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OT: What Lucho80 said. That's the thing, it wasn't much of a choice in PvE. You could not use tactical team and either invest heavy in -th, distribute shields and have enough shield resists to hit 60-75% resistance and constant heals to help OR you can use TT and keep spamming it and rely on passive heals evening it all…
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lol I wasn't thinking that, if someone sucks, content shouldn't become easier, they should learn. However we've all faced the conundrum of having either 3rd ens sci/eng station but don't want it to mess with TT rotation (which is only used for the shield distro, which could be automized ;)) and it now lets us actually use…
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How The F**k Am I Supposed To be Killed by such A Monster ??? Tell Me !! On topic though, I don't really care. On the whole I think it's a good idea and I'm sorry Mancom but quoting stuff about game design from S1.2 is at best outdated. I mean this is certainly not the same game it was at launch, no way no how. DDIS the…
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Yup. Edit: Ole VD is probably reaching the point I am, how long till you pack it in? For me it's 2 more posts...speaking of which, I don't understand your beef with the F-Gal X , looks very nice. Could say it's maybe a bit strong but it's in no way, shape or form challenging the scimitar nor does it have massive…
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Then you clearly know nothing of Cryptics target audience or the state of the game. Cryptic are appealing to ALL Star Trek fans. They have explicitly said some have not even played another game before and can't figure stuff out. Now incase that was missed on you and everyone else here, that means they are scraping the…
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The problem is PvP in this game has such a bad rep that most people I know won't even try it. Then there's something someone else said in another thread along the lines of we don't want PvE players joining PvP. Which then begs the question of just where the hell do you think they're gonna come from? Spring out of burrows…
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Thanks, it's what saxfire and many others have been saying for a long time now, good of you to post your tests =) Another thing to mention is that while EptW may not benefit you in overcap it will benefit your energy weapons by giving you a 10-15% damage boost to them. Similarly leech also may not benefit weapon overcap if…
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Pretty sure if you got 5 people focus firing on a transformer with CRF+APO3+FOMM+APA+tactical fleet it would die faster than if you did it with FAW. Pretty sure you could BO3+THY3 with all the above buffs and 5 people and the transformer could blow before the gens. Damage has crept up and up and up with no diminishing…
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Maybe if universal consoles could only be slotted in those universal slots and thus removing them from being slotted in science/engineering/tactical slots en this might have merit. Could even use it as a balancing point, giving scimitars 1 and galaxy cruisers 3. You're all assuming power creep won't happen? Have you been…
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Because (brace yourself this may be a bit of a shock) playing PvP and giving two s***s about balance are not mutually exclusive. Yes there are people who are very well informed about the game who don't PvP. In fact I find it harder to understand why PvPers claim to know so much about the game and try to PvP in such a…
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To be honest though if they prevented teaming in Kerrat and made sure you couldn't escape the Borg by just flying away and fighting in empty space and then made sure the F/K balance never went further than +\-2 players I'd be set to declare it the best system in the entire game. There are not enough hazards in this game…
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Yes because bringing out ships that can keep FBP up for 45s and then cloak letting it recharge is also balanced :rolleyes: Along with paid for doffs etc that do give an advantage to anyone with a big enough wallet :rolleyes: Just like deliberately revamping game mechanics in order to sell premium stuff which outright makes…
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Well one of the problems is because cool down reductions are tied to doffs which are sold for real money it is paid for advantage/win/roflstomp/ego stroke while technicians are available to all. Think about it (directed at everyone but Twam), if you had the pick of any doffs you wanted, ships, crew everything would you use…
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Wow VD, had no idea you ran such a cookie cutter torp boat =P I do like it when people say "X is bad because it's cookie cutter, I use Y because it's different." However they leave out the "but I'm less effective at what I'm doing because of it" side, well in PvE anyway. However here's a thought, maybe some people do just…
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Aux 2 batt with technicians = cool down reductions on the cheap. The highest dps ships do not use it, go figure, maybe it has downsides people don't consider. Once again for the twenty billionth and one time, it is a symptom not the cause.
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And how many pessimistic t***s turn round and say "Anything you want, the content is so easy you have to have a death certificate to fail it"? *tumbleweed* Ok maybe just me then.
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Why not add a handicap per games won or per kill or whatever? I remember back when I pwned all my friends at super smash bros melee we turned on handicap, made games a lot more balanced as every game I won I had my damage scaled down and took more damage. When I lost the handicap would adjust slightly further back.
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Or get 5 zombie tanks with extends organised properly and just say have at it, the scimitars won't get a kill and the game will still be there in 2 years time when they close the server... X is bad, use Y as Y gets Z kills. Y is bad, use X as X gets Z dps.
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However you do need to be pretty rich (in game) to get all the cool down reduction doffs you might like. In the escorts online days one of the reasons they ruled the roost was simply because they could double up on tactical abilities to their hearts content. That and the only cool down reduction doffs were a broken…
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Which is why it's better to say X is bad as it's outclassed by Y because of Z. Example, you can use science abilities to complete anything in PvE and you will be able to do it with optional sand easily. You can even use entirely clickie consoles and do it too but damage completely outclasses it in completion time. I also…
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Just so you know certain items have been almost exclusively under the control of one person for quite some time. Know the right people though and you can get a good deal on anything.
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The problem really stems from the core abilities and how they just don't measure up to alternatives. Still if you look at them as just an added extra to the science ship and more along the lines of the drain being added to your shields as the main aspect they're not bad. It'll be interesting to see what else they come in,…
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I think on other problem is that before all your team got an equally rubbish supply. As in it was the same, for all your team. Now some numpty enables suck on their vacuum cleaner and the engineer stands there crying at no buffs, the rest of the team starts crying because there's no buffs and the guy that hoovered them all…
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But this the thing. VD: numbers numbers numbers omfgwtfmyeyesarebleedingnumbers!!!! DPS nut: I'm just gonna work out which gives me a bigger increase per item. Not so bright DPS nut: Er which is best, single answers please. PvPer: 20% CrtH seems right for me, I'll just stack CrtD now. Cryptic's 95% target audience: meh I…
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But that's the problem, you allow people to distribute at anything close to that speed and you diminish the value of tactical team. Sure people use it for tactical debuffs but that is mainly a PvP thing. Should distributing shields be moved away from having an ability do it? Sure, I'm all for it. However we need a reason…
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I notice that doesn't include in game communication...
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I wrote that months ago and I hate typing the same thing all the time especially if someone has made it easier to quote (thanks meimeitoo). The problem with shield distribution is that it's linked to an ability that otherwise outside of PvP no-one would use.
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I believe adjudicatorhawk mentioned accuracy overflow isn't working properly with a lot of stuff so may end up being scrapped or something to that effect. Really I don't see it as much of an issue though. If you care enough to want the best dps option you'll do one of two things. 1) Sit down and work it out 2) Find someone…
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I don't know if people read everything on the forums but I would just like to say this has been asked many times. As for it being "not that hard" to alter abilities to start at ensign etc, this is actually not possible at the moment without far, far more work than it is worth doing...at the moment. It's the way bridge…
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Everyone knows the problem but nobody wants to say it so I will. The way stuff stacks in this game is complete lunacy. You cannot balance this game without a penalty to stacking or else you can get 5 people to spam something till the cows come home. There's almost nothing in this game you cannot spam with 5 people and it…