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I understand that a challenge is better than no challenge! But this is ridiculous! I can no longer even damage a romulan ship anymore! I am firing 8 weapons on the thing and nothing! And in no time I get destroyed! The last time I played this game was about nine months ago. And I could do just fine against the romulan ships. But now they have made the game impossible! A game that used to be fun is now irritating! I have no idea why they decided to this TRIBBLE! You idiots might think this is great, But not everyone likes to be killed before they can even get a shot off. This is a shame too! I really liked this game! I worked hard and got all the top tier ships. But now my top tier ships may as well be shuttle crafts! I will never spend money or waste my time on this TRIBBLE of a game ever again unless they change this back to the way it used to be! Otherwise it is just a waste of space on my harddrive.
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All key things, as well as up to date weapons.
That is all.
For the record I have not played in almost 4 months and I am blowing through Romulans like they are made out of tissue paper. It would seem to me that you have either forgotten how to do something or you have something incorrectly set. The normal difficulty did not change in any way.
The only things which have changed in the last 9 months are Advanced and Elite queues - what used to be Elite is now called Advanced. Maybe you are just playing on the wrong setting?
Also, mandatory "Can I haz your stuff" comment.
EDIT: Nothing to see here, just another troll thread. Now why don't you take your attitude and shove.... I'll stop right here.
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Yeah....I'm going to repeat the advice of my peers here.
First: Check your weapons. Are they Level appropriate (i.e.: You're not going through lvl 30 or 40 content with MkII phasers?)
Second: Your weapon power setting should be at 100, with engines being your 2nd priority. Unless you have a need to have aux power, drop it right to zero and leave it there.
Third: BOFF abilities. Rommies are notorious for their plasma torps and their science abilities. Make sure you have Emergency -> Shields I & II both slotted on your Engineer boff. Ideally, Tachon beam and Science team on your Science BOFF and loads off weapon buff abilities on your Tac BOFFs.
Fourth: Piloting - Unless you are in a beautiful tank build, don't just sit there and try trading shots with a D'Deridex...you will lose. Try slotting your Evasive Manouvers and Attack Pattern abilities. Don't forget, when you're turning and want to make a rapid change of course, drop to hald impulse. Once you're done with the turn, lash the throttle back to full.
Fifth: Consoles - If you're not going for your Fleet Elite consoles, don't bother with anything other than these three:
Console - Tactical [WEAPON TYPE] Relay As high Mk as you can carry and as many
Console - Science - Field Generator Same as above
Console - Engineering - Neutronium Alloy Same as above.
Once you have a good baseline using this configuration, start swapping out some of the consoles you have the most of for your special consoles.
Sixth: Traits and Skills - Are your traits still slotted? I know that I have issues from time to time that these reset. Are yours still slotted? If not, that may be having a huge effect on you.
Skills: Have you spent your skil points wisely? There's a ton of builds on the STO Academy builder that give you skill point layouts as well.
Hope this is of some assistance.
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While I've had that happen to me, I usually find that keeping evasive manuevers and FAW is a godsend for that kind of situation. (Or, if I'm on my main, preemptively launching fighters and setting to Intercept..)
Did a borg sector invasion with level 8 gear on the T4 defiant. This reminded me of how that played as a finished character 2 years ago.
The gap to get to the current endgame ship is pretty big. The reputation is doable. The ship you can buy. However earning 300,000+ fleet credits to get the fleet tac consoles and a few other things is pretty tough with most fleets finished. Even giving away all of it in dilithium will be a challenge to find. And, honestly, playing without that equipment is unpleasant.
Then of course there are the 45 spec points to gain - 3 or 4 months to be able to play properly (if you can find a fleet to slot projects).
To me it seems that the system really needs a new holding to give new characters a chance, along with reducing the spec point grind in half or quarters.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Let the stupid suffer
Yes I liked the game! And no I did not play it in nine months! If you are trying to play lawyer, You would also take into consideration that people sometimes have problems with hardware crashes. Also just because I like a game, does not mean I need to spend my whole life playing it. I can also like a car too, And keep it in the garage and not drive it. So is this all that forums are now? Whenever someone complains about a game, Instead of having a open mind, People on the forum just pound on the comment. This is also another problem. And this is also why games today are getting so bad. Nobody can think for themselves anymore. And in almost every forum all you have is just a forum full of mindless fanboys, That do nothing but defend TRIBBLE, Or moderators moderating moderators. Oh'well, You would think Star Trek fans would have more sense than this. But apparently the idiocy has cought on everywhere!
