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Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
For the crimes of mildly annoying myself and Yoderfunk, as well as failure to follow instructions or pay attention properly, followed by whining that my dead simple instructions on what foundry to do needed more instructions on how to do it, I assigned one of our Academy cadets to write a 375 word report on how to properly pour piss from a boot with instructions printed on the heel.

He completed his task and it's time we pass judgement over his performance while he is off doing the Starfleet Dental Aptitude Test.

Goat Pillager fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jul 5, 2015

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Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Uziduke posted:

I tried this game when it first came out and it was back when my PC sucked and it was unplayable. I am a huge Star Trek fan and would like to play if I had a group of people to play with. Biggest questions is that I have a gambling issue in games sometimes and I am afraid the item mall boxes will break me, how bad are they?

Gambling on lockboxes in this game is one of the stupidest things you can possibly do.

Rather better to take the keys needed to open said boxes, sell them on the player market, and profit off gambling addicts, then use the money earned to buy your desired items.

If you can keep that in mind and take advice on the most blatant space-money traps you will be fine.

As to a group to play with, several of us are still active regularly.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Uziduke posted:

I assume that its like Neverwinter and you get box drops and even lower %key drops. So you say to sell the keys and its good profit? Also do Star Trek Goons take total newbies of the game?

The keys are a cash shop item, but you can earn cash shop point things with space money (dilithium).

Also yes, we take grass green people. I would strongly advise to play a fed or a romulan alligned with fed.

You will need to get a quite expensive console for it later, but close to nobody plays a KDF anymore.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Uziduke posted:

Question.


"Message from Dear Leader:

Hello, pubbies who are reading this thread! Welcome to the home of Starfleet Dental.

For those of you who have registered a forum account with us as part of the process to join our fine fleet, please remember that you must first make your introductory thread in this subforum.

Remember that you must introduce yourself as a newbie, and detail what kind of online games you enjoy playing, and why you think you should be considered worthy of joining our fleet. Please note that an inadequate introductory thread may affect your application."

This link takes you to the general forum, does this rule still apply?

Oh wait. Your regdate...you'll have to first partake in our Academy program. You may apply to me to enter it via in game mail. My handle is Railrokh. I look forward to assisting your re-education and integration in to a proper social environment.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

TheCosmicMuffet posted:

Aww come on guys. 5 days is enough, right?

Edit: From post history

"Sherman is a curse word in my family"

This is from a thread about General Lee.

I don't know. Guy seems solid. I say you fast-track him.

Now now, he has to stand through the Academy just like everyone else. We all had to go through it outside of those few founding Dentists.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

hakimashou posted:

Yeah a week ago? maybe i saw him with the usual mod disclaimer thing under his name, but he had it struck through and (pending) or something.

It was really lovely of him not to just resign immediately after what he said, dragging his colleagues through all that was unprofessional.

He had the (pending) tag for a good 3 weeks nearly.

My guess is that they probably decided this weeks back, then waited and made it look "voluntary" to stop all the loony pubs who support his type of commentary from going all torches and pitchforks spamming up the forums over "first amendment" and all their other go-to things for those topics.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Korgan posted:



Loose lips sink ships you dozy cunts

All those fake posts are finally paying off, well done all, this is hysterical and actually making me want to play again. :v:

I suppose we should take down that semi-public guide that's on one of our old threads telling you how to access the old ISE/KSE/Terradome for really quick dil.

Then again they'd all need to 10bux up and get archives too to see it.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

LordCo posted:

Dont mind me, either.



*eine Flotte.

We don't want to give him any bad grammar to latch on to since he is just spergy enough to go check it.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

hakimashou posted:

you are literally a grammar nazi

*You are literally a grammar nazi.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must practice my goose step in several different languages, lest I fail in displaying proper form in the coming parade dedicated to the successful reintegration of Xtern1ty into it's rightful fatherland's territorial holdings.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Innerguard posted:

New lockbox poo poo has been posted officially. Looks like they're tweaking the contents and giving people who open the things the option of picking what stuff they get : like in weapons packs, cannons or beams.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9449143-star-trek-online%3A-krenim-lockbox

Beagles. Enterprise gave us one good season with one excellent episode that involved Tellarites, agony booths, a connie, and a rottweiler. Why must it have been beagles?

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

I approve of your grammatically correct poster of Administrator Xean, appointed leader of a Starfleet Dental tertiary holding.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Asimo posted:

What the gently caress did they do to the excelsior.

Well, you see when a mommy Odyssey and a daddy Vesta get really messed up on turpentine...and keep getting messed up on it during gestation...

