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Dyson Sphere Pillar, next Fleet Holding

omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Okay if the Dyson Sphere Pillar is the next Fleet Holding, what exactly will it do and what will be the benifit to Fleets for this holding?

Access to Iconian and Voth tech?

Tactical Consoles?

Some kind of PVE advantage against the Voth?

I'm assuming that those things that are floating around the Dyson Sphere, with a mix of buildings and nature are the Dyson Pillars.

So what exactly do the Pillar's do?
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  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Want replies? Give your sources.:D
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  • rainmotorsportsrainmotorsports Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    No kidding especially since the next fleet holding is supposed to be military in nature who knows what they're doing with it.

    As far as his sources check the wiki source link for upcoming. Probably an audio cast of some sort.
  • omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Yep, wiki.

    It does sound like a military holding, those pillars appear to be able to fire at ships and its in contested territory.

    Which means it might grant new fleet ships like the Fleet Grumba and the Fleet Galaxy X.

    Of course the Pillars are already thier unlike other Fleet which you build and upgrade over time. How does one upgrade a Dyson Pillar?
  • darthpetersendarthpetersen Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    At first the new fleet holding is a sink for your Dilithium, Fleet Marks and Commodities and a reason for more grind. But i hope there are some benefits.
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  • packer3434packer3434 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Well if your source does turn out to be correct then I'd be surprised if tac consoles wasn't something that was offered by the new holding.

    However this would all but put an end to NADORAC as I see it.
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Dyson Sphere Pillar?

    Lemme see your source!
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    According to wiki, the source is an August 16 episode of Priority One: http://priorityonepodcast.com/priority-one-legacy-of-vegas-supplemental/

    I don't remember hearing anything about this in it before, but I'm listening to it again.
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited August 2013
    It's actually a Spire (on the Dyson Sphere). Speculation may now continue :cool:

    Cheers,

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  • omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Upcoming_content this is my source.

    I wouldn't mind an Orion Frigate Hangar for my Fleet Corsair.

    Maybe some Voth doffs.

    Its really hard to say we know so little about the Dyson Sphere and its features, purpose and so on.
  • omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    What's a NADORAC?
  • deaftravis05deaftravis05 Member Posts: 4,885 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Its purpose is a money sink for Cryptic to make money off of us.
  • packer3434packer3434 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    It's actually a Spire (on the Dyson Sphere). Speculation may now continue :cool:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    I'd assume this means that each fleet effectively gets a small part of the dyson sphere to themselves (probably doesn't effect gameplay though).
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  • packer3434packer3434 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    omegaphallic wrote: »
    What's a NADORAC?

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Negotiate_Additional_Delivery_of_Rare_Commodities
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Reward speculation:

    UR Tactical consoles: the generic type consoles but percentages of the type specific consoles (doing this with the specific types would create a huge bloat of consoles on the reward vendor), with added tactical related stats.
    UR kits: Different kits than the embassy, but the same concept - one level IV power and a fourth power added
    Operational assets specifically for use in the Dyson sphere territory control system, probably including Voth units.
  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    My mind boggles at somehow ALL our fleets are building one giant system-spanning sphere that has Klingon and Romulans sharing borders...

    Its a recipe for disaster.

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  • cgta1967cgta1967 Member Posts: 86 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    khayuung wrote: »
    ...
    Its a recipe for disaster.

    some would call it 'glorious' !

    . :rolleyes:
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited August 2013
    khayuung wrote: »
    My mind boggles at somehow ALL our fleets are building one giant system-spanning sphere that has Klingon and Romulans sharing borders...

    Its a recipe for disaster.

    You're not. Fleets will take over a single Spire on the one Dyson Sphere being introduced in Season 8. Due to the size of the sphere, there are many many many spires.

    It will make more sense when you find out more about it, but I'm not going to spoil anything else. You'll just have to wait for the Dev Blogs later in the year :P

    Cheers,

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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Ah, I see...

