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CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

I figured I'd add another game to my play schedule in addition to EVE. Spaceships, yum.

Drone1138@reekaro <- In game
reekaro <- wiki account

Not sure what I need to do to get accepted to the space club (because I'm stupid). Also, the tutorial did tell me how to turn auto fire on, unfortunatly I ignored the command as I was getting smacked around by some ships at the time.

Also, does the wiki contain hints on basic play? Things like adjusting shields and power levels? I've gimped through some of the missions, but it sure would be easier if I could figured out how to redistribute shields, etc.

EDIT: Note that I changed my main character, the first one was a bit of an abortion.

CrushedWill fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jun 29, 2014

# ¿ Jun 29, 2014 18:20

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 04:41

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Korgan posted:

You're both invited to the channel and/or wiki, someone will sort you out with a fleet invite if you ask in TheNextGooneration.

Thanks for the invite, I've confirmed channel and wiki access are working properly. I have a lot of reading to do, this game is... different.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2014 04:19

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Korgan posted:

Bombard the channel with questions as needed, it's what we made it for.

It took me better than 20 minutes to figure out how to beam back to my ship last night, I'll do my best to not poo poo up the channel.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2014 17:16

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

So I am in the process of trying to put STO on another computer. I installed the Arc client, installed STO, and patched it. All appeared ok until I launched STO. I now have a black screen with the graphics cursor only, and the music chiming away.

Is there anyway to lower the graphics res without successfully launching the game? Or a safe mode or something?

# ¿ Jun 30, 2014 19:29

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Sir Coq of Nandos posted:

That's a pain in the arse. I think I had to change my resolution in a text file - there should be advice on the official forum.

There was no advice dealing with what I saw (makes it past launcher, cryptic cylon bar, STO splash but dies at character selection). Even better, even know Im a gold customer, there is apparently a waiting period for posting to the support forum, loving stupid.

FYI, for me the fix was as follows:

1. Launch launcher
2. Options -> Safe Mode
3. Once in game, select Esc, Settings (or whatever the screen is to adjust options)
4. Switch to windowed mode, and select DX9 instead of auto

I also upgraded the graphics drivers for the PC and still occasionally get video driver crashes, but the game runs on the slow PC and looks like Im running it in CGI mode.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 05:10

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Doctor Zero posted:

poo poo man, Robot Chicken made a documentary on Dental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjPOrXMaR4

I've been working hard at failing my post 50 leveling tasks, is Risa full of disco ball dancing Dental/NoP?

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 05:52

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MikeJF posted:

I got that Plasma Piercing Beam rifle and gave it a go, it's awesome. Even in non-FPS mode you can just stand there with your finger held down on the 1 key and fires forever. Is it the only thing in the game that does that?

I picked one up as well. While damage doesn't seem that much higher in individual instances like the Borg or Nukara, it works exceedingly well with a team. And 1 button press is slick.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 18:15

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

Is Arc down, or am I just special?

# ¿ Jul 17, 2014 19:06

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Dootman posted:

If watching bad television shows is something you enjoy, then sure. Personally, I think Voyager is worse.

I agree. If Janeway was a man, the Feds would have run her out of Starfleet for repeatedly sexually harassing her crew.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 04:43

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Woolie Wool posted:

The use of bar graphs instead of a pie chart for the doff mission completion odds is terrible, what the hell were they thinking? They previously had just about the ideal graph design for that sort of data and then they switch it to one that's entirely unsuitable.

I also don't like the fact that there is apparently no way to sort existing doff assignments by time remaining. That was default sort order, now it's sorted in order if when was assigned. Useless.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 04:52

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Woolie Wool posted:

Something needs to be done about the Tholian red alert because the success rate for them is abysmal and unless you get lucky you're basically throwing your time away.

