Star Trek Online thread

[majormagna]

Depends on your set-up, officer, officer-abilities. Have you done the missions Argus Genstra gives you?

[flarespire]

ill give em a try, ill try to post some screenies of my ships setup(im just doin every ability possible aka all round officer) and im a tactical officer...

[majormagna]

If you fly any escort type then you don't want to have too many tanking skills, the tanking abilities I have are:

Emergency Power to Shields I
Reverse Shield Polarity II
Hazard Emitters I

But then I'm a Science Officer, so I may have a higher Aux level than you.

My Akira weapons were, dual beam bank, dual heavy cannons and a quantum torp on fore; turret and quantum torp aft. Don't forget to optimize your power levels and consoles, for example, I found an RCS Thruster console great on all Escorts so far.

For my Defiant I gave up on beams all together, 2 dual heavy cannons and 2 quantum torps fore; a turret and quantum torp aft. Going for Fleet Escort, but I'm not sure if I should get the Retrofit-Defiant at VA, I find the Refit Galaxy to be the best VA ship overall... If it had the ability to dual fire any forward torpedoes I'd love the Defiant!

[flarespire]

hmm, i guess id be better off with my saber class, but then thats seriously overpowered........i think im gonna stay with the akira and hope for the best, hopefully one of my mates on there will help out, if you wanna add me then my STO is flarespire@captainlive if you do this i may call on you for some help from time to time.....

[DJ Curtis]

In the meantime, just level up on random encounters.  Fighting Romulans in the Alpha Centauri Sector block is a good way to do it.

[majormagna]

I have a question regarding weapon/costume setups; do you stick to canon, go for a good look/good damage, or a bit of both? I personally do 'a bit of both' in both respects, I try to make my ships look like refitted versions of the canon ship, with good but close to canon weapons.

For example:

For my Defiant I gave up on beams all together, 2 dual heavy cannons and 2 quantum torps fore; a turret and quantum torp aft.

[Daystar70]

There has been a lot of heated debate over the Ent J coming to sto, (it is coming confirmed), but one post person in a forum made me stop and think, because they had an excellent point. We saw the Ent J at the battle of Proxima, 26th century..but we do NOT know when it was actually "built" or when the universe class was first launched. The prometheus class was also seen in said battle. Starships have a long shelf life in trek, as we kno, 100 yrs is not uncommon for a class to still be used (upgraded obviously in the internal workings). The trek magazine sources that talk about the universe class say it has a "space fold" system etc, obviously thats ffuture tech. If cryptic puts it in game without the space fold, i wouldn't personally complain anymore. Nothing can stop it from coming, the only thing to do as a fan trying to stay "immersed" is chil out and deal w it.

[Tuskin38]

question, where the heck are people getting "Universe Class" from? I've never heard it called that before

[Daystar70]

The Enterprise-J was seen only in the background in the form of graphics on a computer screen. A CGI model was built by designer Doug Drexler. According to Rob Bonchune, "From what I understand, it was done quick and dirty, so was not really detailed in any way like a model we would use in multiple shots." [1] An official class name hasn't been confirmed, although Doug Drexler himself approves of Universe-class. [2] He also estimates the length at about two miles. [3]

source- memory alpha

[Tuskin38]

Anyone else noticed the Terran Federation ships now have darker hulls and Purple Nacelles? Also I've read reports of Excelsiors showing up in Terran Federation related missions now

[majormagna]

IIRC Terran Empire ships have had purple nacelles and darker hulls since Season 2 was released...

Excelsiors have shown up in numerous missions for me, but only in random fleets...

[ACES_HIGH]

and I thought the silly grey and blue Reman warbirds was bad enough.  Just because they are a mirror universe faction doesn't mean they should have inverted colors

[Joshmaul]

The U-wood is back, baby! WOO!

[Darkthunder]

and I thought the silly grey and blue Reman warbirds was bad enough.  Just because they are a mirror universe faction doesn't mean they should have inverted colors

Well the Terran NX-01 had yellow racing stripes on it's saucer. The "normal" NX-01 didn't

[ACES_HIGH]

it still didn't have purple engines

[Lionus]

hmm.. Excelsior should be out soon, shouldn't it? 

[Captain_Licard]

im still at lc6, trying to get to commander before my thirty days are up, Ive gotten pretty good at the game, and I dare to say that ive got the best crew in the fleet...

[Tuskin38]

hmm.. Excelsior should be out soon, shouldn't it? 

They said they'd release it with the first Weekly Episode around a month ago, the first weekly episode has been pushed back to the 28th

[Daystar70]

Excelsior is on Tribble now (commander) its under "advanced heavy cruiser"  she has 3 sector transwarps, pi canus sector, regulus,and sirius, the admiral one and this will be out in 2 days (thursday) admiral one of course is c store. the admiral one is generations one, this is search for spock. You cannot customise it im afraid just make the hull darker and add the decals as usual. This is The Uss Dreadstar, George kane tribble test server excelsior.

[Kirk]

That's hideous