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I'll be there! Maybe I can get a bottle of something Scottish into the country, haha :D Doubt I will be able to shop when I am over there for booze :S

There's a COSTCO not far from the Rio, that's normally where we get our booze as it's much cheaper and bigger than anything you'll find in the convenience stores inside the hotel itself. Also, a nice Scotch is always welcome. :)

I asked this in game last week and overall the response was the M.A.C.O. rep set.

I think any of the rep ground gear is going to be alright though.

Sometimes you love a ship but you just don't know how on earth you can make it work or you have no idea how to really take advantage of it. Is the console worth it? Can I do real damage with it, what kind of damage? Is it worth the energy and effort to make this work.

So for this livestream we invite you to submit a ship that you want to see us work on. We'll select 3 from the submissions and we'll build it live during the Livestream. you can submit your ships through the Shipwright form which can be found Here:
STO ACADEMY SKILL PLANNER
THE FORM

We'll do more of these Shipwright in Action Livestreams and we'll try unless it's absolutely necessary (Read: We have a severe disagreement as to how to build it) we'll try not to do the same ship twice

This livestream will be on 3/28 at 4:30 PM


The Livestream Channel: www.twitch.tv/whiteonmyoji

If you want to review and get caught up on our past livestreams they can be found at www.youtube.com/user/WhiteOnmyoji/videos

If you submit a ship to be built live even if your ship is not chosen you'll be entered in a drawing for a prize. The quality of the prize will increase base on the number of submission and livestream viewers.

The Tactical Readiness Dept have been working hard data mining, PvPing, plenty of trial and errors (more errors than anything really) and experimenting with different things. We are more than excited to bring this to you.

WhiteOnmyoji
Chief of Tactical Readiness Department

I'm starting to redo my away teams. If money were no object, what is the gold standard of away team equipment for both captain and Boffs?

My first team to update is a Fed Engineering capt.

I realize I could find multiple answers depending on what I want to focus on, so here are my priorities

1) survivability/defense - I'd like to have the team be able to take a few hits before going down (please insert jokes here)
2) hitting power/offense - what contributes to overall damage done? including boff and capt skills, traits, etc.
3) is there anything particularly good to upgrade to MK14?

True enough backyardserenade. They ramped up to the ESD redesign with lots and lots of blogs and pictures and concept drawings.

When ESD was revamped we got hints of that on the forums and on Twitter months before its release (AFAIK). The actualy storyline why the revamp has to happen wasn't revealed until the episode came out. Either they're going the opposite direction now or this is really 'just' a fun re-use of the First City map.

Personally I doubt that we will see a new First City, especially given that it was actually already revamped a couple of years ago - of course it's not the easiest to navigate social map, but still. I think we would've seen hints and screenshots by now, just to build the hype. But I'd like to be surprised, of course.

Maybe I wasn't clear I was saying ESD got a remodel as a story mission was launched in which ESD was pretty much destroyed.

I was thinking this could be a story reason for a first city remodel.

Looks like it is a lv 60 STF only.

That said, and in regards to Ereiid's post, it is notoriously difficult to write for Klingons. Sure it's easy enough to do the occasional one-off, but beyond that, it becomes more and more difficult because the culture has never really been fully fleshed out, canonically, and there are too many discrepancies. There was, at one point, a pitch for a Star Trek Klingons tv series, but it never even got beyond the pitch. They didn't see that it would appeal to anything but a small niche audience.

Perhaps it isn't that the Klingons are difficult to write, it's that writers have difficulty wrapping their minds around them because, while they may be fans of Star Trek, they may not be big enough fans of the Klingons to make episodes about them feel fully realised. I feel this is likely one of the big issues in STO. I seriously doubt anyone's claims that the devs are actually Star Trek fans (especially with the one saying repeatedly that his favourite character, Scotty, was played by "James Doo'HAND" during a livestream (he didn't spell it like that, he pronounced it like that), and while levelling my KDF toons, interactions with Starfleet were quite often blatantly written by someone with zero familiarity with the franchise. Starfleet ships would appear, send the equivelant of "Die Klingon scum" and then attack.) so have no faith that they can fully wrap their minds around the Klingon culture and properly write for them.

Mind you, they have gotten better since they actually started watching Star Trek, but I really don't think the KDF will ever properly be a complete faction; I feel their best bet is to reunite them with the UFP and change factional PvP into "War Games" where you fight to disable and holodeck war games where you can fight to destroy.

One hopes. I'm sure in hindsight, it'll be as evidently telegraphed as anything.

But it's more filtering this through the poor track record of factional parity KDF has always suffered.

I'll be there! Maybe I can get a bottle of something Scottish into the country, haha :D Doubt I will be able to shop when I am over there for booze :S

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9108273-brotherhood-of-the-sword

Are they planning a rework ala ESD here, i mean the story line is very similar sounding

Definitely fun again. I did some arkfalls and soloed some.. um... what'sits. Like where you go in and free dockworkers or turn off turrets at a mine and defend a miner from hellbugs.

Does anyone still play?

I've got it and am glad it's gone sub free as I hardly ever play it. I'd be up for some more play if people fancied it?

If you're thinking of going back to TSW and want to catch up to Tokyo, this looks like a pretty good deal for 3 Issues and a bunch of Sidestories, plus an outfit to boot:

TSW Pack

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It wants ingame money for everything.. even to travel, so its a grind fest for everything.

Actually, you need in-game gold for very little really. As far as travel goes, if you go up to a Wayshrine you can travel for free to any other area's Wayshrine in the game that you have previously discovered. You do have the option of instant travel for gold if you don't want to go to the many Wayshrines scattered around each map. Horses can cost about 43K gold, or if you bought the Imperial Edition you can buy the Imperial horse for 2 gold or spend 900 Crowns (like Zen) in the store for the same mounts sold for in-game gold. Other than that your only other recurring expenses are for repairs and maybe some crafting materials you haven't looted out in the world. Of course the usual things can be bought if you wish like bank space, character respecs, vendor sold equipment, and at the Guild Traders that are similar to an auction house.

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I was a bit put off by it's monthly cost, but not it seems to have gone free (well apart from the upfront cost). Is it worth playing? Or should I just crack open Skyrim again to get my fix?

I know that my friend is really addicted to it.. but for me.. i bought the game and played it for a mth since the day of the launch.. but it didn't give me the skyrim feel of excitement and exploration.
But it was fun none the less if your used to.. and like, Fantasy MMORPG you will like it.
It wants ingame money for everything.. even to travel, so its a grind fest for everything.

But.. Skyrim.. it isnt (in my personal view) .. though it may have changed. My friend keep telling me to jump back into it.. So as soon as I get my new PC, ill be going back to it for another try.. you need a good up to date PC or PS4/XB1 to play it properly.
Im glad its not completely free.. as you tend to get annoying troll players.

I was a bit put off by it's monthly cost, but not it seems to have gone free (well apart from the upfront cost). Is it worth playing? Or should I just crack open Skyrim again to get my fix?

So after a year of not playing, I tried the game out, again and they have brought it back to being fun again. :) Back in and having fun! :D

Oh Em Gee!!!!!! Thank You for this!!!

Don't worry about it, we all have times like that at some point, what's important is that you did it, and you've learned and grown as a person because of it, and welcome back