Terran Somerville Free To Play Sci EPG Build🖖Star Trek Online

[@Goldenrye21]

I really like the idea of the series of builds ranging from FTP all the way up to top dollar! Looking forward to see how they all stack up and how much of a dps difference it makes

[@alcibiadesW]

I'd like to make a few points: The tactical competitive engine is a better choice than the control variant. That's because the four subsystem targeting abilities, which science ships inherently come with, count as beam firing modes. They trigger the competitive engine's speed boost. (They would also trigger the EPG and Control Expertise buffs from the Revolutionary Deflector, if the build was using it.) This build doesn't have Beam Fire at Will or Beam Overload, so subsystem targeting has nothing to conflict with. Using it is essentially a free action. One can be triggered every 15 seconds. This build doesn't use the Unconventinal Systems trait, and doesn't have the damage consoles to make it worth using. So it doesn't need an otherwise do-nothing control power like Scramble Sensors. Or Photonic Shockwave (which does not trigger the secondary deflector). Photonic Shockwave's kinetic damage has no inherent shield penetration. Since shields have a 75% resistance to non-penetrating kinetic damage, getting damage from PS is very situational. Better boff abilities would be Tyken's Rift (kinetic damage which ignores shields, and which also triggers the Deteriorating Secondary Deflector), Subspace Vortex (kinetic damage which ignores shields), and Structural Analysis (a debuff which triggers the secondary deflector, and which spreads to other targets). Gravity Well does not trigger the secondary deflector. The STO wiki page on Deteriorating Secondary Deflectors tells which boff abilities trigger it. Also, there's a series of posts on reddit called "Revisiting Exotics", put out by Eph289. A prospective science ship driver should read the whole series. Part 1 gives information on secondary deflectors, including which boff abilities trigger it. Part 10 covers the Fek’ihri Torment Engine, and explains the difference between hazard damage and damage over time. The series is still being updated with new posts, the most recent one covers last week's console nerfs.

[@linz8291]

Surprised to know your technical analysis by contrast to different starship types. We assume secondary photonic deflector and engine system are both some kinds of enhancement to warp drive, plus, warp core and other propulsion systems including gravitonic impulse engine, protonic repulsar, tachyonic sliptime engine, main MHD engine, magnetic pulsar generator...those equipments can advances ship traveling in particular to meet some extreme space weather. Recent neutronic shield and secondary negative energy transmitter are fantastic when ship traveling nearby blackhole and neutron star. More energy would be saved when this flexible energy extraction system applied for new ships. While we assume more variant types and engines are waiting for advance to starfleet networks, as popular and competitive ships traveling to neighboring constellations and to study how their starships has developed. Thank you.

[@alcibiadesW]

@@linz8291 I suspect you meant this post for another thread.

[@chuck7623]

Nice Sci build Stu! Love how you cover the budget side for those of us who are budgety!

[@MCStu]

Thanks! 👍

[@MrGoromous]

Thanks for this. I just unlocked this through the event, it's my first T6 ship going from the exploration cruiser retrofit so very different type of ship. I'm excited to give this a shot! Still working on my reps and stuff though so we'll see how it goes. Lots of stuff to do! Thanks MC, you're the best

[@FredKuneDo]

I just leveld my "Andorian Temporal Agent" to 65. When I unlocked the "Somerville" I will use it for a newly created "Vulcan Disco science captain".Thanks for the build suggestions.

[@quantumjet253]

A little thought regarding the next video, the slightly more advanced version, something I think could prove useful for players following these videos... as builds get more advanced and start using more expensive and better gear build videos don't advise on what items are should be priority and what's less important. For example, if a new/ish player created this science build, and then when the more advanced build video arrives they watch that they will have a list of better traits, consoles and weapons, etc to acquire but won't necessarily know in which order they should consider acquiring them to maximise their resources and upgrade as wisely as they can. I know we all build up reserves of energy credits or dilithium at different rates, but I think it could be useful to suggest a rough order of at least the first couple of ships, traits and consoles will instantly give the better results. For example, you often feature your free-to-play account and I would guess you have a pretty clear mental note of the shopping list of items you want to acquire next. As invaluable as a list of items to make an excellent mid range or decent build is, imparting knowledge on what a player ought to prioritise in acquiring, I think, would prove equally useful. I'm not suggesting a long list, or even more work in making build videos, but simply mentioned as those particular items are discussed.

