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[Vaarna_Aarne]

What memory I still have from the ancient days back in Champions and who shows up on the forums, I think Crush is the only one of the present devs that actually worked on at least some of the old Champions stuff (at least one power set expansion after the game was put in retirement home maintenance was a hobby project by him). Taco, Robobo and others are nowhere to be seen.

 

[Drakron]

It's official now: Cryptic apparently layed off everyone who had remote knowledge about how the engine works.

Unsurprising considering how old the engine is, its was created for City of Heroes.
10 years is a lot of time, not to say that if their Chief of Technology says "assume competence" when you are looking at the code and see something wrong ... I would bail out too, of course that could be Rivera throwing him under a bus ... that again, doesnt exactly inspire much confidence in the workplace.

Borticus is begging people on twitter to tell him how they managed to build covershields to troll powerboarders. No penalty if you tell him! Pleeeeeeease!
No cash prices though... I'll pass.

That stupid thing is that is caused by UI lag since you can use powers for a seconds after beaming in, I suppose that its were it breaks further pointing out their "updates" back in the February broke more they fixed, unsurprising since its TEN YEARS OLD ENGINE (and not a properly maintained one) and the last thing they should be trying to do was making wide changes without extensive testing.

Watching them admitting being clueless would be far more entertaining if I weren't still playing this game... Sadface!

They always been clueless, its amusing seeing they became desperate enough to forgo their overinflated ego ... I do wonder of PWE will not do further restructuring, both NW and STO seem to became disasters in the last 6-10 months.

 

[Davidshky]

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9359773

Looks like you lifers are getting some new toys. At least one of you better make a torp build with the concentrate firepower command boff ability.

 

[Bliblablubb]

I have been told (one of) the reasons for the massive framerate issus on Risa is the UI, as usual, especially the minimap. Like the time when opening the reputation tab brought the fps to a crawl, updating it for every fucking frame rendered, but now it's always open! Seriously, what did they even change on Risa to screw things up so bad, there is nothing new!

Also for extra lulz, NPCs occasionally count towards instance's player limit as well... cryptic.

Cryptic currently reminds me of the time when I helped with an Ultima Online freeshard, adding scripted stuffz with copy/paste without even knowing how the thing worked. When the only guy with coding skillz left, the thing fell apart. Oh well.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

You betcha I'm going to have a go at that trait, at least with my Fed cruiser dudesmen and escorts for the rest. That trait is like heavanz for my homoerotic torpedo obsession. A lot depends on what the durations for the buff and lockout are.

 

[Davidshky]

I was rather thinking of the ability to combine the concentrate firepower ability with an escort style ship.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I'd hope it's worthy of use even besides that.

 

[Norfleet]

Taco, Robobo and others are nowhere to be seen.

Taco is seen a lot, actually. However, he is an artiste and has no useful knowledge whatsoever as a result. All he can do is make the house of cards look pretty as it collapses. Well, no. That's not true. He can make it look pretty BEFORE it collapses, and then shit on your framerate as it does.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Ah, just haven't noticed him then.

 

[Drakron]

You betcha I'm going to have a go at that trait, at least with my Fed cruiser dudesmen and escorts for the rest. That trait is like heavanz for my homoerotic torpedo obsession. A lot depends on what the durations for the buff and lockout are.

I can tell, its 10 sec duration with a lockout of 20 sec.

But this is the problem, each stack is a energy weapon activation so it means you have to fire 20 energy weapons, that means on a cruiser 3-4 broadsides before you can turn and launch a torp or you losing stacks, in a escort its a waste and there is timers involved so whats the point of wasting a torpedo launch for the trait activating and then no longer be available for the next 4 launches? It would not be bad if it stacked regardless of of torp launches until it hit 20 and then activated, it seems it will activate on torp launch thats problematic.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well, if Torp launches while building stacks reset stacks, it really doesn't have a place in most of my cruisers which use Wide Angle.

 

[Norfleet]

So check it out, peasants! You know that new forum we're being moved to? PWE just leaked the IP addresses of every single poster to the entire world.

 

[Subject37]

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9359773

Looks like you lifers are getting some new toys. At least one of you better make a torp build with the concentrate firepower command boff ability.

Ohh....T6 vet ships? I'll have to log back in to check these out. I've been taking a break from STO to play some other stuff in my backlog. GOG had a Star Wars-themed sale recently so I just beat KOTOR for the first time ever yesterday and now I'm working on Sith Lords.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

You are using TSLRCM, right?

 

[Norfleet]

TSLRWHAT? I've never heard of this ship.

 

[Bliblablubb]

TSLRCM is a restorashun mod for shit lords to bring back content lolbsidian had to scrap since they cannot into managing time and resources the evil corporate ovenlords forced them to release it early.

