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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    gazurtoid wrote: »
    Kerbal Trek Online?
    YUSSSS!!!! :D

    Seriously though, sounds interesting.
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  • cestovatelkacestovatelka Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    The Phoenix launched with the nacelles retracted. Just saying. More details would be nice, but I expect they'll be forthcoming. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejwrxGs_Y_I
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,488 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    Not sure if it is my cup of tea, but I'll check it out non-the less.
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  • slifox#0768 slifox Member Posts: 379 Arc User
    If it's anything like New Romulus where I'm just running around hitting the F key, then I'll pass. That was a painful grind for me.
  • vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    First Contact Day? Check.

    No Republic Day? Really?

    No Day of Honor? Really?

    Very disappointing. Thanks for thinking of us in 2014.
  • qqqqiiqqqqii Member Posts: 482 Arc User
    The Zephram Cochrane Memorial and Historical Museum is holding a celebration for First Contact Day, and you're invited to take part!

    Full details here:
    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10439813
    Side note: I don't think any of the "discuss on the forums" buttons on the blog posts have ever actually brought me here.
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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
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  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    geezerpunk wrote: »
    I know, every once in a while, I have to shout out to the aether "Zephram Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri!"

    Ever think he could have relocated there after? I mean I say I am from New Hampshire but I was born in Taxachusetts.
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    I sure hope the parts we have to collect despawn as soon as some other goober grabs it so I have to go racing around an overpopulated map for 30 minutes hoping to grab a part at the spawn location where 10 other people are camping at! :#
    Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
  • thlaylierahthlaylierah Member Posts: 2,987 Arc User
    I sure hope the parts we have to collect despawn as soon as some other goober grabs it so I have to go racing around an overpopulated map for 30 minutes hoping to grab a part at the spawn location where 10 other people are camping at! :#

    Wrong game.

    You're thinking of SWTOR.
  • gagocashgagocash Member Posts: 150 Arc User
    I really, really hope it's not the phoenix non-combat pet. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Phoenix
    mine is discarded a long time ago, hehehe.

    i hope it's something of value, i don't like to waste my time for nothing.
    i'll take a look, if it's trash, i'll just warp out.
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  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,215 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    Oh well, I was hoping for some freebies like the last one without having to do anything luck based.
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    I sure hope the parts we have to collect despawn as soon as some other goober grabs it so I have to go racing around an overpopulated map for 30 minutes hoping to grab a part at the spawn location where 10 other people are camping at! :#

    I was thinking along the same lines but where they just randomly stop existing like the omega scanning minigame that will still simply stop for no reason, especially in zones like defera ground.

    Or that if it involes running about that it will inherrently be biased against those who have to deal with the transatlantic ping like the stupid ice slalom during winter.
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    vorwoda wrote: »
    First Contact Day? Check.

    No Republic Day? Really?

    No Day of Honor? Really?

    Very disappointing. Thanks for thinking of us in 2014.
    There never was a real Day of Honor and Republic Day in STO, merely a KDF counterpart to First Contact Day so everyone could get something to celebrate on their own homeworld at the same date. Now that the Alliance exists, it's only fair to allow the Federation's allies to go to a very important historical site on Earth itself.

    Plus, according to Memory Alpha:
    The Day of Honor was a Klingon holiday. On this day, a warrior evaluated his or her deeds for the past year to see whether he had been honorable. It was customary to serve Rokeg blood pie on this day.

    The traditional ceremony on the Day of Honor included eating the heart of a sanctified targ, drinking mot'lach from the Grail of Kahless, enduring the ritual of twenty painstiks, engaging in battle with a bat'leth master, and traversing the sulfur lagoons of Gorath.

    Doesn't sound much like the Day of Honor we had until last time.
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  • vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    vorwoda wrote: »
    First Contact Day? Check.

    No Republic Day? Really?

    No Day of Honor? Really?

