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RCS Accelerator MK XII Very Rare question
voicesdark
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Console - Engineering - RCS Accelerator Mk XII Very rare
Adds 40% turn rate
The question is two parts, Do these diminish when you have 2 stacked and by how much?
Edit: Also if they diminish when stacked, is it better to stack 2 Very Rare ones or 1 Very Rare and 1 Rare?
Console - Engineering - RCS Accelerator Mk XII Very rare
Adds 40% turn rate
The question is two parts, Do these diminish when you have 2 stacked and by how much?
Edit: Also if they diminish when stacked, is it better to stack 2 Very Rare ones or 1 Very Rare and 1 Rare?
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However, this console is changing on Tuesday with the LoR update.
It will be a set amount, rather than a percentage.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=634541
If you fly an escort, you will still see an improvement on what you currently get on Holodeck.
If you fly a cruiser, you will see a big improvement on what you currently get on Holodeck.
It is staying a percentage. The difference is how the percentage is calculated.
RCS Accelerators use your ship's Base Turn Rate to calculate the extra turn. Before Legacy of Romulus, for whatever reason, RCS Accelerators subtract 3 from your ship's listed base turn before calculating the benefit (so for an Assault Cruiser, with a listed base turn rate of 7, it uses 4 to calculate the benefit from RCS Accelerators). (I speculate that how the ships are encoded on Holodeck currently is that all ships have 3 turn rate, and then with an impulse engine, it adds an additional base turn rate that is then modified by skills, engine modifiers, RCS Accelerators, etc.)
With Legacy of Romulus, this deceptive calculation is finally corrected (that is, it will use the full listed base turn rate for calculating the benefit). You'll see twice the benefit on a Galaxy or Odyssey class Cruiser, but only a 21% or so improvement on a Defiant.
Before I even started playing the game I knew exactly what ships I wanted.
I was gonna go Constitution, excelsior, Galaxy, defiant, intrepid and then buy the MVAE.
Needless to say I got to the Galaxy and in the first mission said Frak this I'll fall asleep before it turns.
Now on top of creating new Romulan characters might just go back and finally get those ships I always wanted but avoided because of turn rate.
It's still a nice increase on something with a turnrate of 7. Trying it out on Tribble with a Kar'fi with a MK XII white RCS and a Tachokinetic Converter is a fair turn boost, couple it with a Hyper Injection Core [x->E] (x = whatever you typically run high) and it all adds up. Still not escort levels even with a maxed Impulse Thrusters Skill, but a nice increase in maneuverability, enough that DHCs on my Kar'fi are fairly easy to use in faster PvE like Tau Dewa.