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Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

Cythereal posted:

Game's doing fine, a new expansion came out a few weeks ago that's actually pretty good.

:toot: glad to hear it!

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randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Psycho Landlord posted:

The pizza cutter is the best ship to have because if you transport up to a heavily occupied DS9 or ESD space instance in it, you can sometimes fire players a couple of klicks out of position when your hitbox spawns.

I dunno I looked at all of the new ships and I still like the 9/11 enterprise with all of the jj abrams ship consoles the best. Who doesn't wanna do giant space drifts in the ridiculously huge enterprise rip off.

Also the bridge is still lens flare city.

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.

randombattle posted:

I dunno I looked at all of the new ships and I still like the 9/11 enterprise with all of the jj abrams ship consoles the best. Who doesn't wanna do giant space drifts in the ridiculously huge enterprise rip off.

Also the bridge is still lens flare city.

The great news is there is literally no bad ship in the game. There are less optimal platforms to do hundreds of thousands of DPS, but if you want to play missions and carry red alerts and advanced STFs, you can fly anything you like.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Coq au Nandos posted:

The great news is there is literally no bad ship in the game. There are less optimal platforms to do hundreds of thousands of DPS, but if you want to play missions and carry red alerts and advanced STFs, you can fly anything you like.

All the launch era cruisers and sci boats are still pretty bad.

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.

DancingShade posted:

All the launch era cruisers and sci boats are still pretty bad.

Well yeah, but you can still totally fly them if that’s what your immersion demands of you.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Coq au Nandos posted:

Well yeah, but you can still totally fly them if that’s what your immersion demands of you.

I won't be totally happy with my immersion until I can fly the Monarch's cocoon from Venture Bros and launch endless waves of space bees or something.

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.

DancingShade posted:

I won't be totally happy with my immersion until I can fly the Monarch's cocoon from Venture Bros and launch endless waves of space bees or something.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/6l3ei5/perrins_pet_insanity_build/?st=JIU3YAMT&sh=6da66f19

35-39 pets at once isn't enough for you?

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know
Edit: wrong thread

Burning_Monk fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jun 26, 2018

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
Just use the GEP gun until you unlock the thermal cloaking aug.

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.

Burning_Monk posted:

Anyone have tips on Hoth 5-E? Tie fighters kicking my rear end.

Switch your computer off

fakemirage
Nov 6, 2012

Can't see the haters.
https://i.imgur.com/tRwRGoZ.mp4

Looking good, Butts!

EDIT: And it got reuploaded on Reddit, because of course it did.

fakemirage fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 26, 2018

fakemirage
Nov 6, 2012

Can't see the haters.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263

quote:

[...]annual Lohlunat Festival Festival! From July 3rd at 8am PT, to August 16th at 10am PT [...]
Some highlights:
  • Vorgon dreadnought cruiser (no stats yet)
  • Baseball uniforms (with cap)
  • 5 new emotes
  • Bunch of reskinned stuff
  • Three new kit modules

The tac kit module for calling in a "drone bombing run of magmatic eruptions" sounds like fun, but only time will tell if it's actually useful.

fakemirage fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jun 26, 2018

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.

fakemirage posted:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263

Some highlights:
  • Vorgon dreadnought cruiser (no stats yet)
  • Baseball uniforms (with cap)
  • 5 new emotes
  • Bunch of reskinned stuff
  • Three new kit modules

The tac kit module for calling in a "drone bombing run of magmatic eruptions" sounds like fun, but only time will tell if it's actually useful.

Too soon.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
So the Romulan leveling appears to be broken right now. The mission Tradecraft is impossible to complete, and while I was able to do the next arc up through Temporal Ambassador, I can't start the temporal thing after that, either from the menu or from directly talking to the temporal guys.

My current alt in the works is a klankrom so there's the Pi Canis Sortie missions, but gently caress that noise. It wasn't fun when that was genuinely how you leveled as KDF and isn't fun now.

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

nm

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.

Cythereal posted:

So the Romulan leveling appears to be broken right now. The mission Tradecraft is impossible to complete, and while I was able to do the next arc up through Temporal Ambassador, I can't start the temporal thing after that, either from the menu or from directly talking to the temporal guys.

