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[Rocketeer]

Bird of Prey wrote:

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There are special DOFF assignments that you can get from your Science officer on your ship (visit your bridge and go to the science lab). You can turn in data samples for 250 dilithium and particle traces for 500 dilithium. Each of these mission require about 20 of each type of sample.

Wow, thanks for reminding me to check interior locations for DOFF assignments.

Will dilithium be used in the Starbase construction? I have a small (very small) stash.
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[Squiggy]

michael@houseguydc

[Xhiandra]

I'm at a bit of a loss over the conflicting info this game gives sometimes:
Weapons are listed with a DPV value and a DPS value.
From these, it's easy to determine their delay (DPS/DPV=T(s)):
- Turrets: .75s.
- Arrays : 1.25s.
- Cannons: .75s.
- Torpedoes: from 6.5s to 60s, depending on type.
- DBBs: 1.25s.
- DCs: .75s.
- DHCs: 1.5s. (twice the delay of DCs for twice the damage)

Nevermind, silly me made a silly mistake. Leaving the delays because it's handy to have a list like that for calculations.

Example, added damage from [Borg] procs:

Photon Torp: 1000 DPV; 1000/6.5=~153.85 DPS.
Quantum/Plasma Torp: 1000 DPV; 1000/8.5=~117.65 DPS.
Turrets, Cannons, DCs: 7.5*1000/100=75 DPV; 75/.75=100 DPS.
Chroniton/Transphasic Torp: 1000 DPV; 1000/10.5=~95.24 DPS.
Arrays, DBBs: 7.5*1000/100=75 DPV; 75/1.25=60 DPS.
DHCs: 7.5*1000/100=75 DPV; 75/1.5=50 DPS.
Tricobalt Torp: 1000 DPV; 1000/60=~16.67 DPS.

[MikeS]

Scout101 wrote:

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Playing the STFs on the weekend is dicey, at best. Amateur hour...

This kind of comment annoys me. We all have to start somewhere. There is alot to learn in this game and I have only been playing sporadically for a few weeks reaching Lieutenant Commander and receiving a Constitution II in the process.

This is the reason I've steered clear of interacting with "Fleet missions" yet.

We that have real lives to lead with work and family to fill our weeks bow down to your superior gamesmanship.

[Hartzilla2007]

Well they changed the website and forced Cryptic and Perfect World account integration and apparently everything has gone to hell.

You can't even get C-points right now.

On the bright side my Gold account looks way better than a silver account right now

[Scout101]

MikeS wrote:

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This kind of comment annoys me. We all have to start somewhere. There is alot to learn in this game and I have only been playing sporadically for a few weeks reaching Lieutenant Commander and receiving a Constitution II in the process.

This is the reason I've steered clear of interacting with "Fleet missions" yet.

We that have real lives to lead with work and family to fill our weeks bow down to your superior gamesmanship.

Feel free to be annoyed, but it wasn't directed at you. It was directed at those that jump into the Elite STFs on the weekend, to the point where (compared to the usual crowd on a weeknight) the average ability of the players goes down.

Has nothing to do with learning curve, or the 'bowing down to ability' strawman you're putting together. I've got a job, a wife, other committments just like everyone else, and am hardly a hardcore gamer. I HAVE run the STFs a couple hundred times (at least) over the past couple years, though.

Just seems that on the weekend, you get more people in the Elite STFs that aren't equipped right for it, haven't even played the NORMAL mode enough to understand the objectives, actively won't listen to the plan or participate in the chat channel, AFKs, or generally doesn't help out. If in the chat, we all agree to start on the left, don't go right and then start swearing in the chat, or not responding at all, failing it for all of us. I probably wasn't the most help my first couple runs, but by starting in Normal mode, learning how to do it, gearing up, and listening to people explain strategy, I got better. And then moved to Elite. With F2P, we've gotten more people doing that almost exactly backwards, and essentially just joining one of these to farm for gear (it's totally random, not based on score within the event, so just being IN means you can get the best stuff).

Making honest mistakes is certainly acceptable. Not listening, actively going against the plan, or showing up without any of the needed gear/skills is less ok. Everyone was new once, willingness to help out and learn is fine. Showing up in an Elite mission without a clue, not helping (or actively hurting) is NOT. And that happens (in my experience) a lot more on the weekends.

Not sure why you'd try and make a stink over this, though. At Lt. Cmdr, you're not even eligible to PLAY these things, so can't have much of a frame of reference for what we're talking about. If you were, you'd probably see what we're saying.

[Hartzilla2007]

It looks like the C-store problem has been fixed.

[hamudm]

I just started playing this on the weekend and for some reason, I'm unable to beam up from Vega Colony in the training mission. I just stand around like a jackass after disabling the Borg comm relay while everyone around me beams up. I think it's a glitch. I've thought about deleting my avatar and starting the game again, seeing as I'm only an hour into it, but I can't be arsed.

Anyone else have this problem?

[Aeolusdallas]

hamudm wrote:

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I just started playing this on the weekend and for some reason, I'm unable to beam up from Vega Colony in the training mission. I just stand around like a jackass after disabling the Borg comm relay while everyone around me beams up. I think it's a glitch. I've thought about deleting my avatar and starting the game again, seeing as I'm only an hour into it, but I can't be arsed.

