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MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Star Trek Online: I'll get it just to have it, but disappointing.

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g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Cythereal posted:

Seating isn't bad: 1x Lt Commander Tactical, 1x Commander Engineering, 1x Lt Commander Science, 1x Lt Commander Universal / Miracle Worker

The rest, yeah. I'll get it just to have it, but disappointing.
Honestly, I've reached the point where I consider any ship with cmdr eng and no full spec to be bad. There's just nothing good to put on a cmdr eng seat.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Well, they can't all be the Jarok and the Risian Science Vessel, I guess

Teron D Amun
Oct 9, 2010

Cythereal posted:

Seating isn't bad: 1x Lt Commander Tactical, 1x Commander Engineering, 1x Lt Commander Science, 1x Lt Commander Universal / Miracle Worker

The rest, yeah. I'll get it just to have it, but disappointing.

and 3 tac console slot but 5 engineering ones :v:

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


On the one hand, it's an awful ship, on the other hand, it's very funny looking, so one cannot say if it's good or bad

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

It is dumb that they don't just let people have a chance to earn the old event ships, but then I guess they wouldn't be able to sell them on Mudd's for $45 or whatever

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Also I personally think it's dumb they did the jellyfish ship before the Promellian Battlecruiser

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
Shame one of the rumors I heard didn't pan out - that it was supposed to be a mode-shifter like a science destroyer, only it could swap between engineering mode (the UFO) and science mode (the jellyfish).

That could have been a neat niche. Now it joins the other heavy cruisers in the trash heap.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

I do think it'll be funny if it turns in to the ultimate AFK vessel. TFO starts, you pop jelly mode, and you just sit still as the 10km healing totem

bij
Feb 24, 2007

The jellyfish is adequate. I just started flying the Temer raider on my Klingon and I gotta say, I am 100% into the Alliance aesthetic. I hope next anniversary is something space magic oriented like a scout ship or multi-mission.

Maybe even a science spearhead.

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten
I'm vaguely annoyed I missed out on the Lukari triangle.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

wdarkk posted:

I'm vaguely annoyed I missed out on the Lukari triangle.

You can dump a whole bunch of dil in Phoenix packs, that's how I got mine.

Ardryn
Oct 27, 2007

Rolling around at the speed of sound.


Fidel Cuckstro posted:

Also I personally think it's dumb they did the jellyfish ship before the Promellian Battlecruiser

Well that's because Picard blew up the only one

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




They may not have the rights to do the Promellian Battlecruiser, that model wasn't first built for Trek.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

bij posted:

The jellyfish is adequate. I just started flying the Temer raider on my Klingon and I gotta say, I am 100% into the Alliance aesthetic. I hope next anniversary is something space magic oriented like a scout ship or multi-mission.

Maybe even a science spearhead.

They can add the Dominion to the Alliance and cross them with the others for 3 more alliance ships

Hunter Noventa
Apr 21, 2010

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

It is dumb that they don't just let people have a chance to earn the old event ships, but then I guess they wouldn't be able to sell them on Mudd's for $45 or whatever

They did actually put one into the Phoenix Store, the Vulcan Scout Ship, and they've said they want to update that more often, so there's hope.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
For whom it may concern, that lovely extra Miranda skin Cryptic made that no one likes is getting redone.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

Is that even a Cryptic design? I think that was one of the carryovers from Perpetual before Cryptic took over.

Lorak
Apr 7, 2009

Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

I am going to miss some of those parts for kitbashing, admittedly.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


It's huge lol

revtoiletduck
Aug 21, 2006
smart newbie
That uhh...that might be too big. Especially for an event ship that everyone is going to have.

Still looking forward to taking a group of 10 of them against the Crystalline Entity.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


That seems drastically foreshortened. Saucer's way closer to the camera. Probably still big though since it's a genericruiser.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




The original was pretty drat big



but I still don't think that much bigger than the J. And this is one case where they have plenty of excuse shrinking it, as a different jelly that might be smaller. (Hell, the baby they ran into on Lower Decks was about the same size as the Cerritos)

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jun 30, 2022

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Oh sweet I didn't see before but this year's new baseball shield lets you add wood panelled highlighting to any ship, similar to the stuff on the weather control vessel.



Gonna get that 70s station wagon vibe going on.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Asimo posted:

That seems drastically foreshortened. Saucer's way closer to the camera. Probably still big though since it's a genericruiser.
Go watch the stream recording, the J comparison is at 15:30. They rotate around, showing that the J is directly underneath the cnidarian. It really is that big. In the FuturePastNow's screenshot, the closer edge of the J's saucer is actually closer to the camera than the event ship.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Huh. Well the jellyfish mode will be hilarious visual spam then.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit
I wonder if you got enough of them in one ESD space instance and popped jellyfish if itd crash

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Is the new vanity shield in the store? If it is I'm missing it...