No, seriously, ugly as poo poo. Thankfully we can use the normal models on it and get some neat windows and the type 6-7 skins at least.

That said, getting it because it's an Excelsior.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
"I.Q. Fleet has decided to remove the content of this page indefinitely."

Welp. Not like they were good for anything anyways.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Mondian posted:

The T5 ship is the best looking one lol.

So was the one from the still-current, tomorrow not current, lock box, the Malon garbage scow.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Tuskin38 posted:

Which is a problem because they're running out of Canon designs.

There is still a few weird First Contact background boats and Wolf 359 kitbash designs that they could polish up and integrate with ease to satisfy a bit of demand there.

Not to mention close-canon novel designs or some of the "fanon" ones created by people working on the show such as a Nebula-style version of the Ambassador and whatnot.

Though their new trend seems to be release pointy saucer oddy inspired toys one after the other.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1196518/should-catstar-be-in-sto

http://adventure-cat.deviantart.com/

In this lovely poll we are asked "Should this furry become an NPC?"

In his deviant art you can also find his epic struggles to have CBS publish his novel and make CatStar canon.

If anyone knows his in game name be sure to share it so he may receive his well deserved hosing.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

LordCo posted:




Kind of "meh" on this one. Need a better head shot of Nbreeki.



Love it. You are a god amongst men LordCo.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
Better get to learning how to sharpen a toothbrush against a wall Nbreeki. Looks like you might need those skills soon.

Also I have committed the greatest possible sin in the eyes of the pubbies, and made a rational, logical, and mostly diplomatic post about how stupid they are acting this time.

I expect it to end in the usual ,even greater, meltdowns, as always.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
Because I hate myself and clearly have a touch of the autist in me, I went out of my way to make a painfully accurate and detailed replica of canon WoK uniforms.

https://wiki.wesleyguide.com/goon_guides/wok_guide

Here's a guide to it if anyone else wants to go full on sperg.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

g0del posted:

It's sad how much emergent gameplay Cryptic has removed over the years. No more pink beams, no more chain explosions over ESD, no more bridge of death. They ended killing NPCs on ESD/Qo'nos, and I'm pretty sure they stopped the D'Deridex console trick which made DS9 so fun. They even killed cover shields on Risa.

The dex console actually still does work in some areas. Such as sphere allied space or delta command space. Said console is now available to feds as well, maybe KDF too, via the exchange.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9488023

Season 11: A New Dawn, over a radioactive wasteland of autism and poor design choices.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Cythereal posted:

Does he really think he's fooling anyone by using a feminine name?

This is Lina we are talking about. He's a fairly perfect combination of brick stupid and batshit insane.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

FrostyJones posted:

So, against my better judgement I went ahead and updated after getting one of those "Please come back to us! :qq:" emails from Cryptic. And while it does feel nice to be shooting spacemans and spaceships again... There's been a lot of changes since I've last played, so I have some dumb questions:

What's my best bet for grinding Spec exp?
Are any of the current Foundry missions in the Spotlight worth doing for dil?
Anything new regarding dil farming in general?
Are Master Keys still the best way to convert dil into EC?

First question: The red alert popups in sector give a load of XP and you can instance hop to keep them going. Doffing is a good secondary still.

Second question: Still just that one with Barclay's daughter or whatever that you can run in 10 minutes or less.

Third question: Dyson ground zone, and when that gets boring, the space battlezone against Voth. The mini-missions given by small KDF base thing just forward of your ship when you beam up from the ground zone take all of 2 minutes and each give 480 dil (720 during dil weekends) with absolutely no cooldowns. There is a few other scattered NPC quest givers around the space zone as well. For contraband, same old doffing on KDF, or if you aren't terrible, you can also contra farm as a fed. This works by doing things like confiscate contraband, investigating contra trafficking, investigating illegal gambling, intercepting transmissions, or tracking fleet movements. All of the above give contra.

Fourth question: This depends on market rates, for example during promo events those can be a better investment. Check the exchange.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

hakimashou posted:

Same guys as the previous loooooong quite.

@4ID in the game I think

This guy was an Academy cadet at one point. He was recently seen discussing how he got dishonorably discharged from the army or some such.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

DonDoodles posted:

I only had limited contact with him while he was in the Dental academy (rail's dealt with him much more) but he seemed extremely off, to the point where it wasn't funny, just a chore to talk to the guy. He also got very, very aggressive over non-issues. If that's how he reacted to things in a game, God knows how broken he is in real life.

Pretty damned broken.

