[NGTM-1R]

Found another golden lockbox (this time off of a mine), and I still can't afford to open either one of them.

Selling stuff on the open market, particulary if you escaped from EVE marketeering, is pretty good. (Also the daily "tour the galaxy" thing is apparently worth a hell of lot money if you can do it, maybe 400k EC a pop.)

[TwentyPercentCooler]

What are these warzones you speak  of... They sound fun.  Also, why are you all playing on normal?  I found medium much more fun, though  I am still only a LC, so It may just be the easier missions.

Things do get quite a bit tougher, and I'm only a captain.

Edit: one of the war zones is in the Ker'rat system, Donatu sector, Eta Eridani block. Not sure if there are any others. I've been too busy killing stuff to do proper exploration. Make sure you check Starfleet for the repeatable mission; it's called War Zone of Klingon Looters or something. Sort of misleading as you mostly fight Borg, until you're fighting 3 probes at once alone, your shields are down, and THEN the Klinks will come out of nowhere and 5v1 you because they're filthy cowards.

The Klinks are so sweet
They always attack me from behind, so they get a tractor beam for free, as well as a torpedo barrage, then I activate shield boost, turn and blast them away with rapid fire or spread burst.
When I or they're still alive, usually other people will rush towards you...
Funny thing is, when the map resets, they get killed in an instant

I really like when they're losing and they run away and cloak. It happens to me a lot because I fly cruisers and go defensive. I've only fought a few who stuck it out to the bitter end and took their lumps; I always give them a "Good fight" in local. Considering that dying is basically meaningless, I don't understand the rampant cowardice (don't get me wrong, I see it a lot Fed side too). I usually ignore the Klinks when the zone resets, I can go tag 3 or 4 encryption nodes and note the location of repair hulks. If you top the zone board at the end, you get a purple as opposed to a blue. I have to say I love how the game discourages AFKing in the war zones. Don't contribute to the objectives? No loot or credit for you. 

[crizza]

Most of the time I fail to scan the nodes and so I'm used to defend the cruisers or those, who try to scan, so drawing the fire and these things.

[LunarNightmare]

I know that I posted my name earlier in this thread, but that was quite a few pages back, so again, my name on there is LunarNightmare@lunarnightmarexp, if there's a fleet, i'd love to be a part of it and catch some rounds with you guys.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Most of the time I fail to scan the nodes and so I'm used to defend the cruisers or those, who try to scan, so drawing the fire and these things.

They're kind of annoying because there's always some kind of thing in the way, and inevitably, while you're fighting it, someone else will come by and scan the node. Use line-of-sight to your advantage, and you can actually scan while in combat. It's easier if you fly escort but still possible in a cruiser if you play with your throttle and remember that if your turn rate stays the same, lower speed means smaller turn radius, etc.

[Crybertrance]

Are the STO servers down or something?? I get a cannot connect to auto-update error, plus, the STO site doesn't open for me.

[LunarNightmare]

Well, I just got to captain, got myself a tactical escort, made it look nice, and all of my bridge officers are female.

[Retsof]

Not looking forward to Captain as much, honestly.  I plan on sticking with Science, but the Research Science Vessel is just so ugly.

[BloodEagle]

Missions start to get much slower after 30.  I'd seriously recommend joining a party at that point, if you can find one. (Note: one of the reasons we should start a fleet)

[LunarNightmare]

As i've said before, i'm always up for a fleet, i'm getting a little tired of being a lone wolf anyway. Captain doesn't really seem any slower than commander though, i'm doing the exact same stuff as I always have, going to a warzone, turning cubes and Klingons into statistics, refining dilithium, going on the occasional mission that I get, hell, I even decided to take on 3 cubes at once with no support in my old escort. I don't know what was going through my head when I thought of that, but I can tell you what did soon after.

[Liberator]

I even decided to take on 3 cubes at once with no support in my old escort. I don't know what was going through my head when I thought of that, but I can tell you what did soon after.

"WE ARE THE BORG.  WE WILL ADD YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN.  RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

[jr2]

Let's see, I'm, interestingly enough, jr2.    I don't really play much, though.  EDIT: just posted here to put my name in, didn't notice the convo, sorry.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

I just hit rear admiral, got a sweet assault cruiser, and turned it into an evil torp-slinging beast. Two interesting things I've noticed about ST:O recently:

1.) Replaying the Klingon War arc missions seems to give better rewards than everything but STFs at max level. One in particular, the end of the arc, called "Past Imperfect," gives you a choice of a shield with massive capacity (probably ~20% more than a covariant [cap x2]) or some plasma-disruptor hybrid beam arrays or heavy cannons, which deal more damage than very rare quality weapons and have the procs of both plasma and disruptor weapons.

2.) Ground missions are cake when you're an engineer with orbital strike (still wondering how it works inside buildings, though) and an entire ground team with miniguns and with abilities that construct quantum mortars.

[LunarNightmare]

I even decided to take on 3 cubes at once with no support in my old escort. I don't know what was going through my head when I thought of that, but I can tell you what did soon after.

"WE ARE THE BORG.  WE WILL ADD YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN.  RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

Nah, it was a heavy plasma torpedo, nothing was of use to the Borg after that, unless they want to assimilate a frozen leg.

[NGTM-1R]

"WE ARE THE BORG.  WE WILL ADD YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN.  RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

Unless it was a multivector, that's pretty standard for more than one cube.

[MR_T3D]

Been having a blast with this game.

Rolling engineer, with cruisers.  rank 24. loaded right now with dual beams in front, turrets in the back, like a tougher escort, I ride with them in PVE events to keep attention off the escorts, while still doing enough damage to pull aggro and stuff.

I'm @maximumname, so if we start a fleet, that's me.

[Liberator]

You'll find yourself looking at beam arrays when you hit the 4 nacelle beasts in 6 levels, they just don't handle like the smaller ships.

[crizza]

Holy crap, I'm just reading about all these ship classes and wonder, if tactical officer ging for the promtheus or fleet escort was the best idea...
'cause the Odyssey looks realy...awesome
BTW: Thoronwen@Cr1zza that's me

[Commander Zane]

I'm hoping the Odyssey gets at least a new costume for more visual customization, I don't like how it looks now. Though it isn't a bad ship to fly.

[LunarNightmare]

Holy crap, I'm just reading about all these ship classes and wonder, if tactical officer ging for the promtheus or fleet escort was the best idea...
'cause the Odyssey looks realy...awesome
BTW: Thoronwen@Cr1zza that's me

I prefer the escorts, though they lack the durability of a cruiser, I love their speed, maneuverability, and the cannons, oh God... ever since the day that I first strapped plasma cannons to my Akira, I have become a Klingon's worst nightmare.