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Archonex posted:I've never installed any kind of mod. I have no idea what's going on. It's a fresh install to boot so that couldn't be the cause. Between it, the texture bugs on the ground, and the random slowdown i'm getting fighting some Undine, it's really starting to make me grind my teeth though. Check your computer isn't cooking off with the usual utilities. Apply the usual fixes.
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300 Earth Dollars posted:ya so DEAR RICHARD letter and all, but is there any way to get off the J4G list? I joined a bad pubbie fleet for fleet items access, then wandered across the s8 thread and discovered there was a goon fleet, asked for access and was labeled J4g. Having played in 3 or 4 goon guilds in different mmos over the years I know better than to try to argue about whether or not you're a spy right when someone calls you a spy, but it's been a while and uh, i'm not a j4g. There isn't a checklist, no. You can start by posting in something other than a Star Trek related thread and showing your ability to integrate with the Greater SA Community. Don't ask "how long for" because there is no end date on this requirement.
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Preechr posted:I just did, but somebody needs to post that picture of Tovan Gat. All done, along with a bonus picture of Commander Frankfurter. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16759401&postcount=29
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Baller Time posted:Do I understand this right that SFD doesn't even have to do anything to get people mad at them? It's like you created a perpetuum mobile of anger. Ironically I think the tipping point was when NoP Public Service was started and we switched overnight from being perceived as a stinking collective of Gollum clones to, well, heroes to people who didn't have tier 5 fleets who were getting ripped off left and right that suddenly had a FREE and UNLIMITED avenue to endgame gear. You know, instead of being extorted 10-20 million just for a map invite to use a vendor. (such as by Task Force Spectre) When we became popular (to a point) it was literally too much for certain individuals to process and they broke. Taking the entire "starbase and fleet holdings access for cash" market and breaking it over our collective knees certainly made a few people positively furious 
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Something about this IP just attracts some of the strangest loving people. And pretty often too. It's like a constant stream of rejects from clown school or something.
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UoI posted:Someone sent this to me, thought I'd share. I don't know what you did but I'm proud of you.
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You know, if this was the kind of game you played in internet cafes (Korean Starcraft style) you'd want to wear a stab vest underneath your jacket. I mean if literal murder happens over a "dragon sword" you can imagine how some of these retards would flip out a boxcutter because you blew up the USS Self Insert Mary Sue and killed their imaginary internet waifu bridge bunnies.
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Blessed be the chosen disciples of Butts and glory to Juche in the name of Eternal Leader.
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Just a heads up for any pure PVE'er in this game: It's tuned for those utter fuckup pubbies to be able to complete. If your core BoFF skill build is good then your actual ship gear is largely irrelevant. Don't stress over getting specific gear at first - it makes it easier but its in no way required to still excel at all the PVE content. What I'm saying is don't be afraid to use mk XI white space lasers until you're space rich if you don't PVP. It really won't stop you beating all the pubbies in a DPS race regardless. Of course if you PVP then disregard all this because having best in slot everything is really loving important there.
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Jul 11, 2014 07:02
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So I'll admit I haven't really been keeping track of the 9.5 changes because I don't really need anything - so for those of us who already have all the endgame gear, traits and doffs we could possibly want (for the moment) are there any sidegrades or notable gimmicks of note in the new crafting grind? Because I don't see a pressing need to swap out anything I already have.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:11
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The free beam overload might be nice, assuming it doesn't clash with FAW.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:50
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MikeJF posted:Excellent, I'd forgotten about those. Gotta get the spectrum. Not really, but those borg gates in STFs are pretty close. No shields and you can shoot them safely from ~3km underneath because their hitbox is larger than 10km
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 I want to play a Star Trek game. This game stopped being a Star Trek MMO. I'm not that vested in Cryptic's corporate future. I really only like Star Trek. So it's not that I want the game to shut down. I just want the game I paid for. A fun, engaging Star Trek game. Under D'Angelo we're getting a treadmill. Look at crafting. There's nothing Trek about that. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=18225671&postcount=7
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They're near dead as far as I can tell.
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Yeah he sure is a special little snowflake. (10:55:05 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: like it does any difference (10:55:14 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: is that really all you can do?? (10:55:21 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: LOL (10:55:47 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: yea use your lil virtual baloon gun kid (10:56:07 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: push the buttons push the bottons (10:56:16 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: show that keyboard how angry you are (10:56:35 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: work it out girl go go mash the buttons (10:56:57 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: and that gun is supposed to intimidate me? (10:57:05 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: hahahahahahaha (10:57:36 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: getting tired in your finger? (11:00:25 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: fyi I dont have any fx sound on so I dont hear your lil virtual baboon gun (11:01:17 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: and even if I did I couldnt care less (11:01:40 PM) dittebean@crypticspace.com/Lucretia: how old are you kid? must be very young this one My crime? Standing AFK next to him on Drozana with a party popper, spraying balloons into the room. Not shown: Two hours of spammed team invites, PVP challenges and a friend request.
