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Does anyone else have the problem that New Romulus level scales to 50 after you complete that one mission in the warehouse, or is this a feature? It currently makes it challenging for my main (lvl 30 starfleet) to get forward with the episodes. I really, really hope they do not expect me to grind fleet battles and PvE random events for 20 levels so that I can forward the plot again.
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Hunter Noventa posted:The instances should scale to your level, that's weird. I hope it was a bug or something, I'll try again tomorrow. The random critters two-shotted me and my security officer again and again, and I have level-appropriate items on both of us, and the earlier scaled maps and group PvE hasn't given me any lip before. Anyway, I went away and did some other stuff on my quest list and a couple of patrols to tip over the lvl30 threshold. So now I am running the galaxy-class as an engineer.
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Jul 23, 2021 20:54
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g0del posted:I wouldn't know, I haven't leveled a char through story missions in years. If it keeps being weird, feel free to skip all the new rom missions and come back to them later. I got it to work but the New Romulus season is incredibly janky compared to the earlier ones; the neutral romulans on the map are as flagged enemies, and will aggro at you if you accidentally use area effect weapons too close to them since some animal are hostile. Everyone on the planet also keeps telling you that "you do not have access rights to this area" because it refers to some reputation system that has been taken out. Similarly, the place is full of items, characters and collectable points of interest which I think are remnants from that reputation grind. As far as I know, they no longer do anything but the game keeps referencing to a mechanic that simply no longer exists. Additionally, all missions give piddly amount of XP (some hundreds), and you actually need to play every instance 2-3 time in a row so that all of the scripts fire at least once.
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Jul 24, 2021 14:30
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Eimi posted:Also for the New Romulus missions, if you hit skip and then accept both missions at the same time, you don't need to backtrack. Ah, thank you! I did not even think of that.
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Jul 24, 2021 15:43
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Sitrep from soloing the campaign: Cryptic might want to hire a person to do QA on their season mission difficulty spikes. I had to skip the latter part of the Delta Quadrant missions because for some reason the difficulty curved straight up between two missions, and decided that now even the smallest Vaadwaur vessels have 150k+ hitpoints, big ones 180+ or more. I am currently on lvl 62 and my Tactical escort retrofit with dual plasma cannons, turrets and 4 plasma infusers (totals to 3.3k DPS) can barely put a dent on them going "full weapons", while being basically randomly oneshotted by that large artillery ship. The start of the Iconian war season has not given me much of a problem, at least yet.
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Jul 28, 2021 11:46
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Thanks for the info! I'll look into getting upgrades and making a better build than "all plasma weapons and all tactical +plasma damage consoles", and finish the delta rising later. And no, I have nothing from the zen store or promotional unlocks, I am not even on a fleet yet. I just started few weeks ago because I was looking for a modern take on the Starfleet command and I also didn't mind the WoW-style ground stuff, although I never really got into Wow after taking one paladin to lvl60 and trying out the horde when the first expansion was released.
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Jul 28, 2021 15:28
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DancingShade posted:Cryptic survived Atari so Cryptic can survive Cryptic. I would expect a content drought though, for a while. EDIT: Now that my Starfleet main is lvl 65 and I am mostly just playing the story missions, doing dailies for event, Fleet, Discovery and Omega rep, I was thinking about making a Klingon/Red team alt. Any suggestions on what would be most interesting? My main is bog-standard TNG-human-starfleet and I just finished the Iconian storyline so there is still several to do. Or suggestions what reps are better ones to farm? I got into some generic public fleet to see what that is all about and they want 200k fleet marks before you get access to the stores. I am currently sitting in about 100k with them but it mostly looks like a museum fleet from the more active times. They do have some activity and events, though. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 13:59
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Something's up, the Zen purchase tool switched from Steam integration to their own online store, and nothing is on sale at the store anymore. Usually this is a sign that the game developer no longer can afford Steam sales commissions, or transaction processing times, and needs cash fast. I was just about to bite the bullet and buy my first T6 by getting the Recon ship set 1 for 4k zen but now I am going to wait and see what's what.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:24
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I also noticed that the mirror universe package was on sale for 2700 zen for a few days, but goddamn if the 3-nacelle Galaxy isn't fugly so I passed on that. And it would not have given me a ship for the "red team" run I am planning to do after I run out of campaign missions for the Starfleet.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:27
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Cythereal posted:...People play this game with sound on? I thought the natural audio for this game was The Great British Baking Show. Only place the game soundtrack has bothered me so far is DS9; they could have something in addition of running the show theme on a 10 sec. loop.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:30
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Buying Zen through Steam/Epic requires starting the launcher through the respective store. I just checked Epic, and it's still there. Did you make a shortcut to skip Steam because of the recent Steam (re)integration breaking stuff? I launch the launcher via Steam but haven't checked it in detail. Earlier it always threw me into my steam wallet; I just found it weird that today it started to want me to verify my ARC account and redirecred me to the webstore constantly. And yes, I allowed the account integration since I have so far only one character and the only thing I have bought was enough Zen to get my T5 the T5-U upgrade. Next thing I am about to get is the EC limit thingy, so that I can get the Fleet something something modules from the Exchange. My dill farming work and leftovers are about to hit 500 zen in few days, and I think that is the best use for the leftovers. But at the same time I thought that I might as well but the first T6:s, since the game is free to play and I more or less treat it like Starfleet command 4, for which I would have paid full retail price so I am still ~60 Eur "under the budget".
