My worst run ever was an ISE run like 2 days after Sphere of Influence went live.
I went in with a Sovvie specced for A2B and beam FAW (I was still a bit of a newbie at the time and had no really good t5 C-store ships or fleet-level gear), expecting to stay out of the way and use FAW to kill spheres and stuff after someone grav welled them. I'd done ISN and ISE a bunch of times before, so I knew what I was doing.
I got a team of guys in Obelisks.
I got a bad feeling from the start, but I decided to suck it up and play. We went for the tac cube; I activated TT, torp high yield 1, and BFAW 2, then started blasting.
One guy didn't know how to activate his hangar pets, so he was just sitting there drawing the occasional shot while he figured out his skill bar. The others knew enough to shoot the cube, but two of them were in factory gear (at least, I assume so by their pants DPS numbers). One guy popped, then another. Fourth obelisk and I managed to blow the tac cube and take out the spheres while the other guys were like "OMG WTF????"
I said "ok, let's go left". One Obelisk guy (the one who survived the cube) said "kk" and followed, and started tearing up the cube.
The other 3 headed straight for the gate and started shooting.
Needless to say, we missed the optional, each of the useless guys died like 10 times, and I came in 2nd in DPS numbers because I told the guy who actually knew what he was doing to blow the transformers while I popped the spheres. He had some nice DPS and I think the advanced Obelisk swarmers, so he managed to blow the first one just in time. I got killed by sphere aggro, though, which sucked.
We finally got the n00bs into action and told them what to do, but their combined DPS was like 1k by this point due to injuries and such, so they weren't much help. Competent Guy and I blew a gen, I turned and repositioned for BFAW spam...and the other 3 Obelisk guys took this as a sign to turn ponderously and start shooting the gate again.
The one guy still didn't even have his hangar pets out.
I drew too much sphere aggro and reverse shield polarity was on cooldown, so I died. We lost the optional.
It took another 5 minutes to kill the transformer, 3 to kill the gate, and 5 more to finally grind down the cube. I got killed like 3 more times.
I got twitchy every time I saw an Oby in an ESTF for the next two months.
I use TBR in vortex elite solely as a last resort when someone at the other side let the probes get way too close to the gate. Otherwise i prefer GW and Tractor beams to immobilize them.
And in CE/CEE TBR is also very good.
It is a skill which requires some common sense to use though and THAT is one skill many players seem to lack.
I've used TBR on my aux to battery builds when I have no aux power for the kinetic shield bypassing damage, buffed with attack patterns. If timed right, when your aux is low, there is hardly any push, if at all, just the kinetic damage.
But as pointed out, this tactic requires a certain degree of common sense/knowledge.
For instance: it works better on stationary objects, like gates and nanite spheres, transformers.
And should be avoided when GWs are in use, so as not to chance the possibility of pushing something clear of the well.
The thing is, not every player understands these tactics, or their timing might be off, ect. ect.
Some of this is tribal knowledge is it not? It needs to be shared with people who are using it wrong. IF THEY WILL LISTEN, that is. :rolleyes:
Today I did Starbase Defense, which is a very easy thing to do even with basic gear. Recently I went back to Escorts after using Cruiser's for awhile. I have been running a Tactical Escort Retrofit for a few days with almost complete blue/rare gear. This shouldn't be any problem. It never has been. So, I warp in and there are three Cruiser's and a Jem'Hadar Dreadnought carrier.
Everything runs smooth until the first wave comes in. Everyone, and I mean everyone, opens up with Fire at Will. Not to mention the Jem'hadar Dreadnought Launches both hanger's of fighter's and a Galaxy X in the group with it's pets. Everything after that becomes a nightmare. It becomes Stop, Freeze, Go, Stop, Freeze, Go every few seconds the first two waves. So, I can never get a high powered shot off. I line up the escort, activate my abilities, and begin to fire only to come to a grinding halt. Then everything begin's to move again and I have to reset all over. This happen's over and over.
Finally, the lag lets up enough for me to actually get a burst off and I draw some serious fire. Now, in this case I would turn off, get fire on the side my shield's or still up and come back again. However, that doesn't happen in this case. Everything muddle's down and my ship is hopping gaps in movement. I try to turn, and end up blowing up right before a lag slowdown. I re-spawn, away from the battle lag free and go back in. The Lag comes again. This happened all the way up till the last wave when finally Fire at Will isn't being spammed out. I line up, activate my stuff and help bring down the remaining ships.
