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Shuttle Weekend Event (9/11 - 9/15)
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Captains! Starting tomorrow, Thursday September 11th at 10AM PDT, we're pleased to announce the return of the Shuttle Weekend Event! Swarm your enemies with shuttles till Monday September 15th, at 10AM PDT. Earn more rewards, and play new shuttle versions of some fan favorite queues, including No Win Scenario and Fleet Alert.
Check it out here!
~LaughingTrendy
Check it out here!
~LaughingTrendy
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hmmmmmmm maybe 2 R&D boxes instead of 1?
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This should be fun
the breach? PPPPPPPPFFFFFTTTTTT 20 man shuttle hive onslaught FTW
i love this event because im too lazy to farm marks for my alts, this should get most of them enough marks for T5 reps...if not all
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
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Speaking of which, I would love to see some Shuttle beams/cannons added as craftable items. The only non-white-quality Shuttle weapons we currently have are the blue Phaser/Disruptor/Plasma ones from The Vault, and those are Mark Eleven. We have a relative lack of high-quality Shuttle-specific gear.
I'll have to blow the dust off of mine.
First of all, don't run the freebie shuttle (Type 8 / Kivra / Tiercel). The Runabout (Danube / Toron / Kestral) is much better and can be purchased from the shipyard for only thirty-odd thousand energy credits. You will have an Ensign rank Bridge Officer station and an inherent ship ability, as well as 20% more shield and hull strength as compared to the freebie shuttle. If you already own a Lobi or C-store shuttle, then using that will be even better, as these will have even higher shields/hull, a special piece of gear, and/or a second Bridge Officer station.
Now, for just about all gear except for weapons, you can load the shuttle up as you would a Tier 1 starship--it gets the set bonuses and powers from equipping starship gear sets, and there are currently no multi-piece shuttle gear sets. You may want to make an exception if you are using a Shuttle that has a special piece of gear that comes with it--e.g. the Yellowstone's Tetryon Engine (free Warp Plasma-like ability), or the Aeon's Subatomic Deflector (free Disruptor Lance ability).
This brings us to the weapons. Shuttle beam arrays have the special attribute that they are omni-directional, but are not limited to one-per-ship (i.e. you can mount two of them). Depending on your situation, you might benefit the most as follows:
If you are flying a Peregrine or To'Duj fighter, then your craft has an inherent Cannon Rapid Fire I ability. Your optimum weapon will be any high-quality, high-mark Dual Heavy Cannon, especially either the blue Shuttle Dual Cannon from the FE mission "The Vault", or else the craftable Wide Angle Dual Heavy Cannon.
If you are flying anything else, then you want Shuttle Beam Arrays as your energy weapon. These are omni-directional, and you can get blue quality ones from the FE mission "The Vault". Alternatively, an omni-directional Mk XII Beam Array (the craftable ones or the Anti-proton one from "Sphere of Influence) will be ideal.
For your second weapon, you can either mount a torpedo--preferably a "special" one (e.g. Harg'peng, Gravimetric, Romulan Hyper-Plasma, Omega, etc.), or else a second Dual Heavy Cannon or Shuttle Beam Array. You will gain very little DPS by mounting a Turret as your second weapon unless it is the Undine Reputation Heavy Turret.
Yes, the special weekend is the only time i use a shuttle.
Last time we did KDF NWS (completed it) but we kept dieing on wave 10 FED, this time we got accetons & i guess spock and kirk_protege's will beat it this time around.
2 dual beam banks, faw1
Yeah, and the lack of a timer lockout made it so much fun to jet about in my small craft. There's something to be said for the ability to just dive on in... and rewards that actually make the small craft queues pop. This is one of my favorite "Weekend" specials.
Admiral Dananra Lekall - R.R.W. Teverresh, Deihu-class Warbird
General J'Kar son of K'tsulan - I.K.S. Dlahath, Vo'devwl-class Carrier
Great way to get some marks for my non T5 rep toons!
I'll see you all in our exploding shuttles the next few days...
-V
Just like Bone, I was in that KDF-group that has beaten Shuttle-NWS. If we don't get through because of the new toys, maybe some help from the dark side might help
If Star Trek Online was an Open-Source (GPL) Game, we would have a low-grind fork.
Yeah, it was too much fun so they fixed that. The shuttle queues are on a 30 minutes cooldown now.
way to ruin the fun Cryptic
Oh... TRIBBLE.