Star Trek Online thread

[Lionus]

Roger that. I just have one qualm with the cruisers; they turn like they have all the time in the world. luckily, RCS thrusters and hyper-impulse engines can fix that.

[Barihawk]

If you are using RCS thrusters on a cruiser, you are seriously doing it wrong.

You can't play cruiser like an escort or science ship. You equip your ship for 360 degree combat and go with the flow. The eng slot can better be used for hull resist, eps transfer or something that helps tank.

[Daystar70]

At captain rank, indeed if you spec it right,the cruiser was the best by far. Escorts are great for pure combat grinding (i used a Vigalent class escort for captain 1-6 and cruiser 6-ra1) but as the last dude said, you cannot treat it like an escort,it simplay wont happen. Cruisers make excellent Beam boats, but u have to get used to working with the flow of the turn rate instead of trying to fight it, reverse engines will be used a lot also. Eject plasma flow is great to help debuff and slow down the pve enemy fighters and escorts and frigates that would try and swarm around your aft side, as well as that science one tyken's rift to hold em in place a minute while u beam slam them. Use Range as a cruiser and 360 degrees of firepower, i recommend heavily arming your aft side because inevitably the AI of the npcs seem to favor hitting your cruiser from behind more than anything.

[Hellsgate]

http://www.trekspace.org/photo/albums/sto3-more-caps

[Nebula]

what about them?

[Lionus]

I have RCS thrusters because I prefer to be able to fire front and aft tubes at the enemy as soon as possible and keep the fire splitting evenly around the shields.

[Dawg81]

when u guys start using tact escorts loaded with cannons watch your power reserves the cannons will drain it if u have 3 or more stacked on

[Barihawk]

I have three dual heavies and two turrets on my fleet escort and with a single EPS mark X green I really don't even notice power drains.

[Lionus]

 :woot: About to be a captain at last. I think I shall stick to plasma weapons, or perhaps try polarons.. IMHO plasma and disruptors have the best effect on both shields and hull.. Opinions on this matter?

[Daystar70]

I talked to TONS of experienced admirals who ran the cure/infected etc last eve,almost everyone agreed poloron weaponsa re a total waste. Phasers or disruptors are the point per point best weapons,complimenting consoles matching, your skill points are wasted in those areas that are not phasers or disruptors if u do the math later on, u could have spent way more on other things, it may seem like the points you see dps wise are stronger, but when you factor in the weapon skills costs,the consoles costs to get to help, its not worth getting anything but phasers and disruptors at endgame so far.

[Barihawk]

Every player and NPC worth salt at endgame has heavy phaser/disruptor resistance, FYI.

The best endgame is Antiproton. It eats Borg to pieces and most players concentrate on other resistances.

Phaser and disruptor are the worst in PvP as nearly everyone has some kind of resist to it. My fleet escort has a whopping 30% resist to EVERYTHING short of antiproton.

[Lionus]

Sadly, at this point of game, AP's are are a distant dream.

[Barihawk]

Sadly, at this point of game, AP's are are a distant dream.

I would recommend tetryon when you hit RA, then. That will last you during the missions until you are able to collect the AP weapons from exploration dailies.

[Lionus]

I have tetryons in my heavy escort, they don't seem to do much 

[Joshmaul]

The best endgame is Antiproton. It eats Borg to pieces and most players concentrate on other resistances.

My Prommie has AP dual-beams, and my admiral has an AP sniper rifle, heh.

[Daystar70]

Hmm That's a good set of points,the costs and math may favor phasers and disruptors,but the factor of resistances explain why in pvp it changes. I literally Tore up ships in fed vs fed yesterday using my Fleet escort with phaser dual beam/2 dual cannon phasers spec, but i also died fast if a ship used AP weapons or 2 focus fired on my ship. The Borg tear me apart by warp core explosions,one thing a Captain needs to remember when hopping cruiser/escorts is ,you need to get closer to effectivley use cannons, but when a ship si close to 0% hull GET AWAY from it FAST!

Warp core explosions account for 90% of my escort deaths.

[Dawg81]

cardies count for all of mine as of late

[davies78]

 "The bloody Cardies can't be trusted!"  lol

I was having a problen.untill i went back to a more traditional phasers and qua torps (all type X) now space battles are simple. Now i am finding the ground battles more of a challange. Need to buy me a new ground weapon next me thinks

[Lionus]

That's it, I got enough of that friggin exploding cruiser.. I've seen small moons with better turning circle! Tactical Escort shall serve me from now on.  :woot:

[Voyager16]

Well, Im gonna get a laptop for school and replace my desktop, but my question is this;

Can I run it if I buy this laptop?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2010/03/11/Samsung-R730---17-3in-Laptop/p3

I know, gaming is a no no on a laptop, and it sure isnt a gaming laptop.^
But it's more for school, and I only play STO so!