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After rewatching some DS9, I got the hankering to download this game again. Does the core gameplay basically revolve around the rep grind and paying real money for overpowered ships/consoles? I haven't played since 2017 so it's been a while.
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Yeah when I quit I finished all the rep grinds and the time displaced old Star Trek starbase with protomatter bombs and Kzinti? or whatever just came out. I guess I'll download the game and see what's changed. I did like the episodic content so if the quality of that remained "high" since Iconian War that's worth however many gigs the game is now.
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Aug 1, 2020 07:03
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Ok, game is downloaded and I walked around ESD for 5 min before logging. Is there a fleet anymore or discord that people use? I believe i'm still in thenextgooneration chat channel too.
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Aug 1, 2020 20:01
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Coq au Nandos posted:Bajor Defence or Quantum Phase for pre-Rep, iirc. What are the Terran Advanced Phasers/Disrupters called exactly? Like if I were searching on the exchange, what would I search for?
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Aug 13, 2020 02:07
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g0del posted:The rep store weapons for the Terran Task Force are the withering disruptor weapons. They're firmly in the 'meh' category, as far as I can tell. The terran task force does have a reputation project for the Terran Task Force Disruptor/Phaser weapons - part of the Task Force Munitions set. The rest of the set isn't worth getting, the but phaser/disruptor itself is incredibly powerful because it scales up its damage as the target's health goes down. You can only run one per ship. I remember the Terran Task Force weapons from before, I didn't realize they got buffed. I thought back then they weren't that good. I guess I'll have to work on a Phaser set once I hit T6 Terran rep. Also Cryptic happened to put the Infinity Promo packs on sale today, I'm guessing people will buy a lot for the Advanced Phaser's. Putting them as RNG and not even being able to spend money is such a gacha move lol.
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Aug 14, 2020 01:43
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Yup, it works loving awesome. With it my BOFFs literally can do almost any mission on advanced by themselves, I don't need to attack at all anymore. Since my hand is severely inured for the time being this is extremely convenient! What program did you use to check your combat/damage logs? That looks a lot better then the older parsers I used to use.
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Aug 20, 2020 02:14
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:https://dps.shivtr.com/pages/STOSCM Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at this when I have time. I still have my old keybinds file saved from 2015 lol. I probably should update that too.
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Aug 20, 2020 07:45
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Asimo posted:DOFF promo packs are better when there's an infinity promotion, and I think fleet ship modules were briefly up there after they dropped the carriers, but in general keys are most reliable yeah. And yep they totally nerfed contraband turnins because they don't want people actually earning things in game anymore unless you're spending big cash money. For making money via DOFF packs, do you just buy them when they're not infinity and resell when they are? It seems like a very competitive market if that's the case. Also I read that you can use Pass tokens in Admiralty to skip the lower rank Tour of missions, is that the best use for them?
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Aug 29, 2020 06:49
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Ok, thanks for explaining all that. I'm really glad I asked before committing any resources ingame lol. I'll just wait for another DOFF promo to buy and keep grinding away on admiralty as normal.
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Aug 29, 2020 20:22
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Rx King posted:Trait giveaway time Could I get A Good Day to Die (Space)?
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Sep 5, 2020 19:40
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Rx King posted:Need your @handle so I can mail it to ya. Thanks for sending it over. Now to fix up my macro to add one more button to press lol. I'm going to hit Tier 6 rep (for like 6 different reps) in a couple days, do you actually get a free Fleet Ship Module for completing the grind?
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Sep 7, 2020 05:44
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AfroSquirrel posted:Right now, I mainly fly the charity Pilot Escort from a while ago and the Herald Vonph: What fighters/frigates are you using on the Vonph if not the Baltim?
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Sep 8, 2020 22:44
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Did STO completely explode? I can't even load the launcher now lol.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:52
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DancingShade posted:When this happens to me it's usually one of the following: After I rebooted, it started working again. v  vThat's digital attack map is a good tool as well, I'll keep that in mind next time STO has problems.
