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Regina Fong

Valaena wrote: »

Awesome. That's at least two for an STF. I'm shooting for around 9 ish? That cool with you?

And I'm totally down for shooting Klingons with you TOG.

I have been addicted to Tribble the past couple days. The new ground is Soooo good. I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but I dreamed about it last night. It was a weird infamous 2/star trek ground combat cross over. It is a wonderful omen.

9 server time? That works for me.

Valaena

Oh poop. I dunno. I forget not everything runs on eastern time. Is the server pacific?

emp123

I believe it is. Either that or the ingame clock defaults to your personal timezone.

Regina Fong

Valaena wrote: »

Oh poop. I dunno. I forget not everything runs on eastern time. Is the server pacific?

I can do eastern time, just needed to know.

TOGSolid

9PM Eastern? Totally doable for me. My escort is ready to die, repeatedly!

jamesra

emp123 wrote: »

I believe it is. Either that or the ingame clock defaults to your personal timezone.

The later.

Shapeshifter

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Delta Assault

Is there generally one kind of shield array that works best for cruisers? I just turned in a mission and it gave me a choice of either a Shield, Resilient, Covariant, or Regenerative shield array. Now, I've watched quite a bit of Star Trek in my time, but I still have no idea which one is best.

Shapeshifter

most people go with Covariant, gives you the largest shield hp

VoodooV

personally I'm a fan of resilient, but I'll admit that it's not like I've tested each one in combat and the numbers favor resilient. I just think it's awesome that it reduces the amount of damage done.

That said, I love running around with my aegis set and I think the aegis shield is a covariant, but then again, it's all part of the set and those set bonuses tend to skew things.

see317

jamesra wrote: »

emp123 wrote: »

I believe it is. Either that or the ingame clock defaults to your personal timezone.

The later.

I thought it defaulted to the server time, but could be set to display local time at will.
I remember I didn't realize this early on and was playing quite a bit later then I thought.

Valaena

I was meaning eastern but if it comes up anyone needs it switched just let me know.

And TOG, what level is your guy?

Regina Fong

The Breen shield is a resilient type, I use that one up to the aegis. I find that resilient is good for a science ship with high base shields and low hull strength, but the covariant is much better on my escort. Not sure about cruisers.

Regina Fong

So cryptic is kind of dumb.

Two new C-store bridge officers that cost 100 points a pop (and not account wide) and wow... they both have all ground traits.

If they wanted to sell shit they'd put something up there with a decent space trait and everyone would buy 5 of them.

TOGSolid

Valaena wrote: »

I was meaning eastern but if it comes up anyone needs it switched just let me know.

And TOG, what level is your guy?

Lt. Cmdr 1 or 2, I have to double check. I've been out of town at work for the past week.

Jasconius

STF? Can I do an STF as a CM3?

What time is it again? 9 Eastern?

Regina Fong

I think the STFs start at Rear Admiral.

TOGSolid

Oh, well bugger. No CoH style sidekicking, eh?

Regina Fong

TOGSolid wrote: »

Oh, well bugger. No CoH style sidekicking, eh?

There is sidekicking, I'm not sure if that would let you tag along on an STF, but you can't get the missions for them yourself until RA. We can certainly test it tonight.

TOGSolid

I'm always down for finding new and exciting ways to break a game!

korodullin

Regina Fong wrote: »

So cryptic is kind of dumb.

Two new C-store bridge officers that cost 100 points a pop (and not account wide) and wow... they both have all ground traits.

If they wanted to sell shit they'd put something up there with a decent space trait and everyone would buy 5 of them.

They could've put out just Caitian BROs and made them white-quality with jackshit for traits and people would still have bought a dozen of them per character just to staff their bridges with furries.

Valaena

STFs are ra and up only. You share the missions with someone lower, but they can't get into the transwarp to GO. Unless someone knows some way to trick that?

Delta Assault

The Starbase 24 public quest is dumb. I keep getting killed over and over again by those damn Klingons and their targs.

Just_Bri_Thanks

korodullin wrote: »

Regina Fong wrote: »

So cryptic is kind of dumb.

Two new C-store bridge officers that cost 100 points a pop (and not account wide) and wow... they both have all ground traits.

If they wanted to sell shit they'd put something up there with a decent space trait and everyone would buy 5 of them.

