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1618 may not be equal to 1571, but if I can get that 1570 consistently from eight different arrays simultaneously on the same target, that's definitely superior to 1618 from usually four of them. Let me slot all the omnis I want, and there's no reason for me not to slap eight of them on a cruiser and then pretty much just…
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Rule of Acquisition #83: Revenge is profitless.
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Generative "AI" quickly descends into what its creators euphemistically call "hallucinations". It would make the Third Borg Dynasty look like fracking Shakespeare. I keep reminding people - "Artificial Intelligence" at current technology levels is nothing more than a marketing buzzword. It's predictive text with good PR,…
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Of course, that was mostly because in TOS nobody gave half a damn about "continuity", as long as everyone was wearing the correct uniform and remembered their lines. TV in the '60s didn't sweat things like that, because after an episode first aired, you'd never see it again until reruns. (Syndication existed, but shows…
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Yeah, I've been ignoring that, because it's been going on since at least closed beta. Fourteen years now the game's been supposedly "on the verge of being shut down", "clearly dying", "losing players left and right", and yet here we are.
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Someone has clearly never read the results of generative "AI". It'd make the Third Borg Dynasty look like the height of Star Trek storytelling. Don't know what I mean? The latest example is the script "written" for the disastrous Willy Wonka - pardon me, Willy "McDuff" - attraction in Glasgow recently. It can be read at…
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It's nice to know that CO will at least stay in maintenance mode - I figured they'd drop that like a glowing green rock. I wasn't terribly concerned about STO staying, as it's been successful and influential enough to have contributed designs to PIC. That's a good mark of achievement.
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Other hand, turrets do markedly less damage than beam arrays, which is not true of omni-beams.
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Somehow, I'm never online when it hits, despite playing during that precise time when you say it hits "everyone"? I dunno, man, between this and a couple other threads I'm starting to think that maybe some folks just like complaining about Cryptic and don't really care whether anyone else in fact shares their issues. And…
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Not everyone. Unless I'm not part of "everyone".
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Qo'noS, if you want to be pedantic about it. :smile:
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My playtime tends to be between 7pm and 9pm GMT (11am to 1pm Pacific). And several people have been complaining that the issue is constant, and denying the experience of anyone who says otherwise. Is it possible that those times are simply busy times on your local networks? I have no idea which time zone you're working…
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Okay, I play through Peril Over Pahvo three times a day, for reasons. The only lag I've experienced so far has been when there are like seven different graphics-eating effects going on at the same time near me; other than that, smooth as glass. So while I don't doubt that some of you are experiencing lag, I really don't…
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One problem there, Red: you're assuming that what you see on your screen is the error message a sysadmin would see at the office or the server. In fact, so far as I can tell, SERVER NOT RESPONDING is the only error message the client is programmed to display during gameplay. Your internet connection died? Their internet…
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Because that's not the problem. The current problem appears to be an intermittent fault in the login servers, which (before you start yelling at the devs) are located about 3000 miles away from the corporate offices, for reasons I've never been clear on. They need to get a technical team to look at the login servers, which…
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Borger King: Have it my way!
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If you play 10 TFOs in a row, you have enough time on your hands that a total of 15 extra minutes should be meaningless.
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Maybe they got tired of people complaining that there were no upgrades to any of the Romulan ships. Other hand, this kind of shows the wisdom of not bothering with those upgrades - they found one that was thematic to the bundle, and everyone wants to complain.
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Not in my experience. In fact, AFS InvalidEntityName was commissioned just a couple of hours ago.
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Cryptic did not install that software. The node it was stopping at was just before that, at their ISP. Cryptic (probably along with other users, it was a known issue at the time) persuaded them to uninstall it. The login problems, of course, are with the login server, which has needed younger hamsters for a while now.
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Yeah, kids, if you're a casual like me, don't join Elite TFOs. They're called "elite" for a reason. I'm not that guy, so I stick to Normal.
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Yeah, I headcanon out a lot of stuff from the later movies, because it doesn't make sense. The Borg Queen as a literal "ownership"-style individual? They sent their singular central consciousness on a risky mission back in time just to subjugate one planet?? Yeah, that's just dumb, so I assume the story is inaccurate in…
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And sometimes there isn't a reroute. I suppose, in our hypothetical driving scenario, one could head about 300 miles south to Portland and try to cross through the Columbia River Gorge - assuming the highways haven't been covered by an ice storm, which isn't uncommon. So then you go to the next eastern route, which if I…
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And if it's mid-December and both Stevens and Snoqualmie Passes are closed by avalanches, you're not getting very far for a couple of days. It's not the fault of the place you're headed to in Massachusetts, it's just one of those things. Star, as an example there was an incident about a year or two ago when we all hit…
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"Multitude of threads"? Really? Where? 'Cause it sure hasn't been here.
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(quote of discussion of moderation removed) - darkbladejk It has been omnipresent for you - perhaps. It has clearly not been so for most, or even many. Have you run a tracert?
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Hm. That does lead one to suspect that it may be due to the population of NPCs wandering the station, the population of players seeking to run the new episode (which starts on DS9) during the event, and the Omega molecules popping up on board. I wonder if it would be possible to turn off the molecules specifically at DS9,…
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Cryptic Studios owns and operates Star Trek Online. Gearbox is the publisher.
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FWIW, I haven't experienced lag lately, so it's probably not an issue with Cryptic's server farm this time. Probably.
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Ah, that explains it. I abandoned Twitter when the fans of Bad Mustache Man took over. Any chance the game devs might echo their tweets into a Bluesky account or something?