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Sep 15, 2020 00:50
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Cyrano4747 posted:What’s the grind from 1 to 5? I feel like it’s about as long as 5 to 6. From what I remember, 1 -> 5 is 100k total rep points. 5->6 is 250k, so 5 -> 6 is actually longer then 1 -> 5. If you just do the 2.5k daily, that's 50 days vs 60 days. 110 days total to cap.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:00
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Peyote Panda posted:If any alt in the account has the rep at tier 5 already, then the dailies are worth 5k instead of 2.5k. So if another captain on your account has that rep at tier 5 then it only takes 20 dailies to get from 0-5. Otherwise it takes 40. Tier 5 to 6 will take 30 either way as even if you didn't have the 5k/day rate before you will as soon as the current captain hits tier 5 (Cryptic made the original sponsored reps an automatic account unlock a while back). Oh that's a good change, I didn't know that. How long ago did they make that automatic?
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Sep 21, 2020 18:53
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HiroProtagonist posted:What's that purple ish staff looking thing I see a lot of pubbies running around with? If I'm remembering correctly, I think it's an Iconian ground weapon from the Lobi store. https://sto.gamepedia.com/Advanced_Herald_Antiproton_Beam_Projector
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Sep 28, 2020 03:35
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Chortles posted:Supposedly players complained about having to repeat a mission to get/complete gear sets. So you like donuts eh? Well have all the donuts in the world!
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Sep 29, 2020 23:30
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hakimashou posted:Also maximum hull capacity boosts critH now, via one of the disco rep traits so you’re getting crit chance from your warp core with it. Is that trait really worth it? It says to get the full Crit Hit bonus, you need 200k hull. I'm flying a Vonph and I'm no where near that much hull. Is the crit bonus scaling not linear?
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Sep 30, 2020 18:31
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Teron D Amun posted:the T6 experimental upgrades: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11479283 What are the odds on getting an ultra rare token from Phoenix Packs? And when you say bring down the dilex, I guess you mean there's going to be more people buying Dil which will lower the exchange rate since there's more Zen chasing the same amount of Dil.
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Oct 2, 2020 18:43
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:surprised Pikachu face: At least this ship doesn't just seem strictly better if I'm reading the notes right. A 5/3 weapon layout with 5 tac slots is going to do a lot of damage regardless.
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Oct 5, 2020 22:29
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Asimo posted:Also seems like this patch is more of a clusterfuck than usual. I can't seem to access or use half my bridge officers' skills, the free phoenix box quest isn't working for some (all?) players, some people apparently can't log in at all for whatever reason, it's quite the Cryptic event. There's a free phoenix box quest?
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Oct 6, 2020 22:21
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DancingShade posted:Yep upgrading cores is the absolute worst.  I'm definitely saving any Ultimate tech upgrades I get for Cores.^^^^ Edit: Yeah, my alt is not geared at all so I just slotted it in lol. Once I actually get some reps up then I can start thinking about a build.
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Oct 13, 2020 08:21
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Maybe it was a typo this whole time and it should be Year of a Klingon. They released a Klingon ship and they're too lazy to go change a simple typo.
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Oct 16, 2020 21:45
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Hunter Noventa posted:Boo, that made it tolerable. Though the last time I did it for real by accident it worked fine, so maybe they fixed it up a bit. I've done it for real everyday and it doesn't seem to get bugged anymore at all. So you're not stuck waiting for some ships to get blown up at least.
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Oct 21, 2020 17:37
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Asimo posted:See this is why I say the klingons/romulans suit an MMO a lot better than the feds. No worrying about little things like "civilians" or "sapient rights". We were the Terrans all along.
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Nov 13, 2020 18:07
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I was going to wait until Black Friday to pick up the Titan on sale, but this is too funny. Should I just spend the  now?Edit: Thanks for the info, I logged in and bought it. Now my KDF char is cruising around in a Luna lol. VVV OGS-Remix fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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Nov 20, 2020 18:55
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In the recent news post about adding the Experimental Upgrade to Phoenix Pack; is that just for the daily one or will all packs have the chance to have it? If all packs can have it, that's definitely a big reason to pull dil out of the exchange.
