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Just go with an AP beam array and the AP 360 beam from sphere of influence if you want wide firring arcs on your shuttle.beepee posted:I petered out on STO just before the whole Perfect World acquisition. Just spotted this thread, tried logging in, and apparently I have to link my old account to a new Arc/PWE account, and it has to be done manually by support staff? Currently going through this whole rigmarole: https://support.arcgames.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4362 Roll a romulan tac if you're makng a new character. The Romulan eps are really good and a rom tac is the best race/class combo. If you really want a fed or klank that's fine as well. They've both had an overhaul of their episodes as well so there's fun to be had there as well. As for what to expect once you're done leveling: STO is a decent f2p MMO that really doesn't gently caress you over for not having a sub at all. The space combat is still the main draw since the ground is just generic MMO with phasers. They've got some fun ground content now at least even if the mechanics are nothing special.
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beepee posted:I shouldn't admit this on SA but uh There's more than a few goons who have paid for lifetime, many of them long after the f2p conversion. You should also be sitting on a huge pile of zen when you get your account back so that's handy I guess.
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wdarkk posted:It's four prisoners, so they're a really great value, the problem is they're not always up and they take 8 hours. Yeah just fill those when you're out marauding (they're in pi canis, regulus and eta eridani which are all good marauding sectors) dump and leftovers into any open colonization fleet projects for extra fleet credit.
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LordCo posted:The Kurland one is perfect. Two spots left... Please spay or neuter your Caitian. Butts died for your autism.
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I've spent well over $1000 in zen on this game. Paid actual money for like $20 of it though. I'm very thankful for all the sperg-lords starting their own little fleets.
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Mogomra posted:You spent $980 of "fake" money? Oh it's real money just paid for by some other sperglord. That's a conservative estimate as well since I can't really track how many keys I've sold. I dropped 12500 zen on the legacy pack just last weekend actually to grab the Romulan ships I didn't have already and the boff/doffs. I was also one of those guys who bought the 9-pack of Dyson ships. I've got alts, contra and an unhealthy addiction to account unlocks. Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 01:54 on May 31, 2014 |
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Poison Mushroom posted:Okay, is the mission Diplomatic Orders bugged? I got absolutely stomped by a ship with basically impenetrable shields, even when I was shooting down all the proton torpedos, and after the reinforcements arrived. Without me shooting too, they can't even overcome his hull regen with what little bleedthrough they've got, and with my help, I got wrecked. I you want to play as a vulcan sci, play as a vulcan sci. Don't play on anything except normal while leveling. The rewards increase for bumping it up is negligible and higher difficulties are more annoying bullshit than actual fun challenge.
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Here's a fleet D'dex build that you can work towards. You're going to need technicians to make it work. Three greens will be enough to run it but you'll want to hit up B'tran for the free purple techs. You only need two purples with two copies of aux2bat. You're also going to want a blue or purple quality debuff cleanse warp core eng. Lastly you need the Voth tractor beam officer that turns the push on tractor beam repulsors into a pull and however many photonic aftershock doffs you can fit. If you have two purple techs and the 6th active space slot from the spire you can get three. You fly it like an aux2bat cruiser with a nifty gimmick. The gimmick is you can vacuum up poo poo with TBR and photonic shockwave the poo poo out of it. You're also using tetryon weapons so the T5 Nukara rep power will have a big boost to damage, so feel free to pop it in between TBR and PSW for a shitload of extra damage. If you really hate tetryon you don't need it but it's super nice on this build and cheap as poo poo on the exchange.
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g0del posted:It's not so much that people are fans of Shinzon, as that people like to min/max, and not many ships can even come close to the amount of damage that a scimitar can put out. Yeah you run the Scim because it's an OP as gently caress killdozer. The fact that it's an ugly-rear end looking pile of ship from a terrible movie is just gravy. FuturePastNow posted:Like the one I saw in the battlezone that Thalaron'd a planet killer from behind. Yeah the best part of OP ships like the scim is watching the idiots completely gently caress them up. Defiance Industries posted:Look for the ones labelled "Assault Cruiser." Yeah the assault cruiser or the the Avenger make great DPS beam boats. They're cruisers not escorts though. If you want something with more zip you should start grinding out the Risian corvette once the event starts on Thursday, that's the escort you have to run with beams because you go too fast to keep things in your front arc. It's also looks fabulous.
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Weissritter posted:I suppose the reason trying to turn escorts into beam boats do not work so well is due to having less weapon slots overall? It's more that you can usually get better DPS out of DHCs + turrets. So if you're doing to do it you want something that can zip around fast enough to make the DHC's impractical. Woolie Wool posted:I have to wait for my fleet to upgrade their spire No you don't. Ask in the [TheNextGooneration] or [NoP Public Service] and you can get an invite to one of our completed spires for the tac consoles. We can get you everything except fleet ships this way as well. NoP PS is a public channel btw.
