Today, I perform an experiment (well, with assignment durations and all, the results won't be in until tomorrow, but still...). I call it 'What happens when you send an Exocomp to play Dabo?'...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
I always get a chuckle when I have to retrieve an exocomp or hologram from sickbay.
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STO Forum member since before February 2010. STO Academy's excellent skill planner here: Link I actually avoid success entirely. It doesn't get me what I want, and the consequences for failure are slim. -- markhawman
My Marion doff went missing... After looking through my completed missions I discoverd there had been a tragic accident during a snow ball fight. I laughed but I wasn't amused.
Actually, sharksinspace, that makes a strange kind of sense - to me, anyway - since they're from Federation member/ally races, no one would pay any attention to them.
Ferengi KDF DOff to Federation outpost security officer: "Why are we loading contraband, industrial replicators, medical supplies, a Phaser Pulsewave rifle and two human janitors onto a shuttlecraft? ...Well, that's a stupid question."
(Little DS9 joke there...)
That's like my habit of sending a pair of Klingon Security Officers on the assignment to search the ship for Contraband... on a Starfleet vessel, where they obviously stand out. I can just imagine some crewman quickly walking down the corridors, hissing quietly to all the other crew members they pass, "Captain's sending his Klingons to search for it, hide your Contraband! Ch'kar and K'lak are headed this way, hide your Contraband!"
Easiest way I can figure out to explain why they seem to fail that mission so often...
Team of three purple Research Lab Scientists sent to Recover Artifacts, all ended up in Sick Bay as result. I can pretty much imagine that the last recorded dialogue between the three would have been along the lines of "Hey people, we are in this Iconian ruin, right ? And there is this button with text that translates to "Do Not Touch", right ? We should press it and see what happens, right ?"
Rom-KDF Reman as my character, okay?
Sirius Sector Block, Reman Marauder 'department head' has an assignment; "Hire Out As Mercenaries To Remans". I'm thinking to myself, isn't that basically what my Klingon and Nausicaan/Orion/Gorn/Lethean DOffs (and BOffs, for that matter) are already doing?
Just for humor, I assigned as many Remans as I could to the assignment.
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
I came across a DOFFing assignment on my KDF I'd never seen before:
Offer Sanctuary to Refugees from Starfleet Aggression.
Cue the raising of the Vulcan Eyebrow. :rolleyes:
To explain, Klingons maintain a policy of "creative editing".
That is, if information doesn't match their world view, they alter the phrasing so that it does.
So, reading between the lines here, we're not picking up harmless refugees persecuted by Starfleet, we're getting criminals who have committed terrorist acts against the Federation and are being chased down for those crimes. :eek:
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
That plot device alone should have gotten most Star Trek series cancelled. You need one effing huge suspension of disbelief to think a human can suddenly pass for a native of an alien world. A American would have trouble passing for a Canadian, let alone a Mexican in real life....
When I first started playing this game I lost at least a dozen doffs on missions scanning for anomolies and particles. How the hell do you die sitting on the bridge scanning for particles?
When I first started playing this game I lost at least a dozen doffs on missions scanning for anomolies and particles. How the hell do you die sitting on the bridge scanning for particles?
Two words. Exploding consoles.
"You Iconians just hung a vacancy sign on your asses and my foot's looking for a room!"
--Red Annorax
An Emergency R&D Hologram got sent with a Doctor on a "Treat Minor Burns" assignment... I can just imagine the Doctor complaining 'Blast it, Captain, I'm a Doctor, not a Photonic Studies Scientist!'
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
An Emergency R&D Hologram got sent with a Doctor on a "Treat Minor Burns" assignment... I can just imagine the Doctor complaining 'Blast it, Captain, I'm a Doctor, not a Photonic Studies Scientist!'
Photonic Officer: "Doc, I have this burn..."
Doctor: o.O
*sits down at computer console*
*fires up Photoshop v.eleventybillion*
*clicky-clicky*
Photonic: "Thanks, Doc, that's much better."
"You Iconians just hung a vacancy sign on your asses and my foot's looking for a room!"
--Red Annorax
Another chapter in the continuing epic of "Klingon Archaelogical Survey Mistakes"...
I sent a Nausicaan (white) Research Lab Scientist and a Ferengi (blue) Trader on an 'Appropriate Artifacts from Archaelogical Site' assignment. They brought back two prisoners and no artifacts (R&D Materials)...
