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Offline MR_T3D

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Hmmmm.... I just saw a Borg DS event spawn (right in front of me, no less), and it was already dead when I entered.  :/
I think it's a glitch with the instancing.  roughly 1/2 the time I enter one of those red alerts it's already over.
But when you enter, them, it's a blast.  Finally got my captain-tier ship, rolling with science to break up my sticking to cruisers, and all these funky abilities are baller. Grav well III + photonic wave is just sweet.

 

Offline Retsof

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Made Commander.  USS Blackbody.  I think I actually managed to make the Science ship not ugly. 
:::PROUD VASUDAN RIGHTS SUPPORTER:::

"Get off my forum" -General Battuta
I can't help but hear a shotgun cocking with this.

  

Offline LunarNightmare

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Made Commander.  USS Blackbody.  I think I actually managed to make the Science ship not ugly.

I didn't know there was a way to make it less nauseating. :P

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
The slim front end ain't bad.
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
I bought the Excelsior refit, after deciding that I'm probably gonna stick around. I did the "Everything Old Is New" mission six times for the blue phasers, and the new weekly episode gives a tac officer with nice torp abilities, so I filled the other slots with quantums. She's a deadly beauty, the U.S.S. Scootaloo. I really enjoy the STFs and the hourly events, especially tour the galaxy and the the mirror universe incursions. There's so much to do!

 

Offline Scotty

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There has got to be a better way to get dilithium than DOFF missions. x.x

 

Offline Liberator

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
STFs = 480 per STF
Deferi and Academy dailies = ~2000

Remember, you can only refine 8000 a day.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

Offline Eishtmo

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
If you want dilithium, do War Zones.  You'll rack it up VERY quickly.
Warpstorm  Bringing Disorder to Chaos, And Eventually We'll Get It Right.

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I know there is a method, but all I see is madness.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
STFs = 480 per STF

If you get top DPS it gives you 720, I believe. (Hard to do without an escort spewing cannonfire.)
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline Retsof

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Made Commander.  USS Blackbody.  I think I actually managed to make the Science ship not ugly.

I didn't know there was a way to make it less nauseating. :P
Well, for one thing, everything looks better in black:

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:::PROUD VASUDAN RIGHTS SUPPORTER:::

"Get off my forum" -General Battuta
I can't help but hear a shotgun cocking with this.

 

Offline Liberator

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
STFs = 480 per STF

If you get top DPS it gives you 720, I believe. (Hard to do without an escort spewing cannonfire.)
Nothing quite like a Odyssey class star cruiser with 8 beams, Nadion Inversion, EPS Power Tap and a Weapon Battery with Fire At Will running.  For about 20 sec you are god.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

Offline Enzo03

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Made Lieutenant Commander.

21:20:19   SpardaSon21: "hey baby, want to get a good look at my AC/20?
21:20:26   Spoon: I'd hit it like the fist of steiner

Some people are like Slinkies.  They aren't really good or even useful for anything but they always manage to put a little smile on your face when you give them enough of a push down the stairs.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Does the game actually take its own screenies? I can't tell and printscreen is barfing.
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Nevermind, the Derp is over.

We have the Luna-class Des Moines, the Prometheus-class Akizuki, and the Soverign-class Agincourt in Earth orbit. I'll let you sort out which is which.

"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline BloodEagle

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
I feel the need to point out to everyone who plays this that the stats for Reverse Shield Polarity (I and II) are absolutely incorrect (1% of incoming energy damage heals shields, or something like that).  IT IS FREAKING POWERFUL AND RENDERS YOU INVULNERABLE TO ENERGY WEAPONS FOR ITS DURATION.

 

Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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Ths U.S.S. Scootaloo, keeping Earth safe from...whatever.


 

Offline BloodEagle

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I'll let you guess the name.



I'm beginning to rethink my red colour schemes, though.  They don't show up very strongly.

 

Offline Scotty

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Hit Lt. Commander, got myself a cruiser.

Tank tank tank.

On the Gorn Minefield fleet action, I can tank the aggro from an entire Frigate cluster at once.  All two dozen of the ****ers.

Speaking of which, fleet actions are now one of my new favorite things.  If the Gorn Minefield wasn't so bloody long I'd keep doing it for the blue gear.

 

Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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Hit Lt. Commander, got myself a cruiser.

Tank tank tank.

On the Gorn Minefield fleet action, I can tank the aggro from an entire Frigate cluster at once.  All two dozen of the ****ers.

Speaking of which, fleet actions are now one of my new favorite things.  If the Gorn Minefield wasn't so bloody long I'd keep doing it for the blue gear.

The Ker'rat Warzone takes a lot less time and you get more dilithium, if you can deal with the occasional Klink ambush. Usually, with tanky cruisers, they get bored and go away after a couple of minutes shooting at you and doing nothing. Fleet actions are a lot of fun, though. I like the mirror universe incursions, although it's annoying sometimes because people always cock up the bonus objective.

 

Offline crizza

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Made it to lvl45 tonight, will try the first STFs today...
And my fleet escort still rips thruogh enemys with ease...hope to get a tier X all dual cannon front...

Edit: OMFG, just did the klink warzone several times...and killed the same klink several times in a row, 'cause this dumbass always focused on me, so I tanked him, another teammate backed my shields up...and I blasted him away :)
« Last Edit: March 06, 2012, 08:12:29 am by crizza »