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FuturePastNow posted:guy who makes demorecord videos Perhaps there’s some correlation between doing free marketing for a company selling predatory gambling products and receiving a shitload of abuse. If only the person involved had some way of avoiding that risk.
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Can I get an invite to the channel? My Arc username is zata5665#4642. Also question: is it worth it to promote my bridge officers at low levels (I just hit 10 and got my new ship) and I had to buy an engineer to fill my slots. Should I promote everyone to Lieutenant?
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Humerus posted:Can I get an invite to the channel? My Arc username is zata5665#4642. Yep, promoting your bridge officers allows them to use the next tier of skills in addition to whatever they already have. It's all sorted by rank. Don't worry your crew aren't paid anything anyway so it's not like their non-existent wages go up.
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Aug 16, 2019 16:58
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Yeah I wasn't sure about the expertise cost because currently I have enough to promote all four of my officers but that won't leave much. I guess I won't need more for another ten levels though?
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Aug 16, 2019 17:53
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Expertise isn't a real cost, you'll be swimming in it soon enough
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Aug 16, 2019 18:44
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Can someone give me an admiralty guide for dummies? Like, a general overview? Because I'm definitely confused and the wiki isn't helping me much with determining what's worth doing and how. Also, can I raise the stats of the ships that I can send, somehow, or no? How can I get more ships the easiest without spending real dosh?
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Ritznit posted:Can someone give me an admiralty guide for dummies? Like, a general overview? Because I'm definitely confused and the wiki isn't helping me much with determining what's worth doing and how. Also, can I raise the stats of the ships that I can send, somehow, or no? How can I get more ships the easiest without spending real dosh? Concentrate on the Klingon and Ferengi campaigns. Make sure to do both the Tour of Duty assignment (completing all 10 will get you 30k dilithium) and any assignment that rewards you with either dil or ec. Make sure to check the events on each assignment because some will give extra dil/ec on top of the normal rewards. As for getting more ships: - go to the Narendra system and talk to the U.S.S. Sally Ride to get a free card - complete the mission "Time and Tide" from the Future Proof arc to get the U.S.S. Pastak - complete all 10 Tour of Duty missions for a faction gets you a unique ship the first time - reach level 65 and get the C.U.V. Tain - buy your faction's ships from the ship vendor for dilithium
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Ritznit posted:Can someone give me an admiralty guide for dummies? Like, a general overview? Because I'm definitely confused and the wiki isn't helping me much with determining what's worth doing and how. Also, can I raise the stats of the ships that I can send, somehow, or no? How can I get more ships the easiest without spending real dosh? Basically, skip everything except the 24 hour Tour of Duty missions. Specifically the KDF and Ferengi ones that award 30,000 dilithium at the end. Use your shuttles and low level ships to "skip" missions. This means send a single shuttle/low level ship on missions you want to get past, and do the shortest ones possible to free up the mission slot as quickly as possible. No, you can't upgrade or increase the stats of the admiralty cards. They aren't really ships, they are just baseball cards. After you get your KDF/Ferengi Tour of Duty missions slotted and have 24 hours to wait until they are done, do at least the first Tour of Duty mission for the Fed and Rom campaigns, because when completed they award 5 skip tokens each. Do all of this with as many alts as possible.
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If you're not a longtime player already working with a shitload of old event ships/c-store stuff the main thing is to just successfully do one "mission" for each campaign everyday to get the daily xp bonus. Once you've got the campaigns done you'll have 4 more good ships to work with. If a tour of duty mission is up make sure that's the one you send good ships at. Once you've got 4 missions running that aren't going to fail (need 100% success chance to guarantee this) just throw you're lovely ships you got leveling at anything with a high requirements to get them out of the way in any campaign that doesn't have a Tour of Duty mission up.
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Thanks a bunch for the tips!greasythepirate posted:Do all of this with as many alts as possible. Would I need to level all those alts to 50? Sounds tedious, I don't think I like the game enough to really "optimize" my play. Are the missions still worth it?
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Ritznit posted:Thanks a bunch for the tips! Get a few T6 ships via events. This will take you at least six months. Do it super casually. Then make a boat load of jem hadar alts and claim those ships on that alt. Also use the dil lootcrate event ships. NOte that this is all the poo poo you do as a burned out old STO fart who played the missions like a million years ago. RIght now, just play the story missions and have fun and if you finish those and are damaged enough to want to grind for spaceship pokemon then come back and ask how to set up a dill farm.
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Also, don't do anymore missions from a faction while you're doing their tour of duty missions, it won't make another come up any faster. there's also value in repeating the Romulan Republic tour of duty missions, since they give really good upgrade items that give lots of TP and cost no Dil to use, but save them for an upgrade weekend of course.
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Aug 17, 2019 01:48
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Hunter Noventa posted:Also, don't do anymore missions from a faction while you're doing their tour of duty missions, it won't make another come up any faster. It's a better return on your time just getting dil and spending it on phoenix packs than getting the Romulan upgrades. So dil should be top priority there. Like you're better off just doing the random ones that give dil than the romulan tours (once you've got the ship for hitting level 10 in the campaign).
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Aug 17, 2019 02:43
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Ritznit posted:Thanks a bunch for the tips! There are special duty officer missions you can get from the exchange that get your characters up to 50+ super quickly. I used them on all of my toons for lazy leveling during the XP event and it takes about 5-6 of them to get over level 50. They run about 1.2m EC right now each. Do as many EC Admiralty missions as possible and if you're lucky you can get up to 300k EC per day on each toon. I got you on my friend's list in the game so I can help you out more if you have questions. Rx King fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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I just recently started the PC version since I never really gave the PS4 version a fair shake. Loving it this time around so can I get an invite the the channel? My arc name is harosama#2018 and if there is an opening I'd love to join Starfleet Dental.