I don't even take that daily anymore. To be fair, I just assumed that it was my poor play or ignorance of objectives that resulted in all the wasted time, but maybe it's not all my doing.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 04:48

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

I've got to apologize for those of you that invited me (reekaro) to my very first KSE. I kept trying to play through a flaky router that had been acting up all night, and it went out in the middle of the mission. Nothing like having some goons try and help me out only to ratfuck them while helping me.

Sorry about that, back to pubbing for a while, I don't care what happens there.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 07:25

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Anybody know if the Ghosts of the Jem'Hadar assignment chain is still available? I've been looking for a week for the first assignment. I'm also assuming it would appear in Cardassian space?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 06:18

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FuturePastNow posted:

There are two precedents that have been set- the first, as you note, is when the JHAS and the Galor got updated to fleet-ship stats. And I think they'll do that again, and update all of the lockbox ships to T6. There's just too much real money involved in past and future lockbox ships for them to ignore that.

Unless I'm missing something, there is no incentive for them to update past lockbox ships and every incentive for them to not offer an upgrade. Introduce a Galor T6, and all Galor T5 owners will get instawood to have the latest and greatest.

Those that don't pine for the upgrade are just taking up bandwidth.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 05:23

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

I have a bit if a quandary at this point. My space damage blows compared to most (even pubbies) when involved in things like ISE. I'm doing my best to improve the easily identifiable things like weapons (using rom mk xii plasma DHC x3, dyson torp, cutting beam), skills, traits, and anything else I can think of.

Unless somebody can suggest a cardinal mistake that noobs make that I likely have, I'm thinking its time to upgrade either my ship (basic ha'feh now but would like to move to cruiser/whale) or start buying decent space boffs (Roms with sop).

Ant suggestions? I feel like the ignorant shitheel that should be doing better but isn't.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 05:50

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Tunicate posted:

All power to weapons.

I've done that, but that doesn't mean I haven't missed something basic like that :x

EDIT: Drone1138@reekaro

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 05:57

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Nessus posted:

Are your tactical consoles right with Kahless? Is your weapon energy where it should be (high)?

I can't log in right now, but tac consoles are crap but at least the right energy type. I prob should look over space traits again.

I plan on upgrading to fleet tac consoles at some point but I think they would run about 200k fc for the 4 of them. I haven't ground that many fc yet.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 06:06

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Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah your gear looks good. You'll want to upgrade to fleet tac consoles at some point and replace those neutroniums with a fleet neautronium with +turn and the Valdore's console. I'd do that before worrying about your turrets which should eventually get upgraded to mk xii's to match the DHC's.

Your boff skills are also fine. You can improve them but you need some doffs to do it. You'd want a debuff cleanse warp core engineer, 2 of the conn officers that reduce attack pattern cooldowns (these are going to be expensive as gently caress though) and 3 damage control engineers. The conn officers let you run tac team, attack pattern delta, crf 2 and APO3 along with tac team, torp spread 2, crf 2 for nearly 100% attack pattern uptime. The damage control engineers let you swap the 2nd EptS for EptW/EptE which gets you more DPS for PVE or speed for PVP with almost no loss in shield healing.

So I'd say that you're good for now. Any improvements are going to cost you money so just keep saving. Also upgrade to superior romulan operative as soon as your budget allows but don't bother with purple doffs. Blues are like 10 mil cheaper and the quality makes no difference outside of ground poo poo and even then it's very little difference.

Edit: You don't have to buy all your tac consoles at once. Just get them as you can afford them.

It sounds like tac consoles and valdores are first on the list. Grinding FC should become a whole lot easier as I finish the colony chains and begin to have decent quality doffs roll in for grinding.

Thanks for the feedback, I sincerely appreciate it.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 06:52

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Mazreal posted:

I just started playing this a few days ago, and I have to say, this romulan campaign is the best star wars mmo on the market.

This game reminds me of SWTOR a great deal in terms of look, feel, and bugs.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 04:27

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Danaru posted:

I have made a horrible mistake.

