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Nice to see both of you. Barring any issues I’ll probably remain active through spring at least.
Marcase dubbed my T5 Nebula “The Pancake of Doom” back during one of the Fleet Olympics. Before the nerfed FBP, BO, and SubNuc into the ground, that thing was a beast. Ever since PvP died my main has called the Epicurus, now a T6X Paradox, home. Lots of exotic, torp, and pet spam in a sleek black package. I’m working on getting this boat to reliably get 160-200k DPS in PUG ISA. I already crank out over 200k in Tholian Red Alerts, but that’s pretty unfair.
Anywho, I wish everyone well and I’ll be happy to see you all around.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Great update as usual Admiral. I can’t wait to see the new changes to mechanics. My dogfighting Mobius with the Omega Set and Elite Fleet Phasers might make a comeback woo! I don’t like them taking away my Subnuc from captain powers though, that was the ultimate PvP “I win” button – when timed correctly. I guess the LtCmdr sci seat on my Mobius will have to be Subnuc then.
Anyway, I finally have some time to log in this week, I look forward to seeing you all.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
They have to pay for this game somehow lol. Blessed are the whales!
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Heh, here’s an early post, when I had a fairly noob build… [sigh]
http://startrek.44thfleet.com/forum/index.php?f=19&t=1043&rb_v=viewtopic
I used to think 2gb of hard drive memory was amazing. Just wait until they can give us consumer quantum computing lol.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
@Sargon wrote:
It has been too long but time for a vacation. My wife and I will be heading out this weekend up to the NE part of the country; NYC, Philly, D.C.
I will be out up to probably August 28th or 29th, but I will be back of course.
Heh, swing over to Youngstown, OH and visit me… who would lol?
DC is my favorite city I’ve been to in the US. It’s just a giant park with world class museums. Are you doing the Trek thing in NYC?
I hope you have a good time.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Already have ST: Attack Wing and ST: Catan , not sure if I can convince my fiancee and friends to give another Trek game a go lol.
I may pick it up to collect dust anyway though.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
My first reaction to the ship was negative. However, after I’ve looked at the ship teaser multiple times, it’s growing on me.
Maybe it’s just our current story line in STO, but I feel like the Discovery will be a ship constructed in the future to go back in time to play timecop in the era between ENT and TOS. Make that a period that’s essential to the Cold War, and boom, could be compelling.
Also, the theories about the Discovery being a joint KDF-Fed ship seems to make sense. The secondary hull shape is vaguely klingon, but also is a Starfleet Icon. The music is also Klingonish.
In any event, I’ll give this some support, unless it lets me down.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
As Marcase said, there are plenty of free T6 event ships given out every year. Few of us are space-rich enough to buy someone else a ship. 150 million ec could be generated within say 60 days if you’re diligent. Farm R&D mats, vendor trash, craft, do admiralty and doffing.
More importantly, a T6 ship isn’t necessary to succeed at this game. If that player wants I can mail him a T5 mirror ship and provide a 20k+ build absolutely free (or better yet, this person could ask for build advice here). But a lockbox/lobi ship for some person, when the value of my dilithium is at an all time low doesn’t sound good to me lol.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Could always PvP lol. Nah, done with that. But I could dust off any one of my builds to bring to a recording, just let me know if you need someone.
Just leave me out of the TOS/JJ Trek stuff lol.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
I too balked at the idea of joining a fleet. I believe my path to joining the 44th started with a post to the big forum. It was to arrange some sort of payment for a set of Fleet Provisions I got from some lockboxes. I was PM’d by Lat a day or two later, the conversation showed me the instant value of being in a fleet. I said I needed dilithium but found it was hard to get. He mentioned Contraband, which up until that conversation I thought was vendor trash. I imagine Lat facepalmed so hard at hearing that I trashed contraband… well he informed me about security officers and the dil never stopped flowing from that day. I applied in quick order, gave the provisions as a token of gratitude just for that bit of knowledge.
The old guard educated me on Borg Bashing, when running STFs was a big part of the gameplay experience. Lat, Zippy, and Yuri were patient (like when I messed up a Terradome run), and helped improve my builds. To think, there was a time when I ran beams, cannons, one of any random ability… yes I was a noob too. Then later, Blackout and Marcase both gave build pointers when I returned to the game after a year off.
