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Many people are forgetting one essential thing regarding STO: For free players (myself included) and low payers to have the ability to buy C-store items without paying anything, there must be people who will spend their money to acquire ZEN and put it on the market for the rest of the people. Don't get me wrong, I like the…
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I concur that sometimes, being between 10 and 11 km away from CE does not help surviving. For that reason I've started running away to 11km or bigger distance, just to be safe. How useful is to perform GW+T:S combo? I've been doing it constantly doing it with Hyper-Plasma Torpedo Launcher to hit as much as possible with…
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. . . I go away from game for two months (vacation) and this is first thing I read about when I return, domination of sci ships (or maybe rather captains?) and FBP... Must be something wrong with my PvP build (control/support Fleet Recon Sci) as I'm not managing to do that well and have problems just staying alive against…
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What's stopping you from slowly filling it up each day or two days even if you're not going for sets? Just visit Space Battlezone here and there, or do Undine fleet action and slot reputation. Daily bonus mark box is enough to sustain you. In my opinion, it's always nice to have additional options, even if I'm not going to…
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To start off, reputation trait overhaul is great :D I've spent some time fiddleing with various trait configurations to find a combo which brings out best of my ship, until I settled on the one I'm using right now (2 of them being Auxiliary Configuration, both offense and defense). Also, I adore the new ESD look. It…
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Whoops, sorry for misunderstanding :/ Well, nebula will get buff pretty soon, won't it?
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Which is a shame, as I prefer science vessels far more than any other type of ship. Too bad disruptions aren't as effective as they could be thanks to all the power creep, as everything Science vessel throws in PvP can easily be negated. I don't care about DPS race in PvE as long as I can do stuff in reasonable time and…
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Honestly, I can't wait for science vessels to get Secondary Deflectors; you can be sure I'll pick the one that enhances disruption and crowd control capabilities. I've been playing using Science Vessels since the beginning of STO "career". I find Escorts to be boring and Cruisers to be clunky to use; and also, in all RPGs…
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Power creep is never good. I won't talk about it for much, as most of you already know what it is etc. so let me cut to the chase. When power creep isn't dealt with, game will eventually evolve into a smashfest where only way to deal with opponent who has really big hammer is to bring even bigger hammer to the fight. For…
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Actually, that's not the problem with FEs but with game in general. On the other hand, I don't think anyone would like to make new character each time his character is killed...
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Why not? After all, all players have plot armor... :D
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This is one point I, like many others, completely agree with you. Heck, if there's something I completely dislike in this game mechanic wise, it's the "Captain is the first who goes on an away mission" policy. Yeah, I get it, it's to get off my ship in a while, but still, I'm the captain of a starship and I want to decide…
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I agree with you deokkent, low cost builds don't compare to the fleet and reputation gear most of the experienced PvPers have. My testing in Ker'rat and CnH with MUPE also confirmed that. Sure, I could destroy Mini for some reason (I have a feeling he invested solely in offense), but I couldn't even scratch by myself most…
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Thanks :) It was fun looking at the Exchange with the pockets full of cca 2M EC (I didn't have more, I don't know how geniuses manage to earn 10M easily), waging the potential power of the weapon against its cost and picking out that offers most for their price. I prefer to always have 1 torpedo launcher (or KCB instead of…
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Well then, here it is. I'll give 2 variations: my current build (which has some scrap items etc. from other ships, considering I'm maining FRSV) and improvements to it I think may be good. I won't state doffs, as they may vary from abilities etc. and also I'm not yet familiar which doff setup works best. Disclaimer: prices…
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Well, I wanted to try flying an escort and a cruiser for a change, and have built my MU Patrol Escort pretty cheaply as I don't have money nor the time to completely outfit them like my Fleet Recon SV (my favorite ship despite 2nd lowest hull)... IMO, you can cut corners by picking purple Mk XI stuff instead of purple Mk…
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You're right, my bad, used wrong comparison. :( I forgot the same reason you mentioned was my reason for looking into energy weapons officer doff which has a chance of removing one buff on fire... Still, it doesn't change the fact (I hope I'm not wrong XD) that because of the way how stacking works (both buff and debuff)…
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I don't know... from the my (noob) point of view, considering the insane capabilities of stacking both buffs and debuffs, I'd say that doff is fine. If SNB can remove all buffs instantly (which is powerful ability by itself), why wouldn't there exist something which does the same for debuffs (which are easier to apply than…
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Right back at you; you klinks seemed to enjoy yesterday ganging up against one puny science vessel, and after I called 2 fleet mates to even the numbers, 5 of you joined and spawncamped us, making it 3 FEDs vs 8 KDFs. I though Klingons had more honor; now I see that most of you are just honorless petaQs :P
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My idea is to just take what GW2 did: create whole set of PvP-only items which players can pick up for free and only used inside PvP queues (standard items are banned) and allow alternate skill table which can be changed at will. Using that system everyone will be equivalent and ships can be balanced more precisely.
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Noob Sci/Sci captain opinion: [rant] Imo, it's pretty sad that out of 12 bridge officer abilities, only 1 is purely offensive (T:HY1, as I use Subsystem attacks whole time). Yeah, I manage to survive vapers (sometimes, provided I react in time and activate 2 defensive abilities in addition to 2 prebuffed ones), but even…
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Now that I've flied it... it has potential, but Boff and weapon layout was horrible. However, only 6 science abilities when in Science mode...
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Why is everyone forgetting Reconnaisance Science Vessel? I find Science Destroyer more comparable to it than to the Vesta. Science Destroyer stats compared to Recon Sci Vessel: + 1500 hull + 50 crew - 1 turn rate + 0.01 impulse modifier + Can equip Dual Cannons + Tactical Mode However, as much as I want to get my hands on…
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I'm for the opposite direction: nerf everything to the ground and then carefully buff everything with baby steps until optimum is reached. But I'm still noob in this game so...^^
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Hello I've been playing space PvP more often lately as I got bored of the PvE. Depending on the matchup at both sides, I had experience which varied from "very enjoyable" to "complete catastrophe". After few initial games I figured out that I can keep up with most players in terms of damage and survival, and even survive…
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I've been playing PvP last 2-3 days as I got bored of PvE (always same things)... I was suprised of my Fleet Recon Sci Vessel's capability to keep up with Escorts and Birds of Prey in terms of damage dished, both on Ker'rat and Capture/Arena maps. Only irritating thing is that all my slow and hold effects seem to have…
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U.S.S. Reisen exploring strange new worlds: Link: http://i40.tinypic.com/s4cgb9.jpg
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Hmm... I rather wouldn't want for Federation ships to gain access to Cloak of any kind, save for the few ships (even canon, only 2 - U.S.S. Pegasus, U.S.S. Defiant - maybe 3 or 4 ships had cloaking device). Cloak was always associated with KDF and Romulans, and having Federation use it would just reduce the uniquess…
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Hmm... soo, I could put a 5-stack easily by popping Romulan Hyper-plasma torps and Photonic fleet at the same time? (Science captain flying Recon/MU DS sci vessels) Interesting... I always planned to pick Hull Hardening over Tactical Advantage once I hit T4 (3 days from now, maybe 2 if I manage to put enough smaller…
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Or maybe just re-award those ships to your future Cardassian toon while removing it from other toons possessing it?