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Hard to know. With a known IP you have certain expectations and limitations, and STO has been hit and miss on those things in relation to Star Trek. It definitely isn't the Trek game a lot of people wanted. It isn't a terrible game by any means, ignoring the window dressing, though the neglect on the systems and balance…
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There is so much wrong with these new forums, fortunately I don't need to add anything. I think the worst problem is the overall readability with how posts, sigs, quotes, etc are barely separate at all. I also dislike the colossal waste of space on actual monitors.
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The wiki is usually pretty accurate on these, but I do agree things are not consistent nor obvious. The only thing that can be done is keep the wiki accurate. As for the debate between inhibiting and deteriorating, the big downside of deteriorating is that it takes ten seconds to do maximum damage. Inhibiting takes 4s to…
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No, the blockchain is decentralized. There is no server, its information stored everywhere and replicated across the blockchain. However NFTs don't really need more energy than is already being used by cryptominers. Yes they are fundamentally linked but they are not separate, additional systems or anything. They are using…
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Yeah environmental concerns are usually vastly overstated any time anyone uses that as an excuse. Plastics aren't remotely harmful to the environment if actually disposed of properly, like in a landfill, or "recycled" which is what happens in western countries, even California. Unfortunately many countries just dump stuff…
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I think Barclay would be great to see. I'd rather they spent the money on the game not the voice actors though, and this goes for Janeway or Spock or Burnham or anyone else. But since the already dump money on the actual actors why not bring back Barclay too?
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If they designed and kept designing the demand side properly there would never need to be a reason to touch supply side. But of course they have utterly ignored the demand for dilithium so the inevitable spiral happens.
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You can't remove the omni restriction without buffing turrets and single cannons. Cannons already require higher tier boff slots to get buffs, seem to have less ship traits to make them good, and obviously turrets sacrifice a lot of damage for the full 360 while single cannons offer very little compared to beams,…
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I tend to agree. The voice acting is uninteresting, even detrimental at times. The snark level is absurd as well, lately, and has no place in the game.
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There is no question there is useful stuff in Reputations for various builds. There is no ~350k dilithium worth of usefulness however. As I said before, I have newer characters that have unused reputation dil vouchers sitting around from recruitment events. What do they need it for? Nothing! If I recreated those particular…
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The fact that the market is capped proves that point. The dilithium in game is not being used, people want to get rid of it, so much so that the price of dil can't go lower. And keep in mind some of the buyers of dil are undoubtedly speculators, betting that Cryptic is going to do something to bring the market back down…
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Even if this ship had pylons to the nacelles it would still be ugly and uninspired. The Prometheus is far, far more interesting of a ship.
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This is an absurdly stupid change. There is some 350k+ dil in the tier 5 rewards. Who spends that much on reputation gear? I have several newer characters that still have a reputation dil voucher balance as it is from the various recruitments and never used it all despite having mk XV gear. What would they do with another…
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Correct, but that happened about a decade after the Soviet Union was gone. Also correct, but that isn't counter to what I was saying. Because they can is not a good reason. Because the RSE is fractured is also not a good reason. Because open hostilities have broken out, thus removed the point of the treaty is a good reason.
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Except the US did continue Soviet era treaties, like the ABM treaty, with post Soviet states. There is no reason the UFP could not continue the treaty with both the remains of the RSE and the Romulan Republic. That they can't enforce it may be true but that is pure power politics which the principles of the UFP really…
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This is the internet. At no point will there not be people being jerks. Even in real life people are jerks. However, 'because there are jerks' is not a valid excuse to not communicate. That contingent can be ignored and their complaints distilled down. What we can say for sure is that no interaction or no addressing…
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I read through and pre-edit what I type in these forums before I press the "post comment" button, so why can't they do the same for these announcements before they post them?
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This isn't relevant. Any security issues are the users problem, and as Win 7 fades into obscurity the risk from those security flaws are increasingly irrelevant as it represents a group of largely outdated and unimportant machines from a hacker's perspective.
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This game was designed and released when win 7 was the dominant OS. It isn't unreasonable to expect that to stay supported for the lifetime of the product. Is it difficult for the devs? Yeah, but too bad. I'm on my third computer to run this game, now, and I can't recall what the original system was, I think an Athlon dual…
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The regular T6 Excelsior is plenty viable. It is not flexible, but anything T6 is viable to play the game and do advanced queues.
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Not a big fan of this mission either. The Defiant was miserable. Why? Well aside from it being a poor weapon layout/boff combo, I went in with a torpedo science ship captain. I don't even have a full power to weapons preset on the character, and skills of course are not setup for an energy weapon oriented ship. You guys…
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The point of functionality is really the biggest one, I think. It is why detached nacelles are so ridiculous to many people, because it takes far more energy to keep them 'attached' without a simple strut, and there are serious problems when you have power failures. But on a broader sense, you just look at these ships and…
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Gatekeeping is 100% necessary for an IP. Its not even sensible to not gatekeep. You don't let my little pony into Star Trek, for example. I hope that is obvious. It weakens and cheapens any IP to put in things that are wildly out of sync with what the IP is about. Now we as customers don't have a say beyond not watching…
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First off, no one at STO designed these ships. You know that, everyone who dislikes the ships knows that, so why are you even suggesting that ridiculing certain designs has anything to do with the devs? Next you're obviously imagining any racism, sexism, etc. because it has nothing to do with poorly written characters and…
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What does criticizing or ridiculing the ships have to do with the devs or fans of the show? Answer: Nothing whatsoever. It has to do with the ship designs. Stop conflating things.
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Them being Starfleet ships absolutely is a big part of it. There is an iconic look with established in universe design rules to Starfleet ships and because of that even the Defiant remains a hard sell for many people. As for the childish insults other posters are making. Get over it. People don't have to like what you…
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Yes, mouse clicking to play the game is utterly unreliable. Based on my years of observations, I am guessing that the activation happens after a full click. That means press and release the mouse button, not just a press of the button. The press clearly shows the icon being activated, but it seems if you are trying to…
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Yes this game wasn't made with ease of getting information to make informed decisions in mind. It launched with zero ability to get info on ships before you buy them. Stuff like BOFF seating? Who knows!? Weapon slots? Guess a number! In beta I was trying to put together a public list of basic info for the ships so people…
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It is pretty telling. There was a lot of feedback about this STF when it came out talking about these issues. Most people seemed to like it, but it clearly needed some tweaks. And... it got none at all in the many months since.
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I would say you've probably overdone it on the armor consoles, and as you're using torpedoes and cannons your turn rate is totally neglected. If you can invest in a conductive RCS console, it can come with its own armor mod, but I highly suggest more than just that. Your skill tree also shows some weaknesses as you have no…