No.20155
Space dino genocide edition.
FAQ Pastebin:
>http://pastebin.com/EzCHx42g
>Fleets:
Fed: Vidya Trek
KDF: House of Vid'ya
Custom Chat Channel: /v/ (Join and ask for a fleet invite)
Glossary:
>http://pastebin.com/vLejN37J
Tips for New Players:
>http://pastebin.com/0S16y7pp
Missions to replay at level 50 for gear:
>http://pastebin.com/68inhdMP
Resources:
STO Wiki
>http://sto.gamepedia.com/Main_Page
PvP Guide
>http://hilbertguide.com/
Skill Point Effects, aka what you actually get with each skill point
>http://home.comcast.net/~amicus/Skill%20Point%20Effects.htm
Build Planner, including a build searcher
>http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/
Crit Calculator
>http://comatoes.github.io/sto-crit-calc/
Duty Officer Guide
>http://stosite.com/duty-officers-how-many-of-each-type-do-i-need/
Everything you need to know about A2B/Aux2Batt:
>http://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/24pn8o/highly_logical_dragon_and_drake_and_aux2batt/
>http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=547581
>What's New?
>Season 11.5 draws nearer
>Skill system revamp soon fellow stalker!
>Event where you can get a space dino ship as an admiralty ship is currently on
>T6 flagship bundle was released recently
>OP was too lazy to clean up the OP post from any broken links and obsolete and old information
No.20156
First for Cold Torment of the Underworld.
No.20157
>>20156
And fuck I post the wrong screenshot.
No.20158
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No.20159
>>20155
>>OP was too lazy to clean up the OP post from any broken links and obsolete and old information
You had one job, retard.
No.20161
>>20158
oh sorry, maybe we should be using YOUR corrected OP. lets see it
No.20162
>>20161
You're talking about using the backspace key as though it's difficult. You must be a Macfag,
No.20164
>>20162
it must be pretty hard since you didn't do it either
No.20166
>>20164
Me? Make a thread? And take away the only thing keeping this kid from offing himself? I may be a dick but I'm not a monster.
No.20167
>>20166
Don't worry about me, worry about your crippling fear of backspace key.
t:OP
No.20169
I really hope the DPS guys are transparent about how DPS is delivered differently by the two skill systems and game play changes. Changing the games innate leveling RPG system is basically the developers core intent on display. These guts and innards will guide new players down a new experience.
No.20170
how much do you want to bet that even with this new specialization tree being about +threat/-threat, then even with every single threat reduction in the game stacked on top of each other you'll still pull aggro anyways because this game never makes any fucking sense
No.20171
>>20170
Yeah, while if you stack + aggro, you start aggroing enemies from other end of the field AND from other instances too.
No.20172
>to make a new specialization tree work in a cost opportunity comparison you must put a skill point investment into aggro
This might be one for the trashcan.
No.20173
>>20170
Threat is one mechanic in the game that is working correctly, the issue is, 90% of the time, that other people are doing so little damage that you cannot avoid aggro.
If i take my 40k dps arkif into a pug ISA then 9/10 times my dps is 10 times the rest. Sometimes i get lucky and have 1 other guy that knows what he is doing and then it is an easier ride and don't have to tank everything constantly.
It is a real issue in this game the gap between average dps and 'put a little effort in' dps.
It is crazy how poorly fit most players are, from t4 up there is no ship that can't manage 10k dps, most can easily do 30k, even with mk xii shit. The top end of dps is now 200k~ how the fuck are people barely managing 2k ?
No.20174
is there a new skill planner yet?
No.20175
>>20173
>get in first
>drop sensor satellite
>warp shadows
>hope you can dps the thing before they all wear off
Is basically the only effective aggro management in the game. Hopefully they make self-heals in threat stance worth a whole bunch of aggro with the changes, since Im sure these people have nothing but engineering team and hazard emitters slotted anyways
No.20176
>>20174
Good luck with that, the old one has become very slow to update.
No.20177
>>20176
the old skills have been literally untouched for six years. so why it have ever needed an update?
