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I actually picked this up again thanks to Moon Slayer's LP and FFXIV being in a bit of a lull in the expac buildup. I ran through the ToS and Disco openings because why not...is there anything more to them once you get to the point of the same Fed missions as everything else, or was that it? Also debating making a new KDF alt because I have no idea what was going on with the one I have.
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Feb 11, 2019 02:51
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What's the consensus on dual beams? Good? Meh? Ignore?
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Feb 16, 2019 15:41
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I'm also space poor and trying to figure out how in the world to get a T6 Federation ship of some sort..both in terms of affording one and in terms of what to get. I'm not about to pay real money though, which basically leaves me at the mercy of the exchange. The d'Kora someone handed out to me is nice, but it feels weird not being in a federation ship. And I also need to get better than Tier XII equipment so i stop getting blown up.
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Feb 19, 2019 05:23
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Coq au Nandos posted:Get your reputations to tier 6, spend five of the fleet ship modules it gives you to buy a fleet ship. Every canon ship except the Constitution and NX classes are available this way. The downside is fleet ships don’t come with the console or trait you get from a c-store purchase, and don’t unlock across your account. I assume that means having to buy master keys off the exchange then? Or are these boxes different somehow?
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Feb 19, 2019 12:38
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Yeah I've already got a few alts from playing the game previously, I had a fed and a klinkrom at 50 when I came back. Admiralty actually unlocks at 52, but not hard to get to. I'll have to go pick up the Sally Ride on my main, I already had the Temporal Ambassador cruiser because I was playing when that content released, so I have the actual ship. I'll probably wipe out one of my other alts for a Jem'hadar if they're good for admiralty farming. Is there anything else to know about making the most of admiralty? My new main bought all the shuttles she could to help there in addition to the ships from leveling...should I at any point say, buy better ships for EC off the exchange (like, Meshweavers or other "cheap" infinity box ships) and scuttle my old ones to do better at admiralty? And I did get the free T6 for the anniversary. It might be my loadout but I'm still seeing if its better than my d'Kora for regular use. It feels like it needs cannons, but I need to get different Boffs for cannon skills if so. Not a real hardship of course.
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Feb 19, 2019 23:51
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g0del posted:First off, you don't need different boffs for cannon skills - you can teach the cannon skills to your current boffs. Ah see, I'd put the skills onto different boffs because I've been switching between the two ships. But the T'Pau feels really fragile. And it's good to know i can dump things like my T0 and T1 ships from my docks and buy yet more shuttles.
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Feb 20, 2019 04:31
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I actually found myself hitting the EC cap today, so I bought the Voth Flight Deck Cruiser off the exchange. I know it's a mediocre ship but I'll at least try it after I slowly kit it out. It boosts my admiralty deck if nothing else. I suppose next time that happens I'll start buying some Mk XIII weaponry. I really want the Voth Palisade Science Vessel, but it's Lobi store only.
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Feb 22, 2019 04:56
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Coq au Nandos posted:You can buy Lobi ships on the Exchange. There might not be any there because it’s tier 5 and less attractive than T6 ships these days. Yeah, I looked for it on the exchange, 194 million EC. I'd rather spend the Zen on a ship I want more than on the cap increase, for now anyway. Ironically the base loadout came in handy because my endeavor today was 'Antiproton Damage (Space)' so I just hopped into a deep space encounter with it.
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Feb 22, 2019 13:18
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I'm still trying to work out what a good ship is for my FedSci captain. I've used the d'Kora, the T'Pau and the Voth Bastion and none of them seem to click. Until I max out reps for the fleet ship modules my appealing options are: Tholian Orb Weaver from the Exchange. Tactical Escort Retrofit via Upgrade Token from the Exchange Save up the absurd amount needed to get a Voth Palisade off the exchange (195 million last I checked) If I did pick up the Orb Weaver it would be pretty easy to also pick up the Meshweaver to get the other piece of the console set for that bonus at least. Also, which reputation sets are worth getting?
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Mar 3, 2019 16:07
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Pioneer42 posted:Tholian Orb Weaver T5-U is the best budget sci ship. It is also an excellent sci ship, and with the console I'll have to go find the Krenim mission, I might not have gotten to it yet. And I was already grinding Temporal Rep, so that's good. As for the Nicor...it's ugly.
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Mar 4, 2019 02:57
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Pioneer42 posted:I should mention that you want the Temp rep set, but with either the Bajor or Solanae deflector for max EPG. I think I already have the Solanae Deflector, I'll have to check if its on one of my ships.
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Mar 4, 2019 03:48
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Oof that's going to make some of those kill endeavors suck. I suppose it'll populate some battlezones are lot more then. I bought myself an Orb Weaver and so far It's very nice. Much swifter than the Voth Flight Deck Cruiser, and the Nukara Tetryons I had from grinding Nukara rep go very nicely on it til I get the Terran and Temporal Rep up there.