And as soon as I saw the IP openly displayed I vowed never to log into that shitty board again. No loss, since my only post was during the "win a derpa raisin pack" contest anyway.

 

[Norfleet]

Honestly, such a leak could potentially result from incompetence anywhere, since boards by default tend to log all user IPs. Which is why you must always wear your proxycondom!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

TSLRCM is a restorashun mod for shit lords to bring back content lolbsidian had to scrap since they cannot into managing time and resources the evil corporate ovenlords forced them to release it early.

Well the evil corporate overlords DID make them release the game much earlier than originally planned.

 

[Bliblablubb]

TSLRCM is a restorashun mod for shit lords to bring back content lolbsidian had to scrap since they cannot into managing time and resources the evil corporate ovenlords forced them to release it early.

Well the evil corporate overlords DID make them release the game much earlier than originally planned.

But you haven't protested against the "inactive" part of the sentence?

In other news:
Cryptic tries to sell us another batch of stuffz we already own:

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/st...16803-star-trek-online:-tier-6-battlecruisers

The text doesn't even say what stats, layout or special boff seating (if at all) they have, but they are available in the store NAO! Plz buy, we iz being of needing moneyz kthxbye!

Ship mastery trait (lower power drain and increased rate of fire while EPtW is up) and console (secondary shield with a shield/hp heal once it's down) sounds op as usual, so it's the usual shipshaped console/trait purchase offer...

P.S. PWE fucked the boards up real good, I feel nothing but pity for those cryptic employees having to fight against windmills...

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The console is unworthy of mention, but the trait is either the most roflpwn trait yet (say extra flat +30% energy weapon damage plus moar procs when using EPtW3) or a waste of space (ZE TRAIT, IT DOZ NOZING).

Oh well, at least the T6venger looks p sweet in angles shown.

 

[Jarpie]

TSLRCM is a restorashun mod for shit lords to bring back content lolbsidian had to scrap since they cannot into managing time and resources the evil corporate ovenlords forced them to release it early.

Well the evil corporate overlords DID make them release the game much earlier than originally planned.

But you haven't protested against the "inactive" part of the sentence?

In other news:
Cryptic tries to sell us another batch of stuffz we already own:

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9416803-star-trek-online:-tier-6-battlecruisers

The text doesn't even say what stats, layout or special boff seating (if at all) they have, but they are available in the store NAO! Plz buy, we iz being of needing moneyz kthxbye!

Ship mastery trait (lower power drain and increased rate of fire while EPtW is up) and console (secondary shield with a shield/hp heal once it's down) sounds op as usual, so it's the usual shipshaped console/trait purchase offer...

P.S. PWE fucked the boards up real good, I feel nothing but pity for those cryptic employees having to fight against windmills...

How did they fuck up the boards? I barely read them nowdays.

 

[Norfleet]

The text doesn't even say what stats, layout or special boff seating (if at all) they have, but they are available in the store NAO! Plz buy, we iz being of needing moneyz kthxbye!

It is not available right now and they have not said that it is. This is merely the preliminary warning to PREPARE YOUR ANUS.

 

[Bliblablubb]

How did they fuck up the boards? I barely read them nowdays.

I don't read them either. From what I read elsewhere, first they published the IP of every poster beside his post, then it crashed or was simply unavailable plus problems with accounts. At least Trendy and Borticus were complaining a lot about it on Twitter. And tried to prevent/delay the new board.

I mean look at the new one, compared to the old board it's a bland wall of text, but it's probably better linked with the ARC spyware.

The localized .eu boards were not even ported to the new system though (yet?), but then again they don't even have a subforum for romulards, only fed and kdf, shows how much pwe cares about them...

 

[Jarpie]

How did they fuck up the boards? I barely read them nowdays.

I don't read them either. From what I read elsewhere, first they published the IP of every poster beside his post, then it crashed or was simply unavailable plus problems with accounts. At least Trendy and Borticus were complaining a lot about it on Twitter. And tried to prevent/delay the new board.

I mean look at the new one, compared to the old board it's a bland wall of text, but it's probably better linked with the ARC spyware.

The localized .eu boards were not even ported to the new system though (yet?), but then again they don't even have a subforum for romulards, only fed and kdf, shows how much pwe cares about them...

The first board was great, so it looks like that after every single update they keep making it worse.

 

[Davidshky]

So the new T6 ship stats are revealed

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/st...21563-star-trek-online:-kdf-t6-battlecruisers

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/st...3-star-trek-online:-romulan-t6-battlecruisers

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/st...tar-trek-online:-federation-t6-battlecruisers