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Offline TrashMan

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
What does one do with all the stuff gathered from scanning? I dumped it all in the bank so it doesn't take up space.

Also, the Memory Aplha tutorial missions. Where a guy named "Egg" wants me to deeliver some samples. WHERE TO? I checked all the logs and conversations, I don't know where I have to turn those samples in.
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Offline Liberator

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Memory Alpha, in the Alpha Centauri sector block
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.

 
Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
What does one do with all the stuff gathered from scanning? I dumped it all in the bank so it doesn't take up space.

They're used for crafting. If you don't want to do crafting, even the common materials sell for a pretty penny on the exchange. Or just send 'em over to me :)

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Was doing the latest feature episode and I'm kinda ambivalent about the Enterprise-F, mainly because I don't know what happened to the -E.

There was a hilarous moment where our escort driver, who'd spent most of the fight running away because being in the middle of a cloud of Jem'Hadar ships results in them exploding, got fed up. They hit Scatter Volley 3, Attack Pattern Omega 3, Attack Pattern Alpha 3, and turned around and roflstomped a pair of Heavy Escorts.

And then exploded when about three different volleys of Quantum Torps hit them, but it's an escort, what can you do?
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

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Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
The new weekly episode was alright. The
Spoiler:
spacewalk bit was a bit too long, in my opinion. It wore out its welcome. Also, it kinda sucks to do solo; Jem'Hadar ground troops and their incredibly cheap fake difficulty thanks to subspace mines are...frustrating. Second only to even cheaper, faker difficultier Borg ground troops. Also being thrown straight into the middle of the battle at the end was a bit annoying, especially since the aggro mechanics make no sense. I do absolutely nothing and immediately draw the fire of the dreadnought and both of the battleships. What? But, it was still satisfying to see an end to the conflict, and it was nice to shoot that smug douchecanoe Karu'kan in the face with my phaser sniper rifle.

The Jem'Hadar shield is REALLY nice. I finished off the set, got myself some polaron beams, and my ship has turned the color purple into a weapon.


 

Offline Retsof

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Ooh, I'm liking the purple.

I retrained my Science officer from Jam Targeting to Dampen Emissions, I now understand why the Klinks like sneaking up on people.  Speaking of which, I unlocked my KDF slot, so I might start the new character... at some point.
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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
If it ends up like mine, you won't be able to until you unlock the next two character slots, which should cost about 110k to 120k dilithium.
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 ShadowWolf_IH

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Ok i am Captain of the Botany Bay. 
You can't take the sky from me.  Can't take that from me.

Casualties of War

 

Offline TrashMan

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
What does one do with all the stuff gathered from scanning? I dumped it all in the bank so it doesn't take up space.

They're used for crafting. If you don't want to do crafting, even the common materials sell for a pretty penny on the exchange. Or just send 'em over to me :)

Well, once I join the HLP fleet, I can dump it all in the Fleet Bank.
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Offline Falcon

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Bring some KDF to this thread:

Borgified Vo'quv/VOD'leh Carrier



And its Gorn Science Captain:


 

Offline Retsof

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Do you guys get random people trying to friend you?  I mean sure, I tend to be a friendly guy, but I don't understand how it could radiate through the computer without me saying a word.  (also, for some reason I feel kind of bad to arbitrarily reject them...)
:::PROUD VASUDAN RIGHTS SUPPORTER:::

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I can't help but hear a shotgun cocking with this.

 

Offline Crybertrance

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Do you guys get random people trying to friend you?  I mean sure, I tend to be a friendly guy, but I don't understand how it could radiate through the computer without me saying a word.  (also, for some reason I feel kind of bad to arbitrarily reject them...)

O.O

Must be something in your username/handle.... ;)
<21:08:30>   Hartzaden fires a slammer at Cybertrance
<21:09:13>   Crybertrance pops flares, but wonders how Hartzaden acquired aspect lock on a stealth fighter... :\
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<21:12:58>   Hartzaden continues to paint crybertrance and feeding the info to a wing of gunships
<21:14:07>   Crybertrance sends emergency "IM GETING MY ASS KICKED HERE!!!!eleventy NEED HELPZZZZ" to 3rd fleet command
<21:14:50>   Hartzaden jamms the transmission.
<21:14:51>   The_E explodes the sun

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Do you guys get random people trying to friend you?  I mean sure, I tend to be a friendly guy, but I don't understand how it could radiate through the computer without me saying a word.  (also, for some reason I feel kind of bad to arbitrarily reject them...)

Reasonably often. They then never talk to me.

I don't get it either.
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

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Offline crizza

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I only accept people as friends whose names are in the other thread :)

  

Offline Scotty

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
I now have a Galaxy.

Now I need more Polaron beams.  NEED MOAR PURPLE.

 

Offline LunarNightmare

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Well, the server just went down for me again. A thousand energy credits says the ST:O Forum is a flamefest right now.

 

Offline Scotty

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Likewise, though I won't take that bet because I'd really rather not enter that pit of hell unless I absolutely need to.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
Well, the server just went down for me again.

The amusing thing is their website claims it's up.
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
That's strange. On the launcher they say it's down.

About three hours before it did go down I finally got my first ****ing tech piece from a ground mission.
Compare to the three techs and one prototype salvage picked up from space missions. I'll have a complete Mk.X Omega Force ground set wooo.

 

Offline TrashMan

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Re: Star Trek Online is now free to play
I have to say, this game really abuses the Skinners Box effect.
That "Help Cadets at Starfleet Academy for dilithium rewards" event is pure evil. And you'll never get full 60 particle samples....


With 8000 dilithium a day (theorethical max, good luck getting that much, I'm lucky to get 2000), and 200 dilithium for 1 CP conversion, it would take a week to gather enough CP's for even the simplest 200CP purchases. Fascinating.


Oh, forgot to ask - a cardassian lockbox key ; does it have a fixed number of uses. Also, is stuff in the box random crap or relaly usefull, good stuff?
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