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I think that logic is a bit backwards tbh. Playerbase is usually everything for a "free to play" game - Whales need lots of people to show off to so their purchases feel worthwhile, and the more Minnows & Dolphins you have over a given period the more likely some of them will give in and start making Whale-level purchases.…
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Nice one thanks guys.
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Shows you how often I visit my shuttle interior :D Thanks chief.
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Right, OK thanks guys. That's actually depressing - just to make all my 25th C ships look "right" will cost about 80 quid. One last question - is there a list anywhere of exactly which ship "costumes" work with the T6/T5U versions? Some of them are listed on stowiki but it's a bit patchwork. Among other things I want to…
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Eh, you sure? Someone ingame yesterday was trying to help me figure this out and they appeared to successfully equip the number 7 material on T5 hulls. Certainly looked like the right one when we undocked from ESD.
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No, I am saying I have no issue with the facts taking a back seat to an entertaining story sometimes. There are times to complain and movies to complain about; U571, for example, is a ****ing atrocity - but this isn't a historical movie, it isn't trying to be a historical movie, it doesn't even present a vague impression…
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Havelok has the skinny all right, for myself though I do things the other way around - I use the various Exploration and Diplomacy missions to decide where to go, and I do Doff assignments in those locations when I arrive, feels much more like Trek, and the odd combat-oriented missions fits in a lot better thematically.
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Why, because someone is daring to present history as anything other than a procession of dry facts to memorise? I mean crikey, that kind of head-shakery is even less appropriate here; we're talking about the Ancient Greeks, their entire conception of history was as a mythological construct, so why is it such an affront to…
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Most hybrids are already creatable simply by selecting the non-human parent's race, nevermind the alien-gen. Spock was just a slightly-pale Vulcan, Troi was physically identical to any other Betazed we've seen on-screen, and half-Klingons are easy-as since there are half a dozen forehead ridge patterns and that selection…
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You must have missed the explicit statement by Picard in First Contact that "money doesn't exist in the 24th Century". Simply put, Capitalism isn't a desirable economic system, it's merely the most functional system we've devised up until now(and even that is debatable - economic theory's advanced a lot since "righteous…
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I'm sorry to be so blunt, but that is a lie. There is "DRM support" on the PS4, but only to the same extent there was on the PS3, or the 360 - publishers can restrict access to only the online service which they, the publisher run. The only way they could avoid that kind of restriction would be by flat-out telling…
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Yes, that's right, Werner Heisenberg, the man who received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum dynamics", and who made serious and lasting contributions to several other aspects of the field, was "a well known nut" :rolleyes: Further, your argument is nonsensical, since "where its(sic) supposed to be"…
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Honestly I think Sony's marketing team deserve genuine props for this coup - they practically wove the rope that MS used to hang themselves with, and the actual E3 presentation was pitched absolutely perfectly to do the maximum possible damage to MS in the press. I don't doubt for a moment that the XBOne will still sell -…
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Oh bugger, I hadn't even read about his illness, this is such a bloody shame. I've been reading his books since I was wee, a new Culture novel was always something to look forward to and I'd always hoped that, someday, he'd get the chance to see his work on screen as well as in print - he was a great bloke as well, one of…
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Also feel free to shove an embalming hook up your nose and scramble your forebrain before you do, because that's the only way I can think of to make reading such a moronic pile of dung as the Destiny storyline enjoyable. In fact, many of the recent books in the Novelverse seem to have been written to a similar standard,…
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Seriously, when did MMOs become crappy avatar portals to access 90's arcade games or feature-poor RTS minigames? I know it's nice and cheap & easy to throw together some crappy Unity browser game, link it to a button in the STO interface, and say "Exploration; done!", but that would really be the final straw for me. I keep…
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There is no "future" for crafting in STO, because Cryptic/PWE don't want a system that could compete with the power of the zen- and dilithium-based item economy. If they make crafting items the same as or inferior to dilithium/z-store items, but still require dilithium or dilithium-bought components to be used in crafting,…
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I like it, much better explanation than the rubbish they cacked out as part of the Novelverse. It makes far more sense for the differences between Vulcans and Romulans to have already existed prior to the Sundering, with their differing genetic and cultural background forming the basis for the philosophical divide. The…
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"Theseus" could refer to Kagame, or to Alec's step-brother whatisname, or to some plan or event one or both of them are involved with or will be involved with in the future. It's still not clear, like most of the rest of this show, what they're up to with that one. And I don't mean that in the sense of "oooh it's a…
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Because A; the terms of the license are likely worded in such a way as to allow CBS a veto over any content the devs propose to add, a fairly common practice and also B; because fan-made no-profit mods for old games are not even remotely similar to a profit-making corporate enterprise which supposedly "carries the flag"…
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Maybe if the "TOS fans" stopped throwing around hyperbolic nonsense like characterising completely mundane statements along the lines of "T5 connie is silly, and CBS says no" as "hatred", maybe people would be more inclined to listen to you. As a Star Trek fan, regardless of era, I think they were stupid to put in old…
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This. Unless there are a hell of a lot of unlisted fixes, the patchnotes are pretty weaksauce considering the timescale, the amount of bugs that remain(only ones introduced in LoR mind, there are many more that have been around for ages), and that we have no idea when the next round of fixes will arrive. No mention of the…
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Huh, I always wondered why I never get any loot other than batteries, turns out it's because I was under the mistaken impression that Star Trek fans might have some vague understanding of the concepts of generosity and fairness, ah well :/
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I doubt it. Just another in a long list of reasons not to bother visiting my bridge(on most of my characters my away team and my bridge crew only share one or two people, if any).
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Absolutely agreed. At the absolute bare minimum, they need to remove the stupid gender limitations on the belt and chestpiece, there's no obvious reason why they should be locked to one gender or the other.
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Oh goody, so now all I have to do is spend gajillions of EC on the exchange to get the purple crit-traited doffs that will no doubt be necessary to get purple superior-op/superior-inf doffs from the mission - that's completely different and better than spending gajillions of credits on the exchange for the boffs…
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Agreed. I quite like the version used for the UK broadcasts, but this one's far superior. Bear McCreary's a fantastic composer, I like the fact that he's capable of putting together really beautiful classical stuff with more modern influences in a way that just seems right somehow. Case in point; the Defiance Theme -…
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seskalwolfe - you have to remember that players aren't NPCs. If you give a player scimitar the same turn rate as an NPC scimitar, by the time you factor in power settings, power skills, engine mods, RCS, Tachyokinetic Converter, Tactical career skills, etc etc etc what you end up with is nonsense like the Mogai/Valdore in…
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Try out the Mirror Ha'feh - it's a tac-sci biased version of the normal tac-eng biased ship, and it should fairly melt face in PvP with a sci captain. I've also seen reports that the T'Varo makes for a very fun, if slightly suicidal, torpedo boat.
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You mean "improve" surely; rigid class systems are an abomination, nothing more than a deliberate limitation of everyone's creativity and fun for the sake of those players who can't be bothered to learn anything about the system.