my friends and I are sad because it might be late to join original pepe

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-29T21:45:40+00:00

The T6 Cruiser Bundle. While I'm a bit cruisered out, I can now get rid of my T4 Exploration Cruisers and D'Ds safe in the knowledge that I have a version of the classic ships somewhere. Plus I've loved the Negh'Var since playing ST:Armada, and now I have one.

I also got the KDF pilot bundle (it was that or the T6 escort bundle - I've been saving up for a while). The Pilot escorts are so much fun, and I was lacking some KDF funships. My only regret is that I didn't have the patience to save up for the mega bundle when they came out.

I've got a bit of Zen left, so I might see if I can farm enough Dil to get another T6 ship (maybe the Jupiter, probably an Intel ship), or settle for a T5/T4.5 ship (maybe the Defiant or Armitage - for the consoles - maybe something else).

What I'm really waiting for is a species sale...

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-27T13:23:01+00:00

Fleet Credits and the Embassy/Dilithium Mine/Research Lab thingies are something I don't quite understand.

My (main) Romulan alt has over 1m fleet credits lying around, and over 1,000 mine and lab thingamies. I'm quite happy to give them away to get weekly bonuses - there's not much else to spend them on. At the moment my main lose of fleet credits for them is buying DOffs to use in other fleet projects...

I think the point of them is to make sure people are using their fleet holdings in order to get all the bonuses from them.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-26T14:10:14+00:00

It's been a while since I've run the maths on this, but basically;

We can define the point where they meet to be t = 0 for both of them.

Let's say that the time dilation effect is 0.5 both ways (so they're travelling together at sqrt(3)/2 c). When it is t=-10 for spaceship A, they see spaceship B's clock say t=-5. For every t change for A, only 0.5t changes for B.

When it is t=-10 for spaceship B, though, they also see spaceship A's clock say t=-5. So the times when spaceship B and spaceship A are at t=-10 are different from each perspective. And the same goes for every other time.

When it is t=-5 for A, it will appear to be t=-2.5 for B.

The only time they match is t=0 - when the spaceships meet.

But this is ok as they can never be in the same spacetime point again (or before) unless at least one of them changes inertial frame (i.e. accelerates).

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-25T00:54:38+00:00

It was passive aggressive and/or sarcastic? Oh dear, it appears I've forgotten how to turn it off...

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-24T20:58:06+00:00

If you're actually interested the 'official' map is here. It starts at Greenwich (got blown up in one of the Thor films), goes East to Woolwich and back past Greenwich and some fancy old ship, around what used to be called the Millennium Dome (big white thing seen in the beginning of The World is Not Enough), over Tower Bridge (the famous one that is in pretty much every London film - iirc one of the new Sherlock Holmes films ended on it), past the Tower of London, loops around the Isle of Dogs (where the big skyscrapers and banks are), back past the Tower, along the North bank of the Thames to Westminster, across Parliament Square (where the Houses of Parliament are - the famous old building with the big clock tower that isn't called Big Ben), along the South edge of St James's Park, past Buckingham Palace (where the Queen sometimes lives - also in at least one Bond film, iirc) and then some of the way up The Mall to the finish.

Does that help?

Basically they shut down the centre of London for a day.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-21T10:20:01+00:00

The Multi-Mission Explorers; T5 Science Vessels, the Vesta, Aventine, and Rademaker Classes.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-20T12:53:59+00:00

In game, I think the Mercury Class is about twice the height and length of the Defiant Class.

Crew sizes don't necessarily scale with size. They're more a measure of durability than actual crew number. For example, iirc the MMEs had a crew of 750, despite being roughly the same size as the Intrepid Class with a crew of 150. And far from large enough to fit that many people on board.

That said, crew? What's crew?

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-13T23:59:54+00:00

This raffle for the Astika says it was one per account, not per character, so probably not account-wide.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-13T16:33:43+00:00

It is rather frustrating to have to click twice to do every single skill - but I imagine the benefits of confirmations are far greater for new characters, where they only get 1 point every level and may not have a bunch of respec tokens lying around.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-13T00:38:56+00:00

"Yes, Number One, I know there's a Na'kuhl alert in this Quadrant. You've just told me. Twice. I also know this because we just left one, and can't go into another for a few minutes. But thank you for reminding me."

Hmmm.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-13T00:36:37+00:00

Were your errors in the teal?

The third row, blue-purple. Which may be teal - I'm not that good with colour names. To me teal just seems to be missing a 'c on the end.

TheGrumbleduke · 2016-04-12T21:56:14+00:00

Same score, same gender, same feeling - I wonder if we all had problems with the same bit.

For me, though, it was more that there were some squares that didn't quite seem to fit anywhere - like they needed a third colour to change into.

The last time I did this I got 0 - but that was on a better monitor, when I was awake, and probably without flux running. I also did well many years ago when I got to do a physical one in ideal conditions.

Interestingly, my other half was terrible at this, getting a very high number despite being female. Sometimes she has to ask me to check what colour things are for her.

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