We're one more engineering project away from the next major engineering upgrade after the current one cools down, so if you can spare some time to do a fleet event or two (now with around 30 extra fleet marks to make up for getting stuck in lousy pick-up-groups) we can have the Tier 3 Industrial Fabricator upgrade going by Saturday or Sunday. (Although naturally getting that project done will probably be a week or two in itself, although one of our newer members has been very generous with dilithium.)
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yep that's an Andorian ship alright.
I am so happy that the Enterprise ship designs have made their way into this game. Say what you will about the show's quality, but the ship designs were top notch.
I'd imagine that there would probably be some TOS violations involved in the process, but at the very least it might be useful as a slow Zen farm from the stipends. You really ought to give it another try though.
Looks like people have been data-mining the last few STO patches. They've noticed that there's a lot of files which heavily indicate that we'll see a Romulan faction in the near future:
Division icons too;
Code:
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Engineering.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Engineering_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_All.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Eng_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Engineer.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Sci_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Science.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Tac_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Klingon_Tactical.Class.Ms
[b]Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Eng_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Engineer.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Sci_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Science.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Tac_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Romulan_Tactical.Class.Ms[/b]
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Science.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Science_Holo.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Tactical.Class.Ms
Defs/Classes/Bridge_Officer_Tactical_Holo.Class.MsDivision icons too;
If anyone remembers me I played a few months mid-late last year before season 7 hit, I was Ashe (Eng 50)/Faye (Sci 50)/Kara (Tact 10), I got so confused with how I wanted to play my Sci what I needed to get at the time before the big update I ended up taking a few weeks time off to come back to Season 7 and got totally lost.
But anyway, I plan to get back into it once I figure out what I have missed with the updates, I jumped on just now and can confirm that I have forgotten pretty much everything I was doing with my current characters and really don't remember a lot, though is whoever it was still spending all their time buying and selling on the exchange like 24/7? lol.
I will probably just carry on with my Tact seeing as I haven't really done anything at level 10 which saves me having to trudge through those starting levels, hopefully at some point when it starts flowing back I can jump into my Eng and Sci and figure it out.
But anyway, I plan to get back into it once I figure out what I have missed with the updates, I jumped on just now and can confirm that I have forgotten pretty much everything I was doing with my current characters and really don't remember a lot, though is whoever it was still spending all their time buying and selling on the exchange like 24/7? lol.
I will probably just carry on with my Tact seeing as I haven't really done anything at level 10 which saves me having to trudge through those starting levels, hopefully at some point when it starts flowing back I can jump into my Eng and Sci and figure it out.
Welcome back! We've got a fair number of new fleet recruits so you'll likely have someone online next time you give the game a whirl. Let us know if you need any help.
On the subject of the Romulan teaser, think it's worth starting a new thread next week in the Gaming section should it turn out to be a new faction?
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http://sto.de.perfectworld.eu/legacyofromulus
English link isn't available yet I'm afraid.
New UI
Romulan character creation
Romulan ships
Romulan ships
New Beta-Quadrant enemy faction (not named yet)
English link isn't available yet I'm afraid.
- "Romulan Republic" playable faction
- KDF and Romulans will be playable from level 1 to 50 - currently KDF starts at 20 (I think)
- New Reputation System for an anti-Tholian task force
- Complete UI revamp - improved look and feel, option to customise colour scheme
- Denise Crosby returns to provide voice for Empress Sela
New UI
Romulan character creation
Romulan ships
Romulan ships
New Beta-Quadrant enemy faction (not named yet)
Klingons have had pretty much a 1:1 parity with the Federation as far as post-launch missions and game systems go. There is still a bit of a gap when it comes to the number of ships available to buy in the game and in the C-Store, but then there just aren't that many KDF ship designs available to use.
PvP hasn't been revamped yet, it's still on the radar it seems.
Fleet decision:
Should we form a KDF (and eventual Romulan Republic) fleet, or should we look to join an existing KDF fleet (and someone else's RR fleet at launch)?
I quite like the idea of forming the "House of Gaf" and the "Gaf 'Shiar", but we'd have to accept that starbase progressions would be slow compared to the main FED starbase.
As far as KDF, I definitely vote for finding another fleet to shack up with. Building our Fed starbase is enough of a pain, and sometimes I feel like I'm doing most of the contributing. I don't think I can do that again in another faction. Romulan is hard to say, but I don't know if I see myself creating an eighth character.
