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ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
drat, that does look sweet.

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Acer Pilot
Feb 17, 2007
put the 'the' in therapist

:dukedog:

Are they giving the Undine ships out or are you guys buying them off the exchange/with lobi?

Rotation Confusion
Jul 13, 2012

It's harder than it looks
I had 40 keys that I bought when they price dipped, opened 40 boxes. Bought 2 more keys off the AH because I'd picked up 2 boxes in an instance run, nicor was in the first of those two.

Got two lowball offers in tells instantly and an in-game mail offering me 5 keys and 10M EC for it!

Logic Probed
Feb 26, 2011

Having a normal one since 2016

Spoilers for the new Episode:

I was surprised to see an Iconian of all races actually show up during the celebration segment. Interestingly, she (I'm assuming she) had a very similar design at was shown in that one Star Trek magazine scan, though she was more a blue/green color scheme than the red/white one.

Either way, I enjoyed her rather dismissive short rant of "So you managed to win. Congratulations. Don't do it again." I can only wonder what happened with Sela now.

DAVE!!!(c)(tm)
Feb 22, 2003

Acer Pilot posted:

Are they giving the Undine ships out or are you guys buying them off the exchange/with lobi?

There is a cruiser you could buy for way too much lobi, but it can be bought on the exchange for EC. The nicor is Box/exchange. Chances of getting ships from boxes are traditionally horrifically bad. 1% or less on the first day and it gets worse from there.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Yeah, never ever buy keys. Exploit the people who do instead. Energy credits are far easier to acquire and give guaranteed results.

Dick Bass
Feb 22, 2006


Finally asking for wiki access.
Registered as Papal Hologram.

JFC
Oct 16, 2003

Jesus F Christ
Finger Lickin' God
Is this still the default best skill layout or has it changed recently?

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Socialism
May 9, 2009
Decided to give this a try, everything is so overwhelming. Please hold my hands :ohdear:

Registered for wiki access as Socialism.

Acer Pilot
Feb 17, 2007
put the 'the' in therapist

:dukedog:

Wait, how does this work? Do the newbies still get to see the original ESD?

Socialism posted:

Decided to give this a try, everything is so overwhelming. Please hold my hands :ohdear:

Registered for wiki access as Socialism.

Post your game username (with the account name) first and join our channel.

Socialism
May 9, 2009

Acer Pilot posted:

Wait, how does this work? Do the newbies still get to see the original ESD?


Post your game username (with the account name) first and join our channel.

Even the name system took me a while to figure out :downs:

Ingame as Mensab@tohaheavyind, still working through the Romulan tutorial.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
Love how they set it to the still broken Direct X 11 mode by default. Speckily black textures for all.

Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

Fun Shoe
Sweet OP. I'll look at coming back once I move into my new house and I figure out what this new season is about.

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
The new OP is incredible. Thanks for putting it all together, Ludikro. I would like to just pop in and request this be added to the video list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVYyZaz7f8
It's the Dental ticker tape parade on Bajor.

Rotation Confusion
Jul 13, 2012

It's harder than it looks
Couple hours with the nicor: It's not worth 200M but it's solidly worth 140-160. It's good.

AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

So which lockbox ships worth their cost? Galor, Nicor (in a week or so), anything Jem Hadar, and maybe the Monbosh?

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
How are the new beams?

Rotation Confusion
Jul 13, 2012

It's harder than it looks

AfroSquirrel posted:

So which lockbox ships worth their cost? Galor, Nicor (in a week or so), anything Jem Hadar, and maybe the Monbosh?

The monbosh is a really good A2B cruiser and my main ship, but its lobi.


The new beams are terrible. But people are paying through the nose for them on the Ex

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

AfroSquirrel posted:

So which lockbox ships worth their cost? Galor, Nicor (in a week or so), anything Jem Hadar, and maybe the Monbosh?

The temporal ships and the Recluse as well. The Elachi S'goth isn't bad for the cost either assuming it's still cheap (I paid 60 for mine.

Edit: Speaking of good value for the cost; vanilla distruptors and currently selling really cheap on the exchange now that the pubbies are going for the fancy nanite/Elachi/fleet versions. Vanilla disruptors are also account bound so you can move them between alts with an account bank.

Lagomorphic fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Apr 23, 2014

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


With the new season, I've finally got around to rolling a new character to start this game again, and I'm looking for an invite to the chat channel, and also Starfleet Dental

handle is Hennimore@fuzzydunlopp

I think I'm doing this right!

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
What's wrong with the new beams?