I've run Starbase Defense allot of times with my Tactical officer. First with an Escort, then with a Galaxy x, and recently with an escort. Out of all the times I run it prior I have never had to deal with the crazy Lag I had today. So I say this, just because one guy is using FaW doesn't mean everyone should use FaW! Even when I ran a Cruiser i found focusing on one target is better than blasting all of them.
I've run Starbase Defense allot of times with my Tactical officer. First with an Escort, then with a Galaxy x, and recently with an escort. Out of all the times I run it prior I have never had to deal with the crazy Lag I had today. So I say this, just because one guy is using FaW doesn't mean everyone should use FaW! Even when I ran a Cruiser i found focusing on one target is better than blasting all of them.
Bah.... REAL cruiser captains can melt everyone's faces.... simultaneously. :P
I had a surprisingly painful run of Khitomer ground recently.... it's not that the players sucked it's that they had no clue what to do.... Which is very surprising in a premade.... But it was a friend in a different fleet who was, I guess, teaching newbies. I don't really know much about why this team was put together, except that it had four peeps from that fleet, and me. Also it was ostensibly thrown together as an Accolade run so that peeps could get the Sci Borg.
Anyways.... moments of epic noobness.... one person forgot their boss loot, one person kept running around in circles because he had no clue what he team was doing, and we had 2 engineers who either had strange tastes in kits, or didn't know when to spam their toys. OY... the noobness, it BURNSS!!!! We failed the optional before we had really even started since we had to explain like everything.... twice.
I think I may have been the Galaxy-X in that adventure, knight, and let me tell you that you are right.
I'm glad someone agree's with me. XD
Besides, that little event did teach me one thing. I don't have the reaction time to run an escort properly in a Fleet Action when it gets tough. So it's not all bad. Better to find out now than later in an Elite. I mean, if I couldn't deal with resetting between major lag then I don't belong in a escort. So, it worked out for the best in the end.
Not a usual STF, but the new Mirror Event. This is my worst because I got rammed to the bottom of the screen by colliding my Atrox with a Scimitar. It felt like it took forever to climb back up after the mission started and by then they had extra waves inbound.
Scim captain worked hard and we did what we could but that threw the whole mission for a loop.
(Cryptic, I hope you read these. That collision box needs some reworking. ouch.)
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
It was a while ago, but the person who asked me to stay away from them whilst fighting donatra as I had all her agro was funny.
And the people still stuck on the >5km thing against her, even when you explain its more efficient to get right up in her grill if she charges the thalaron pulse on decloak winds me up.
Its what pugging is all about imo, though.
Being close to Dontra when she's winding up is smart. It's a simple matter of physics. The least amount of distance you have to travel to reach safety results in the least amount of time it takes you to cover that distance. If you are right on her when she decloaks, then you are virtually guaranteed safety unless you are in a humongous boat that has no turn and you try to turn the wrong way and commit to it before you realize you are wrong.
Well, I nearly had the best/worst Mirror Event. I load in, and NO ONE ELSE WAS THERE. The other 3 players were locked in Map Moving, and I was effectively alone.
In a Breen Raider.
On a Science character.
Actually wasn't doing terribly bad, until the server up and crashed. So it was almost the best and worst, but I can't finish it, so I'll never know for sure. Sigh.
I know there is a method but all I see is madness.
Well, I nearly had the best/worst Mirror Event. I load in, and NO ONE ELSE WAS THERE. The other 3 players were locked in Map Moving, and I was effectively alone.
In a Breen Raider.
On a Science character.
Actually wasn't doing terribly bad, until the server up and crashed. So it was almost the best and worst, but I can't finish it, so I'll never know for sure. Sigh.
Well... I somehow managed to get 37 marks in a MI where one player was AFK and another didn't load properly. So we basically 3-manned it.... then I got stuck in the boss-fight almost soloing it. That was so nail-biting I didn't even pay attention to the boss HP I was so franticlly mashing buttons.
