Star Trek Online thread

[ACES_HIGH]

I use a healthy mix of phasers, quantums, plasmas and mines on my Galaxy, I like a torpedo heavy loadout so that I can throw a good alphastrike at 'em when I get the shot.  Those Keldons aren't easy to beat, especially after they summon the photonic Galors,  I usually try to focus on the Keldon and ignore the Galors as long as possible, remember their weapons aren't as strong as normal galors.  if they do start being a problem, their Hulls and shields are very weak, a good torpedo barrage will destroy them.  To beat the Keldon, you need to sustain fire on it to keep it from repairing damage, a good persistant AOE attack, like plasma fire works well for that if you can't keep phasers in it.  And remember, it'll be armed with phasers so it can knock out your shields, a good set of armor, or a hull buff like Polarize Hull is useful when that happens.

[davies78]

Thanks for all the help.i have now got through the mission. went back to the weapons set up of a mix of beam and photons, and it worked a treat. Think i was using to many beam weapons when i didnt have the power to use them. Thanks again

[Lionus]

  god damned starbase 24 mission.. it's impossible! when I get one group of klingons out of the way and try to save the researchers, new group beams in and toasts my ass with disruptors and Bat'Leths. I can't get further than three first researches before my team is KO'd and me soon after.. :argh:

[Nebula]

eh? I didn't have a prob with it...

but then I guess it changes with rank?

[Lionus]

could be. Bloody lobsterheads..  :

[Darkthunder]

eh? I didn't have a prob with it...

but then I guess it changes with rank?

The season 1 update, made all the fleet actions "Level banded". Rewards, and risks are scaled accordingly. I.e Admirals will be given rewards proportionate to their level, while Lieutenants will be given different rewards accordingly. This does have the drawback, of not being able to group with friends for fleet actions, who are higher or lower rank than yourself.

[Daystar70]

Lionus- What you describe to me, says one thing- DUDE respec! you MUST not have much put into ground skills. starbase 24 should not be as hard as you describe on the ground..challenging..but a constant slaughter? no..something in your ground skills is  lacking or what your away team is made of is off balance..do you have no science officers? or no engineers? in that tier, engineers IMo are not really necessary their cover shields and shield rechargers etc are awesome later, but maybe you could take 2 science officers,trade off one of your engineers at sol and have 2 sci for an away team , or take more tacticals have one with grenades..theres so many ways to mix up aan effective ground assault team but often people skip the ground skills and focus on space, and you get what is sounding like your scenerio.

I accomplished something creatively satisfying-i changed around my Klingon crew to become the "mirror" universe counterparts of the Daystar- George Kane (all replaced alien Bo's loaded saved appearences of bos) George kane, xo and tactical of his vulcan wife T'pon,who is the captain, xera the cardassiaan babe, andorian tact off Sava Ek'noor, and the others,almost all returned as mirror versions only lt.comm 1 for klings took a few days off so don't have all my bo slots yet. The ship is the Cruiser ka'tonca class varient Iks Darkstar. (Daystar/Darkstar). Backstory- The Mirror universe version of this crew came through to our universe thru the same rift that is a storyline in the regular sto ds9 area game. They had a captured klingon warship and soon after being trapped on this side, made a deal w the klingons to fight for them as mercenaries.

[Lionus]

I have to admit that while I have focused more on space skills ( as it doesn't crash that often in space patrol mission as in away missions), my away team is hardly badly skilled. two tacticals, one engineer and one science officer are well enough skilled to make minced meat out of anything in no-time.. but the constant flood of klinks in SB24 is just too much.

[Daystar70]

Mo not that, i emantg the actual skills for leading them,and what they have for ground skills

[Lionus]

I haven't bothered to memorize them. 

[Barihawk]

Well, I got my foreward antiproton cannons equipped on my fleet escort and specced into them and last night I was melting the Borg in Infected space. (They were also melting me even with 35% plasma resistance, but that's normal).

We managed to beat Manus of Borg on the first try with a perfect run, although our pugger doctor did absolute jack shit in the way of healing. It makes me want to work on my Bajoran doctor (playing an endgame doctor/healer is absolutely fun, but levelling one up is an absolute pain).