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Aug 4, 2021 20:37
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So today I bit the bullet and bough Yamato-class since I wanted A) T6 hull, B) go back to caribean booze cruisers from escorts and C) wanted something with a hangar to play around with fighters. Its still the stupid 3-nacelle galaxy but at least it looks nicer than the Terran empire-one and with few edits it looks acceptable as "galaxy with a sort of flight deck" in my mind. Since I used my earlier leftovers to unlock 2B EC limit, my next thing is the experimental ship unlock token from Exchange. Like said earlier, I was also looking for the recon 1 bundle to get another ship for my red team-alt, but decided against taking lafayette since it looks like science/tactical and if I understood correctly it plays like escort since it is a destroyer and can equip dual cannons? So my actual question is, what should I watch out for, for the next ship bundle T6 if they ever go to sale? The next one needs to be a crossfaction or team red (preferably crossfaction) since I want to also do the red-team run, with tactical captain since my main is an engineer. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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Aug 8, 2021 19:05
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So is this Red Alert -thing also dropping the T6-X upgrade or not? It was mentioned on some texts earlier, but now it seems to be gone from the tool tips. I mean I only have 3 left to find out, but it would be really a bummer if they backpedaled on that one. One free update kit and one skill point ain't much.
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Aug 18, 2021 19:25
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Asimo posted:A little belated, but nah the weekend/five day version of the event just gives the tech upgrade and spec point, which admittedly is still pretty nice for the zero effort it takes. They save the ship upgrade for the two week "oh poo poo we need a filler before the next event/mission is ready" version. Ah bollocks. I guess its sort of understandable, but one would expect Cryptic to update information on their main f**ing loading screen for the event. 
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Aug 20, 2021 17:55
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The new Leeta model looks like she has been hitting the Kanar a bit too hard and a tad too often. EDIT: And looks less than the old model like Leeta that they have on their promo materials. Bravo with the art direction and coordination, Cryptic! Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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Sep 19, 2021 16:28
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It usually shows empty (at least to me), but all dill to ZEN transactions I leave in when I quit for the evening have gone through by the next day. ...But what I have also noticed is that because of the timecop recruit thingly, every f**king thing in the Exchange costs at least 100k EC.
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Sep 22, 2021 13:53
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Teron D Amun posted:but the most important historical figure in Starfleet was Chief Miles O'Brien and he has nothing directly representing him in STO Well, there is not much you can do when the actor wants to cut off ties with the franchise and does not allow his likeness to be used anywhere. Colm Meaney hasn't done anything Star Trek-related since the DS9 went off the air in 1999, not voice acting or even a cameo on the later movies or series.
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Sep 27, 2021 10:36
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Cythereal posted:How do you cast Idris Elba as a villain and waste him on such a nothing part buried in makeup like that. Like they usually do, give him too little to work with and not enough screen time.
