[Enzo03]

Well I actually never had SFC2... I had SFC2: Orion Pirates.

Nevertheless...  Man that game was (is) fun.  Not that STO isn't, otherwise I wouldn't be planning on playing any more.. much less joining any HLP fleet that emerges, if one does.

[MR_T3D]

Worked my science officer up to captain with an Intrepid, which was pretty cool. Nice abilities, packed into a ship with reasonable maneuverability, great shielding, and generally nice to fly. Plus, I've got to say the Intrepid has a special place in my heart. Variable geometry nacelles are awesome.

But then, I started a tactical captain. Right now, I'm flying a Defiant-class armed with three dual heavy phaser cannons, a quantum torpedo launcher, and two phaser turrets. The forward firepower of this thing is so intense, it'd make Admieral Piett proud. Now, I'm finding it really hard to go back to leveling my science captain.

I have almost the opposite problem. Escorts are cool and all, but if I can't soak damage from 3-4 Klinks jumping me in a warzone until all of them give up in frustration and go away, I just feel vulnerable. Cruisers are so much fun. Plus I like to think mine puts out some pretty respectable damage when I have the chance. 

That's why I like my current commander-level cruiser loaded with dual beams in front and turrets in the back, fly in formation with an escort and we just sweep mobs.
3 dual beam banks+fire at will beams is just crazy.

In fact, I think I'll do something like this for a science cruiser at captain, same weapons capacity, and even better turn rate+science boffs mean I can shield tank better than if I roll with a exploration cruiser.

[crizza]

Has anyone an idea for descent officers?
Dropped one tactical, but I want to retrain him and the first two skills are just fixed...what use do I have with two high yield torpedos?

And finally, I was topplayer in a warzone, got a purple disrupter cannon...but sadly enough no purple cannon:P

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Worked my science officer up to captain with an Intrepid, which was pretty cool. Nice abilities, packed into a ship with reasonable maneuverability, great shielding, and generally nice to fly. Plus, I've got to say the Intrepid has a special place in my heart. Variable geometry nacelles are awesome.

But then, I started a tactical captain. Right now, I'm flying a Defiant-class armed with three dual heavy phaser cannons, a quantum torpedo launcher, and two phaser turrets. The forward firepower of this thing is so intense, it'd make Admieral Piett proud. Now, I'm finding it really hard to go back to leveling my science captain.

I have almost the opposite problem. Escorts are cool and all, but if I can't soak damage from 3-4 Klinks jumping me in a warzone until all of them give up in frustration and go away, I just feel vulnerable. Cruisers are so much fun. Plus I like to think mine puts out some pretty respectable damage when I have the chance. 

That's why I like my current commander-level cruiser loaded with dual beams in front and turrets in the back, fly in formation with an escort and we just sweep mobs.
3 dual beam banks+fire at will beams is just crazy.

In fact, I think I'll do something like this for a science cruiser at captain, same weapons capacity, and even better turn rate+science boffs mean I can shield tank better than if I roll with a exploration cruiser.

Get the plasma-disruptor hybrid beams from the "Past Imperfect" mission if you roll with beam arrays. Their damage is absolutely ridiculously higher than everything else until you're VA and can do STFs (don't pay attention to the tooltip, it doesn't show the correct damage or the procs - I've compared them to even very rare [Dmg] x3 arrays of equal level). Actually, I'd recommend checking the Klingon arc missions; they have some great rewards for replaying them.

[General Battuta]

can i play a klingon and get a sixty year old bird of prey and have an ability that forces the enemy player to shout PLASMA COILS into the mic fifty times before they can shoot back

[Scotty]

I can't decide between turrets and torpedos.  On the one hand, torpedos blow **** up.  Quickly.  On the other hand, turrets shoot absolutely everywhere, and I'm not exactly the fastest thing around, and can't always get torpedos to bear.

Although I really want to do a reasonable reproduction of an Aeolus, and just PILE on the turrets for ****s and gigs on a cruiser or an escort.

[crizza]

If you use a turret, use it on an aft slot, I do pretty good with one torpedo and one turret in the aft slots of my ships...

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Yeah, if you're gonna turret, slot it aft. Personally, I'm running an assault cruiser with 2 beam arrays/2 photon torps fore and 2 beam arrays/2 photon torps aft. Pretty much every end is pointy. Broadside beams tear up shields and I can always point one end towards the target and let loose with torps. My tac officer has spread shot and high yield, and I have two duty officers that have a chance to reduce my torp cooldowns. Considering that the photons already have an amazingly short cooldown, sometimes I'm just firing them nonstop. That's why I feel like I have pretty reliable damage, and I feel like I can project it more than adequately while still having the option to go defensive and soak a ton of damage. I love my cruiser.

[Darius]

BTW Darius: I could only add you after i removed the 0 behind your nick...

That's my Cryptic account (which I kinda regret not using), the Perfect World system does some weird things to the tags and numbers.

Try @dariusbei00

[Retsof]

Just a thought, it anyone else "ageing" their characters?  A bit after I reached LC, I decided I've been blown up enough, might as well add a scar.  I plan on adding another when I make Commander, and possibly moving to the "aged1" complexion when I make captain.

[BloodEagle]

I usually start my characters out scarred in some fashion.  Of course, no one will ever see that. :/

[Herra Tohtori]

@herratohtori

I've made a character...

His name is Jebediah.

[MatthTheGeek]

He's not smiling. Your ship is about to get blown up pretty hard I'm afraid.

[NGTM-1R]

Just a thought, it anyone else "ageing" their characters?  A bit after I reached LC, I decided I've been blown up enough, might as well add a scar.  I plan on adding another when I make Commander, and possibly moving to the "aged1" complexion when I make captain.

I kept revising the bio for a bit, and I know Alessia wanted to but was thwarted by the fact only certain textures work well with fake Romulans.

[General Battuta]

can i play a klingon and get a sixty year old bird of prey and have an ability that forces the enemy player to shout PLASMA COILS into the mic fifty times before they can shoot back

important to my decisions going forward

[Hades]

can i play a klingon and get a sixty year old bird of prey and have an ability that forces the enemy player to shout PLASMA COILS into the mic fifty times before they can shoot back

important to my decisions going forward

well imagination is a powerful thing my friend

[General Battuta]

it is a thing transcendent in the way of flagellation and the fast to sit a trekkie down with star trek generations. a thing that sorts the true fan from the voyager fan

you see the true trekkie and you watch close his eyes as the star ship enterprise d the ship he has sperged over for seven seasons that graceful probert design in this wasteland of half-melted john eaves hot rods comes under attack by that bird of prey, federation flagship set against this ancient relic in a battle the trekkie knows in his heart is doomed to end in indignation and troi flying and that re-used shot from star trek six the undiscovered country

and you listen close as the trekkie tries to take command, to save his love

hear him cry: the shields, riker, remodulate the shields

return fire

return fire riker

attack pattern omega

fire all phaser arrays riker

riker stop talking about plasma coils

riker the torpedoes riker

riker the shields

remodulate

riker

in the ruins of the saucer section picard drops the kurlan naiskos and it shatters again and again forever like the uss bozeman

[Liberator]

Battuta is a Poettuta?

[LunarNightmare]

I took out a cube with a single shot, it still had 90% health when I fired (other people were shooting it before I got there), I just came in and whacked it with a tricobalt torpedo. I tried it again, but the only thing that it killed that time was me.

[NGTM-1R]

it is a thing transcendent in the way of flagellation and the fast to sit a trekkie down with star trek generations.

Generations as S&M tool. THANKS BATTS.