No.20178
File: 1457402092147.png (158.57 KB, 561x479, 561:479, oh you're from the future,….png)
so basically I'm just waiting for the next FE to briefly give a shit. :/
No.20179
No.20180
>>20178
btw, are you doing the daily space dino killing for the card ship?
No.20181
>>20180
sort of. as fun as that mission is, it's just too long.
3 characters are theoretically doing it, but if they all don't make it, I'll just save the dino dinero for next time. as much as the "gotta catch 'em all" factor plays into admiralty, I don't really need more ships, because I've got so many [1x] ones.
at least this, mirror invasion/incursion/whatever and the Crystaline Entity, you can save the daily tokens, instead of ramming them into the event buyback store. so some characters that might only do it a handful of times for marks might end up getting the dinosaur spaceship in 8 months or a year or whenever they run it again.
No.20182
>>20181
I literally have too many admiralty ships at this point. I can easily slot up 8 missions every single day and still have ships to spare
No.20183
>>20177
Several new ships, and the command skills are either missing or have no icons.
the guy is very slowly updating it, but really it needs to be scrapped and a real build tool made. Would love something like EFT for STO.
No.20184
Does anyone else have troubles connecting to the account server?
I got kicked out of the game and now cant log in.
No.20185
No.20186
>>20184
Down for at least 2.5 hours, since they're upgrading network shit for Neverwinter Xbone edition.
No.20187
>>20186
It just happened at perfect time, i was doing the Voth space extermination when it happened.
No.20188
It's back up. STO was only supposed to be down for ~10 minutes. Trendy is pissed. Quality Cryptic engineers spilling coffee all over the servers.
No.20189
>>20188
The machine spirits are angry!
No.20190
Meanwhile Geko is too busy sperging out about Trump to do anything. I thought politics weren't supposed to be discussed using professional accounts. Guess that locks in my vote if Trump will cause him to quit his job and move to a wood shack in the Canadian wilderness, kept warm only by the fat of the SJWs and living off of spoiled hot pockets.
No.20191
No.20192
>>20191
Nope. Just glad to know that Trump will make Star Trek great again.
No.20193
>>20192
Where has Geko sperged about this insiderkun?
No.20194
No.20195
Daily reminder that they get "DDOSED" every time there's a bonus event.
No.20196
>>20193
His twitter. Chase Masterson's is worse. At least she supports Sanders over Hillary.
https://twitter.com/CaptainGeko
No.20198
>>20183
its probably because those two features are pretty useless. the idea is to completely max out a specialization tree, it doesn't really matter what the individual skills are. you can just hover over them to see their pointless stats anyways. for building a ship you can just do at the shipyard anyways, I never understood the point of doing it on a website unless its for a ship you'll never own. which is then just really sad, sempai
No.20199
What's the most efficient way to take a Mk XII Iconian warpcore to Ultra Rare using Omega Upgrades? Which kind of accelerator should I be using? I've never specifically tried for a rarity increase before.
No.20200
Huh, i didn't know you could get these ships as one time use ships.
No.20201
>tfw finally got all 17 alts to 60
No.20203
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9856023
>Resolved an issue which was causing Rarity of Duty Officers to not affect the Rewards and Crit Chances on assignments.
>Added –NoAutoRotateLogs command to launcher settings options to allow players to parse combat logs.
wow
such patch notes
very update
No.20204
>>20203
Except those were two major things they fixed. I'll take that over "server reset lol" any day.
No.20205
No.20207
No.20208
>>20207
they just came out with t6 scimitars
No.20209
>>20208
not a carrier, friendo
No.20210
>>20207
Roms aren't allowed to have full carriers.
No.20211
They will have to do better than another daily grinding event to bring me back.
hopefully they give me a free T6 ship to try and win me over
No.20212
>11.5 soon
>no has been able to do proper comparative testing.
>Tons of builds won't even exist or be feasible anymore
>The entire meta is going to change.
