Nimoy death celebrations and Nbreeki ate a ban for all of you. You're welcome. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Feb 28, 2020 03:46
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Godspeed and may the force be with you.
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The dark secret of the new ship will be that it's basically a *rolls dice* advanced escort with *rolls dice* sensor analysis. I have no idea but I think that's the creative process used. Rahhmi posted:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/558855894 The talking on this is pretty funny if you know enough to theoretically say yes, yes, no, yes, well actually, yes, lol what, etc DancingShade fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Feb 28, 2020 10:33
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Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I have all of my admiralty alts parked in front of the contraband officer and still plan to keep running the Ferengi TOD which should give bonuses to the contraband dil reward. And the random 2k admiralty missions I see when cycling through to get the TOD ones.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:13
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At least the dilex is dropping. Down to 420. Wonder how low it will go.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Nbreeki and I separately disrupted Nimoy death celebrations and Nbreeki ate a ban for all of you.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:03
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Cyrano4747 posted:At least the dilex is dropping. Down to 420. Wonder how low it will go. unsurprisingly the new section 31 ship is a promo box one Cryptic gotta cash in after that admiralty nerf
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Feb 28, 2020 19:23
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Teron D Amun posted:unsurprisingly the new section 31 ship is a promo box one It's hideous, like almost everything out of STD (I make exceptions for the Walker and Cardenas), so nothing of value was lost. On the other hand, I picked up the jem'hadar vanguard carrier on a whim and am liking it pretty well, both in looks and gameplay.
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Cythereal posted:It's hideous, like almost everything out of STD (I make exceptions for the Walker and Cardenas), so nothing of value was lost. It's one of my favorite T6 ships to just gently caress around in. It has a real chill play style without feeling completely "lean back and watch youtube" about it.
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and the carrier (or rather the pet scaling) is hilariously broken for low level characters, making it and similar ships perfect for leveling a new char
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Just get an advanced escort with a dark hull color and probably nobody will notice the difference.
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Feb 29, 2020 00:59
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g0del posted:They actually banned him? What did he do, make a boff that looks vaguely like hitler? Just jumping on and in front of the statue as far as I know. Temporary ban not permanent. Meanwhile myself (and some others), just did stuff like this:       
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Feb 29, 2020 07:18
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A Merritt Butrick joke. 
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Dick Trauma posted:A Merritt Butrick joke. Screwwww youuuuuu. I looked at an IMDB list of all the dead Trek actors and that had the most dark humor potential. You try it some time! 
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Longbaugh01 posted:Screwwww youuuuuu. I looked at an IMDB list of all the dead Trek actors and that had the most dark humor potential. You try it some time! I don't get it.
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Error 404 posted:I don't get it. Apparently you don't get how smilies here work either. 
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Longbaugh01 posted:Apparently you don't get how smilies here work either.
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Longbaugh01 posted:Nbreeki and I separately disrupted Nimoy death celebrations and Nbreeki ate a ban for all of you. The first time, I turned up and offered folks a dead pool. Not so much as a note of caution. Have they fixed the bug that prevents you from getting behind his statue with a party popper and making him jizz rainbows and coins?
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Stupid question time: I've still been doing my Klingon and Ferengi TOD admiralty missions since the change...and I'm getting 2500 dil for every TOD mission I complete. To be clear, I mean the individual missions, not the entire chain. Did they always award this much for the individual TOD missions and I just missed it because I was focused on the 30k at the end?
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Mar 4, 2020 02:02
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The 2500 dil per ToD is because we're getting an Admiralty bonus week. That'll go away after Thursday.
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Holy gently caress nuggets boys. For ten years I have been the tallest possible character in the game. Constantly ruining cutscenes and hitting door frames, I always wished to be even taller. Well, they finally did it.  I can’t believe it works with the coral so well. They should have sent a poet.
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How are the different space specializations. I know Intel is good for Overload Subsystem Safeties, and Pilot is just fun, but what about the rest?
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Temporal skills are amazing for Boat Wizards, especially since full temporal ships have an option that boosts exotic damage on top of it. Command is... meh but there's like two skills in it that are good for niche builds? Never really messed with miracle worker beyond trying the weapon skill once and finding it worthless.
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