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Offline crizza

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If retsof wants, he can have all my R&D stuff...half of my bank acc is full and as of now I don't even scan the anomalies...

 

Offline IceFire

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This thread has convinced me to try it out...so I am :)

And another one joins! Bwahaha.  :lol:
Hahah :) Installed it today but absolutely no time to play it yet. Such is life these days! I'll give it a whirl sometime this week and see if I can link up with some of you.
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Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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This thread has convinced me to try it out...so I am :)

And another one joins! Bwahaha.  :lol:
Hahah :) Installed it today but absolutely no time to play it yet. Such is life these days! I'll give it a whirl sometime this week and see if I can link up with some of you.

I haven't been on much lately, either, due to health reasons, but if you see me on (I'm on "the list" in the other thread), give me a shout and I'll gladly do the Klingon arc missions with you; I love them.

 

Offline TrashMan

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I haven't been on much lately, either, due to health reasons, but if you see me on (I'm on "the list" in the other thread), give me a shout and I'll gladly do the Klingon arc missions with you; I love them.

I detest the last few missions of the arc. Time-travel? Guardian of Forever? ****ty explanation for why klingons in TOS didn't have forehead ridges? (why the **** does that need explanation???? Technical and budget limitations!) Also, name-dropping. Name droping EVERYWHERE. And Ku'mavagh. The arc started so promising.

I find the foundry missions far better to that one.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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If you can't handle Star Trek references, you might perhaps be in the wrong game.

Since, it's, y'know, a Star Trek game.

(Also the ridges thing is actually mildly clever, as it plays upon things that were actually commented on and established in DS9 and Enterprise but whose significance was not discussed.)
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Offline TrashMan

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If you can't handle Star Trek references, you might perhaps be in the wrong game.

Since, it's, y'know, a Star Trek game.

(Also the ridges thing is actually mildly clever, as it plays upon things that were actually commented on and established in DS9 and Enterprise but whose significance was not discussed.)

IT's garbage

A thing that doesn't need explaining turned into a HORRIBLE explanation. All that they had to say way "Klingons always had ridges". And that's it.

but noo..they hade to go with the STUPID DS9 plto and the STUPID VOY plot about the klingon savior....

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Offline General Battuta

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star trekkinnnnnnn

across the universe

 

Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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Eh, it's all opinion. I, personally, enjoyed the Klingon arc and I also like The 2800 featured series, especially the prison mission. The arcs I really don't like are the Undine and Borg arcs, and I really only dislike the Borg arcs because ground combat against the Borg is bullcrap thanks to having to remodulate every 5 seconds.

 

Offline BloodEagle

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The prison mission was actually the second worst of the lot (not saying they're terrible), imo.  Seeing all of the heavy security was sweet, but the 'person who's seen everything a million times' inside me figured out that it was going to turn lame far before it did.

Also, lmao at the "choice" you're given.

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Aside, I love having purple engine trails.

 

Offline TwentyPercentCooler

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The prison mission was actually the second worst of the lot (not saying they're terrible), imo.  Seeing all of the heavy security was sweet, but the 'person who's seen everything a million times' inside me figured out that it was going to turn lame far before it did.

Also, lmao at the "choice" you're given.

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Aside, I love having purple engine trails.

I think I just liked it because I liked how the inside of the prison looked.

On a note slightly related to your last statement, we should really get to choose our base impulse engine and nacelle color. Would do a lot for diversity.

 

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(Also the ridges thing is actually mildly clever, as it plays upon things that were actually commented on and established in DS9 and Enterprise but whose significance was not discussed.)
That Enterprise two-parter was really good stuff, too.  If only Manny Coto had been running that series from the beginning... :(

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Aside, I love having purple engine trails.

You love having broken shield buffs too, amirite?
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Offline Liberator

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Eh, it's all opinion. I, personally, enjoyed the Klingon arc and I also like The 2800 featured series, especially the prison mission. The arcs I really don't like are the Undine and Borg arcs, and I really only dislike the Borg arcs because ground combat against the Borg is bullcrap thanks to having to remodulate every 5 seconds.

The Undine arc felt...unfinished to me, they wimped out at the end and blamed it on the Iconians, which apparently are coming back as a big bad after 5000 years or something. 
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Offline BloodEagle

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Eh, it's all opinion. I, personally, enjoyed the Klingon arc and I also like The 2800 featured series, especially the prison mission. The arcs I really don't like are the Undine and Borg arcs, and I really only dislike the Borg arcs because ground combat against the Borg is bullcrap thanks to having to remodulate every 5 seconds.

The Undine arc felt...unfinished to me, they wimped out at the end and blamed it on the Iconians, which apparently are coming back as a big bad after 5000 years or something.

They actually foreshadowed the Iconians in the DS9 episode.  Me thinks they will be appearing sometime in the near future.

 

Offline Ravenholme

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The only problem with doing the 2800 at Commander rank is that all this lovely gear I'm getting will be outdated by the time I hit Captain :(

And the rewards are time limited only too, aren't they? The 2800 arc will be disappearing if I understand it correctly, so I won't be able to get the Jem'Hadar Ship and Ground Combat sets for my Vice Admiral :(
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Offline NGTM-1R

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They actually foreshadowed the Iconians in the DS9 episode.  Me thinks they will be appearing sometime in the near future.

They've been foreshadowing them since the Romulan arc, tbh. There's stuff in the code about an Iconian STF that's not active, I'm told.
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Offline TrashMan

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LVL40.

Could decide what ship to take, so I took the (custom) Sovy in the end. Now I'm having seconds thoughs..should have gone for Fleet Escort (I luv DPS...but my Heavy escort is luvely)

Gonna deck the Sovy with plasma torps and see how it goes.
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Offline Liberator

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The only problem with doing the 2800 at Commander rank is that all this lovely gear I'm getting will be outdated by the time I hit Captain :(

And the rewards are time limited only too, aren't they? The 2800 arc will be disappearing if I understand it correctly, so I won't be able to get the Jem'Hadar Ship and Ground Combat sets for my Vice Admiral :(
I believe that the part that is going away is Gamma DOff box.  The other rewards will remain in place.
So as through a glass, and darkly
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Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline Ravenholme

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The only problem with doing the 2800 at Commander rank is that all this lovely gear I'm getting will be outdated by the time I hit Captain :(

And the rewards are time limited only too, aren't they? The 2800 arc will be disappearing if I understand it correctly, so I won't be able to get the Jem'Hadar Ship and Ground Combat sets for my Vice Admiral :(
I believe that the part that is going away is Gamma DOff box.  The other rewards will remain in place.

Ah, I did wonder if that was the case, but a friend of mine stated otherwise - I did wonder if he'd got the wrong end of the stick (because that happens fairly often tbh)

That's fine, I love me a set of purple ship gear :3
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Offline BloodEagle

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The only problem with doing the 2800 at Commander rank is that all this lovely gear I'm getting will be outdated by the time I hit Captain :(

And the rewards are time limited only too, aren't they? The 2800 arc will be disappearing if I understand it correctly, so I won't be able to get the Jem'Hadar Ship and Ground Combat sets for my Vice Admiral :(
I believe that the part that is going away is Gamma DOff box.  The other rewards will remain in place.

They already took away the shroud and recipes (I noticed they were gone when I went to get them on my Klingon-side character).

Now, what I want to know is, can you get the one-time items (the badass shield, for instance) again if you destroy the one you have?