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Nov 23, 2020 18:52
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Asimo posted:Except the fleet version. I thought you could purchase the fleet version, it was just in a different place then normal. Is it not way at the end of the all ships list or something?
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Dec 1, 2020 18:32
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Seeing the posts about macros, is there a way to bind the autofire all to a button? I'm using an old macro which has fire all in addition to all my buff abilities but since it lowers dps I should switch off. So basically I'd like to hit one button to turn on autofire, then just have two other buttons; one for short CD and one for long CD. Is that possible?
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Dec 7, 2020 22:13
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So what's the deal with the Mudd's Market sale? Does a 75% discount actually make stuff worth buying? I saw people talking in channel about it; is there any particularly good deal that's available now?
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Dec 24, 2020 07:55
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I'm glad the upgrade weekend is here. I was really close to buying some Spiral Disruptors but now all that dil goes into upgrades.
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Dec 30, 2020 20:47
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Teron D Amun posted:Picard Lockbox: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11483163 I'm glad my indecisiveness in buying Spiral Wave Disruptor weapons has paid off. I can't imagine the stacking damage will be too high or have too many stacks since they'd easily be the best weapons in the game though.
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Jan 20, 2021 18:28
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Asimo posted:That third one. When the Titan didn't break anything, the Devs were probably like gently caress it, lets just do everything and get whatever  we can get.
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Jan 21, 2021 07:19
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Seems like every ship for everybody then. Would have preferred more frequent klangon/romulman releases but that's probably the best overall outcome for the game.
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Hunter Noventa posted:I always seem to have pretty huge survivability issues as a Tactical captain myself. Do you have the Iconian Rep heal hull from damage trait? I used to have problems too but once I picked that up I never die unless inside multiple warp core explosions.
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Jan 24, 2021 06:13
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AfroSquirrel posted:PC keys got restocked https://groupees.com/STOLevelUp Thanks for posting, I managed to grab one too.
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Hunter Noventa posted:It does cost Dilithium and salvage to reroll modifiers. Dil is slightly scarce, but Salvage can be gotten from recycling crap drops by right-clicking on them and selecting salvage. If you have the inventory space, save some items to salvage for those "Gain X Salvage" endeavors that pop up from time to time.
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Feb 12, 2021 02:16
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Eimi posted:What are the weapons with those passive bonuses? I'm currently using Romulan Plasma just because aesthetics, and was thinking of maybe getting the MW Connie from the event to get the blue phasers. To add to g0del's list, if you ever switch to Phasers or Disruptors, you'll definitely want to get one of the Terran Rep weapons. Those have the effect of doing more damage the lower the target's health is. I think it's one of the highest boosts in the game.
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Feb 28, 2021 00:21
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theironjef posted:Word, dunno what that means (rep up with Discovery?) but I have the internet, thanks! Yeah, Disco = Discovery Reputation. There's a lot of good stuff in that line. If you have extra marks, get the Competitive reputation up too since their engines are the best as well.
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Iymarra posted:Here we go, I had saved up and bought the Cardie Science Intel Dreadnought/pack. I never actually made use of it though, so that seems like a good starting point. The S31 science destroyer thing looks neat but I'm not playing open-600-lootcrates for it and I sure as hell don't have a billion EC, so. Cardie thing it is. Any suggestions on that one? I did a quick search and found (deleted) builds from a couple years back and saw some stuff saying that beams weren't good and torps were the thing now. Everything is viable now, it just depends on how much money you want to spend. Cannons, Beams, Sci/Torps all have viable budget and blinged out builds. This place is a good starting point and you can modify builds based on preference/cost. https://www.sto-league.com/ Someone posted a budget Sci/Torp build from Reddit if you want to go that way.
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