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Taerkar posted:Must not have been retroactive. Oh well. The problem evidently was that originally, as Taerkar pointed out, a few boffs (caitians/ferasan/aenar that I know of) cost zen but when bought they didn't give you a boff. They gave you a little token in your inventory. That token could be spent at the NPC boff vendor to buy your boff... or it could be traded to other players or sold on the exchange. So cryptic couldn't just look at all the players with one of those boffs commissioned to determine who to give the unlock too, since some of those players might have bought them off the exchange instead of the z-store. I think finally the upshot was that cryptic only had access to data on who'd paid for a zen boff going back a year or so, and anyone who'd bought one before that was out of luck. As far as I know, they didn't officially announce this anywhere, I think someone finally got cryptic support to admit it in a ticket or something. The upshot is now you can spend 600z and get a whole crew of cat boffs, and some redditors are still salty about not getting their account-unlocks.
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Hunter Noventa posted:If you don't have room for a Bridge Officer, you can say 'Not Now' and they'll hang around until you have space, which you'll get some of as you level. Thank you, finally sold my junk! It looks like maybe this upgrade I have can only be used at level 50
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Also for selling you can recycle stuff with the replicator button. No idea if it's more efficient to sell to an npc, but always having the ability to sweep out your inventory is nice.
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Eimi posted:Also for selling you can recycle stuff with the replicator button. No idea if it's more efficient to sell to an npc, but always having the ability to sweep out your inventory is nice. I did find that somehow, not sure I will find it again, but there was some options for re-engineering as well.
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Next time they have a sale on them I'll unlock some BUFFS, after I increase my DOff slots. 100 fills up quickly.
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Jun 17, 2021 02:11
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Eimi posted:Also for selling you can recycle stuff with the replicator button. No idea if it's more efficient to sell to an npc, but always having the ability to sweep out your inventory is nice.
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Jun 17, 2021 03:59
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Is this ground event set any good or am I wasting my time?
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I'm just doing it for the meta-event. I'm sure cryptic will find a way to gently caress me over at the end though.
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Floob posted:I did find that somehow, not sure I will find it again, but there was some options for re-engineering as well. Re-Engineering is for changing the modifiers on the more rare items. For the most part as you're playing and leveling up, it's entirely ignorable, and really only used if you want to do mondo DPS builds that require very specific modifiers for your gear. Is the upgrade token you're talking about labelled as T6-X? You'll want to stick that into the bank and wait to use it on a Tier 6 ship you really like and could see using across characters. If it's a 'Starship Upgrade' token, that will upgrade a Tier 5 ship (You get a small choice of one of those late in leveling, and there are several more available on the exchange for less ludicrous prices) to 'T5-U' which is on par with a Tier 6 ship. Tier 6 ships come from the C-Store, Lockboxes, or events. Like the Risian Summer event coming up on July 1st. You can also buy 'Fleet' Tier 6 ships, but that's a long ways off. The advantage of Tier 6 ships is that they unlock a 'Starship Trait' that you can use with any ship, and they level with your character, while Fleet T6 doesn't do that. The official wiki also has lots of useful information.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Is this ground event set any good or am I wasting my time? I grabbed it just because my Klingon toon is an engineer who spams drones, so this was a great set to poo poo out even more combat pets. MikeJF posted:I'm just doing it for the meta-event. But if you were, Cryptic already found a way to gently caress you over. (Seriously though, it's great that they have these event campaigns and half of the events contribute nothing toward it. Because gently caress you, that's why.)
