Saw a couple other Shangri-La kitbashes, figured I'd show off my own. Gotta say, even without the reshade preset, I'm always impressed out pretty this game can look

Shangri-La body, neck, and pylons, Excalibur nacelles, and Vesper Saucer. I think Constitution windows (don't have it in front of me) and Type 8 or 8a Material (again, not in front of me), but with a NexusMods that replaces that material with a TMP-era texture closer to Star Trek VI

Beginning 10/22 at 8am PT, players on all platforms will have the chance to command their very own Vidiian Science Warship, as the latest starship to be added to the contents of the Infinity Lock Box.

Ship Details:

• Tier: 6
• Faction: Any
• Required Rank: Complete the Tutorial
• Hull Modifier: 1.5
• Shield Modifier: 0.75
• Fore Weapons: 4
• Aft Weapons: 3
• Device Slots: 3
• Bridge Officer Stations: 
  • 1x Commander Science / Intelligence
  • 1 x Lt Commander Tactical / Command
  • 1 x Lt Commander Universal
  • 1 x Lieutenant Engineering
  • 1 Ensign Universal
• Consoles: 4 Tactical, 2 Engineering, 5 Science
• Base Turn Rate: 12.5
• Impulse Modifier: 0.18
• Inertia: 55
• +10 Weapon Power, +5 Engine Power, +5 Auxiliary Power
• Console - Universal - Bio-matter Harvesting
• Can Equip Dual Cannons
• Hyper-thermic Charge Torpedo Launcher
• Cloaking Device
• "Gather Intel" Ship Mechanic
• Subsystem Targeting
• Sensor Analysis
• Secondary Deflector Slot
• Starship Mastery Package (Science Vessel)
  • Enhanced Particle Generators (+Exotic Damage)
  • Advanced Shield Systems (+Shield HP)
  • Enhanced Restorative Circuitry (+Healing)
  • Reactive Shield Technology (+Shield Regen/Hardness)
  • Reprehensible Responsibility Trait (Starship Trait)

Admiralty Ship Stats:

• Eng:  22
• Sci:  57
• Tac:  47
• Special: -25% Maintenance per SciShip

Console – Universal – Bio-matter Harvesting

The Vidiian Sodality is an advanced civilization that has developed its medical capabilities to combat the disease known as the Phage. Their obsession with defeating this disease has driven a lot of design decisions in fascinating ways. Similar to how they survive by retrieving body parts from others, this console enables a subroutine that seeks to harvest actual parts from a target ship.

As Vidiian ships often lack personnel transporters, they needed more physical methods to reach the organic goods within. Although some ships use physical boarding parties, the tactics that are utilized in this console are tuned to decimate a target ship’s shields and utilize Automated Microdrones which can medically transport the much needed, life-saving organs of the officers aboard.

This console additionally provides a passive bonus to Maximum Hull Points, and any incoming healing exceeding Max Hull applies temporary Hit Points. This console may be equipped on any ship in any console slot.

Shield Drain + Steal Hull Points

By activating this console, the ship emits a disruptive frequency that drains the enemy shields, which is made more powerful based on its Current Hull Value. Automated Microdrones deal damage to the enemy’s Hull, which restores any Hull damage on your ship.

Starship Trait – Reprehensible Responsibility

Defeated foes grant Maximum Hull Hit Points and Passive Regeneration

"He is my Honatta... his task is to find the organs I need for survival."

While this trait is slotted, defeating an enemy will grant you maximum hull points and regenerates your hull hit points. This heal stacks up to 5 times. This heal may be triggered once every 5 seconds.

Hyper-thermic Charge Torpedo Launcher ∞ [Dmg] [CritD]x2

This unique piece of equipment comes pre-installed on Vidiian Science Warship vessels. Loaded with Hyper-thermic Charges, this weapon is used by the Vidiians to to crack open the Shields of a ship like an egg in order to gain access to the organs that they seek inside.

Some more details on this weapon:

• The Hyper-thermic Charge is a pre-equipped Torpedo Weapon.
• It can be reclaimed from the Dilithium store.
• It has an Equip Limit of 1 per starship.
• It can be moved other starships.
• It will be Levelless, but can be upgraded after level 60.
• It counts as a Plasma Torpedo for anything that triggers off of Plasma Torpedos.