The guy has a string of mental issues as long as my arm ranging from OCD to severe anger management problems with a load of other crap thrown in.

Edited this section, because I got details: The details are apparently that he assaulted and choked someone. Honestly I cannot think of why someone would make up things like a dishonorable discharge or such without some reason, but at the same time, his list of crazy would hopefully have been caught during recruitment screening.

He also spends immense amounts of cash on the game apparently to basically buy everything with real money, and compulsively will upgrade any item he gets to gold regardless what it is because of the mental issues. Where he gets said money I have no idea, but he seems to have it given that I have seen him gold plain old vendor loot plenty of times. My best guess is either rich family or some sort inheritance but nothing definite.

Other than that, he at times claimed to have several replacement keyboards, mice, and monitors on hand because he loses his poo poo over trivial stuff and smashes his things regularly, which given his crazy I don't have too much reason to doubt, as no one normal would want that sort of stupidity to their name.

Regardless, the guy is completely nuts and what little entertainment value he has quickly wears off due to the blatant crazy.

Goat Pillager fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Aug 19, 2015

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Nicely done. It would make a good forum signature for Arc.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Preechr posted:

Everywhere needs new lighting.

Fixed that for you.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

DancingShade posted:

The worst punishment for Xean is to be Xean.

There is nothing more we can do to him.

This gives me an idea. I wonder if Rahmmi or someone else can capture his costume file...

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Useless.

Also they need to quit churning out command ships.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Mondian posted:

Nah, the D'kyr is cool and offers no opportunities for awful looking nacelles so that'll never happen.

There was a slightly more phallic version with three warp ring things from what I recall.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah all beam arrays + borg cutting beam. Also Command is pretty underwhelming I recommend Intel primary and pilot secondary. Of course we're due for a new spec with the new season coming so you could just hang onto your points in case they release one that's better than Intel at this point.

Was there not talk of them making commando a full tree to give a ground counterpart to pilot?

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Tuskin38 posted:



I kind of like that, other then the lower nacelle's position.

Looks like a mash up of a Nebula and star cruiser, but it isn't bad looking really, minus the lower nacelles being weird.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Asimo posted:

Because there's a surprisingly large overlap between "sperglord who is terrified of change" and "deeply social conservative". The first part also makes sure that they don't even recognize the cognitive dissonance between being a furry fetishist while simultaneously massively homophobic, or what have you.

The guy is constantly posting weird conspiracy theory loon stuff on things he linked in his forum signature from what I recall when I first found him ages ago and posted it in here.

At the same time though, I did find him in game and give him the rightful EV suit hosing he deserved, but he seems to contain his crazy to the STO forums or places completely unconnected to the game.

All he did was stop, target me, then run over to the bank terminal for a bit and beamed to a que.

Edit: I also remember he had some ragequitting STO thread after his thread petitioning to make his character an NPC got set on fire.

I'm not sure if he actually quit (the game, since he still seemed to derp out on the forums) or not, but haven't seen him anywhere since.

Goat Pillager fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Oct 20, 2015

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9608533

It seems they are reducing the dil cost of awful ships, but this is a good opportunity to get your Miranda back for 2.5k dil if you dismissed it.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

DancingShade posted:

STO pubbies remain the most broken people in any MMO I've played.

Same.

Though there is probably more broken ones out there in the wild, probably in other PWE games when I look at what Arc is trying to push.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Asimo posted:

Yeah, there's plenty of people at least as broken as this in every other MMO really. STO just wins for the sheer density of sperg creep population.

This is true, the only things capable of giving it a run for it's money in those fields are probably off in the dark corners of the anime game realm.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Morglon posted:

There is a pastebin about a certain brony on the wiki but that's not new or relevant.

You mean the one were a certain pubbie found pony porn pics, posted them on an article, then claimed that makes the author a brony?

The same one one who has had the obsessive attitude of trying to start goon drama, with the same stale approach that nobody cared about, minus trying to pull others in and dragging real world info on the people he wants to start stuff with in to the game, just to get some sort of reaction or recognition after not getting one for 8 months by now?

And all of this over a bad Star Trek game they claim to not play, but log in to to slot bad projects on the starbase to mess with goons, and otherwise just whines about the game?

Creepy and desperate for attention, he gets my nomination for pubbie of the year.

Either that or Mysteena, because that one is at least crazy and funny.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013
http://imgur.com/a/AAMqF

So I fell off the map and confirmed our deepest suspicions:

Bajorans are mole-people.

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Mar 1, 2013

DonDoodles posted:

What an hero.

He's not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve (for playing this game).

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