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Can we fix Tricobalt devices?

mikeflmikefl Member Posts: 861 Arc User
edited January 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It appears that tricobalt devices are penetrating shields and destroying your ship in one hit. I was in Kerrat and those pesky klinks were using them. I was on my PVP toon and in no way should my ship be going down from a tricobalt mine.
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  • erkyss2erkyss2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Just counter them..

    TBR`s, BFAW, CSV, torp spread, GW, TR, or u can even lay down your own mines.. there was similar thread to this one allready, u just need expect that in kerrat zone. There will be trico bombers all the time, i`m also one of them...:P
  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Its a known OP'dness, and for the record feds do it too! :o

    the premise is that with dispersal alpha 3, you drop 4mines
    1mine = no shields and stun
    2nd 20-30kdamage
    3rd 20-30k damage
    and 4th finish up

    just make sure you have abilkites that kill mines e.g. scatter volley, beam fire at will, tractor replse, warp plasma etc

    if i remeber scramble sensors on the owner of the mines causes them to attack enemies instead, (not sure about that though)
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  • seekerkorhilseekerkorhil Member Posts: 472
    edited November 2012
    elandarksky wrote: »
    Its a known OP'dness, and for the record feds do it too! :o

    the premise is that with dispersal alpha 3, you drop 4mines
    1mine = no shields and stun
    2nd 20-30kdamage
    3rd 20-30k damage
    and 4th finish up

    just make sure you have abilkites that kill mines e.g. scatter volley, beam fire at will, tractor replse, warp plasma etc

    if i remeber scramble sensors on the owner of the mines causes them to attack enemies instead, (not sure about that though)

    Alternativly, dont suck and it goes like this:

    1st mine hits your target's bug ship with half remaining shield and one shots it
    AND its defiant wingman,

    You know who you are.
  • hroothvitnirhroothvitnir Member Posts: 322
    edited November 2012
    Whats really cheesy but good for lols is to use the new and improved maco to diable a target and VM them just for extra make sure, followed by a nice AMS up close and then a dispersal and HY or spread of your trico torp as well. Its basically the three minute cooldown one finger salute. I might switch over to that setup permanently if my children's toys mission keeps throwing more purple trico consoles at me.

    The reason they hurt so much more now is the behavior that popped up sometime in season 6 that if a kinetic weapon got through your shield it dealt full damage as if your shield hadnt been there. Where as before the shield % reduce on kinetic had still applied to the device that dropped the shield. So now its if one of the trico weapons dropped a shield its got a good shot at killing the ship, if there are more after it just get ready for the respawn button if the person knew what they were doing and caught you unaware.
  • brokenmirror2012brokenmirror2012 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    They are working as intended... *Serious Face*

    xD
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • jellico1jellico1 Member Posts: 2,719
    edited November 2012
    I think a few of the devs like the mines this way
    They have been on overkill a long time now

    Makes pve a joke really

    2 or 3 ships with mines speced out can rip
    Thru any STF I'n a few minutes

    There a riot I'n pvp ,spawning as a explosion
    Really gets the excitement up for a good match
    You know.

    The devs never answering any of these posts must
    Mean

    It's working as intended
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  • kaaahhhhhnnnnnkaaahhhhhnnnnn Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Do you think that the Dominion called no fair when the Feds mined the wormhole which was their spawn in the Beta Quadrant. No they got on with it and took DS9 and then the pesky feds cheated by getting the Prophets involved.

    Lesson to be learned, if you can't beat them then out-think them. I can assure you that there are two 100% sure fire ways to avoid the Spawn Miners. I will give you one but I'm not giving my other secret.


    If you have a temporal Science Vessel or Temp Destroyer with the tipler cylinder then timing a temporal backstep while under attack from a Borg NPC so you are reversing just as the Map resets will reset you where you are in the map not at the respawn.

    The second is Universal to any ship and will stop you going to the spawn but I will take it to my grave :D


    EDIT: Closed for necroing an old thread. Remember, if a thread has been inactive for 30 days, you should not post to it. Feel free to create a new thread on the subject if you would like to discuss further :) ~BranFlakes
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