From what I'm reading in chats, the difficulty in STFs will be increased by changing the respawn timer to a cumulative one. The respawn timer starts at 15 seconds and adds an additional 15 seconds on every consecutive incapacitation, up to two minutes. If you go without any incapacitation for five minutes, the timer resets. I really hope they do something to reduce the ridiculous Borg damage, or at least increase the time for the optional objectives, or all this will do is just piss a lot of people off.
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They're actually reducing the time for optional objectives in Khitomer Accord ground, starting the timer right after you leave the spawn room. Also you won't be able to skip any enemy groups in that mission any more.
They do claim they are slightly increasing the drop rate for elite STFs.
Look, they're not going to do anything to make endgame less of a grind, because that would mean they'd have to actually come out with more content.
They do claim they are slightly increasing the drop rate for elite STFs.
Look, they're not going to do anything to make endgame less of a grind, because that would mean they'd have to actually come out with more content.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
The mechanics of the game are really solid, but I think they lack the imagination to make a truly creative MMO based upon the Star Trek universe. It feels like a good single player game with an online component.
Khitomer Accord ground is far too easy anyway. Even on elite it's difficult to miss the optional unless the team just isn't coordinating very well. A good team will complete it with five or six minutes remaining. However, I'm also wary about all the changes they're going to make. Every time they tweak something they end up breaking it.
Sadly that's what most MMORPGs are like these days. Not that there isn't anything wrong with that if that is what you are looking for or only have time for. I don't miss the forced grouping of Everquest's early days but the community aspect it indirectly created is something I miss and don't know how your get that back though without the negative. Going the single player presentation with some online interaction seems like the only viable alternative at the moment.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
It just seems to me that the Star Trek property, more than most IPs, gives the developers the opportunity to create some sort of unique, dynamic universe. Unfortunately, I lack the creativity and experience with MMOs to know what that would look like, but the game is caught in an awkward position. As a single player game, the missions just aren't terribly compelling, and as an MMO, it is missing the sense of exploration and discovery that was present in the series, essentially settling for a game structure that is too dependent on a "go here and do this" mentality. What the game does extraordinarily well is the sense of customization that builds off the Star Trek framework. Ship building and character building are extremely compelling, which makes all of the grinding worth it. But the game itself doesn't offer anything truly interesting as an MMO that couldn't be done by any other game. It doesn't bring the Star Trek universe to life. In that sense it feels inert.
Not sure about that. But that thing is really not a big deal, honestly.
Some new news still playing STO... apparently Cryptic have decided to give the Fed side their first Carrier ship, like the KDF's have... from the Caitians. Thing costs 2000 cp. Looks interesting but I am not a Sci person.
Some new news still playing STO... apparently Cryptic have decided to give the Fed side their first Carrier ship, like the KDF's have... from the Caitians. Thing costs 2000 cp. Looks interesting but I am not a Sci person.
bloodforge
Member
Gonna have to pick up that Fed carrier for my Sci officer.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
If not, it will probably come back around next First Contact Day.
I'm baffled as to where people are finding the money to flood the exchange with master keys like they are at the moment. Supply is crushing demand, and now I'm stuck with very little EC and around 88 master keys. Guess I'll just wait it out, as apart from ridiculously expensive tactical consoles, I have little to spend EC on.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
So each week in May is a different Featured Series rerun, with the special rewards returned. For people who were new to the game when it went free-to-play, this is the first chance to get most of these special items/bridge officers. Keep in mind you've only got to repeat the last episode of each series to get the special reward.
Red Arremer
Member
Additionally, they added "hidden rewards" to all the missions, which you can find by scanning for them (just like chests or anomalies), and as a matter of fact, the spots will be flashing and have the little gear icon for your cursor, just like chests or interactive objects.
It's probably going to be Lobi Crystals.
I also want the Breen BOff, cause Breen are badass.
It's probably a long while off, but apparently there will be fleet starbases coming in the next season. Doesn't seem like GAFleet still really exists much, but it would be neat to have our own spot if people ever start playing again.
Nothing big, but in case anyone has an idle account with a bunch of Cryptic Points or EC, they're running a promotion until the 21st where you have a tiny chance of getting the vaunted Jem'hadar Attack Ship if you open a Gamma Quadrant Duty Officer Pack. It's causing the dilithium exchange to spike severely.
I played this as a ship collector especially trying to get to try and fly all of the weirder ships. Then came the lotto ships and I wasn't ready to dump hundreds of dollars to a lottery for a small chance of getting those ships. It's amazing how that just one thing soured me totally on the game as I started playing at the launch and had pretty good time with STO originally.
I do sort of wonder if they're testing the waters with this ship from a duty officer cadre thing as a way to dump lockboxes, considering that lockboxes are on the verge of being banned as a form of illegal gambling in several venues. It would annoy me quite a bit if all the master keys I'd bought off the exchange become worthless though.
You could always build up a ton of EC (somehow) and buy the ships that way. I never figured out how to get that much cash myself, but it's an option.
A new ship is releasing tomorrow, though it's a bit overpowered from what I understand. It's basically a T5 Akira, which many people have been asking for for a long time. However, this one comes with pretty much identical stats and bridge layout to a MVAM, with the addition of a single hangar and a photon torpedo point defense system. Essentially a half-carrier with the best aspects of escorts and a the ability to really annoy people in the Crystalline Entity event.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i havent been able to find any time to play this game anymore. i still enjoy(ed) playing it, i just have so many other things and games to play at the moment 
StalkerUKCG
Banned
So im really out the loop.
Whats the chances of this getting a expansion. I know before their was talk of a romulan empire/dominion expansion.