Being close to Dontra when she's winding up is smart. It's a simple matter of physics. The least amount of distance you have to travel to reach safety results in the least amount of time it takes you to cover that distance. If you are right on her when she decloaks, then you are virtually guaranteed safety unless you are in a humongous boat that has no turn and you try to turn the wrong way and commit to it before you realize you are wrong.
That, and you can kill her straight off as she sits there for 15 seconds charging the pulse if you all get on one facing. Negative defence on her, no shield facing = Sir Critz-A-Lot.
I'm pretty sure I just had one of the worst queues ever in this. For starters, I run the normal queue instead of the elite, I know the mark payout is less, but 50+ is still very respectable. Normally, I run this in my fleet, perfect run every time, and we usually have 3 or more minutes to fly around waiting for the dreadnaught. This morning, I pugged the mission on my 3 toons. My first two got 50 and 55 marks respectively; pretty much just like much just like how I ran them with my fleet. Now the third, this was just pathetic. For starters, we had a Gal-X come into the queue as part of the team (obviously) cloaked and did not do ANYTHING. We were a 4 man team at this point. Now, add two escorts running skittle builds. one guy had the Plesh Brek with fore weapons as follows :1 DHC Disruptor, 1 DHC Polaron, 1 DHC Plasma, 1 Quantum torpedo. The aft were 1 Phaser turret and 1 Plasma turret. (I am dead serious) The tac consoles were all going to buff the freakin torpedo! The 4th guy was running a rainbow odyssey. By the end, since I was the only one closing rifts and activating satellites, I got the station to T3 and 17 rifts closed by the end, all on my own. I kept the west side pretty well controlled, and when I didn't have any rifts, I decided to help the east side....... I've never seen so many rifts open at once or so many ships. It was like so many enemy identifiers, that the friendly ones wouldn't even show. must have been 25+ rifts open. For the love of everything good in this world.... learn how to set up ships and LEARN THE MOTHERFREAKING QUEUE! the payout was 26 marks. 26.
Moral?
Don't be that guy
TheGrateLordeCheesus Ship build coordinator for The Breakfast Club http://WWW.TBCSTO.COM Doesn't Owe AnyoneEC Kirks Prot
Well... I somehow managed to get 37 marks in a MI where one player was AFK and another didn't load properly. So we basically 3-manned it.... then I got stuck in the boss-fight almost soloing it. That was so nail-biting I didn't even pay attention to the boss HP I was so franticlly mashing buttons.
I just ran one where we had 2 skittle boats, a rainbow Odyssey, a guy who warped in, cloaked and did nothing until the dreadnaught. Skittles couldn't blow ships up, same with rainbow. They all took one side, the east side, when I took west. They had probably 25+ rifts open, and I kept my side as well as I could. Final payout? 26 marks.
TheGrateLordeCheesus Ship build coordinator for The Breakfast Club http://WWW.TBCSTO.COM Doesn't Owe AnyoneEC Kirks Prot
I just ran one where we had 2 skittle boats, a rainbow Odyssey, a guy who warped in, cloaked and did nothing until the dreadnaught. Skittles couldn't blow ships up, same with rainbow. They all took one side, the east side, when I took west. They had probably 25+ rifts open, and I kept my side as well as I could. Final payout? 26 marks.
As someone who flies a dedicated rainbow ship, I can assure you it's not the rainbow's fault. :P
So I beam in, there's an all-tac team with a purple dude with a big head, a Klingon, a Vulcan dude with 7 injuries (he forgot to go to the doc, apparently...), and a dude in an EV suit.
An EV suit. In Infected Ground Elite.
He also had his chat off, so when ALL FOUR other guys were telling him to stop, don't aggro the Borg, stop ruining the optional, stop dying so fast with that dumb EV suit you fracking n00b; he didn't hear us.
Klingon and Vulcan Dude were n00bish but smart, so they only did dumb things in the first room. Alien guy was experienced but apparently on an alt, so he was using a gun from the Tholian req boxes and was cheerful about dying. I was in a full MK 12 Dyson set, with full rep in Dyson, t4 Omega and Nukara, t5 romulan, traits specced for ground.
EV Suit Man gets killed three times in literally every single room. We lose the optional after the first. We get wiped 7 times.
