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The Nebula is OP, so is the Dauntless.
/close thread.
Generally I tell whoever asks, and sometimes the empty chat box, anything I know.
Some of my collected wisdom:
– Blue doffs are almost always just as good as their purple counterparts at a fraction of the cost.
– Reciprocity (from the Phantom) and AHOD (from the Presidio) put together is godmode.
– Never, ever use the Mannheim Device Console.
– Teamwork is OP.
– Make a Gorn toon, buy the Formal Wear outfit, enjoy.
– The best build testing location is still Ker’rat; if you can survive there, you can survive anywhere.
– Make a troll boat once in a while: All turrets/rainbow boat, every clicky console possible, one of every random power. Take into any STF you’d like, enjoy.
– Assimilated Space Set 2 piece is still the gold standard of space equipment.
– [Acc] has pretty much become as worthless as [Dmg].
– It’s still super easy to generate EC and Dilithium without a ton of grind.There’s probably a lot more… but that’s enough for now.
"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 biggest concern was that doffing would be negatively impacted. The outright statement that doffing will not be changed was a good move to allay my concerns. Beyond that, everything else is a welcome facelift.
"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 spent some time on Vulcan earlier, would have liked to have been there with the fleet though. Sad to see some people coming out to troll, it never fails…
This was nice to see: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=22552801&postcount=230
My girlfriend and I are going to watch The Wrath of Khan tonight in remembrance. I’ll probably cry like a baby with the added significance of the death and funeral scenes.
"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
@Damix wrote:
I played only regular Catan, didn’t know there is Star Trek version – cool.
http://www.catan.com/game/star-trek-catan
It’s totally worth every penny. I got mine off Amazon. The first one shipped to me was supposed to be new, but came without the proper packaging, no “hero” cards and no outpost/starbase pieces. Amazon sent a new one overnight and paid the return shipping, so I was satisfied when a never opened game arrived.
While I’d prefer a TNG theme, the game is TMP style which is pretty nice. The designer really put a lot of effort into the quality of the game pieces, the art and balancing cards. I regret not buying the expansion map, but it’s on my future purchase list.
If you’re looking for a quality game with a trek theme, I highly recommend this game.
"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
Babylon 5 would be at the top of my list, second to TNG. Seasons 2-4 are fantastic. The Vorlons, Kosh really, are cool, but Morden and the Shadows are more interesting to me.
SG1, Atlantis, Space: Above and Beyond, Seaquest, Sliders, Treks, Firefly… there’s probably more I liked but can’t think of.
"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
Does Star Trek Catan count?
Otherwise I have Borderlands 2, Skyrim, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Civ IV and Civ V on my regular rotation.
I even load up Counter Strike, Diablo 2 and Freelancer here and there.
"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
Tacofangs had a great question regarding exploration to players. Paraphrasing: “How do we make exploration without making millions of worlds or without making a few with scan ‘x’ 5 times missions?”
I think that’s a great question, and perhaps the foundry with the top 3 system is the best way to go. Makes me want to change my vote.
I don’t think them doing anything with PvP would be received well. To make PvP playable, huge nerfs would have to hit PvE. Imagine the rage…
But the foundry and PvP offer the best hope for both players and devs to provide that replay value, at a minimum of cost to develop.
"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
@horridperson wrote:
Hi Germany,
Welcome to the 44th. Snooping on facebook? That’s tapped. You don’t have to track facebook accounts in this fleet because we share all of our stupid cat pictures on these forums :).
HEY!!!
Cat pictures are wonderful.
Welcome to the fleet USS_Germany83
"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
Most of the options miss the mark. For example, making some PvP maps won’t make PvP playable, a balance pass would. Most of the other items have similar problems.
So I voted for Exploration, as it’s the least of all evils.
They should have a option for bug fixes, it would have won easily.
"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 think saving a new loadout has solved the boff clearing problem. Haven’t had a problem in days. This was the most frustrating bug for me, I hope to never experience it again.
