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Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

IPCRESS posted:

e: Can you upgrade the pink dominion beams from Boldly They Rode?

Yes, you can also re-eng them with actual good mods as well. If you have the dil to max them out they own now.

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Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Yeah I leveled a Romulan without any issues during the delta rerun, so it's definitely a new bug from jury rigging the Dominion faction into the game.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
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.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Yeah but why would you use and admiralty alts to rush the new mission and post a screenshot of the gear? That's probably a main. Nevermind I'm retarded, it's probably just the dude's Jimmie.

Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jun 29, 2018

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Teron D Amun posted:

theres a good reason why JH alts are finishing that new mission - they get freed from the White addiction and dont need to hobble around in ESD/DS9 any longer

Oh gently caress that, being strung out was the best part of this expansion.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Asimo posted:

Yeah it's really obvious the mission was supposed to be in at the launch of the expansion but it wasn't finished on time.

I think they just held it back so they could run it as a featured episode to fill four weeks on the schedule.

Potential BFF posted:

The Gamma Recruit Admiralty card is pretty bleh.

It's not terribly exciting but honestly an account wide +70 sci ship is still real good as far as numbers go.

Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jun 30, 2018

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Kazoo Reverb posted:

I feel like Phased Polaron ship weapons are going to go up up up. They look cool, they are thematically appropriate for JH chars, they have the far superior phaser proc, and no one will be opening Dominion lock boxes anymore.

They drop from the infinity boxes, and the phaser proc doesn't replace the shittier polaron proc it replaces a mod and like all proc's it's still shittier than the [pen] you're giving up by not using crafted gear. They do look cool though so the demand may spike from virtually none to mild.

If you want cool polarons and have upgrades to burn (and hate yourself enough to get a full set), the Boldly They Rode beams are pretty great now that you can re-eng them for [dmg]x4.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

PadreScout posted:

How many times should I do this "Home" mission thing with Odo?

Once a week for the next 4 weeks. I've you've already done it wait for Thursday for the next week to start.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Honestly I just use my boffs equipment slots to store all the rep gear sets I ground out for the tailor unlocks. They still do well enough for all the content you actually bring boffs into.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Intel primary, pilot secondary is still the best general purpose combo. Strategist and temporal are also good if you build around them.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Free asscard is live now and hanging out by the Narendra system. It's per char so get ready to fly a bunch of alts to the rear end end of nowhere.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
For a while they decided to "fix" the spam mails for goldselling sites by scanning the chat and autobanning anyone who said the secret word. That got a bunch of people banned for complaining about junk mail in zone chat.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:

I wanna read the WesleyWiki, who's nuts do I have to fondle?

1) Create an account on the wiki.
2) Post the wiki account name in the thread.
3) Wait for someone who handles that to see the post and update the permissions on the account.
4) Realize that the advice is all terribly out of date because we're all lazy as gently caress.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Cythereal posted:

Somewhere in the distance, the one Klingon main sobs.

Klingons in STD aren't the Mongolian viking samurai we know and love (or hate) from existing Trek. STD Klingons are, according to one of the writers, a stand-in for ISIS: an isolationist society of warriors obsessed with purity, and in the course of the show merrily indulge in torture, cannibalism, and rape.

The Romulans are also whimpering. Not only were they completely absent from ViL's story, the Romulans flat out haven't appeared in STD yet. STD's had the Klingons and the Mirror Universe. That's it for bad guys.

STD can't really include the Romulans either without loving up the timeline since it's set like 10 years before the TOS epsiode where they actually see Romulans for the first time. So I expect they'll be the main antagonists for season 2 and Romulan players will have nothing to worry about.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Coq au Nandos posted:

Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of Romulan war prior to TOS? I was hoping to get that in Disco.

Yes but they explicitly state that it was fought purely ship to ship and without visual communication and they'd been no contact since the end of the war. There's a whole subplot when they finally get a visual of the bridge and everyone is shocked that they look like Vulcans.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
You also get the people who seem to think liking a show that is super progressive (by the standards of the loving 1960's) means that they are morally unimpeachable so anyone calling them on there poo poo is just proof that those drat SJWs just hate white dudes and are the real regressives.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Cythereal posted:

And of course the Romulans and our new friends the Dominion haven't shown up in STD at all.

