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[Andre27]

Snowball fight. Throwing them at unsuspecting fleetmembers

 

[SciFiFan]

Thanks for the heads up, looks like I need to get STO back into my install. That Breen ship looks cool and to get it for free just by doing an event once a day for 25 days isn't bad. I am sure I can spare an hour a day to do this, even if it's just to get the ship to use later.

I hope it's not a scheduled even but one that a player can do when they are no rather than having to get on at a particular time.

If it is like last year, it will be like any other daily in the game. I will try my best to get the ship on every character I have. I will save one for the BOFF to PC (playable character) whenever the system comes out. I may use one on a current character. The rest may find its way onto the exchange.

 

[Andre27]

If the breen ship is like the NPC one it's a cruiser with access to cannons so i'm going for that.
Only real question is how maneuverable and how are the consoles distributed.

 

[SciFiFan]

They posted the stats to the Chel Grett cruiser. You can read about it here. They have made it bind on pickup which means no entrepreneurship. Not surprised though with it being a free ship. They did the same thing with the free Odyssey.

 

[Andre27]

Not bad, but i kind of hoped the energy dissipater console could be placed on any ship and not just the Breen ships.

 

[Majestic]

I am thinking it might make a good science ship, orientated at doing damage more than healing or debuffing.

Shame it's bound on pickup was going to get one for Scarlon, instead I'll have to log into his account each day after I do my run. It's a shame that the event is going to be scheduled, that;s a huge pain and since it's a limited run one I would hope they would do it like certain missions where it has like a 20 hour cool down rather than being a scheduled event. So many things about this game that really makes me more eager not to load/launch it and instead launch MS3D and Photoshop.

 

[SciFiFan]

I am thinking it might make a good science ship, orientated at doing damage more than healing or debuffing.

Shame it's bound on pickup was going to get one for Scarlon, instead I'll have to log into his account each day after I do my run. It's a shame that the event is going to be scheduled, that;s a huge pain and since it's a limited run one I would hope they would do it like certain missions where it has like a 20 hour cool down rather than being a scheduled event. So many things about this game that really makes me more eager not to load/launch it and instead launch MS3D and Photoshop.

I think you misunderstand. The only scheduling about the event is the Holiday event itself from Dec 06 to Jan 14 (or theres about). The race to get the items needed to obtain the ship is on a daily cooldown just like all of the other dailies in the game.

I agree that the ship should have been a science ship. Then we could have had the Jem'hadar escort, Cardassian cruiser, and Breen science ship of the Dominion War The stats indicate that it is a tactical ship that is science heavy. One thing that I noticed that I mentioned on the STO forums is that there may be more Breen ships coming sometime. In the description of the Energy Dissipator Console, it states that it can be "equipped on ANY Breen ships." We will have to wait and see.

 

[Majestic]

I think you misunderstand. The only scheduling about the event is the Holiday event itself from Dec 06 to Jan 14 (or theres about). The race to get the items needed to obtain the ship is on a daily cooldown just like all of the other dailies in the game.

AH I must have misinterpreted what you meant from and above post.

If it is like last year, it will be like any other daily in the game.

Thought you meant it was like the other events, Tour of the Galaxy etc. My bad!

I agree that the ship should have been a science ship. Then we could have had the Jem'hadar escort, Cardassian cruiser, and Breen science ship of the Dominion War The stats indicate that it is a tactical ship that is science heavy. One thing that I noticed that I mentioned on the STO forums is that there may be more Breen ships coming sometime. In the description of the Energy Dissipator Console, it states that it can be "equipped on ANY Breen ships." We will have to wait and see.

Yeah I noticed that too, I am a bit rusty considering I haven't played the game in ages but I think it would be an ok ship for an science officer, Not the best science ship especially in terms of debuffing or healing but it would make a good science officer ship if you plan on being a hybrid between damage and healing or debuffing. At least that is what I think looking at the stats.

 

[Majestic]

Forget that, just spent 30 mins trying. Goes to show nothing has changed, Cryptic wants you to jump through hoops just to get he most basic things, Got to do it 25 times? I'd rather spend a week in the garden digging holes.

 

[SciFiFan]

Forget that, just spent 30 mins trying. Goes to show nothing has changed, Cryptic wants you to jump through hoops just to get he most basic things, Got to do it 25 times? I'd rather spend a week in the garden digging holes.

It really can be a pain in the backside the first time. May I suggest running the track without actually running the race to practice? Once you get used to the sliding and find where you can sprint, it really is easy. I will be on Saturday night (US) and would be happy to help anyone interested.