When you go into a doctor's office do you just say "it hurts?" Saying "it hurts" does not tell the doctor where it hurts, what you are doing when it hurts, etc.
The solution is in the details, not in the nerd rage post you made originally.
Because I do not want advice! especially from a fanboy who only wants to believe the great creators can do nothing wrong!
More like a 'bate thread. :cool:
Then your trolling, no?
How many boffs would a starship seat to accomplish FAW, would a starship seat to FAw, would a starship seat, could seat, should seat for FAw?
You're hilarious. You come here spewing insults at people and then cry because people are hurting your precious feelings because they don't have an 'open mind.'
And that there is your problem sparky. You don't want help, you don't want to fix the problem, you're just here to TRIBBLE and moan like a baby, so you get treated like one.
Most people here are happy to help a struggling player, it's amazing how far people here will go to offer help. Heck you can get people on this board to do your entire build for you and post you a link to follow.. but the issue is, you don't want help. You're just here to cry and make a big scene.
Well fine then, you had your moment in the sun. Now accept that you suck and go play something else. No one here cares about your pathetic little cry baby rant.
There's a portion of one of the storylines, sorry I don't remember the title, but you suddenly encounter some Romulan D'Ds (or is it Mogai's, or both?) that like to tractor you then throw a volley of HY plasma torps at you. There are strategies to counter this, but it is really jarring to the first time player (or even the returning player) who, up to that point could solve all their problems with pew-pew-pew.
To the OP: it gets easier after a couple missions again, either you'll level into a tougher, harder hitting ship, or you'll figure out how to cope, or eventually the strategy goes back to pew-pew-pew. Soon enough, it'll be a distant memory and you too will be able to grump at people who are throwing a fit in the forums, forgetting that you too, had the same issues.
fleet marks are easy: all choice of mark ques reward them and most go quite fast. Normal diifficulty is enough. You can run fleet alert, colony invasion, CE and azura rescue easy in the time fleet alert needs to reset.
To get spec XP, the dyson space zone combines undine marks with decent xp due to the constant scaling spawns.
In honest review: the only thing truly separating My DR from my 5 yea old main are spire tac consoles and a decent warpcore. For all other gear there is ample and easy to get substitutions. arguably, the set bonuses of all the new sets (be it solanee, kobali, jem hadar or the rep sets) make fleet deflector/engines/shields undesirable for normal play.
So where are you left really? Lock box traits? They are good, sure but do you need them for the new char? He's not just a copy of your old, is he?
I think this is the perfect opportunity to raise alts. The exchange has plenty cheap kit-mods like polaron barrage, bulwark protection, psionic etc. The Sela episode hands you a very decent ground set with an armor that boost secondary shot damage, allowing for some mob clearing alpha strikes.
Your old char has a repertoire of options due to all the stuff that has accumulated, but your DR can catch up quite decently if you focus your gearing.
My plan is:
Level the reps to full on the side via boosted daily projects
Grab fleet marks via trolling the normal queues.
Make sure to keep my dil refine topped of on all my older chars (at 14 chars, thats some work but it will deliver the needed dilithium to the DR) and buy the spire consoles i need and decide on a warpcore If i want on and am not using a set.
Upgrades are build by my older chars, and dili is provided in sufficient quantity.
That really leaves only the onee shot traits from lockboxes that make a difference. Evrythign else... is more an issue of the time gating ^^
A number of the people you're saying this kind of thing to do almost nothing on this forum EXCEPT whine about what Cryptic's done with the game.
You, meanwhile, have mentioned none of those things, only things that have not changed and which are 100% within player control.
Fleet Marks are easy to get, he's talking about Fleet Credit which is next to impossible to get. Flooding the system with bonus marks is making it even harder. Fleets only need so many marks, they fill up instantly and then projects sit there and wait for people to fill the remaining items.. like Dilithium.
The Fleet system flat out sucks. Fleet Marks are worthless because they're next to impossible to cash in. The last few fleet consoles I wanted, i had to trade Dilithium for Credits even though I have thousands of Marks. I can't give those stupid things away.
The problem isn't fleet marks it's fleet credits. Most of my characters have some 10,000 fleet marks. And I am happy to gain new marks for my new character. It's just I'm in 4 different fleets and none slot projects anymore (and 2 of these are only t4 starbase). I find it hard to believe other fleets aren't the same way.
To me those spire consoles if I get the phantom - means 5 consoles or 250,000 fleet credits. It's a daunting task.
However the main point I was trying to make is that there really is a gulf between the powercreep today and 2 years ago. What I'm saying is that the current t4 defiant with purple 8 roughly = back then's top gear and ship.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."