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This might be a bit stupid question since I have already dropped something like 200h into the game during the last three months after I started, but what *can* you do with the EC, especially to avoid spending zen on getting stuff? With zen, I have bought some stuff like 12 item account-wide bank, my first T6 for my main, and "unlimited" account EC. EDIT: Also, is there a consensus on carriers, is it better to have more fighters, or better ones? I lucked into an epic phoenix token and got a full carrier since I did not have one, but that has only 2 frigates per hangar. Those carry something like 4 weapons per ship so they in theory are better, but I do not feel they are that good especially against a swarm of 12 small ships since the AI isn't that great. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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How one can acquire the pizza slicer Enterprise-J? Its stupid enough that I might want to go for one for my temporal agent as my endgame to end all endgames. I have been running that alt with the Yamato I bough earlier as my first account T6, and it seems that he is overtaking my "main" soonish because of the stupidly good bonuses and dreadnought cruiser is actually much more fun to play than a full carrier I lucked into with Phoenix boxes when farming upgrade kits. Temporal even gives a free T6-X upgrade, a thing I never thought was worth actual money.
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Eimi posted:If you've been doing the mega event campaign one of the possible prizes would be the Ent-J, otherwise a shitload of EC. It is that "one prestige T6 token" one right? Because I did not find it on the normal ship selection at the Zen store. I have been doing that mega campaign, although I will need to buy out the Tholian one since I have only 1950 so far, if I calculated correctly. I was actually going to take the lobi, and wait for discounts to get some other stuff in addition of a ship.
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Have done the event now twice; it is much more enjoyable if you luck into a group that doesn't use their head mostly as a hat stand.
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Now that the Lobi store is on sale again, is there anything else besides the Lower Decks Phaser cannon that is a "must get"? I hosed around with the master keys when they were on sale and bough enough with dilzen and steam acco money to get the captain upgrade and my first T6-X upgrade by selling keys since it was stupidly cheaper that way. The leftovers from the 20-pack I spent on infinity boxes and got enough lobi to grab that one. So I am not buying it tommorrow, but maybe down the line. I am still considering on getting the 1500 lobi instead of the pizza slizer Enterprise-J, so I need some opinions. Is there something in the lobi store that is very useful?
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g0del posted:Remember that lobi gear is char-bound. Make sure you only buy the gear on the char that will be using it. Yeah I bought it on my timecop who is my main from now on. I was also thinking about the disco rifle but non-lobi one on my ex-main "full auto phaser rifle" you get from the missions wasn't that impressive although it looks tacticool. I actually might switch to getting that pizza slicer and slap some stupid visual on it when I get the reputation game to Tier 6. I also started to do the dancemix emote while waiting for the event to start, it seems to bring up emotions on other players. 
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Oct 15, 2021 21:49
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How do you get rid those green Borg warts that Franklin Drakes installs to your ship in the Spectres? They did not disappear after I completed that story arc. I tried resetting visuals, switching ship and redesigning it but no, they cling on to my ship regardless. The starbase engineer also says that my ship is intact, so they aren't fixable condition either. EDIT: Nevermind, found it. It was a trait I just needed to turn off. I didn't even know this game had consumable/one-time use traits like that. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Actually yes that assimilated console did it ...which brings me to my next question, what the hell is that "trait" that keeps showing up in my character then? It is something called "we have adapted" and it gives -100% radiation damage, probably related to mostly and only to the last mission of the Spectres where you travel back to destoy that asteroid. I am starting to get the feeling that these "Galaxy at large" or more likely "have not been debugged or tested in 8+ years" missions are a mixbag of surprises. And cheap bootleg version of Dr. McCoy. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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MisterOblivious posted:Speaking of idiot teammates, the Triolic Pattern Enhancer puts you out of phase. Drop it next to one of the levers. You've got a 25% of picking the right one to make the end boss vulnerable instead of watching idiots stand around shooting at an invuln boss. Isn't the end boss "you need to pull all these levers but you only have time to do it one at the time?" Anyway yeah, the triolic pattern enhancer works for that fight. Shame about the 8 min cooldown.
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BTW if someone is one of the newer players, the USS Sally Ride admiralty card is still claimable. All you need to do is fly to Narendra system in the Beta quadrant, and fly around until you get on the galaxy map action "Contact USS Sally Ride". https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/U.S.S._Sally_Ride It is a very decent science vessel card for someone, who like me only has like 3-4 T6:s in addition of the normal unlocks from the Phoenix boxes.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Hopped on today hitting T6 rep with my Temp Recruit and the new EV suit slot is nice. And I've got a bunch of dilzen ready for whatever black friday sale comes up. What has the Black Friday sale been like in the previous years? -75% everything, or something lame like "bundles -30%"?
