News - MRP, changes to Support ship scoring

The Voyager event was a lot of fun, especially trying to annoy Tuvok as much as possible in Takedown. We had plenty of people taking part and lots of prizes given away daily. The big prize of 250 million went to Mike who is probably really glad he didn't miss the shuttle event which gave him the edge.

The event is over for another year and the next special event is From the Ashes which this year celebrates 10 years since the Legacy of Romulus expansion was released. LoR still to this day was the largest-ever expansion to STO, it is quite clear now that with the current team in charge, we are never going to see anything like it again, so relive the good old days when STO was going places in this event. https://www.srs-fleet.net/fromtheashes

MRP

This week's MRP is to fly a Captain's ship, so that would be a Constitution, a Galaxy, an Intrepid, the NX, the Defiant or the Crossfield (all variants are allowed) for the big bonus to MRP.

The smaller bonus is for using a Human character.

Also, there are boosts to Healing out and DPS

The fleet of the week is SRS Hazard Team

This week's endeavour is to take part in 15 events for an endeavour point and a small prize.

SUPPORT SHIPS

We need more tanks and support ships for events. Support ships can greatly aid your chances of survival in something like HSE or ISE and massively increase your potential DPS by adding a lot of debuff to the targets which lowers their resistances and thereby increase your DPS.

To encourage more members to make tanks the following systems will be updated.

DPS League - The Support league currently measures Xquotient (Healing x Threat) and if you are top of this league you get 100 points, if you are bottom you get 1 point (100 places in total). To help boost this you will get 300 points if you are top and 204 points if you are bottom, so working on a Support ship is worth the same as working on 3 different DPS leagues.

MRP

If you log your score as a support ship AND if you take the most threat by a margin of 2 times the next highest player, your score will be doubled.

E.G. 1

Player 1 Threat 20%

Player 2 Support Threat 80% MRP is doubled

E.G. 2

Player 1 Threat 30% threat

Player 2 Support Threat 55%

MRP is unchanged because 2x 30% is more than 55%

Badge

Players in the top 10 support league will receive a special Badge on the website

I hope the above will encourage more players to take part in the support league. it really is a lot of fun and it's quite tough to keep your teammates alive especially when they are flying all over the map and outside your area of influence.

PRO TIP - Focus your tank so that you know where it is all the time and can quickly find your way back to him for heals. Support Build Ideas

Check out my support ship build, it always pulls massive threat and does massive healing, don't forget we are not interested in DPS with a Support build.

This ship is also listed under the Builds menu https://www.srs-fleet.net/builds