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AfroSquirrel posted:I've been away from STO for a bit, and trying to catch up on what's changed since March or so. It looks like there's another lockbox, some new crafting system (R&D?), and a revamped Patrol Escort Refit. I had long since discharged mine so I can't first hand verify, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it worked yes. It was a complete replacement for the existing in-game ship. It's also a pretty good escort now. If you want to be a special snowflake it also makes a pretty good double Aux2Butt DEM beamscort too.
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Jul 30, 2014 16:56
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Burning_Monk posted:As Psycho said, Nope. I've still got the old one. I'll stand corrected then.
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We may see a return of the classic 3xDHC, 1xDBB escorts. Since the drain is gone you'll be wanting BO3. Actually you may want to limit yourself to just 2xDHC and whack on a torpedo with a high yield as well. May as well go all out for the punch through combo. I guess while we're on the topic, the auto-crit favors CritD tactical consoles too. Best ship for this? The 5 tactical console fleet Ar'Kirf. You also get the added bonus of a battle cloak and a hanger.
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Bloodly posted:The Proton probably won't work. There's specific consoles and things for Proton damage from the Dyson rep. Exactly this. Proton is basically like phaser or disruptor damage except only a few things deliver or buff it. Exotic damage is your gravity well & feedback pulse stuff. Especially feedback pulse. That science trait really makes me want to park my fancy-pants carrier and get back into a science destroyer sometime. Feedback pulse boats are going to be nasty with that.
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There is no way that thread won't be deleted or heavily moderated, so here is a copy of that rather angry post you linked which was directed towards a Sad Panda member: *** Originally Posted by skurf View Post You are the biggest ****ing dumbass mother****ing drunkass dip**** bastard this game has ever seen. You can't ****ing remember what happened yesterday, much less a year ago. Your ****ing ****drunk reply about zenith messaging me and me making **** up has already been disproven by a Sad Panda (Min) in this very thread admitting that the current Pandas were not allowed to play against us because you're all a bunch of ****ing pussass mother****ers. Go shove that empty vodka bottle sitting on your desk up your rear end, crap in it, and eat your own **** you ****ing stupid **** of a ****ing **** **** mother****ing ****face dip**** alcoholic dumbass piece of ****. *** As you can see, the argument is eloquent in its swift and rapier like subtlety. 
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When they first introduced the fleet ship system they buffed the galor & bugship to their current level. I would be amazed if they didn't buff all lockbox ships to tier 6 level when Delta comes out. After all they want to keep selling lock boxes, right? We are all looking at probably re-purchasing all our space & ground gear again. Maybe there will be some sort of upgrade mechanic? I doubt it - people spending money to shortcut in-game resource gathering is absolutely part of their business model.
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Now seems a good time to remind everyone that the best weapons in the game (galor pissbeams) scale with your level and you don't need to worry about upgrading them 
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That, and lock box rerun events for a chance to "win that limited time ship you always wanted". They normally have those at the end of each season.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Thanks, appreciate it! Ahem, I think you might have the wrong idea about our attitude to internet spaceships. Nobody who plays this game for any amount of time takes anything too seriously. Welcome aboard!
