Only 63% downloaded. Steam is only pulling around 25k/s. Thanks to my brother hogging all of our bandwidth I'm probably going to miss pretty much the whole headstart.
I missed all of yesterday really cause of the lifetime sub screw up.
Progurtus of Borg is my liberated Borg science officer, I had no trouble creating him right away.
I bought the Steam DDE version for ease of delivery, and because I have money to burn I'm also hanging on to my Gamestop collector's edition preorder so that I have a physical copy of the game hanging around, and all the cool physical stuff that comes with the Gamestop version.
With a science officer for my main, I figure once I get the chance I'll roll an alt engineer, a joined Trill using a Constitution class (with its 2 engineering slots), with the red matter capacitor, special steam armor, all that other super extra bonus preorder stuff. For my main, being a Liberated Borg with the admiral uniform is enough.
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I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.
-Groucho Marx
Steam: [SF] Progurt
Alright, I finished the tutorial. It's nice to get a head start, and pick a name that isn't complete random ass before the rest of the internet.
What skills should a good science officer pick?
PS: I'm Savok in-game. I'm up for doing missions grouped because well, this is an MMO right? How do you hail/send tells other captains?
Funny thing about the names. Like with Champions, your name isn't unique. Anyone else can pick the same name, since it's tied to your account name. So it won't matter if you come in day -2 or day 700. You can still pick the name you want.
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Welp, I've picked the character I'm gonna go all the way with: Alien Engineer, who looks like a human, with all space perks:
+5 Starship Shields Efficiency
+5 Starship Weapons Efficiency
+5 Starship Energy Weapons Efficiency
+5 Starship Aux. Systems Efficiency
+0.1 Defense in Space
+10 Starship Engineering Training
+10 Starship Warp Core Training
Basically I'm rolling him to be an end-game tank in a Cruiser. We'll see if my plan holds out.
Commander Melkster of the U.S.S. Opportunity.
Oh, and you might be amused by my biography:
Commander of the U.S.S. Opportunity. Generally uneasy about leading away missions; hates getting his uniform dirty. Loves fashionable uniforms and watching Galatic Idol, the hit singing TV show now in it's 258th season. Unfortunately, Federation regulations prohibit him from participating. This is the cause of much of Commander Melkster's hatred towards Klingons.
So I am still completely confused on how the skill system works. I understand pointing points in for skills and the like, however, do new skills come automatically when you level or do you get them by putting points in?
So I am still completely confused on how the skill system works. I understand pointing points in for skills and the like, however, do new skills come automatically when you level or do you get them by putting points in?
You will get new abilities like "Evasive Manuevers" automatically as you level up. It's a bit confusing Skills for you are things that increase stats on either your ship or your BOff's powers. Abilities for you are things that go on the hotbar and you can actually execute. Skills for the BOffs are like your abilities. They are preassigned with the BOff, but you can change them at the BOff power store (between the Fleet Admiral -- who allows creation of Guilds -- and the BOff requisition officer in the Personnel section of Sol spacedock).
So I am still completely confused on how the skill system works. I understand pointing points in for skills and the like, however, do new skills come automatically when you level or do you get them by putting points in?
You will get new abilities like "Evasive Manuevers" automatically as you level up. It's a bit confusing Skills for you are things that increase stats on either your ship or your BOff's powers. Abilities for you are things that go on the hotbar and you can actually execute. Skills for the BOffs are like your abilities. They are preassigned with the BOff, but you can change them at the BOff power store (between the Fleet Admiral -- who allows creation of Guilds -- and the BOff requisition officer in the Personnel section of Sol spacedock).
you get skills as you put points in to level up. you might have enough xp/skill points to be lt 5 and the top of the screen says you're lt 5, but you aren't really lt 5 until you spend the skill points
at 3, 13, 23, 33, 43 you get a new universal space skill
at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 you get a new ground skill based on class
at 8, 18, 28, 38, you get a new space skill based on class
So I am still completely confused on how the skill system works. I understand pointing points in for skills and the like, however, do new skills come automatically when you level or do you get them by putting points in?
So I am still completely confused on how the skill system works. I understand pointing points in for skills and the like, however, do new skills come automatically when you level or do you get them by putting points in?
You will get new abilities like "Evasive Manuevers" automatically as you level up. It's a bit confusing Skills for you are things that increase stats on either your ship or your BOff's powers. Abilities for you are things that go on the hotbar and you can actually execute. Skills for the BOffs are like your abilities. They are preassigned with the BOff, but you can change them at the BOff power store (between the Fleet Admiral -- who allows creation of Guilds -- and the BOff requisition officer in the Personnel section of Sol spacedock).
you get skills as you put points in to level up. you might have enough xp/skill points to be lt 5 and the top of the screen says you're lt 5, but you aren't really lt 5 until you spend the skill points
at 3, 13, 23, 33, 43 you get a new universal space skill
at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 you get a new ground skill based on class
at 8, 18, 28, 38, you get a new space skill based on class
To clarify, you get new abilities at all those levels, you get new skills to put points in at 11,21,31,41
Also, I wish I had read the skill tips closer before, I kept putting all of my points into ranged, because I fire my gun. But I needed to put it into close combat, because it is a pistol. So now I have about 9 ranks of ranged fire I sorta want to respec into something else.