[@adammauldin9800]

Woof. Nice. I may actually have to imitate this. That looks like it really spanks. And it seems to have an OG Cylon feel to it's appearance.

[@martinarg1979]

Excellent,i will share this with the spanish speaking people 😁🖖🏻

[@nolgroth]

Awesome build. Some observations (of course); 1. A good Impulse engine would be the Delta rep engine, which provides Control Expertise. Much easier than Competitive. 2. Brace for Impact always elicits my recommendation for the Hazard Systems duty officer, which provides resistances with Brace for Impact. 3. Deteriorating SecDefs proc off of Drains and Debuffs. Inhibiting procs off Controls like Grav Well. 4. Gravimetric Specialists come at 65. 5. You can easily chain two "Emergency Power to" abilities. They last for 30 seconds and have a 15 second global cooldown. Keep them on the spam bar and just cycle through them. 6. The console drains all shields, so having extra resistances is valuable. Depending on Solo vs. Group vs. Group with Tank, and what difficulty you play, the Auxiliary to Defense trait might be better.

[@ncapp23]

house pegh is where is you get the personal ground and sspace trait point blank shot and up close and perosnal as well as the starship trait the best defense just pointing out the 2 other rewards house pegh gives you

[@mawi3314]

This gave me some of the best insights in Sci and builds in general ever. (to be honest I don't watch your videos so often now, let's say I'm busy playing, now on holiday only with a tablet what else is ther to do?.)

[@seven9766]

Gravwell can proc one secondary deflector, but not the deteriorating one. The deteriorating one procs on drain abilities, gravwell is control.

[@OntarioPete]

Fantastic video as always MCSTU, Keep up the great work!

[@MCStu]

Thanks, will do!

[@Mercstar]

I was impatient and bought the Lukari dranuur scout ship and put this build on it.... this build is ridiculous. Made minor alterations. I thought my 70k beam overload build was the sh*t, I (much like momma) was wrong again.

[@MCStu]

Awesome, glad this was useful for you!

[@axelhopfinger533]

Same. All my expensive C-store torp and DEW builds cannot hold a candle to the sheer effortless mass destruction power of this free little ship! The only thing that could make it even more devastating would be some temporal seating. But as is it's already plenty effective for everything but elite content.

[@Mercstar]

@@axelhopfinger533 the Dranuur has basically the same layout, but with a temporal seat instead. If you got fleet modules laying around I think it's a better platform than the "somewhereville* but that's arguable.

[@axelhopfinger533]

@@Mercstar Eh, not keen on the Lukari ship designs. Think i'll invest some fleet modules into a proper temporal ship instead.

[@amdar2106]

Awesome video MCStu! Once I grab mine, I'll be coming back to this to start doing my own build. It has a lot of great info! Thanks!

[@kentonmichael7818]

I just missed out on these events for a tier 6 ship. I have 2 chars at 65 now. working on my kdf atm. Do you think we will get a free tier 6 ship around Christmas? Only been playing a month but loving it.

[@simond.455]

The Lower Decks Duty Officers can still be claimed for free by FED and FED-aligned captains in the C-Store, Duty Officers section.

[@Reoh0z]

> "I've looked all over for what that exactly means and I'm not sure..." They don't call them Cryptic for nothing.

[@Jay-ql4gp]

It's got some nice chunky engines. I'd like to see TOS Bussard collectros on them though.

[@andrewsanderson3702]

Like the ship I gotta admit it's just a shame you didn't do a test with a full sheild stripping Tet build and let the sci damage ability's shine a little maybe next vid ;-p

[@spartan078ben]

Do you have a video for a build using the Revolutionary set?

[@waldoonline]

The manual for Very Cold in Space can be bought on the exchange.

[@doggoproductions4748]

Gravimetric is from Delta Rep I believe not Iconian Rep

[@matthewdavis9744]

is there any way we can get a typed out version of the video. like what u did to her and all that fun stuff thanks in advance

[@Nemoticon]

I'm so happy, as a F2Per my Sci-toon needs a good ship to not die in, lol. Cheers o7

[@axelhopfinger533]

Well it still is a pretty fragile science ship, so dying is always possible. But if built right, this ship will kill or cripple everything on screen quickly enough to never actually take much damage. I recommend the Hull Image Refractor lockbox console (~10 mil EC on the exchange) as a good survival and damage boost console, as its passives allow for hull healing abilities exceeding the maximum to store as a temporary hitpoint pool up to the double of the base hull strength. Also gives a flat +20% all damage, including Exotic! It's a staple on practically all my builds.

