[TrashMan]

I'm runing a Galaxy-X as a tac officer.

2x Beam Fire at will, 1x Beam overload (thinking of replaceing ti with something else)
2 different shield buffs (power to shields and ..somehing else)
3 hull bufffs (Engineering team, Hazzard Emitters and something else)
2x Reverse shield polarity

rear: 4x phaer arrays rear,
front: 2x phaser arrays, 2 dual phaser banks
3x Phaser Tac consoles. 2xRCS consoles, 2x armor platings, 1 console for crew recovery, 1 for shield recharge. Got rid of the cloak as it simply ins't worth it.

This setup works well enough. But my lance damage is so utterly unpredictable...It goes anywhere from 1000 damage to 40000 damage

[Liberator]

Check the shield status of your target, I wonder if it's getting it's damage calculated like a torpedo and taking shields into account.

[MR_T3D]

Crits (which are more likely vs. a still/slow target) and tac buffs have a dramatic effect on the lance, tac officers can get up in the 50,000 point range for damage with that thing.

It's a phaser and is treated as such by the game, phaser consoles boosting it's power too.

[Liberator]

I wish the heavy graviton beam was like that...

[Scourge of Ages]

My KDF tac officer was recently promoted to Captain, and I grabbed a nice heavy cruiser. Being Gorn, I had no choice but to outfit it with Heavy Dual Disrupter Cannons and a pair of Plasma Torpedoes. And some plasma mines and a plasma beam array in a rear slot because PLASMA!

[Firstdragon34]

I just downloaded star trek online and I am Salnath Dragon@omnisphere33, if anybody Is curious.

[TrashMan]

Crits (which are more likely vs. a still/slow target) and tac buffs have a dramatic effect on the lance, tac officers can get up in the 50,000 point range for damage with that thing.

It's a phaser and is treated as such by the game, phaser consoles boosting it's power too.

I know..I do have 3 phaser consoles. The highest damage I ever got is 40K, but that is very rear. Lately I can't seem ot get mroe than 15K.

[NGTM-1R]

Really.

We're really doing more lockboxes.

[BloodEagle]

They spawn so much more than the Cardy Boxes.... It isn't funny.

They're worth ~400 per on the market, atm.

[NGTM-1R]

They spawn so much more than the Cardy Boxes.... It isn't funny.

Not convinced this is possible.

[BlueFlames]

Really.

We're really doing more lockboxes.

TF2 makes money on crates!  STO will make money on crates!  MOAR CRATES!

[Liberator]

They are giving us a "AA" game for nothing, I'll put up with some spam.

[TrashMan]

I don't mind microtransactions... .But this? This ISN'T micro-transaction.

You get garbage from most crates, and the key is NOT cheap. IF it was 50 cents or maybe 1$ per key....maybe.

[Liberator]

It is $1 a key...or it was.

[BloodEagle]

They don't seem to advertise their point-cost in USD, wherever I look on their site.

Looks like 1.25 USD per 100 point (1 key).

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I've opened three golden crates, and every time I've gotten complete crap from it.  If I'd payed actual money, I would have been really pissed.

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They spawn so much more than the Cardy Boxes.... It isn't funny.

Not convinced this is possible.

I'm basing this off of an STF (the one with the probes trying to get to the past) where there must have been at least 10 Ferengi lockbox drops.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

The only thing even remotely interesting about the lockboxes is to see how many of them I can accumulate in a moment of pure, pointless greed before destroying them.

[NGTM-1R]

The D'Kora is, actually, legitimately awesome if you manage to get it.

[Liberator]

Is it crusiery(tough), escorty(can mount cannons and has appropriate BOff slots) or sciency(I dunno yet because my SciOff is level 3)?

[NGTM-1R]

It's essentially a Galaxy Dread that can turn and has good special abilities and some nice out of combat stuff (like onboard mail/exchange access).

Never dock ever again.

[Liberator]

It has a Phaser Lance(or equivalent)?