Somehow, I don't know how, we get to the boss room. I type in chat to STOP AND WAIT. EV suit man doesn't even slow down.
He runs right in and gets killed. Respawns while I'm telling the two smart newbies how to run the room.
He runs back in and steps on the plasma.
Newbs and Alien Dude LOL.
EV Suit Man respawns and RUNS BACK IN, then spawns escorts. This time, the klingon gives up and beams out.
EV Suit Man DOES IT AGAIN. This time, the three remaining non-idiots rush in as soon as the forcefield drops (while EV Suit Guy is still on respawn timer), and try to 3-man it.
We kill 2 borg, then die. We respawn, EV suit guy runs in, and we decide to give up.
The Hive. Forever. Still convinced that this piece of garbage was designed by someone who was abused as a child, and uses things like this to "get back" at everyone. Cannot hate this cheap-shot trash scenario enough.
So I beam in, there's an all-tac team with a purple dude with a big head, a Klingon, a Vulcan dude with 7 injuries (he forgot to go to the doc, apparently...), and a dude in an EV suit.
An EV suit. In Infected Ground Elite.
He also had his chat off, so when ALL FOUR other guys were telling him to stop, don't aggro the Borg, stop ruining the optional, stop dying so fast with that dumb EV suit you fracking n00b; he didn't hear us.
Klingon and Vulcan Dude were n00bish but smart, so they only did dumb things in the first room. Alien guy was experienced but apparently on an alt, so he was using a gun from the Tholian req boxes and was cheerful about dying. I was in a full MK 12 Dyson set, with full rep in Dyson, t4 Omega and Nukara, t5 romulan, traits specced for ground.
EV Suit Man gets killed three times in literally every single room. We lose the optional after the first. We get wiped 7 times.
Somehow, I don't know how, we get to the boss room. I type in chat to STOP AND WAIT. EV suit man doesn't even slow down.
He runs right in and gets killed. Respawns while I'm telling the two smart newbies how to run the room.
He runs back in and steps on the plasma.
Newbs and Alien Dude LOL.
EV Suit Man respawns and RUNS BACK IN, then spawns escorts. This time, the klingon gives up and beams out.
EV Suit Man DOES IT AGAIN. This time, the three remaining non-idiots rush in as soon as the forcefield drops (while EV Suit Guy is still on respawn timer), and try to 3-man it.
We kill 2 borg, then die. We respawn, EV suit guy runs in, and we decide to give up.
This is why we do not PUG, people...
EV Jenkins?
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Pugged a kase recently. Team was more than capable, only problem was the attitude of this hot shot in a Skimmy (the power must have gone to his head).
We all pop the tac cube and I break away and go to right gate side while most of the rest go left. I start on the transformer nearer spawn. From here I typically watch to see if anyone comes right too and does probes, if not I finish cube then go to the portal and catch probes then DPS portal side transformer of right gate as the others do left gate, catching probes as I go.
I'm no DPS monster, just an engy in a fleet corsair retrofit, but I'm more than capable of pulling 24k dps when needed and if someone is catching probes I can often solo dps both transformers and gate before the average 3-4 man pug on the other side down theirs.
Perhaps this guy thought I was just another noob cruiser.
This guy in the skim flys from near the portal over to where I am, passing 2 probes on the way and starts PMing me in unsavoury language multiple times to go join the others on the other gate.
I don't care for that kind of attitude, if he asked nicely or explained why I may well have done or simply handled probes. I chose simply to ignore him. Thought it'd be fun to see him ruin the mission for himself if he chose to be too stubborn and big headed.
He joins me dpsing spawn side transformer, all the while I watch the probes as they sailed all the way into the portal (optionals, while I always help get them, if the team fails them I don't cry over the missed vendor trash, if it weren't for this tool I would've evasived over there long ago).
We finish spawn side transformer. I go over to portal side transformer and kick off cube and start DPSing that side.
By now guy in scim seems to realise no one is catching our probes (after its too late with the 2 he initially past long gone) and gets the next wave. He then sits there, doing absolutely nothing as I finish off the 2nd transformer.
He then turns tail and goes to the left side gate to help them. I solo the gate and FAW my probes. 2secs after left gate pops, I pop right side.
