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What is with the Wells classes appearing everywhere?
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I have been spending all my time in game doing STFs and patrolling around New Romulus and these Wells class ships keep showing up to help me in the patrol missions. What is this? Is it something I'm doing or is this just some new "feature"?
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I have yet to encounter either one on a mission.
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Sometimes while in a fight, my dreadnought will just randomly jump 2-5k away from the enemies I'm fighting. Odd.. considering I have no console that can do that.
However.. it actually saved me from a web once... where I got jumped right out of a web that had just formed on me.
It only shows up to fight Tholians. Anything else, and you'll get the appropriate flagship for your faction. You apparently get a Korath class timeship if you're KDF.
Which makes sense, if the Tholians are messing with time and space portals. Why wouldn't 29th century Starfleet be taking an interest?
the Wells pops up everywhere continuously and does very little to help.
last Vault ensnared i played had 3 Wells class NPCs around in the last battle... thats just silly.
Yeah, the Wells mainly show up during my STF. It almost always does, especially when doing the Fleet Action of the Vault, or the one that you have to rescue Rommie ships.
Correction: Not in STF but in FA like the Vault
Negative, the last few times I did play in the Vault FA were with players either using carriers, escorts, or large cruisers. The escorts were your standard type, no Lockbox versions.
Then there was the moments where I was alone engaging Tholians.
Usually, a Wells class ships appears at the second relic, but isn't targetteable. He attacks Tholian ships, then disappears (he simply fades away, no warp / hologram effect).
Next on the third relic, the ship reappears, but is targetteable. And he keeps helping me huntil I warp out.
I checked closely, and there is no Tyken's Rift (well I don't know if it's one, but it has the same FX) appearing when he pops out, like when Tholian ships summon Mirror Ships (I also noticed they usually summon reinforcements AFTER they die).
On one occasion, I had an Obex type Iconian ship coming from the planet when I finished beaming up the last relic, scanning some anomaly, then warping out when I got closer to him. Had this happen once in twenty times in this system. I'll try to make some screenshots next time (or use the demorecord).
I haven't seen yet both Wells class and Obex ships in other patrol systems in Tau Dewa (besides Enterprise-F in the skirmish missions).
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Either they're repairing history or have a reason to violate the Temporal Prime Directive to help us.
If it makes you feel any better its not a bunch of Wells... it's a single Wells. Just visiting your time from a bunch of different times at the same time. :P
I just got a major headache after reading that, lol.
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I had an experience exactly like this Thursday evening in Beta Lankal. Afterwards I went to the Archer System and got help from ANOTHER Wells (in addition to the Romulan BoP's already there). I got a screenshot of the Wells I encountered in Beta Lankal up on the STO wiki in the gallery for the NPC Wells class article.
The old ones had the same abilities of a Federation Science Vessel. These ones are more like Cruisers.
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