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The areas past the level 50 content can be very challenging to someone with low end gear. Many, many threads on here when those areas launched about how it was unpossible to kill anything ever, and much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Its hard to put a finger on what you need in a verbal sense, but one of the things you…
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thrust is turn rate. The 'free' BO type attacks can fire nonstop.. ive procced multiple overloads back to back, but you stop shooting when they fire, and its only rank 1 so its weak. I carry 1 beam with it, critdx3/over. One is enough to zap bosses a few times without it getting in the way.
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once every 30 min it fires a massive torp that, if your target's shields are down, does ok damage.
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Era to era comparison, the faeht/phantom performed better for me. The matha is a good ship. The rom/fed sister ships were excellent. Even now I don't think the KDF has a high intel seated tactical option (?).
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At least they let loose some decent t6 cross factions now. With the paradox I no longer care. And if not that, the last event sci boat was also solid. For that matter the kor was kind of junky compared to the baltim. KDF ships just underwhelm if you want anything other than a cruiser.
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there isnt much you can do about that beyond alert it as a bug. I have a shorty character that has to jump to get the button for exchange or other such vendors/consoles because its not enabled as his height.
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Caps are not the way to fix this. You fix it by fixing underlying game mechanics where things multiply and add etc. I mean, there is a practical cap even now, its just too high when compared to an out of the box ship (does like 2k dps?) or compared to enemy defenses (entire fights designed for groups should not end in 2-3…
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there are a bunch of non-class specific kit upgrades you can get now. Some of them might give you some damage and offense instead of the science heals/debuffs that are so common (a couple are nice to have but you need offense too). I havent looked in a while, but that might help kill things.
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Flag ship set is a good pick, at least its 2 types of ship (scimitar and the 2 generic cruisers).
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No one but you can pick what has the "look and feel" that you want. If you lack ships a package that gives all your toons something has merits but again, its basically the same ship which means there is virtually no diff in your characters when flying it on all of them. For that reason I have never really thought the packs…
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A single crafted [over] beam can make use of the trait if you really wanted to do that. Its still not much of a trait.
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The pilot ships are a LOT of fun for me with those fancy moves that NO other ship in the game gets. The command ships are just another cruiser with not much going for them over their command seating which to be honest I found lackluster. I wanted them to make a torp boat that exploited the command torp skills and it was…
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I think I used the paratrinic until max level on several characters. You can re-run the mission to get a higher level one if you need to. Its probably the best shield out there until you get to max level in terms of easy to get/expense and quality. Regen is mostly a joke -- you get back 1 hit's worth every 6 seconds while…
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Its not quite the hottest thing going but I love the pilot science raptor. The fancy moves are great.
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Its in the menu where duty officers are found. You don't need much. Its actually best to craft mark 2 weapons and upgrade them to see what mods they get. This costs you an upgrade token which is about 150k a pop in the exchange until you can craft them. Later you can make your own and sell them to make back any investment…
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From the sound of your testing and such alone, and going solely off that, it sounds like a bug and that the shields actually do not regen. We can't tell. What you need to do is get out of combat after killing a wave and check to see if they regen after a while. This might mean sitting for quite some time. The other thing…
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23000 /800 = 28. 28 * 6 = 168. ... so if you stop being shot you need almost 3 min to regen those shields. If your power is too low, your regen is reduced I think; IIRC your 800 value is @ 100 power. Have you sat still for 3 min after being shot to near zero and watched them? This, by the way, is a great reason to go for…
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the herald ship torp is like a dev joke or something. It could be uber with its high proc chance and a spread, but to get that you have to run a very weak item. It would be overwhelmingly good if made gold-XIV; the proc rate would have to be cut down or they risk a pay-to-win item issue. I don't think we want them to start…
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I voted worse. The new skill tree made science do less damage (I actually do more damage with lower aux than I do with it maxed / OSS pumped, but its less damage than it was before the nerf to aux power effects) and at the same time tactical/beam builds do more damage than ever before. Dps is a runaway train... the more…
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There is a disconnect somewhere. If the engine is from 06, it should run FASTER on newer machines, even with the 64-32 bit issues it should scream right along. It ran just fine, after all, on those older, weaker machines. The lag sources are not the engine. Either some new graphical effect is poorly coded (seems that way,…
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Heh, semantics strikes again. The scim isnt an escort because it turns like an aircraft carrier compared to escorts that turn like speedboats. You guys are saying that cmdr tac and 5 tac consoles makes an escort or something. Its the very definition of a dreadnought. Its huge, its scary, and it kills anything stupid enough…
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10k is borderline for doing the hardest content. 20k is probably the new "able to do everything in game without a massive struggle" norm. Sub 10k is either a brand new character /player or someone who just is not trying --- basic gear alone tends to net more than this if the player is trying at all (by trying I mean one…
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The roles seems awkward when it often seems like the majority of ships were designed to be stand-alone jack of all roles explorer/science/combat ships. The real flaw is trying to apply terms that were crafted to describe sailing vessels of the 1600s to starships.
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Its a combination of things. French and english do share a latin root, and some words are nearly the same or can be figured out by spelling. Commence is pretty much an english word. Its been in there a long, long time. En route is borrowed --- to be pulled fully into the language it would become in route. Route is also an…
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you don't need the launchers at all. Just use the shortcut to the program. Most things like this are promotions ... you get something or other for free and they get info about you that helps their marketing department to target you and your peers better.
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you can re-use whatever rom ships you bought. You can't get a leech console on a fed rom from a kdf lowbie ship or anything like that. You can't use the faction lowbie ships until you pick a faction. But yes, if you bought a t6 scim or faeht or whatever you can use those on all your rom toons.
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1) No? They have these thingys called "dual beam banks". They hit harder than arrays. 5 banks up front and 3 360s that hit as hard as arrays is going to be about 20% more damage than 8 arrays, roughly. 2) Pilot moves are fairly recent. Flanking is pretty sharp. Better weaponry, already said that. Better turn rate, as you…
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Heh I am kdf and rom player mostly and I havent cloaked in forever. Its fun, but time you cloak and try to ambush anything (unless playing solo) its already dead.
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craft them. Esp space weapons. Crafted weapons can be shared across characters if you have a shared bank, saving a big investment in upgrades. I did it by making mark II items and upgrading the good ones once with one purple token, if that didnt turn out well, repeat. Costs time, and a bit of dil, but it was worth it.
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Did I miss something? We just got 2 sci ships and a sci/tac hybrid (paradox, krenim, and current box/lobi whichever one is which). I'd complain if feds got a luna before kdf & rom got ONE sci ship as far as factions go. Feds already have the scryer which is amazing. We are pretty well covered on t6 ships of all sorts,…