Goat Pillager posted:

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9048733

A "Build a doff" contest is going on. I think everyone could use Butts or Nbreeki as a doff. The buffs of course should apply to disco.

Edit: Maybe a Xean doff as well that actually debuffs you or applies random confuse effects to your crew.

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I went to externity channel once. I didn't see much in the way of help being offered by the official members and such. What I did see though filled me with shame.

AOTC was there and was trying to engage with the members of the channel. He was ignored. This struck me as both sickening and saddening beyond description. It also put lie to any claims of being a legitimate help channel, here's AOTC - a guy who's probably forgotten more about this game then most of us (devs included) will ever know, a legendary player, someone supremely qualified to help people, and he's ignored.


Really. You guys should have been thanking him and humbly asking him for help. I don't know most of the posters in this thread and yet I'm pretty confident that the only person posting here who's in his league of skill and knowledge would be cesbot. I mean, if I had started a help channel, and I really wanted to help people, and homeboy graced my ranks, I'd beg him to be an admin. I'd turn the channel over to him. Dude. Seriously.

For those of you who shamefully don't know who AOTC is/was, as I don't know if he even plays the game anymore, in the old days there was very little info about how to set up a ship correctly available to the general public. There was basically Husnak's old thread and then Hilbert's guide. Hilbert's guide was set up though just to teach you how not to suck, how to set up basic macro's and make a decent build using free ships and mission rewards. It was extraordinary and probably the most helpful thing ever made for this game. AOTC and his guildmates though came in and showed the general public how to go to the next level. How to set up a lockbox ship, which ones are ideal, how to run aux2batt, what those things are, what stf sets to use on what ships, how they work, how to excel. Myself and many other players were deeply indebted to his builds and the generous sharing of knowledge.

That's just some of the things he contributed to this game. I would imagine there were times he knew more about this game then a lot of the devs. Some of his lasting contributions include opening 1,000+ lockboxes to get sample sizes and arrive at basic probabilities of getting ships, information he shared with the public and has made it's way into the sto wikis and the like. This is a player coming from a guild who's understanding of the game code was sufficient that they made improvements to things like the launcher and loot critter, some of which the devs even implemented. And he was totally ignored in this Externity help channel. No one said as much as hello to him, let alone answered his questions.

I would add that unlike others, he's never asked for any kind of credit for this stuff. He never created chat channels or fleets in his name. He didn't ask for gratitude. To the contrary he tried to organize pretty serious large scale give away events but was met with resistance from PWE.

That a legend within STO was treated that shabbily by the original poster and his fleet were all I needed to see. I left the channel without saying a word and never went back.

I'm not connected to AOTC, I've never been in a guild or raided with him, I doubt he would even recognize me ingame. I think the last time I saw him around prior to the chat channel was the day we first got the party balloons in droz a few years ago and had the geometry breaking party to end all parties. Yet he helped countless players, myself and my friends included, and for that I am grateful. Sean, I would emphatically advise you to emulate his example.

Unguided posted:

Kimsemus posted:

Thanks for the help guys, I shot them an email and it registered with their support system. Now I'll just see what happens. My current level 50 is a tactical officer, and I'd like to cut my teeth in open PVP -- if i remember the old meta, dual cannons were pretty much the business on almost any ship for PVP, is that still the case?

Soviet Commubot posted:

For people who don't care enough to click, so they can see just how dumb this is:

Aleth posted:

Poor Smirk, outdone a week before his own fabulous event.

Mondian posted:

Enjoy my response before it gets redacted.

The saddest pubbie posted:

Agreed. I actually simply dismissed my Vulcan first officer and copied everything about her to a new purple quality one, which was sad as she had everything I wanted, just everything was an uncommon level instead of a purple...and she lost her place beside me on the character select screen. Very sad as she is my character's wife.

Berke Negri posted:

What was the four year anniversary like? I remember when I started playing back in uh, May or June people were still bitching about it months later.

Tunicate posted:

Um... was it the dyson ship, or the ambassador?

Dely Apple posted:

Next up: Fill your ship with refined dilithum so you can fly places and do missions.

Orv posted:

To what extent is faction choice as Romulan important? Presumably Feds are still way more populated so public quest style stuff is easier to grind for them (if you can't do those cross faction that is) and Klingons were at one point the way to go to gently caress with people in PvP but I take it the warning in the OP is still valid.

kafziel posted:

Is it a good upgrade path? I mean, Acc/Acc/Dam/Dam isn't exactly a good spread to begin with.

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Hello Captain,

Thank you for the screenshots and for attaching it to this ticket. Upon further investigation, it appears that it may be the result of a currently unknown bug. While we understand you would like us to be able to resolve your issue quickly, some issues require further development from departments outside our control and cannot be resolved by the CS and GM teams.

I would advise and encourage you to submit it as a bug report at the "Bug Reports" section of the forums. Please rest assured that the relevant teams work to resolve validated issues as quickly as possible.

Korgan posted:

More leaks for this dying game.

DonDoodles posted:

And they also seemed to think that Xtern1ty was another front fleet for Dental, so I guess there is some satisfaction to be taken from that mess.

hakimashou posted:

The Omega Tech Upgrades don't actually give 4x quality improvement chance like the tooltip says, they only give 2x, same as an experimental tech upgrade.

Berke Negri posted:

I don't know, that's a pretty impressive announcement. I was under the impression that such a move (long requested) was impossible due to engine limitations. I am excitedly looking forward to the more immersive sense of exploration we'll have flying around sector space because all the queues are dead and there's nothing else to do.

Cynic Jester posted:

Yaaaaay

Bloodly posted:

I ask sincerely; define the current meta.


Well, that explains it more than anything else. If you can't hope to use the thing it's built around, then what's the point? And for this you've lost the most useful Cruiser Command(The weapon power one).

Bloodly posted:

Just how much damage resistance debuffing is possible now? I mean, Disruptor damage has it's chance-based proc, I suppose slowing a ship would help, and Attack Pattern Beta inflicts a strong debuff(Which is what makes the Recluse still a solid ship even now, since it can throw out multiple copies of the debuff), but is that all that's possible?

Celoth posted:

How important do you think the tac trait will be (All Hands On Deck)? Is it worth grabbing the tac ship just for the trait?