    Very disappointing. Thanks for thinking of us in 2014.
    There never was a real Day of Honor and Republic Day in STO, merely a KDF counterpart to First Contact Day so everyone could get something to celebrate on their own homeworld at the same date. Now that the Alliance exists, it's only fair to allow the Federation's allies to go to a very important historical site on Earth itself.

    Plus, according to Memory Alpha:
    The Day of Honor was a Klingon holiday. On this day, a warrior evaluated his or her deeds for the past year to see whether he had been honorable. It was customary to serve Rokeg blood pie on this day.

    The traditional ceremony on the Day of Honor included eating the heart of a sanctified targ, drinking mot'lach from the Grail of Kahless, enduring the ritual of twenty painstiks, engaging in battle with a bat'leth master, and traversing the sulfur lagoons of Gorath.

    Doesn't sound much like the Day of Honor we had until last time.

    Valid points about the Day of Honor, and thanks for the Memory Alpha quote. However...

    The Day of Honor and Republic Day (such as they were) at least acknowledged that Earth is not the capital of the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Republic. Each group was given a celebration respecting it's own contributions, and a prize unique to it's culture.

    I will say that my FED alts are overjoyed to see First Contact Day celebrated, and will gladly take part. My Romulans (including my main character), and my KDF characters are justifiably upset. And I can only imagine that others who play mostly KDF or RR feel shortchanged as well. To us, Earth making contact with Vulcan is nothing to celebrate.

    While the Day of honor in STO was not celebrated traditionally (as you correctly point out), about Republic Day I must disagree with you. Since the Romulan Republic is a creation of STO itself, the Republic Day they instituted is "official", and as canon as the Republic itself (which, admittedly, means only within STO). I don't see any reason to deny New Romulus (and players of Romulan characters) the established celebration of the culture which the Devs have given us. I may be wrong, but ut appears simply lazy and indicative of the contempt in which we non-Fed customers seem to be held by the Devs. And I see no reason to applaud or celebrate that.
  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    The Phoenix launched with the nacelles retracted. Just saying. More details would be nice, but I expect they'll be forthcoming. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejwrxGs_Y_I

    I'd just take it as it being a holodeck in 2411. The fine details of history change over time to suit modern conventions. Ie. officers would be accustomed to extended nacelles, so that's what they'd expect to see of the Phoenix's launch (especially if it helps separate the profile from a launching ICBM.) :tongue:

    Think of it as revisionist history (rather than, say, the holodeck's animators being busy.)
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  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    So what do we get for the grind
  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    So what do we get for the grind

    A bag full of cherry epohhs...
  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    szim wrote: »
    So what do we get for the grind

    A bag full of cherry epohhs...

    UGH!! nvm then lol
  • wickian1akdjaljfwickian1akdjaljf Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    Is this a virtual in-game event or an actual world event?
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  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    Is this a virtual in-game event or an actual world event?

    Well, as we've never actually made a "first contact" with another species from another planet (at least one that is not widely recognized), I'd venture a guess that this is not an actual real-world event...

    Just a guess...

    :wink:
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  • brwjames85brwjames85 Member Posts: 84 Arc User
    hasn't anyone noticed the faulty pic? :p it's launching with nacelles deployed, whereas in First COntact, it launches like a saturn V / apollo, and deploys nacelles once in space :pensive:
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    we're making toy replicas.... who cares if they look exactly right?
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Blog up about Rewards.
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  • lordgyorlordgyor Member Posts: 2,820 Arc User
    Starship Traits Theta Radiation Infused Evasive Maneuvers and Hit and Run from the Allied Escorts have a nice synergy that will make Evasive Maneuvers really powerful (even more then it is) especially with doffs that decrease the CD of Evasive Maneuvers.
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,916 Arc User
    Ummmm...."Could not find Que...."?
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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    This song is going to get tiresome fast. :/
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
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    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
    Judge Dan Haywood
    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
    Lt. Philip J. Minns
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    echatty wrote: »
    Ummmm...."Could not find Que...."?

    Try the calendar.
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