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princedimwit
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I spent $40 on a new ship, I joined a fleet thinking I was getting a decent and powerful ship but the one I got FOR FREE at the exhcange is FAR superior.
Unless you can show me how to use the boff skills on my expensive fleet ship that I can on my free science vessel...
Unless you can show me how to use the boff skills on my expensive fleet ship that I can on my free science vessel...
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Don't plan on getting a refund sorry.
From what I understand their policy is "Never ever, under any circumstances ever."
Also, which boff skills did you want to use?
What is the fleet ship in question? I'm sure that people here can help you with loadouts.
This.
I bought a Corsair because I thought I would get a discount on the Fleet Corsair. Nope! So now I have a completely useless ship that I've never used and never will use.
Thank goodness it was during a sale so I only flushed 1200 zen down the toilet instead of 1500.
I want to use gravity well and siphon energy on my fleet patrol escort that I'm somehow able to use on my deep space science vessel.
If that's the case, then you needed to look at exactly what it was you're buying. Escorts are not going to be high-level science performers, virtually by definition. What did you look up before you made the purchase? This is an expected result.
Also, what ship costs $40? Almost all fleet ships that require FSMs are $20 without a c-store purchase. The only exception I'm aware of is the Fleet Excelsior at 5 modules without the c-store unlock for the standard Excelsior-R ($25). Sounds like you bought two. There are only three ships that exceed the $25 range, fleet or standard c-store - and those are the flagship bundles and the Vesta bundle.
As an additional note, if you want an escort that can spit out science powers, you'll probably want to look into the Advanced Escort and Multi-Vector Advanced Escort (MVAE). I forgot the exact specs, but that is, if I recall, the most science-y escort around. However, do note that the standard version, the MVAE version, and the fleet version, although all three can equip the multi-vector mode console from the MVAE version, DO have minor differences. Make sure you're getting what you want to be getting.
your ignorance (no offense) of ships, and what each class is doing, will definately not get you a refund
its not their fault, you did not know that, they provided the info (well, S7 is full of misleading info, but in your case, this does not apply).
also an escort is always stronger than a sci ship
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
I prefer this answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ
If you like it, buy it from Holodeck.
Purchases made in Tribble do not subtract from your Holodeck Z-coins.
HERE are the stats for both ships you're talking about:
http://www.stowiki.org/Fleet_Patrol_Escort
http://www.stowiki.org/Deep_Space_Science_Vessel
HERE is the page about gravity well: http://www.stowiki.org/Ability:_Gravity_Well , which indicates at the bottom that it is a Lieutenant Commander bridge officer ability. That's two solid pips and a hollow one.
HERE is the page about energy siphon: http://www.stowiki.org/Ability:_Energy_Siphon , which indicates that level 1 energy siphon is a Lieutenant (two solid pips) bridge officer ability, and level 2 is a Lieutenant Commander (again, two pips and a 3rd hollow one) bridge officer ability.
As this information (the ship information is the same as what's provided in-game) clearly indicates, the Fleet Patrol Escort (note the ESCORT part, meaning it's a ship designed to blast apart other ships with lots of firepower) is only capable of supporting ONE Lieutenant level bridge officer ability at max, meaning you can't use gravity well on it.
The Deep Space Science Vessel is a science vessel (meaning it's designed to carry a lot of nasty, dirty science abilities to support other players -something I doubt you do very well, somehow - and otherwise weaken the enemy) that has a Commander (three solid pips!) bridge officer slot, meaning it can not only easily support an energy siphon ability and a gravity well, but a bunch of other cool science abilities.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. I suggest you take a good, long look through this wikipedia website, and the other resources provided by the game (say, the ship stats provided AT THE SHIPYARDS where you buy free ships and pick-up C-store ships) and actually learn all the aspects of the game before deciding to throw money at it (like the good little consumer PWE/Cryptic wants playing the game). There will be no refunds, you're responsible for your own screwups, and your blatantly obvious lack of even basic information about how the game is played. The fact that a player can somehow get to level 40-50 without this basic, rudimentary knowledge is a travesty.
PS: Your forum name is apt.
It's a game.
Thank you for your reply. I suggest you check your blood sugar levels or don't reply after a long day of drinking and beating your dog before you reply to posts.
"yeah, I think I'll totally bash this guy I don't even know who has questions about a game he enjoys because it'll make me feel better about myself because ripping on people on forums is AWESOME!"
It is possible to get points across without personal attacks and being a ****.
TRIBBLE off.
Me - an hour or so a day for two months.
You - I'm guessing a year or two. "How do you kill that which has no life"
Take a long hard look at your life pal. Too short not to be a little nicer.
Now, allow me to make a prediction here:
I'm the one who's going to wind up being disciplined over this.
Personal attack - me defending myself and counter attacking. I'm the one who gets in trouble.
Why can't my hobbies and interests include something healthy?
