I actually bought several raffle tickets for you, unfortunately none of them won.

This and the original guide were very easy to read and understand. Thank you for putting it together.

I just saw this raffle info today and was like oooh I need to get in on this event. Then I realized I was incapacitated during that time that it took place. Well no wonder I didn't participate. I almost gave you guys a freebie with my credits. Lol.

Both the video and the poster were great finds!

I couldn't help but smile when I saw the Romulan Kerchan-class Warbird in the video. IMO it's a beautiful, sleek and deadly ship. Personally I would have preferred to see this ship as the Republic's new Dreadnought, but alas...

http://www.sttff.net/kerchan.html

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For sheer lunatic comprehensiveness, this dude can't be beat (but super points for 3D rendering):

True, and I love that picture. Don't think there is anything that is not on there, except of course for the STO-only ships :P

Just catching up on events, since RL has been interfering with my Treking lol, congratulations to all the winners!

For sheer lunatic comprehensiveness, this dude can't be beat (but super points for 3D rendering):

Nice I have some issues but it's a good comparison

Most of their current generation of games are real time.

Just some perspective on how big some of the starships in different fiction works are:

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As a gag, the old 2009 version of STO.

They did this a while back on the Red Shirt server, didn't they?

My wish list would be:

1) More quality starship interiors (Galaxy, Excelsior, etc)
2) Long and challenging raid style STF missions
3) Elite loot (ground armour etC) from raid missions that's difficult to obtain
4) Customizable player housing zones on Earth, New Romulus, Q'onos
5) More quality featured episodes (along the Facility 4028 and Colosseum lines)
6) More maps and tools in the Foundry
7) Start featuring foundry missions again

I know that what I'm asking for is essentially the antithesis of Star Trek Online, but this is a wishlist, so let me wish :p

Would you like some fries with that sir hahaha

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As a gag, the old 2009 version of STO.

They did this a while back on the Red Shirt server, didn't they?

My wish list would be:

1) More quality starship interiors (Galaxy, Excelsior, etc)
2) Long and challenging raid style STF missions
3) Elite loot (ground armour etC) from raid missions that's difficult to obtain
4) Customizable player housing zones on Earth, New Romulus, Q'onos
5) More quality featured episodes (along the Facility 4028 and Colosseum lines)
6) More maps and tools in the Foundry
7) Start featuring foundry missions again

I know that what I'm asking for is essentially the antithesis of Star Trek Online, but this is a wishlist, so let me wish :p

As a gag, the old 2009 version of STO.

Sent from my LG G3 mobile phone using Tapatalk.

Just something fun to laugh at can be as unrealistic as you can imagine but remember I also said I wished for an Annorax time ship but it'll NEVER happen...HA!

Any way

1) Give us the Enterprise-J
2) Make a thong for male toons
3) make the defiant as combat pet (I mean come on they have attack ships as pets why can't the Defiant, Which is smaller...I Think...be pets?!)
4) Give us kelvin Class ship
5) Bring back No Win Scenario
6) Admiral Janeway (the real one...not the cheap knock-offs)
7) Odyssey/Bortasqu'/Scimitar 9 pack
8) Temporal Officer Specialization
9) Tier 6 Olympic Class
10) Science ships for the Romulans and KDF (HA! Good Luck!)
11) More Borg STF
12) The Old Mirror Invasion

I just got the fallout anthology which has all the games and DLC packs for all fallout games minus fallout 4. :woohoo:

I am leaving this message to let you know if you don't see me on I'm still in my Fallout hole :P

If I'm not back in time to not get kicked I will understand and maybe consider sending in a rescue party. Be sure to prepare them as well, I will most likely be dwelling and total darkness minus the computer/TV screen, half starved, unkempt, hairy, covered in my own filth, and hissing at the light from outside which will most likely be blinding me. :huh:

This is worth a bump for the season.

I used to work at an LGBT publication where the publisher was really big on this. He didn't write often enough but he'd always have a column in December on the Salvation Army.

There are lots of charities for the homeless out there that aren't homophobic (LA lgbt center and the Ali Forney Center in NYC, just for some examples). And even if the Salvation Army were totally OK with gay and trans people, I'd still have a problem with them attaching proselytizing to community service; listening to sermon should not be the price we attach to helping the homeless. They need food and shelter and health care and water and so many other things, not a Bible.