My current alt in the works is a klankrom so there's the Pi Canis Sortie missions, but gently caress that noise. It wasn't fun when that was genuinely how you leveled as KDF and isn't fun now.

Unconfirmed reports that if you get someone to invite you to a non-Romulan bridge you can look at the archive files from there?

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Coq au Nandos posted:

Unconfirmed reports that if you get someone to invite you to a non-Romulan bridge you can look at the archive files from there?

We just tried that, in all manner of permutations including non-Roms inviting to their bridges and Roms on the mission inviting to non-Rom bridges, nothing worked.

poo poo's hosed.

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.

Cythereal posted:

We just tried that, in all manner of permutations including non-Roms inviting to their bridges and Roms on the mission inviting to non-Rom bridges, nothing worked.

poo poo's hosed.

Rest in piss.

bcott
Dec 3, 2017

Coq au Nandos posted:

Unconfirmed reports that if you get someone to invite you to a non-Romulan bridge you can look at the archive files from there?

Some crazy on Reddit claimed the Belfast bridge worked then proceeded to delete his post in a fit when it was satirically suggested that this was a plot by Cryptic to make players spend more Zen. I haven't confirmed it, but if you know someone who already has it, might be worth a try.

Dick Bass
Feb 22, 2006


bcott posted:

Some crazy on Reddit claimed the Belfast bridge worked then proceeded to delete his post in a fit when it was satirically suggested that this was a plot by Cryptic to make players spend more Zen. I haven't confirmed it, but if you know someone who already has it, might be worth a try.

Why are you still here?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Cythereal posted:

We just tried that, in all manner of permutations including non-Roms inviting to their bridges and Roms on the mission inviting to non-Rom bridges, nothing worked.

poo poo's hosed.

This is why you level all your alts using the DoFF system and not by mission running.

fakemirage
Nov 6, 2012

Can't see the haters.

Coq au Nandos posted:

Unconfirmed reports that if you get someone to invite you to a non-Romulan bridge you can look at the archive files from there?
Seems to work on the Belfast bridge. I haven't leveled up a new toon to try it myself, but the rommie I invited was able to finish the first part of the mission there (the rest taking place at Drozana).

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

DancingShade posted:

This is why you level all your alts using the DoFF system and not by mission running.

Doff xp got nerfed to hell back in Delta Rising.

Social Psychology
Mar 25, 2015
Why is everyone in Earth Spacedock so huge?

I thought I accidentally changed my character height to something ridiculously small, but it was still 5'10" when I checked. Everyone else is just a towering muscleman in comparison.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Social Psychology posted:

Why is everyone in Earth Spacedock so huge?

I thought I accidentally changed my character height to something ridiculously small, but it was still 5'10" when I checked. Everyone else is just a towering muscleman in comparison.

The NPCs, at least, are deliberately huge so they can be seen over crowds of players.

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Cythereal posted:

Doff xp got nerfed to hell back in Delta Rising.
Maybe he meant using the lockbox doff missions? Those still give huge amounts of XP for anyone willing to spends tens of millions of EC to quickly level an alt.

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
I was hoping they added being able to set doff missions from the gateway like the neverwinter mmo, then I found out they killed the gateway like a year ago :frog:

Dalris Othaine
Oct 14, 2013

I think, therefore I am inevitable.

IPCRESS posted:

Guys, I've built a dual cannon & mine dropping TOS constitution for elite STFs.

I've got a minor problem in the boff seating, though: I've got Fire at Will (because captain kirk says it a lot, so it must be good), Overload Integrity Field (because an integrity field sounds like the sort of thing you want running at maximum power), Boarding Party (because kirk used it to escape from the romulans in star trek III: Turns Out Nimoy's Got A Gambling Problem) and finally Structural Analysis (because it sounds like the sort of thing my favourite character, Isis the cat, would say). How do I unlock the "stare gormlessly at a chroma screen for 45 minutes" skill?

Anyway, I'm constantly getting tagged with crappy team mates, so we keep missing the optional objectives, and the primary can take up to 20 minutes some days. Worse, they're all super toxic and say things like "You're trolling" "Why are you throwing this STF" and "Why are you launching shuttles against the gateway"?

How do I avoid such bad team-mates? Is it in the wiki?

