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Star Trek Online: Shipping Ezri Dax/Harry Kim January 23rd
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What's the economy like now? Energy credit cap the same?
When I logged in a lot of quests automatically dropped, it scrolled too fast to make out what they were and a bunch of conversations triggered... did a zone get taken out or something?
Adding to that, I checked the inventory and bank of two of my characters and they seem to be missing items. Like I have 50-100 empty slots when I know my banks were full and I had a char just as a bank to manage things... did they increase free slots for everyone?
Also saw there's a token that lets you upgrade your bridge officers... thought that was neat given how much I liked my gangs. May login again and spend some time fighting Borg or dinosaurs for old time's sake. :O
Depending on how long you've been gone...
EC credit cap hasn't moved since the free to play update, but you can't buy one month to get all the basic permanent benefits anymore.
A lot of missions have been remastered, some have been merged, a lot of patrol wrapper missions are gone entirely, exploration zones are gone, a lot of advancement rewards like ranks and duty officer tiers that used to require a checkin at space dock are now automatic. Even missions that were simply updated will usually auto-drop to keep you from being stuck without the ability to progress.
They did increase free slots. They also updated the crafting system several times, depending on when you played last. The old candy colored sensor trace items were converted into newer materials, and also automatically go into their own inventory area now. If you had any of them left from inventory or bank they would have automatically converted, and now have a special tab on the inventory window. Even if you played since that system, it was more recent that upgrade packs moved to the same inventory, so if you stockpiled them they could be the missing items.
Upgrade packs would be the things that grant tech points? I do see some in there... disorienting to ust have all this space that I knew I didn't have before. like I even have two items in overflow on one character. o_o
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And PC version of all of this except the skin is not physical and is tied to the Epic Store. Sigh.
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So what's some short term temporal horribleness? Hahahah... oh man I'm the worst. Like my discovery captain shouldn't even have been a captain to begin with! They don't even know!
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Yes there's definitely still a closet behind that door, no need to check the inventory sheet. Oh you insist? Ok I'll just be checking my emails (Bridge containment breach gamma six imminent. I repeat: Gamma! Six!)
(The actual reason is that Mulgrew was added a lot later than the rest of the cast, but this is funnier).
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I'm using a Krenim Science Vessel. The loadout seems very "let's just throw things on it and grind" so I can't trust it... so uh... what is this ship supposed to specialize in?
I think maybe it'd be better to just... start a new character and learn to play all over again.
It's what I do everytime!
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An alternative is probably just poking at some of the endeavours, theres a reasonable variety in objectives, just maybe dont worry too much about X lukari TFOs etc
One tip I would give is if you do end up in a science vessel, a Deteriorating Secondary Deflector is probably the best of the bunch, they can end up doing a surprising amount of damage.
But make sure you use them fast because baby they don't last...
Ok seriously that name I can't be the only one who thought they were somehow temporary?
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It seems past me put a Deteriorating Secondary Reflector on this ship.
I wound up doing the uh... Lukari Endeavour in the battlezone for a bit. I have to set up the auto-triggers and things for sure. Was a very disfunctional time, lol.
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Its funny I told my wife about the sales in STO like a dude talking about going to a car show looking for parts for his vette.
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how dare you
nah it was just an uggo Jemhaddar ship that even the dauntless 2 can make fun of.
OH YEAH OH YEAH I WENT THERE!
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Yeah, I feel real bad when the endeavors send me to do PVP.
I start the match with "Sorry guys, I'm only hear for the endeavor. Please be gentle?" and then blow up a solid dozen times or so before I know what's going on. Then the PVP mission is over and I can slink back to murdering mobs the way god intended.
I imagine I was doing the people on my team a favor just flying in and blowing up, ended the match faster.
Just constant reminder not all games need a pvp mode.
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edit: what damage flavor is meta right now?
Phasers, or well phasers have a metric shit ton of universal consoles that amp their damage.
But really if you're going to do weapon damage look up the Isomag meta
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Oh yeah, and if you really want to push, can do the Isomag grind, but is a lot of work.
On stuff. I made a Gamma Recruit, and, as I suspected, rather play my Temporal Science guy. Did opened some of the Legendary Jem'hadar bundle, the Gamma and Competitive level 5 boosts are account wide, so they both went to my Temporal Science guy. The Vault is finally fixed, thank fucking God, so that's done.
On Jem'hadar ships, the STO look of making them a little more angular works, though on the Legendary the hardest thing was to get used to which side is the front and which is the back.
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The USS Moira Vahlen is what folks are really worried about though
It's actually kind of fun going from my moby dick character to the more subdued uggo mcuggo sauce character. Though I swear I'm going to end up buying some damn isomags or tac consoles and switching off these I think polaron weapons? Whatever the jem's start with just ain't cutting it. Might rock some disruptor and fly my legendary bortaq
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Edit: must have had this tab open for a while, that was in response to tastydonuts.
I don't have anything from that faction yet. have to start working on them (anything post 2018 I don't have). I assume since several of my captains were in flip-flops, summer 2018 is about when I stopped :V
If I roll a new Jem'Hadar, will it have another Gamma Recruit track for the 2023 campaign?