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  • Whenever they start it I hope they leave it accessible for a couple of months this time. We need a beautiful and serene place like that to spend our time during covid isolation.
  • As someone who has an OCD to collect things I'll repeat two suggestions I've proposed in other places. The game has two discontinued mechanics that contains exclusive collectibles, services and accolades. The buddy referral system, which became obsolete when the game went F2P, and the monthly subscription system, which I…
  • People won't join because they can no longer see how many are queued. Noone in their right mind queues blindly with no way of knowing how long they have to wait. Removing that indicator was a very stupid thing to do, Cryptic!
  • There's a tab on my Google sheet with the old missions that can still be shared. We are a few people in the Accolades chat channel still hanging on to them because of the accolades. Ask there and we will share them if we're online. http://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
  • You're getting it backwards. Selling subscriptions for dil will drain dil from the economy (dil sink) and the dilex will drop.
  • Or use the subscription mechanics as an EC/dil sink by selling it for in-game currency. Might as well use them for this if they're not profitable enough to sell for real money. This also goes for the old referral system that contains some collectible perks.
  • Connection to account server has been going up and down for over an hour now.
  • Yes, 4x T6 in that batch but I'd have to run MANY such batches to deduce with any useful statistical significance whether the probability is 1:200 or 1:250
  • These are my results with 1,000 Infinity boxes on Holodeck the other day. Interestingly I got 1,002 drops from them. I have no idea where those 2 extra drops came from or what they were.
  • We have a workaround that will give you the accolades on average 50% of the time which I consider good considering the situation. - Set full power to engines so you can manage a lap in time - Use one of the starting position listed below and move clockwise - Activate all satellites except the final one - Wait for wave 1 to…
  • Well, it depends on your definition of "fix" of course. Twice before Cryptic has removed an inflated/unwanted currency and replaced it with a new one. The conversion has had a diminishing return - i.e. the more of the old currency you had, the more you lost. An extremely unpopular move among Cryptic's customers but at the…
  • Gateway Guardian - 20p For beating Herald Sphere on elite difficulty AND preventing any ships from escaping.
  • There's always the official IRC channel they abandoned. https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/1056900-join-the-official-cryptic-irc-channels! Link in that post is non-working. You need to use webchat.gamesurge.net or configure your now useless Pigeon for irc.gamesurge.net. IRC is great for your…
  • One additional piece of info I can add is that people on my friends list no longer sees my logoff/logon spam while I'm switching chars. This behaviour in combination with the non-working chat is, if I remember correctly, the exact same behaviour we had on ALL clients before Cryptic solved it by forcing logoff/logon on each…
  • I noticed this too after the Tuesday patch. But that patch also landed a dozen severe to critical bugs so I guess they have their asses full. More than 33,000 files were patched...
  • The fun thing with shuttles is to have 20 of them in a mission. I miss the old NWS shuttle version. When it comes to diversity, there's an old but good thread on reddit with shuttle builds. https://old.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/4oiwp1/pimpedout_shuttles/
  • You are correct. They broke that optional when they revamped the mission for the "Age of Discovery" launch a year ago. Several people have reported it since then but it has not been fixed.
  • This is why you always refer to an epoch when you discuss co-ordinate systems. It's perfectly valid to define Sol well inside the Beta Quadrant with respect to the 50+ year old epoch of this co-ordinate system.
  • Since the solar system is moving counter clockwise around the galaxy at 230 km/s, we have now moved ~357 light hours into the Beta Quadrant since the first Star Trek episode was aired. I'm perfectly fine with that map. :)
  • These Khellids have always been character unlocks since the accolade is per character.
  • If I remember correctly they were not free. The cost was 1 Lobi each and they were under the Devices tab. Are you saying you can't see them listed at all? EDIT: I may have confused this for the Doff assignments rewards. It was a long time since I did Khellid Wrangler. EDIT2: I was 50% correct. They are 1 Lobi each but…
  • You are misinterpreting the information here. The numbers on node 13 shows the time it takes for a traceroute probe (ICMP ECHO REQUEST/ECHO REPLY) directed TO that specific node to return to you. Another probe sent to node 14 returns in the normal expected time and this probe has to go THROUGH node 13 twice. Thus, node 13…
  • I use Gentoo but I wouldn't generally recommend it unless you're technically knowledged and willing to put many hours into tweaking your system and learning. I run STO directly from wine-staging and I only add the DXVK patch through winetricks for added graphics performance. No other settings necessary. I have a separate…
  • The limits have been lowered on several occasions over the years. I have some numbers from Season 5 (hard limits withing brackets): Sector maps: 75 (100) Social ground (ESD, First City, DS9, Risa): 75 (100) Social space (Sol, Qonos, DS9, Risa): 50 (70)
  • It should work well. I'm still using an old Geforce 660 and it runs STO without any problems under Linux. As others have mentioned though - 4GB is very little memory these days. The 64-bit STO client can easily allocate this by its own after running for a while. 8GB should be a minimum for you.
  • The installer sets the file location in HKCU\Software\Cryptic\Star Trek Online\InstallLocation If you move the files elsewhere and start the game, it will just redownload the files to the original location unless you change the registry key.
  • I too would like to see all the old missions, events and anniversaries become available again. However, I would assume the work needed to make all those old assets working with the current version of the game engine is beyond reality. A suggestion would instead be to setup a temporary shard for each event with a snapshot…
  • It's in Cryptic's interest to resolve this regardless of where the problem lies since it affects the perceived quality of their service, which in the end translates to a worse or better revenue for them. I can only speculate over what business decisions are behind their stonewalling and I'll refrain from that since it's…
  • The timeouts are not an indication of error. Just nodes configured not to respond to traceroute probes and as such you will never get a reply from them. They still do the work they're intended for - forwarding data to other routers. If they hadn't done that you wouldn't have gotten a response from anything behind those…
  • I don't have the means to verify such a correlation with any statistical and empirical confidence but I'm not saying it can't be true. However, let me point out some information that actually has been acknowledged by Cryptic themselves. Twice, as far as I know, they have admitted that parts of their server software has…