I finished the horrible mistake last night. FFS, that was painful both in terms of length and content.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 19:55

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Thronde posted:

Funny enough, I've gone from 15 to nearly 30 in a matter of hours with Railrokh running me through patrol missions, turns out those are far faster (and less tedious) than story mode.

How fast would that be without having a lvl 50 escort to help you with the missions? Not being a smart aleck, just wondering if it would be faster on a solo basis.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2014 04:22

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Thronde posted:

Sub-Level 10 someone was trying it last night and spent 15 minutes doing one patrol, but that was in the Miranda. Once you get the first level 10 ship, it's probably not as bad. I'm going to make a pair of new chars (Klank and Fed) and run the respective regions mapping out each patrol and what it is (If they don't change from system to system). Seems that Patrols even with doing them solo would be faster than the majority of missions that have you running back and forth not shooting for 15 minutes. Plus no cutscenes.

EDIT: Turns out there is a list of Patrols: http://sto.gamepedia.com/List_of_missions#Miscellaneous

I only ask because I personally believe a fantastic edition to the wiki would be a guide on some of the fastest ways to power level from 1-50. Honestly, once one has done the fed/kdf/rom stories once for shits and giggles, they shouldnt have to be endured again for alts being leveled up. Unless you are into that sort of thing.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2014 19:00

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Burning_Monk posted:

For me the annoying thing is that once you've done them all, you then have to go back and do certain ones again at max level to get the higher level items. Making you do some missions at least two (sometimes THREE or FOUR times! looking at you 2800) per alt.

The superstars who've played a great deal know the ins and outs of what does and doesnt need to be run again for alts. I'm trying to figure out the best path to take for future alts I want to grind to 50 that maximizes leveling speed while also getting all the needed bits for progress.

Edit: 50, not 5-

CrushedWill fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Aug 20, 2014

# ¿ Aug 20, 2014 19:15

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Atrayonis posted:

So, today technical and I played the new spotlight missions Mirror Nova.
Announced as a part (the winner) of Foundry Challenge #9 (the Mirror of New Romulus), expectations were running high.
Does Mirror Nova deliver? No.

Playtime: 30 minutes
Rating: 3/5
Canary: Suicide by Reman
Dil reward: Bugged out and did not give me a reward
Strengths: You can blow up pink Remans on the ground map
Weaknesses: Technobabble, bad science, kinda lackluster, doesn't actually contain Mirror New Romulus

Short summary: You are sent to look after a disappeared Romulan ship. After space portion #1 where you discover a portal into the mirror universe you are stopping (ground portion) the Reman Empire from invading our New Romulus by (space portion #2) blowing up the sun (and escaping by technobabble). It's pretty bland if you only skim the dialogue, but if you read them you will start pulling out your hair.

Long summary: After D'Tan demands you meet him on New Romulus you find yourself foisted off to some nameless assistant who sends you out to find the RRW LostShip which was last seen in some system which the New Romulans have a terraforming interest in. Once you are in said system, your science officer surprises you by telling you that not only does the sun emit as therefor only theoretically conceived particle, but it also forms a lattice in the system for unknown reasons. Oh, and the sun will create a big explosion in under an hour which will saturate the system with these particles. After scanning some particle clouds (where we also find out this shiny particle is radioactive), a portal forms and we are promptly swallowed by it and spat out on the other side - we know this is the mirror universe because there's a transwarp gate and a Romulan base nearby.

Sadly, as we find out, this base is protected by comic book villain Remans (they offer to only torture and kill us if we surrender, instead of defeating and THEN torturing and killing us) which we promptly blow up. Getting a mystery transmission with some coordinates from the station, we beam in on one coordinate (trusting the sender blinds as Fed captains are wont to do) and are now on board of a Reman station, where we promptly kill the poo poo out of the inhabitants.

Thankfully it turns out that the Remans' security system relies entirely on IDs carried by implants and we can somehow emulate these implant signals with our bog standard tricorders. After my officers are done laughing about the dumb Remans (and one officer remarks 10 minutes after being implanted with a transponder that they'd never be implanted with anything) we are on our way into high security labs cordoned off by colorful fog (supposedly not a security feature but for detox).