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Mar 5, 2019 05:10
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super sweet best pal posted:Death of a Game did a STO video. Ouch. Man does good work, and he's usually not wrong. Heck, I'm only playing until the FFXIV expansion comes out.
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Mar 6, 2019 13:12
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hakimashou posted:You can get a free fleet t6 one with the fleet ship modules you get for finishing t6 reps, or a goon can just give you the fleet ship modules Oh man I need those fleet ship modules and am still too far from maxing any reputations. the Orb Weaver and Voth Bastion just don't cut it sometimes. But I don't know which fleet ship to actually get, which federation ones are good?
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Mar 14, 2019 03:30
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Cythereal posted:The orb weaver is fine. If you're having trouble, it's due to your gear and/or traits and/or abilities setup, not the ship. Yes, only having Mk XII gear is a problem too. Just waiting for the upgrade weekend.
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Mar 14, 2019 11:33
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Coq au Nandos posted:It should be soon. This week’s patch will make rep set weapons re-engineerable, so I’d bet they drop it the week after people spend the weekend blowing dill on rerolling mods on high end weapons. Oh good, I'll have to save some Dil...and hopefully get to the point of the good Terran and Temporal gear, since I don't think that Tachyon beam arrays are all that good.
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Mar 14, 2019 22:52
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So I have to ask, is it worth saving the EC to buy a Starship Upgrade Requisition to say, upgrade my Tactical Escort Retrofit or Exploration Cruiser Retrofit if I already have T6 ships but well, want to fly an actual federation ship? Or would I be better served spending that EC buying the Fleet Ship Modules I need over time, and won't get through rep for quite a while? For that matter, is there such a thing as a double rep weekend or it is just the same long slog to T6 Rep?
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Mar 20, 2019 03:05
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Mondian posted:If a single upgrade req is something you have to scrimp and save for, do not blow your ec on a trash tier ship like that. Find one of the many affordable options that aren't awful instead I've got the money right now at least (Starship Upgrades are about 20mil, I have 55mil) and I already have some good ships. Just trying to decide if its worth upgrading one of the ones I have, or continuing to save for a Fleet ship while still enjoying my Orb Weaver and d'Kora.
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Mar 20, 2019 12:21
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Mondian posted:If you had the T6 refit and just had to spend a module for the fleet version, yes. Getting the fleet T5U defiant with the gently caress you tac ensign and paying about half your banked ec for it seems like a bad decision. No the only T6 ship I have is the T'Pau, if I wanted a fleet ship I need the 5 modules. But I get that upgrading the Tac Escort to T5U is not worth it. Hunter Noventa fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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So my fedSci Captain will be able to acquire a T6 Fleet ship tomorrow, and I'm debating which one to get. But I think the more relevant question is, are there any BAD T6 Fleet ships in there? Ones that should just be avoided? Or are they all pretty viable?
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Apr 8, 2019 03:40
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SNOT CORN posted:They're all viable but it depends on what specialization you want. I've heard that the Jupiter is pretty bad also. Keep in mind that you won't get the starship traits with the fleet variants. Yeah I'm well aware of the trait bit. I thought the Jupiter looked decent aside from the awful turn rate...but then, that's probably why it's bad. I'll have to do some figuring to get what I want I guess.
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I ended up grabbing the Fleet Scryer Intel Ship, i'm liking it so far but I've not had time to do anything serious with it either.
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Oh drat, I won't be high enough rep to buy the terran phaser banks and then upgrade them on the cheap. At least I should be able to get the Temporal Defense rep gear for my Scryer and upgrade that. Should I even bother looking into upgrading ground gear? And are there any mission sets good for the Scryer? I'm using Quantum Phase Catalysts right now because that Quantum Destabilizing Beam is a lot of fun to use, but a set that'll let me buy some rep weaponry to upgrade (I've got Nukara and Mega at T6) would also be nice.
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Cythereal posted:The Stormbound set is the general new to 50 starter kit. Oh wow that set does pair up nicely. I've already got purple bio-molecular mk12 phasers from the Undine rep boxes. I don't mind sticking with those. That's where I've gotten the majority of my weapons at this point, various rep boxes. Should I replace the stormbound set with the Temporal Defense stuff when i have the discount? or does it not matter that much? Hunter Noventa fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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Cythereal posted:It doesn't matter that much, STO is built with the typical pubby in mind and if you're thinking about this kind of stuff you're already ahead of the game. Competitive is the current favored rep set if you're going to go for one, but Iconian used to be popular before Competitive came along. A good point on how the game's built. I've got a ship for every damage type, but that's mostly for endeavours, and my main ship has phasers, I'll probably start swapping tot he terran ones once I hit T6 there. Those tips on consoles to get are helpful though, thanks.