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Look at all these people coming out of the woodwork because of the excitement related to another 10 levels to grind. Anyway let me summarize all the pubbie feedback in the metagame feedback thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1188601 It's like this. Every pubbie is loving amazing at video games and internet spaceships and knows best. Whenever they die to a poo poo tier NPC its because they weren't healed enough by their other team mates or because the tank didn't draw aggro and they died standing in fire. IN NO WAY did they die because they are, in fact, poo poo. How dare you even suggest such a thing! The nerve! Therefore, whatever shitbox they fly in game needs to be buffed, everything else needs a nerf and they are right and you are wrong because emotional language here. Don't even think of using maths to refute this because they alone know the TRUTH. Everything else is just a comical display of ignorance of how core game mechanics actually work. Also the holy trinity of WoW needs to apply to internet spaceships because reasons. Remember, if you disagree with any of this you are in fact a troll, cyber-bully, space-racist, noob or some classification of bounder and/or scallywag.  A lot of this is ANGRY TRUTH AND JUSTICE because no matter what cryptic and/or PWE do regarding game balancing the simple fact is that pubbie immersion is still ruined because they can't be the one true Kirk flying the original Enterprise. Alone of course because other players in an MMO ruin the experience.  :ralp:
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Cyberball 2072 posted:Skimming over some of the good posts in that thread it seems to me that the game is in need of massive sweeping changes to make it anything near balanced or at the least flat out better (more variety is useful abilities.) In the old days this would be totally doable, even when it was for the worse or killed games like Star Wars Galaxies, there was always the nuclear option of just ripping the old busted up patchwork system out and replacing it with something more modern. In a game like this however, so many people, myself included have invested a lot of money into what they currently have, even if I didn't pay for the zen that bought all my stuff myself, someone paid money for that somewhere along the line and it feels like in this kind of environment, massive sweeping changes would just murder the game dead. (Which I guess it did in other examples too, nevermind.) Well yes, game balance is utterly broken and that's the simple truth. The real question is: "Was there ever balance to begin with?" No.  It doesn't actually matter what they do because the fanbase is inherently and eternally unable to be pleased. Besides which its the same mob that travel to Las Vegas conventions regularly for a convention about a dead low-budget TV show. PWE can pretty much do what they want and they'll still fork out cash hand over fist. It's kind of like Games Workshop fans only the business model actually works for the digital age. The whole metagame feedback thread is just a trap or a holding pen to contain the pubbie until it spills over again, as it inevitably will. They don't give two fucks about what's going on in there but so long as the pubbies are sissy slap fighting each other about spaceships it gives the illusion of listening to the fans. gently caress the fans, they're terrible and deserve what they get 
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The level of self entitlement in this thread is truly epic: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1191001 "I'm willing to hold judgement on the new ship plans since I really don't know anything about what's going to happen, but I will warn you that the main reason I play this game at all is because of the actual Star Trek ships." "Not the "Star Trek-ish" ships that have been invented for this game, but the actual ships from the shows. Even though I know they aren't the "best" in the game, I love my Ambassador, Galaxy-X, and D'Deridex. It gives me a giddy sense of joy to see my Warbird warping in, or move the camera around to see every angle as it glides through sector space." He goes on for a while and ends with this masterpiece: "TLDR: I like my ships, and I'm not going to abandon them. Don't try to make me, find a way to work with me." Sorry I forgot the best part. His thread title? "A caution to the devs" DancingShade fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Bieeardo posted:I do wonder what would happen if CBS, for whatever reason, put the kibosh on T6 or later upgrades for the older-series vessels. I doubt there would be much impact to Cryptic's bottom line, since the real whales are probably buying everything as it comes down the pike, but good god I can smell the stink being raised from here. Nothing gets implemented in STO without CBS approval. All that T6 stuff is already CBS approved.
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DonDoodles posted:Some SSR/Trek Radio pubbie brought back a thread that's been dead for nearly seven months to bitch about Dental. Wow that didn't even last 10 posts before getting closed.
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You can poo poo out another 3 swarmers per hanger every 24 seconds anyway so even if they die a lot you get a fresh batch regularly.
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Alternatively use elite interceptors if you have access to them
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I will not confirm or deny if I made the poo poo-list. Actually I will, I totally made it and he even spelled my in game handle correctly  Must have been my helpful attitude
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Sterling_Archer posted:So do we think the galor beams will scale to 60? They're level scaling as the infinity symbol represents, so yes.
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DonDoodles posted:Xtern1ty stuff: Fixed that for you.
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Dingdong914 posted:Can I get sorted on the wiki? Registered as Dingdong914. Hmm less than 2 month old account, only posts in STO thread. Seems legit.
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Dingdong914 posted:My 47 page theisis on the merits of break dance fighting at Drozana will be ready on Tuesday. I don't think its entirely sunk in yet, possibly because of your "high functioning" autism so I'll be blunt: You're a filthy J4G - that's join for guild - who can just gently caress OFF. We don't want you or give two shits about you. My how clever you are, spending the price of two coffees to hang out with the cool kids and their star treks, eves and animes. You aren't getting access to anything just because you spent  on an internet forum. That doesn't give you access to poo poo.I already know what you're thinking "Oh I'll just wait six months and try again! If I try really hard to be cool they'll accept me!". Nope, you loving blew it.
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Yo dawg, I heard you liked grinding so now you can grind your ships while you grind your captain while you grind your rep trees. Yo.
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JuffoWup posted:They already did that, it comes with the ablative armor console. Unless it they are refreshing it (it needs it). Did you know the chimera was one of the failed Odyssey design contest entrants? Well it was. While it was modeled in game by Cryptic it was "designed" by someone else entirely. http://vektorvisual.com/blog/2011/01/15/star-trek-online-design-the-next-enterprise-contest-entry/comment-page-1/ So basically the reason is looks retarded is that it was supposed to be a far larger ship (Odyssey sized) and when they shrunk it down to the pocket destroyer it now is it became a space guppy.
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