[Liberator]

Is it just me or is the Retro Phaser type 2 really OP?

Also, watching your BOffs to flying drop kicks off of crates does NOT get old.

The damage is nice on the type 2 phasers, but if you really want powerful ground weapons, try compression pistols.

Yeah, compression pistols are cool, but I've been noticing the Phaser 2s because they make the target disappear in a flash of blue light.

[TrashMan]

Umm, not counting the one i sent over from my VA, I've got 3 bridge officers candidates i have no stations for atm.  My VA has like 8.

CANDIDATES. I have 4 active bridge officers nad 4 candidates.

My whole point is about only being able to have 4 active ones. Regardless of what ship you use of how you switch, you can only select bridge officers from the active pool. And that pool only has 4 slots.
If I want to put one candidate in, I have to dismiss an active officer...or buy more slots.

[TrashMan]

HArr....get a fleet going already! I got items I need to dump into the Fleet Bank...and I want to raid the bank.

[Liberator]

I've got 6 active on my VA.  There are more slots available from the cash shop, but it's kinda pointless since the VA ships only have 5 BOff slots.

[BloodEagle]

I assume everyone in this game is a member of the HLP Steam group?  Someone should just make an event.  (preferably on a weekend or after 9:00 P.M. E.S.T. on a weekday)

If I'm available (see parenthetical statement above), I'll definitely hop on to help start a fleet.

[crizza]

Yeah, nothing saves your day then have two tac officers who have the rapid fire, high yield and scatter torpedo skills
That's just sweet.
But it is odd to see the Defiant(that Defiant out of the DS9 missions) fire only beams, when it ought to have these sick quad cannons.
Or the new Enterprise F, which was playing dead most of the fight^^

[Commander Zane]

Truly, this game hates me.

I have to put forth thrice the effort to complete any ground STF in the presence of a full team of morons time and time again, only to get the most insulting rewards at the end of the mission.
And then I play Cure (Space) because of today's extra data chip and dilithium bonus.

I get a ****ing Common Engine Tech drop at the end of the first attempt.
And I already have the Mk.X M.A.C.O. and Omega Force engines.

[NGTM-1R]

@crizza: That's pretty weird considering the Defiant in that mission has the BoP AI, I think, meaning it's competent to use cannons unlike most Fed Escorts. I certainly saw it enough.

The Enterprise, though, is incredibly slow moving but at least fires tricobalt torpedoes.

[Retsof]

Well, I think I figured out why I die so much on ground missions.  I have been rushing in like a grunt.  As Science, I should be hanging back, applying my abilities, and taking potshots with my sniper rifle.

Also, what's better?  Buying a plasma torp and using my high-yield 1, while discarding my now bound Chroniton tactical console; or keeping the Chronoton torps and retraining my Tac-off with torp spread?

[Liberator]

Chroniton torps do a lot less damage than even a transphasic torpedo, which are broken atm.  The movement debuff is very useful in PVP, but the NPCs mostly ignore it.  Your best best is either quantums or photons.

[crizza]

BTW I use a breen transphasic cluster torpedo launcher...pretty usefull...sometimes...

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Well, I think I figured out why I die so much on ground missions.  I have been rushing in like a grunt.  As Science, I should be hanging back, applying my abilities, and taking potshots with my sniper rifle.

Also, what's better?  Buying a plasma torp and using my high-yield 1, while discarding my now bound Chroniton tactical console; or keeping the Chronoton torps and retraining my Tac-off with torp spread?

Chroniton torps do a lot less damage than even a transphasic torpedo, which are broken atm.  The movement debuff is very useful in PVP, but the NPCs mostly ignore it.  Your best best is either quantums or photons.

Yep. If you wanna snare, use warp plasma or tractor beams. Chronitons might actually be useful if the debuff was 100% chance (or a much stronger debuff, like the warp plasma), but 33% is just way too low a chance for how (relatively) rarely the torpedoes get fired and the debuff doesn't seem to make all that much of a difference. It's kind of a shame that the alternative torpedoes just aren't up to snuff, I'd like there to be more choice. Transphasics are especially terrible. That being said, plasmas actually aren't bad in my experience. HY makes them hit like a train and the DoT does bypass shields. The consoles even at VA are like a piddly 11k dilithium, so don't worry about those too much.

[Scourge of Ages]

I had a really weird experience this morning. I was doing a Klingon front mission, the Briar Patch one, solo. Even the Raptor Escorts were wiping the floor with me, they were depleting entire shield quadrants with just a couple disrupter shots. Even their photon torpedoes were killing my shields, and if I took just one torp to the hull without Brace for Impact on, I was toast.
It was really as if I was fighting at a higher level, like if the Klinks were still leveled to 50 from when I partied with LunarNightmare.

The Battlecruiser was an exercise in me exploding. Finally got it by zipping in behind, tractor beaming it, unloading every weapon with every buff and a weapons battery, then hiding behind an asteroid when the tractor beam ran out. And doing it again once my shields recharged to finish it off.

