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Wait, I replied to the wrong thread. Meant to go into the 'what buffs does the JHAS need' thread.
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A Vorta BOff.
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Cryptic seems unaware of how much of a disadvantage one fewer BOff slot and one less BOff ability (which will be one of the highest since they remove from the top) is. It makes the ships useless and consequently unusued in the end-game. Adding a 1-skill Uni BOff station or bumping one up from 2 to 3 skills might solve…
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If you have a BSOD this is either a hardware issue or a driver issue. If there's a driver responsible it might be mentioned in the bluescreen report somewhere. nv4_disp.dll would be an nvidia graphics driver bluescreen for example. On the hardware side issue can range from the aforementioned overheating to virtually any…
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In terms of the argument whether this game is Pay2Win 'lazy' is just meant to label the time-saving aspect that dominates the advantages of investing real money in non-Pay2Win games like STO. It's compareable to EvE Online where you can buy ingame currency for real money in a very similar manner to STO. While the…
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That is good enough for me. We can agree you only 'catch up' more quickly to the optimum and in some cases, like reputation, it does not speed up anything. I don't see it as much of an advantage and more of a convenience. That's putting it fairly well.
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I generally like the idea of making starships more like captains: giving options to change/upgrade it in regards to consoles/hull/BOff slots so everybody can fly the ship they like visually while staying competetive. Of course it shouldn't be a free for all (Escort BOff and consoles on a Cruiser?) but giving a greater…
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And advantage to whom? The player? Or PWE? I just wouldn't want to generalize in that regard; some people here likely are affluent enough to not have to care in the slighest how many lifetimes they bought while on the other end of the spectrum some are poor enough they literally earn a noteworthy amount of money farming…
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Your hypothetical scenario has no bearing on the actual state of affairs and the argument also ignores important underlying factors. Take away the payer and the game ceases to exist; for example. Fact of the matter is people can attain 100% optimal performance in STO without paying any real money themselves. They can win.…
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Yep. Can't stand this either. This is the three year anniversary of a product Cryptic is selling. It's like the three year anniversary of the Twinkie, except that they'd need to put anniversary presents into the twinkies. This would be neither safe nor would it make the twinkies free. If Cryptic bought you a beer are gave…
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No, no - you're spot on, sacrificing just a tiny bit dps and getting Emergency Power to Shields instead of to Weapons with an Eng captain works wonders, but your dps overall will be ~20% lower than a Tacs (mostly due to not having his crazy damage bonus abilities, altho the system-power tricks an Engineer has help). And…
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The subject is the most important part, because he has a decision to make based on it: whether to read or delete right away. [lockbox suggestion] opposing-races theme (e.g. Saurian vs. Gorn) Not sure whether that's too long, but it gives a good idea of what's to follow.
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You seem horribly unaware of an Escorts lack of survivability and a Tactical captains lack of abilities to enhance survivability. Killing things faster helps with survival, yes, but as soon as you're dead your dps drops to exactly zero. And how are the odds of survival in an Escort? Correct: they are the worst of any ship…
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Ew. I don't think the Tholians like us that much. If anything the Tholians might view us the way Datas cat views Data. Moderated disaffection and disdain. The way all cats view people.
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This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies . ~BranFlakes
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What exactly is the difference in being hit by 8 x 15.000 dmg or 8 x 50.000 dmg? 120.000 vs 400.000 dmg. You're dead if either hits your structure. The lesson? Don't get hit by a big TRIBBLE mine pattern.
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I regret to not have made "Under heavy fire" bold, because that is the crux. If left alone the Escort is plain best, but under attack Escorts are in trouble, which usually means moving or fleeing, which means losing some or all dps, et cetera. Have an Eng Escort pilot aswell (in a Breen ship these days) and in retrospect I…
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Did you pug an elite STF lately? If you're lucky you end up in one that takes an hour. If that's your definition of fun. Do you want something so difficult even the good players need an hour to finish while still being a fun activity? (so no waiting 5 minutes for nonsensical bars to fill or traveling through half the…
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Yup, you might be able to still do slightly more dmg with 4DHCs/3Turrets than his 8 beams (for the sake of example and if you're the same kind of captain, which is a given). But you're missing an important point. You (I quote) sit. Because in the long term it's the only way to keep your DHCs on target without doing flybys,…
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Everythings role is damage dealer, just to a greater or lesser extend with other capabilities thrown in: tanking crowd control healing Of course you can also be a glass cannon, all dps abilities Tac Escort. You can also put in an Engineer and use tanking abilities to reach a fair compromise between tanking and raw damage.…
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I guess years of STO have lowered your standards? The story was okay, if a bit weird, altho befitting an anniversary mission. The more-than-usual voice acting helped. And there isn't anything right out negative to say: So while this wasn't exactly groundbreaking in general (and I suspect there will be more voice acting in…
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I enjoyed sending Captain Shon to be mushed by the Tholian guard. I hate him.
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I think it has reached the point where I can safely say: A veteran sawmill operator still has way too many fingers left to count how many fu<ks I still give about this game. This doesn't mean I'll ragequit now baawbqq, no. My care was slowly worn away so I wouldn't even care to quit in a huff. It means that I'll finish my…
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We wonder why you decreased the cap in the first place. Because the servers all bombed up? Certainly it's the customers fault?
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Congrats on shutting down the server, Cryptic. What's next? Rollback?
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I see the queue getting longer, too, without any change in place. Maybe they just set the limit to zero so nobody can log in again - because people log out - which I think is what's making the queue grow since people try to log back in + people just showing up.
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I think they really just figured out: "Hell, we need to reduce server load let's reduce player capacity by 10.000". It's not like 10.000 people all of sudden want to login.. they probably just switched character or the like.
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They increase the size of the database. The real problem with all events always is: too many people in one place - so specific portions of the server are stressed near the breaking point by 10 or 20 thousand people doing the same thing at the same time.
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The Event is "SERVER NOT RESPONDING (342 sec.)". (Altho I got in eventually.)
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And you come onto the Internet to berate people about them wasting their time? The irony is strong with this one.