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Well my worst experience was a few days ago. I wanted to get a few EDCs and couldn't be bothered to ask my fleet for help because I was lazy, so I decided to hop into Cure Space Elite, because I'm a TRIBBLE like that. Full disclosure: I've never successfully pugged CSE. Anyway, so I warp in. I see: 1) Odyssey. Turns out…
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Well, in my opinion one of the biggest issues is the lack of pvp-centric content. Or even tangentially pvp-centric content. When the fleet system came out, pvp was sadly neglected. They could have had a fleet-vs-fleet pvp system that awarded fleet marks, and I'm sure many fleets would have jumped at the chance, but they…
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You know, there's an old saying about a guy who gets pulled over by a cop for speeding. He says, "but there were 5 other guys before me that were speeding too!" The cop replies, "yeah, maybe, but you were the one who got caught." Look, just like not everyone who's a MPH or two over the limit is gonna get pulled over by the…
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I think that would weaken the skill to the point of unuseability, to be honest. I also want to keep the role play idea in mind here. I mean, in Star Trek lore, what does it mean to "Extend Shields"? I'm extending my shields to your ship, presumably because your shields are weakened or just plain weaker. If you think about…
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The problem I see here is mainly that, under a lot of circumstances it's very hard to find someone who both 1) knows enough about PvP as to be the kind of person you're referring to AND 2) is impartial The second part (and the "and") are very important. Most people are one or the other, very few are both. I'll admit that…
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Just thought I'd hop in here for a second. I am quite gratified to see this get off the ground. When I started my little Tournament thing I was hoping to encourage PvP participation, so it's nice to see someone else doing something toward that end as well. One thing I should mention is that we'd want to get at least some…
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I've always been of the opinion that the best way to have a tank matter is to re-work the Extend Shields ability to transfer some of the damage dealt to the transferee back to the transferer. So in other words if I transfer my shields to an escort and he takes shield damage, let's say that damage is split 50/50 between us.…
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Yes, I'd think they probably should be. I didn't want to ban them this tournament because I thought that they weren't nearly as bad as siphon drones, but they are close, especially if you have several carrier's worth of them.
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yes, this is definitely happening if I have anything to say about it. Hopefully we can have enough guys show up to make this a success!
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I'm still alive pax, just been a bit busy at work is all :). And yes, my intention is this weekend, Saturday to be exact, same time (1pm eastern), unless a better time works for everyone. I still don't have a list of team members from you, pax ;).
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Look, I'm a Lifetimer, and have been for about a year now. So that's about 300+ days, coming up on 400 now. While I am grateful I get such wonderful new toys I do agree it's kind of a slap in the face of those who'd been around since beta. I *do* think that lifetimers should get SOMETHING that justifies what they paid,…
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I don't have a problem with hosting a practice tournament. I don't have the resources to offer any sort of prize for winning this, though, so it'll just be, as you say, fun pew pew. Anybody who wants to join in is free to do so. This is completely casual, although I'd recommend we still follow the rules of the tournament…
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Agreed, Naz. I'm postponing the tournament until we can get a handle on this patch. *sigh* Cryptic, why do you do this to us? kalecto, thank you for your kind offer. Please respond with your @handle when you can so I can add your name to the mod list. Hopefully, you'll still be available the week after, as due to Cryptic's…
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In answer to your questions: yes, you can have more than 5 on your team, but the excess of 5 will be your reserve. This will be a 5v5 so you will have to decide at tournament time who will actually be on your roster, or if you will rotate. Like I said, most of the "banned" items will be up for consideration, this is not a…
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Really? No leaver penalty for somebody who sits at the spawn and never moves until the mission is almost over, then needs everything and leaves? Why on earth not?? The leaver penalty is there to punish people who enter a match, then TRIBBLE their team-mates by leaving immediately. How is a spawn-camper any less deserving…
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Correct. No class restrictions, and cross-faction is perfectly fine. However, certain consoles and duty officers will be off-limits for the tournament (which ones, specifically, is still to be determined, but the ones hammered out so far are up on the page). Glad to have you join us!
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The one thing I am curious about is the efficacy of the Tractor Beam Repulsor version of this Duty Officer. Does it only drain 10 engine power total (eww, weak)? Or does it drain 10 engine power per pulse (hmm, interesting, and possibly useful)?
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As this Doff's drain does not increase with Flow Capacitors (which, in my opinion, it really should), its base drain is not significant enough to warrant a Doff slot unless you have absolutely nothing else you could put there.
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It has been suggested by some that I change the policy to a "zero-tolerance", where a single infraction causes the entire team to be disqualified. I don't like that because it implies I don't trust people, and I do. However I'm leery about an "anything goes" kind of deal because while the line between OP and cheese is…
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I'm pretty sure SNB is 2 minutes too, hence why jump is so effective with it.
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Every little bit helps, and it is one of the only bridge officer (besides the Human ones and the Veteran ones) abilities that work in space, hence why they're so expensive. Three Boffs with Efficient captain can raise the Warp Core Efficiency ability by 25, which is the equivalent of putting two and a half points into the…
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Jump Console's recharge is 2 minutes.
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No idea about the grey-out, but the efficient traits stack with your captain's trait, so having "Efficient" is still quite effective.
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All true. I guess I was anticipating a bit when I announced "official". It's really rather causal, and would be hosted by me. I just thought a tournament would be good for the PvP community, and wanted to put up some of my own EC to generate some interest in it. And yes, bran, I know that it would be difficult to truly…
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I don't want to put pressure on anyone to have to pay up to participate. I think what I'll do is ask for donations; anyone wanting to pledge EC to the tournament prize pool can PM me, either here in the forums or in-game, and I'll record their pledge. On the day we decide to hold the tournament I'll collect the pledges…
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Agreed. I don't know how to contact Borticus, but I'll try PMing him and seeing if he responds. Or maybe he'll read this thread and respond :P *hint hint nudge nudge*. As for what we choose to ban for the tournament, that's gonna have to be something that's agreed-upon between all participating members, or at least a…
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It would be a 6v6, actually, and be a private PvP (this won't be happening in random queues). One moderator on each side. As mentioned earlier, they are required to remove their weapons and stay at least 20km away. Tasks are to look out for SNB doff procs and other such banned stuff, and to record the victor afterwards.…
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Well, Husnak, I also think that part of the problem is an unwillingness (it seems) for fleet leaders to enforce the rules against this kind of behavior. I mean it should be simple. Don't be an *******, and everything works out fine, but when that "one guy" does something stupid, there needs to be real consequences. Perhaps…
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OK, well, from what I understand of PvP fleets in general is that the most prolific, the most visible, and the most capable PvPers in any major PvP fleet is usually the following: 1) he's been playing the game for a while now 2) he's probably been a part of the fleet for some time, or at least, he's been a part of some…
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Lol now you're just trolling :). But seriously, I'm rather disappointed that Pandas are not willing to be a signatory to the treaty. I suppose history doesn't give a good precedent but the future has yet to be written. If President Kennedy had given up this easily about proliferation we'd be living in the Fallout universe…