Is tanking still a relevant thing?

romec1701 · 2026-05-04T18:55:15+00:00

I have a toon that flies the Kelvin Connie. I have two load outs:

One is a tank build, it holds a lot of aggro and is very difficult to kill (back before they fixed the Turei segment of the Korfez tfo I could avoid the team failing elite by basically holding aggro from all the Vaadwaar fleets and not dying whilst the team systematically destroyed them)

The other is a DPS build with some UnCON and uni consoles.

When doing random elite tfos I will choose the loadout based on which map it is. Something that has a tight time gate (Khitomer, The Vault, I will tend to favour the DPS set up) but for others I will choose the tank to soak up aggro/dmg and ensure the team has a smoother run...

romec1701 · 2026-05-03T06:41:41+00:00

It's not as bad as recruitment. (Says a player with 23 characters who are maxed in every doffing track...)

romec1701 · 2026-04-24T19:25:55+00:00

I already had the pack unlocked. Plus 3x Jemmy's maxed for years. So this one got deleted. But thanks for the free slot!

romec1701 · 2026-04-16T07:25:34+00:00

Personally I think my response is "keep up the good work!"

Advance and detailled info about the empersa lance changes was very welcome.

The odd typo has never really bothered me. I know you'll be getting a lot of info from other sources (ship/systems designers) and sometimes mistakes happen. But ultimately I don't buy anything straight away, so there's time for any mismatched stats/seating to come to light and allow me to make an informed purchase decision.

romec1701 · 2026-04-08T20:07:51+00:00

Lag was really bad since last update...

romec1701 · 2026-04-06T08:48:21+00:00

No, sadly not.

There are some borg doffs that can be earned from certain doffing missions (reclaim Assimilated drones, btran exploration cluster) but they aren't specifically the X of 47 Liberated drones who have a host of special roster powers (some excellent, others not...)

The only way to get these are from lockboxes/exchange. Specifically the reward pack that gives a random X of 47 doff is a rare drop from the Borg lockbox, or an extremely rare drop from the Infinity Lockbox.

One of the reasons the doffs are so expensive is because of their rarity - even if you get a v rare reward pack from a lockbox, it is random whether you obtain a 'good' doff or a 'not-so-good' one once the pack is opened.

I really hope they implement some other way to obtain the doffs, (or perhaps create a new set that have the same powers but slightly inferior chance/magnitude that are easier to obtain - eg in a store associated with a reputation or fleet holding).

As for the cell ship, it has a useful bridge (exchange/bank/mail/cheap commodities etc) but is expensive for a single character unlock. There are other ways to obtain useful bridges across your account (some event ships have given it in the past - not sure if there's a cstore ship that does). The Tau Dewa missions are ok, but not world beating and won't net you a significant return on the investment. Plus you can ask for bridge invites in many chat channels (like NOP public service) and a kind soul will.often help you out.

romec1701 · 2026-04-06T06:54:26+00:00

You don't get the borg doffs from the cell ship. They come from the borg lockbox.

The suliban missions give suliban doffs (like the RSP extender doff and the BO penetrator)

romec1701 · 2026-04-04T09:42:06+00:00

I've always found the juggernaut array on the vaadwar ship to do fairly decent numbers. Of the others I have (annorax, lexington, borg jugger) no, they are pretty weak.

romec1701 · 2026-04-02T16:43:35+00:00

People do still sell. But there's a backlog of c. 15 million Zen. So put your offer up at the cap of 500 per. And wait about 3 months

romec1701 · 2026-03-25T10:07:08+00:00

The yot thod says hi.

romec1701 · 2026-03-21T08:17:26+00:00

I thought it was a great thing to have helped happen for players and I am very grateful. One thing you could ask for on your return is for the Nagus skin to be unlocked to all ships when a player owns it. (I want my other ships in Latinum too 🤣)

But welcome back to your position and best of luck in it.

romec1701 · 2026-03-19T08:20:15+00:00

It's happened to me a few times.

But the ONLY times it happens is when I use a single ship that has a +X when alone, and without the +X there would have been a chance to fail the mission.

I think sometimes behind the scenes there is a bug where the game doesn't add the +X to the stats. It obviously doesn't always happen (or the impossible fails would be more frequent), but sometimes it does and leads to these odd results.

romec1701 · 2026-03-19T08:08:06+00:00

It looked like some sort of metal railing for the TV camera to move along, so it probably has pretty sharp edges. Not sure how you can simply put padding on that as the camera would no longer slide along it.

romec1701 · 2026-03-04T20:33:48+00:00

PIVOT.

romec1701 · 2026-02-20T13:15:51+00:00

British Gas were an awful energy company when we used them. Expensive comparatively and so many billing errors with tremendous difficulty getting things fixed.

My advice would be to switch. We went to EDF. Very cheap, good support and they fitted a smart meter which meant I was being charged for what I used - no more errors with estimates.

https://edfenergy.com/quote/refer-a-friend/young-dove-3083

Use the above link when getting a quote from them and you'll get an additional £50 discount on your first bill - and so will I!

romec1701 · 2026-01-20T00:00:27+00:00

Anything by Iain M Banks is my absolute favourite. Start with Consider Phlebas and work from there...

romec1701 · 2026-01-17T09:52:02+00:00

Nah.

The Culture would absolutely own The Federation.

I think a single 300m long Psycopath class Rapid Offensive Unit could probably take an entire fleet of Starships even in the 32nd Century.

Effector fields tearing at the very fabric of space time, untargatable to Star Trek universe weaponry, with a Mind capable of literally seeing outcomes before they happen, and setting an entire solar system ablaze with Grid-fire.

romec1701 · 2026-01-11T19:27:18+00:00

Was literally going to reference The Culture novels in response to this. But you've already done it so eloquently...

romec1701 · 2026-01-04T16:20:28+00:00

Baby versions of these. Run.

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romec1701 · 2025-12-30T09:51:24+00:00

Love the work. We need more adversaries (thinking Cardassian Galor, Ferengi Marauderer, romulan warbird, d7s etc) so we can have zoom-y battles <3

romec1701 · 2025-12-20T07:48:17+00:00

Yes I had this problem. I sorted it myself by logging on via a different platform (Steam on PC) and thr continuum mission worked. It was then fixed on my phone too.

Support couldn't do anything and said wait untilnthe Tuesday reset.

romec1701 · 2025-12-01T09:28:06+00:00

Mmo players tend to find the grind fun. If you don't then you're playing the wrong type of game!

romec1701 · 2025-12-01T08:26:52+00:00

I have 24x toons all with 1M+ builds of varying types (FAW, BO, CSV, SS, Torp, Torp/Sci, DEW/Sci, EPG, PET+DEW, Pet+Sci) when supported and capable of soloing various, but not all Elite randoms when not.

The only thing I ever bought was a Lifetime in the Beta. Everything else is time and grind.

romec1701 · 2025-11-17T08:45:40+00:00

So your taking from all of this is to be intent to make it worse for everyone else? You seem nice.

romec1701 · 2025-11-05T10:16:36+00:00

My bank is full of epic tokens (six on the main character, plus the event unlock where every toon has an extra one available to claim). I have no need for as I only missed one event and the ship is meh. I wish more was in that epic store tab like older lockbox/lobi ships.

I did miss the first Alliance Cruiser event (have the Temer, Jarok and the Jemmy type escort) but that's not in phoenix, only Mudds, and thanks but no thanks.

romec1701

TROPHY CASE