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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

I'm still sad the one hour twitch stream of him trying to promote some cash shop goods then failing miserably while instead running away from goons with party poppers no longer exists.

The gleam from the forehead sweat by the end of that stream was oh so shiny.

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Mondian posted:

God that loving nazi goon was about six years ago :corsair:

It really is astounding. This putrid mountain of poo poo STO has generated... I'm not sure how rich it is, but there sure is a ton of it. We never should have stopped updating rpdenied

It's never too late for the ERPers of STO to fall for the same trick twice.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Yeah if it's rabid political arguments you want then Earth Spacedock is the place to be.

Be sure to mention how well STO runs on your Alienware and that any detractors of your Fully Sick Awesome gaming rig are simply jealous.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Mondian posted:

https://wiki.wesleyguide.com/skillz_4_goonz should mostly still be accurate.

That boff layout is super ancient but the concepts are still the same. Chain two emergency powers and two attack patterns; add in appropriate weapon buffs and some heals.

Still the best tanking guide ever and remains 100% accurate.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Ineptitude posted:

So my fedrom can now use fed ships such as the t6 odyssey?

I think so*. There is a list of ships you can't use in the patch notes from May and I don't see it in there.

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10918643-pc-patch-notes-for-6%2F5%2F18

*I have the T6 Odyssey pack and don't remember any of the ship variant names. Also don't have a FedRom to check with.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Sage advice that stands the test of time.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy


:golfclap:

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

DonDoodles posted:

FYAD should probably nuke Debate & Discussion too.

I mean just imagine the screaming.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Coq au Nandos posted:

The great news is there is literally no bad ship in the game. There are less optimal platforms to do hundreds of thousands of DPS, but if you want to play missions and carry red alerts and advanced STFs, you can fly anything you like.

All the launch era cruisers and sci boats are still pretty bad.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Coq au Nandos posted:

Well yeah, but you can still totally fly them if that’s what your immersion demands of you.

I won't be totally happy with my immersion until I can fly the Monarch's cocoon from Venture Bros and launch endless waves of space bees or something.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Cythereal posted:

We just tried that, in all manner of permutations including non-Roms inviting to their bridges and Roms on the mission inviting to non-Rom bridges, nothing worked.

poo poo's hosed.

This is why you level all your alts using the DoFF system and not by mission running.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Delta Rising is the best expansion ever and the players love it.

*rolls back accounts of everyone leveling using the new content*

Woah now. Steady on. You aren't meant to actually play it. Now do it again only slower.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Disco dancing is the worst form of internet cyber bullying. No really.

^^^^ That's actually a pretty good free ship.

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Jun 28, 2018

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Lagomorphic posted:

Is the google translation being weird or does it really have 3 fore weapons and 5 on the rear end-end? That would certainly be a unique feature.

I completely missed that. Huh.

A perfect ship for Zelda then if he still played.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
The great thing about the new mission is that if you didn't have the Hur'q ground kill accolade before then you'll probably have it by the time you finish.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Mondian posted:

Nah man phased pols are top dog in that alternate universe where procs still work per shot, power levels aren't always overcapped, and oh also pvp still exists

I was the person with phased polarons in season 5.

Maybe the only person. Also they were all tossed a long time ago.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Mondian posted:

Basically antiproton. They changed how procs work a while back, so now you can't really rely on it happening at all and vanilla AP guns don't have a proc, they just have a natural [CrtD] mod instead.


There's not really any reason to worry about minmaxing guns though, just pick the color you want to see the most of

This is good advice.

Crafted antiproton (with [PEN] and your choice of DMGx3 or CritDx3) if you care about levels of minmax that don't matter for any of the content in STO or simply your favorite color of space lasers if you don't.

People are more "oooh wow" over you linking something gold in a chat window than caring about what it actually is.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Psycho Landlord posted:

There's like three Sensor-Linked Omni beams on the exchange and they're all above 300 mil. The box didn't go away that long ago, so yeah, those guns are pricey.

I think someone else already said this (I didn't go back to check) but I think the discovery stuff hasn't hit the infinity boxes yet.

Either that's part of a new limited availability marketing strategy, a licensing issue, or has something to do with delivery of upcoming discovery content post-Gamma. I forget what season we're in so I'm just calling it Gamma.

(as you can tell I really have my finger on the beating pulse for this)

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Zefran Cochran's shotgun is Best Gun and I'm hopeful one day they put in Picard's Thompson from that Die Hard movie where everyone was dressed as a space TV show character for some reason.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

IPCRESS posted:

Can you mix and match bits of it?

Nah it's like any other armor costume that's a unique menu drop down in the tailor.

It predates when they started breaking them up into pieces.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Hail Mr. Satan! posted:

Speaking of Lobi costumes, how do they work with Romulans or JH? Can I buy the Wells uniform and have it work on my FedJH?

