Hey fleeties. I had to take a break from STO thanks to another lengthy hospital stay (I'll spare you the details but I feel 1000% better) and started playing with a new build last night when I noticed an insane jump in my DPS.

Having a spare starship trait slot, I slotted Overwhelming Force from the YoH Fed ship trait box. Overwhelming force applies a photonic shockwave to HY torps, and a charged particle burst to beam overloads. I had the photon torps from the Counter-Command rep set equipped and fired a HY3 torp at a group of Herald ships caught in my GW1 during Gateway to Grethor.

HY torps from the counter command set are large, non-destructible projectiles that hit for high-ish damage and then apply the set rad dmg to other hostiles in a 2km radius.

The torp hit for 60k, and set off the shockwave; however the aoe effect triggered a shockwave from all the other enemies caught in the grav well, duplicating this damage. So you're looking at 5 shockwaves from a bunch of ships in close proximity. I basically took out the group in 1 attack, which for someone not in the 10k club isn't half bad.

I thought this might have been a fluke, but I have been able to re-create this with no problems, multiple times. Though it only seems to work with AOE torps. That said I could not re-create this with the Radiant Quants from the Iconian set, or the Omega torps.

Has anyone else experienced or attempted this? Seems severely OP.

I welcome your thoughts/ideas.

I'm down for learning something new. All aboard!

Come on everyone show us your cute and cuddly wuddly pet pictures! :)

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Thanks for the reply and for keeping us in the loop on this; would be nice to start teaming with our Armada members, is all. Let us know what ends up being decided!

Would a custom Stonewall Armada channel be an appropriate solution?

Thanks for the reply and for keeping us in the loop on this; would be nice to start teaming with our Armada members, is all. Let us know what ends up being decided!

Hi Dave,

As your research has shown it is indeed linked to the Fleet Chat permissions.

The restriction initially was an unconscious decision until we became aware of how the permissions were tied to fleet chat.

This is currently disabled or enabled based on a rank within the fleet. Currently, the decision by the Admiralty has been to enable fleet chat for Admirals only. It will be discussed fully in our forthcoming meeting about where our final position will lie on this access.

Before the launch of Armada's the Fleet chat was somewhat restricted in the sense that between our 4 fleets we wouldn't be able to intercommunicate and as such StonewallFleet was born. Upon the launch of Armadas, we now need to decide if this channel is still sufficient as a means of communication when inviting external fleets into our Armada. As we currently only have one external fleet, we have sufficient time to make a reasonable and well thought out decision and also have members (Admirals) with chat access in case that external fleet is using it as a communication means (currently it seems not).

There are pro's and cons to either option of the decision.

Please bare with us while we decide upon a final verdict.

Well, I'm obviously a master at this stuff *sigh* But I suppose I will sit in, you know, as a refresher. Now will this teach us how to rob banks electronically? Or perhaps divert a train full of gems and gold to the nearest train station?

So now that my life's settled down a bit and Pride's over, I'd like to put together a course on this. I'm thinking I'd show you all how to put together a simple flat file blog.

How does that sound? Is there any specific anyone would like to learn about?

Can we say this thread has jumped the shark? ::butter couldn't melt in my mouth expression::

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Damn, im sorry, I had no idea.. i rarely keep up with the news unless someone tells me whats going on.
I tooken it down

lol, lol. Nooooo, put it backs ;)

Damn, im sorry, I had no idea.. i rarely keep up with the news unless someone tells me whats going on.
I tooken it down

Hope they get the armada chat up and running soon.

omg! What is that thing that looks like a shark behind you?? Punch it in the nose!

With all of these shark attacks lately, I can't help but think of the real victims...

Just a quick note to discuss the armada chat access for members, as we don't appear to have access to it. I was wondering if restricting the chat is by conscious decision or if we just haven't figured out how to give access to non-leadership ranks.

I did some Googling and found that some other fleets were having challenges with it. It seems that the Armada chat permission is linked to the fleet chat permission, as discussed over on the Protectorate Alliance forums, as per below:

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With the introduction of the Armada system we have a new Armada chat channel.

If you are having an issue speaking to the Armada channel please first check the following solutions.

1) Apparently you need access to "Fleet" chat in order to talk in the armada, or it does not register you as part of the armada, For fleets that have an inter-fleet channel and disable their "fleet" channel please reactivate it. To reactivate fleet channel access go into the fleet menu -> Settings -> make sure the "Fleet" permission is checked. If it is not find someone who can re-activate that permission.

2) Check your own settings. You might have someone on ignore. Or you might have a buggy privacy setting.

To remove someone from your ignore list press [o] and then ignore tab.

To access your privacy settings press [o] and then lower right corner (Privacy)

Worst case scenario you might have to reset your chat settings. For this : [Esc] -> Chat Settings -> Lower right corner (Chat Options) -> Lower left corner -> Click the dropdown arrow and select Reset Chat options to defaults.



PLEASE NOTE a KDF armada chat will not be seen by ANY FLEET that is not listed under the armada tab.

Just wondering if we could get a quick word on this from our Admiral overlords :)

Cheers!
D.

[Edited, I must learn to read/listen to the news]

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bumping it

https://na.portal.sf.my.com/comments/559f0ee73798fee058ba4cc5?page=1

So I know you made a web add for the pantheon on the forums but I couldn't find it under the pantheon subsection.

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Why yes, I believe you want to crosscheck the IR database and parse with the subdominate domain and then you absolutely must make sure the parent directory has chrysalis file formats so the predetermined domain is inexplicably replicated to produce to proper proportion of the intended expression.

Did you use some sort of technobable generator for that or did you make it up yourself?

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You're welcome!

No thank you.