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

-Troika- posted:

What's wrong with the new beams?

They don't do anything useful I'm guessing.

Also gently caress I hope the new patch tomorrow fixes the crashing.

Rotation Confusion
Jul 13, 2012

It's harder than it looks

-Troika- posted:

What's wrong with the new beams?

Theyre AP but instead of the +Crit Damage bonus they have a small % proc to push the target about 500meters

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

300 Earth Dollars posted:

Theyre AP but instead of the +Crit Damage bonus they have a small % proc to push the target about 500meters

That's even worse than I thought.

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
Christ, I came along to have a look at ep 9.

Character name is Papstain, I just looked at my bank, I dont even remember what most of this stuff does. at least Drozna hasn't changed much.
can I get an invite to whatever we are using for oral hygiene presently?

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Also, for anyone who hasn't tried it yet: don't do Undine Assault with pubs. It's kind of like a DOTA map, and like most MOBA-likes, starting with a crappy group will doom you to failure and tedium before you even begin. Even if it goes well the mark reward-per-time is absolute poo poo that's somehow even worse than Azure Nebula (32 with no chain/extra rift bonus and it can easily take a half hour or more with crappy pubs), and while the friendly ship spawns are theoretically supposed to help players against the Undine spawns, in practice the NPC ships just die quickly and if whoever's in the lane can't keep pace with the Undine spawns (and if they're pubs, they won't) the lane is quickly pushed back to its spawn as the allied NPC ships spawn one at a time and get ganked while the pubs flail impotently. The only way I've seen a pub group handle it is by doing one lane at a time with all five people, and that takes loving ages.

It looks like it could be fun with a premade, and I'm curious what sort of rewards it'd give out, but otherwise... just do viscous cycle instead. Or better yet, the battleground. :ughh:

JuffoWup
Mar 28, 2012

wdarkk posted:

They don't do anything useful I'm guessing.

Also gently caress I hope the new patch tomorrow fixes the crashing.

I hope it fixes this doff technician bug I have. As in, I only have one ten of ten in my active list. I can't add the other two. Kind of hard to aux2bat, when the other two techs are hanging out idle.

I actually logged in to find my jhdc having an older fit than I haven't used for a week or so. Also, all my doff (both space and ground) were no longer in the their active roster. This is how I discovered that I could only have one tech on the active roster.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




JuffoWup posted:

I hope it fixes this doff technician bug I have. As in, I only have one ten of ten in my active list. I can't add the other two. Kind of hard to aux2bat, when the other two techs are hanging out idle.

I actually logged in to find my jhdc having an older fit than I haven't used for a week or so. Also, all my doff (both space and ground) were no longer in the their active roster. This is how I discovered that I could only have one tech on the active roster.

I actually logged in to my ship being fitted out to a few weeks ago, too. Maybe it reverted me to my saved fit, though?

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Patch notes for tomorrow.

quote:

General:

“Surface Tension” can now be replayed by Romulan Captains allied with the KDF.
Added a Tier 5 dilithium hourly project to each personal reputation system similar to the same dilithium hourly project found in other tiers.
This project will always be available at Tier 5.
This will reward 340 dilithium and a rewardpack.
Resolved an issue which was causing a crash on New Romulus.
Hirogen Enhanced Battle Armor now costs 200 Lobi once again.
This was incorrectly set to 50 Lobi.
Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance now costs 50 Lobi.
This was incorrectly set to 200 Lobi.




Known Issues:

Some players are experiencing graphic related crashes.
New kit modules and frames do not have their own search category in the Exchange.
Active Reputation Powers are not placed into your tray when selected in the Traits window.
They can be slotted by dragging them from the powers list into the tray.
The door to Quinn’s old office has not been hooked to a new location on new ESD for Foundry missions.
This will cause some Foundry missions to not work if an objective was to use this door in the mission.
Assimilated Romulan Republic characters have Tal Shiar costumes.
Some backgrounds in interact windows with NPCs on new ESD still show old ESD backgrounds.
Telekinesis trait cannot be slotted.
Kits in your inventory cannot be equipped by double-clicking on them.
You can drag and drop slot them.
Dyson Sphere ground textures may have graphical issues when antialiasing is set to “none”.

JuffoWup
Mar 28, 2012

MikeJF posted:

I actually logged in to my ship being fitted out to a few weeks ago, too. Maybe it reverted me to my saved fit, though?

I never setup any saved loadouts on any of my ships. And I only found the UI back with daeinos. If there is a way to save doff active or boff stations, I haven't seen the UI.