It would be a lot of work, but damn does House of Gaf and Gaf 'Shiar sound good, lol. Though it would be great to be together regardless, ideally it would be great to be in our own but I can totally see what Darthwoo says where it would be either really slow going or go nowhere at all when he does so much for the fed side.
Mr. Luchador
Member
I need to see this base!
BattleMonkey
Member
If they would focus on newer ships like they did with Federation options, there would be more KDF variety.
I imagine the Romulans will turn out better seeing as they hopefully learned their lesson with the Klingons.
Personally I want to see more Gorn/Nausican/Orion ship designs. Letheans don't even have a ship in game, and the C-Store Ferasans could do with their equivalent of the Caitian Carrier.
BattleMonkey
Member
I just never liked the idea of being in either faction yet piloting another race's ship. Just feels off so never cared for them doing this.
I don't know, it kind of made sense to me. The Gorn, Orions etc. are members of the Klingon Empire now, and you'd expect them to bring ships with them.
With the Federation, I've felt that since Enterprise's Vulcan and Andorian ships were so distinctive, STO should ret-con in their designs as non-Human Starfleet ships. The shows had to be homocentric, the game doesn't.
Sorta. The Prometheus design was in the game at launch but it didn't have any MVA functionality. They released a MVA version of the ship afterward (basically came with a console that enabled the MVA mode).
Anyone read the new post on STO, in essence, Romulans can at one point choose a Federation or Klingon choice, which then allows them to use extras from that side and more importantly allows them to create a fleet for Romulans + Fed/Kling or join an existing one on either side.
So our Romulan characters will be able to join out existing fed fleet!
Pretty great choice they made with that imo, saves Romulan players from needing to start all over again on some new fleet after all the work put into an existing one. It would be neat if they took a page out of Starfleet Commands book and let us whip up some hybrid Fleet Starbase that mixes Fed/Romulan or Klingon/Romulan designs like Unity One.
So our Romulan characters will be able to join out existing fed fleet!
Pretty great choice they made with that imo, saves Romulan players from needing to start all over again on some new fleet after all the work put into an existing one. It would be neat if they took a page out of Starfleet Commands book and let us whip up some hybrid Fleet Starbase that mixes Fed/Romulan or Klingon/Romulan designs like Unity One.
Sax Russel
Banned
I tend to play in spurts, then new games come out and grab my attention away, had a string recently with DmC, Crysis, RE6 PC, Bioshock. WoW's 5.2 patch hit which was a lot of stuff too. *sigh* So many games so little time.
Run the science and exploration sector space DOFF assignments for data samples. You get a fair amount.
You can get specific DOFF missions for tier 1 samples? I thought assignments were all random.
I've always just picked up all the sci and exp assignments that award samples in the Sol System and Sirius Sector Block if I happen to be on, and I've maintained a fairly even level of stuff. I don't really use the common samples though, just the rare ones for powering up the strange alien artifacts.
Yeah, if you want to level up an alt it's the best approach.
That's interesting, any more details on what sort of attributes that Warp Core equipment will affect, or will it just be power to the subsystems or similar?
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A quick browse of the STO forum was interesting, apparently the devs purposely left out Warp Core attributes that increased Weapon Power because they assumed everyone would probably just use that one, sadly they aren't wrong, lol.
When you contribute various resources to the fleet projects, you get fleet credits in return. You can use the fleet credits to purchase multiple things, such as fleet ships, fleet ground/space gear, consumables, etc. By getting the various projects done, we advance experience in the various fleet categories and ultimately move toward the goal of opening up new and better things to purchase.
As for the warp cores, one thing I didn't quite get was whether this totally supplants the original energy bonuses that were based on ship type, or will be added to them.
As for the warp cores, one thing I didn't quite get was whether this totally supplants the original energy bonuses that were based on ship type, or will be added to them.
It's all about the Kumari...
Yeah, I was going to do that with my first character, but being a glass cannon doesn't feel as appealing as being a huge ship.
Remember this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DCOpG1oNE
I'd like to be the ship that's like, "Hey pipsqueak, gonna save ya now."
I'm not that bad with damage either. I can get first in random fleet actions even when there are Escort ships with all cannons.
Colony Invasion gives a lot of Fleet Marks, fast. Run the Fleet Action dailies for Dil and Marks, or Elite STFs for a lot of Dil.