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Hakarne posted:When fitting an escort with a torpedo, should you still use the kinetic cutting beam or just put another turret in there? I'm interested for both PvE and PvP applications. Keep the cutting beam. revtoiletduck posted:Does anyone ever use single cannons for anything? Single cannons are useful for shuttles with built in CRF and for cannon cruisers. The cannon cruiser relies on DEM to not be terrible so you need a ship that is eng heavy enough to fit DEM and tac heavy enough for CRF and APO. Works nicely on a scim. You won't get the raw damage of a DHC escort or a FaW cruiser but an alarming amount of your damage will bypass shields so it's a fun pvp build for ganking escorts and sci ships. It's hilarious watching them pop with 100% shields. You'll waqnt to ignore poo poo like recluses though, you're probably not going to be able to kill them. For PVE it's not optimal but it's good enough to carry pubbies through just about any non-NWS PVE.
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Berke Negri posted:Is there a good list of quality foundry missions around or is it all furrasian ERP and farms the whole way down? You can give mine a shot: My Favorite Game (fed) Blood, Bij and Honor (kdf) My Favorite Game is a short comedy mission. Blood, Bij and Honor is an actual proper mission.
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Oh yeah Vulture Wheel is good for fast dil KDF side. It's not a great mission but it's good for the daily spotlight bonus and you can run it in 2 minutes or less.
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Melchior posted:I wasn't even aware that dilithium was a reward for foundry missions. How does that work? Does this mission just award dil when you turn it in? Is there a limit for it daily or what? Reason I ask is I ran a mission once that was supposed to reward it and it didn't. There is a repeatable mission under your available mission list called "Investigate Officer Reports" which gives 960 dil for running a qualifying foundry mission. You also get 1440 bonus dil every 20 hours for running a "spotlight" mission.
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Sleepy District posted:The overhealing was being counted for scoreboards in Fleet Alerts meaning a Rom ship with the Valdore console had a pretty easy time getting first place rewards, especially on maps like CCE which scores healing done higher than others. It's also intended to give them a more accurate measure of the amount of healing it actually does so they can make a more informed decision about how hard they want to nerd it for real down the line.
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Woolie Wool posted:This is my DD build This build is hosed up and poo poo, please get wiki access and unfuck your poo poo.
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Dante posted:Signed up as Dante for the wiki, hope this internet spaceship game is better than Eve! You can get like 99% of the tears you get out of EVE with 1% of the effort. Basically this is a really casual mmo full of sperglords that take it super-seriously. So you end up untouchable because there are literally no in game consequences to absolutely anything but that doesn't stop them from having huge meltdowns over poo poo that doesn't matter.
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alfheimwanderer posted:Quick question: With all the new torpedoes coming out lately, is it still worth it to use the Rom Hyperplasma Torpedo for PvE (I'm currently driving an Armitage)? Or would the Gravimetric Photon or Enhanced Bio-Molecular Photon be better? I replaced the Romulan torp with the Dyson torp because the shorter travel time on photons is nice and running the torp with the Dyson console gives a +3% crith bonus. I'd pick it up for sure if you've got the dil/marks.
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I submitted my KDF foundry mission for consideration as a spotlight mission. If it gets accepted I won't be able to make any further changes so could any klanks that haven't done so already please run Blood, Bij and Honor: Episode 1 and let me know if they find any embarrassing typos that I need to change while I still can. I'm pretty certain it's polished at this point but you never know. Send a mail to @lagomorphic if you find anything. Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Thanks for the kind words as well as all the help proofreading the mission. It's really helpful since the text editing in the foundry is frequently a pain to proofread. I mean look at this poo poo:  For the record most of the non-security personnel in the market shootout are set to timid and you are in no way required to murder them. If you're not super careful about your shooting the vast majority of them will die in the crossfire. The idea of a big market shootout with innocents caught in the crossfire was the core idea that the mission is built around. I specifically designed the puzzle as a way to force the player talk to them and get to know them a little before the impending massacre.
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Yeah you're a week late but you still have enough time to get both of the Risa ships. Do the jetpack races on two different characters. Once you have one of the ships it drops the cost for that ship to 40 pearls on all of your other characters.
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That's the polite name for the rape cave. It's a cave on the non-resort Risa map that is pretty popular with certain types. If you'd like to know more and do your part to combat this menace please run My Favorite Game, it's under fed foundry missions.
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Honestly the clusterfuck scramble for the flag at the end is the only thing remotely interesting or challenging about the stupid race. Also just making it to the finish line will get you two monkey tags and you only need 6 of those every 24hrs to keep the monkey train rolling at full marks.
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Yeah hopefully just saving it for the big 5 year anniversary next year.