[@halonewman9341]

It's literally a saucer section with warp nacelle slapped on the side lol

[@mawi3314]

Danke!

[@MCStu]

Thank you!

[@knifesedge]

Small error I found through building this thing, the Gravimetric Torp comes from Dyson Rep not Iconian rep .

[@Mercstar]

2:29 Gravimetric Photon Torpedo Launcher comes from dyson rep not iconian.

[@knifesedge]

I wish I’d read the comments before trying to find this bloody thing!

[@nolgroth]

Thanks!

[@MCStu]

Thank you, I appreciate that!

[@nolgroth]

@@MCStu Good to see you doing Build content again.

[@MistiMoan]

Why no katari rocket launcher(really wish it was part of a set

[@axelhopfinger533]

Looks like a pretty decent little ship for its price. Until it finds its way into Mudd's that is. ;)

[@axelhopfinger533]

Well, i got it myself now and did a quick and dirty budget EPG/Torp build for my Sci toon with what i had at hand (similar to this one, just with more universal consoles from the exchange and fewer fleet ecotic particle focusers)...and holy hell is it effective! An absolute glass cannon, but it just totally MELTS whole enemy groups on advanced quicker than any of my other ship builds so far! It's so much more effective than, let's say, my Surgical Strikes Adamant it's not even funny! And i don't even have all the good meta traits and consoles for EPG builds and still get my EPG damage over 450 easily and just dominate with a simple combo of Grav Well 3 and Typen's Rift 2 with some Delphic Tear generator thrown in to finish the stubborn ones off.

[@mykawa]

I did put that console on my Cnidarian Defender and it does appear to be increasing the damage. However, I do not have a way to read my damage so would you try it on the Cnidarian, maybe make an ultimate build?

[@axelhopfinger533]

What console? And the only stuff that increases the Damage of the Cnidarian's console electric field is that which increases electrical damage or all damage (like the Hull Image Refractor universal console) . The Borg Cutting Tractor Beam lockbox console increases the damage of all other universal consoles via Collected Technology by 25% whenever a universal console is used.

[@mykawa]

@@axelhopfinger533 In video at 12:14 Ionic Deflector Inversion.

[@axelhopfinger533]

@@mykawa Ah, of course. Yes, that console will increase electric damage and thus be a good fit on the Cnidarian. And the Shields are mostly unnecessary on the Cnidarian also since it's so tanky via its trait, so sacrificing them for some electrical damage is viable. I will try the console on my own Cnidarian build and see how it performs.

[@AugmentedDictatorGames]

You could remove all those traits except Particle Manipulator and the build would do just about the same. Stock traits are so terrible.

[@brianriley5108]

Tractor Beam is a good alternative to Very Cold in Space as TB is a trigger for Uncon.

[@alcibiadesW]

The build isn't using Unconventional Systems. And it doesn't have the universal consoles that US is needed for. Also, Science's strength is in AoE, which Tractor Beam is not. But Science is short on AoE ensign level boff abilities. Very Cold in Space is one of the two available. The other is Structural Analysis, since is triggers the secondary deflector. But SA is a bit harder to use well.

[@MistiMoan]

Would this build work for exotic weapon damage like plasma fire cold electric radiation

[@MCStu]

No, weapons that have these effects are not boosted by EPG for the most part

[@wolfpuck5845]

I'm already dreading when I get this ship (console player) and trying to put a build on it I'm gonna end up pulling out the rest of my hair

[@lordkanesoulreaver]

howed you get the 2nd tray to lay flat like the main 1?

[@MCStu]

This vid will show you how, the link is time stamped kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmSbaJeba7NlbqM

[@radeadcool]

I cried. I cry every time you get it wrong MC Stu. JUST STOP USING THE BUILDS FROM THAT EP. Its... Sela & Car-rip-dis.

[@phantomharlock9497]

Silla and Ka-RIB-dis

[@radeadcool]

@@phantomharlock9497 I tried that and it didnt work. I mean he knows Sela right?

[@regalecusglesne3022]

what if i switch the torps and beam banks with the agonizer set?

[@MCStu]

You can do that.....