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The T6 Oberth will be the Grissom, it will be a 'light science vessel', which means it's a science vessel with less hull but more agility. Temporal spec. Another new ship coming: T6 Malachowski called the Clarke class, which is light, more agile flight-deck cruiser. Is command spec. Basically it's one of the old command battlecrusiers. Can kitbash with Miranda, so I might actually get it. Also, gamma recruit rerun soon and temporal later this year.   Peyote Panda posted:Uh, I hope you don't mean you're doing the current "Only Qo'noS Endures" special event just for progress in the event campaign that awards you the premium T6 ship, T6 coupons or 1500 lobi, because this event doesn't count for that purpose. Oh faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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galenanorth posted:I think I'm getting a lot better at the ground portion of this game. My current strategy is to set up turrets a distance away from the next group of enemies, then I tell my engineer officer to go ahead a distance closer and lay out some landmines then come back to the main group, then I run out and bait the next group back to the turrets (or I could tell the tactical officer to do that), then I pause and identify which of the enemies is the toughest and shielded, and engage in melee combat that goes through their shields. I've stopped using the abilities that have effects that are too flashy and distracting, including Plasma Grenade, Overwatch, Shield Generator, and Medical Generator, in favor of the doctor abilities that repair health and the engineer abilities that directly repair personal shields. IMO they really should tone down the effects on the generators, all I need is an outline of the ring, maybe even only when I click the turret. I also realized that melee abilities are probably useless on the tactical boffs I give everybody the gravity well grenade. Then I cast lightning bolt.
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Taerkar posted:I've got a gimmick Caitian away team on one of my characters. Pounce on everything. I make them all dress in dirty rags like they're gross hobos.
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Asimo posted:At one point early on it was slightly more efficient to sell to NPCs rather than the replicator since they have like 60% of purchase value rather than 50 (except ferengi NPCs who did 50 too because of course), but that's both absolutely not worth the effort to worry about and may have changed a decade ago and I never noticed. I think you still get the extra 10% at the vendor compared to recycling your junk. Totally worth parking in front of a vendor if you're just logging in because of the latest FOMO event.
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MikeJF posted:a science vessel with less hull Fitting for the Oberth!
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I got the event set solely because I have no other unlocked ground sets so hey free purple scaling gear on alts. And huh with that other ship, I guess that's probably not the summer event reward. Wander what it will be.
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MisterOblivious posted:I think you still get the extra 10% at the vendor compared to recycling your junk. Totally worth parking in front of a vendor if you're just logging in because of the latest FOMO event. MikeJF posted:The T6 Oberth will be the Grissom, it will be a 'light science vessel', which means it's a science vessel with less hull but more agility. Temporal spec. Another new ship coming: T6 Malachowski called the Clarke class, which is light, more agile flight-deck cruiser. Is command spec. Basically it's one of the old command battlecrusiers. Can kitbash with Miranda, so I might actually get it. Also, gamma recruit rerun soon and temporal later this year. The two ships are also coming next week, are regular z-store ships, and also available in a bundle with some WoK inspired stuff. No more details on the bundle's pricing or other contents yet. One of the ships has a genesis device console, which is going to make people who love big obnoxious science spam really happy. The Oberth has a ship trait that triggers every time you launch an anomaly, and when you do every existing anomaly gets 2 seconds added to it's duration (maxing at double the normal duration). I'll have to do some tinkering, but this might actually be another good, usable science trait. The console for one of the ships (the Oberth, I think) slowly drains aux power, and the longer it drains the more bonus damage torps do, up to a max of 400% bonus damage. The designer said that it was possible to hit that max, but difficult. Given how good most of cryptic is at building ships, I think there's a decent chance that all the high-end kinetic torp builds will quickly find a way to do that. They confirmed that the summer ship is a T6 Risian luxury cruiser, and although they didn't show it they did say that it would have the different environment options in the tailor like the T5. Temporal will be later this year, they're still re-working all the TOS missions.
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Just want to tag on that we will probably also be getting the end of the early-level Federation storyline back in the game sooner rather than later. Apparently the fact that the Guardian of Forever appeared in S3 of DSC has meant that those old missions that were removed for reworking/remastering have now been bumped a lot higher up the priority list.
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MisterOblivious posted:I make them all dress in dirty rags like they're gross hobos. I offer them safe passage across the wasteland if they'll just walk away. 
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Anyone having issues logging into the game ? Launcher isn't getting past its auto-update check thing (can't contact patchserver.crypticstudios.com according to console)
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MREBoy posted:Anyone having issues logging into the game ? Launcher isn't getting past its auto-update check thing (can't contact patchserver.crypticstudios.com according to console) I'm kinda torn on the Oberth. I have a T1 Oberth kitted out with as close as I could get to the clay pigeon build posted on Reddit a while back (with the medical vanity shield turning the bottom hull yellow so it looks like a giant banana no less), but half the fun of running that goofy little dude in the space battlezones is that it is a T1...