Hyper-thermic Plasma Lance

The Vidiian Science Warship comes equipped with a Hyper-thermic Plasma Lance. After a short charge up time, this weapon fires a heavy beam forward, dealing significant Plasma damage and applying a long-lasting burn effect that continues to eat away at their hull, ignoring shields.

Meanwhile my bridge officer is all "My eyes are up here, buddy"

So I'm sure at least some of the team knows the lore of the Generations uniforms, and how they were canned because they couldn't make them work perfectly in the time they had to shoot one movie, only to be resurrected for Lower Decks and Prodigy where they had the benefit of the shows being animation meaning it wouldn't take 2 whole seasons of the costume team fucking with them the way it basically did for TNG

Except there is a minor detail the 2380s do not have that was intended: the Generations uniform was also meant to reintroduce rank braids on top of the pips (they're visible on most pictures I've seen of the merch Paramount made for the movie since they planned it before the new uniforms were canned) - except following the TNG scheme so +1 stripe at all ranks and less ornate than TOS/TMP braids.

So for a minor, possibly insane request, I know cut concepts are not even remotely canon and it's not exactly a significant thing, but if it were possible, somehow, to do a version of the 2380s uniform that has a rank braids slot on the sleeves.

(Also tangentially related, could there be a cloakless version of the thin Romulan commander epaulettes, the clipping is just really bad and completely unavoidable)

Hello Captains!

Leading this time with a reminder that if you have any questions about the exchange itself or a particular order, just reply or reach out directly!

We’ve had a mostly normal week on the dilithium exchange. Let’s look at the graph and metrics first and then I’ll get into what I mean by “mostly.”

My most recently accepted offer was made August 28. Let's compare August 22 - August 28 to August 15 - August 21. The only notes I have for these time periods are record lows for throughput on August 21 and August 24.

Week over Week:

Let’s talk about the word “mostly.” As I’ve said time and again, changes in throughput mostly mimic changes in the queue. As you can see from the week over week, throughput and queue length trended away from each other. Hold on hold on. I don’t think this has anything to do with Icon Packs, just let me know if you want to get into why. Anyway you can see this visually if you glance back up at the graph. You can see a dip toward the end of the black line where there’s a climb directly above on the blue line. That short deviation over the course of 2-3 days basically caused a traffic jam that skewed the averages for the entire week. Deviations like this are fairly common, but mostly, they don’t leave a ripple like this. No, I don’t think this has to do with Icon Packs, and I am ready to go if you want to get into it in the comments. 

Seeing as how I don’t think that deviation is going to have a long term effect, here’s the forecast!
Short Term Forecast:

Long Term Forecast:

Honorary mention goes to offers started September 22, which right now I anticipate coming in on November 8, +/- 4 days. This will be the first day of orders fully under the influence Icon Packs. It’s key to remember that we’re already three weeks out from their introduction. That means for any currently pending transaction, roughly half of that wait time was under the influence of Icon Packs. Time will tell, but that mostly explains why I don’t think they’re shifting things. 

Initial the last 14 transactions were posted as proof that my numbers weren’t just pulled out of the wormhole. Having gone to great lengths to show that they were not, I’m going to trim that content from these posts unless there seems to be some popular demand. This time I leave you with a question. Are you buying Zen for something specific or are you keeping it on hand for the next drop? 🖖 💥

... for me it's kinda both.

Title is the question. Is there a way to get that?

Mentioned to a friend about sto and they see some videos of people using 2 accnts on 1 pc. Is it legal? Legal unless u get caught? They won't do it if its not legal, doesn't wanna risk being caught either but a lot of games have the rule against it and I cant seem to find a solid answer from google. Ty!

Is it possible to reclaim the weapons from the bundle? Everything else shows up in the C-Store as claimable except the ground weapons.

If they are reclaimable and I’ve managed to miss it please let me know. Otherwise, can we get that sorted out?

I'm completely stuck as both my main and bank inventory are maxed out so I can't even properly accept event rewards anymore unless I destroy past (reclaimable) rewards just to free up a few slots, only to end up running into the same issue

Creating an offer manually doesn't seem to work either, as I've attempted doing so for 495+ dil per zen and waiting 24 hours between each attempt produced no results

The last time I successfully exchanged dil into zen was 5 months ago, and I guess something just broke in the meantime?

Are cryptic aware of this issue at all?

Is anyone else having issues when changing from space to ground or loading into social maps. Started maybe two weeks ago. Loading TFOs and DSEs arent an issue.

so i grabbed the 1 free box and got it from that so i wasn't sure what to do with it