>sci is effectively nerfed, people that had a lot of partg will basically have a lot of it taken away and exchanged for gravg as it all falls under 'control expertise'.
>They are nerfing dps a lot, under the guise fixing a bug, like when they fixed the argala/jaipori patrol 'bug' after season 10.
"people are actually using all this power creeping shit we put in the game and doing CCA in 3.7 seconds, we must nerf it !, ALL HAIL METRICON GOD OF ALL METRICS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUlP7_duZ4
No.20213
>>20212
>i don't have seven billion ec to blow on gold gear or a ship trait in an event ship that drops like or less than lock box grand prizes
>I will never be a torp dps god for the season or 2 it happened
No.20214
>>20212
Tell me anon, is aux2bat still viable?
Do i have to get a new build now?
No.20216
>>20212
>oh shit, people are doing that one STF really fast, FIX EVERYTHING
>why not just introduce new STFs that dont suck
>EVERY. THING.
No.20217
>>20212
>They are nerfing dps a lot, under the guise fixing a bug
More like
>there's a bug that has existed in the game since the beginning
>literally no one knew about it because no one has gone this far into the code until now
>only one dev cares about it
>he's the one in charge of balance :^)
>people
The top .001% of players
No.20218
>>20217
>drinking this much of the cool aid
everyone knew about it, its why everyone built their builds the way they did
No.20219
>orions can't do bikini bottoms anymore
CRYPTIC
No.20221
>>20214
I didn't even know people still did that.
Aux2batt will be the same as it is now.
No.20223
>>20217
everyone is gonna be affected by the changes. Most of the changes are going o affect npcs more than players.
Sometimes npcs did more damage than they should
Sometimes players did more damage than they should.
Sometimes npcs had their resistances made lower than they should be.
Sometimes players had their resistances made higher than they should be.
This fix will make all affected npcs take longer to kill, and sometimes they will hit you for less damage.
Now they need to roll back the HP on npcs to balance it out. If they don't, this will be like what happened with season 10, where enemies now had massive hp pools and everything was harder all of a sudden.
Not on the same scale though.
I doubt anyone doing 40k~ dps is gonna feel the difference, but people just scraping 10k will.
No.20224
>>20223
So a second delta rising is going to happen essentially?
No.20225
>>20219
Get the iconian belt from the last iconian mission
No.20227
>>20223
science in particular, since there will be hard caps on how much abilities get affected by the new skills. unlike before where you would just stack all partg/grav to get huge results (and only then would make science at least passable compared to instant killing everything with tactical alpha strikes). but as far as I can tell there's no such cap on weapon damage
No.20228
Pre - 11.5
Destabilizing Resonance Beam Damage: 3,053.9
Gravity Well Damage: 1,142.1
Energy Siphon Drain: -50.3
Post- 11.5
Destabilizing Resonance Beam: 1,665.2
Gravity Well Damage: 1,430.2
Energy Siphon Drain: -48.5
Exact same gear.
No.20229
I got bored and fucked around in mspaint.
No.20230
anyone try this yet? Im not going to any random links in my inbox personally
No.20232
>>20231
>all the edge lords will have the ass deflector.
No.20233
>>20231
it's a faaaaaaaaake
No.20234
>>20224
This bullshit has been going on since season 9.5.
No.20237
>>20231
fucking lol
>"their" content
>its all datamined and belongs strictly to cryptic
>technically they're not supposed to be doing this, but its basically impossible to stop it so its let slide
>THEY THINK THEY FUCKING OWN IT
haha. what a bunch of sad cunts. you know what I would do without their leaks? continue to live my life just fine
No.20239
>>20238
the irony is that because of their blatant watermarking their whole policy of "the uninitiated should never learn where this is from" is thrown out the window, and they're basically advertising their leaks to the entire internet
No.20240
>>20239
I know, this just makes it even more fun.
It's like a band of thieves advertising their thieving skills and it provides the interested with their home adress.
No.20242
No.20243
>>20240
#FerenginarLootCrew
No.20245
>>20229
were you posting yesterday or so on 4chan?
