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The 2018 Risa Lolhunat Festival!
ambassadorkael
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On July 3rd, return to Risa for a Vorgon Cruiser, baseball uniforms, new emotes and more!
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263
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/sigh
Well, at least I get to save most of the 10k favors I still had from last year.
edit: Cruiser looks nice, though.
edit2: I suppose, from the standpoint of "something from DS9", baseball uniforms was about the only vaguely-summer-vacation there was to do.
Cmon, cryptic. How about a REGULAR Cruiser? We haven't had a REGULAR cruiser in years.
I'd be surprised if they weren't in Off Duty, like the shorts & shirts. Since they aren't anything even vaguely related to 'swimwear'.
I should hope not. And would also think it reasonable to expect that versions of the uniform and cap both exist which can be colored to the players' whims... in fact, the cap should be wearable with duty uniforms. Sort of related: the emote shows is 'safe'; I suspect the others include 'out', 'pitch', 'swing'... and 'call the shot'.
And on the subject of non-combat pets: the magmatic drone model would not be unwelcome as such... which also reminds me that the Nukara vanity drones are long overdue for a return (I would prefer them without the use-time limit, but that is less annoying with the FCA admiralty taskings providing a source of GPL).
Seriously though, most of the new stuff looks good, even if I don't think I'll use it.
New food items, meh. Buy one summer food item to breed an event Tribble and that's the last I see of that kind of stuff.
Not real interested in the baseball uniforms, except for the hats.
Never bought any of the pets in the past, doubt that'll change anytime soon unless we get a separate pet tab since all the pets do is take up valuable inventory space.
The new kit mods sound interesting, but still haven't bought past ones. Maybe this year.
New boards and floaters. I'll buy the ones with the best stats in the style that offends me the least. One of the few times I go for stats over look.
And of course the new Vorgon Dreadnought Cruiser. I like the looks of it. It'll be interesting to see if it may be more of a Sci leaning cruiser since the carrier last year had more of an Engineering focus.
A 6 week vacation from the perils of the Galaxy sounds good right about now.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
What is this, Team Fortress 2? :P
In all seriousness though, it's good to finally see an announcement for this. I almost lost hope that we'd even *have* a Summer Event this year.
The other stuff looks interesting too. Will have to figure out where all my favors are.
That's the shame about Cryptic's approach towards previous event ships/items if you miss out on 1 of a set or series you have to gamble with terrible odds to try to earn it & it neuters the yearning to get the next ship/item unless the stats are good.
The baseball uniforms are a nice DS9 Sisko tribute so might be nice to get 1 or all.
I don't have any interest in getting another powerboard &/or floater just for cosmetic differences.
Vanity pets aren't really my thing, but I know the caracals do seem popular & this might be the first Holographic pet.
The Kit Modules, all 3, sound fun to me & I hope they have cool animations because that would make them very desirable.
The emotes I'm not really into since they only serve a cosmetic purpose, but I know some find those popular & entertaining.
> This console or PC only?
It appears to be both. What that means for the console release of ViL I don’t know. I would rather have the expansion, personally.
Also Console players never had a chance to get their hands on last year's vorgon cruiser.
"Simba, you have forgotten me. You have forgotten who you are … you are my son and the one true king." (Mufasa)
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
The dreadnought DOES look good, in all fairness. As all vorgon ships look good. What aggravates me is the Vorgons are super rare in STO to begin with, and even rarer in the shows. But the corvette was one of the most popular ships you guys ever released. I'm still using it! And I wish there was a T6 version.
I AM THE SWORD OF THE RIGHTOUS!
I like that holographic look on the Risian Caracal... I may finally buy one for one of my characters.
Ship looks nice. A bit too curvy for my tastes. What are the stats? Admiralty stats, that is. LOL!
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
I have 300, total.
However I have over 1000 of every single winter ornament type, each. Combine that with the higher expense of summer items (in raw # of currency), and you can see the disparity is real. I'd love a DOFFing way to earn the summer currency, to match what we have in winter.
I pretty much haven't purchased any summer stuff in 8 years (I barely had enough to get floaters on all my characters, and two summer outfits, one for each of two characters). That's it. While I have tons of winter outfits, modules, and other gear.
Any chance to make this last till September since you guys delayed it for a longer time?
Original STO beta tester.
Yeah, the lolwuts have a bit of a "takes money to make money" aspect to them. Once I had enough to buy a 1000-favor floater, they just started to multiply. The more alts with fast floaters you have, the more you can get out of the Horgahn Hunt. I can run 5 characters through a 15m hunt and get ~500 favors. So I could get another fast floater or swimsuit in 2 hunts. (And since I was doing the hunt to get bird eggs to turn into rep marks for my alt characters, I finished up last year with 16k favors left over.)
But yeah, the doff missions during Winter are pretty convenient.
Interesting, I'll have to try that. I could never justify the need for anything more than the cheapest floater.
I may have to reconsider that. Thanks for that information!
PS4 has it showing on the double login.
Delta recruit is due to end two days after which was when VIL dropped onto PC which means we'll have downtime for the lolnut patch then another for VIL because you just know cryptic won't have planned ahead and worked a patch that covers both things as a single download.
also, we have that super-handy holo-vendor now, so it's easy to spawn it, drop in your Lols, and then switch to the next char.
It's... apparently dwarfed by the actual dreadnoughts.
Indeed, it's very fun, especially if you add the Polaric Modulator and use the Pilot spec...