They could've put out just Caitian BROs and made them white-quality with jackshit for traits and people would still have bought a dozen of them per character just to staff their bridges with furries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344VnKiE5N4

Jasconius

wow they actually made a purchase-only humanoid cat BOFF?

uhh

emp123

So my tac is at LC7 and Im supposed to kill the Crystaline Entity. What the fuck.

korodullin

Just_Bri_Thanks wrote: »

korodullin wrote: »

Regina Fong wrote: »

So cryptic is kind of dumb.

Two new C-store bridge officers that cost 100 points a pop (and not account wide) and wow... they both have all ground traits.

If they wanted to sell shit they'd put something up there with a decent space trait and everyone would buy 5 of them.

They could've put out just Caitian BROs and made them white-quality with jackshit for traits and people would still have bought a dozen of them per character just to staff their bridges with furries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344VnKiE5N4

I meant just Caitian bridge officers, without the Aenar or whatever. I know full well about the Caitian officers.

Regina Fong

Man, that video.

I love how they try to make the ground combat scenes look cool by having officers fire a shot or two then fading away.

What you aren't seeing: The next 15 shots that it takes to drop a minion.

Also: There are 500 minions in the mission.

Valaena

korodullin wrote: »

Regina Fong wrote: »

So cryptic is kind of dumb.

Two new C-store bridge officers that cost 100 points a pop (and not account wide) and wow... they both have all ground traits.

If they wanted to sell shit they'd put something up there with a decent space trait and everyone would buy 5 of them.

They could've put out just Caitian BROs and made them white-quality with jackshit for traits and people would still have bought a dozen of them per character just to staff their bridges with furries.

I know what my next character will be. Help me think of awful furry names.

Also skip the crystalline entity when it gives it tk you. It's a fleet action. And you cam get better exp from other quests.

TOGSolid

Valaena wrote: »

I know what my next character will be. Help me think of awful furry names.

Sonichu Ponyfan

Valaena

I'll fly the U.S.S. Ketchum_Ash

Librarian's ghost

Valaena wrote: »

I'll fly the U.S.S. Ketchum_Ash

Oh god no. I'm now having horror flash backs to that Imperial Guard army. As someone who was present during that troubling time I would have to stay far away from that ship.

Fartacus_the_Mighty

I used to wish that we could have one (or more) of our bridge officers follow us around when we go to ESD/Vulcan/etcetera. Now, I realize that this would only increase the number of dancing, scantily-clad cat people I have to see when I visit ESD.

In an unrelated note, I just noticed that my CO lifer stipend does not apply toward STO purchases. Part of me is sad, because that means I may need to spend monies on cyberbux at some point. The other part of me is grimly smug, because I totally called it a couple threads back and everyone thought I was nuts.

Hevach

I think I was one of the people who said "I don't see why not," but you know, in retrospect, it should have been obvious. The 500 points I got with my DDE didn't work in CO. Seems any points you don't actually pay for are locked to the game you get them in.


Edit: New engineering report is up. TL;DR version:

Borg invasion pushed back to season 4 release
Klingons are getting sorties in other sectors, some of which will be open PVP joinable by Federation players who want to stop them.
Splitting aim (+damage done) and crouch (-damage taken) into two separate controls
Daily Sol/Quo'nos events
New Defiant class ship listed as "in development"
Vesta class ship dropped from the list (probably couldn't get the rights from the book author)

GaryO

Just did a run of infected in 1.5 hours, it felt it went by alot quicker than that though, we only wiped out once, and it only took that long because its just such a grind. Did the boss in one go aswell. Was a really good run

see317

Valaena wrote: »

I'll fly the U.S.S. Ketchum_Ash

I'm only hoping that all your BOffs have horribly oversized heads that are hideously misshapen.
Also, bizarre hair colors.

Librarian's ghost

see317 wrote: »

Valaena wrote: »

I'll fly the U.S.S. Ketchum_Ash

I'm only hoping that all your BOffs have horribly oversized heads that are hideously misshapen.
Also, bizarre hair colors.

Oh god no. Noooooooo. Flashbacks. Ahhhhhhhh

Valaena

Yep, the Infected run went pretty darn well. For the people who missed out on it, another is planned for tomorrow, a little bit earlier than this one. 7pm eastern this time. If a different time would work better, just let me know and I'll try to plan accordingly.

For the next main run what should we do? The Cure?

TOGSolid

Klingons are getting sorties in other sectors, some of which will be open PVP joinable by Federation players who want to stop them.

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Jasconius

I would like to play a Klingon. But I didn't because I hear there is basically nothing to do on them.