Yeah this may be the real reason they finally said gently caress it and just let Romulans use the allied t5 and t6 boats.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

quote:

The following are some of the bigger changes:

*There is now a 30 second mission briefing time before the queue begins. This allows players time to join the queue and read the briefing if necessary, before taking on the Entity.

*The Entity shards that it deploys are now immune to control effects, this allows the feature more room to breathe as the queue progresses.

*Small Shards will no longer buff the Entity’s damage for the entire queue. Instead, they will give the entity buff stacks towards a more powerful Energy Release after its Absorption Phase.
This change results in a potentially stronger Energy Release attack. In response to that, we’ve added a growing AoE indicator to show the area of the Energy Release and how long it will be before it goes off.

*The Entity Beam attacks no longer apply a Flight Speed debuff to players.
Instead, Large Shards on Advanced Difficulties will apply a Flight Speed debuff if they are able to explode on a player.

*The Entity is now entirely Immune to damage while in its Absorption Phase. We wanted this phase to be about avoiding the Energy Release and preventing the shards from buffing the attack.

*The Entity Absorption Phase is now 15 seconds long rather than 30 seconds. This was the case on Advanced versions of the queue but is now in parity with Normal.

*Once the Entity has been destroyed it will explode into many Small Salvageable Crystal Fragments, these fragments can be destroyed to gain 1-5 Salvage from each of them!

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Iymarra posted:

What's the actual performance difference between T5-U and T6?

About one console, one extra lt level boff power, and a smidge of extra hull/shields

The actual power level difference between tier 5 and tier 6 ships come from the ship traits. Each t6 ship comes with a ship trait that is unlocked by earning xp from space combat while piloting that ship. Once the trait is unlocked you can use it with any ship you fly with up to 4 slotted (you can also buy a fifth slot with dil/fleet credits). So you're looking at a pile of zen/EC to get the 4-5 traits you want for a build to really get the benefits of tier 6 ships the game remains piss easy though so you don't need any of that poo poo.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
The Cardie 3 pack is usable by all factions if you're trying to kit out alts.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
The t6 Scim works good with aux2bat as well. It's got a command tac boff seat and a lt universal you can use for extra sci powers or more tac powers if you've got kemo/distributed targeting.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
It was expensive because pubbies hate money and kept popping boxes with feds. They switched it to a choice box instead of locking the faction on opening when they added it to the infinity boxes though so it's currently going for regular lockbox prices (about 290 mil)

It's good, flew it for like a year on my romulan before I got bored of it.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Coq au Nandos posted:

Jem'Hadar Carrier. Intel specialisation, science seating, two hangers, wingmen and a deployable buddy for 7 combat pets active at once. The downsides are it doesn't have a secondary deflector or sensor analysis, it's light on engineering seating so you need to get creative for cooldown reduction and the turn rate is low because it's massive.

It's boff seating is just straight up loving terrible. The pets are nice though.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
You also only get 3 tac powers unless you go tac with the one lt. universal they give you; which would leave you with a single eng power which is a total non-starter. So if you want full uptime on your attack patterns you either need to lose tac team and settle for faw 1 or just ditch faw altogether and settle for surgicial strikes. It's just classic "way too much loving sci" in a way they haven't really done much in years (for good reason).

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

AfroSquirrel posted:

So, that's basically two free Fleet T6 ships worth of modules, right?

Yeah all the t6 fleet ships cost 5 modules unless you have the cstore versions in which case it's like a dozen extra asscards.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

hakimashou posted:

The t6 reps are probably gonna need some new thing that you have to start from scratch on and can only get from some new thing.

