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The one upside to the situation (which sucks for Cryptic but DECA is providing a lifeline for the games that Embracer wouldn't have followed through with in all likelihood otherwise) is that with new people coming in you have new viewpoints on old arguments. Ex. how worthwhile it is to invest in old battlezones and events.…
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Update: there's also some window Z-fighting at the port side windows next to the bridge on the upper surface of the saucer.
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Isn't that just a matter of headcanon? You can imagine the Premonition being built more recently. Not every FED ship needs to be shifting over to newer patterns of hulls and nacelles, and the Federation is a gigantic entity that you would expect to practice heterogeneous ship building programs to meet Starfleet's needs. It…
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Nothing has changed, so you may want to check your display and graphics settings. You should also check which hull material and pattern you're using if your display/graphics options check out.
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That's the most defining feature of the ship (without you can very nearly kitbash this ship 1:1 with Sovereign and Archon) and modeling it without comes at a real cost to dev time (rigging the option, modeling the gaps, designing what you model, and adjusting textures). Ultimately Cryptic prioritizes authenticity and needs…
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The time between seasons is more or less a static element of STO over the last decade. We've had 0.5 seasons for a bit but that was with a larger team. I'm not sure why folks keep bringing this one up as the current pattern's been a consistent element of STO for the past half-decade (as the team restructuring took place…
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Low because T5 ships aren't marketable and not enough people engage with the standard c-store (preferring instead the FOMO/gambling) with real cash to make it a juggernaut of the STO economy. You're offering up very marginal sales for very marginal sales and while you can argue it would make folks happier who want the ship…
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Well, to get started the reason for the broad limitation is that cannons and beams were balanced against each other and towards two different styles of gameplay: front and broadside. Removing the omni-beam restriction completely voids that core gameplay concept as a 4/4 omni-beam boat could cover all but rear arcs of fire…
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Given that time of day changes aren't viable on Risa, dynamic lighting changes within maps could well be subject to the same limitations. If the lighting sources is baked into the map pieces vs. rigged using objects that can be changed around on the fly, then no this isn't going to happen. There's also the point that if…
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The way I look at that isn't FOMO (eg. if I don't have it, I need to get it). It's something nice for folks who've *already* bought the ship over the years, just for a higher grade of Obelisk. Eg. super fans of the ship. A set bonus like this isn't going to make or break a build, and no one should make an "obscene"…
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As others mentioned, there's a waiting period on first time zen buys. If that comes and goes here's STO's support page. https://support.playstartrekonline.com/hc/en-us/ No, you can't contact them by phone but they're really good at responding to tickets and you can review your transaction history there to boot for…
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If you have a range of STO stardates what you could do is extrapolate around those (doing what others have done for the other series) and create your own relative dating system. Take a few landmarks, decide exactly what date they fall on, then make a rate calculation of days to stardates to place your adventures with.
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Here's an example I found on a Bing search. What's to recommend is that it uses LCARs. https://stardatecalculator.com/ As far as I'm aware and have read, no official way to calculate stardate as show's didn't use a codified stardate calculator, setting episodes in precise chronological order mapped out to calendar days.…
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As addressed on Ten Forward Weekly, the "BoP family" is a distinct set of ships with unique skeletons and proportions. Linking them all together would be like trying to link the Constitution, Excelsior, Ambassador, and Galaxy classes into one ship family because they have the same general components and shape of saucer,…
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The amount of visual clutter presented by the symbol is absolutely minimal, it doesn't cover other UI elements or create a dramatic visual signal for the character. It also still provides information on how that character can claim their recruitment rewards and what objectives are available on replayed missions. You may…
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This, there's no good reason why a one way conversation option should exist. It also covers the need to notify players trying to engage with others that their privacy settings don't allow it.
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If they have the recruitment device, then they are a recruit. That's the key state change here. If you progressed pass the point the device was given outside a recruitment event, then they cannot become a recruit and you should start the character over if you want the rewards. If they have not gotten to that point yet (I…
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If someone made a character outside an event, but then got to the point where the recruitment doohickey is given, that suggests that they tripped into an event. Eg. Recruitment tutorial variants are turned on and pushed to players in real time, so you *need* to bank your recruitment status *during* the event regardless of…
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If for some strange reason it doesn't, you can get the T5 version from a fleet store and use the Solanae bridge regardless. Remember that ship bridges have now been unlocked, and ships with fancy bridges unlock their bridge for the character. Bridge access is something we can fix ourselves at this point. Event ships don't…
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Are you sure you didn't have it before playing the episode in the same login session? Easy explanation is that it was unlocked for the Assimilator with a recent update, and that maybe you only noticed after playing the mission.
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It's an easy choice for torpedo builds (via mix armament synergy and concentrate firepower). 3 is plenty for most firing cycles and it's buffed by command to boot. I've built torpedo carriers before and they can be deadly splitting the power with EPG. Here with an ENG focus you have more opportunity to max out the carrier…
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Having used Andoria in the Foundry, Cryptic could get away with using old assets to simply build something of interest on andoria. It's a blank icy field, there's not much that needs changing about that. Just put something new on it (and I know from said Foundry experience there's stuff Cryptic can pull from in their asset…
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Big thumbs up this year, I was a little down on the Hypserian theme and offerings but these are mighty. All bases covered, new costume type (fingers crossed the wet suit can be kitbashed in the tight uniform category), fun kit module set playing to elemental abilities (a really fun avenue of ground builds I've found),…
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Again, it depends on how the character is named. You're absolutely free to change your full name in your character's information page (edit record -> change name. This does not require a rename token). But the character name as far as it exists on the account may or may not reflect a name you want changed with a CAT. That…
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I wouldn't assume it'll have *any* effect on servers or that there's a technical reason to do this. More to the point: these are promotional events. Risa appeals to players with established characters and a taste for doing something outside the regular norm. A recruitment event gives folks a reason to jump into the game or…
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We've had a similar issue with the ground tailor. Moustaches for a hot second a few years back made characters invisible. Likely the same issue just manifesting with a different set of personal assets (eg. ship). That's the exact same ship at two different angles and a bit of perspective warping for being a ground asset…
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I haven't played resurgence myself yet, but Bing provided this for the T'Kon Vault (eg. T'Kon ship?)
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If you're looking to get the ships into STO, then that would be through a dedicated lock box. Reps come with a wide range of other gear and traits, which could also be delivered through a lock box. I don't think STO's looking at new reps any time soon either. The problem is that the system was expanded so much with T6 per…
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Nope, the CAT doesn't come with an automatic rename. It would be a hit/miss inclusion as not every character is given a full or first name that would require a change over. The name change token is very cheap by comparison (200 zen IIRC) so it's not much of an extra thing to save for.
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A great time to bring it up again if they don't make any moves here is when Cryptic/DECA dives into SNW content in episodic or TFO content. There's a bunch of stuff to capitalize on from the series, but a lot's already been pushed to lock boxes. Diving into TOS stuff, perhaps mixing around ideas from the classic and…