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MisterOblivious posted:I think it's worth mentioning, especially for Hunter and Cyrano, that "rep store" weapons cost an assload of dil and "store/rep-box" weapons are extremely expensive to upgrade since they start at XII. Getting them to flip quality is quite expensive. Don't upgrade weapons you get from those free boxes. Please don't make the same mistake I did. Just... don't. I do have a nice big pile of phoenix upgrades to drop on whatever I do end up upgrading. But it sounds like I ought to try and sell all my upgrade items that do cost dil on the exchange. I'm sure someone will buy the pile of superior beam upgrades I crafted.
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Apr 13, 2019 13:45
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Cythereal posted:Whatever looks coolest. This is the correct answer, of course. Am I correct that T6 ships only unlock for a single character, and not account wide? But do they open up the discount on acquiring the fleet version of said ship for your whole account? And I'm almost certain, but tehre's no point in doing the cupon event across multiple characters, because you can only get the coupons once per account, right?
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Excellent, so I only need to do the event on my main for the coupons, though doing it on the others for dil and marks when I have time won't be a bad idea either of course. Now i have a few months to figure out what ship(s) I want.
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MisterOblivious posted:Thanks for putting in the effort to make this list. I've been leaning towards the Arbiter but breaking the bundle would suck. Sounds like it's going to take at least as long to earn the coupon as it does 6k zen (lol, people though it would be 14 days) so this list of non-bundle-breakers is most useful. Plus they all have fleet versions if anything in the list looks playable. It's a shame that the escort is a 4/3 :/ That list is great. If I had the time to properly do an admiralty farm it'd help more, but as it is I'll likely just grab whatever suits my fancy. I was already considering the Europa though, which is a bonus.
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HopperUK posted:I bought a Ferengi ship off the exchange and I'm having a blast with it. I realise it's only a T5(U) but at my super-casual level it's good enough to fly something entertaining. I ran with the d'Kora for a long while and it's still part of my active lineup (mainly for if a Space Tetryon Damage endeavor comes up) but it's a shockingly solid ship for the price it comes at, between the Battle Mode and its built-in missiles. Having resigned myself to never having enough Zen for a ship (other games stealing my time, like when Shadowbrigners comes out this summer), I'll just buy whatever I feel like with the coupons, and use my dil for Rep consoles and the like.
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Rahhmi posted:The new T6 Grind is a literal scam. Here's some numbers. No real shock there, but it's not going to stop 99% of the playerbase.
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Asimo posted:Yeah if you're doing it just for the ship it's a bad deal. But I suspect most people like excuses to pewpew things in a starship and it's a nice bonus for doing so on top of the usual event stuff so hey. Yeah. Heck I went in in one of my older ships for the heck of it and it was fine. The marks are nice too of course. But it's not like I'm going 'ugh, this thing'.
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greasythepirate posted:TOS Feds have the best Fed tutorial IMO. I recommend playing through every main faction's tutorials, as both the Roms and KDFs have good stories before everybody's missions merge together later. And as stated earlier, definitely make a JH character, because after finishing that tutorial you can start farming dilithium (though it will be slow going at first until you get more ships). Yeah, for someone who doesn't have a backlog of event ships to claim, JH can't do much admiralty dil farming at all. You get your starter ship, a fighter, and a free T5 of whatever faction you join, plus the ability to buy their ships/shuttles. And the Sally Ride, which you get from space for free. It's slow going to be honest.
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Apr 21, 2019 22:41
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Cythereal posted:A carrier is good for that. The sheer volume of attacks fighters put out, and how fighters will engage well beyond 10km, makes dealing with the missiles pretty easy. Speaking of carriers, how is the Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier? My main maxed out enough Reps for another 5 Fleet Modules and variety would be nice, since I plan to spend my first T6 discount on something cross-faction like one of the Temporal or Cardassian ships.
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May 3, 2019 12:31
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Coq au Nandos posted:It’s one of my favourites. Good seating, you can mess around with pilot seating and you can run a hanger of fighters. I’m super biased though, the Armitage was the first ship I ever bought. Yeah it does look nice, though at the same time I was looking at the Chronos Temporal Dreadnought for my free T6 from the coupons which also has fighters...but you know what? That's for everyone else, not my main.
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May 3, 2019 20:01
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Well I got my T6 coupon. No idea what to use it on, except maybe one of the Cardassian or Temporal ships that's cross-faction.
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Jun 24, 2019 13:54
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Nice, updates for my Voth Carrier and my Fleet Heavy Escort Carrier.
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Jul 30, 2019 20:42
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Man, I still want a Palisade, the shape of it just speaks to me. But they're nigh impossible to afford for a casual player, and this won't be any better.
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Asimo posted:The Phoenix box stuff is back today too, with an upgrade weekend later this month for anyone who cares. They put the Bajor Set Warp Drive/Singularity Core int he Very Rare section, if you were wanting to finish that set for reasons.
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