Anyway, the queer charities will never be allowed to put bell-ringers outside every supermarket in Nebraska, so it's worth us going out of our way to support them if we have the means.

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Star Trek of the Carribean? Hopefully not a captain in a constant struggle to get his or her ship back.

lool

what is new in this years snowball fight?

just submited, is mostly the skills respec i need atm.

Short version: Weapons subsystem power is directly proportional to damage output for energy weapons; if you double your weapons power then you double your weapon's damage. Firing multiple energy weapons drains your weapons power. There are 3 main ways to increase your weapons power - bonuses to weapons power, increasing power transfer, and reducing weapons power drain - and there are some examples of each below.

Below is a table that summarizes the other tables in this guide. On the left are various descriptions of builds (total weapons power disregarding the 125 cap, power transfer rate, and weapons power resistance rating), followed by total weapons power in one firing cycle (using a ship with 8 beams as an example), and then the percentage of the theoretical maximum damage that weapon could be doing if all buffs were the same but weapons power were at a constant 125.

Case	Total power	% of max
100 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, no drain resist	1640	41%
125 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, no drain resist	2440	61%
>145 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, no drain resist	2765	69%
>165 weapons power, 10 pwr/sec, no drain resistance	3120	78%
125 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, +10 drain resist	2580	65%
125 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, +100 drain resist	3220	81%
125 weapons power, 5 pwr/sec, no drain resist, OSS2	3195	n/a*
178.3 weapons power, 18.8 pwr/sec, +35 drain resist	3839	96%

*OSS can increase weapons power beyond what I defined as the maximum.

Long version: Subsystem power is a very important mechanic in space combat in STO, and, if you want to increase your damage output, the most important subsystem to monitor is weapons.

This guide is about understanding and increasing weapons power so that your energy weapons (beams, cannons, and turrets) do more damage. If you're not doing enough damage to beat episode and normal level content with ease, I suggest reading my other guide to damage first - the advice over there is more important than what's included here. This guide is to help with elite content and to make normal and advanced content fast and easy.

To understand why weapons power is so important, look at the equation on the other post. Here is the important part:

You might see people online referring to "normal" weapons power as 50 and getting a "bonus" for each point of weapons power over 50. That's needlessly complicated. Cryptic made damage the product of various buff categories so it's easier just to think of it all in terms of multiplication instead of bases and bonuses.

Since other buffs are almost entirely independent of weapons power, we could just say that damage is directly proportional to weapons power. Double your weapons power and you double your damage.

The same holds true for a firing cycle, which is important here because weapons power drain is a function of a firing cycle

Weapons power drain

Whenever more than one energy weapon is firing, weapons power is taken away. The power is deducted instantly from your weapons subsystem and returned immediately when the weapon is in cooldown.

This is a big deal. A beam (dual beam bank or beam array, they're the same) deducts 10 weapons power, as do dual and single cannons. Turrets deduct 8 weapons power and dual heavy cannons deduct 12 weapons power.

A beam fires 1 shot every second for 4 seconds and then takes 1 second of cooldown. When you fire your weapons, one starts its firing cycle every quarter of a second. For example, a ship with 8 beams will have 70 total weapons power drain (drain only starts with the *second* energy weapon that's fired) and weapons power looks like this on a ship with 100 weapons power, no bonuses to weapons power and nothing preventing drain, where the first beam is fired at time 0:

Time	Beam	Shot	Beam	Shot	Weapons power
0.00	1	1			100
0.25	2	1			90
0.50	3	1			80
0.75	4	1			70
1.00	5	1	1	2	60
1.25	6	1	2	2	50
1.50	7	1	3	2	40
1.75	8	1	4	2	30
2.00	1	3	5	2	30
2.25	2	3	6	2	30
2.50	3	3	7	2	30
2.75	4	3	8	2	30
3.00	5	3	1	4	30
3.25	6	3	2	4	40
3.50	7	3	3	4	50
3.75	8	3	4	4	60
4.00			5	4	70
4.25			6	4	80
4.50			7	4	90
4.75			8	4	100

If you add up weapons power for each shot, you get 1640 for that cycle. If there were no power drain and power were maxed at 125 for the whole cycle, then total weapons power would be 4000 (125 power * 8 beams * 4 shots). Since damage is proportional to weapons power, this ship lost 59% of its potential damage to poor weapons power management.

