Cruiser Week

This week, bonus to MRP is as follows:

Fly a cruiser

Any Career

Threat

Damage In

The Fleet of the Week is SRS Chrononauts

Weekly Endeavour: Complete 20 MRP events for a rank point and a master key.

Last day of MRP 2022

The last day you can earn MRP points this year is Thursday 22nd December. On Friday the 23rd December, there will be a prize giving for winners at the Winter Wonderland from 9pm UK time. If you cannot attend your prize if applicable will be mailed to you if it can be, otherwise, it will be traded with you when you are next online at the same time as me (Matt Johnson).

STO News

A couple of things to watch out for.

Breen Set

The underwhelming Breen weapon set from the winter event includes an Omni beam which can be slotted alongside other Omni beams. It's not that good and you are better off with a turret, especially the inhibiting turret from the rep. However if you want to slot it so you can have 4 rear Omnis, that's the trilithium, a crafted one, a cutting beam and the Breen, do it now because this is a bug and the ability to slot will be removed next week. It is unknown what happens if you actually have it slotted before they remove the ability to slot it, probably on past experience it will stay there until you remove it, and then you won't be able to slot it after.

Donating VR DOFFS

This a warning again to be careful which very rare DOFFs you donate to the fleet. I recommend you enable protection for all your expensive DOFFs. The entire system is only half finished and is full of bugs including putting the protection on. This is wholly indicative of the way Cryptic's sloppy business model works nowadays, the lines of communication since they all went mobile (ie working from home) have virtually collapsed. Expect bugs with everything they release and bugs on all fixes, their QA team seems to be non-existent. The idea behind the system is excellent and a welcome quality of-life improvement, it's just a shame it's been released in such a shoddy and sloppily half-assed half-finished version. You have been warned. Kobayashi Maru Cool Down

Cryptic has stealth nerfed the KM, it now puts all other distress beacons on cooldown for 2 minutes and its own cooldown has been increased in another middle finger to the community, especially those who bought it on the Mudds store.

VERTIGO

NEW - Viral impulse Burst, Red Riker Gun sound, Tactical Initiative Experience your game without all the ridiculous VFX - https://www.srs-fleet.net/vertigo

If you have any requests for stuff you'd like added to VERTIGO, comment below.

Red Riker Gun

This is pants, it has a stupid sound effect that gets old real quick and does very little damage. It can only be used in the wonderland. It looks great but that's it, don't waste your items on it.

Another missed opportunity from Cryptic to make this a repeating Winchester ballistic weapon that we could have used game-wide (maybe that will come now they have the model).

Fek'ihri Byr'Jai Interceptor

This is the free ship from this year's event and is one of the best ships ever offered for free. You still have plenty of time to earn this ship for free, if you miss it now you will regret it later.

20% Lobi 15% Keys

This is a poor sale, especially for keys. I would wait for a better key sale around Christmas. Cryptic hasn't done a 50% Lobi sale for a long time and one is due as well as another R&D ship going to the Lobi store which I would expect early next year. Unless there is something you really want now I would hold off on purchasing any Lobi items and leave the keys until there is a better sale.