STO help

posted on February 27th, 2012, 7:48 pm

I think I need to try some tetryon weapons on my new ship when I get it.

Nope
Phaser, Polaron or Plasma, trust me, I'm flying a sciencevessel and subsystemdamage is one of my strongest abilitys. But just every 2min for one sort of subsystem. So random disable or lower all is realy nice. 25points less = nearly no engines, special energy and weaponenergy if you give 100% Energy to the shield . Never got disabled in pvp? Or never disabled the shields of a NPC-battleship?

And plasmaweapons are realy badass. Because they do damage over time and this damage is ignoring shields. I fought against a player who used plasmamines and i use a plasmatorpedo. We killed each other while we both hat full shields.
Also plasmatorp with the torpspecial from tactical officer will infect all ships in 1km around the impactpoint with the damage over time.

posted on February 27th, 2012, 8:05 pm

Nope
Phaser, Polaron or Plasma, trust me, I'm flying a sciencevessel and subsystemdamage is one of my strongest abilitys. But just every 2min for one sort of subsystem. So random disable or lower all is realy nice. 25points less = nearly no engines, special energy and weaponenergy if you give 100% Energy to the shield . Never got disabled in pvp? Or never disabled the shields of a NPC-battleship?

And plasmaweapons are realy badass. Because they do damage over time and this damage is ignoring shields. I fought against a player who used plasmamines and i use a plasmatorpedo. We killed each other while we both hat full shields.
Also plasmatorp with the torpspecial from tactical officer will infect all ships in 1km around the impactpoint with the damage over time.

i must agree, tetryon weapons sounds nice but 2.5% change of doing small amount of extra shield damage is not that great... (around 150-180 bonus damage to all shields) is not that much


but if you really want to try tetryon weapons then i would recommend trying out Polarized Tetryon Beam Array which is a reward from “The New Link” mission

proc chance is increased from 2.5% to 10%

posted on February 27th, 2012, 8:54 pm

Interesting.  Right now I use all phaser weapons, two dual heavy cannons, a dual bank and a standard rear bank. with quantum torps fore and aft.  Should I stick with this kind of load out or do you guys think I should go for, say plasma canons? 

posted on February 27th, 2012, 9:03 pm

I'd just say use whatever seems most interesting, Phaser and Disruptor weapons might be interesting to see.

Personally, I'm sticking with the canon Fed weapons for the time being.

posted on February 27th, 2012, 9:06 pm

I'd just say use whatever seems most interesting, Phaser and Disruptor weapons might be interesting to see.

Personally, I'm sticking with the canon Fed weapons for the time being.

Yeah, that is what I have been doing, though I like the look of the TOS phasers.  I might do that mission over and over to get those weapons.

posted on February 27th, 2012, 9:07 pm

I would say Polaron > Phaser > Plasma. So no.
Not for the energyweapons. The damage over time happens just with a chance of 2,5%.
For the torps and mines, i don't know what quantum does. But I use no aft torps. Just a turret (good against shuttles or this energysucking torps or heavy plasmatorps or mines) and mines. But Plasmatorps and mines do everytime damage over time.


And nice.
The side is down for maintance. It would not affecting gameplay.
Yeah, disconnect and no connect to the loginserver...

posted on February 27th, 2012, 9:56 pm

Yeah, disconnect and no connect to the loginserver...

Looks like once again since the transition to f2p the servers are knocked out

posted on February 27th, 2012, 10:02 pm

Never seen an MMO with so much downtimes and so big serverproblems. Even other F2Ps don't have that much problems .
I think it is some special ability of cryptic.

posted on March 6th, 2012, 4:55 pm

I've run phasers mostly since I pilot a sluggish cruiser. I stick to 3 fore and 3 after beam arrays, and a torpedo fore, and an aft turret. I am unable to fit a federation ship without mounting at least one torpedo tube. lol.

posted on March 6th, 2012, 5:00 pm

I've run phasers mostly since I pilot a sluggish cruiser. I stick to 3 fore and 3 after beam arrays, and a torpedo fore, and an aft turret. I am unable to fit a federation ship without mounting at least one torpedo tube. lol.

Turrets are 360°, which is good for cruisers. If you use forward-toepedoes you could also think about a dual-plasma-beam bank.

posted on March 6th, 2012, 5:11 pm

enjoyed the advice and read of these posts,just wanderd if people from fleet ops have there own fleet?,my handle is lptpsteve@lptpsteve

posted on March 6th, 2012, 6:31 pm

enjoyed the advice and read of these posts,just wanderd if people from fleet ops have there own fleet?,my handle is lptpsteve@lptpsteve

There are a few fleets with FO-players around. Mort for example is or has been (dunno if he's active atm) in the MSFC-Taskforce.

posted on March 7th, 2012, 6:08 am

I don't like turrets. I'd rather count on my broad sides, and warp plasma 3 letting me pick my angles mostly. if someone is directly on my 6, I usually hope I've savaged them inbound enough with Fire at will 1/2. Plus 4 aft turrets, has the fire power of maybe 3 beam arrays tops. so my aft fire power is actually higher with 3 beam arrays and one turret.