Everyone likes to pick on the special guy. Enough. I so sick of a-holes like you who think they can bash and bully. A simple ******n question and I get read the riot act. Every try being nice?
I'm not gonna baby someone who manages to get to level 50 without even fully understanding how bridge officer stations work (as evidenced by a previous post of yours), and which skills fit into which stations. Do you even use duty officers? Have you even skill specc'd to support whatever build it is you're attempting to use? Can you tank anything stronger than a particularly ferocious Borg probe or assimilated Bird of Prey? Lemme guess, you probably fly a Federation space whale with a rainbow weapon build, TRIBBLE-poor DPS, and marginally effective tanking, and find normal-level STFs a 'good challenge'. I'm being deliberately blunt, here, sorry if you can't take criticism.
You seem like the kind of player I effortlessly blow up in Ker'rat on a daily basis without even going all-buffs on my attack, or using a single piece of 'pay-to-win' or 'HAX!!!' equipment, because your shields and hull are ultimately paper, despite you being presumably 'awesome' against NPCs.
You didn't get personally attacked. You did something stupid, whined about it, and had it pointed out to you how little you knew about the game that you just dumped some cash into. If you think that someone pointing out that you don't know anything about how to play STO (which given your posts is an entirely factual statement) counts as a personal attack, I'm not really sure what to tell you.
Calling someone a no lifer because they understand some really basic stuff about the game really isn't going to get you very far. How bridge officer stations work is something that you're supposed to learn as you level up. Even for a casual player with a shred of competence they aren't really that confusing.
Yes, nonexistent.
I grant you that there are a lot of gankers out there, even intolerant jerks... all you have to do is go PUG on an Elite STF to witness it sometime, folks in this thread are trying to be helpful and are a little incredulous... that's all.
This, basically. I explained to him exactly why he can't do what he was expecting to do, and the blunt tone was because he dumped 20 bucks into buying a ship without a single clue as to what he was buying. He bought an ESCORT, one of the best tanking/DPS escorts in the game, thinking it would do the same thing as his SCIENCE SHIP. I don't know about anyone else, but 20 bucks seems like a nice chunk of change to spend so frivolously on a free-to-play game.
On a tangent: You'd think in this world where vast amounts of knowledge are available at one's fingertips that people would look something up before dropping 25 bucks on it.
Hell, makes me wonder how the 25th century would survive.
ROLL TIDE ROLL
You can get a Fleet science ship for 200,000 Fleet credits (Is en par with other fleet ships).
Although i'd stay away from the fleet ships in the future personally, the single character unlock is a no-go for me. All your getting is a fancy hull material and a few extra HP, if it's science your after i'd reccomend :
Oddy Sci
Long Range Retrofit
Vesta/Aventine/Rademaker
I agree on the fleet ships, for the most part. The 4th tac console on the Fleet Hoh'sus Bird of Prey is tempting. . .but you're basically dropping the equivalent of 20 bucks on a relatively minor improvement. I prefer to just make do with my Hegh'ta :P
But $20 is not worth it for a couple extra HP and Console slots, unless your really into PvP.
The C-store ones are acountwide unlock, Type 6 hull plating, and most of them have a funky gadget.
At first I really felt sorry for you that you spent those $$$ on a ship you might not get a lot of use out of, but then I read your extremely offensive reply, to a post that actually contained quite a lot of information, the poster even taking the time to post the relevant links.
Now I'm happy you sunk your money.
I prefer this version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UDnTJcjPhY&feature=related
That post is actually incredibly useful. I suggest you research ships in this game before spending money in the future.
He buys one ship from the store, and another from the Exchange. He decides the science ship from the Exchange is more fun than the one he got from the store and asks about a refund policy. What's so wrong about that? I bought a Garumba from the store, then decided my Vo'Quv was more fun, so I stopped using the Garumba. How is my circumstance any different to the OPs?
Oh, and I fly an Escort too, on my Fed, and I would love to use some of the higher tier Science skills on it. Same, one of the Science Captains in my fleet would love to use FAW3 with her Science ship. If you go back and read the thread again, you'll see that is all the OP said about it. He didn't ask if it was possible, just that he would like to. Frankly, I don't think anyone in game can claim that they get all of the abilities they would like to use on one ship.
@OP: To answer your question without the flaming and insulting... No, I don't think you'll get a refund.
Shyeah! I want CRF 3, BO 3, ApO 3, GW 3, TBR 3, RSP 3 with 5 tact, 4 sci and 4 eng consoles on my DHC equiped Odyssey with a base turn rate of 20!
Look, OP, you can't have all of the best goodies on one ship, that's just not the way this or any other game works. The first thing you have to learn about any MMO is how player class abilities balance and how to pick from among them. You didn't learn this before spending money on an optional upgrade. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you, but NOBODY offers refunds on digital goods.
P.S.: You REALLY need to think your posts through with a forum handle like that, or grow thicker skin.