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If you haven’t been playing there are some mild spoilers in my comments so don’t read if you haven’t played to 10 yet. 😀
After the allegiance mission I didn’t have any moral compunctions about siding with the KDF. Jiro was every bit the waffling slimey politician and T’Nae wasn’t exactly friendly. In all honesty given the representation of the two factions at Khitomer I can’t see why anyone would side with the Feds. The KDF seemed more hostile at go but their recognition of Temer’s sacrifice and Jarod’s intervention made it a no-brainer for me.I am biased and would have joined the KDF if they told me the KDF Romulan uniform included mickey mouse ears for a head dress.
The stability seems to have improved quite a bit since the patch. I can equip gear on my subordinates and ship without scheduling a coffee break while I wait. You guys had it right regarding the queue and character shifts though. It may be some time before we can run Defera with our alts 😀 .
The assimilated ships don’t herald a departure from classic Trek so much as the “foreign policy” of the Federation. The idealism that characterized the TOS and later incarnations of the series are lacking. The interventionist manner Starfleet behaves in is far more troubling for me than the presence of modified vessels; We already have borg tech accessible by way of missions and omega rep so it seems in line with the directions things have moved in.
That’s great news! As a weapon it doesn’t look much better than average as torpedos go: I just grabbed it to introduce any torpedo into the equation and add the omega amp synergy with my assimilated module.
reading the forums is often like looking at accidents; in spite of knowing better you have to look. Posting is just an invitation to a crapfling from someone who cares far too much about amusing diversions. I would like to give a romulan science officer a go most likely but would like to see the majority of my current characters in a state that I don’t feel the need to continually reorder doff missions, grind rep, marks, pazoozoos whatever. I’d like to play missions because my friends are playing them, not because I want rewards for my character. As more of my characters reach this point I think I’ll be happier.
I think I’ll be trying to limit my comments to our own forums. The STO forums are a little too “hot” sometimes when people read things they don’t agree with. Here is my opinion on the faction, I’ve had another couple days to read through the info Cryptic has provided and observe the strange conjecture cropping up on the forums.
There is quite a population of Romulan snowflakes out there. They envision a storyline they will be able to pick and determine which faction they want to belong to. It seems quite a departure from both the Federation and KDF linear models. A review of the web site spelled out the plot rather clearly. Freedom fighters against a regime. Cut and dried.
I may not have been happy with the neglect the KDF has been subjected to but in a xenos-ploitation flick kind way the Klingon culture may have been a bit of a caricture but it was not awkwardly reinvented.
Romulans are secretive products of a Byzantine society. For me they were always the cold, calculation balanced against the passionate aggression of the Klingons when both races the bad guys through their histories on Trek shows.
Romulan freedom fighters is more in line with Federation values than those of the classic Romulan Star Empire. And there it is. The shrieking of the “true romulans” will be epic. The faction will be incredibly popular with crossover Federation players who wanted a cloak terribly but didn’t want to be “brutish” Klingons.
Neglect as opposed to compromise might be better. I cringe at what might become of a fine faction like the Cardassian Union (They had me at early DS9 and the Birth of the Federation PC Game:) “Control is the only thing that matters”.
I’m actually looking forward to the possibility of 3 way war. The only downside I see to implementation is the splinter “free romulan” colony on NR. The suggestion that these do nothing under-achievers could possibly spawn a 3rd faction is unthinkable- “Yawn- mobilizing for war IS important”
This in a sense is the painting into a corner part of the plot. Hopefully the real Romulan faction won’t come from these useless idiots. I suppose the colony at NR could be a flashpoint for three way war. Time will tell.
Bodge mentioned “content a faction deserves”. This should mean the KDF will finally be done right by the developers. As new and shiny as the roms will be anything less would be disgraceful. Hope roms won’t get starbases for a while with the fed one almost done few things would be as disappointing as seeing KDF become third fiddle to fed and new shiny.
More ambitious than I expected for the Romulans. Right about the bare minimum they could get away with for the KDF (parity with brand new Rom faction- How very Fed of them). Hardly shocking. It does look like they have been very busy and kept things under their hats reasonably well.
So do I totally hate the Romulans? Hardly. Looks like I need to start 3 new toons so I can run one captain of each class for the factions. On a nasty note Ba’el is just hitting her stride in the Tor’Kaht and within striking distance of scoring hot end game gear. In two months time she will be amped up and choking the feeble romulans on the wreckage of their new ships:).
I would like to fly one of the classic rom BoPs though:). Now they dropped the bomb we should get weekly expositions and learn more particulars as we get closer to the end of May.
My background was fairly similar. Citing the Drohz/furry example is probably one of the negative stigmas that curb most people from taking a look at it. I guess there are some fleets out there that have CoCs that involve paying compliments and other obnoxious practices that just aren’t especially fun to participate in. When I think about rp I guess I wonder how one might go about simulating a miniature episode that allows for some character development. If it took any form I could see it as an event that would involve interaction between the cast of players and some character goals arcing around a main plot. I’m uncertain of the limitations of foundry but my understanding is it has a few. Just the same it might offer some “sets”. I wonder how you might go about moderating something like that. Best as I can figure Someone would have to be the screenwriter and prepare a brief for each “actor” prior to play then allow it to go freeform in “scenes” with some mission sequences for action in between them.
Don’t worry about looking like a fool; no one is terribly critical and the atmosphere is very supportive. I might give you some grief for trying to steal my job though 😉 .