[Commander Zane]

Raptors can be pretty hairy.
Oddly enough Negh'Var Warships are a walk in the park compared to them.

[LunarNightmare]

It was really as if I was fighting at a higher level, like if the Klinks were still leveled to 50 from when I partied with LunarNightmare.

 

[Liberator]

Had that happen with a friend of mine.  We were doing the mission where you chase the Ferengi who stole the kemocite and you run into some orions.  They were scaled to my VA, who was in a Conny refit so as to not completely out class the mission.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Raptors can be pretty hairy.
Oddly enough Negh'Var Warships are a walk in the park compared to them.

The Negh'Vars, I think, are just way too sluggish to be viable combat ships. Even in a Sovvy, I basically get to completely dictate positioning and range, and, thus, pound them non-stop with torps. They're also easy targets for warp plasma.

[NGTM-1R]

The NPCs are generally better at driving the midsize ships then the heavies, while the lights are...still lights.

This changes with some of the later opponents, mind. Mogais are deeply frustrating but D'Deridex are no walk in the park either, forcing careful range control.  Keldon are better than Galors simply because they're really the same ship, only bigger and tougher, while the Hideki-class frigate (it's a frigate, not a fighter, though you might be confused by that when see them) is actually the most annoying and capable frigate in the game. Jem'Hadar ships go back to the pain being mainly in the midsize, but their heavies recently got tractor repulsors that bypass shields. Borg bring the heavy as pain, and so do Undine.

[Woolie Wool]

This game really needs more and better endgame content. I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I need to grind 40 EDCs for the next piece of my MACO Mk XI space set (the first piece having come from a rare Borg shield tech) or the fact that there's really not much better to do at VA50.

...Well I guess there's Terradome, but I'd rather pull my own teeth out with a pair of rusty pliers than play Terradome ever again.

The NPCs are generally better at driving the midsize ships then the heavies, while the lights are...still lights.

This changes with some of the later opponents, mind. Mogais are deeply frustrating but D'Deridex are no walk in the park either, forcing careful range control.  Keldon are better than Galors simply because they're really the same ship, only bigger and tougher, while the Hideki-class frigate (it's a frigate, not a fighter, though you might be confused by that when see them) is actually the most annoying and capable frigate in the game. Jem'Hadar ships go back to the pain being mainly in the midsize, but their heavies recently got tractor repulsors that bypass shields. Borg bring the heavy as pain, and so do Undine.

Mogais aren't that hard. They take forever to kill, but they can't one-shot you from 100% hull like the D'Deridex can.

Also the Borg are painful in pretty much every form except probes and basic drones. It's like Cryptic sat down and tried to come up with the cheapest, most irritating, annoying, and unfair opponents possible, especially in Infected, where you can have Borg ships giving you three different shield debuffs at once. And since I have the Aggressive trait on my captain they all aggro on me first (this made the end of Boldly They Rode...interesting).

Since everyone is posting their ships, meet the USS Actium, a Fleet Escort with two Antiproton Dual Heavy Cannons, two Antiproton Beam Arrays, an Antiproton Dual Beam Bank, an Antiproton Turret, two Quantum Torpedo launchers (fore and aft). With the weapon power console and my skill setup, I get around 200 weapons power at the beginning of an alpha strike.



I love how brutal this ship looks. It looks like a compact, no-nonsense warship for blowing people to bits rather than an exploration luxury liner like the Enterprise. And with two RCS consoles it gets 37 deg/s turn rate, which is a revelation compared to my other ships (the Odyssey-class USS Resolute, and Star Cruiser USS Imperieuse).

Until I ditched the torpedo launcher and phaser for a pair of plasma arrays.

Good lord, why would you do that? The torpedo launcher is the only real firepower a shuttle has. I always put a Mk XI rare torpedo launcher on a shuttle (the standard shuttle equipment is garbage), as well as the polaron beam array from Operation Gamma (and a dual bank in my inventory to switch to when I don't need a full firing arc) and the complete Jem'Hadar set.

[TrashMan]

I had a really weird experience this morning. I was doing a Klingon front mission, the Briar Patch one, solo. Even the Raptor Escorts were wiping the floor with me, they were depleting entire shield quadrants with just a couple disrupter shots. Even their photon torpedoes were killing my shields, and if I took just one torp to the hull without Brace for Impact on, I was toast.
It was really as if I was fighting at a higher level, like if the Klinks were still leveled to 50 from when I partied with LunarNightmare.

The Battlecruiser was an exercise in me exploding. Finally got it by zipping in behind, tractor beaming it, unloading every weapon with every buff and a weapons battery, then hiding behind an asteroid when the tractor beam ran out. And doing it again once my shields recharged to finish it off.

Simialr thing happened to me. Did a war zone and went to re-play the "Bodly They Rode" missions. The Jem'hadar were killing me like me shields were made from tissue paper. I had no trouble completing hte mission the first time... I did get promoted tough..