OGS-Remix
Sep 4, 2007

Totally surviving on my own. On LAND!

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

Is the new vanity shield in the store? If it is I'm missing it...

The store on Risa is bugged or something. If you go to the store from the event page the new stuff shows up correctly.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


OGS-Remix posted:

The store on Risa is bugged(*)
*Cryptic forgot to update it because they have three staff members and no QC.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

FuturePastNow posted:

It's huge lol



The saucer texture seems a bit flat. Maybe the lighting engine simply isn't up to it but it seems like it should be a little shinier or at least not make you suspect it's an untextured object in edit.

It was nice of them to put V motherships in though.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Any worthwhile tips for us new ones to whom this Risa summer event is the first one? Is there something in the store that goes to the "must buy"-category, or is it mostly visual stuff like in the winter event?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Der Kyhe posted:

Any worthwhile tips for us new ones to whom this Risa summer event is the first one? Is there something in the store that goes to the "must buy"-category, or is it mostly visual stuff like in the winter event?

Hoard event tokens. The summer store never actually closes and you can access it from your reputation interface year round allowing you to plan all your purchases at your leisure.

Hunter Noventa
Apr 21, 2010

Der Kyhe posted:

Any worthwhile tips for us new ones to whom this Risa summer event is the first one? Is there something in the store that goes to the "must buy"-category, or is it mostly visual stuff like in the winter event?

As an addendum, the Risian Kit Frame (the plain one) is considered pretty good,a nd a couple of the kit modules are good. But yeah, you'll get better mileage out of hoarding the tokens to sell later. I'd buy at least a basic floater though. And use the powerboard from the phoenix store.

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

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

Buy a basic floater but save up for the top of the line one. It makes future events soooooo much easier

Teron D Amun
Oct 9, 2010

Der Kyhe posted:

Any worthwhile tips for us new ones to whom this Risa summer event is the first one? Is there something in the store that goes to the "must buy"-category, or is it mostly visual stuff like in the winter event?

the risian kitframe is the best in slot cause it can be rerolled to have all [KPERF] stats on it
if you want to get into the Risa activities, getting the best jetpack and speedboard also go a long way (and if you want to farm Lolnuts from Horghan Hunt on multiple characters, speed is essential)

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Hunter Noventa posted:

As an addendum, the Risian Kit Frame (the plain one) is considered pretty good,a nd a couple of the kit modules are good. But yeah, you'll get better mileage out of hoarding the tokens to sell later. I'd buy at least a basic floater though. And use the powerboard from the phoenix store.
Unless I've missed some newer thing I'm pretty sure the Risian kit frame is probably the best frame once you re-engineered it to max kit performance. Problem is you really want at least one or two risian modules to up the weapon damage bonus, and while most of them are pretty decent that's a pretty large investment if you're new. Honestly outside of the kit and bridge officer skill stuff there's no exactly a lot of game-affecting stuff in the event, the vast majority is costumes and pets and so on.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Buy a basic floater but save up for the top of the line one. It makes future events soooooo much easier
God yes. Definitely the first major purchase, it makes doing literally anything in the event about ten times quicker.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Teron D Amun posted:

the risian kitframe is the best in slot cause it can be rerolled to have all [KPERF] stats on it

Asimo posted:

Unless I've missed some newer thing I'm pretty sure the Risian kit frame is probably the best frame once you re-engineered it to max kit performance.
This needs some clarification. The best possible mod for a kit frame is [KPERF] because it makes all your modules better. Cryptic realized this, and made it impossible to get more than [KPERF]x2 on kits, because they knew if they didn't everyone would just run all KPERF. But the plain risian kit frame (not the new one, not the fire one, just the plain risian kit) can get [KPERF]x3, but there's a trick to doing it. If you mess up the trick, it's impossible to fix.

The proper way is to buy the kit on a level 65 char - it will come to you as a VR mk infinity kit. Throw it into the upgrade window and immediately remove it - that will change it from mk infinity to mk XII. Then re-engineer it until it has [KPERF]x2. Then you can upgrade it - when it upgrades to UR it will get another [KPERF] automatically making it [KPERF]x3. If you mess up and upgrade before re-engineering it, the game will prevent it from rolling [KPERF]x3, so you have to do things in the right order.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
Is my understanding correct? You can't complete the event if you don't log in every day? I'm om vacation for a week so I'm hosed?

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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.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Is my understanding correct? You can't complete the event if you don't log in every day? I'm om vacation for a week so I'm hosed?

Event runs from 6/30 to 7/30, so a full 31 day month.

You need to do the event 20 times.

So you're fine as long as you get in and get your dailies when you're not on vacation.

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