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you can do fine with good enough gear but there is a point at which lacking gear and build know-how will make PVE very difficult. The 45-60 solo missions contain several difficult encounters including both difficult space and ground boss fights. Top gear means the ability to pretty much solo 5 person instances. Much, much…
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The dyson is capable at 60 as a sci ship, though its much weaker than other alternatives. The intel OSS sci build got nerfed due to the recent patch, so overcapped aux is less interesting and effective, making the dyson relatively stronger than it was a month ago. as a tac ship, its weak due to the 3.25 forward weapons in…
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FWIW while I do pay into the game, I have acquire 5 or 6 *good* t6 ships without spending real money. - got my paradox sci boat from turning a few dil2zen into keys and literally got the current box ship with 3 keys used. Not a viable approach, but once in a while someone gets lucky, guess it was my turn (I flipped the…
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Messing with it at all will have a drastic effect on the zen-dil economy. By drastic I will point to neverwinter which had a good year or longer period of time where the max rate of currency to zen was not enough so people did NOT sell zen, at all. Even a small change like 1.5 (which isnt actually a small change) is pretty…
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the chat thing is a bug. They do block a new account but not for THAT long. I would submit a ticket about that.
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there are almost no premium features. So its not that. Chat, if you havent been banned for acting like a moron, shoud just work. You generally have to be pretty offensive consistently to get a chat ban so you should know if you managed to do this. Did you accidentally change channel tabs? The exchange (credits & items…
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3 solid options now... this noisy one, the paradox, and the anniversary are all very good. Im using paradox... its hard to argue against another weapon slot as a romulan.
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Balthim running 5 ap DBBs. One of those is crafted with [over] which procs a decent %. 5 fleet tac consoles & the ap box console. with all the buffs and flanking on 5 AP guns ... its the most obviously OP ship made to date. Engineer is holding it together so I don't know what it would do in APA runs but it hits like a…
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the KCB isnt really power creeping well though. Its not quite what it was at 50.
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do you want a crowd control build? Ships, the scryer or the paradox are probably your top 2 options. I highly recommend one of these, and if you can't swing that, did you unlock the anniversary sci ship this year or the breen t6 carrier (its almost a sci ship). If you must use a t5, the adapted cruiser makes a good near…
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Agreed but its also not misleading or false advertising or whatever because its clearly stated what you get for free in the EULA. Incorrect use of the term is where you are struggling. Accessing the game at all is playing it. If you didnt pay for that, its free. If there are other things you can do that costs, you still…
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Its hard to say. The revamp has brought back a lot of powerhouse players who were not bothering to do group content or something. Nearly every group I have been in since the patch has had one cowboy that kills everything before anyone else can even get to it. Which is fine, as I just want marks, but it makes it hard to…
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its the same player base, as probably 2/3 or so of feddies have a kdf, and the other 1/3 are made up for by kdf players, etc. There are plenty of players but its a little harder to find open fleets with fully developed facilities. This is less of a drawback as there are few fleet ships so a full shipyard is only marginally…
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Why necro? That aside, F2P means different things in different games and even across all games. Its moot here because you can actually have everything in the game for free with the exception of a very tiny number of special offers (founders-buy-in rewards, couple of lifetime perks, etc are not purchasable with zen). Here…
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its expensive and what you get is a ship that lacks the new officer seating (intel being extremely powerful, the others are no better than the 3 basic types) and a mastery trait and might have slightly less good stats. Comes down to what you want, but I will say it: you are giving up a lot for a cosmetic. If its also a…
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Mines have uses, they can stop targetable torps or zap fighters and offer targets/decoys against NPC. They can shoot forward -- with hot pursuit, they can go out in front of you (or any other direction) quite some distance.
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No, its not true DR. True dr, for example, the first one adds 10%, the second 5%, the third 2.5, something like that. This is simply a case of linear growth. If you do 1000 damage, and add 1 console for 10% damage, you now do 1100. Add a second, its 1200. Because each one works off the BASE not the CURRENT. That isn't DR,…
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the only reason to do this would be a couple of specific ships that can be played as near-science gunboats, like the nandi. And even then its a questionable move, but if you are trying to rock 5 tac consoles and 4 sci consoles, you don't have a lot of options left for uni's ... making a 4/4 look attractive if you wanted a…
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you can go nearly all out damage as your engineer has shield heal, hull heal, and such covered. A single hazard emitters and maybe one other shield heal and the rest of it can be pure dps. As a rom you can use the valdore to stay alive -- the harder you hit, the more it heals. Engineers are the *best* tanks. I wouln't try…
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it blanked it out or you did but if you are complaining about your science ship... sci ships take a fair bit of know-how to build even at 60. Its extra challenging to fly one at lower levels as a new (or new to sci) player given the reduced weaponry and with only one or two offensive sci skills that do anything (all single…
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I was. I havent used it in a while but with high flow caps and that tet glider trick you can peel off 50+ shields per hit. That does not seem like much but rapid fire turrets put out a lot of hits in short order. I forget how high I got the drain to. I put this aside because the quantum phase torp does the same thing more…
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Pilot spec primary is hard to beat. Advanced pedal to the metal is free damage. Immunity to a warp core breach. Attack patterns, which we just agreed you should be using, now buff your durability. Evasive now breaks all crowd control. Rock and roll lets you avoid a torp spread or other dangerous things or just be immortal…
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I don't pvp but somthing I did in PVE might be worth a look.. I ran aft turrets with high flow caps etc and the tet-glider. CRF would cut the shields off anything short of a boss before the torps hit at a long range and as far as I can tell glider works without range falloff. Its probable that pvp opponents have more sense…
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Right. You can get at least one rom officer from fleet, and various items add a little crit here and there. Crits and %s get funky with da math. watch and be amazed: 1% crit ... 1 shot in 100 crits on the average. not too good. 2% crit ... 1 shot in 50 crits.. 5% crit ... 1 shot in 20 crits 10%crit .. this isnt much in…
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parking is counterproductive ... it makes you easier to hit and take more damage, and it prevents pedal to the metal if you ever wanted to use that, and prevents rotating to aim. I have a couple of ships with low rank engines that can go full out and still be slow enough to control and sit behind the enemy for flanking…
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I am not sure if that is current or not. I know, for example, override subsystem safties overcaps by like 60 or something.
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http://sto.gamepedia.com/Hangar_-_Elite_Jem%27Hadar_Attack_Ship says you need t5 base/com array.
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and if you want to talk torps instead ... im in a paradox on my torp boat, so 4 forward torps, running high flow caps, gravity well torp, shield eating quantum torp, crafted gas cloud torp, and neutronic. Torp borg Set and lobi torp console and tac torp consoles; 3 officers to shoot torps faster, terran console to shoot…
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Yes most use arrays because it removes the skill of piloting from the equation which yields more consistent damage for rookie pilots (which honesly 9/10 of the players seem to be). Dbb will do more IF you can master learning the maps and flying your boat. Power drain is not an issue at max level with max gear. A lot of…
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My current ship is called the "Romsci" as a sarcastic note that a certain class of ship remains missing from the roster. Naturally, its a ship off the auction house, not a warbird. It does not have a meaningless number on it.