Star Trek Online thread

[captain_obvious]

I have a question about the different Odyssey variations.  It's my intention to eventually purchase one when I can afford to do so and I'm currently debating on whether or not I should get the Tactical Cruiser or the Operations Cruiser.  I'm interested in knowing how the Aquarius Escort stacks up against the Separated Saucer when it comes to supporting you in combat.  I'm thinking the Aquarius Escort would be a better fighter overall because she's part of the Tactical Cruiser, but the Operations Cruiser would probably benefit from better maneuverability while separated. I'm just wondering if anyone who has one or the other, (or both), can offer an opinion of what they personally think is the best way to go.  Right now I'm leaning towards Operations for Saucer Separation. In a perfect world I would just get the bundle and have both abilities but I can't do that right now so it's one or the other.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the oddy.  I went and bought the pack when it came out and found that it wasn't all that great.  
If the saucer sep, aquarius and the other console were built in and not consoles then they wouldn't be so bad but as they are you sacrifice a console slot (or two or three) which you could pack up with resistances and damage consoles just so you can have marginally useful abilities.  The oddy is a cruiser and cruisers are best used to take and hold aggro while the escorts melt their hulls.  
Cruiser being flown by a tac sans threat control = worthless imo.


EDIT
oookay, so the forum is glitching and randomly putting in spaces and paragraph breaks where there shouldn't be any :/

[Shadowknight1]

I dunno, I like my Oddy.  But then, I very rarely picked my ships based on "Well, I"m a tactical officer, so I should only fly escorts all the time".

[captain_obvious]

I dunno, I like my Oddy.  But then, I very rarely picked my ships based on "Well, I"m a tactical officer, so I should only fly escorts all the time".

I like doing well and generally it's easiest to do well when you are playing the role that your character and ship are best suited for. 
Having an eng in an escort will sacrifice a lot of firepower and dps in order to gain a little toughness resulting in a pretty mediocre ship.  A tac in said escort will smash targets in a matter of seconds as long as he doesn't draw too much aggro. 
Engineers belong in cruisers.  It's where they tend to best perform in their role which is to draw fire and survive aka tanking.

[Tuskin38]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/22/exclusive-star-trek-online-season-6-reveal-fleet-starbases/

Fleet Starbasessss

[Shadowknight1]

Whoop-tee-doo.  The fleet I joined is pretty much disbanded  At least, I sure haven't seen anyone from it online in a long time.

[Lionus]

Join Tribbles in Ecstacy. Bankruptstudios is running it and the talkshow on teamspeak 3 even I talk there every now and then

[captain_obvious]

The last fleet I was in pretty much disbanded after I left.  I got annoyed with the constant name changes their leader was whacking up and all the immature bitching and oneupmanship that was going on.  Did I mention it was also the first fleet I was ever involved in?
I found sto to be far more fun without fleets.  Most of them are massively over rated anyway.  Far more fun to be with a bunch of clued up, talkative guys who are fleet-less too.

[BFGfreak]

I actually went with the tactical oddy for my engineer, and let me tell you I just love the extra 15 weapon power it gives me and 10 to shields, not to mention Galactica jr. sitting in the back waiting for the tac cube in ISE to show it's pretty 2 shotting face. But that's just my opinion, odds are the differences between the various ships are so small you'll hardly notice.

[Nihilus]

I'm currently using the standard Odyssey and I think she's pretty decent.  I may go with the Operations Odyssey for the Saucer Separation though.

[Tuskin38]

biggish tribble patch

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=4228383&postcount=1

[captain_obvious]

This

[ACES_HIGH]

The last fleet I was in pretty much disbanded after I left.  I got annoyed with the constant name changes their leader was whacking up and all the immature bitching and oneupmanship that was going on.  Did I mention it was also the first fleet I was ever involved in?
I found sto to be far more fun without fleets.  Most of them are massively over rated anyway.  Far more fun to be with a bunch of clued up, talkative guys who are fleet-less too.

avoid the big huge fleets, all they care about is numbers.  Find yourself a small tight knit fleet like Ninth Fleet, you'll have a lot more fun.

[Shadowknight1]

Ehh.  I'm never online for too long with STO, and I only go on about once a week to do a mission or two.  I would like to do more actual RP since I concocted an interesting backstory for my primary character, but I only seem to run into an RPer group once and a while on DS9, and that's if I'm lucky.

[Tuskin38]

More Starbase pictures

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=4229187&postcount=76

[captain_obvious]

avoid the big huge fleets, all they care about is numbers.  Find yourself a small tight knit fleet like Ninth Fleet, you'll have a lot more fun.

The fleet I was in was a small one. Had maybe 20 people in it.  The whole fleet thing is over rated imo.

[Tuskin38]

New Friday Screenshot

[captain_obvious]

I'm half expecting ads for the lockbox lottery to be visible on those big blue panels on the lower end of the station

[Tuskin38]

New video, nothing exciting

[Dawg81]

Hey  guys been a while. I am back in sto very active been flying with a certain coyote trying to get a roadrunner beep beep

[Tuskin38]

Daymn!



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