Killing a Borg Cube in three?

[x1Heavy]

Someone bragged on Chat (I don't chat, just read in the offhand case someone might actually offer help) that they can kill a Borg Cube in Three. I just came out of the Kerrat Mission after being exploded several times trying to chase and scan the little *&^%s. So, if someone has the right ship class and build equiptment to kill a Cube in three can you explain how to set it up?

[Steelmax]

This is the game of escorts and DPS mostly lol If you want to be good in killing things: hit level 50, buy fleet/very rare MK XII weaponry, all possible best consoles in the game, one of the lockbox ships (due to their balancing) and there you go. I didn't mention your active duty roster and bridge officers, which, in some cases, will help to boost your overall performance even higher. You will do fine once you have done that.
Don't expect tactical gameplay in PvE, though.

[x1Heavy]

I have 20 officers that do assignments for zen, rewards etc when I am logged off, I would like to increase that to 100. How to make it happen?

I think I had my first PvP combat a while ago at Starbase 24. I saw something like 50+ Klingon Ships and maybe 20 Human Ships. It was a very serious battle. It was successful, everyone pretty much maintained a "Ball" of ships and absorbed enemy in one's and twos. I will tell you that some of the Klingon heavy ships were particularly hard kills.

I switched from my uncommon Proton Torp to a Level 4 rare proton mine dispenser in the aft. I found that laying mines in the face of a pursuing enemy is very, very, very profitable. I hope to combine both torp and mines when I get the Excelsior or some other heavier ship with 6 or even 8 weapons slots.

[Steelmax]

20 duty officers? Well the cap is 500 currently, the default cap is 100, so you've got to enlist more :) And there is a vast variety of them, including the rarity, traits, and special abilities. Note that you cannot be rewarded with Zen, but with Dilithium only.

SB24 is a PvE mission, so it was entirely about slaughtering the Klink cruisers for the 1st place reward.

MK VI stuff is... well it's one of the things you get rid of as soon as possible. Just do episode missions and you'll hit level 50 in no time. That's where the real game begins.

[the_author_13]

Kill a cube in 3 seconds. not really. but a fully speced out ship going full tilt can take one out in under a minute. Tactical captian running full buffs and at least 6 weapons focus on on side can melt a cube really quickly. I'm a science captain in a Vesta and I can melt cubes relatively quickly with a Gravity well and Aux Cannons.

[Jimmy McGill]

xHeavy původně napsal:

I have 20 officers that do assignments for zen, rewards etc when I am logged off, I would like to increase that to 100. How to make it happen?

I think I had my first PvP combat a while ago at Starbase 24. I saw something like 50+ Klingon Ships and maybe 20 Human Ships. It was a very serious battle. It was successful, everyone pretty much maintained a "Ball" of ships and absorbed enemy in one's and twos. I will tell you that some of the Klingon heavy ships were particularly hard kills.

I switched from my uncommon Proton Torp to a Level 4 rare proton mine dispenser in the aft. I found that laying mines in the face of a pursuing enemy is very, very, very profitable. I hope to combine both torp and mines when I get the Excelsior or some other heavier ship with 6 or even 8 weapons slots.

You get Zen from Doggs? HACKER!

[FirestormMk3]

He probably means getting Dilitium and selling that

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=212139949

[x1Heavy]

Sinnaj63 původně napsal:

xHeavy původně napsal:

I have 20 officers that do assignments for zen, rewards etc when I am logged off, I would like to increase that to 100. How to make it happen?

I think I had my first PvP combat a while ago at Starbase 24. I saw something like 50+ Klingon Ships and maybe 20 Human Ships. It was a very serious battle. It was successful, everyone pretty much maintained a "Ball" of ships and absorbed enemy in one's and twos. I will tell you that some of the Klingon heavy ships were particularly hard kills.

I switched from my uncommon Proton Torp to a Level 4 rare proton mine dispenser in the aft. I found that laying mines in the face of a pursuing enemy is very, very, very profitable. I hope to combine both torp and mines when I get the Excelsior or some other heavier ship with 6 or even 8 weapons slots.

You get Zen from Doggs? HACKER!