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Veotax posted:Am I reading that right? Are Star Clusters just loving gone? Yeah they're just loving gone. Hit the waypoint for your doff jobs. Don't expect a revamp anytime soon either those exploration missions apparently made up a huge chunk of the downloaded assets thanks to the huge number of lovely maps. Also the only thing the added to the game was a trap that kept catching new players and convincing them to quit before they even got into the episodes. Also if you really want a huge selection of lovely missions designed by emotionless machines devoid of any actual creativity there's still the foundry.
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MikeJF posted:Any word on Aegis? A while back someone was posting in a thread about how badly they wanted mk xii Aegis and dev popped into a thread to say that he'll be really interested in future previews. That's about it as far as confirmation goes but it seems extremely likely to me. kzin602 posted:On the topic of DBB, with the existence of the 360' beams is there a reason to not use DBB on sciscorts now? The Temporal ships could use the Temporal Warfare DBB, two AP DBB and the temporal torpedo... put a borg cutter, the obelisk beam and an [arc] beam on the back and be able to stack one damage type. Or is there another inherit property of DBB that makes them worse? You could probably adapt this setup for a sci-ship: http://wiki.wesleyguide.com/jjdeeps Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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almost1337 posted:I'd like to request wiki/channel access; almost1337 on the wiki, @reddishwizardguy in-game. Yeah nice try J4G.
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Go down fighting. Also the undine rep poo poo is decent. I went balls out with all of it on a fleet Somraw and it's sufficient for murdering PVE. Also you get 3 activated abilities if you like those. I can't really recommend it as the set to go for but it's worth dicking about with if you have the dil to burn.
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Lorak posted:I don't really get all the hate on the Dyson Science Destroyers. On paper, the tactical one seems better than the Mobius and S'Golth in most respects, except perhaps for the fused DHCs and bridge officer slots. The fused gun is a pain and ultimately they're just fairly expensive decent science ships. The KDF and Rom versions are interesting mostly because of the dearth of science options for those factions. They're not terrible they're just not that great and having a $100 pack attached really doesn't help the impression. The hate is pretty irrational but hating on mediocre ships is half the fun of this game (the other half is flying them and still outperforming baddies).
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Berke Negri posted:The impression Ive had is that anything is pretty viable with enough bling thrown on it (old fed science ships excluded because they havent been rebalanced in fiur years) Yeah once you're geared up and understand what makes a build good you can PVE in anything. That said there's no point in gimping yourself with a weak ship or gimmicky crap when you're first starting out. The main reason we fixate on the good ships is because the people who can tear up poo poo in a catbus daren't the people asking for ship recommendations.
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The main advantege of the Dyson EV is that: a) it saves you carrying armor and an EV suit around and b) if you grab one from the mission and equip it to a boff the game will let you grab another, letting you equip all of your boffs we decent armor/EV suits in one run of the mission.
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Nice, you should really have a separate tab setup for grabbing pastebins that has stuff like NoP PS filtered out. Just set one up with only tells,team, local and zone and call it "tears".
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Yeah they're throwing temper tantrums about not being allowed to have biweekly temper tantrum's about poo poo that's long since been settled.
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Yeah but because of the way damage gets calculated you get almost no extra damage from [dmg] mods. It only adds 10% of your base damage so thats +10% of the damage you get out of a common mk I gun without tac consoles or skill points in weapons. [acc]x2 [ctd] is a pretty affordable combo and is really good if you mostly PVE and don't want to swap guns everytime you PVP. Or just get romulan plasma with [acc]x2 for all purpose or [crtd]x2 for PVE stomping. Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Yeah get wiki access and read Pulse's build before you spend anymore money or dil.
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Melchior posted:So who else is ready for dilithium weekend? Two weeks to go and I've got close to 20k marks stored over three characters. Wondering if it's worth converting them to zen prior to 9.5 release or just keeping the dilithium. Yeah with rep change and sponsership in effect I've been grinding out reps on about a dozen alts and am going to be turning those in and then grinding the mark payouts. Also there's this:  So yeah I think I'm ready. Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Yeah the two main combos are: assimilated 2-piece + Dyson shield or Omega 2-piece + resilient elite fleet shield (ResB). The Omega setup gives you tetryon glider for extra shield damage and the assimilated gives you a fuckload of built in hull and shield regen which either lets you survive anything or be less defensive in your boff powers without dying. The undine stuff is okay and gives you some fun click powers but I don't think it's as good as the omega or assimilated combo so don't bother with it until you've got dil to burn on trying out new gimmicks.
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Berke Negri posted:What is the decision point stat over whether to do beams or DHCs? Turn rate? Yeah you want a base turn rate of at least 12 before DHC's are worth the effort. The Risian corvette is the weird edge case where it goes to fast and turns too well to use DHC's effectively. For anything else look at the turn rate.
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