Depends when it came out. The early lobi costumes were faction specific and because things like Romulans and JH weren't a thing back then you're really taking your chances.

If it's a costume that came out after [race] was available and it's cross faction then you should be good. Unless it's a player faction uniform.

The Wells specifically is a Fed costume first and foremost. If you can wear other fed uniforms (DS9, etc) then you should be good. Otherwise no you won't.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

MikeJF posted:

Honestly, I kinda want them to put it in the Lobi store, because there's no way they'll give a free giveaway pilot flips.

This. A T6 risa escort with pilot buttons would by virtue of existing kill a lot of other ship sales.

Actually if it's 4/3 it might not (does any escort pilot want a 4/3?). However it seems like they're still doing this Vorgan thing a while yet.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Dick Bass posted:

"Worst scum in the universe. Anyone from that fleet"

Oh no. My e-honor.

*hands hover protectively over groin area*

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

bcott posted:

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have hats and shoes that we could wear without the rest of the baseball gear?
https://imgur.com/0WhoK5m

I think you'd find this much more interesting.

:discourse:

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

MREBoy posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/8ya0eo/banned_for_no_reason_now_likely_to_miss_gamma/

Some poor shlub who thought you had to do ALL the Gamma Recruit stuff inside the Gamma Recruit event timeframe actually attempted to do so... and got his account nuked by some auto-ban bot at PWE. Now currently stuck in customer support hell.

It's Delta Rising all over again.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Maybe just rollback the first dozen or so accounts that reach a milestone. Cut those tall poppies down.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

FuturePastNow posted:

I just assume anyone banned "for no reason" is either a moron or a liar.

This is what I always assume too.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
The Tholian Mesh Weaver is the best T5 (can be T5-U) consolation prize escort because it is the size of a shuttle.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Horsebanger posted:

I just got an 8472 ship cause i had one lockbox and key and got lucky I guess.

I'm still adjusting to the endgame, how should I fit it?

Beams, fire at will, power to weapons but throttle at max, fly in a circle forever.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

I've "discovered" new lock box contents.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I only very rarely visit the official forums. Name isn't familiar but if you asked me who the current mods are I couldn't tell you either.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

fakemirage posted:

https://i.imgur.com/x6PHUTd.mp4

So if any of you haven't visited the dev server lately, the zero-G ground PvP the devs are testing out is actually rather entertaining. It's pretty buggy when it comes to sci spam and turrets, but the guns work just like you'd expect.

I honestly cannot believe it took them so many years to copy and paste some of the not-a-starship flying combat from Champions Online.

Next up: where's my hover bike?

(to be clear this is actually a sign of good content, which is an eyebrow raiser)

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jul 24, 2018

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Preechr posted:

Oh, look, scam citizen just copied one of the intrepid kitbashes and is selling it for $gently caress!



Hahahahahaha :laffo:

It’s a pretty bad day when you’re stealing from Star Trek Motherfucking Online.

Double :laffo:

I'd feel pretty bad stealing from retarded children too.

Bad man took 'ma lollipop.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Pioneer42 posted:

Since the latest expansion dropped, my game now freezes for about five seconds every twenty seconds or so. I have played with graphic settings, but can’t seem to figure out what Cryptic changed that has killed performance so drastically (with this game alone). Anyone have a clue?

That's a new one. No idea sorry.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Not enough WW2 stukas dive bombing the player space ship.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I died in a normal difficulty borg red alert. Possibly for the first time in years. I am filled with shame :negative:

Beamscorts simply don't tank borg cube explosions like dreadnoughts do.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

greasythepirate posted:

Get ready for STO's story to be officially invalidated:

https://trekmovie.com/2018/08/04/breaking-new-star-trek-tv-series-starring-patrick-stewart-as-jean-luc-picard-announced/

Hopefully this will finally settle the "is STO canon?" debate, when this new series completely contradicts the story Cryptic told post-TNG.

That man does not age.

There is a giant gap between TNG and the opening of STO though. Not to mention with all the time war bullshit there are probably a thousand plus parallel timelines in the same universe.

Heck I think every time you do that queue blowing up the sphere builder whatsists you get 4 or 5 new timelines in 15 minutes.

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Aug 5, 2018

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

robziel posted:

SOmeone asking the real questions on Risa this morning


Exactly like silly putty mixed with used medical needles.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
To try and save this dead thread on a dying internet comedy forum I will post this thread topic relevant YouTube video about why OG Star Trek is dead and the new STD (snigger) stuff is the new canon. Which is all that matters to some people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s_BGDBasnA

Why does this remotely matter for a Chinese MMO that floats on a raft made of lootboxes? Star Trek Discovery & whatever the new Picard show is will be the New Star Trek and future game content will reflect.

(I have no idea if anyone cares but we're pretty short on discussion topics so gently caress it)

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy


One of those 23 has to have a vaguely thread themed idea to talk about.

Then again I guess atrophy is what it is.

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