"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
Just a heads up, get those rare untrainable boff abilities while you can. A dev has officially responded saying that these abilities will be unavailable on launch of this system.
So if you’d like to be able to have Torpedo Spread 3 on a boff, be sure to train them soon. No telling how long we’ll wait for manuals training these powers.
"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
The Samsar looks pretty solid. It’s another cruiser though, which makes me say, meh. I’ve never really like cruisers though. The closest thing to a cruiser that I ever flew for more than a week was the old Pancake.
Anyway, this would probably work best as an A2B, since Reciprocity only works for Tac and Intel powers. Or just adding a couple copies of a useful command power to an EPtX build would be solid.
For me, the look reminds me of boxy/aeronautical EA ships from B5. Also maybe something out of Freelancer. Looks pretty good overall though. Still, I’ll skip this freebie too.
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(Oh look, there’s the Aelahl too – the Whitestar)"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 can’t say I share your rosy outlook Damix. If it was about revitalizing dead queues, why buff the easiest elite BHE? What’s more telling is that they’re increasing the difficulty of Cure Space to the point of being a certain failure in a pug.
If it was about making all queues pop, then they would do as you, and many other suggest, add xp as a reward. No this change is a blatant attempt to corral players into DR content. Which I don’t mind, as they need to show a certain measure of success as a business.
What I do object to is the further skewing of rewards versus time. They should just normalize rewards across difficulties but provide a bonus to the content they want us to play. That seems a lot easier to me. Instead we get this…
"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
From the Tribble patch notes:
General:
– Resolved an issue where Bridge Officers would be missing slotted powers just after being created.
– No Win Scenario is no longer available.
The Cure Applied:
– Decreased IKS Kang’s HP and Damage in Advanced mode.
– Decreased mark rewards for meeting Normal optional objective from 25 to 15.
– Changed the normal optional objective to completing the queue in 4 minutes.
– Changes the Advanced required objective to completing the queue in 9 minutes.
– Updated optional information contact to reflect these changes.
Crystalline Catastrophe:
– Decreased base mark rewards on Normal from 40 to 30.
– Decreased base mark rewards on Advanced from 70 to 60.
– Increased fail mark rewards on Advanced from 5 to 10.
– Decreased Advanced optional timer from 10.5 minutes to 5 minutes.
– Decreased maximum allowed defeated players for Normal optional from 5 to 3.
– Decreased maximum allowed defeated players for Advanced required from 5 to 3.
Crystalline Entity:
– There is no longer a safe inner distance on the Entity’s AOE shockwave.
– The AOE shockwave no longer damages/destroys Crystalline Fragments large or small.
Colony Invasion: No longer gives rewards for mandatory mission objectives.
Fleet Alert:
– Decreased mark rewards earned from waves 1 and 2 from 10 to 5.
– Decreased mark rewards earned from wave 5 from 18 to 15.
Bug Hunt
– Normal rewards have been increased by 25%
– Advanced rewards have been increased by 50%.
– Elite rewards have been increased by 75%.Nerf, nerf, nerf, delete content, play what we want you to play.
Just the new norm chugging along…
"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
@AzureAlliance wrote:
Nobody cares? Or you all have enough confidence in Cryptic (hah!) to take them at their word about the promised remake?
Fine. It’s not on my side of the content fence anyway. Just thought you’d all like the heads up.
Most people have the accolade and there are better sources of fleet marks. They’re getting rid of many Romulan missions too. Deletion of content is the new norm. They want us playing when and where they can show metrics.
I don’t think anyone who had played for more than a few months would think they’d ever bring it back. Here’s a new shiny, the Samara (5th anniversary ship), look away now.
If anything, the deletion of NWS is a pretty good indicator that player were farming it too efficiently. And they don’t want that when they announce a new fleet holding/tier 6 facilities. My guess is an April rollout.
"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