Finally, since Cryptic is not very good at responding to my tickets raised about the matter, is there any other way that I can get Isis the Cat added to the memorial of dead star trek people?

this was like a week ago but it's amazing and needs more :roboluv:

Dalris Othaine fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 27, 2018

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

g0del posted:

Maybe he meant using the lockbox doff missions? Those still give huge amounts of XP for anyone willing to spends tens of millions of EC to quickly level an alt.

It turns out the Belfast bridge really does let you complete Tradecraft, incidentally.

Romulan leveling is still buggy, though, I finished the arc that ends with Temporal Ambassador and can't start the next one or the Devidian arc, from the episode menu, quest log, or talking directly to the contact guy, so that alt's getting shelved again. I am not leveling through Pi Canis sorties when each one only gives about a third of a level. I paid my dues as a KDF main in vanilla.

Cythereal fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jun 27, 2018

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.

faxmachine
Apr 1, 2007

Oh yeah....

Danaru posted:

I was hoping they added being able to set doff missions from the gateway like the neverwinter mmo, then I found out they killed the gateway like a year ago :frog:

Cryptoc, more specifically Borts, actively seek out elements of the game that can be considered a benefit to players so that they can either be nerfed into the ground or removed completely.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Delta Rising is the best expansion ever and the players love it.

*rolls back accounts of everyone leveling using the new content*

Woah now. Steady on. You aren't meant to actually play it. Now do it again only slower.

Bloodly
Nov 3, 2008

Not as strong as you'd expect.
And people only started with that because the actual EXP payouts were too low elsewhere in comparism to how much was needed for a level-when they got through the story missions and such they had available and weren't able to continue. They did the grind and found the huge payout because they had no choice in order to continue, then later because it was the best way to get specialisation EXP. I think it still vaguely is.

Bloodly fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jun 27, 2018

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.
Disco Balls now destroy themselves when within 15 meters of anyone not allowed to click them.

This is worded really poorly - does it mean nullifiers now actively destroy disco balls?

E: Nevermind. Per Borticus, it means disco balls will de spawn if spawned within 15 metres of another one. No more stacking.

Coq au Nandos fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jun 28, 2018

fakemirage
Nov 6, 2012

Can't see the haters.
Summer event ship's stats got posted early on the German news section:
https://www.arcgames.com/de/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10936753


Coq au Nandos posted:

E: Nevermind. Per Borticus, it means disco balls will de spawn if spawned within 15 metres of another one. No more stacking.

Blorticus posted:

Apologies for the confusion - this note wasn't actually meant for players to see, as we consider it an exploit fix. We rarely if ever post patch notes for exploit fixes, as we don't want to encourage players to pursue the bad behavior, or find new ways to accomplish the ones we are trying to fix.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with interacting with Nullifiers. It only refers only to "no party" areas, as already previously defined.

Dethsyth47 posted:

That's why they are around in the first place? So Trolls can spam them in RP Zones and bully people for RPing in an RP game.

Monkeyface45 posted:

Right. Because a few years ago, a dev posted on Twitter how the permanent disco ball exploit was being done 'cause he thought it would be funny. Before long we wound up with disco balls all over the place that didn't despawn, and the backlash over it was so bad you guys had to plead with the players to stop it before you were able to fix it.
But it was funny!
mirror

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Disco dancing is the worst form of internet cyber bullying. No really.

^^^^ That's actually a pretty good free ship.

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Jun 28, 2018

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.

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.

fakemirage posted:

Summer event ship's stats got posted early on the German news section:
https://www.arcgames.com/de/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10936753

Not bad, but a bit thin on Taktik seating. You basically have to use the LtCom Beliebig with a Taktik, which limits your choices for Zeitagent fuckery. It'll still be a good conventional Schlachtschiff I guess.

The really interesting part is 3 Bugwaffen and a whopping 5 Heckwaffen. That's unheard of. You'll either have to broadside or become a Minenleger, which I guess synergies pretty well with the Gamma rep set.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

Lagomorphic posted:

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.

I completely missed that. Huh.

A perfect ship for Zelda then if he still played.

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Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
These are the voyages of the USS B-B-B-BACK that rear end up, driving in full reverse towards any and all threats

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