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Humerus posted:Yeah I wasn't sure about the expertise cost because currently I have enough to promote all four of my officers but that won't leave much. I guess I won't need more for another ten levels though? Expertise is in a really weird place. When you're leveling it's really easy to run out and have to grind for more, and trying to fill all the daily rep missions can eat up any excess you've built up while leveling. But once you've hit T5 in a couple of reps, you'll have more than you'll ever need and will never have to worry about it again.
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Aug 18, 2019 06:54
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Promoting your bridge officers is a weird ancient artifact from when they were figuring out mechanics, and there's zero reason not to promote them all immediately. Honestly, expertise as a whole is an artifact that should be removed. (Why do I suspect removing it would be 'a script that sets your expertise to one billion every login and then we hide it from every screen')
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Aug 18, 2019 07:15
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Alright, I know what to do with fleet marks (send them to projects in the fleet that might need them) but what do I do with the dozen other kinds of marks?
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Ritznit posted:Alright, I know what to do with fleet marks (send them to projects in the fleet that might need them) but what do I do with the dozen other kinds of marks? Feed them to the reputation grind https://sto.gamepedia.com/Reputation_System/Rewards This will unlock nice things like traits, ground gear, space gear, special repuation specific shops and some vanity shields. Some of this gear is excellent. All costs a mix of marks, dilithium and some other crap. The grind to get everything is vast now because it originally started with only 2 reputation grinds and they kept adding 1-2 per year until we got this current conglomerate. You'll do them all eventually but don't feel under pressure.
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DancingShade posted:Feed them to the reputation grind https://sto.gamepedia.com/Reputation_System/Rewards The most important ones for new players are borg (module + 360 beam), Iconian (deflector, shield, core), and wargames (engine), right? Those are all generally useful gear that can slot into any build
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Aug 18, 2019 19:53
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Start your nominating: https://twitter.com/The_ZEFilms/status/1163155387836698630
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Aug 18, 2019 20:41
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Can I get an invite to the Goon channel? My name is Saviik@zata5665#4642. Also access to the Wiki so I'm not making GBS threads up the thread with my basic questions?
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greasythepirate posted:Start your nominating: Do all those Wesley Christmases qualify me as the giving type
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AfroSquirrel posted:The most important ones for new players are borg (module + 360 beam), Iconian (deflector, shield, core), and wargames (engine), right? Those are all generally useful gear that can slot into any build
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Here's a question: Is there anything useful I can do with the piles and piles of Commodities my KDF alt picked up while marauding for contraband?
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Hunter Noventa posted:Here's a question: Is there anything useful I can do with the piles and piles of Commodities my KDF alt picked up while marauding for contraband? Sell them to a vendor on Qo'noS. Using your replicator to sell them doesn't give you as much as a vendor would.
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greasythepirate posted:Start your nominating: Nobody cares
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Hunter Noventa posted:Here's a question: Is there anything useful I can do with the piles and piles of Commodities my KDF alt picked up while marauding for contraband? Everything but the contraband is garbage and should be liquidated at a vendor.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Here's a question: Is there anything useful I can do with the piles and piles of Commodities my KDF alt picked up while marauding for contraband? Sell the ones you don't need for EC to some NPC. If you're marauding you'll be constantly flooded in them so if you ever need some down the line just wait for some doff projects to finish. Some of the original starbase development projects used large volumes but that was years ago.
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There are some dumb motherfuckers at the top of this company, that's all I can say https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1163511607198011393
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Translate 'technical challenges' to 'nobody left knows how it works or how not to break it'
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Some some idiot posted 10x Delta Alliance duty officer packs for 500k EC and 5x for 5,000 EC and I snatched that up real quick. That's over 50m EC someone just lost. It's been awhile since I caught someone making a mistake on a listing.
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MikeJF posted:Translate 'technical challenges' to 'nobody left knows how it works or how not to break it' See also: the OSX client, doffing
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FuturePastNow posted:There are some dumb motherfuckers at the top of this company, that's all I can say  I like all the "I don't know what this is but I support the removal of it" in the thread they're linking to.
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Coq au Nandos posted:See also: the OSX client, doffing I'm impressed doffing still works considering the architect of that particular system left many years ago.
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At this point it mostly works by accident and inertia I'm pretty sure. When was the last time they even added new duty officers? Not that far back but it's still been a... while.
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They really haven't thought through the impact of the XMPP withdrawal. Its going to significantly reduce the level of activity/chat in major channels like NoP Public Service, RedditChat, etc: many of the most prominent and active long-term players in chat rely on it. And the claims about gold sellers is such a preposterous lie it beggars belief. Hell, even Redditors are calling Kael out on it...
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Asimo posted:At this point it mostly works by accident and inertia I'm pretty sure. When was the last time they even added new duty officers? Not that far back but it's still been a... while. I know they added a Gamma Doff pack, so at least then.
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Tigey posted:They really haven't thought through the impact of the XMPP withdrawal. Its going to significantly reduce the level of activity/chat in major channels like NoP Public Service, RedditChat, etc: many of the most prominent and active long-term players in chat rely on it. I think this is going to cost them more in lost player activity than killing the Foundry did. It probably cost them a lot less to maintain, too.
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I wonder if the XMPP removal is being done for another reason. Perhaps they want to un-link STO and champions online so they can finally sunset the latter.
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