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nyxadrill
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Good morning fellow captains.
I've noticed something odd whilst doing the Tau Dewa Patrols.
Every so often, as I warp into a system, I've been overtaken by an energy bolt. Usually seconds after I've come to a full stop on arrival and it flies right by me and dissipates in the distance.
Last night I was doing the missions with my fleet mates and two of us saw the discharge on several occasions and once it hit one of the fleet and took him out in one shot.
I got hit once which took out my sheilds and at one point during a battle I saw the engery bolt target one of the friendly Romulan ships.
Anyone else seen this? What have the devs left lurking out there?
I find it rather intriguing!
I've noticed something odd whilst doing the Tau Dewa Patrols.
Every so often, as I warp into a system, I've been overtaken by an energy bolt. Usually seconds after I've come to a full stop on arrival and it flies right by me and dissipates in the distance.
Last night I was doing the missions with my fleet mates and two of us saw the discharge on several occasions and once it hit one of the fleet and took him out in one shot.
I got hit once which took out my sheilds and at one point during a battle I saw the engery bolt target one of the friendly Romulan ships.
Anyone else seen this? What have the devs left lurking out there?
I find it rather intriguing!
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i can confirm though that there is an iconian ship that shows up randomly in one (forget the name, but its the one where you scan the artefacts) so there is one or two things going on in that sector block.
now perhaps this is meant to be some sort of iconian probe or something that is just way too powerful and should only be doing a tiny amount of damage?
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Iconian_probe
You may well be right. You are occasionally joined by the Enterprise or a Bortasqu in those patrols so perhaps a bug related to that mechanism?
All the same I'm kinda hoping it isnt a bug and that its part of the unfolding story of that new sector
I'll have to run the patrols again tonight on a couple of toons so I'll try and figure out which systems its most prevalent in.
Same happens for me, though I've never taken any damage from it.
Sounds more like a shot from an Iconian warship. A Battleship or Dreadnaught, more than likely. It fits their MO. Go in, fire, get out before anyone can react. Like they did at Iconia. And has anyone figured out why they helped fight the Borg? Anyone?
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Then it vanishes, only to reappear at another point in the mission.. very strange, and very suspicious...
I hadn't realized that.
It's a nice touch, I thought.
Last night we were doing the patrols again. Beta Thoridor seems to be the most affected.
On entry to the system a plasma bolt entered and exploded to the starboard of us, taking a fleet mates sheilds down to zero and his hull down to 20%. ( I say a plasma bolt because it was green).
OK that still sounds like it could be a bugged entry point, however:
During one of the waves of bad guys I was looking round for other fleet mates when I saw another (different type) of energy ball come on a vector from nowhere and hit me aft, wiping out those facing shields. The only ships anywhere near me were Romulan "friendlys" of in the distance and to the right of the bolts incoming path.
In another skirmish I'd just launched some adv. Delta Flyers and Adv. Danubes. As 3 of them made their way past my starboard side and emerged ahead of me another bolt, again coming out of nowhere, hit them and wiped them out. Damn good shot I'd say!! lol
Next challenge is to try and screen shot the bolt to see if anyone can identify it.
I just find the whole thing interesting!
EDIT: Also last night was the first time I've seen Nausican and Hirogen Dreadnaughts in the patrols, in fact its the first time I've seen them at all!
The OP has been mentioning seeing them in team mode, anyone seen them in solo mode?
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Yes I've seen them while solo running the missions as well, then they are most obvious when entering the system.
I'll try hard to screen shot one of the bolts tonight
I still think it's some kind of bug, I always suspected the friendly romulan shooting a bolt at you for some reason before you appear on the map. I don't think you are tagged as friendly before the end of loading. It looks like some romulan HY plasma torp.
But hey, that's just a supposition.
If a dev does come answer this, if it isn't a bug, please just say that it isn't a bug and leave it at that. This is a nice little mystery if so.
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You may not have noticed the MU ships since they're usually Mirandas that don't last long. Sometimes a Terran battleship comes through, though.
I don't know about the random plasma bolts on warp-in. I've noticed them, but never been hit by one. I think that's just a bug.
That can't be it. Terran Battleships suck TRIBBLE. I once took on 9 Mirandas, a Dervish, an Oracle, an Emissary and a Typhoon simultaneously. This was not in waves, it was all at once in a foolish attempt to grab Deep Space Nine. My Emissary powened them. None of their attacks could get through my Reman Set. I just took their fire as I picked them off one by one. After I destroyed them, a Jupiter warped in with two Mirandas as escorts. I picked them off one by one. Not even the Jupiter could pierce my Reman shields. And this was on Advanced mode. The Terran Empire should stay in their own universe. They are way outclassed in ours.
As to the mystery attack, it is either an Undine Dreadnought disguised as an allied ship, or an Iconian warship that fires and then slips through a gateway before you can spot them. It's how they fight. Of course, it could also be a 29th Century warship, timejumping just long enough to fire and escape.
I always see this at Beta Thoridor. My theory is that it's a mechanic of the map that puts damage on the ships to look like they have been taking battle damage "before" you have arrived. You'll also notice that no matter how much damage the Romulan ships take they are never destroyed.
The fact that player's ships may have been hit is purely an accident.
That's my take anyways.
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Yeah. I had a entire fleet of Well Class ship show up to fight the Tholians in Archer System while I was patrol in my Well Class ship.
That must have been really confusing..
This really doesn't surprise me. Have you seen the specs on the 29th Century weapons fron the Lobi Store? WAY underpowered for weapons coming from 400 years in the future.
What mission was that?
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I also got this, those torps almost always hit my ship as soon i warped into the map, but i don't take damage, at least not yet
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