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welp just got my answer, entirety of Arc took a poo poo & died about 30 mins ago  https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1405382369645715462
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MREBoy posted:welp just got my answer, entirety of Arc took a poo poo & died about 30 mins ago
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Preechr posted:I offer them safe passage across the wasteland if they'll just walk away. Oh poo poo. That's really good. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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Floob, you're not the only one on the struggle bus. I was hunting for the Boff vendor yesterday myself. I've been doing a lot of googling. Also, you can sell stuff straight from your inventory if you hit the replicator button in the bottom right and then go to the recycle tab at the top of the replicator screen. Not sure if you get less EC than if you went to an actual vendor or not. Edit: Beaten soundly, didn't see there were 10 replies after this.... I anticipate I'll hit 65 by this weekend. When I do, I want to drop some cash money on a new boat. I'm a tac officer and playing in a patrol escort which has a mix of dual heavy cannons, phaser arrays, torp launcher and a turret. I'm going to try and go all heavy cannons with a torp launcher and turrets when I get my final boat. Which should be the boat I go after? Behotti fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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Well, Cryptic partially fixed me. I now have *one* open character slot. Going to save that for the temporal recruit, I suppose.
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Behotti posted:Floob, you're not the only one on the struggle bus. I was hunting for the Boff vendor yesterday myself. I've been doing a lot of googling. Also, you can sell stuff straight from your inventory if you hit the replicator button in the bottom right and then go to the recycle tab at the top of the replicator screen. Not sure if you get less EC than if you went to an actual vendor or not. Edit: Beaten soundly, didn't see there were 10 replies after this.... Well the Kurak/Arbiter/Mogai, while cruisers, are battle cruisers and can mount dhcs and come with the single best trait in the game for energy weapons. However if you want a fun actual escort that comes with a decent trait, the Thozyn/Vandros/Xechas ie allied tactical pilot escorts are a ton of fun to fly and Promise of Ferocity is decent to have. Pilot maneuvers letting you double tap a movement key and you get a massive burst of movement in that direction.
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Anybody else started getting more frequent crashes? Never encountered that until recently.
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Not crashes, but I've been No Response From Server logged out quite a few times lately.
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SplitSoul posted:Anybody else started getting more frequent crashes? Never encountered that until recently.
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SplitSoul posted:Anybody else started getting more frequent crashes? Never encountered that until recently.
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g0del posted:Yes. It started after the big House United patch in late May. It doesn't seem to affect everyone, but I started seeing a lot more CTDs with the stupid cryptic error reporter popping up after that patch, and reddit and the forums agree that I'm not alone. I've been encountering this, too. I'm probably going to pick up the Grissom because I love the derpy little Oberth, but the Clarke does nothing for me.
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It's incredibly Cryptic that they stuck the Science Console on the not Science ship.
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I've had to reinstall Arc on both my laptop and desktop in the last week or two because it kicked out an error then refused to run afterwards.
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Yeah had a few crashes here in the last couple of weeks. Not a lot overall but a noticeable uptick after years of basically never crashing.
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I haven't had crashes but I changed to windowed mode and the game runs at like .5fps any time I click out of the window.
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That's intentional so it doesn't soak up resources when the window isn't focused. I think there's even an option for it somewhere buried deep in the settings.
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Asimo posted:That's intentional so it doesn't soak up resources when the window isn't focused. I think there's even an option for it somewhere buried deep in the settings. Now I'm curious because that's been standard on any game I play windowed, and switch out to change a play list or something. I just assumed it was a Windows 10 thing.
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Floob posted:Now I'm curious because that's been standard on any game I play windowed, and switch out to change a play list or something. I just assumed it was a Windows 10 thing. I think Windows also does some (smaller) limits on inactive windows, but that's probably going to depend heavily on how starved for resources your computer is.
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