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Playing as the bad guy isn't much fun because, in Star Trek, the bad guy exists only to be defeated or, in rare cases, to be shown the inherent superiority of the good guy's ideology shortly before becoming a good guy himself. If you were to play as the Tal'Shiar, for instance, your missions would usually involve you…
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I've played STO on a touchscreen. I've even played it streamed from my PC to an android tablet. It could use some work, honestly, and it takes much fiddling about. What it really needs is a set of dual "joystick" UI elements you could plop onto either side of the screen. I used the controller function in Splashtop to set…
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I'd really like to play as a terrifying amalgam of rending blades, chitin, and charisma. I know that making a horrific spider-monster model is pretty resource intensive, but a dude, fellow, lady, lady-man, or dude-bro-lady-fellow can dream.
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Reading between the lines, it seems very likely that they'll be friendly NPCs and that the Octanti will be the aggressors you'll need to protect them from, sort of like how they set up the Defari and Breen.
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Engineers are fine, honestly. Cruisers might still need some tweaking, seeing as how their originally intended role is largely irrelevant, but the cruiser auras went a long way towards improving that. It is my opinion that most of the cruisers are decent enough. The problem is that some of the least compelling ships to…
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You know what? That's an awesome idea. Making temporary turrets that are modified by mine powers would be a really neat idea for a rear-slot weapon. Give them a short duration and weak weapons. Make them prioritize heavy destructible torps and fighters over capital ships. They're balanced against torps by being able to…
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^ Dies when the space toilets undergo a "catastrophic floaty log situation" and explode.
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Yes. You can. Because this is a casual MMO and not a Star Trek Minutiae simulator. Making the game fun and engaging and offering compelling reasons to experience the non-fed content is more important than following established canon to the letter. It is a relatively simple matter to hand-wave away all of this. It really…
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A big, big room with lots of voices. I'll toss mine in. How to fix the Galaxy: First, identify a suitable and useful role for it. In Star Trek lore, the Galaxy's primary utility came from being a big, solid, multi-role ship. Most of those roles are not mirrored in gameplay, however, and being solid only gets you so far.…
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I am a big fan of the Fleet Luna. It's pretty maneuverable for a non-escort and far more durable. It makes for a good dual beam boat. It's BOFF arrangement is good, too, allowing for a reliable, of boring, combination of Aux2Wep, AP: Alpha, and BFAW every 15 seconds, while the two high-end science stations allow for tanky…
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The Federation Hijinx-class Rotary-Barrel Science Cruiser Weapons - Forward facing Barrels: 6 Internal weapons: 2 Ship Modifiers - Turn Rate: 1 Shield Modifier: 1.6 Stations - 2 - Commander Tactical 2 - Commander Science 2 - Commander Engineering Consoles - 10 tactical Special Abilities - Rotary Barrel Science Cannon:…
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I've been following this one for a while and it's looking to be an interesting option, honestly. It, along with ArcheAge are looking for a more sandboxy approach.
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Princess Leia disguised herself as a Breen in order to infiltrate Jabba's palace. They resemble the members of Daft Punk and, indeed, are their actual descendants.
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Goodbye, BranFlakes. I will remember you every morning when I eat my Wheaties.
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Flag Admiral Khas Ker'at, Starfleet's (thankfully) only Arkathian officer gripped the podium in his secondary manipulator appendages and gazed meaningfully out at the assembled Starfleet officers and foreign dignitaries. "There is a man among us to whom we owe much. A man who's filthy mammalian gravitas has done much to…
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The slugfest is probably more appropriate for an MMO's PvE combat. The tense stand-off type engagements are fun, but work better in either a single-player game or for 1 on 1 PvP. If you'd like more involved Star Trek combat, you might want to consider digging up a copy of Taldren's excellent Starfleet Command 1 or 2.…
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This one still looks good, though after mulling it over, I think it would probably benefit from more "dysony" nacelles. Maybe change the color of the Broussard collectors to purple or even change the aperture from squarish to round. Just my uninformed, irrelevant opinion.
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Done. They implement this feature simply by removing the all the set visuals from the game entirely. This change turns out to be cripplingly expensive and has a measurably deleterious effect on living situations of thousands of people. The disruption to the economy is the sole cause in a serious of increasingly devastating…
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<3 Existence
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Subscribing is easy. Just go outside and gaze upon the moon. After a few moments, the moon will gaze back upon you, reading your face. Memorizing your features. Be patient! The moon is very busy and there are so many faces to know. Once it has memorized your face and transcribed the hollow, insipid shell of your humanity,…
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Granted. Unfortunately, they were installed by someone who's understanding of rocketry is based entirely around having played Kerbal Space Program for about twenty minutes. The death toll is immense. I wish that "Gushin' Granny Apple" had won that Dub the Dew contest a couple of years ago.
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Sorry, man, I don't see Khan as ever willingly helping the Federation do anything. The guy has no reason to do so and no real love for its citizenry. He's complicated, sure, but that's not the same as "reasonable" or "dependendable" or even "not treacherous." Khan might come across as a sympathetic villain, but he's still…
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Earth > Section 31 Gemaine Clement > Earth Agent J > Gemaine Clement Ergo: Agent J > Section 31.
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I would have left Khan as he left me; buried alive. In a sea of lasers.
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Sure! Let's approach this with logic. 1) A warp drive is theoretically possible, but looks like it might obliterate anything in front of it when it slows down. We won't know until we try it. 2) UFOs, literally Unidentified Flying Objects, cannot be said with any certainty to possess a warp drive because they are…
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*blush blush* Thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed it. Also, sorry about your dead son. But, lady, you knew the risks. Dying from internets is a very real danger we all face every day. Sometimes it claims us. That's just how it goes. For what it's worth, I've written a sentence about how I poured him a 40. It…
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Fancy! I likes it.
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Not sure on that one. I'd like to see a more mature sort of Trek, but that isn't quite the same as dark. For instance, you could set it in a post-war era of the continuity that the Federation is working on recovering from. The idealism is still present, but is clashing with the reality that idealism is hard to live up to.…
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Okay, I guess. I'm still not sure what you're talking about. If you don't like my parody of all the horrible, god-mode Mary Sue fiction I've read, that's certainly fine. I just thought you had something more specific you were addressing. Don't worry about it, then.
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I don't know what any of this means. :(