I go to the Starbase at Earth and visit the Exchange in the Assets section. I would sell say... 500 Zen at 130 dil each and recieve the Dil after a time. Then I would try and sell the Dil to get more Zen at say 125 dil each. Eventually 63 thousand becomes 68 thousand then 72+ or whatever. The exchange is a living insitution and right now my prices are not being met because richer Players are trading lower than I can.

I hope I have it right. Or was that the other way around.

I get a small amount of Dil each day from the Officer Assignments which I am still trying to learn. I have like 20 officers now, I would love to see 100 officers working assignments for accumulating. But don't know how to make it happen.

Idol, I liked your screenshot.

Ive learned to stay with the Federation Fleet and cover the Human controlled starship that has gotten hurt rather badly.

I plan to replace my Cruiser with the Excelsior which I think has 8 weapons slots and don't know of any other Federation ships that has more than 8 weapons slots. The challenge is keeping the right consoles in place so that you turn very well and find Mark 5, 6 , 7 and so on equiptment all the way to the max.

I play Engineer in the game and like it very much. I just finished fitting all of my Officers with the mark 4 miniguns for ground missions and the powerful enemies are simply shot to bits. I don't know of anything more powerful than the Fed Minigun phaser.

[Darthudd]

xHeavy původně napsal:

Sinnaj63 původně napsal:

You get Zen from Doggs? HACKER!

I go to the Starbase at Earth and visit the Exchange in the Assets section. I would sell say... 500 Zen at 130 dil each and recieve the Dil after a time. Then I would try and sell the Dil to get more Zen at say 125 dil each. Eventually 63 thousand becomes 68 thousand then 72+ or whatever. The exchange is a living insitution and right now my prices are not being met because richer Players are trading lower than I can.

I hope I have it right. Or was that the other way around.

I get a small amount of Dil each day from the Officer Assignments which I am still trying to learn. I have like 20 officers now, I would love to see 100 officers working assignments for accumulating. But don't know how to make it happen.

Idol, I liked your screenshot.

Ive learned to stay with the Federation Fleet and cover the Human controlled starship that has gotten hurt rather badly.

I plan to replace my Cruiser with the Excelsior which I think has 8 weapons slots and don't know of any other Federation ships that has more than 8 weapons slots. The challenge is keeping the right consoles in place so that you turn very well and find Mark 5, 6 , 7 and so on equiptment all the way to the max.

I play Engineer in the game and like it very much. I just finished fitting all of my Officers with the mark 4 miniguns for ground missions and the powerful enemies are simply shot to bits. I don't know of anything more powerful than the Fed Minigun phaser.

Ignore Sinnaj63, I've seen him make confrontational reply posts on other threads trying to get an emotional reaction from people's posts.

Unfortunately you can only have 20 doffs doing assignments at any one time,

On your original topic, I can kill a cube in a stf in around 20-30 seconds, 3 second cube kill very unlikely, maybe the player got exited and hit return before they could add the 0 to their 3.

[Steelmax]

You can have max to 24 assignments simultaneously, but for that you will have to buy additional unlocks from any Fleet Embassy up to tier 3 (that requires rougly 400k Fleet Credits, AFAIK).

As I said killing a regular Cube is possible under 3 seconds in the romulan Scimitar with the best gear possible to get. Killing a Tac Cube is tricky, because half of the health it carries goes to shields. As long as you can take down the shields it will be significantly faster.


The Excelsior is currently the best pick for an Aux2Bat powered ship at the Fed side, unless you have the Cardassian Galor (or JemHadar cruisers, or the Assimilated rom ships for instance). It got enough firepower to bump your DPS up to 20k... when BFaW isn't broken though lol
Don't forget: having 8 weapons have own flaws - bigger power drain, means lesser weapon power setting. Low power on WEAP means great degradation of damage. You will have to run a strict power of 100+ WEAP power all the time, and to exceed it (softcap) - A2B and a Fleet Warp Core for the 125 hardcap.

If you wish we could do a few missions together at some time, just drop me a message in Steam.

[tallon1967]

I've seen people in ker'rat kill the tactical Borg cube in about 3 second, the normal cubes in 1-2 seconds. I really have no idea, it takes me 3 seconds to get 2% off a tactical cube and when I ask for advice, I get ignored, laughed at or 'die (insert faction here)'. Even asking pvp advice in there is a death sentence. I seems that that there is a 'special' group in there and unless you are part of that group, you are basically spat on. I've checked online but there are very few guides that are up to date, most rely on giving craptic money for a c-store only ship to get a specific trait or console as well as spending several hundred million credits on a doff with certain abilities. Sorry but it's no longer a Star Trek game but a generic wallet warrior game.

