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IIRC, almost everything drains -10 (all beams, mid-range cannons), except turrets (-8) and dual heavy cannons (-12). This is regardless of location on your ship... Omnis drain -10 and Dual Beam Banks drain -10. The KCB (cutting beam) is, for all intents and purposes, a beam. Torpedoes and mines, however, use no weapon…
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An important clarification... The chance of a rarity improvement goes down as the mark goes up (An Experimental will yield a much lower chance of going VR > UR at Mk VII than at Mk II), true... which means that hitting Epic at XIV is very... expensive. However, each time you clear a mark, your rarity chance resets (save…
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I'm pretty sure that they're talking about Advanceds (they mentioned GtGA, CCA, ISA, etc., in the following paragraph... and all those As mean Advanced, so... I think it was a joke. Even if it weren't, it would be a fair amount of work to implement, so I'm certain Cryptic wouldn't do it even if they thought it was the best…
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This is both a good and bad story... TL;DR: The most buggy STF experience I've ever had, alongside a team that were totally capable of handling themselves and almost absurdly patient with my technical difficulties. I burned a bunch of regenerators (and probably cost my teammates a few, too), but walked out of a…
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As mentioned, it's a bug... I haven't experienced it in a while, personally, but here's a workaround... Set up your ship as you'd prefer it (in terms of BOffs, including their set abilities; gear; etc.) and save it as a Loadout. Whenever your BOffs go out of whack, load in the loadout. It's annoying and it's not a…
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To add on a little... Yup... phasers... and photons. It's really viable, though, what with crafted stuff and whatnot... if you're not trying to be a top DPSer or whatever, you can still hold your own with just phasers and photons (particularly with crafted and rep items). Keys are bought for Zen, initially... they must be.…
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First, to the beam/cannon question... A phaser relay will boost all phaser weapons, inclusive of cannons and beams. That said, it's generally not advisable to mix cannons and beams, as they take advantage of different BOff skills, etc., and can split your build a bit. For the back of your ship, I'd go with a Phaser…
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Seriously, this is so boss, I don't even have words.. I know I'm not alone in expressing deep gratitude for all the work you've put into htis.
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I would add on (and I own a T6 ship bought with Zen) two more things... One: Timing - seems like new classes of ships are coming out fairly frequently, so you would do well to wait and see what hits in the next little bit... and I would make it a rule to wait for a Zen sale to buy Zen (whether you are using Dil or…
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IIRC, Romulans can have Romulan faction BOffs only... That said, why would you want anything else? You can have a bridge full of SROs (Superior Romulan Operatives), which is kind of better than anything else... for space, at least. They will be lost... except in the case of two conditions, if I'm not mistaken: (1) the item…
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Absolutely... as in, "Wouldn't you love to savor the flavor of my salty bollocks?"
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FWIW, just got up and decided to check on things and this (US) East Coaster's IP address is still blacklisted. Also, when I submitted a ticket, I didn't see any place in which to put detailed info (IP address, provider, etc.), but I did see empty headers in the confirmation email. Anyone know if I should resubmit with more…
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I was thinking more along the lines of a interstellar mobile drug lab ala Walter White innnnnnnn Sppaaaaaaaccceee.
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Mostly what fatman592 said... this is a silly conversation... On that note, I want to put forward another argument that "STO is teh Play to Winzest": It's true that, if I trade Dil for Zen, someone had to buy that Zen with cash (and if no one does, it gets scarce and starts costing more Dil)... It's true that the lockbox…
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I'm reading 3 distinct definitions of "Pay to Win" in here and I think a lot of disagreement could be avoided if we were to agree that some of the debate is simply about semantics: 1. I would define "pay to win" as that the player must pay real currency in order to have a toon who can hang with the big dogs; I don't think…
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Just stopping in real quick to say that, while it looks like fun, it'll be a while before I have the scratch to try this out... but I kind of don't care, it's such a creative build and the "instructions" are so entertaining... not to mention the names of your ship and BOffs... that I just had to stop by and clap for a sec.…
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Just weighing in a couple of things... I've only just today broken 10k in my li'l Pathfinder, but I've gotten a lot of great advice along the way, so... First off, these folks above are spot on... and you should've seen an improvement with the advice you've already taken from them. That said, I'd still, at least, swap the…
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Shoot, STOA is doing a similar thing so I have this screenshot lying around. My best is 2500, so hat's off to whomever has gotten to 2600. And I'm running it in Cider on a Macbook Pro and I'm using my keyboard, so I kind of feel like I should have a handicap, lol... seriously, though, I think the keyboard is feasible. Once…
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As I'm not a lifetime subscriber, I may not be best suited to answer this, but, from what I can tell, the only extra ships you get are (a) the Captain's Yacht/Peghqu/Daeinos and (b) ships that you have to be a higher level to fly. I know there's a Vice Admiral token and some T5 ships, which you'll be able to fly once…
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Yes. This game is mad fun. I started looking at the forums because the Mac client's been kinda dead in the water since DR was released... So now I have time to look for fixes and read up on folks' strategies and stuff (and, yes, lengthy gripes)... and hope that, in the next month or so, it'll work smoothly again. That…