There's no way in hell they're programming 12 new things. If anything they'll just add a new currency drop to the same old dumb queues. Maybe they'll just pull the daily bonus marks and bring back the commendations from the OG dyson rep.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Yeah it's the best story content they've ever released and the best use of VO talent. The dominion faction poo poo is an afterthought at best though and they had wrapped the storyline up way too fast.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
The main take away is that rather than being an actual randomly chosen queue it's gonna fill whatever queues are in need of players. This means you can troll it by just starting the shittiest/easiest to sabotage queues over and over. We can make IGA great again guys.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Depends on the carrier. Most are fairly sci heavy and work best if built accordingly though yeah.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Asimo posted:

I kinda hate to admit it, but the vor'ral is pretty great. Good boff layout, good console layout (on the fleet version anyway), it's super nimble by battlecruiser standards just like the vor'cha, it has the full specialist ability so it isn't immediately obsolete like the last few releases, and it has one of the best canon skin options.

Yeah it looks good, still waiting to finish the Breach event before I swap for anything that isn't a beamscort pilot ship though.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Rhjamiz posted:

.... could you just... make a bunch of JemHadar alts and use their auto-60 rank to run those?

Yeah, you need to do their intro mission before you get allied with a faction and stuff though. It'll take you about 20 mins per char to plow through once you know where to go and don't have to read anything.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Dawgstar posted:

Speaking of God's work, is there always a rock stupid conversation about religion going on in ESD? It feels like it.

No sometimes there's a stupid conversation about gun control, Trump, the new Star Wars, or Discovery.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
So I muted an a rear end in a top hat in NoPPS for being an rear end in a top hat in NoPPS today.

Anyways it was Crosis and he's declared a fatwa against me and all of NoPPS or whatever. Sorry for ruining everything goons.

Crosis having a normal one posted:

[Tell] Slam The'Dar@crosis2014: you muted me? Okay, explain to Chad and Nebreki that the 5B EC giveaway for the holidays was cancelled by you
[TheTradingChannel] Slam The'Dar@crosis2014: that reminds me, if any admin invite @lagomorphic into this channel I will remove their status
[TheTradingChannel] Slam The'Dar@crosis2014: I will give away many things to people that take a stance against NoP, specifically Lagomorphic

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
This all went down because some pubbie had the audacity to not hate Discovery. So Crosis went on a hour long meltdown at the guy then started offering prizes to anyone that could correctly repeat his insults in the channel. He was really going above and beyond his usual level of self-important assholery so I put him on time-out. He didn't handle it well.

Also:

quote:

[TheTradingChannel] Slam The'Dar@crosis2014: New Channel Just created TTC Public Service...looking for skilled players that want to help others. The more you help the more you are rewarded

He's starting his own channel with hookers and blackjack I guess.

Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Sep 22, 2018

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Rhjamiz posted:

I wish I had casual access to recording software or recorded myself regularly because I just did one of the Cardassian arc mission where both versions of Weyoun-10's voice actor's lines played simultaneously. It was like talking to a lovely video game ghost, with what I assume was Combs' lines playing quietly in the background while the original Weyoun's dominated the foreground.

The original voiceover wasn't even supposed to be weyoun. It was original character they replaced with Weyoun once they got Jeffery Comb's to sign on. They've replaced a bunch of original characters in the older episodes over the years. Geordie and Nog show up a bunch in the fed arc now for example.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Create an account on the wiki, post the account name in the thread, wait for someone who does wiki stuff to see it and upgrade your account.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
You actually can just fly to Bajor and beam down. It's a social hub that noone except weirdo RPers use.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Teron D Amun posted:

so according to a recent dev stream there isnt gonna be a recruitment event tied to the STD launch, you are limited to creating Human, Vulcan and Alien races only and theres only one introduction mission exclusive to a STD starter character - looks like I'll pass on making a new character then

Holy gently caress even for cryptic that is lazy. They could have at least thrown in playable Kelpians since they're presumably going to have to do the model at some point anyways.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Ah that actually makes sense. Still a shame considering Saru is easily the best thing about the show.

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Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

hakimashou posted:

they get lazier and lazier every year

even space wars have gotten lazy, the Crosis Space War is boring as gently caress so far

Yeah it turned out to be more of a space bore. Last I heard from him he was claiming that he never said all the crazy poo poo he said and that I was making it up to slander him. I started copy/pasting from the chat logs, some pubbies insinuated that I could easily type up fake chat logs (which I could but other people were online and saw all this) and he went real quiet. Also we can end all of this if I just apologize for his mistreatment and unmute him apparently.

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