The servers were down at 5AM PST, then they came back up for 7 hours, now they are down again. This is how head-starts usually work... or else how release usually works.
Gee, I did such a good job of planting the idea of spending the day out shopping in the mind of the wife... if only there was some kind of game I had planned to play, and if ONLY this game had some kind of.. I dunno, "Head Start" program to take advantage of. I have not thought my cunning plan all the way through it seems.
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Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
edited January 2010
Yes, there is a fleet.
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...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
edited January 2010
Ok folks... system is back from repairs and I'm currently downloading/updating the headstart.
Important question: How much did they fix from the Beta? Are the bugs talked about last thread fixed?
Filter out the damn zone chat. It makes instance team missions so much easier without all the stoopidspam. I went through my first patrols with the same team two guys. My vulcan antics amused them.
I'm also ecstatic that the instance encounters scale to the number of players you have. With four people it can get a bit frantic.
Any word on how long the maintenance will last? If its gonna be like over 30 minutes I'm gonna go run some errands.
[STRIKE]( )1 hour[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )2 hours[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )monday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )lame trekkie joke about servers being down[/STRIKE]
(x) just dont state a time
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I missed all of yesterday really cause of the lifetime sub screw up.
Type /channel_join "Penny Arcade" into your chat box; that's where we chat.
Progurtus of Borg is my liberated Borg science officer, I had no trouble creating him right away.
I bought the Steam DDE version for ease of delivery, and because I have money to burn I'm also hanging on to my Gamestop collector's edition preorder so that I have a physical copy of the game hanging around, and all the cool physical stuff that comes with the Gamestop version.
With a science officer for my main, I figure once I get the chance I'll roll an alt engineer, a joined Trill using a Constitution class (with its 2 engineering slots), with the red matter capacitor, special steam armor, all that other super extra bonus preorder stuff. For my main, being a Liberated Borg with the admiral uniform is enough.
-Groucho Marx
Steam: [SF] Progurt
Funny thing about the names. Like with Champions, your name isn't unique. Anyone else can pick the same name, since it's tied to your account name. So it won't matter if you come in day -2 or day 700. You can still pick the name you want.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
+5 Starship Shields Efficiency
+5 Starship Weapons Efficiency
+5 Starship Energy Weapons Efficiency
+5 Starship Aux. Systems Efficiency
+0.1 Defense in Space
+10 Starship Engineering Training
+10 Starship Warp Core Training
Basically I'm rolling him to be an end-game tank in a Cruiser. We'll see if my plan holds out.
Commander Melkster of the U.S.S. Opportunity.
Oh, and you might be amused by my biography:
You will get new abilities like "Evasive Manuevers" automatically as you level up. It's a bit confusing Skills for you are things that increase stats on either your ship or your BOff's powers. Abilities for you are things that go on the hotbar and you can actually execute. Skills for the BOffs are like your abilities. They are preassigned with the BOff, but you can change them at the BOff power store (between the Fleet Admiral -- who allows creation of Guilds -- and the BOff requisition officer in the Personnel section of Sol spacedock).
STO.com shows Server Status: Undergoing Maintenance. that explains a bit...
erm no, now it says UP..
at 3, 13, 23, 33, 43 you get a new universal space skill
at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 you get a new ground skill based on class
at 8, 18, 28, 38, you get a new space skill based on class
-.-
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! i was less than a bar from my constitution.
*Sobs, logs into EvE, goes back to hunting goons in delve.*
New skills open up at each rank.
^This is like the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's^
To clarify, you get new abilities at all those levels, you get new skills to put points in at 11,21,31,41
^This is like the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's^
relevance: they must have done something, load times are a bit better..
edit. no they arent.
and finally, disconnected from account server. sigh.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
MWO: Adamski
So 5am PST is 3pm EST.
MWO: Adamski
MWO: Adamski
....
Back to Mass Effect 2 then!
lol I love how palpatine is in the back laughing.
^This is like the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's^
I started a vulcan science officer yesterday, now apparently my borg is working. I'll roll a borg tactical officer next.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Important question: How much did they fix from the Beta? Are the bugs talked about last thread fixed?
Filter out the damn zone chat. It makes instance team missions so much easier without all the stoopidspam. I went through my first patrols with the same team two guys. My vulcan antics amused them.
I'm also ecstatic that the instance encounters scale to the number of players you have. With four people it can get a bit frantic.
[STRIKE]( )1 hour[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )2 hours[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )monday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]( )lame trekkie joke about servers being down[/STRIKE]
(x) just dont state a time
edit for validation:
Currently, the Star Trek Online Server is down. We are aware of this issue and are currently working to bring the server back online as soon as possible. Please keep an eye on this page for updates, and notification when Star Trek Online is available again. Thank you, The Star Trek Online Team
The Star Trek Online Team