We complete the mission with just the 2 probes through. Afterwards he PMs me sarcastically thanking me for failing the mission.
As we won the mission and only failed the optional thanks to his lack of battlefield awareness and 'red mist' state of mind, I point out we only failed optional because he chose to ignore the 2 initial probes to join me at the far side.
To which he calls me a certain kind of bundle of sticks and adds me to ignore list.
The worst STF (other than Borg Infected Elite over this past weekend where 2 players AFKed) was Borg Hive Onslaught Elite....
Everything seemed to be going fine. All the players were doing their part and were within the 5km or 7km distance requirement to the Borg Tetrahedron so that the lance weapons would not one-shot kill everyone. I kept my eye on the distance.
I seem to remember (this was over 5 weeks ago) one of my shields being hit. Not bad, it was yellow so only a moderate drain. My hull was around 85%. Suddenly, my ship was destroyed. I don't think it was the Borg lance weapon since I kept an eye on the distance from the Borg Tetrahedron.
I respawned right beside all the other ships that were apparently destroyed as well. We all tried making the run to the Borg Tetrahedron and we all got shot down by the lance one after another. That mission was the most time I ever died in a STF which was 10 times... and let me tell you the respawn times got to be very long... up to 80 seconds.
I eventually decided to simply abort the mission. I was the last player on the map anyway and that was the first time I ever got the AFK cool down penalty.
Gotta post an opposite this morning. MI with a Mogh, Tal Shiar cruiser, an Atrox, and an Avenger, with me in a Vesta.
Everyone was on the ball here. I didn't get blown up once. I don't think any of them did either. Station full health, and dread taken down in a blazingly short time. And the best part. 56 closed rifts.
That is how you say YES! :eek::D
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Not a usual STF, but the new Mirror Event. This is my worst because I got rammed to the bottom of the screen by colliding my Atrox with a Scimitar. It felt like it took forever to climb back up after the mission started and by then they had extra waves inbound.
Scim captain worked hard and we did what we could but that threw the whole mission for a loop.
(Cryptic, I hope you read these. That collision box needs some reworking. ouch.)
Bahaha! I had something like this happen to me in orbit of Qo'nos. D'Deridex spawned underneath my Vo'quv while moving, and the game just glitched out and we launched up to the top of the map.
Probably when I did an ISE pug, and you know, an ISE pug is usually fine...right? Guess not. I was in my S' golth killing both generators, cubes and nodes on my own while the other 4 shot the freaking gate. The ENTIRE time. So once I finished both sides they actually became usefull, and we killed the gate... and then the tac cube blew them all up. Over. And over. And over. And over. I had enough and ate lunch, thinking they would manage.... imagine my surprise when I came back and the cube was at 98% health with no shields, and my teammates all dead. I gave up and buffed up fully, including get and caped the tac cube with a 331k barrage crit, 45 b03, and 14k iso ^_^
The boss being a gigantic Winter Epohh Researcher. As you lay waste to the Epohh Horde, she can occasionally cry out things like, "Didn't you want an Epohh friend?"
Did KASE today in my Avenger and it went pretty well.
Tac cube killed in double quick time then me and a scimittar go right. I go straight to the transformers etc and the scimi just parks up as prob guard. Thought it was a bit of a waste of such a powerful ship that he sat parked up for most of the match hitting probes but he didn't let any probes through and i had no problems soloing the cubes and both sides of the gate anyway. It ws nice to know I didn't need to worry about the probes and could concentrate on the rest of the mission.
Then once we had to kill the gate he moved forward a bit and helped then.
You always assume scimitars are piloted by some uber-elite killing machine and are going to BFAW and A2B all over everything, but this guy was seriously not wanting to get into a proper fight.
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I went in with a Sovvie specced for A2B and beam FAW (I was still a bit of a newbie at the time and had no really good t5 C-store ships or fleet-level gear), expecting to stay out of the way and use FAW to kill spheres and stuff after someone grav welled them. I'd done ISN and ISE a bunch of times before, so I knew what I was doing.
I got a team of guys in Obelisks.
I got a bad feeling from the start, but I decided to suck it up and play. We went for the tac cube; I activated TT, torp high yield 1, and BFAW 2, then started blasting.