[Maj_Cyric]

https://imgur.com/RlEZPjm

Would do that to my childhood cat next?

lol

This ship of mine is able to kill both cubes that are nearest the starting location in the Red Alert Borg in 1 pass (most players that I see in there, use full impulse to get from A to B where they are and then when they get there, they lack the weapon power to deal damage, and they also tend to fail clear away in time)...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1307355147

But those must have been some really old guide(s) if you think you have to buy the ship from the c-store for the mastery trait... A player could be given said ship, traded for said ship, or bought it with EC... But yes, It is true that one must own the ship though and grind it to the 5th mastery to get the ship trait.. But traits like "All Hands on Deck", "Emergency Weapon Cycle", and "Supremacy" added with the right ship which has added bonus like say a T6 Husnock Warship that gets +15% Critical Severity. +2.5% Critical Chance. +10% All Energy Damage.. Then you add to that a ship and console/weapon set for a bonus which gives damage bonus etc etc

Then you can do things like this constantly
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=943135662
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=943135662


Making EC in STO isn't hard and has always been crafting ship weapons and consoles as the biggest way to do that...

If you craft a weapon like these
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1302756596
OR
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1307355271

Then you can afford to buy anything list on the market.. BUT..

Starting out and grinding your R&D's level 15 takes time and money and you'll need to invest in materials for crafting your supply of mats to make your products
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933794970


Now, as for guilds which "current" and useful... One must ask (or search) with the correct question(s) to get a correct answer..

But if I were in your shoes, then I would start my quest at
https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/wiki/builders_toolkit#wiki_post-season_11.52
And seek out for whatever wisdom the user " TheFallenPhoenix" has shared..
He shares such wisdom such as
https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/43wj0o/personal_space_trait_tier_tables/


Your quest will though will bring you to this next site after reddit..
https://www.sto-league.com/
They know all the little dark game mechanics to get that extra point of damage out things...

But beware... They spit... and maybe bite...

Joking of course, but in life in all things and places, you find that there are A-Holes and Nice pleasant peeps who will or do help others... Now that will be $50 USD..

lol joking again of course..

Ahghairon@majcyric is my STO handle

[The Arkady]

Say what you will about the Borg, but surely even they would let a thread four years dead rest in piece.

[tallon1967]

The game is still going, new people join all the time and even players like myself who have struggled over the years, still need help and advice. I have tried crafting, unless you have millions of dil to upgrade an item to a sellable price and quality, with the new re-engineering, it has made selling weapons pointless. It's a catch 22, lock box ships are the money maker but you need money in the first instance for keys and then a 0.01% chance of a ship. The game is now a money pit and advice is outdated or players are reluctant to pass on their knowledge. Instead, abuse or Gorn jokes take over.

Join a fleet, yes yes, join a fleet, when I ask advice, 'get to epic quality' is the usual advice, I have wasted hundreds of thousands of dil to get 1 item to epic, on the other hand, one item took just a few thousand, that puts people off trying and as long as people do the 'you're a noob, go google it' people are in charge, there will be a big lack in decent players to pick from. Not to mention the rage quitters who complain that people don't kill quick enough so they leave.

I use ker'rat to lvl ships, it is only 1 of 2 places in the game that there is a constant pool of things to kill since craptic nerfed the ability to level a ship in a decent amount of time. At the same time I que for the borg red alert that is still the best for ship XP but they even nerfed that as well but has a 30 minute cooldown.

I agree that pvp is broken and I am on most people's ignore list amongst players who go into ker'rat due to my 'wallet warrior' phrase and moaning. On time, I got told, leave if you don't like it so I did and went to the other space borg area, they followed me there and continued the harassment. That isn't funny, it's akin to playground bullying, and yes, I have reported players for such as it is against the terms of play.

I have said for years, the game needs rebalanced so that players are encouraged to take part but the free to play but buy to win build has destroyed that. It's no longer a Star Trek game but a generic space shooter to earn the developers money over and above what is resonable. Hence the reason they put it on PS4 and Xbox one.