No.20246
No.20248
>>20247
Is that your trump card?
No.20250
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Strategist is official, being added in season 11.5. Secondary specialization only, so maximum of 15 points. Effects are based on whether you have Threatening Stance on or off. If it's on you get more defensive bonuses to help tank better, if it's off you get more offensive bonuses to do mad deepz.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9864563
No.20251
>>20250
>another space spec
Oh, yawn
No.20252
>>20250
>Show of Force
>Threatening Stance Off:
> Gain 2% Critical Hit Severity for each foe you hit with energy weapons. This stacks up to 5 times.
So, +10% CrtD whenever you have FAW on, which is always.
No.20253
>>20251
>Implying people play anything but space
No.20254
>>20250
>cryptic will never be capable of just hiring a fucking web programmer to make a skill/specialization tree planner for their website
No.20255
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1213114/tribble-maintenance-and-release-notes-march-15-2016
>Reflect 150% of incoming energy weapon damage back to your attacker.
>This can trigger once every 15 seconds and reflect a maximum of 10,000 damage.
so OP. glad Ive been saving my specialization points
No.20256
>>20255
Jesus Christ, Pilot/Strategist beamboat is going to be even more OP than normal.
No.20260
>redditors getting booty blasted about people glitching past the trench run
>it may get fixed tomorrow
>I already have my pokeman card
No.20261
>>20260
>Getting anal blasted because folks can skip a tedious 5 minute part on a already long STF
Redditors truly are retards.
No.20262
>>20260
i'd rather skip the dread
No.20264
>>20262
>he can't solo the dread before the rest of the team is even done with their ship rescues
lol
No.20266
Oh shit, Ship Visual Slots. Complements from the guys down at IQ.
No.20270
No.20271
>>20270
a lot of torps and shield pen
No.20272
>>20253
it doesn't help that they won't steal the mount mechanics from Neverwinter and put in the space buggy from Nemesis for maps like Nimbus III (where horses would also be thematically appropriate) where you have to run around a lot.
it's probably too much Vulcan Jenga to make the space buggy worth it, though. your boffs would have to be able to shoot from it.
No.20273
How does one make flying a Fleet Vo'Quv worthwhile? The sole tactical seat is lieutenant commander. TT can be reduced by conn officers but that leaves you with either slotting a single attack pattern and weapon enhancement or doubling up FAW and going without an attack pattern. Am I missing something?
At least on the mirror version I could run aux2bat to have full uptime on tac abilities and pop a battery when I needed to gravwell.
Do you think a T6 version with non-shit seating is ever going to happen? Or is my klink alt doomed to flying the breen carrier or a lockbox carrier for frigate fun?
No.20275
No.20276
>>20275
This. Reciprocity combined with an Intel/Strat specialization is going to make a lot of low-tac tanks a lot more viable. Just need to keep yourself alive.
No.20277
>>20273
I figure they're going to make a T6 voquv at some point. I'd think the next klink remake is teh vorcha (to go with the T6 sovie), then the voquv.
>>20275
>>20276
Need to have the threat to make Reciprocity worthwhile: they can't miss if they're not shooting at you. Hard, though not impossible (especially in a pug) with a slow six-shooter.
No.20278
>>20277
Threatening Stance + threat generation skills/traits/consoles + yell at everyone else to do the opposite
No.20279
>>20275
>>20276
>>20277
Thanks for the answers. Sucks that I just upgraded 4 of the -threat consoles. My klink isn't an engineer either, so tanking that threat would be tough.
I guess I'll just keep my shekles until they release a better klink carrier that doesn't require threat mechanics to make viable.
No.20280
>forgot it was upgrade weekend
Almost missed my opportunity for massive amounts of spacebux.
No.20283
>>20273
You wait for the T6 version. Going to be new strategic ships soon and they're going to need to reskin a lot of old ships so its bound to happen
No.20286
>>20283
I wonder, will they make T6 sovereign a tactical ship or command ship?