Anyone else have this problem?

look at your journal you may have missed an objective

[intrinsical]

hamudm wrote:

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I just started playing this on the weekend and for some reason, I'm unable to beam up from Vega Colony in the training mission. I just stand around like a jackass after disabling the Borg comm relay while everyone around me beams up. I think it's a glitch. I've thought about deleting my avatar and starting the game again, seeing as I'm only an hour into it, but I can't be arsed.

Anyone else have this problem?

Its been a long time since I last did that mission, but if I remember correctly there are several more tasks to complete in a deeper section of the colony. Have a look at your journal or look for markers on your ground map (press"M").

[MikeS]

Scout101 wrote:

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Feel free to be annoyed, but it wasn't directed at you. It was directed at those that jump into the Elite STFs on the weekend, to the point where (compared to the usual crowd on a weeknight) the average ability of the players goes down.

Has nothing to do with learning curve, or the 'bowing down to ability' strawman you're putting together. I've got a job, a wife, other committments just like everyone else, and am hardly a hardcore gamer. I HAVE run the STFs a couple hundred times (at least) over the past couple years, though.

Just seems that on the weekend, you get more people in the Elite STFs that aren't equipped right for it, haven't even played the NORMAL mode enough to understand the objectives, actively won't listen to the plan or participate in the chat channel, AFKs, or generally doesn't help out. If in the chat, we all agree to start on the left, don't go right and then start swearing in the chat, or not responding at all, failing it for all of us. I probably wasn't the most help my first couple runs, but by starting in Normal mode, learning how to do it, gearing up, and listening to people explain strategy, I got better. And then moved to Elite. With F2P, we've gotten more people doing that almost exactly backwards, and essentially just joining one of these to farm for gear (it's totally random, not based on score within the event, so just being IN means you can get the best stuff).

Making honest mistakes is certainly acceptable. Not listening, actively going against the plan, or showing up without any of the needed gear/skills is less ok. Everyone was new once, willingness to help out and learn is fine. Showing up in an Elite mission without a clue, not helping (or actively hurting) is NOT. And that happens (in my experience) a lot more on the weekends.

Not sure why you'd try and make a stink over this, though. At Lt. Cmdr, you're not even eligible to PLAY these things, so can't have much of a frame of reference for what we're talking about. If you were, you'd probably see what we're saying.

I did not intend to "make a stink" and after reading your reply, I can agree with the points you make. You will agree that your first post was somewhat terse and lacking in depth as to your gripe? This is where my misunderstanding of your intentions came from.

Thank-you for recognising that we all start somewhere and it takes time to learn in a game of this size.

[Scout101]

I didn't think the original comment NEEDED to be much deeper. If you'd played enough STFs with PUGs, you'd have seen why I was saying that (and agreeing with the previous poster that had just come out of a bad STF group). Hell, I'd just finished a fairly awful group myself. If you've never even PLAYED a STF, not sure why you'd go off on my 'gripe' in the first place. Not sure I agree that you didn't mean to make a stink though, after you took a few shots at me, implying I didn't have a real life, job, family, and that you bowed down to my superior gamesmanship. Odd way to jump if you weren't sure of my intention, and hadn't even had any experience in the thing we were complaining about. You missed the point and attacked ME over it, even though you weren't part of the original comment. Don't look to me to appologize like we both made a mistake...

Again, because the rewards are (potentially) so good, and there's no minimum requirements to join the Elite missions, the weekends usually see a drop in team quality as more people that don't play much try to optimize their rewards by tagging along with people that have more experience. A little dead weight is fine, and if you learn from it, great. Prefer that you actually learn to play in Normal mode before jumping into Elite, but hey, it happens. When half your team is useless, or even worse, actively harmful, it's ok to be frustrated though...

[JRS]

Has anyone here linked/tried to link their PWE and Cryptic accounts yet?

http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=570451

Judging from the comments section, the linking may cause all sorts of problems,
so I am personally bit weary of trying it right now.

[Timelord_Victorious]

Thankfully it seems to have gone well for me.
I never wanted a PW account, and had to change my user name to timelord79 to make it fit with their name requirements.

If I didn't have a lifetime account this would have been the moment I would have walked away for good...

[Scout101]

Other than not being able to keep my original name, no problems. Make sure to go in and get the 'reward' for switching over, located in the 'items' section of the C-Store. Oddly, not the legacy unlocks section where they always put these things. I didn't get anything particularly useful (yay points boost for a VA50 player! got a couple engine/aux boosts and a purple MK XI hand phaser as well), but worth grabbing i guess.

Much ado about nothing, in the long run, but yet another half-assed effort from PWE/Cryptic. Lie about it, say you won't notice a change, then just dump something in there and don't respond to problems when it's half-tested. Little shit like not being able to use your names, not keeping posting history or join dates, no custom avatars, etc. You know, the stuff that should work by DEFAULT in a BBS system, and shouldn't have taken any effort. I'm sure they're "looking into it"...