My Gorn captain had to double face palm at that. He sends them off to acquire R&D materials and they come back with prisoners and no materials. I can just picture him commenting on a good job capturing the Federation grave robbers, now, where are the artifacts he sent them to recover... and the two DOffs looking at each other and promptly starting a round of 'Pass The Blame' for forgetting them.
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
I should see if I can set this mission up and how effective it would be:
"Have EMH Mk I treat Loskene for Minor Burns"...
Detecting big-time "anti-old-school" bias here. NX? Lobi. TOS/TMP Connie? Super-promotion-box. (aka the two hardest ways to get ships) Excelsior & all 3 TNG "big hero" ships? C-Store. Please Equalize...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I find it amusing that the Orion Syndicate and "Fugitive support network" have managed to extend into the Delta Quadrant. It's not entirely unexpected I suppose, but it's a bit odd.
One of my KDF is currently executing a Vulcan Entertainment Hologram for incompetence.....
"I regret that my presentation of the "Ode of Surak (Opus 1 thru 47) did not measure up to your entertainment requirements. I shall endeavor to perform at a higher level."
"Oh, shut your Vulcan gruel-hole!" *grinds holo-emitter to space dust*
"You Iconians just hung a vacancy sign on your asses and my foot's looking for a room!"
--Red Annorax
Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
I do'nt know why, but I do'nt believe I've had a single succsess at the Gift Exchange Diplomatic
Doff mission? Use all purple Doff's. Have even had some injuries !! :eek:
Its like...
"T'vree ! , (my first officer). What the h**l are you sending as gifts, the Science
Sections left over "digestive remains". Jeez !
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^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
STO Forum member since before February 2010.
STO Academy's excellent skill planner here: Link
I actually avoid success entirely. It doesn't get me what I want, and the consequences for failure are slim. -- markhawman
Mind blown. That explains so much. lol
Sirius Sector Block, Reman Marauder 'department head' has an assignment; "Hire Out As Mercenaries To Remans". I'm thinking to myself, isn't that basically what my Klingon and Nausicaan/Orion/Gorn/Lethean DOffs (and BOffs, for that matter) are already doing?
Just for humor, I assigned as many Remans as I could to the assignment.
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
Offer Sanctuary to Refugees from Starfleet Aggression.
Cue the raising of the Vulcan Eyebrow. :rolleyes:
To explain, Klingons maintain a policy of "creative editing".
That is, if information doesn't match their world view, they alter the phrasing so that it does.
So, reading between the lines here, we're not picking up harmless refugees persecuted by Starfleet, we're getting criminals who have committed terrorist acts against the Federation and are being chased down for those crimes. :eek:
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
We can only imagine the outcome :
Me : "What happened to your partner? What is that puddle of goo?"
Horta : "NO KILL I ! NO KILL I !"
--Red Annorax
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
Photonic Officer: "Doc, I have this burn..."
Doctor: o.O
*sits down at computer console*
*fires up Photoshop v.eleventybillion*
*clicky-clicky*
Photonic: "Thanks, Doc, that's much better."
--Red Annorax
I sent a Nausicaan (white) Research Lab Scientist and a Ferengi (blue) Trader on an 'Appropriate Artifacts from Archaelogical Site' assignment. They brought back two prisoners and no artifacts (R&D Materials)...
My Gorn captain had to double face palm at that. He sends them off to acquire R&D materials and they come back with prisoners and no materials. I can just picture him commenting on a good job capturing the Federation grave robbers, now, where are the artifacts he sent them to recover... and the two DOffs looking at each other and promptly starting a round of 'Pass The Blame' for forgetting them.
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
YES. "We need to negotiate a trade for some astrometric probes. GET ME SHAKESPEARE!"
Also had a biochemist give a critical success in an Anbo-Jyuitsu tournament
(Or how good the AI is at selecting them for you)
"Have EMH Mk I treat Loskene for Minor Burns"...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
But yeah, I get a giggle every time Investigate Rumors of Klingon Intelligence comes up. :P
--Red Annorax
My character Tsin'xing
I had a doff die at a poker tournament - Guess Worf didn't like his hand.
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"Oh, shut your Vulcan gruel-hole!" *grinds holo-emitter to space dust*
--Red Annorax
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Doff mission? Use all purple Doff's. Have even had some injuries !! :eek:
Its like...
"T'vree ! , (my first officer). What the h**l are you sending as gifts, the Science
Sections left over "digestive remains". Jeez !
BCW.
--Red Annorax