I try to follow chat on our channel and have experimented a bit with emotes when a mate is more local. I’m a bit guarded about doing this as I feel a bit asinine when the descriptor has posted up and a short ways off I run into somebody else. Should I wave again? What if I don’t? Will people think I only wave to senior fleetmates? Will people be annoyed that I’m filling up the chat log with stupid “friendly hellos”? Too much second guessing. I try to confine emotes to people I’ve chatted with a bit before.
I am a bit of a lonewolf (old habits die hard) but I am trying to make time to play STFs with fleet. I would like to try a bit of PvP with 44th just be aware I’m not that optimal and will likely be a weak link if our goal is hardcore builds (the teamwork and target prioritization is something I can accomodate however if someone takes lead and tells me what they need). Pug team I was on last night got stomped into the dirt by klingon forces 😳 . The game itself was more fun than the hang time waiting for a game to materialize.
One thing I noticed I missed was the team fleet mark grinds we had been doing over the summer. Gathering marks and reps is largely suck but might be more entertaining teamed with the fleet. Epoh tag is about as close as I’ve had to that experience since returning.
Starting a new KDF character doesn’t take too long but unless you really have a hate on for the character you created I don’t see a need to change up.
Season 3 was quite a while ago. Maybe so long ago that science isn’t all it was cracked up to be. Because of the duration of your time away science powers may have been more powerful then as I think they got hit with a significant nerf in the interim. I only signed in at season 5 myself so I don’t know how good science was. I will state that while not my most powerful characters I enjoy my science officers as they allow me to play a very rewarding and creative game. Science abilities and playing with combinations of effects are entertaining if not as effective as “point and shoot”.
If you are considering a Kar-Fi I could tell you how I play. The heavier, slower turning choices don’t interest me too much. I don’t think my advice or anybody else’s would be of much use because it concerns a science build. The beauty of science is it’s flexibility. You have the pleasure of discovering a build you like to play and get to run it your own way.
My general advice is to pick a couple foci/skill areas based of your preferences and become a “specialized generalist”. What this oxy-moron implies is to become fairly good in a couple science skills as opposed to be “meh” at everything or awesome at one. Be wary of the skills on the high end of the skill charts as the points cost are very high. Make sure those are skills you want to use in your build. Sixes in skill tiers are quite strong while not suffering from the diminishing returns of full nines. If you want to really amp abilities look at the deflector buffs from the sets before worrying about science consoles. If I remember right because of the casual investments I made in captain skills and good deflector choice and including the borg console 4 of my applied skills run higher than 100.
I built my characters before I joined the 44th. I had played solo and my build strategies made me a “fighting generalist”. As I play about more with the fleet I recognize changing my build into a more science support/control role is a better way to go as I’m not soloing and can rely on my mates to take care of the heavy hitting. I never wanted to be a healer playing a science vessel. I think engineers do it better and it’s silly to pick up the pieces when you should be proactive and hurt the enemy before they hurt you. Disrupting an enemy and setting them up for your hurt or your winger’s is a beautiful thing.
People cry about frigates and their DPS being low. They are tough and will take a beating that would wreck most other pets. While their persistent damage may be lower anyone who ignores tricobalt devices deserves to die to your pets alone and probably isn’t worthy of the mother ships attention (rifting and tricobalt devices are a beautiful thing too)
Before I went off on another tangent I meant to say I was going to rexamine my build because of cooperative play opening some new options (maybe some tbr among other things). If you or anybody else on the forum want to exchange some ideas I’d be happy to be part of the discussion.
Either way you go (new charcter or stick it out) you’ll be a VA in no time. Always remember that the mirror universe events are your friends and story missions are only fun the first couple times you have to play them 😀 .
I shared my latest horror story with Sargon. I can’t afford to be as critical of new players because in the STF environment I am one myself and frequently error or need babysitting.
My concern with the elite STFs isn’t so much the neophypte but a more seasoned player who is simply taking advantage of the system. In a the last few CSE I’ve been subjected to they have gone horribly. I’ve had 3 “teammates” who really contributed nothing to accomplishing the mission objective.
It seems myself and some other dupe (one certainly knew how to play cure) attempted to bring down the nanites on the far bay. Initially I assumed the three mates were guarding the Kang. Even if it was overkill at least they were protecting an objective. They didn’t. In two cases this conglomeration of useless milled about the Kang and returned fire only when their charge was getting blasted to pieces. Being proactive they easily could have moved to engage at a safe distance and things would have been fine. Instead they fought on top of him getting the 2ndary failed in record time and in the first instance eventually ended the pain by completely scrubbing as the Kang was destroyed.
I have difficulty believing anybody is that stupid. The only thing I can figure is they are milking drops from destroyed ships to sell on the exchange. I recognize many drops are junk but if you were to have enough by protracting things eventually you would hit paydirt. Your odds of a marketable find would be at least as good as sucessfully finishing the mission promptly and probably give you a better take if the campers were working as a team and the “dedicated idiots” weren’t damaging your targets and potentially taking a cut from your spoils.
Yeah, thanks for the information. Some of the terms were common sense acronyms that I’d picked up along the way. Quite a few other had left me scratching my head. My interpretation of “FTW” certainly wasn’t “For The Win”
Like me, you want to preserve the general Star Trek feel of the gameplay. You’re not a Fleet of Timelords from Gallifrey, or dimension-lost Drow Elves. Your Fleet isn’t called Spock’s Brain or The Cheeseburger Cat Inc. or Murder Angels From Hell. You’re here for the Trek vibe, just like me.
This 😀 . Awesome! Welcome, I think we’ll get on fine.
