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I can also confirm that I was able to trade in a bird for Temporal marks yesterday.
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Give me a few minutes to patch and get into the game, but my initial guess is you need to find the actual pack itself in the C-Store and claim it, at which point all the individual ships will be marked as purchased.
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Due to how the subsystem power settings work, you will always have at least 2 subsystems that would benefit from Efficiency values. For a lot of people, the really common power setting is the default offensive setting of 100 weapons, 50 shields, 25 engines, 25 auxiliary. The result of this is your energy weapons are…
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Before the trait revamp a while back, most races had 2 or 3 fixed traits. One of the fixed traits for Liberated Borg captains was Efficient, later renamed Efficient Captain to separate it from the Bridge Officer trait Efficient as the player version was made twice as effective as the Bridge Officer version. Following the…
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Engineering resistance consoles don't suffer diminishing returns directly, it's the value they provide and the formula used to determine overall resistance. Each armor console adds to a value called Resistance Rating. If a console says it adds +20 to Resistance Rating, you will get +20. However, the higher your existing…
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If they had been released when T6 was still a new concept, I might have gotten the Sagittarius for the ship trait since I like to play defensively, but at this point there's too many redundancies in damage reductions. I might still end up getting it eventually, it seems like it might make a good all-purpose cruiser in the…
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I know that when the game first launched, if you had yourself set to open teaming and entered a mission you could automatically be teamed up with other players who were doing the same mission as you and were also set to open teaming. Not sure if that's the case anymore, I turned that option off a long time ago. I don't…
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JJ is on record as NOT being a fan of Star Trek growing up, so I'd call that statement into at least partial question. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/d6lpc8/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-j-j--abrams
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"Don't care" isn't really accurate but it's the closest thing to "mixed opinions." My personal opinion on JJTrek is that rather than "rebooting" the franchise, they should have just created their own characters, start fresh rather than tying themselves to the expectations of fans of the original series. The only reason…
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The Plesh Brek Heavy Raider doesn't have a cloak, so it's not absolutely guaranteed the Ouroboros will have a cloak even if it is a Raider. That said, the Plesh Brek had a mass sensor jam console that could be seen as a semi-replacement, and was a "Heavy" Raider, so it may depend on what full classification the Ouroboros…
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Haven't played Fluid Dynamics in a long time but Diamonds are resilient SOBs with a lot of firepower, probably best to do hit-and-run tactics if your AI friends can't hold its attention. Reminds me of an old bug where the Dominion Heavy Turrets were partially replaced with STF-grade Borg Tactical Cubes. The enemies still…
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That's correct. Bridge officers maintain their current career and gain the ability to learn space and ground powers for any specialization they know, although you have to actually change their specializations to use them in their respective specialization seats. Bridge officers are not limited to having only one…
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I still run STO through steam without the Arc client, hard to say if that's ever going to change.
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Wasn't this what Perpetual marketed STO as? Not that I'm complaining, it sounded awesome back then and making it a VR game would make it that much better.
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I've seen my Human Tactical Officer use the cloak on the Omega set plenty of times as well, and he definitely doesn't have any other stealth abilities set to him.
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DHCs get fewer chances to crit but they have bonus crit damage on top of a critical hit from a DHC being more severe due to the higher base damage. If they didn't have the innate crit severity bonus then it would average out as far as critical hits are concerned, DCs would get them more often but DHCs would get more damage…
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It's a pity we can't get more specific enemy information, although I assume the lack of descrete info is intentional. I believe it's been generally tested that NPCs generally have no specific weapon resistances, but they clearly have strengths against other types of effects and it would be great to at least get a general…
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Damage reduction diminishing returns are based on a continuous function of your total resistance rating, not on the number and type of consoles you have equipped. Each armor console adds to your various resistance ratings, along with several other potential sources. The amount of diminishing return will largely depend on…
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I don't know the specifics, but NPCs tend to have high resistance to power drain mechanics and system disables, especially the more "elite" enemies like Borg Cubes and Tholian Tarantulas. Years ago before this kind of thing got a major rebalance, it was completely possible to lock down large enemies with drain builds. I…
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Wow, how old is that image? I remember running into that particular bug a handful of times when the game was first released, pity ship weapons and abilities didn't make the transfer, would have loved to see what a ship could do in ground combat.
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I'd have to go searching for it, but a dev basically said no to this specific suggestion quite some time ago. Not that it couldn't be done, but that it wouldn't for certain reasons that I do not remember. Edit: I'm probably not going to be able to find it, I think it's from long before the transition to the arcgames…
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Exploration is defined as "traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it" or "thorough analysis of a subject or theme." Survey is defined as "to look carefully and thoroughly at someone or something, especially so as to appraise them" or "examine and record the area and features of an area of land…
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There is an exception to this, but it was kind of a one-off and not particularly functional. During the Featured Episode "Uneasy Allies" your personal ship is visible on the viewscreen while your ground character is speaking with the central figure of that episode. However, the dev responsible for that said it took some…
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As of last summer, all previous ships are permanently locked if you did not get them from a previous year.
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I believe I've clearly stated my opinion and made my argument out of solid logic. So far all you've done is insult me, and your opinion doesn't seem to have any merit at all. Why don't you actually say why you're excited for an exploration system and what you expect of it so I might actually know where you're coming from,…
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As far as I'm aware, there are no bridge officer powers that directly affect pets beyond targeting them directly or catching them in AoE abilities with heals and buffs. However, there are ways around this. The 3-piece set bonus of the Obelisk space set causes your pets to use the rank 1 variant of any Emergency Power…
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If a simple dialogue is so boring to you, I can only imagine how you would react to an exploration system that expects you to talk to NPCs for an extended period to initiate first contact rather than shoot something. The potential discovery of something new is enough to get some people to want to explore. However, the…
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While I understand a lot of people want the game to be more "Trek" by being more about exploration, I don't really understand why people seem to think exploration should be the major focus of a game like this. Games are supposed to be entertaining. Real exploration is pretty boring, especially in space where there's a lot…
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You might as well ask why there are still gold sellers in MMOs like WoW. They aren't that easy to get rid of.
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Also owning one is one of only two ways to unlock the Jem'Hadar Attack Ship frigate pets for the Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrer, the other way being the T5 Attack Ship. Both ships have only been available via special promotions and as such their availability has been extremely limited, so many people who own a JHDC have to…