[Darkthunder]

(playing an endgame doctor/healer is absolutely fun, but levelling one up is an absolute pain).

I got to Captain 7 before my gametime expired. I'm specialised for ground combat, upto Psychology (maxxed on healer skills upto there). Also got all my science ship skills upto Deep Space Science Vessel maxxed out. For about 50/50 of the gametime, I either was grouped with friends (who have since outleveled me and got bored of the game), and flying solo. Being solo was a real bore, even if I survived most encounters.

[Daystar70]

NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING MOVE.

cRYPTIC created this "sto advisory" council, and the lead members are the cast of STOked..My fleet leaders,whom i talk to very day in Teamspeak. It'll be interesting to see how the population of STO handle this, i know from talking to them their 100% qualified to represent the interests and voices of what the players want, but the part that will be veru curious will be the public reaction to them, like a  person you know and trust being elected into a public office, you have the dilemma of defending them vs public trolling without sounding bias, on the other you have the "you guys think your elite fleet" atitude i know is coming.

As you have seen in prior posts, i have had issues w Jeremy, which have since subsided or vanished, so i'd be lying or a hippocrite if i said just because our fleet is being honored this way,that suddenly My opinion has shifted. But the good outweigh the bad,and him and chris fisher do listen to us in the teamspeak and this tells me as a council thing, concerns i have about STo can be directly taken to him and chris, and to cryptic.

They want us to try and not use star trek forums as a constant feed of rumors or possible room for misinterpretation of anything in the future to avoid that mmo rumor cycling and finger pointing that we all know would happen, but if anyone in the future has specific questions of concerns pm me here and i will personally ask chris or jeremy or point it out to them whenever i can, its the least i can offer to a decent star trek community that has members playing STO.

[Villain]

So Cryptic hopped on to Monolith (And subsequently SoE)'s public liasons? Don't expect much if anything, as all it does is shift animosity to be directed at the liasons and not the Devs.

[Daystar70]

Wow what a drama fest! The SToked guys are debating publically pulling out there's so much hate on other forums such as mmorpg.com and sto forums. This whole PR  mess is becoming quite explosive for cryptic. I am very upbeat about STO but as a company cryptic just seems to be really really strange if they cannot understand why people blow up at them.

[Lionus]

  Oh my.. that was quite illogical move indeed. Funny, but illogical.

[davies78]

Have upgrdes all my ships weapons on my galaxy now and iy is working a treat, thanks for all the help with that. Now i should move on to admiral rank in the next day or two (lvl 7 cap at min) Keeping in mind that i have put all my points into cruisers what is the best option for me. There are two cruiser ship types at admiral ? is that right ?
             I do enjoy using he galaxy for the good balance of attack and defence. But the turning circle is a bad joke. Any advice guys

Not sure what all the stuff about the stoaked guys is about going to have to look it up and post my thoughts

[Barihawk]

Wow what a drama fest! The SToked guys are debating publically pulling out there's so much hate on other forums such as mmorpg.com and sto forums. This whole PR  mess is becoming quite explosive for cryptic. I am very upbeat about STO but as a company cryptic just seems to be really really strange if they cannot understand why people blow up at them.

Actually, Atari is the one who came up with the idea for the council and how to implement it. Cryptic wanted to have the public elect members like in EVE online, but instead so-called "elites" in the community were appointed, and ones with inflammatory repuations at that. Your buds happen to be the worst, no offense.

In fact, democratic elections would actually do Cryptic more good, as it would take time away that people spend complaining until TOR comes out and all the drama queens can move on to that.

[Joshmaul]

Actually, Atari is the one who came up with the idea for the council and how to implement it. Cryptic wanted to have the public elect members like in EVE online, but instead so-called "elites" in the community were appointed, and ones with inflammatory repuations at that. Your buds happen to be the worst, no offense.

Isn't one of the STOked guys advocating the complete removal of the Klingon faction? Now, granted, it has its flaws (a semi-rectified lack of PvE content, for starters),  but there are enough people who've gone to the top with it who might pitch a bitch.

[Barihawk]

I personally enjoy the Klingon gameplay.