But then the game shipped with broken KDF and they spent alot of time fixing that.
I really want a jem'hadar BO but the game only has have the feature set for them. sucks.
Whats the chances of this getting a expansion. I know before their was talk of a romulan empire/dominion expansion.
But then the game shipped with broken KDF and they spent alot of time fixing that.
I really want a jem'hadar BO but the game only has have the feature set for them. sucks.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
0%
Cryptic is mostly interested in whatever will expand on their cash shop, and a third faction is just way too much work when they could just make a short taskforce or mission instead and a plethora of new ships/races/whatnot.
They're doing a test run of the Tholian stuff on the Tribble server. I found it pretty easy to sign up, copy a character and then patch in the Tribble server materials. If you spend at least one hour this weekend on Tribble, you'll get some sort of Fleet Tribble on your real account, and if you finish a Tholian ground mission, you'll get a Breen DOFF of a new type.
Sickboy007
Member
Lots of lag right now!
I want to contribute to fleet projects, but it says i don't have the permission to do it? What gives?
I want to contribute to fleet projects, but it says i don't have the permission to do it? What gives?
New stuff:
Holdings - aka Fleet Starbases
A social map in the Eta Eridani sector block which only your fleet (and those who are invited) can access. Has a bunch of new mechanics which basically involve you building upgrades to the base using the various in-game currencies. Supposed to be ~6 month of work for even the biggest Fleets to fully spec out their Starbase, and even then there's going to be additions along the way.
Cryptic have said that the new sector block which will open up in Season 7 will contain a new Fleet Holding type, probably a forward base on a planet you can develop.
Rewards for the system include refit models of lots of earlier ship types (i.e. tier-5 Nova class science ships etc.)
Tholians!
The Nukara system in the Eta Eridani sector block has been invaded by Tholians. This is similar to the Borg invasion of Defera, in that you have a mission hub which then splits off into a lot of smaller, repeatable missions. It looks pretty good and the Tholians are cool. Story has something to do with the mirror universe Enterprise-F being kept hidden underground.
New Events
Colony Invasion - defend a frontier colony from attack by a randomly selected enemy faction
Starbase Fleet Defence / Starbase Blockade / Fleet Alert / Starbase Incursion - group missions which focus around your starbase both in space and on the station itself
No Win Scenario - Basically a simulation of the ultra-hard defence of a civilian freighter. Most people will expect to get to wave 5 out of 10, with rewards scaling.
Foundry
Bunch of smaller changes here, including lots of new assets. A lot of prep work for bringing in the improvements to the user content generation engine that the Neverwinter Nights team have done. In the next few weeks we can expect to see improvements to how UGC missions are promoted, with some being given proper rewards for completion and being given a more solid status within the game.
There are other fixes as well as per the release notes. Definitely worth popping back.
Edit: If people could put energy credits into the Fleet Bank, I can purchase new tabs every 1.3m. Figure it's worth us getting them all bought early.
Tabs?
Yeah, so at the moment we have four bank tabs (bought the fourth yesterday when I claimed Fleet Leadership). The UI calls them a "repository".
I've also renamed them to "Personal Items", "Personal Weapons", "Ship Weapons" and "Ship Items", and attached a bunch of withdrawl limits which should keep us from getting looted should a member turn malevelant.
EDIT: just came across this... http://www.stowiki.org/Ghost_of_Hamlet's_Father
Less so on the lock-boxes. I think they're trying to put the same mechanics on to some of the specialised Duty Officer packs you can buy. Basically the same thing, but at least you know you're getting a bunch of DOFFs out of it.
All of the new stuff can be done without putting real cash in. It's a bit of a grind I guess, but the bigger the fleet the easier it gets.
EDIT: For those of you running low on Duty Officers now that Fleet Projects use them, head to the north-west building in Starfleet Academy and there's a contact who gives recruitment assignments.
That sounds good. On the bad front: the ship I used to fly most, Kar'fi, isn't apparently on the new upgraded ships list so there goes the need to grind that new stuff, and I never managed to get that other ship I really wanted (the lottery Galor). The only real klink carrier on the upgrade list is the Voq which due to its turning rate is painful in PVP and almost worthless in high end PVE.
On the other hand, the K'tinga looks pretty amazing now but not sure if that's enough to draw me back in.
On the other hand, the K'tinga looks pretty amazing now but not sure if that's enough to draw me back in.
I got max level eng, sci and tac characters on both sides already, could just hop in. Aren't the fed carriers only flight deck carriers though, with 1 hangar? I really like the full carrier playstyle more.
Edit: just checked myself and seems the Atrox is an actual carrier. The 5 point turn rate like Voq has plus the fact it can't equip cannons doesn't make it too hot for Borg task forces though. Once you go Kar'fi for PVE, it's hard to get back into the lumbering Voq playstyle plus I dread to think I'd have to grind new set of MKXII purples.
Edit: just checked myself and seems the Atrox is an actual carrier. The 5 point turn rate like Voq has plus the fact it can't equip cannons doesn't make it too hot for Borg task forces though. Once you go Kar'fi for PVE, it's hard to get back into the lumbering Voq playstyle plus I dread to think I'd have to grind new set of MKXII purples.
True, but is there really much difference between the new Armitage/Akira flight deck carrier and the Karfi? They both have single hangars, right?
I finally got around to visiting my ship's bridge and interior again. There are a *tonne* of things to do there now, mostly to do with Duty Officers.
I finally got around to visiting my ship's bridge and interior again. There are a *tonne* of things to do there now, mostly to do with Duty Officers.