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(Trolling comments moderated out. - BMR)
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Also, if you're playing as a Borg, you have no agency, not even the limited amount you get in-game now. You will go where you are directed, you will do as you are directed, you will die if the Collective requires it even if the reasons for requiring it are trivial. A Borg drone has absolutely no say in anything that…
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Then again, if there's a power issue, suddenly all the people working in that area are evacuated into space without suits. Not an ideal solution.
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However, they were never recommissioned while another ship of the same name was in service. The name Enterprise, in Prime canon, was assigned to NCC-1701-G in 2402, so Prime canon can't recommission the Ent-F at this point (although precedent from both Ent-A and Ent-G imply that the ship herself could be recommissioned…
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We can, however, pull a little timey-wimey to claim that she was first commissioned in the late 24th century, and 2409 was a refit (preparatory to her upgrade to Yorktown-class in 2410). It's just that we can't reconcile her decommissioning in 2401 and the launch of Ent-G in 2402 with Ent-F relaunching in 2409. That was…
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On the third hand, it was officially decided (at least at Cryptic) that as of Picard season 3, STO is an alternate future timeline. Upcoming shows might draw from it, but are not obligated to because the timelines split when the Ent-F was decommissioned in the Prime timeline, while remaining in service for another nine…
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Two and a half years. Kirk was in Starfleet Ops, Spock was studying Kohlinar, and the Enterprise was in drydock being overhauled. Those years weren't all that "lost". Now, the apparent five-year mission the Enterprise was sent on after the V'ger Incident...
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If you insist on treating the game like a job, including demanding a raise just to show up, you're not enjoying it. Why do you play if the play itself isn't enough? (Genuine question, as it's a mindset I completely fail to understand - I abandoned WoW after playing for years because I realized I was only grinding for…
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Other hand, for a variant on that, James White's Sector General stories had Monitor Corps ships equipped with a "rattler" - a tractor/pressor beam that would switch polarity several times a second, essentially shaking its target to pieces. If tractors aren't stopped by shields, that could be quite a weapon in STO...
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Point of order: the boards on Risa are almost the opposite of the hoverboards from BTTF. For one thing, they work best over water, an environment that didn't serve Marty McFly well at all. For another, they're full-size surfboards, not the size of skateboards. The reason our hoverboards hover is because (per Tacofangs'…
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The Borg refused to assimilate the Kazon, as they would have actually diminished the Collective. Are we sure they can make a T6 ship? :smirk:
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I'm sorry, but Picard blew it up (rather than simply lay our warning buoys and call in some archaeologists from the Federation).
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Heck, let's go really old-school and get the original version of the Orion ship from before TOS had its graphics upgrade. A ship that's just a spinning diamond of light!
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However, this isn't just about Gravity Kills - I'm gathering that GK came up on a Universal Endeavor (haven't been on this weekend, personal stuff). In which case Dark's question stands: if you're doing it because it came up as an Endeavor, why are you not running it on Normal to get it over with? If the answer is still…
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Still learning to fly mine, but it's been fun so far. Considering getting a better RCS accelerator, so I can make full use of the cannon I have on the bow.
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Tribble and epohh deployable combat pets with unique abilities for each breed, a la Pokemon. Gotta catch 'em all!
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The main reason I don't put my Roms into Republic uniforms is because of the ugly pastel (and mostly green) color scheme forced on them. The tailoring isn't bad, but the colors are. (How in the name of the Great Bird did they invent pastel black??) Please, devs, find a way to unlock the colors for Roms and Klinks, so I can…
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Oh, trust me, spaghetti code can be quite thoroughly documented too. It just has weird calls and loops, and parts can wind up being connected that have no business being connected. (How did CO vehicles manage to shut down the chat channels that once connected all of Cryptic's games? They're completely different systems…
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So you're incapable of moving if the situation changes? Are you sure it was the jelly driver who was "the bad one"? Also, they're not "leeching" and "AFK" - they're using options to heal other ships and do damage to large numbers of enemies. In Iupiter Irratus, it goes a lot more smoothly when someone with a jellyfish…
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And it missed the point of "The Pegasus" because in that episode Riker didn't tell Picard the truth because rah-rah-love-my-crew, but because, as Picard said in another episode, "The first duty of any Starfleet officer is to the truth!"
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1: Most of them aren't sitting on top of the cube, they're sitting off to one side. And they aren't targeting the probes and spheres on their side, they're just shooting at the cube while it's invulnerable. 2: There's also the goal to save as many rescue pods as possible before they get sucked into the cube. They don't…
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Wait, weren't you the one upthread justifying sitting in one spot while your pets do minimal damage, causing the TFO to drag on longer?
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Oh my Great Bird, no! Not healing and support!!
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Yeah, phoenix, that not only makes no sense, it's also contradicted by everyone involved in the show. Berman and Braga actually thought we'd all love their "love letter to TNG", and it took them years to understand how badly they'd misstepped. Consult their own interviews on the topic.
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That's nice. Except either the pets and summons aren't leaving your side (which they generally don't), or they're doing a lot less damage than some folks seem to think. It's just a bit disheartening to find three probes attacking, say, the Chekov, opening fire on them, and realizing I'm the only one doing this as all the…
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Pity. I'd love to see someone sitting on top of the cube starting with phase 2, because so often people start just shooting the (invulnerable) cube while Assimilation Probes eat the NPC ships alive, then the Spheres (eventually) start running rampant. I suspect that some of the players actually set themselves to autofire…
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I rather like it when there's a jellyfish or two in a TFO. That soothing pink glow does minor damage to enemy ships in its field, and heals me. What's not to like? (It's especially handy in Iupiter Irratus when a jelly sets up right at Jupiter Station, helping to keep the Terran hacker ships from stealing data while the…
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Or it's difficult to reproduce - the people-sitting-inside-chairs thing, for instance, doesn't happen to me every time, just sometimes. So I ignore it, because as a former software engineer I understand that some things just aren't that important.
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(response to redacted post redacted - rattler)
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Sarcastic Vulcan salutes! :lol: