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being the hero

princedimwitprincedimwit Member Posts: 230 Arc User
edited January 2013 in Federation Discussion
I find it kind of fun to watch a battle between let's say a lt. commander fighting a fleet of Romulans in a DSE, waiting until he's down to 60% and charging in to clean up, giving him a boost with an engineering team III and attack pattern.

Might be overstepping but it's fun to play the hero kinda like in DS9 when the Defiant warps in to save the day guns a-blazin.
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  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited December 2012
    I'll never forget being a young Lieutenant battling Klingons in a DSE, and seeing a Rear Admiral fly in and destroy the ship I had been working on (for what seemed like hours) with a single Tricobalt torpedoe. I was in awe of his epic might.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I remember when I tried to take on a Terran Empire fleet as a Lieutenant. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed my revenge.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    psycoticvulcan wrote: »
    I remember when I tried to take on a Terran Empire fleet as a Lieutenant. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed my revenge.

    We all had ambitions at some point
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  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    jackswaggert wrote: »
    I'll never forget being a young Lieutenant battling Klingons in a DSE, and seeing a Rear Admiral fly in and destroy the ship I had been working on (for what seemed like hours) with a single Tricobalt torpedoe. I was in awe of his epic might.

    Yeah, I had that happen to me. I had the opposite reaction. I decided he was an overblown show-off, especially since I was doing perfectly fine (I mean after all, why can't a level 7 take on a Unimatrix and by himself? XP). Sufficed to say I had grudges against everyone that was a higher level than me until I hit 50, then I just stopped caring and blew TRIBBLE up just as fast as they did, if not faster.
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I remember many times when my Captain level character was interfered with by some show off Admiral
    usually in a lock box ship

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  • red01999red01999 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    This reminds me when I was on my first character (an engineer) in an NX class light escort.

    Because I didn't understand how the 'get a new ship at ranking' system worked - I thought I needed to 'save' the tokens to get a Galaxy class (this was when F2P was first out) - I ended up holding on to it for a while longer than I should have. I ended up going to a LOT of Borg Red Alerts in that.

    I liked to think I was doing something useful, hitting them while the bigger guys were distracting them.

    With 11 months more experience, I can safely say, I was not. :D
  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited December 2012
    red01999 wrote: »
    This reminds me when I was on my first character (an engineer) in an NX class light escort.

    Because I didn't understand how the 'get a new ship at ranking' system worked - I thought I needed to 'save' the tokens to get a Galaxy class (this was when F2P was first out) - I ended up holding on to it for a while longer than I should have. I ended up going to a LOT of Borg Red Alerts in that.

    I liked to think I was doing something useful, hitting them while the bigger guys were distracting them.

    With 11 months more experience, I can safely say, I was not. :D

    I really wish that there was a viable reason to use lower level ships in end game content. I also wish shuttles and fighters could have some use.
  • kiloacekiloace Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    jackswaggert wrote: »
    I really wish that there was a viable reason to use lower level ships in end game content. I also wish shuttles and fighters could have some use.

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    Yeah! Its really too bad, and a lot of us really liked the earlier models. I guess that's why the Devs added Retrofits and Fleet variants, but they still didn't do it right. The Nova (my dream) Retrofit is literally a Recon Science Vessel with less hull, less shields and 1 extra point of turn rate. C'MON!

    Fleet variants ain't much better.
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  • kitsmerkitsmer Member Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Correct me if i'm wrong. Been a long while!

    When STO first started. The promotion system was different. You could continue to gain levels but still be the first rank of ensign or whatever.

    So here I was flying around smashing everything, doing every mission over and over and hit level 14 ensign :/ If I remember right. Which is really a L4 LCMDR. Anyways another player told me that I had to fly to ESD and talk to the admiral to get promoted!

    So I did. :) When I got promoted, I was a LCMDR 0? Lost those 4 levels. hehe


    I was also in shock and awe of the higher level ships with that awesome power. :)
  • twg042370twg042370 Member Posts: 2,312 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Personally I hate it when they show up in a patrol mission because suddenly the Orion are thirty levels higher and I'm debris if I try and engage...
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  • radkipradkip Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I remember when the game first launched I went into Ker'rat thinking I'd be the hero, battling the Klingons. I was level 3, up against a level 40. It didn't end well.
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  • corbinwolf#9797 corbinwolf
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    edited January 2013
    princedimwit wrote: »
    I find it kind of fun to watch a battle between let's say a lt. commander fighting a fleet of Romulans in a DSE, waiting until he's down to 60% and charging in to clean up, giving him a boost with an engineering team III and attack pattern.

    Might be overstepping but it's fun to play the hero kinda like in DS9 when the Defiant warps in to save the day guns a-blazin.

    I wait to see how the person is doing. If they are about to get destroyed I step in. Otherwise I just fly off and attack several ships at once and collect the booty by myself. When i first became VA I was yelled at to go away by a player whom I hadn't even stepped into help. Guess he had had enough of people doing so. Cannot blame ppl but in saying that its funny how many ppl will in fact FOLLOW me if I go hunting for loot (rep system to pay for after all). I think they want to pick up the leftovers or something. Funny.
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