One guy didn't know how to activate his hangar pets, so he was just sitting there drawing the occasional shot while he figured out his skill bar. The others knew enough to shoot the cube, but two of them were in factory gear (at least, I assume so by their pants DPS numbers). One guy popped, then another. Fourth obelisk and I managed to blow the tac cube and take out the spheres while the other guys were like "OMG WTF????"
I said "ok, let's go left". One Obelisk guy (the one who survived the cube) said "kk" and followed, and started tearing up the cube.
The other 3 headed straight for the gate and started shooting.
Needless to say, we missed the optional, each of the useless guys died like 10 times, and I came in 2nd in DPS numbers because I told the guy who actually knew what he was doing to blow the transformers while I popped the spheres. He had some nice DPS and I think the advanced Obelisk swarmers, so he managed to blow the first one just in time. I got killed by sphere aggro, though, which sucked.
We finally got the n00bs into action and told them what to do, but their combined DPS was like 1k by this point due to injuries and such, so they weren't much help. Competent Guy and I blew a gen, I turned and repositioned for BFAW spam...and the other 3 Obelisk guys took this as a sign to turn ponderously and start shooting the gate again.
The one guy still didn't even have his hangar pets out.
I drew too much sphere aggro and reverse shield polarity was on cooldown, so I died. We lost the optional.
It took another 5 minutes to kill the transformer, 3 to kill the gate, and 5 more to finally grind down the cube. I got killed like 3 more times.
I got twitchy every time I saw an Oby in an ESTF for the next two months.
I've used TBR on my aux to battery builds when I have no aux power for the kinetic shield bypassing damage, buffed with attack patterns. If timed right, when your aux is low, there is hardly any push, if at all, just the kinetic damage.
But as pointed out, this tactic requires a certain degree of common sense/knowledge.
For instance: it works better on stationary objects, like gates and nanite spheres, transformers.
And should be avoided when GWs are in use, so as not to chance the possibility of pushing something clear of the well.
The thing is, not every player understands these tactics, or their timing might be off, ect. ect.
Some of this is tribal knowledge is it not? It needs to be shared with people who are using it wrong. IF THEY WILL LISTEN, that is. :rolleyes:
Everything runs smooth until the first wave comes in. Everyone, and I mean everyone, opens up with Fire at Will. Not to mention the Jem'hadar Dreadnought Launches both hanger's of fighter's and a Galaxy X in the group with it's pets. Everything after that becomes a nightmare. It becomes Stop, Freeze, Go, Stop, Freeze, Go every few seconds the first two waves. So, I can never get a high powered shot off. I line up the escort, activate my abilities, and begin to fire only to come to a grinding halt. Then everything begin's to move again and I have to reset all over. This happen's over and over.
Finally, the lag lets up enough for me to actually get a burst off and I draw some serious fire. Now, in this case I would turn off, get fire on the side my shield's or still up and come back again. However, that doesn't happen in this case. Everything muddle's down and my ship is hopping gaps in movement. I try to turn, and end up blowing up right before a lag slowdown. I re-spawn, away from the battle lag free and go back in. The Lag comes again. This happened all the way up till the last wave when finally Fire at Will isn't being spammed out. I line up, activate my stuff and help bring down the remaining ships.
I've run Starbase Defense allot of times with my Tactical officer. First with an Escort, then with a Galaxy x, and recently with an escort. Out of all the times I run it prior I have never had to deal with the crazy Lag I had today. So I say this, just because one guy is using FaW doesn't mean everyone should use FaW! Even when I ran a Cruiser i found focusing on one target is better than blasting all of them.
I had a surprisingly painful run of Khitomer ground recently.... it's not that the players sucked it's that they had no clue what to do.... Which is very surprising in a premade.... But it was a friend in a different fleet who was, I guess, teaching newbies. I don't really know much about why this team was put together, except that it had four peeps from that fleet, and me. Also it was ostensibly thrown together as an Accolade run so that peeps could get the Sci Borg.
Anyways.... moments of epic noobness.... one person forgot their boss loot, one person kept running around in circles because he had no clue what he team was doing, and we had 2 engineers who either had strange tastes in kits, or didn't know when to spam their toys. OY... the noobness, it BURNSS!!!! We failed the optional before we had really even started since we had to explain like everything.... twice.