    ...now why I am thinking this might lead to a backdrop of territorial control for portions of the Dyson Sphere? :eek:

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  • icegavelicegavel Member Posts: 991 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    Reward speculation:

    UR Tactical consoles: the generic type consoles but percentages of the type specific consoles (doing this with the specific types would create a huge bloat of consoles on the reward vendor), with added tactical related stats.
    UR kits: Different kits than the embassy, but the same concept - one level IV power and a fourth power added
    Operational assets specifically for use in the Dyson sphere territory control system, probably including Voth units.

    I bet the Tac Consoles will end up being Bonus Energy type and then a bonus to, say Beams or Cannons. Specific and general at the same time. So, even more OP than before.

    Ground rewards... Wouldn't mind some kits in the same vein as the Embassy stuff, but more... offensively-oriented. For instance, Enginners could get Mk XII Enemy Neutralization and have Chroniton Mines IV and get to add, say, Turret Fab. to the Kit. Tacs could get, say... Operative (it's Voth tech, and Voth have something SIMILAR to Stealth Module in the show) with Battle Strategies IV and added Photon Grenade. Scis could have Physicist with Induction Field (or Hyperonic Radiation) IV and added Stasis Field for more offensive power (or a Medic Kit with Medical Tricorder IV and added Tachyon Harmonic, since the Borg Medical Analyzer kit no longer drops - not since the STFs got remade).
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    khayuung wrote: »
    Ah, I see...

    ...now why I am thinking this might lead to a backdrop of territorial control for portions of the Dyson Sphere? :eek:
    Because they already said there would be some TC in the Sphere? :)
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  • omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Is the Spire the that giant thing in the first dyson concept art that was firing at a Star Fleet ship?
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  • hdoggyhdoggy Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    khayuung wrote: »
    My mind boggles at somehow ALL our fleets are building one giant system-spanning sphere that has Klingon and Romulans sharing borders...

    Its a recipe for disaster.
    I doubt we're BUILDING one, but I'd say there's plenty of room on a sphere that surrounds an entire star.
  • njsjedinjsjedi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    it could be you get access to one then as you build up the level you get access to other parts!
    I really like the sound of this and looking forward to seeing how it will work,!:D
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  • mandoknight89mandoknight89 Member Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    Unlikely.

    Safer bet is having a Directed Energy Distribution Manifold/Warhead Yield Chamber without being some so incredible stupid like a Phaser relay that also is a Directed Energy Distribution Manifold.

    Another option is having it offer a bonus to skills.

    Would you have said the same thing about Fleet Engineering consoles before the Mine was revealed? In which they took some of the most-used Engineering consoles and then added in half of another console?

    I'm pretty sure that what we'll be getting will be type-specific energy and projectile consoles with some kind of additional effect, possibly more similar to the Science consoles than to the Engineering ones.
  • admanf2padmanf2p Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »

    It will make more sense when you find out more about it, but I'm not going to spoil anything else. You'll just have to wait for the Dev Blogs later in the year :P

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    Any rough ETA on dev blogs? Anything coming between now and October?
  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    You're not. Fleets will take over a single Spire on the one Dyson Sphere being introduced in Season 8. Due to the size of the sphere, there are many many many spires.

    It will make more sense when you find out more about it, but I'm not going to spoil anything else. You'll just have to wait for the Dev Blogs later in the year :P

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    I'd say that's a pretty major spoiler all by itself. Cryptic must be serious about it if they're spilling the beans this soon.

    I just want to know if this is something that will be beneficial for small fleets to participate in, or if it's just going to water down our resources even further?

    Here's hoping this is an entirely different kind of fleet holding.
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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited August 2013
    This is the Dyson Spire.
    Speculation may now continue.
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I don't mind having a Fleet Pillar project added to the Fleet System. The only drawback to these Rep-grind systems is the number of Mission you get to earn the required Mark-types. What makes things feel grinding is the limited number of ways you can earn the Marks. Hopefully there will be more than a handful of Mission types within the Sphere to earn the required Marks.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Dyson Spire
    Yeah, that looks very cool - especially the scale of it. :)
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
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