If the lag isn't fixed the ships are useless. No point in sinking more money in a game that's unplayable. Adding additional abilities and more ships is not helping the lag, it's just adding more variables to sift through as Cryptic tries to fix it or at its worst adding to it.
The only time I have seen someone kicked was because they told an admin to stfu. That deserved a kick. I have seen plenty of folks hit 25k+ on 30k runs and no one blinked.
The dps channels are basically what kept me playing after DR hit. Pugging was impossible and my fleet is not very active. There are some issues, like wait for pets(wfp), and in my opinion people getting a bit too frustrated with that. However if you can get into the 30k channel it's almost a guarantee of a successful and…
Let's take isa and substitute four human players with four ai. The ai is programmed to destroy the patrol, go left, one ai ship will throw a single grav well or a tractor beam repulsor to keep the nanite spheres away. Once the left side is done the ai quickly moves right and repeats. On the back of this basic setup you can…
The 11k character doesn't have rep gear, too expensive in terms of dil. It has a leech because I bought the ship, a fleet spire warp core and I think a fleet shield? Not sure. No rep gear or epic gear. No spaceship traits either because I don't play him often. Matter of fact he just recently reached level 4 in the nukara…
This is a wonderful idea, unfortunately i don't think Cryptic would spend the resources to implement it. The queues would be more populated if players had a reasonable expectation that the time they are investing into a pug wouldn't end in 10 marks and a cool down. To those that say "just team up with…
My main is a tac Klingon, I have one tac ferasan, one eng lethean, one sci Klingon liberated Borg, a kdf aligned romulan tac, one fed aligned romulan eng, a sci fed human, and a fed tac alien. Most of my time is spent on the main Klingon. I am currently part of a Fleet with a tier 4 starbase, but all other holdings…
That would imply that folks want to learn/improve. It seems to me a lot of times people reject common sense and fly against it. Because most players are either clueless, too obstinate to change their style or worse, pugs have become almost unplayable for the majority of players after Cryptic implemented the new mandatory…
Silly decisions that will do nothing to improve the state of the queues. I used to enjoy just jumping into a queue and having fun with four random people. Sometimes it was frustrating, but before dr we could always pull it off. Now what is the point? Yeah I can join runs in the dps channels, but aside from crystalline and…
Yes I turned the mat'ha trait off, I was running a jem'hadar carrier with elite scorpions and it was scattering enemies everywhere. It's quite awful. This is one time I wish they had just copied reciprocity onto the mat'ha. I think I ran it with dhcs and the bio torpedo and heavy turret for the disrupted bonus for fun.…
I have both the Qib and Mat'ha. I have ap dbb's on the mat'ha and that gets me consistent 40k+ Isa runs. The qib has a combination of rom-plasma and regular plasma and it was getting 39k in Isa. I don't use cannons so the qib trait is useless to me. The qib is more durable, but the mat'ha seems to obliterate targets…
The op failed to account as to why subscription games are doing better. Is it because players are generally discontent with the f2p model and prefer the subscription model, or is it that the subscription games/expansions that recently came out are just a better playing experience? What this game needs is but fixing, and a…
The community has been getting steadily more toxic since dr hit. It's not getting better. this is nothing more than a nice way to show the community what is possible in a science ship. I don't see any real reason to try and put it down.
15 pages of Bort discussion. Not bad for a ship everyone says never sold well. It's inferior to almost all the battle cruisers I have (the k'tinga is In my opinion worst - less tactical seats and very low hull hit points), yet I still upgraded my tac fitted it with the full cc four piece set and though it's not great it…
Between reciprocity, desperate repairs and the eclipse ship trait the Feds have a huge advantage over the kdf. There's absolutely no reason to roll a kdf character aside from role play or general fondness for Klingons. I would love to see any new t6 ship, but more specifically a t6 Intel bop, a t6 sci intel ship and a t6…
Sarcasmdectector was chatting about amp in the dps channels and one comment was to jump to qo'nos space and simply activate alpha and watch the bonus. It spiked up, it is just crazy how it works. It benefits tacs more than eng and sci captains.
@leemwatson: playing the game for a long time doesn't mean you know everything or that you can't learn something from a parser. I never said that a science build isn't viable or appreciated when done right. A 5k science build that throws grav wells in isa usually just delays the inevitable. Besides a good build will be…
I will never understand these silly dps is bad debates. Considering 99% of the content is pew pew, dps races why would you not want to download the combat log parser and try to improve? I agree with virus, if you want to run crazy builds with low dps keep it in normal. You don't need rep gear. The minute you run advanced…
It's a kdf ability so no one at cryptic cares. It's pretty lousy in my opinion too. I would be a lot happier with reciprocity. Instead I get a trait that benefits cannons, I use beams, and another that even if it worked, I don't use bo or torpedoes. So also useless. I turned it off. At least now I can go back to my jhdc…
I have to agree that this is a waste of time. Anyone that has logged into the game knows there are very few queues that pop frequently. Crystalline advanced, infected space, khitomer space, cure space (though this one is unpuggable). It's not like the forum community hasn't given you the answers. Increase rewards,…
Blake does have a point. It's kind of like putting a frog in boiling water it jumps right out, but if you slowly increase the temperature it just sits there. They should have added the elite queues only first. Then once their "metrics" indicated that the player base was ready increased the difficulty of advanced. Too bad,…