This is why it's important to pay attention to weapons power. Here are some ways to get it high and keep it high.

Increase weapons power

Let's imagine the example above but with a ship that starts with exactly 125 weapons power. The chart looks like this:

Time	Beam	Shot	Beam	Shot	Weapons power
0.00	1	1			125
0.25	2	1			115
0.50	3	1			105
0.75	4	1			95
1.00	5	1	1	2	85
1.25	6	1	2	2	75
1.50	7	1	3	2	65
1.75	8	1	4	2	55
2.00	1	3	5	2	55
2.25	2	3	6	2	55
2.50	3	3	7	2	55
2.75	4	3	8	2	55
3.00	5	3	1	4	55
3.25	6	3	2	4	65
3.50	7	3	3	4	75
3.75	8	3	4	4	85
4.00			5	4	95
4.25			6	4	105
4.50			7	4	115
4.75			8	4	125

The same amount of power is lost to weapons power drain, but this ship starts at higher weapons power. Total weapons power over the cycle is 2440, a 49% improvement over the first case.

That means 49% more damage from the beams without doing anything about weapons power drain!

You can set weapons power to 100 max, but it's not hard to get more.

• Emergency Power to Weapons (Engineering boff skill): Increases power to weapons by 15 (EPTW1), 20 (EPTW2), or 25 (EPTW3), and it can be increased by the Electro-Plasma Systems skill. It also gives a bonus to damage. Since it has 30-seconds of up-time and a 30-second group cooldown, 2 copies of this skill is enough to have 100% up-time (or 1 copy and some Damage Control Engineer doffs).
• Weapon Performance (skill tree): Provides a flat bonus to weapons power
• Warp Core Potential (skill tree): Provides a flat bonus to all subsystems
• Starship weapons power bonus (starship): Some ships (like escorts and raiders) give a bonus to weapons power
• Assimilated module (Omega reputation console): Gives a bonus to weapons power
• Omega Weapon Amplifier (2-piece set bonus from Kinetic Cutting Beam and Assimilated Console): 2.5% chance per shot at +10 weapons power (more on this set bonus below).
• Plasmonic leech (Universal console from Tal Shiar lockbox or the Vandal): Takes power from enemies and adds it to your subsystems. Boosted by Flow Capacitors skill
• Supremacy (Astika starship trait): Takes power from enemies and adds it to your subsystems. Not affected by Flow Capacitors
• Greedy Emitters (Nandi starship trait): Bonus power to each subsystem when using Tyken's Rift, Energy Syphon, or Tachyon Beam
• EPS Power Transfer (Engineering captain skill): Provides a big bonus to all subsystems for 30 seconds
• Weapons battery and other batteries (space consumables): Increases weapons power for a duration set by the Starship Batteries skill

Overcapping and EPS

Overcapping power is weapons power above 125. The little weapons power display will stop at 125 and your damage will be calculated with 125 weapons power even if you have enough bonuses to put your weapons power over 125.

This doesn't mean that there's no point in going over 125 weapons power. As your power is drained, it will be returned to you at your power transfer rate. If you have no bonuses to this rate, it is 5 power/second.

So let's look at the same example but with a 5 power/second transfer rate and 145 total power.

Time	Beam	Shot	Beam	Shot	Weapons power
0.00	1	1			125
0.25	2	1			115
0.50	3	1			105
0.75	4	1			95+5=100
1.00	5	1	1	2	90
1.25	6	1	2	2	80
1.50	7	1	3	2	70
1.75	8	1	4	2	60+5=65
2.00	1	3	5	2	65
2.25	2	3	6	2	65
2.50	3	3	7	2	65
2.75	4	3	8	2	65+6=70
3.00	5	3	1	4	70
3.25	6	3	2	4	80
3.50	7	3	3	4	90
3.75	8	3	4	4	100+5=105
4.00			5	4	115
4.25			6	4	125
4.50			7	4	125
4.75			8	4	125

Total power is 2765, a 14% improvement from having 125 weapons power.

But what if you increased your power transfer rate? If you put 9 points into Electro-Plasma Systems, you'll have a power transfer rate of 10 power/second (which is 5 power added to the subsystem each half-second). I won't rewrite the chart above, but total power for a cycle of beams with 165 weapons power and a power transfer rate of 10 is 3120, a 28% improvement over having exactly 125 weapons power. Not bad!

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