Anyone tested the armor with ramming speed, on the improved intrepid?

Its such a hard decision. There are classes on both sides that look amazing. Think i'll need a little more info before i make me decision, but it will probably be a jedi knight or a sith warrior to start with.

I think there using the poll to decide whether they want to include gay romances in the game. Although they have had them in some of their past games, the most memorable for me being in dragon age, im not sure they will for TOR. I would love it if they did, but i wouldn't count on it. especially after the whole filtering fiasco a few months ago.

Saucer Separation:
3 sec activation, 15 minute cooldown, stays separated until you warp out or manually recouple. Also, if you activate outside of combat, it comes right back and engages the C/D.

Stats:
-15 % Hull HP
+45 Impulse Speed (value changes based on engine setting)
+10 Turn Rate
+10 Weapon Power
- 5 Shield / Engine / Aux Power
Crew Capacity set to 100
-5% Shield HP

The Saucer has a very low power phaser beam that can (currently) not be upgraded. It also follows you and attacks your target only. It has low HP can be destroyed and you have to recouple and wait for the C/D to use it again.

SCREENSHOT:




Not the best IMO =/ hopefully they will make some changes

SAUCER SEPARATION!? *DROOL*

Why the hell doesn't my Prometheus Escort go into multiple attack vectors!? :P

I've been doing a lot of play testing on tribble, so I thought I'd post my personal findings regarding the new ship powers.

First off, when you reach Vice Admiral, you get a Quantum Slipstream drive. It allows you to go at warp 20 in sector space (I know, there's no such thing as warp 20, but thats the speed it says I'm going) It has a nifty tunnel effect animation, completely obliterates your turn rate, but as long as you aim first, it gets you where you're going a bit faster. It also prevents you from colliding with anything, you'll go through other ships, systems etc. Roaming enemy contacts cannot pull you in while in slipstream. Slipstream works for up to 30 seconds at a time, and has a two minute recharge wait before you can use it again.

Next up, is the retrofit T4 ships. Basically, you get T4 ships, but with a little extra. They each come with two slots for commander level officers of their class (cruiser eng, escort tac, science sci), as well as a single lt slot of each of the other two classes. More importantly, they each have a special power that no other federation ship has.

The retrofit Intrepid class ship has the ablative armor generator seen in the final episode of Star Trek Voyager, the Galaxy class retrofit allows for saucer seperation, and the defiant retrofit has a cloaking device.

The defiant's cloak is not a battle cloak, but it still handy for sneaking up on enemies. It's stats are as follows: -5 current shield power per second, +25% defense, after 3 seconds +4954 stealth, after decloaking +15% damage bonus for 5 seconds. The cloak has a 20 second cooldown period.

The intrepid's armor also has it's pluses and minuses. It's stats are as follows: +300 all damage resistance, -25 all power settings. Additionally, it disables all shields and energy weapons. You can still fire torpedos and drop mines, but you cannot fire any type of energy. The armor can deploy for up to 30 seconds, and there is a 15 minute cooldown period. I would suggest using the armor with shield penetrating torpedos, and saving it for when you are taking a beating.

bfelczer wrote:

Saucer Separation:
3 sec activation, 15 minute cooldown, stays separated until you warp out or manually recouple. Also, if you activate outside of combat, it comes right back and engages the C/D.

Stats:
-15 % Hull HP
+45 Impulse Speed (value changes based on engine setting)
+10 Turn Rate
+10 Weapon Power
- 5 Shield / Engine / Aux Power
Crew Capacity set to 100
-5% Shield HP

The Saucer has a very low-power phaser beam that can (currently) not be upgraded. It also follows you and attacks your target only. It has low HP can be destroyed and you have to recouple and wait for the C/D to use it again.

SCREENSHOT: see below

on top of a light fixture above the exchange, earth space dock.

Congrats, that is a sweet ship indeed.

Congrats you guys! You all did an awesome job!

Congrats to the winners!

They were all very impressive.

Grats, to all: some awesome ships in the line-up! ;)
Ty for all the votes!

@Akrilon

Woohoo :cheer:

Grats to @Akrilon for first place :woohoo:

Grats to @Laeren_Misha for coming third :woohoo:

Thanks to all who voted for me and got me to second place :blush:

@Yezar

I just voted on this, and I think other should also. Even if its a given that its going to happen, then I think its important.

That is all.

After millions of votes (ok, not millions, but a lot :P), the Officers have tallied the votes and the results are in!

Congratulations to our first place winner....



CONGRATULATIONS! Akrilon, you will be featured in the next issue of The Stonewall Times. PMs to follow :)

Second place went to...



And third place...



And all of the honorable mentions...

Zepari wrote:

For some people, hiding their sexuality is like trying to hide an elephant under an umbrella, and even if they could, why should they have to for the rest of their lives?

Yeah, that's the thing here in the US, too. I don't know about the history of racial relations in Britain, but here in the US, we have a long history of denying civil rights for intrinsic, immutable properties, such as race, and we're trying to put sexuality and sexual identity into that same category. Many people, especially those who are of minority races, say that it's not a just classification, that they have to look black or latino or Asian everyday of their lives, while sexuality is something they think can be hidden. There's also not consensus within our society that sexuality is something inborn like race. Many opponents of our rights say it's a choice. No one in the media ever confronts them about that and asks them when they chose to be straight. Of course, the ones who squawk the loudest about it are the ones who get caught with male hookers in the bathroom of an airport, so if they were asked when they chose to be straight, they'd be in a quandary about their answer.

I can set the default to Site Members, but it'll only affect new account creations. It won't retroactively affect everyone's account.

Before, we had a component that allowed you to create a short url to give out. This is currently broken since the upgrade. I'll up date it ASAP and then return the profiles to as they were before. Unless popular demand wants me to return it as it was.

There should've been an alert near the top that said "Privacy setting saved" It's oddly placed above the Network menu.

So has anyone from the fleet made it into the first closed round?

On top of a light fixture at the Earth Spacedock Exchange. A lot of careful jumps :D

Nick,

Are you able to make profiles visible to members only by default? I think for privacy reasons you should always opt-in to this kind of thing rather than opting out. I believe this is even more important with the type of fleet we are.

Also, when I changed mine I didn't get any sort of confirmation it had been done. The page just kind of refreshed. Small thing but thought I'd mention it :)

Some good news in the U.S., too.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_benefits

My favorite part:

"Congress undertook this classification for the one purpose that lies entirely outside of legislative bounds, to disadvantage a group of which it disapproves. And such a classification the Constitution clearly will not permit," Tauro wrote.