Im betting on command one, unless they sell a triple pack where one is command, other one is tactical and third one is pilot :^)
No.20287
>>20283
Not going to be strategist ships anytime soon bud, it's a secondary spec only.
No.20300
Mirror Invasion event when.
>No, Obisek, no!
>That file already exists!
>Bitches don't know about my plasma lance
>That file already exists!
>Bitches don't know about my repair subroutines
>That file already exists!
dammit threads from last year
No.20301
>>20300
If the OP of those threads is still around, he should just delete them.
Otherwise we gotta figure out how to summon the board owner.
No.20316
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/arc?byNode=true#/discussion/1203069/upcoming-arc-platform-wide-game-maintenance
upcoming downtime:
>Wednesday, March 23 – 5:00 am PDT to 7:00 am PDT
>This maintenance will block access to Arc logins, some servers from our Beijing titles, Blacklight Retribution and channeled games launched from the Arc platform.
>Thursday, March 24 – 6:00 am PDT to 7:30 am PDT
>This maintenance will block access to Neverwinter (PC/Xbox One), Star Trek Online, Champions Online and some servers from our Beijing titles. Please note, Cryptic games will still run their normal maintenance on this day.
>Wednesday, March 30 – 7:00 am PDT to 9:00 am PDT
>This maintenance will block access to Arc logins, some servers from our Beijing titles, Blacklight Retribution and channeled games launched from the Arc platform.
>Thursday, March 31 – 8:00 am PDT and 11:00 am PDT
>We will be doing testing during both of these times, which may cause some players that experience disconnects from Neverwinter (PC/Xbox One), Star Trek Online, Champions Online and some servers from our Beijing titles.
>Wednesday, April 6 – 8:00 am PDT and 11:00 am PDT
>We will be doing testing during both of these times, which may cause some players that experience disconnects from Arc, some servers from our Beijing titles, Blacklight Retribution and channeled games launched from the Arc platform.
No.20317
http://webmshare.com/NMORg
overwhelming force is fun on a torpboat with HY IIIx2 and BO Ix2.
can't upload the webm here for some reason.
No.20318
Is there really that huge of a DPS difference between running an aux2bat ship and taking advantage of the aux power traits from the nukara rep?
I invested quite a bit of ec buying techs for my alts and tbh I like the ease of spacebar smashing compared to manually clicking buttons in a laggy UI.
No.20319
>>20318
Well, aux2batting keeps your weapon power level basically capped constantly, which helps a lot with beam weapons at least.
But i agree, the current laggy nature of the game makes it unreliable and also its very costly, so do as you fancy.
No.20320
File: 1458749279639.png (802.94 KB, 1000x539, 1000:539, 489da54cbdd522190e93e9b7c6….png)
Season 11.5 confirmed for April 12. New episode, Romulan admiralty, skill update, new red alert.
No.20321
>>20320
maybe something tos-related? t6 connie time?
No.20322
No.20323
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>20320
BEHIND A TEMPORAL FRONT
TEMPORAL FRONT
IT'S A PUT-ON
No.20324
>>20322
yeah, but we can dream, right?
lol. I just wish that ships could be made into modular containers and internal systems should be rank based instead of ship based.
that way you could have a T5 or T6 oberth if you really wanted one. it just wouldn't look amazing and shiny like the scryer or vesta.
after all, there's T6 BOPs that are the same size as the T1 BOP you get as a lowbie, why can't there be a T6 miranda class or ambassador class if you want.
No.20325
No.20326
>>20324
Because then they wouldn't be able to sell shiny new T6 ships for $30 each when you could just make a T6 Int Miranda
No.20327
>>20326
people would still buy em(a fool and his money…you know the rest) but they just wouldn't be flashy. and probably the catch would be that you can't make em specialized with intel/pilot/whatever seats. just the normal ones.
No.20329
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
oh fuck, we're going back to Nimbus III?
TOS content confirmed tho
No.20330
I keep forgetting that the Vorgons were on TNG. their name sounds like something from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy or Doctor Who.
No.20331
>>20330
Doesn't help they're one letter away from being Vorlons.