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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    yaminigma wrote: »
    we're just playing in one big holodeck. they're just holograms, not actual people.

    Well I suppose it's better than playing in one big tribble.
  • glasgow4glasgow4 Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    kate370 wrote: »
    Something I've been curious about since I've started playing this game.

    In the Star Trek TV series in most combat situations the goal is to disable or destroy an enemy ship, I can understand that. But even during the Dominion War (I am re-watching DS9) when Captain Sisko and the crew run around on some planet or even on the Defiant in a death struggle with the Jem'Hadar their weapons are still on. Guess what? Heavy stun.

    Pretty sure that's not actually the case, so there's that.

    If stun setting leaves a glowing orange hole in someone's chest, who needs a kill setting?
  • equinox976equinox976 Member Posts: 2,267 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    glasgow4 wrote: »
    kate370 wrote: »
    Something I've been curious about since I've started playing this game.

    In the Star Trek TV series in most combat situations the goal is to disable or destroy an enemy ship, I can understand that. But even during the Dominion War (I am re-watching DS9) when Captain Sisko and the crew run around on some planet or even on the Defiant in a death struggle with the Jem'Hadar their weapons are still on. Guess what? Heavy stun.

    Pretty sure that's not actually the case, so there's that.

    If stun setting leaves a glowing orange hole in someone's chest, who needs a kill setting?

    Also Nog got his leg (half) blown off. And I'm pretty sure when Jake ran off that those land mines and mortar fire were not set to 'stun'...
  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    equinox976 wrote: »
    yaminigma wrote: »
    we're just playing in one big holodeck. they're just holograms, not actual people.

    What about the penguins?

    Are the penguins real?

    Of course the penguins are real.
    They're the players. We are holograms too. :p

    Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
    Network engineers are not ship designers.
    Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    Too hard to code different settings across different weapon types. Besides, don't everyone carry Breen type 3 disruptors as sidearms instead of those weak Federation hand phasers ?
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  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    I can't wait until STO server shutdown happens and the last episode is trendy and jodarkrider in a holodeck saying "And that's what running an STO MMORPG would've been like."
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  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    I can't wait until STO server shutdown happens and the last episode is trendy and jodarkrider in a holodeck saying "And that's what running an STO MMORPG would've been like."

    :) LOL :) But only if they also put the forums scrolling up the walls as they shut down the episode, so they get the full experience.

    Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
    Network engineers are not ship designers.
    Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,450 Arc User
    I thought I was the only one who saw the penguins...
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
  • tousseautousseau Member Posts: 1,484 Arc User
    Because... Bill...
  • johnnymo1johnnymo1 Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    with over 20 toons on my accounts reading this post just made me feel horrible. I have killed more digital lifeforms than time itself!
  • whamhammer1whamhammer1 Member Posts: 2,290 Arc User
    Not another one of these "why do we kill so much, and not stun" threads again.
  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    It's a video game convention where the mechanics step outside of the immersion in your head. You can suspend your disbelief, or you can have that illusion shattered. The onus is on you the player to deal with that unfortunately.
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  • galattgalatt Member Posts: 707 Arc User
    darakoss wrote: »
    The only good klingon/cardassian/romulan/terran/delta quadrant resident is a vaporized one!
    :)>:)B)

    Would you like to know more?

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  • mmps1mmps1 Member Posts: 381 Arc User
    Blood for the blood God, skulls for the skull throne.

    STO is the best 40k mmo. Now, when do we get imperator titans for ground combat?
    "Mr talks down to the peasants."
  • dalmaciusdalmacius Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    Agreed. From now on I will initially set my Bat'leth to stun and incapacitate my opponent. That way I gain more by selling him to an Orion Slaver.
  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    mmps1 wrote: »
    Blood for the blood God, skulls for the skull throne.

    STO is the best 40k mmo. Now, when do we get imperator titans for ground combat?

    This, but unironically. I'll settle for more power armor in the environment suit slot.
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  • darthkuribohdarthkuriboh Member Posts: 211 Arc User
    I'm a Klingon. My BREAKFAST is set to kill.
  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    o/~ The best part of waking up, is killing with my cup! o/~
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    o/~ The best part of waking up, is killing with my cup! o/~

    That's what Furians do. With teacups!
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    o/~ The best part of waking up, is killing with my cup! o/~
    That's what Furians do. With teacups!
    Or pop can tabs. :p
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  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Because swords and bullets don't have a stun setting....also Romulans.

    Set swords to pommel. Set shotguns to bean bag.
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    WHY ARE OUR WEAPONS ALWAYS SET TO KILL?
    How else can we explore the galaxy? One must thoroughly explore how tough their personal shields, their personal resistances to various damage typs, and again for their ships. Not to mention how well they handle crowd control, and AoE effects.
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Because swords and bullets don't have a stun setting....also Romulans.
    They do when the plot calls for it.
  • equinox976equinox976 Member Posts: 2,267 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Because swords and bullets don't have a stun setting....also Romulans.
    They do when the plot calls for it.

    And yet when my life demands I win the lottery... I am left bereft...
  • thekodanarmada#7342 thekodanarmada Member Posts: 1,631 Arc User
    equinox976 wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Because swords and bullets don't have a stun setting....also Romulans.
    They do when the plot calls for it.

    And yet when my life demands I win the lottery... I am left bereft...

    Not a prize you want.

    The Lottery
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  • darthkuribohdarthkuriboh Member Posts: 211 Arc User
    Killer Pancakes. A honorable way to start the day.

    Eat them before they eat you
  • breadandcircusesbreadandcircuses Member Posts: 2,355 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    warpangel wrote: »
    The Space Magic resurrection of disintegrated people would've at least been a funny topic.

    It's an expansion of transporter technology, everyone's pattern is copied and stored in the computer so you can still be revived if your ever vaporized :)

    But, is it really you?
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    meimeitoo wrote: »
    I do not like Geko ether.
    iconians wrote: »
    With each passing day I wonder if I stepped into an alternate reality. The Cubs win the world series. Donald Trump is President. Britain leaves the EU. STO gets a dedicated PvP season. Engineers are "out of control" in STO.​​
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