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CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Going to pitch in my own new ESD exploration pics:

http://imgur.com/a/PWQXv

Me and Goat Pillager were trying to make a nice looking post card kind of shot from the shuttlebay area, here are some of my abortive attempts:

http://imgur.com/NcEmkn6
http://imgur.com/NjDREED
http://imgur.com/duOk0IJ

So far it seems the pubbies have worked out how to get into the shuttlebay but no further than that, we've pushed further than that and now I'm kind of interested to see where we can apply what we've learned.

Neither of us are any good at captioning poo poo however so this is the final product:


And here's the original in case someone would care to make a better effort.

http://imgur.com/a/elK1K

CheeseThief fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Apr 24, 2014

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CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Socialism posted:

Great, so pretty much no reason to get too attached to current ship. Might actually spend a few $ on officer slots, it feels terrible to just kick them out the door when a new one rolls in.

You don't want to do that, don't get attached to your officers. In fact you should probably purge your current officer line up and buy a bunch of purple humans or nausicans (faction depending) from the exchange, you're just handicapping yourself otherwise. The only reason to buy boff slots is if you're running multiple builds on one character and need to change from cannons to beams or something.

Anyway I should probably get on the wiki, been putting it off for a while, new user CheeseThief.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Gorelab posted:

What should I do with this Undine Lock Boxes? Sell them, or buy keys off the exchange.

I say sell 'em, they're going to be around for a while but right now they're still kind of new so their sale price on the exchange is a lot higher than what they will be soon. At the same time because people want to open the shiny new boxes keys are more expensive due to the increased demand.

Even a stack of 20 boxes won't go for much but it will pay the EC for a few rep projects at least, if there's anything you want out of lockboxes you can probably get it off the exchange for less than the cost of a key with the exception of the ships.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Just ran Bijor part 2, the foundary review system isn't available right now so I couldn't leave a 5 star review for you. I would have liked to have seen more maps but the hospital looked very nice.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Gorelab posted:

So for those of us with fresh 50s, what's the best way to start making ECs/Zen to get some of the better poo poo. With the stuff I know it'd take me about two weeks to get something other than my normal ha'feh warbird.

You can grind "assimilation" from the borg advance episodes for Kit frames and Modules to sell for EC on the exchange, a good frame goes for about a hundred thousand and the best modules go for a million or two right now. The price is dropping daily though as more enter the market. If you want EC more than dilithium right now then selling contraband on the exchange is a good option, it's worth roughly 50k each right now which is 10k above it's usual price. If you want dil then turn that contraband in for 3000 dil for a stack of 5 every four hours during the bonus weekend.

Other than that? Go to the fleet mines and run the doff assignments for dil and ec, run foundry missions with farm in the name to get space gear drops you can sell, run exploring the galaxy for a few thousand EC with 15 minutes work, run starbase 24 and minefield fleet actions for dil, run the dyson sphere ground battlezone for dil, earn reputation marks and trade them in for dilitium (the hourly give a better conversion rate plus the rep).

Really as long as you aren't hanging around Drozna Rping you'll earn a decent amount every day, you're bottle necked by your drops and refine limits anyway. Do whatever you find fun.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

I am a baddie and keep exploding in Vicious Cycle when there isn't someone better around to take all the heat. I need help understanding why I'll be doing fine for a while then suddenly lose a shield facing in one shot and be boom'd shortly after.

Edit:

Mondian posted:

Well it'd help if you gave up your @handle so we can gateway spy you and tell you why your ship is poo poo.

@scorvusson

I'm not finished building it, I swear!

CheeseThief fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 5, 2014

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

I think I got passed over last time I asked for wiki access, trying again with CheeseThief.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Pro science officer ground tactics coming at ya':

Electro-Gravitic field -> Thermo Induction Field -> Hyperonic Radiation -> Tricorder Scan -> Shoot the cyber dino until it dies.

If it's a group apply everything up to Hyperonic Radiation to whatever is biggest/has a shield then kill all his friends before applying tricorder scan and murdering him. If something gets close hammer Sonic Pulse, or even just run into the thick of things spamming sonic pulse since it's actually pretty good. Use the free vorta biochemist you get from the DS9 episodes and any of the skills used here will also apply a -10 all resists debuff that will last for a full minute, by which time your skills will cool down and can apply it again making it effectively permanent. If you want to get fancy you can also slot a purple geologist who can proc a faster cooldown on TIF and HR, slot a purple voth explosives expert so the TIF shoots fireballs on top of everything else and use a fluidic science kit for another 30 or so psi damage.

If you're really fancy you can remember to apply things like nanoprobe infestation or dampening field but lord knows I rarely do.

I'm still using an old MK X purple physicist kit and the above is enough to steamroll the voth battlezone and undine infiltrator, on the new kits you can get all this plus a medical tricorder or triage and some skill bonuses. Point is space wizarding is best ground, medic play is for PVP and pubbies too bad at the game to kill things quickly.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

He didn't mention the window outside of OPs, I guess less people worked out how to get there? I hope they don't fix this too soon, I want to get an alt in place before that so it can live there forever.

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CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

So I played STO semi regular for a couple of months last year, raised a fed and a klank to the old cap plus some rep stuff, then burned out on starting a rommie. About a year later and I've forgotten enough about MMOs to get that itch again, I logged in recently to make sure my account wasn't going to be scrubbed for being idle and saw there's a whole slew of new poo poo that's been added.

So, with the new level cap and ship tiers would you guys say there's enough to keep my interest for a couple of months? I don't want to play if I just end up running the same three reputation missions (per faction) every day.

EDIT:

Oh yeah, while I remember: Do the new ship tiers invalidate all the effort I put into getting a money ship with dil?

CheeseThief fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Feb 23, 2015

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