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ronthefan
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Another snowfall, another Winter Event. I look forward to the races, the new ship...what is the new ship? I hope it's a T6 Chel Grett. I loved that ship and it's a damn shame that it's only T5U.
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The Breen were pathetic TRIBBLE who only dared to side with the winning side in the Dominion War. Even the Romulans from the Star Empire acted more honourable. Attacking defenceless worlds while the fleets are away, grabbing Cardassian territory which they probably wouldn't have been able to do if the Founders didn't do it for them / backed them.
They may have been fanatical fighters, that only shows they were crazy enough to die in conquest-related wars. Maybe it's due to a lack of exploration of their culture and motivations, but I always thought they were just TRIBBLE, dishonourable and opportunistic ones even.
Unless something is actually done with them (and I mean more than serving as cannon fodder or ship suppliers), I couldn't care less about Breen ships.
I'll have to start prepping the Tips and Tricks 2016 thread to head off the "fastest game on ice is too hard" threads we get every year.
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Especially since we're not talking about Starfleet ships, but member ships. We already have Xindi ships available for the other factions.
And of course Andorians and Klingons are not that different in some respects so it would be a good start to merge the factions. Or - perhaps more accurate - a good continuation of the change they made when they released the 31st century ship pack.
alright I'm going be blunt here. there is no such thing as a good continuation of that. in fact it can not be buried soon enough as far as I'm concerned.
would prefer breen but vorgon wouldn't be bad ether
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Why do all impending ships have to be science.
Newsflash: all the breen ships have had science leanings as far as the traits, consoles, seating, console slots...
Its time for a strait up tactial shredder, with 2 Science console slots for universal consoles.
When I first started doing the Winter Event three years ago, I could not win or even complete the daily race. I gave up and was going to just bypass the Event. Thanks to reading advice from people on here, I tried a technique. So after losing about six days I gave it another go. Been doing fine ever since.
What I do is run full bore and jigger around lazy turns. But for the tighter ones, just double click the 'W' key and somersault into the turn. Get up and go again.
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Nah. We already got a science ship from this year's anniversary. The 2017 Anniversary Event ship would likely be another science vessel since the Lukari seems to be a pretty science oriented society... at least based on the Echoes Of Light mission.
We got an escort for the Risan Summer Event. Therefore, I would like to have a cruiser for the Winter Event. That will give my engineer on my secondary; free to play only; account a T6 ship "appropriate" to the profession to fly.
No idea what it really means, but hey....
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the first event I encountered was the winter event and I was quite shocked to find how easy the other ship events were in comparison.
there is no doubt that it is the most difficult event to do, lets be honest we don't have any "too hard" or "how to do it" threads for the summer or anniversary events.
having said that it is doable, you just have to keep at it until you work out the idiosyncrasies of the race you can exploit to your advantage.
of course the biggest problem is once the event is over you have to wait a whole year till the next one and you need to get back into the rhythm of the race all over again and as you get older you find this much more difficult to archive, add to this the fact that many who might suffer some disability will have more problems and its understandable that there are so many who complain.
I would offer a choice of activities to use as a daily quest as a good alternative be it doing the gingerbread invasion, Cones of Conduct or Tide of Ice as alternative ways to get your daily token for anyone who is having difficulties with the race.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
That's kind of the TRIBBLE point.
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But it's not for all intents and purposes a Christmas event. For that to be the case there would need to be a religious component (see. the first part of the word: Christmas). That's not present, and I think we can all agree that it shouldn't be there, both for in-universe reasons (why is Q celebrating a Christian holiday?) and practical reasons (why label a general event as belonging entirely to one cultural sub group?)
The point is to have a laugh with gags and games inspired by stuff that pervades Western culture for its own sake. Don't complicate it. Winter Event content can mean whatever someone wants to. If for you that's Christmas then you can think about it in that context. I don't think anyone has a problem with that. But for someone who doesn't feel personally connected to Christmas (for whatever reason), then they can just sit back and enjoy the food, prizes, and bad cartoon puns.
Nothing else is necessary to feel a part, it's just good fun.
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You are not personally responsible for the comments made by other users. Discussion will happen and for something like this (with deeper connections to dialog in the US, at least) there will be strong opinions. These holidays can mean a lot to people. But that dialog passes. Just focus on the fun you wanted to create in the first place and let the "flames" burn themselves out.
If it really isn't civilized discussion that will reflect on those having it, not you or the other posters in the thread.
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Personally it's my favorite time of the STO calendar. Actually, scratch that, it's my favorite gaming event of the year (take that E3!)
Anyway, Christmas can easily be seen as having becoming more a cultural rather than exclusively religious holiday. Personally that's the lense I view it in, though I appreciate that it means a lot to people not to lose the religious connection. Whatever else the "commercialization of Christmas" means (cue Linus), I think that generalization is how we're able to have so much fun in STO with content lifted from Christmas specials.
It's great parody material and I can't wait to see what Cryptic has in store this year. I just hope they steer clear of nightmare stuff like this.
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And that is why I am going to make it a tradition to make a tips and tricks thread every year, and ask for it to be a sticky for the duration of the event. That way we veteran players can share our knowledge with less experienced players on the various events during the winter event. As I said, every year we get innundated with threads saying "its too hard" and stuff like that. I'm wanting to help in any way I can, so it is easier to consolidate all the tips given from all those threads into one location. I even have a map I made up to show some of the places you can run flat out in a straight line.
But you are right, unlike Risa, we can't really visit Q's Winter Wonderland to brush up on our skills in the off season.
Well... Andoria is a Fed only planet. That would exclude KDF. And Andorians aren't exactly known for celebrating a season when their world is kinda perma cold.
Also... its made by Q. So naturally it will be more... interesting.
As for the Breen ships, considering theme they make the most sense. Everything about the Breen says "cold". The fact their ships are so asymetric is... part of the design philosophy established by the one Canon Breen ship seen in DS9. At the very least, think of it as a free account wide admiralty card if you don't want to fly it.
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l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Unfortunately, as long as Q is involved, that means we get the crazyness that comes with it. Honestly I don't mind myself. I just wish there was a bit more to do with the ice skating, and maybe a bigger lake for it as that is honestly fun. While Q's Winter Wonderland may not come across as particularly Trek, Q has been known to do things off the wall. Remember the Mariachi Band he summoned to the Enterprise-D? And if you read any of the Q Continuum books, he summoned a scale model of DS9 and "docked" a burrito on an upper pylon.
And I believe Risa was opened up to the KDF before the walls fell, around the time they made the FIRST summer event, which I believe was... 4 years ago now? Risian Corvette, Risian Cruiser, Ferengi Nandi, Vorgon... yup. 4 years ago.
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Because Q is not afraid of offending anyone.
As Christmas is mostly fake (for lack of a better word) and pretentious, especially the so-called 'christian' version which has nothing to do with the original concept. I can't believe there are still people (as in the first page of this thread) who still pretend or think that Christmas was invented so to say by christians or that it has its roots in christian traditions.
Or that any deviation from the christian version is a bad one - the christian version itself is a deviation from the original concept. For those who know history, there's no good reason to consider the christian version the 'good' one and everything else, be it corporate influences or whatever, bad or worse.
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