Atrayonis
Jul 6, 2008

Godspeed, brave canary
From today's patch notes:

quote:

Hirogen Enhanced Battle Armor now costs 200 Lobi once again.

This was incorrectly set to 50 Lobi.

So: hurry up, those who don't have it yet!

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


JuffoWup posted:

If there is a way to save doff active or boff stations, I haven't seen the UI.
The loadout system also saves duty officer assignments, bridge officer assignments, and (theoretically) power tray assignments, but you have to be on a space map for it to "stick" properly.

Atrayonis posted:

So: hurry up, those who don't have it yet!
I was pondering grabbing the armor but decided to wait for S9 to see if the Undine stuff was any better. Well okay, it was, but four alts for the price of one was too hard to pass up. :v:

Acer Pilot
Feb 17, 2007
put the 'the' in therapist

:dukedog:

Is the Hirogen armour worth using up one key to open a lockbox for lobi?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

You'd be getting it for the space barbie options. The armor itself isn't anything special. It does, however, look pretty kickass, and an impromptu 75% discount is nothing to laugh at.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


The armor's pretty good and has a fun effect, but it's not part of a set and thus loses out a fair bit due to that. It's great to shove on a BOFF or something though. And as mentioned, you get the costume unlock... which counts as uniform options rather than its own armor category, so you can mix and match it with uniforms, kit/armor graphics, and so on.

And there's literally no reason not to get it now unless you have absolutely no lobi or credits, it'll never be this cheap again.

Unrelated... apparently there's a bug with the Undine battlezone where you can have every objective captured but the timer gets frozen, so the planet killers don't spawn. No rewards for anyone! The only way to fix this is to let the undine recapture a point and have the timer reset due to it... but this is impossible since invariably half the pubbies in the zone fly off to bravely deny themselves rewards despite half the zone yelling at them to wait. :ughh:

Kosmicka Ljubav
Nov 6, 2013

Asimo posted:

Unrelated... apparently there's a bug with the Undine battlezone where you can have every objective captured but the timer gets frozen, so the planet killers don't spawn. No rewards for anyone! The only way to fix this is to let the undine recapture a point and have the timer reset due to it... but this is impossible since invariably half the pubbies in the zone fly off to bravely deny themselves rewards despite half the zone yelling at them to wait. :ughh:

This happened to me a couple times, they just run immediately to red zone and do that every time, no waiting, straight killing and then, they complain and complain and curse and etc... I lost couple of rewards because of that. They just don't listen.

Mondian
Apr 24, 2007

So I noticed Racer was included in the OP, but not his famous comment on Mangoes' fat cow arse or doing a bunch of meth so he can stay up for days harrassing him? For shame.

AcidCouch
Aug 2, 2012

Mondian posted:

So I noticed Racer was included in the OP, but not his famous comment on Mangoes' fat cow arse or doing a bunch of meth so he can stay up for days harrassing him? For shame.

For once I can agree with this shitlord, shame on you ludicro.

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
I made a thread on the forums not so subtly mocking all the bizarre pubbie complaint threads that inevitably get created after the launch of any season, FE, expansion, and so on, and, to my utter shock and dismay, it appears that many pubbies 1. didn't get it, or 2. took it completely seriously anyway

quote:

Well, if you really don't see another alternative, go to your fleet base and simply change there. Dental is too big a fleet to not have unlocked a tailor in the base, the embassy and the mine yet.

And please, go take your troll somewhere else. You call most of us trolls, but yet here you are complaining about how your Dental oversized character doesn't fit in a human-sized change room.

quote:

I don't think they had your character's species in mind when they designed the dressing rooms. Most humanoids tend to be about the same size.

quote:

This game is made with Humans / Federation in mind first and foremost. Aleien races are obviously a bit of an after thought in this game.

Regardless - I am a Gorn Klingon Warrior and would have it no other way!
I am sure the Federation experience is great, however we know much about the federation from the old tv series and films. We have much less insight into the Alien cultures of startrek so when I started this game last year and saw that I could be a Klingon (A gorn no less!) and a Romulan, it was a simple choice for me to go for the aliens.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1091051&page=3

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Da Mott Man
Aug 3, 2012


DonDoodles posted:

I made a thread on the forums not so subtly mocking all the bizarre pubbie complaint threads that inevitably get created after the launch of any season, FE, expansion, and so on, and, to my utter shock and dismay, it appears that many pubbies 1. didn't get it, or 2. took it completely seriously anyway

[snip]

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1091051&page=3

This is great. So much WOOSH in that thread.

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