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Actually, I'm curious. I'm growing quite the stockpile of escorts from the z-store and events that have various experimental weapons, and I'm experimenting more with escort play. Is there a handy overview anywhere of which ones are better than others?
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as far as experimental weapons go, if you have any of these - Experimental Proton Charge (Xindi-Reptilian Sistruus Escort), Soliton Wave Impeller ( Risian corvette (T6)), Phlogiston Projector (Maquis raider) or Voice of the Prophets (Bajoran Raider) - youre fine, those are the top tier choices, they differ in how they work: for example the Phlogiston Projector and Voice of the Prophets deal damage to multiple targets and work very well when you can clump enemies together in say, a Gravity Well. The others are preferred for single target damage.
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Aug 13, 2021 16:25
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I have the Soliton Wave Impeller and Voice of the Prophets, so that works.
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Aug 13, 2021 16:40
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bij posted:Both the Deimos and D4x are great but I wish they'd give us an option to remove those terrible decals. Is the Cheirax still one of the best heavy escorts?
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Aug 13, 2021 17:37
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I haven't flown the Cheirax but it's not a bad ship, it's just odd to have the pilot abilities on a 4/4 ship with no experimental weapon. You could do anything with it but 4 forward weapons is a bummer for cannons. You get the destroyer masteries with it though, that's pretty nice. I just set ships up for fun anymore and 5 fore is nice for sets with a torpedo.
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Aug 13, 2021 20:00
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MikeJF posted:Really? And you can't switch em? How's the Delta Alliance Vanity look on her, then, that's basically faux-Romulan on some ships, depending on how it maps. Or the KDF Kelvin Divergency, but that's overpriced and also KDF-only.  Type 4 hull, what's normally the very pleasing smooth dark green.  Delta Alliance Vanity.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:33
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Delta alliance is pretty decent.
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Aug 13, 2021 23:15
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Cythereal posted:
Eugh, yeah, that type 4 looks terrible. If you're KDF, rich, and don't mind red highlights, you'd probably get best results from KDF Divergence. I don't have it but someone did a few shots of other ships:   The early Rommie textures are aging badly in general, TBH.
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Aug 14, 2021 08:59
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On a totally different note, I wonder if I could use fiddler to intercept a gameprint upload and extract the 3D model. Hmm.
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Aug 14, 2021 09:30
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MikeJF posted:The early Rommie textures are aging badly in general, TBH.
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Aug 14, 2021 11:40
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MikeJF posted:There's the D4x bird of prey, La Sirena, Jellyfish, Undine Cheirax, Miradorn Theta Raider.
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Aug 15, 2021 05:14
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Any suggestions for making a lot of EC without hating my life? I want to fly a Keldon but I'm short about 485m EC and don't really want to run Tour the Galaxy for the next year and a half.
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Aug 16, 2021 05:23
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Play the exchange. Find some commodity that you’re comfortable that you know the value of and check it a few times a day. Buy when you see them cheap, sell for a profit, reinvest that. Buying keys during a sale is an easy one but not the most lucrative.
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Aug 16, 2021 05:44
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If you're on during the Q's Winter Wonderland event you can do the grind for Ornaments (up to 500 per stack) and during the summer event for Lohlunat Favors (up to 999 per stack) for off-season resale.
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Chortles posted:If you're on during the Q's Winter Wonderland event you can do the grind for Ornaments (up to 500 per stack) and during the summer event for Lohlunat Favors (up to 999 per stack) for off-season resale. This is a good way to get seed money, but anything that involves grinding for something you sell isn't going to be how you actually make money on the exchange. Done right you can just wash credits back and forth in the exchange, buying poo poo when it's low and selling when it's higher. Generally, I prefer to avoid the seasonal stuff even for buying during peak just because the cycle is so long - if I have 500m sunk into lolnuts that's money that's basically locked up for months. I do better buying items that area bit more volatile with shorter cycles. I mentioned the keys because they're pretty easy to time for someone who's just getting into the market. Wait until a key sale, drop all your cash, then sell them off a few days or a week after the sale when the prices have normalized. Use the time in between to watch how ships, doff packs, lockbox traits, etc move around so you can spot when someone is unloading a thing for quick cash. A lot of the time you can also make a quick buck waiting to spot someone unloading a bunch of a thing at a small discount and then re-selling them at a few credits less than the going rate. Keys just spiked to 9.4, but a week or so ago I caught someone putting batches of 10 up on the exchange for 9m per when they were running around 9.2. I bought all I could, then spent the next week or so dropping them on the exchange as singles in groups of 3-5 for 9.15. Quick 150k profit per key, not great, but in the volume I was moving it was an easy 10m or so.
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Aug 16, 2021 13:17
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So I'm looking at the upcoming Temporal Agent Recruitment rerun and drat that's a lotta specialization points I need to grind for some of the rewards. What's the best source of that? I mean obviously I'll be doing admiralty for a while but still.
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wdarkk posted:So I'm looking at the upcoming Temporal Agent Recruitment rerun and drat that's a lotta specialization points I need to grind for some of the rewards. What's the best source of that? some events like the upcoming Red Alerts can give spec points but the best source is still Admiralty, Federation in particular. Their missions usually have a higher exp payout than the other factions and the 10/10 ToD reward are 2 spec points (or 2x2800 dilithium if youre at max)
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Aug 16, 2021 21:46
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Did the game ever release any battlezones as fun as the Dyson robo dino stuff? The ds9 season felt like the last good thing they released but then they just pooped disco stuff again.