We find the only Romulan on board of the station who is of course a member of the terribly oppressed Romulan Resistance and sent us the coordinates. She wants us to blow up the sun with a Soranite torpedo and waxes poetically about Soran from Star Trek VII. There might be a theme here, as we find out later: the Romulan Resistance blew up Romulus' sun with such a torpedo and the Remans killed off New Romulus with talaron weapons. Well it's not like this is the brainiac universe. So we technobabble up the needed materials (killing more Remans on the way), have 10 minute of terrible doubt about this poo poo and then leave to blow up the sun so that the Reman fleet of 931 loving Warbirds and 13 stations doesn't invade the poo poo out of us when the sun does its thing in less than an hour. The Romulan scientist of course stays behind so that we don't have any unfortunate questions to ask ourselves later on. Oh and the RRW LostShip's crew was of course tortured to death so we don't have any inconvenient prisoners to free either.

In space portion 2 we do some dodging around nav points, blow up two more warbirds, and then shoot the sun with a torpedo. Thankfully Fed scientists have used 4 minutes inbetween beaming back on board and flying towards the sun to figure out how they can use this side's version of the lattice to ride the particle shockwave from the sun as it blows up back into our universe. So okay, we kinda anticlimatically steer into the sun (STO's space assets are not made for this, much less foundry maps so I kinda hang out in the corona while the foundry hasn't yet realized I hit the nav point), and it disappears to show us some Romulans who were sent to for the disappeared Federation ship which was looking for the disappeared Romulan ship. It's never made clear why this side's sun is in another spot from the mirror sun, but whatever. The mission ends here and technical got his reward (I didn't). gently caress teaming up in the foundry!

Aside from bog standard gameplay, the mission is dragged down by the science/technobabble bullshit. I went past walls of text to watch my bridge officers click some buttons to change Paralithium into Trilithium. A honorable mention goes to the terrible characters (the comic book villain Remans who keep losing planets left and right stand out as well as the Romulans who feel the need to name their sun-killing torpedoes after our universe's Soran), and the few sad attempts of the foundry author to give us choice (we get to choose between "Goodbye" "Good luck", "By the elements", "This is logical" and similar things and have exactly two species specific answers). It's not technically a bad, just medicore mission, but the moment you stop shooting things to actually read the dialog it becomes nearly unbearable technobabble bullshit of the worst kind.

Normally, I'd scoff at anybody that didn't use a spoiler tag for this. Given how poo poo this mission is, I am now feeling a debt of gratitude for saving others from running this mission.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 02:44

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

Szcwczuk posted:

Thanks for this, it's so nice to see someone that can follow the instructions CLEARLY marked in the OP.

I'm not sure he did, I don't see the video of him singing the Uhura part from the TOS episode in the post.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 02:16

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To my fellow STO devs. Fix the loving level 9 mission in KDF assignment chain. How the hell are new players supposed to get hooked on this terrible game if they can't finish the mission?

Oh and nice job on getting the assignments to complete. 3rd try really worked!

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 04:36

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DonDoodles posted:

There are lots of pubbies on STO that hate us and have attempted to join Dental/the channel from spending 10bux on this forum. While this is definitely what I'd call a slow period for Dental/Nop antics, we still have a few things going on that we'd rather not broadcast beyond Dental/Nop.

If this a problem (and I'm not doubting you), the next thread OP should contain a small blurb on bare minimums needed to apply to the space club. Just my .02.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 21:35

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Asimo posted:

Technically the free T4 ships aren't either, and the mirror ships are basically just... those, so.

The real issue is that unless there's free T6 ships for folks (and there won't be) this means that purely F2P players are now two tiers behind the folks who buy stuff. That will make it even harder to balance content and stuff. Not that Cryptic really tries to or cares about it, but still.