Edit: there are two races this year. "The Fast and the Flurriest" and "Fastest Race on Ice" (or something like that). The first race you actually rac against other captains. The second one you race a single NPC ( or if you are lucky like I have been a few times, no one at all). It is the second race that gives you what you need for the ship.

 

[Majestic]

I might take you up on that provided I am online at the time you're on. I have a little to do around the house this weekend.

 

[kjc733]

That race has to be one of the most irritating things I've done in a while. Time will tell whether I stick with it!

 

[Andre27]

It took me 2 tries to get the right speed going for the race. Roll when slipping and speed up on the straight.
Only real drawback is the 20hr cooldown.

 

[SciFiFan]

Coming soon to STO:



That is the new Andorian ship. Stats and info on it will be released next week. It has already been stated that it is an escort that will come in three variants. I hope they all come with unique skins (including the original skin from Enterprise). It also seems that it will have a unique bridge.

On another note: Is there any chance this thread can be moved to the Star Trek Online subforum?

 

[Majestic]

Yay more Federation content!

Moved to the sub-section for you.

 

[SciFiFan]

Yay more Federation content!

Well, you did have an Andorian tac officer so I thought this would perk you interest a little.

Moved to the sub-section for you.

Thank you kindly sir.

 

[Majestic]

Well, you did have an Andorian tac officer so I thought this would perk you interest a little.
Thank you kindly sir.

Due to the way STO has gone (character bound fleet ships, lobi etc), I have had to look at my characters in a different light and as such only Josara and Surea are worked on (on the FED side), in fact my Andorian is at the point of being deleted. After they nerfed the dilithium gathering it's not a lot of point keeping him and the many other characters that are now considered secondary around. Thanks for the thought though, I appreciate it.

Also you're most welcome on the thread move. I have also decided to stick the thread, got the glue gun out to make sure it will.

 

[SciFiFan]

Due to the way STO has gone (character bound fleet ships, lobi etc), I have had to look at my characters in a different light and as such only Josara and Surea are worked on (on the FED side), in fact my Andorian is at the point of being deleted. After they nerfed the dilithium gathering it's not a lot of point keeping him and the many other characters that are now considered secondary around. Thanks for the thought though, I appreciate it.

Also you're most welcome on the thread move. I have also decided to stick the thread, got the glue gun out to make sure it will.

Character bound fleet ships I am not too upset over. The reason being is that your characters join fleets.....not your account. It only makes sense to me. As for Lobi,

Q: (khameseenair) Can you please make Lobi Crystals account bound instead of character bound. A lot of the items in the boxes are bound to characters too and that's really annoying. Generally, for those of us with multiple toons, we'll open boxes on multiple toons, but not always want the rewards with them. This makes it impossible to get enough Lobi to purchase the good items from the store.

Dstahl: We are looking to make some general changes and improvements to how lock boxes function later this year. We will be incorporating feedback as well as adding some functionality which will make it easier to manage issues like you describe. Whether that includes making Lobi account bound hasn’t been decided yet, but we appreciate the continued feedback regarding these currencies and we do plan to make improvements.

I too have been trying to decide how I am going to handle my alts. I do not think that the dilithium nerf is that bad. I can still hit the cap (I did it on two characters the other night. would have been more if I had not gotten distracted ). I am going to try a little experiment and see how many characters I can hit the cap on in one night.

 

[Majestic]

My gripe is that it has made it that you need to spend ages in the game just to buy something as basic as a dilithium store item. This among that lack of KDF development makes it hard for me to stick with the game for more than a few weeks. Apart from logging on to get the special ships from the 3 year event, I haven't logged on to play the game in some time, and I find it hard to even motivate myself to consider logging on and when I do I find all I do is grind for resources.

I understand every MMO has grind, you need so much of resource X, Y and Z. However STO's is rather unrewarding compared to other MMO's. There is so little to do, except the same missions which reward you with such useless items that are a dime a dozen of the exchange, or dilithium which you do the exactly the same thing the next day for the same reward. If they introduced more new dailies that reward the same you could at least have some variety and perhaps for high level players who have finished all the campaign missions instead of getting item A, B or C a dilithium reward would instead be offered. Perhaps even marks like Omega and Romulan so you don't have to do the same missions there. Make it useful and handy to replay the missions rather than the same grind on the same missions.

