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Star Trek Online: Shipping Ezri Dax/Harry Kim January 23rd

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  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    edited October 2023
    if the gamma event is active yes

    I've not even checked if there's any new goals, something for tomorrow I guess

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The halloween tfo is silly but man it seems easy to accidentally or intentionally troll at times

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    Also wow comparing my moby dick character to my jem hadar even having spent some ec's and dil to up the Jem's firepower, the traits, upgrades etc is like massively different. Like my corvette sci ship vs the legendary borty with some upgraded isomag disruptors and cannon stuff is night and day.

    I mean it should be obviously one has hundreds neigh on thousands of dollars of upgrades and the other doesn't, but like god damn.

    It does amuse me my Jem captain is only to feed my greater character, just like the Jem people in general.

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    Discovery reputation is ridiculous. Pretty much every item on that reputation except the Deflector Dish is some of the best of the game, specially if you are doing Phaser or Disruptor. Besides that, Terran Task Force Beam Array and Cannons do a lot of damage, but is Disruptor baseline and Phaser is all the way behind tier 6.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    first one of these I've seen a28h9eg369jn.png

    As far as I can tell, there's not really much in it bar probably completing the colony a bit faster?

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    Usually the thing holding up projects is always going to be dilithium and there just isn't enough incentive to donate it to other fleets.

    I think there are a few different small bonuses for the fleet itself, though.

  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    There's a bonus to experience and dilithium. I think the top fleet gets the best dilithium bonus but then bottom ones all get the best skill bonus.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    In unrelated news I found out the OG Avenger class came out 10 years ago and feel I need to go have a bit of a lie down

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I didn't realize ship upgrades carry over. So my legendary inquiry cruiser was a 6x2 when I unlocked it on my uggo boy. The six demon bag is born! Way better than the untouched bort sadly

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Also got into a group with a dauntless 2 last night and yep they are horrifically ugly

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    So, don't care about the sex candle much so wasn't going to do this event, but need more marks and is only a week.

    Overall, I get why people say why running the patrol twice is faster than the TFO, but I had fun with it, though it drags a bit. Trick with the Skeletons, that are inmune outside the candle circles, is to just use the Disco rep vaccum and Paradox Bomb, which are amazing and do a lot of damage so should run them anyways, specially the first one. First one drags them to you, second drags them to where the enemy that you hit with it is, so got to be careful to not mess up and drag things outside the circles, but that's manageable.

    Oh and yeah, you are shit out of luck if a skeleton clips into a wall.

  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Can you do mouseover macros in STO?

    Since they nerfed/fixed Trauma Response I actually have to cast shield heals on my allies/pets now to get the juicy +75% shield penetration, but that's annoyingly fiddly to target.

    I mean, ideally there would be some sort of AoE shield heal ability that could give me both, but it's been a while and I don't remember off-hand.

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  • LJDouglasLJDouglas Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    I don’t know if it counts for Trauma Response, but the shield heal from Improved Tachyon Beam can proc quite a few “on shield heal” effects. Does mean using a starship trait slot to avoid switching targets admittedly.

    Edit: Checking the notes on wiki page for the trait Trauma Responseapparently the Align Shield Frequencies Miracle Worker ability provides at least one of the buffs, the description is a little vague on if it means both bonuses are applied even if no ally is hit. Would give you one option if you have a Miracle Worker seat available.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I just run the TFO TBH.

    Also the Dauntless 2 is as ugly as it is amazing at doing its job. Its a sci command ship with a carrier wing, and the console seems to have a lot of bang for your buck on top of being really visually satisfying.

    The USS Cyrano De Bergerac natch

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    LJDouglas wrote: »
    I don’t know if it counts for Trauma Response, but the shield heal from Improved Tachyon Beam can proc quite a few “on shield heal” effects. Does mean using a starship trait slot to avoid switching targets admittedly.

    Edit: Checking the notes on wiki page for the trait Trauma Responseapparently the Align Shield Frequencies Miracle Worker ability provides at least one of the buffs, the description is a little vague on if it means both bonuses are applied even if no ally is hit. Would give you one option if you have a Miracle Worker seat available.

    If Align Shield Freqs does do both, it doesn't seem to count carrier pets, because I only get the heal-self bonus for using it with them in the AoE.

    Will have to see about ITB

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    Started up my 2023 Gamma Recruit... Tactical shooty mans...

    however I can't access my bank, admirality, duty roster, etc... is there a timer/progression requirement for new characters? I don't remember having this issue before.

    the menus open, but there's nothing to select or anything.

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  • MaclayMaclay He/Him Here and ThereRegistered User regular
    I think most new characters have some form of level restriction, but Romulans have a narrative restriction and Jems have a playtime restriction since they start at such a high level already. I haven't started a new character in a while though, so grain of salt

  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Are you to the point where you align with one of the main factions? Pretty much nothing works until then.

  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    Jem'Hadar get access to all the good account stuff at either 62 or 63.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Yeah some of the Jem stuff is locked behind play time, including being able to get bonus's from previous characters, and level locked. Basically just follow the gamma story and level up and you'll unlock your ability to join the feds or klings.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Yeah, I got the alignment done right away but it still didn't unlock. Ultimately the problem solved itself when I dozed off in deep space though...

    now I can dump these polaron things into this guy! yay. I'm going to try and stick with purple flavor. I have some Vaadwuar weapon boxes and junk lying around.