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I'm glad someone agree's with me. XD
Besides, that little event did teach me one thing. I don't have the reaction time to run an escort properly in a Fleet Action when it gets tough. So it's not all bad. Better to find out now than later in an Elite. I mean, if I couldn't deal with resetting between major lag then I don't belong in a escort. So, it worked out for the best in the end.
Back to the Galaxy X and Cruiser game play.
Scim captain worked hard and we did what we could but that threw the whole mission for a loop.
(Cryptic, I hope you read these. That collision box needs some reworking. ouch.)
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Being close to Dontra when she's winding up is smart. It's a simple matter of physics. The least amount of distance you have to travel to reach safety results in the least amount of time it takes you to cover that distance. If you are right on her when she decloaks, then you are virtually guaranteed safety unless you are in a humongous boat that has no turn and you try to turn the wrong way and commit to it before you realize you are wrong.
In a Breen Raider.
On a Science character.
Actually wasn't doing terribly bad, until the server up and crashed. So it was almost the best and worst, but I can't finish it, so I'll never know for sure. Sigh.
*blinks*
WOW.
Just...Wow.
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That, and you can kill her straight off as she sits there for 15 seconds charging the pulse if you all get on one facing. Negative defence on her, no shield facing = Sir Critz-A-Lot.
Moral?
Don't be that guy
Ship build coordinator for The Breakfast Club http://WWW.TBCSTO.COM
Doesn't Owe Anyone EC
Kirks Prot
I just ran one where we had 2 skittle boats, a rainbow Odyssey, a guy who warped in, cloaked and did nothing until the dreadnaught. Skittles couldn't blow ships up, same with rainbow. They all took one side, the east side, when I took west. They had probably 25+ rifts open, and I kept my side as well as I could. Final payout? 26 marks.
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Kirks Prot
My character Tsin'xing
You can now get spire +beam and +cannon damage tactical consoles that now add more damage than a rare XI specific energy type console.
Don't automatically think they're bobbins.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advanced_Tactical_Vulnerability_Consoles
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Tactical_Consoles
Contemplating it myself for parps and guffaws.
However, the people who fly around like muppets not closing rifts do my head, but effluent occurs in a PUG.
So I beam in, there's an all-tac team with a purple dude with a big head, a Klingon, a Vulcan dude with 7 injuries (he forgot to go to the doc, apparently...), and a dude in an EV suit.
An EV suit. In Infected Ground Elite.
He also had his chat off, so when ALL FOUR other guys were telling him to stop, don't aggro the Borg, stop ruining the optional, stop dying so fast with that dumb EV suit you fracking n00b; he didn't hear us.
Klingon and Vulcan Dude were n00bish but smart, so they only did dumb things in the first room. Alien guy was experienced but apparently on an alt, so he was using a gun from the Tholian req boxes and was cheerful about dying. I was in a full MK 12 Dyson set, with full rep in Dyson, t4 Omega and Nukara, t5 romulan, traits specced for ground.
EV Suit Man gets killed three times in literally every single room. We lose the optional after the first. We get wiped 7 times.
Somehow, I don't know how, we get to the boss room. I type in chat to STOP AND WAIT. EV suit man doesn't even slow down.
He runs right in and gets killed. Respawns while I'm telling the two smart newbies how to run the room.
He runs back in and steps on the plasma.
Newbs and Alien Dude LOL.
EV Suit Man respawns and RUNS BACK IN, then spawns escorts. This time, the klingon gives up and beams out.
EV Suit Man DOES IT AGAIN. This time, the three remaining non-idiots rush in as soon as the forcefield drops (while EV Suit Guy is still on respawn timer), and try to 3-man it.
We kill 2 borg, then die. We respawn, EV suit guy runs in, and we decide to give up.
This is why we do not PUG, people...
EV Jenkins?
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
LOL, yeah.
It was AWFUL. I won't name the guy here because TOS, but I sooooo want to. Nobody should have to endure that idiot on their team, for any reason.
We all pop the tac cube and I break away and go to right gate side while most of the rest go left. I start on the transformer nearer spawn. From here I typically watch to see if anyone comes right too and does probes, if not I finish cube then go to the portal and catch probes then DPS portal side transformer of right gate as the others do left gate, catching probes as I go.