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wdarkk posted:So I'm looking at the upcoming Temporal Agent Recruitment rerun and drat that's a lotta specialization points I need to grind for some of the rewards. What's the best source of that? But there's a chance you won't need quite so many. When they re-ran the Gamma recruit this last time they dropped their requirement from 90 spec points spent down to 45 spec points spent. Hopefully they'll do something similar for the Temporal recruit.
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Aug 16, 2021 23:02
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Do you get anything for your other characters if you a temporal recruit? I still haven't unlocked all the rep bonuses from the gamma recruit yet.
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Aug 16, 2021 23:26
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CainFortea posted:Do you get anything for your other characters if you a temporal recruit? I still haven't unlocked all the rep bonuses from the gamma recruit yet. Rep gear will come in at mk13 and very rare, and then a decentish trait that give crit and crit sev.
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Aug 16, 2021 23:30
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Eimi posted:Rep gear will come in at mk13 and very rare, and then a decentish trait that give crit and crit sev.
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Aug 17, 2021 05:26
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Eimi posted:Rep gear will come in at mk13 and very rare, and then a decentish trait that give crit and crit sev. it also unlocked something for admiralty but I forgot what it was, the Critical Systems trait and the MK13 UR gear are the major things from temporal edit: and the epic ground boff that gives you more expertise I guess
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Aug 17, 2021 14:40
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Double xp weekend starting in addition to the red alert should anyone care.
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Cythereal posted:Double xp weekend starting in addition to the red alert should anyone care.
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Aug 18, 2021 02:46
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Hey, wondering if I can get an invite to Dental? Nox@Cpt_Theron#35473
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Running five one-minute red alerts is worth it for an auto-gold upgrade, anyway, they're so quick nowadays.
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Aug 18, 2021 13:39
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2nding if you need Starship Traits unlocked on any type of ship now is the time to do it. 6 normal xp runs gives enough ship xp to unlock the trait even if starting at 0 so double will make it even faster. You don't even need to equip your ship decently because usually there's one or two people in each run that can steamroll everything because powercreep is a thing.
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So is this Red Alert -thing also dropping the T6-X upgrade or not? It was mentioned on some texts earlier, but now it seems to be gone from the tool tips. I mean I only have 3 left to find out, but it would be really a bummer if they backpedaled on that one. One free update kit and one skill point ain't much.
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Shoot the regular cubes in the Borg RA and let the pubbies finish off the sphere groups for that big time XP.
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bij posted:Shoot the regular cubes in the Borg RA and let the pubbies finish off the sphere groups for that big time XP. Is the Borg RA the best exp? The Tholian one seems to have a lot of ships too. I have a bunch of starship traits I need to unlock too lol.
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Are any of the TNG/ds9 era ship models being used for high level stuff these days or is it all new fangled? Idk what might have changed in that regard in the years I've played
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Sometimes? The last two or three years have been mostly Disco content for antagonists, but that takes place in "modern" STO so there's the usual mix of canon ships and STO originals, with old Trek cast folk tending to get the defiants and the vor'chas and whatever.
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Statutory Ape posted:Are any of the TNG/ds9 era ship models being used for high level stuff these days or is it all new fangled?
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Lorak posted:The Legendary Defiant makes for a good cannon-scort. Pilot maneuvers, too. If we’re talking legendaries the TOS and Disco connies are really good at their things, as is the Voyager if you want a sci boat.
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Der Kyhe posted:So is this Red Alert -thing also dropping the T6-X upgrade or not? It was mentioned on some texts earlier, but now it seems to be gone from the tool tips.
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I like excelsiors and galaxies and nebulas and defiants pretty much. I understand this is probably boring or whatever The Miranda class was one of my favorite growing up  Thanks for the input folks
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If you don't wanna shell out for a legendary or promo ship and liked the Miranda pick up the Clarke/Fleet Malachowski cruiser, it's a decent command cruiser with a hanger IIRC and it has access to all the Miranda parts so you can make it a Reliant. The New Orleans isn't spectacular but IIRC it's pretty good and it's a fun lil baby Galaxy. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Sadly the Legendary Excelsior, which is a good ship, is locked in the single worst bundle and you should never buy it. It's a drat shame. The normal fleet Excelsior is...usable. Branching out into the command abilities help. Concentrate Firepower 3 is incredible for toprs, Overwhelm Emitters is decent filler, and Call Emergency Artillery is solid now I believe. As for the Galaxy...yeah no the devs have something against it. It's just bad. Nothing is so bad it's unusable, but it's just not a great ship. The only okay ones are the horrible All Good Things 3 nacelle monstrosity. Legendary Defiant is great, fleet Defiant is trash and you should not get it. The Fleet Nebula, while not amazing, is very tough for a science ship and still gets Temporal Operative abilities so I think if you love it and want a science ship, it's very usable.
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Remember, “good” and “bad” have more to do with parse comparisons than “enjoyment” in this super-casual game with trivial, repetitive content.
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