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Since it is double XP week, sleepwalking through the episodes until you hit 52 to unlock admirality might not be the fastest, but at least less painful way to get to the T5/XII stuff and better. I am doing that for my Romulan alt. Just switch to your T6 immediately out of tutorial and keep dropping whatever the episodes give you into the equipment slots. Or grab some green tact. consoles and guns from Exchange to boost damage output and make all episode stuff trivial. ...And skip through all small craft missions and the entire New Romulus arc.
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Also if you can stomach some episode grinding -"Beyond the Nexus" gives you a rather nice omnibeam+console+torpedo set, especially if you are into phasers, and -"Temporal Front" gives the best ground shield. Also get the set armor because it is better than what you probably at that point have, and also the gun so that you can keep the 2-item extra ability once you find a better armor, or buy the Burnham CQC armor from Disco reputation. The gun is a lovely shotgun, but if you slot it to 2nd weapon slot the absolutely fantastic +critical chance from the set still works.
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Kinda hope that it would be possible to switch to blue UI from the bright yellow one the TOS character has, though.
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Hunter Noventa posted:There's an option for that buried somewhere in the settings. Embarassingly, it is on the first options window that opens, if you know to look for one. This f***ing game...
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Nov 15, 2021 18:22
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I find this Black Friday sale somewhat lackluster. The ZEN extra is pitiable and the lockbox stuff is still lockbox stuff. I am considering on maybe getting one 1000+ ZEN just to get by buy-off for the season lockbox for prestige T6, since I joined midway and need at least that one 700 season credit buy-off to get my pizza slizer. But then again, I ask myself, "why"? I already got Yamato earlier, and have specced it with my timecop to do ~100k DPS. It is not like there is any content that needs the Enterprise-J stuff. So that would go only towards keeping this "Star Fleet Command 4" afloat. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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Worked just fine also for someone from EU.
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Alright, finally got my pizza slizer, and with Disco rep vanity shield it looks like something awful indeed. ... and with that 32nd Century Federation Vanity Shield it looks retro-future, something that was made by Vault-Tec and flew out of a Fallout game.
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Another one which looks really nice with the 32nd federation vanity shield is this one: https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Vorgon_Ryn%27kodan_Carrier The kazoo whistle carrier. Slap that federation vanity shield on it and it actually looks like something future Federation might come up with when designing a carrier with the principles learned from the Defiant:  The original texture makes it look scaly, and rather stupid. And it is a *really* bad ship for meta but for some reason I wanted a full carrier when I lucked into a epic phoenix token while doing my first character.
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Cythereal posted:Fun fact, the Vorgon ships were originally made as the 31st century ships for the Federation! Then CBS decided that they looked too alien, so they were made the Vorgon ships and we got the Chronos, Eternal, and Ouroboros designs instead. Hah, I actually didn't know that, cool! And yes, the pizza slizer is stupid large behemoth of a ship. And from the first moment I saw one I knew that this was the one if I ever got a chance to get a prestige lockbox ship. I mean, its even canon design!
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disaster pastor posted:Just downloaded this, and I've never touched it before. The wiki links in the OP don't work, is there a good "do this poo poo when you start" summary anywhere? And is the info in the OP still good? OP stuff is still good; start with any faction you like the most, but you probably should take tactical as the first captain since it is the most straight-forward ground play, and fly a cruiser since it is the same for the space pew-pew. Start to worry about long-play-stuff, fleet gear or the reputation gear earliest when you hit lvl 61 and get your first T5 ship that can be made end-game useful with a relatively expensive T5-U upgrade. Until that, level up by doing the story missions, and every once in a while PvE. But press the skip on all of the "new romulus" missions (it used to be a grindy PvE area and now its just ...gimped waste of time), and on all missions that use shuttles (they are really miserable and/or boring), there is no penalty on skipping a story mission/episode. Also, do not worry about gear before you hit the XII-tier of gear: just replace your worst stuff with the stuff the missions give you. EDIT: Just remember; there is no need to buy anything with ZEN to experience any of the game content. You get raw dilithium that you can refine into the secondary premium currency 8k/day, and barring lockbox content (ships, costumes, some gear and abilities) everything can be done with the stuff you get. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Or and google around if there are any promotions that give out "T6" ships still open: google "Star Trek online giveaway codes". Getting any one of those will carry you all the way until the endgame and meta unless you find something that you like more; all T5-U, T-6 and T-6X are completely usable on the end-game content, and the meta stuff is for the insane people that do PvP.
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