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Each one of my toons has a different theme - which can be pretty much anything; my main character Tylha has ships named after compositions by Gustav Holst (and is most often seen in the mighty USS King Estmere.) Other themes include constellations, composers, and characters from E.E. "Doc" Smith, Cordwainer Smith, and John…
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Problems seem to have arisen when people hit the 450-level cap for the Endeavor system... so, Cryptic have "solved" it by raising the cap to 600. I say "solved", because of course it's not solving the problem at all, just kicking the can down the road - once people reach the 600-level cap, we will be in the same boat…
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Against my better judgement, tried this one this morning... got as far as defeating Aakar, then had an objective of "Defeat Aakar's Forces", only there was no one around to defeat, and no way to progress. Beamed out. Beamed back in. Couldn't even get back into the room I was meant to be in, the doors were shut and no way…
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Logged into my Fed main this morning and got whompfed with KDF ship cards, so maybe it's just the servers taking a while to catch up?
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So far, my experience has been: log in with a KDF character and whompf! Admiralty cards galore for a whole bunch of Fed ships. Log in with a Fed character, though, and no automatic Admiralty cards; go and buy a KDF ship and the card for that ship (alone) will show up eventually. I mean, I could in theory reclaim all my KDF…
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Somewhere in the 370s myself.... I've been keeping the points more or less evenly spread across everything; currently I've got 11-13 points across the board. But then I've always been something of a generalist.
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I use both, but if I have to pick one, it's physical.
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Thanks, guys.... If anybody is interested, and if the mods allow me.... I've just put two novels into the Amazon Kindle self-publishing system; they should go live in about two weeks (there's a review process, and it's slow because of the virus.) Obviously, this isn't anything Trek-related, but if anyone enjoys my writing,…
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It works like a charm. Some of the enemy ships hung back, suspecting we were up to something when we filed the flight plan; others moved, but too late, as we vanished into transwarp. The screens were completely clear when we flashed up to the first transwarp gateway - it looked like the enemy transwarp-capable ships all…
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I key the intercom from outside Nibb's quarters. "I think I've found the security hole," I say. "We're getting a lot of occasional sensor pings," Tallasa's voice informs me. "I think they're from cloaked scout craft, like the corvette that brought those raiders." "Someone, or more likely several someones, kitted out to…
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The planet's surface is wet and cold and squishy. Evolution appears to have got the local lifeforms up to the algae and lichen stage, and then given it up as a bad job. The Ferengi base is a clutter of prefab housing modules, laid down apparently at random in the shadow of four admittedly impressively-sized comms masts.…
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Personal log: Veronika "Ronnie" Grau, officer commanding USS Falcon NCC-93057 "Diplomacy?" I say. "Since when do I do diplomacy?" "There was that incident with the Sheliak," says Saval. Give him credit, his bland Vulcan face with its daft side-whiskers doesn't show even a trace of a smile, there. I'm not smiling much…
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Right. Going through my own system, I found something had gone wrong with my firewall settings - gameclient.exe was there in the list twice, once with private but not public access and once with public but not private. That's the sort of thing that could confuse a stupid person, or a video game. Fixing that made the…
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The Xindi-Reptilian escort packs a decent punch and is pretty tiny.
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So many toons, so many ships... so many naming systems! Tylha Shohl, Andorian engineer - compositions by Gustav Holst: currently in the Tholian carrier USS King Estmere R'j Bl'k', alien tac - characters from Cordwainer Smith stories: currently in the Sheshar dreadnought IKS Helen America T'Pia, Vulcan sci - compositions by…
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I have to admit, those 100% packet losses in the Akamai bits don't look encouraging... I assume it's a rounding error, and the occasional packet does, in fact, get through. I have this mental image of them, panting, out of breath, dripping blood from a dozen bullet wounds, as they arrive at the Cryptic server, gasp out…
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I've been having a couple of good days - I'm not going to say "the problem's solved", because the last time I did that, I jinxed it and it just came back worse the next day. But I might have found a possible solution, and I'll post it if I get, say, a consistent run of good days. In the meantime, here's a traceroute and a…
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Well, I've been doing some experimenting.... There are some connectivity issues at my end, and going to a wired-in connection has two distinct effects: 1) I keep tripping over the patch cables, and 2) the disconnections are replaced by crippling lag spikes. The game's still effectively unplayable, of course, since you do…
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No takers? Here's a traceroute and a pathping, in case it sparks any thoughts. C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.184.200] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1 2 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms ae51-ner001.mlk.as13285.net [78.144.1.25] 3…
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I'm getting the same issue. Laser beams shooting out of your right heel may be all very well if you're Graham on Doctor Who, but I feel it's beneath the dignity of a Starfleet officer.
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Really, since Mudd is a conman (and a not very good one) the prices should be incredibly low, but the items should be fake - like 10 Zen for the holo-Leeta, but when you open the box it's actually a cardboard Leeta standee. That sort of thing.
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(response to redacted post removed) - darkbladejk
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It just won the Lodestar Award at the World Science Fiction Convention - it's the new YA book award, not technically a Hugo, but presented with them. I've read it (I've been reading and reviewing all the Hugo and related finalists for the past few years), and it's pretty darn good - lots of action, decent characters,…
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I've sent a pic of my Andorian character and her Andorian away team. Dressed appropriately. For Andorians.
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I'm also getting a lot of disconnects - twice in one run of Operation Riposte this morning, which didn't make me popular with the rest of the team. (And also left one Klingon transport in a sort of limbo condition - I'd locked a tractor on it when I was DC'ed, and when I came back, I couldn't tractor the dratted thing and…
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I only managed to make two Foundry missions, and one of them always broke after every update (something about the event handling on a couple of critical NPCs)… what I might do is write up a fanfic for each one. Out of my ever-growing stable of characters, I think T'Pia could cope with the grimness of "No Way Back", and…
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I feel stupid now - more scuffling around inside my system shows that my graphics drivers were out of date... fixing that solved the problem. Sorry folks! :: retires, muttering imprecations on certain "Support Assistant" packages that tell you new drivers have been installed when they haven't.... ::
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Exploration missions, those were the days... running around being shot by random hillocks... or that time one of my boffs stubbed his toe on a rock, jumped into the air, and never came down.... Not to mention the random physical geometry TRIBBLE you get in sector space - a constant source of irritation to me. Especially…
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Worst news I've heard in the game, full stop. The Foundry was a very good thing - an outlet for player creativity, and a chance to see some different (and, yes, more "Trek-like") content in the game. Yes, I'm sure it's a pain to maintain it, but even so....
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It looks pretty. The game play is manageable - I've been doing it with public pick-up groups, and haven't had any serious failures yet, so clearly enough people are understanding the instructions (not that "interact with stuff that wears a plot hat" and "shoot bad guys" is all that hard to handle, really). I fall into the…