Plus I thought Dilithium was supposed to merge all the old pre-FTP currencies into one, yet when S6 came out 2 new currencies came out and even more with S7. How many more will we get in S8?

STO still has a long way to go, it's marketing towards the new player, before they get the knowledge and sense that it's not worth putting real money into the game. But the catch 22 is that there isn't enough variety and new stuff to keep the gamer interested for more than a few months on average, so they seen to focus on a high turnover of players which isn't the best for a MMO I feel. I know they are a small company, and STO is relative new compared to games like Wow, but I feel they are doing a lot wrong and little right. I admit STO has potential but with each release it's squandered, ignored and unless something changes soon I think Cryptic might start feeling the pinch. Star Trek is one of the only thing that has saved Cryptic up to this point with STO. More ships isn't the answer when they don't other much if anything over what is previously available and when there are no new missions to play them on.

I know this has all been brought up before, both here and on the STO forums, yet little is done and this is also part of the problem I feel.

 

[SciFiFan]

That I agree with. One more thing. They have said that the next update is due in May. They also said that update was to be S8 but, it is so massive, they have stopped thinking of it as a season. It is going to be the biggest update since launch. They have released a teaser here. Many are speculating on what it is though Cryptic is keeping tight lipped. I will post more on here as it develops and I hope that it is something that will bring bigger and better things for STO.

 

[Majestic]

Yeah I saw that many think it's a Romulan faction, I just hope that if it is, the KDF will be brought up to the Federation content amount before or at the same time as the Romulan faction is released.

 

[SciFiFan]

I agree. I want a Romulan faction as much as the next guy, but not at the expense of the KDF. I may not play KDF very much but, I did enjoy my time there. I do need to go back a little more.

 

[Majestic]

Yeah I think they'll have a lot of angry customers if they do anything less than bringing the KDF up to the content % that the Federation currently enjoys. I would also enjoy the removal of the cross faction mission, the invasion zones like Defera and Nukara Prime I can live with as one doesn't have to play them or even look at them (no pop-ups) but missions to me is another story. Even if they could be re-written from the factions unique perspective I could live with.

 

[SciFiFan]

In my opinion, Cryptic made two mistakes regarding missions.

1) They broke up the STFs. I did not like this. This was because people were complaining that the didn't want to go through the space part to get to the ground part or they didn't like the ground part and didn't want to do it. Part of it had to do with the old spec system that you had to choose to either excel as a space captain or a ground captain or suck at both. Most others were complaining that they were simply too long. Honestly, I think the best option would be to have the normals broken up as they are now and then have the Elites as they were before.

2) They added the Featured Episodes to the story content. In my opinion, this should have remained separated. The story content is broken up enough as it is then to have to change course in middle of your story to do the "FE". These particular stories could have been done to where depending on what side you were on, the dialog could have been tweaked to fit the faction without changing too much of the story they were telling. Baring that, it would have been nice that during these feature missions, Fed and KDF could have joined into teams like in STF missions.

 

[Majestic]

Baring that, it would have been nice that during these feature missions, Fed and KDF could have joined into teams like in STF missions.

I agree, same with invasion zones like Nukara Prime, I think that should be cross faction teaming as well.

 

[Andre27]

Yay more Federation content!

Moved to the sub-section for you.

Actually it's pre-federation. Not Klingon i grant you that, but it's an updated pre-federation design.

 

[Majestic]

It's still for the Federation and that's the whole point.

 

[Andre27]

It's still for the Federation and that's the whole point.

Maybe it'll get a Klingon variant as well. Truth be told, other than rumours and screenshots we know nothing about this latest addition.

 

[Majestic]

Well Andorian on the KDF wouldn't fit, however a Ferasan or Lethean vessel for the KDF would be a welcome addition. Sadly I think they have just forgotten the KDF all together and given up on the faction. Which has caused many customers to move on.

To be totally honest considering only Sci-Fi Fan, Katala and Myself are the only ones working on the KDF fleet I have been thinking of closing it down. So many others have joined the fleet yet no one else has donated a thing to the projects. I think joining a more active KDF fleet would be a better option for us who play the faction.

 

[SciFiFan]

Captain Gecko, STO's lead art design has said in a Priority One interview that more KDF ships are in the works. One of the onew they are considering is a Ferasan carrier that will have a tac focus. Personally, I don't think the KDF needs any more carriers right now. We will wait and see what happens.

Maj, if you decide to disband the KDF fleet, I will keep one character in it to maintain the base. That way if any interests returns to an MSFC KDF fleet, assaests will be in place.