I'm no DPS monster, just an engy in a fleet corsair retrofit, but I'm more than capable of pulling 24k dps when needed and if someone is catching probes I can often solo dps both transformers and gate before the average 3-4 man pug on the other side down theirs.
Perhaps this guy thought I was just another noob cruiser.
This guy in the skim flys from near the portal over to where I am, passing 2 probes on the way and starts PMing me in unsavoury language multiple times to go join the others on the other gate.
I don't care for that kind of attitude, if he asked nicely or explained why I may well have done or simply handled probes. I chose simply to ignore him. Thought it'd be fun to see him ruin the mission for himself if he chose to be too stubborn and big headed.
He joins me dpsing spawn side transformer, all the while I watch the probes as they sailed all the way into the portal (optionals, while I always help get them, if the team fails them I don't cry over the missed vendor trash, if it weren't for this tool I would've evasived over there long ago).
We finish spawn side transformer. I go over to portal side transformer and kick off cube and start DPSing that side.
By now guy in scim seems to realise no one is catching our probes (after its too late with the 2 he initially past long gone) and gets the next wave. He then sits there, doing absolutely nothing as I finish off the 2nd transformer.
He then turns tail and goes to the left side gate to help them. I solo the gate and FAW my probes. 2secs after left gate pops, I pop right side.
We complete the mission with just the 2 probes through. Afterwards he PMs me sarcastically thanking me for failing the mission.
As we won the mission and only failed the optional thanks to his lack of battlefield awareness and 'red mist' state of mind, I point out we only failed optional because he chose to ignore the 2 initial probes to join me at the far side.
To which he calls me a certain kind of bundle of sticks and adds me to ignore list.
lol
My character Tsin'xing
Everything seemed to be going fine. All the players were doing their part and were within the 5km or 7km distance requirement to the Borg Tetrahedron so that the lance weapons would not one-shot kill everyone. I kept my eye on the distance.
I seem to remember (this was over 5 weeks ago) one of my shields being hit. Not bad, it was yellow so only a moderate drain. My hull was around 85%. Suddenly, my ship was destroyed. I don't think it was the Borg lance weapon since I kept an eye on the distance from the Borg Tetrahedron.
I respawned right beside all the other ships that were apparently destroyed as well. We all tried making the run to the Borg Tetrahedron and we all got shot down by the lance one after another. That mission was the most time I ever died in a STF which was 10 times... and let me tell you the respawn times got to be very long... up to 80 seconds.
I eventually decided to simply abort the mission. I was the last player on the map anyway and that was the first time I ever got the AFK cool down penalty.
Everyone was on the ball here. I didn't get blown up once. I don't think any of them did either. Station full health, and dread taken down in a blazingly short time. And the best part.
56 closed rifts.
That is how you say YES!
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Bahaha! I had something like this happen to me in orbit of Qo'nos. D'Deridex spawned underneath my Vo'quv while moving, and the game just glitched out and we launched up to the top of the map.
Tac cube killed in double quick time then me and a scimittar go right. I go straight to the transformers etc and the scimi just parks up as prob guard. Thought it was a bit of a waste of such a powerful ship that he sat parked up for most of the match hitting probes but he didn't let any probes through and i had no problems soloing the cubes and both sides of the gate anyway. It ws nice to know I didn't need to worry about the probes and could concentrate on the rest of the mission.
Then once we had to kill the gate he moved forward a bit and helped then.
You always assume scimitars are piloted by some uber-elite killing machine and are going to BFAW and A2B all over everything, but this guy was seriously not wanting to get into a proper fight.
Wasn't a bad experience, just different.
1) Had one idiot in a T1 constitution. He kept on making excuses: "I forgot to switch my ship". He ended up getting the LOWEST dps of 375.
2) One person in a science vessel kept on going "PROBES! RIGHT SIDE! HELP!". At least this guy had decent dps and did something useful: gravity well.
3) Another person who recently reached lvl50 who just kept on dying who clearly isn't ready for Elite.
In the end we beat it with 1 minute to spare on the optional. I was surprised no one got near Donatra.
There seriously needs to be something that prevents queuing for STFs in anything lower than a lvl40 ship and MkX gear.