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    Oh, and is just now that someone noticed:
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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I mean I saw it when the event went live and a had a chuckle

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Also I didn't realize the dauntless 2 is supposed to be bigger than the protostar. If anything its smaller than the protostar in game. One of those replica issues I guess.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Also I didn't realize the dauntless 2 is supposed to be bigger than the protostar. If anything its smaller than the protostar in game. One of those replica issues I guess.

    Maybe it's one of those bigger when you consider the internal volume, but smaller in overall external size things?

    Looking at the ships, the Dauntless'...well, not "saucer section"... door stop maybe? is a big blocky section that looks like it's got a dozen+ decks in it. And the warp nacelles are all tucked up under the doorstop close into the engineering hull.
    The Protostar is all stretched out and seems like it has fewer decks.

    Or maybe they just tried to size the ships closer together because putting them to scale would have the Dauntless be absolutely huge, or the Protostar tiny.
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    At least, I'm pretty sure that's a Dauntless class there.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Also I didn't realize the dauntless 2 is supposed to be bigger than the protostar. If anything its smaller than the protostar in game. One of those replica issues I guess.

    Maybe it's one of those bigger when you consider the internal volume, but smaller in overall external size things?

    Looking at the ships, the Dauntless'...well, not "saucer section"... door stop maybe? is a big blocky section that looks like it's got a dozen+ decks in it. And the warp nacelles are all tucked up under the doorstop close into the engineering hull.
    The Protostar is all stretched out and seems like it has fewer decks.

    Or maybe they just tried to size the ships closer together because putting them to scale would have the Dauntless be absolutely huge, or the Protostar tiny.
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    At least, I'm pretty sure that's a Dauntless class there.

    It is that's from the show, but like in the game the two ships are of similar size and they really aren't supposed to be at least as far as the cannon. Especially as the Dauntless 2 is a carrier. It doesn't super bug me as it zips around at its size, but I hadn't seen how big its supposed to be until I saw a clip of it from Prodigy and yeah its supposed to be larger by far.

    I will say between the two the protostar doesn't look cartoonish in game, but the Dauntless 2 with its small aft and almost comically undersized nacelles is very funny.

    All this being said I need to watch prodigy apparently!

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    There's a lot of panic articles making the rounds, so Kael says:

    Just to post it here, no, I have not been laid off from Cryptic.

    To further clarify, none of the teams at Cryptic have changed at this time.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Why cryptic? The epic things?

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Man that fucking blows. I hope this isn't a marvel heroes situation another game I spent a lot of money on...

    Embracer doesn't own daybreak right? So sell cryptic to them, that way they can add another whale game to sustain to their platform?

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    The names I recognize are all from Neverwinter... Not even sure STO has enough people to get layoffs at this point, honestly.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    As long as the game keeps going god damn it! I spent a lot of money over the weekend and I'm the main character!

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • CroakerBCCroakerBC TorontoRegistered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    The names I recognize are all from Neverwinter... Not even sure STO has enough people to get layoffs at this point, honestly.

    STO is basically free money on a skeleton crew at this point. There's no-one to lay off, and if you did, the money printer might get sad, so why bother.

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    If Embracer's FY 22/23 annual general meeting is to be believed, Star Trek Online is one of their top 5 games... though... that top 5 is... interesting to say the least. So... I'd venture that as a whole, the game will be okay for a while. (The same can never really be said for any rank and file employees, unfortunately.)

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    Was catching up on the things I didn't do and I saw this:

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    I don't think there's been a Star Trek series that hasn't had any kind of major time travel shenanigans even after this content released (2018), so species stumbling on examples of violations of the temporal prime directive and not being surprised really rings true.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I dunno saw a youtube scar vid that said the whole company is basically looking for a new job.

    In game wise this weekend is junior office weekend?

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    not sure, I thought there was a calendar in-game but maybe I'm misremembering. o_o

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    No it is its announced on their launcher. I don't know why I put a question mark there. Helpful for my uggo jem

    I'm also feeling crazy and might record a video on the dauntless 2 for the youtubes since I swear I can't find shit on the ship and I think its kind of neat? I've been broken

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    How many pulls did it take to get a Daultless 2 anyway?

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited October 2023
    How many pulls did it take to get a Daultless 2 anyway?

    I want to say within a hundred. But I had previously pulled 50 on infinite boxes before the drop so I dunno if that has like a bad luck save or something?

    But like full disclosure I spent 300 dollars to get the ship. Not all the money went into keys and not all the keys went to lock boxes, but I got the drop I didn't buy it on the AH like a smart person would. But I wanted to boost my lobi crystals because I'm fucking dumb lets just say

    Preacher on
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  • CroakerBCCroakerBC TorontoRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    How many pulls did it take to get a Daultless 2 anyway?

    I want to say within a hundred. But I had previously pulled 50 on infinite boxes before the drop so I dunno if that has like a bad luck save or something?

    But like full disclosure I spent 300 dollars to get the ship. Not all the money went into keys and not all the keys went to lock boxes, but I got the drop I didn't buy it on the AH like a smart person would. But I wanted to boost my lobi crystals because I'm fucking dumb lets just say

    Someone did a deep dive on this a year or so ago, and the drop rate goes from 0.7% to 7% after the first 140 packs.

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