Unless I'm missing something, f2p players can get zen ships via dil. Process is certainly slower but it's available.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 05:37

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

What is the release date for Delta? I'm wondering if it's worth picking up fleet target dmg mods and I don't want to waste the fc if the expansion is coming soon.

I'm new, fc still matters.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 05:05

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Thom12255 posted:

Around October 17th.

Thanks for the info. I'll prob go ahead and upgrade things like boffs, getting my sixth space doff and getting the assimilated set, then see where I'm at in terms of time. If I don't have much time left before release once all that is done then I'll save the fc and dil for upgraded gear later.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 18:58

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Let me preface by saying that I'm one of the least skilled players in Dental/NoP, I'm flying a Scim that is not properly equipped, and I'm in a house that is two blocks away from a street festival that attracts drunks and loud noises.

I just got out if a CCE where me and two other toons were apparently the only ones that had any sort of clue about what needed to happen to complete the mission. None of the fragments were managed so a death zone appeared which instantly blipped the lower level ships. I dealt with it by flying a 5km circle around the entity and spamming FAW. Took a good 15 mins to get from the last pulse to death.

Are pubbies really that much worse than I am? Also, am I the only one that ran CC on normal a few times to understand how it worked ?

# ¿ Aug 31, 2014 03:33

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

Am I correct in assuming that mail sent to char@account can be picked up by any @account character?

# ¿ Sep 1, 2014 23:04

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FrostyJones posted:

I'm doing ok with TR rifles myself, but there's maybe 3 people that'll churn out batches of 5 rifles trying for UR and just undercut each other to hell.

A lot of the other schools look like a wash.

Speaking of TR rifles, I (@reekaro) saw your PM earlier in my XMPP client but I wasn't logged in. Do you normally mail the finished TRs or trade them face to face?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 06:53

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FrostyJones" ="434331186 posted:

I'll mail it to you in the morning if it's done before I head out for the day. Else I will mail it when I get home around 10-10:30pm PDT.

No worries, I just assumed it was done already given you shared the specs. Whatever works

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 07:15

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Tunicate posted:

The dice for crafting are rolled before the item completes (I guess as an incentive for you to spend dil to hurry it up?).

I guess that is as typical as anything else in STO. Thanks for the info, it all makes sense now.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 07:37

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FrostyJones posted:

http://pastebin.com/BChNA0bk

Fantastic work on my rifle, thanks, I sincerely appreciate it! I ran around Voth battleground for a bit this am shooting slugs into hapless mobs. Glorious.

Looking forward to brog hunting next.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 20:52

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Ludicro posted:

Eh, personally I never thought she should be in that cat suit anyway, even as a 15 year old at the time I could see right through that pandering to horny nerds. Should've been in a standard uniform like the women in DS9.

Star Trek has always pandered to nerds by putting the women with the (perceived) best bodies in revealing uniforms. Deanna Troi in early TNG needed a truss and glue to hold her uniform on.

The Feds have always had a multitude of uniforms both in canon and in STO. While I understand the reasons for doing so in STO (zen), I always thought that the only legitimate uniform variation should be time related.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 04:50

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Lagomorphic posted:

Not gonna lie, I'm totally grabbing that pack once they let me buy it with zen.

I'm waiting for Cryptic to make their premium stuff direct cash purchase only and not through zen. Of course they could just shutdown the Z exchange.

When it happens, ya'all will be thinking "oh poo poo, he was right."

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 05:55

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hakimashou posted:

Did anyone watch the stream? Is launghingtrendy transgendered?

I assume so, but honestly who knows.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 04:57

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 04:41

CrushedWill: Sep 27, 2012; Stand it like a man... and give some back

Asimo posted:

+1 science, I think.

Nothing yet! Some ships aren't upgradeable, including the Avenger and the Excelsior. My guess would be +1 engineering slot though, like most of the other cruisers.

No sulu boat upgrade makes the baby Jesus cry.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 05:26

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