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[Monocause]

So kinda like the missions in EVE online then? I'm not really familiar with typical MMO design, only played WoW for about a week and EVE for three weeks or so.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well, I haven't played EVE so I can't say.


Anyway bros, if any of you are out there, me and Sloppy are going to play a few STFs.

 

[Monocause]

My handle is Gide@monocause, sent VA an invite already.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Just to shout out to the rest of you bros, me, Drakron, Wild Slop and Subject are running STFs right now.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Incidentally Dim and Monocause you should feel free to ask additional questions as you go on.

 

[Dim]

I want to build 45* and 90* load out ships but aiming becomes very hard. Any way to see what is in the 90* or re-target at whatever is every few seconds? Standing still looses a 60% bonus to defense.

 

[Dim]

Also how do i read whats in a datachip? For that daily history lesson and 450 Dil.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The 45* and 90* loadout ships are Escorts, so targeting is merely a question of your turning (which is largely a non-issue). Most often you can afford to turn to reverse or slow down.

For history lessons, you read the Datachips in your Accolade list. But you should instead use this handy list:

http://www.stowiki.org/Lore

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Bros, just got a Purple Mk XII Field Generator off a prototype console assembly. 34.8 mil price tag.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

So guys, me and Wild Slop are running STFs right now.

 

[Subject37]

Have to admit I'm getting excited for Season 7, some of the stuff they're changing/adding looks pretty cool. I really like that they're simplifying doff requirements for the Starbase. We've got an open project right now that's waiting on something like 50 security officers. Not sure what you guys are seeing, but from personal experience, I've found I get a security officer about 10% of the time when requisitioning fleet tactical officers. Getting 50 of them is a freaking nightmare right now. STO Gateway looks nice too, I REALLY hope they add the ability to manage doff missions to that app asap. It would be great to be able to manage my doffs while I'm at work.

 

[Wild Slop]

I can only get kicked in the balls so many times before that smile starts to fade. And after awhile enduring becomes an act of prideful madness. I couldn't take it anymore.


*Sure do! I was referring to my abandonment of a grueling and futile STF mission that went so far into overtime that my butt took the shape of a heart... I became buttheart.

 

[Subject37]

I can only get kicked in the balls so many times before that smile starts to fade. And after awhile enduring becomes an act of prideful madness. I couldn't take it anymore.

but....but....we're about to open up the next tier of ships at the starbase! Don't you want to kick some Borg, Romulan, Undine and possibly Iconian ass in a fleet Defiant?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually he's referring to the last STF we ran yesterday, where we spent quite a while trying to beat the boss room of IGE but everything kept going wrong. I mean, I've *never* been beaten by the spawn in right corner before that many times in a row.

It didn't help our two PUGs were total newbies.

 

[Subject37]

Actually he's referring to the last STF we ran yesterday, where we spent quite a while trying to beat the boss room of IGE but everything kept going wrong. I mean, I've *never* been beaten by the spawn in right corner before that many times in a row.

It didn't help our two PUGs were total newbies.

yeah I talked to him on chat last night. Sounds like you guys took quite a beating.

 

[Monocause]

So the server's down for maintenance and now I'm downloading a 1159 mb patch. Seems like season seven is rolling out at this very moment.

 

[Subject37]

Doubtful. They take the server offline every Thursday morning for maintenance, and that patch you're getting is the Season 7 pre-patch, but Season 7 is not launching today according to the devs. Of course, the devs are also pathological liars on the level of Garak so who knows for sure?

 

[Drakron]

Actually he's referring to the last STF we ran yesterday, where we spent quite a while trying to beat the boss room of IGE but everything kept going wrong. I mean, I've *never* been beaten by the spawn in right corner before that many times in a row.

Welcome to several of my IG runs, this is why I dont like running IG at all since what makes you know its not going to work is the boss room, you can always beat KAG as long there are not a bunch of leavers and if you are going to be stopped in CG you will at the turrets instead of right at the end but IG? always right at the end.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

See, the part that hit me bad is that I've soloed the boss fight part of IGE several times. This time, I didn't even get close to it.

 

[Norfleet]

Doubtful. They take the server offline every Thursday morning for maintenance, and that patch you're getting is the Season 7 pre-patch, but Season 7 is not launching today according to the devs. Of course, the devs are also pathological liars on the level of Garak so who knows for sure?

Devs are not known to lie about NOT doing what they think is good. They think S7 is good, they say they're not doing it, I'm willing to believe them. They haven't lied about this yet.

See, the part that hit me bad is that I've soloed the boss fight part of IGE several times. This time, I didn't even get close to it.

I know what went wrong, actually. Several things went wrong on both sides:
1. We got impatient and didn't allow the room to fully reset before reentering. This resulted in drone respawns going out of sync and appearing at inconvenient places and times, messing the usual fast-clear.
2. Overhelping: We all know how to eject drones, but when you cross the streams and two people attempt to eject a drone at once along different vectors, instead of the drone flying along one person's vector and flopping into the soup, it would fly straight onto the platform each of us was angling to avoid. In the future, we should avoid attempting to assist another ejector and pick a different drone to eject.
3. At least one generator cycle was lost because it was not clear who was supposed to upload the virus: Convention dictates that middle uploads, because he is closest and immediately facing. Vaarna ALWAYS rushes to upload the virus, even when he is not middle. Eventually we started letting him do it, and at one point, he didn't, possibly because lag caused him to think someone else had won the grab. Result: No one did it and the shield popped back up.
4. The noob aggro'ed the entire room by planting turrets inside, resulting in angry drones that would not ordinarily have attacked shooting us during the boss fight.

While point 4 cannot be directly rectified because it is unlikely we'll see him again, even if he did become amenable to edumaction, points 1 through 3 can be worked on.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Yea, the out-of-sync spawns were bad. We always had some asshole shooting at us from the center platform.


PS: Sloppy needs a Jemmie Pistol.

 

[Drakron]

4. The noob aggro'ed the entire room by planting turrets inside, resulting in angry drones that would not ordinarily have attacked shooting us during the boss fight.

That reminds me of a CSE were I knew it was going to fail because we had 3 Kang defenders, the point it actually failed was we managed to bring down a Cube to 10% and moved to the next, I know we did because I checked to be sure but in the middle of clearing the generators in the middle Cube, it blown up ... I checked and 3 Kang defenders and me and another player were not even near it ... about 20 seconds later I knew what caused it.

A pet.

This is a very simple rule, dont drop pets in STF unless you know what the fuck are you doing with them ... one thing is Security Teams and Clones in IGE ground since they can cross the line and not cause the assimilation, another thing is dropping a Photonic Fleet since they are too weak and case too little damage to be a issue most of the time (meaning, dont use it on a 10% cube) but if you are a Carrier you keep your pets on a leash, not let go around aimless since they will do things like that, I am sure it was a fighter from a Armitage that killed that Cube since nobody else was there, not even a Fleet Support or a Photonic Fleet.

This is why I dont just deploy the Aquarius on IS since I dont him doing something stupid, I only do it when the Generators is down and I want to kill the Transformer as fast as I can and I recall it the moment the Spheres are gone (or it would attack the gate).

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Incidentally, I did learn that Photonic Fleet has exactly ONE application... They can actually kill weakened Gates pretty effectively if you just leave them there. The Gate doesn't even shoot them down.

 

[Drakron]

Alright, the date is the 13th so cash in if you want to since next Tuesday it the start of Season 7.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Right, that gives me a deadline for KASE proto.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

BRO's, i uninstalled bro's.