Originally Posted by rodentmaster

Oh, and P.S. It's not just borg. It's the AI BS at play. One fleet blockade I was first to arrive on scene of a transport in my kdf alternate, as soon as I decloak at 10k out I apply tac team to the freighter then BAM! I'm dead instantly. It was an iso charge. Saw it. Respawn... over the course of a single 15 minute fleet blockade match I was 1-shot killed instantly by iso four damned times, every time 10k out just arriving on scene, just showing up and the first to defend the freighter in question.

It's not even a console to them, it's the primary means of killing enemies. They even shot me with 2 of them from 2 Negh'Vars at the SAME TIME on one freighter, as I saw 2 of them hit me a second apart (I was dead after the first, so the second just hit my remains).


It's not borgified. It's retarded double standards. Not even double. It's so far apart from the logical rules set in place for players that it might as well be quintuple standards, with all standards between 1 and 5 being unused. It's that far off balance.

Originally Posted by travelingmaster

To be fair, Tholians haven't gotten any screen time beyond TOS (as far as I'm aware). It's pretty underappreciated, imo.

Originally Posted by rodentmaster

There's a reason the tholians got wiped out of the skies when their only weapon was a tholian web. I'd think in the time between THEN and the NOW recluse carrier technology, they've come up with actual weapons (torpedoes and beams, cannons, etc) that they didn't have back then.

Originally Posted by rodentmaster

I still say no paid consoles, ever. Period. You want to give them boff skills that's one thing (and if you DO you better tone down hull and shield and firepower to match player levels!) but giving them massive instant-killer console powers that don't reflect any of the existing rules and codes in the game is just bull****.

Originally Posted by aethon3050

It's an uber version of the Isometric Charge (essentially chain lightning ball) that KDF get as a console ability on the Vor'Kang from the C-store. The NPC one does much higher damage than the player one, but the one we get does 3k damage to the first target, 6k to the second, 10k to the third, and 15k to the last target (assuming you have no points in Particle Generators, which increases its damage). The NPC version seems to do about 20-25k damage with the first shot, so you do NOT want to be the second person it hits; it pretty much one-shots everyone to whom it chains after the first target.

My advice: When you see an NPC Negh'Var, put 8km or more between yourself and any allies, before they start doing starship bowling.

Originally Posted by shookyang

About how much does it do with tact buffs? Thinking of getting this for my escort to replace the Field Generator.

There aren't any resists for it, right? And, from what I can tell, it by-passes shields as well?

Originally Posted by shookyang

So, not worth giving up a Field Generator for, then?

That's too bad.