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Thought I'd chime in and lend another vote of moral support! Lyle, you are THE MAN when it comes to healing! I don't even bother shooting at you in PvP anymore (most of the time). :smile: RCK - a.k.a. "Evul Jacob"
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I could never get the mouse to work for me in this game - I always ended up sliding to the left or right and TRIBBLE up the rhythm. However, you CAN get decent scores using the keyboard, especially if you have a full-sized, external unit (preferably USB-connected). I average 1600-1700, frequently break 2000 and have hit…
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No more anti-time "tangler" or molecular decon beam from cloak? Gee, thanks, Cryptic, for ruining one of my favorite PvP pre-decloak "alpha" tactics. Guess I'll have to fire it from Sing Manipulation from now on. :( RCK - a.k.a. "Evul Jacob"
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Are you in the UK or Europe? I'm having trouble accessing the patch server as well. Here's my tracert showing the packets falling off a cliff when they transit from the UK to the U.S.: Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.2.1] 2 * * *…
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No access via seabone.net (tracert fails), which means much of the UK/Europe is cut-off (including me since my traffic runs through there). :frowning: RCK
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Please, please, please come by Ker'rat with your vengeance. We love big, juicy Federation ships, and I promise not to avoid you! :grin: RCK - a.k.a. "Evul Jacob"
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Well, so much for my plan to buy an "Eternal" class as an upgrade to my R'Mor (Romulan Wells)! :angry: I'm NOT going to give up "backstep" just for some new and unproven Boff powers and a new Starship Trait. Plus, it's slower and less maneuverable, which will only make me an even more attractive target in PvP. I was on the…
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I have a confession to make... The FBP insanity. It's all my fault. The devs CLEARLY think it's hilarious when my tiny little sci ship with a 60K hull can waltz into a swarm of massive cruisers and shred them all in seconds WITHOUT TARGETING A SINGLE ONE! Why else would they continue to buff MY build specifically? I mean,…
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Oh my! Yes! Have you seen what happens to one of those squishy, high-DPS scimis when they run into an APD-boosted FBP3 spammer like my "Evul Jacob?" It's...just...beautiful! :grin: RCK
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Kinetic debuff? You mean Gravitic Anchor? Because I'm not seeing anything else in the Set Powers description in the Wiki. If you have "special knowledge," do tell! :smile: Also, you say FBP is getting a *boost* in 11.5? Everyone keeps saying it's going to get nerfed and that my FBP "noob" build is doomed. Boy will they be…
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Well, since I first commented in this thread I made a few changes: 1. Swapped my engine type to a Fleet Advanced Hyper with [Spd]x3 mod. 2. Slotted the Advanced Engines trait. 3. Changed my power levels so that I put 100% into Aux first and then EVERYTHING else into Engines. Net result is I now cruise around at 185-200 by…
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Best news I've heard in ages! :smile: RCK
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I have yet to encounter a Krenim sci that can compete with my particle-focused R'Mor in a PvP fight. The speed, turn rate and flexible boff seating of the "time ship" trump the Krenim's T6 advantages. For example, I can easily slot SIC3 on my R'Mor, whereas the best I can do on the Krenim is SIC2 (thanks to the lack of an…
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I dream of FBP3 boosted by OSS. :) RCK
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Indeed. I don't know how many times I've hit the fire button only to look up and see that damned FPB icon active on my target. Nothing to do but scramble for the heals and hope you're not as OP as you think you are! :sweat: RCK
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I've got an FBP reflection waiting with your name on it :smile: RCK
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Actually, I find them both to be problematic to use in practice. SIC3, which I run religiously, is easily cleared by ET - a heal virtually everyone slots. And ISO Cannon, though it walks and talks like a Torpedo, is treated as a beam. As such, it is reflected back by FBP, often with devastating (to the attacker) results.…
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Not really. Structural Integrity Collapse, Endothermic Inhibitor, Aceton, even the mislabeled/poorly animated ISO Kinetic Cannon (is it a beam or a torpedo?) - all are "fire-and-forget" weapons. DRB is the only one of the major specialty "beams" that requires you to aim at what you're attacking and to HOLD that aim for the…
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You hit the nail on the head there: The Paradox is a great ship, but it's not a 1:1 replacement for either the Wells/R'Mor/Korath or the Mobius/Talvath/???. We need a ship that retains the characteristics of these older models - fast, maneuverable, "tanky" - while adding much needed Intel/Pilot/Command seating. Please,…
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You'd think so, but in reality it's the turn rate of those escorts that makes them hard to kill. They just do a 180 degree maneuver and their out of the arc. And it doesn't help that DRB only works for as long as you hold it on target. Break contact, then re-establish it and the beam is gone. Rather stupid mechanic if you…
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I love EPtE as is. By combining a Fleet Advanced Hyperefficient [Spd]x3 engine with the Advanced Engines trait, EPtE1, all power sliders directed first to aux then engines, and 2x Purple DCEs with 2x Krenim Engineering Boffs, I'm flying around at 185+ in my R'Mor (Temporal Science Vessel). Makes escaping DRB and the…
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Well, you're the one who stated this rumor, so spill! What do you know and how do you know it! :smile: RCK
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Funny that you point out the ET solution, Lumpkin. I've been instinctively hitting ET whenever I get webbed and it does seem to neutralize the damage (if not the hold/disable effect). And this is without Temporal Insight, which I don't have. Of course, I also have Aux2Damp running at 100% uptime and PH cycling at GCD, so…
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Oh, so you liked the "exclusivity" of having a rare/unique ship. Got it! But who's to say an updated version won't still be a Lockbox and/or Lobi Store item? I'm just hoping there's an upgrade path for existing temp sci owners so we don't have to buy a whole new ship! :smile: RCK
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Not sure what you're getting at here. How would updating your wells to include (maybe) Intel seating and (perhaps) a new star ship trait constitute "everything special" being taken away? You mean you LIKE watching others tap into cool Intel abilities - like OSS, EMP Probe, Ionic Turbulence, etc. - while you're stuck using…
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You forgot us HoBOs! We pretty much live in Ker'rat these days. :smile: RCK - a.k.a. "Evul Jacob"
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You wouldn't have anyone specific in mind with that quote, would you? :wink: RCK - a.k.a. "Evul Jacob"
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[inflamatory comment modded]
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But that should show up in general network diagnostics. I'm saying that nothing else changes - no increase in the PING round trip, no dropped packets, and no obvious issues when executing "nettest", "pathping", etc. In fact, I reported those results in an earlier thread that went unanswered: http://goo.gl/I9mwLR No, this…
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I run 2x Krenim Engineering Boffs and I find I still need to slot 2x DCEs to get at or near 100% uptime on EPtE1. So they're definitely not enough on their own for me. However, they do allow my Doff'd Aux2Damp1 to be up almost continuously - 1 second gap vs. around 5-7 seconds with SROs. That, alone, makes them worth it to…