While I’ve taken breaks from the game, I have always found the 44th to be a great home for my characters. It’s great to have a fleet that has given so much and asked so little of me.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Speaking as someone who has farmed 8 million dilithium since Delta Rising and the Upgrade System wiped me out last time: Doff, doff and doff (and Admiralty isn’t bad either).
I have 8 characters, 5 KDF/3 Fed. I doff on all of them, Admiralty on only my Feds (if there was an auto-filling system for Admiralty I’d run that on all of them). I focus my doffing strictly on the following, in order of priority: contraband, R&D mats, doff recruitment mostly colonists/forced labor. That gets you generous amounts of dil, and a steady ec source in mats and common doffs which people buy up to fill fleet projects.
Logging in once a day, for 1 hour at most I generate: A minimum of 16k dilithium (though often much more, I’d say I average more like 24k), enough R&D mats to fetch at least 500k ec on the exchange (though I let these accumulate and then sell in bulk, especially during events), enough colonists and blue/purple prisoners to get around 700k-1 million ec.
Admiralty rewards on three characters is harder to quantify, so I’ll leave it out. But the rewards are indeed excellent. Purple R&D mats, dil, salvaged tech, lump sums of ec can easily match the take from doffing on all my characters.
16k dil and say 1 million ec a day, for less than an hour online. Let’s do the math:
16k/1mil x 7 days = 112k/7mil
112k/7mil x 4 weeks = 448k/28 mil
448k/28mil x 12 months = 5,376,000 million dilithium and 336,000,000 million ecAnd that is with the most minimum of effort. Add some discipline when it comes to spending (never upgrade any gear unless you absolutely have nothing else to spend your resources on), and all the events where they double dilithium, etc and you’ll generate even more. I didn’t even log in for months at a time, and I’m sitting on enough Zen to get the AoY pack, absolutely free – just as my Delta Rising Pack was absolutely free.
And yes, never ever ever and under no circumstances gamble on lockboxes. Open them strictly for lobi and you’ll come away a happy customer.
Edit: Totally forgot about selling excess contraband. Stacks of 250 go for around 10 million ec. Usually I get that many every couple of weeks, so add in say another 120 million ec per year (conservatively) in doffing profit.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
@@tbjarnason wrote:
Fatman, just wondering what application you are using for your parsing. Don’t think I’ve seen this one before and it looks pretty good.
It’s STO Combat Meter (SCM). You can get it here: http://stodps.com/sto-combat-meter/.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
While I know that a couple runs does not equal actual data, here is a quick test of my Paradox in CCA PUGs:
Run 1: Unstble Anamolies slotted instead of Emergency Weapons Cycle, Tractor Beam Repulsor 1 replaced with Tyken’s Rift 1, TBR pull doff switched for a Warp Core Engineer (cleanse variant selected for minimal impact on results).
Run 2: Current build, EWC and TBR with appropriate doff normally slotted and used.
Damage curves among the participants look about the same in both instances, so I don’t think I had an abnormal run between the two (but wow, 20k difference with just a couple changes). I did have considerably less “damage in” on the first run, so that’s a possible difference. As I stated before, the tooltips were unimpressive for Unstable Anomalies. A dismal 1k generated with constant popping of decently buffed GW3s and TR1s.
Crit rates are generally in line with my other exotic damage sources, so that doesn’t seem to be broken. Max crit was 33k from the ability, which is okay, but I have a fairly high-end build, so results would be much lower for the average player. I was hoping for something at least satisfying, like the effect a Neutronic crit has, love that splash damage. My tentative verdict is that the trait is worthless, both in terms of power and fun. Luckily, the Paradox is a fantastic ship, I can’t recommend it enough.
Edit: Subspace Vortex is clearly not benefiting from Particle Manipulator’s critical buffs. Not sure if that’s WAI, but if partgens buffs the power, I’m thinking it’s bugged.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
@Lhivera wrote:
Unstable Anomalies trait: this was very broken indeed, with the damage not ignoring shields as intended, and the AOE being centered on the player rather than the anomaly. Also should now be fixed.
While I will test this thoroughly, I found the tooltips in system space to be… lackluster. At first glance, I think it would need to be buffed, or apply to all targets. But if that AoE damage crits based on Particle Manipulator + innate crit rates, then there could be some huge numbers. I’ll slot it and see.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
One reason I might consider creating a STO console account would be to PvP. Fresh start, even playing field, but I have mechanical knowledge. Mk X common tets, quantum, on a BoP with sci spam will ruin most builds – at least for a few months. No way to get space rich in PvP though, so meh.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
