Great series of videos, thanks for all the effort on this. Sorry I couldn't join in.

Yeah, most assignments are in Cardassian space.
Well, I am to lazy to travel to various clusters with only a small chance of getting this First Contact mission. Right now I just go to ESD to Jiro, get Diplomatic Investigations from him. I also see there are one or two other Diplomatic Investigations available from him in the available missions tab.
Thank you :)

Tonight's Livestream has been uploaded to YouTube and can be found at

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlWofQdaKaGCiwpX5XTlj-T873UfFZWk

Was awesome as usual, thanks! Record number of people in the livestream room this week!

They'll sometimes show up if you switch locations, but I vaguely remember there being a hidden cooldown timer. That, or Jiro is just stingy handing them out. And I had better luck finding diplo missions by skipping around known bases - I reguarly found them over in the three DS9 zones and dependent nebulae.

All the missions on Vulcan etc. are not repeatable and I already did them :D
I do the assignments, I do Diplomatic Investigations daily, it just bothers me that I can't get those First Contact missions. Should I just travel to a star cluster and hope it will appear? Or contact Jiro somewhere?

Unfortunately Finka, the old Diplomatic missions (vulcan, bajor etc...) only to this day give 100 Diplomacy XP. They are cool to run if you have the time to waste but they won't give you payback.

THE BEST way to earn diplomacy is through the DOFF system. Send your duty officers on diplomatic missions and you can get thousands of diplomacy XP.

Both routes are shown here in a breakdown:
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Commendation:_Diplomatic

Send your doff's on some of those listed missions and you will be quite pleased.

DATURA

COOL NICK! Now that I've read up on Perpetual, definately seeing that it belongs to a particular artist on his portfolio site.
I really really like the mix of smooth rounded edges with the hard lines mixed in. Too often in ship design it's either all angular or all streamlined. I like when designers have the balls to mix them together and dare to be different. This ship feels really really Star Trek to me and the artist that did this ship is QUITE talented if you look at his work.

http://deningart.com/gallery/star-trek-online/

A LOT of Ryan Dening's work is SUPERB. Even though these designs are years old they feel fresh and are certainly miles ahead of some of the worst we have in game ( IE star cruiser ( emissary, vanguard, sentinel and nomad ) not to mention the shameful galaxy variants ( envoy and celestial ). I would have to say the one that makes me most ILL is the majestic !!
http://sto.gamepedia.com/File:USS_Lancaster.png?version=a7dbda715abd8724fd3061cc8a9c1ce6

I vote for these to be decommissioned and recycled for parts, never to be seen again! :evil: :whistle:

Dat

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If I'm not mistaken, that was a concept drawing from the company that was originally developing STO before cryptic started working on it. I forget who the original company was but that was definitely part of their info page on the official star trek site years ago. I think there may be licensing issues with the original company for using it but perhaps they're finally resolving it and we'll see it in game. :)

Perpetual Entertainment. When Perpetual Entertainment went belly up and Cryptic got the rights, they also got all of the intellectual property from PE, including the alpha game engine that had created, but the threw everything out cause they wanted to use their engine, except for some artwork.

You can actually see this ship ingame. When you warp into many sector defends, you'll see this ship broken and abandoned near the spawn point, as kind of a nod towards the PE STO.

The original ship suddenly looks like the ugly Galaxy Variant. I forget its name but the saucer and nacelles sure seem to come from that.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Exploration_Cruiser

Definately has elements if not most of the Envoy class about it. Personally I find that the ugliest but anyhow... :)

And as to the PE ship, I think they used a lot of that in the Fleet Avenger. Even if that ended up more blocky, it has the same lines from the back.

Hello there!
I am rank Envoy in Diplomacy and got my first First Contact mission lately from Jiro Surosomething. I did the mission, I liked it and I'd love to do more since I am focusing on reaching rank 4. But I seem to be unable to get them. Jiro on ESD gives me only Diplomatic Investigations. How do I get more First Contact missions? The article on the gamepedia doesn't answer this question :(
And btw, is there anything else I can do to earn Diplomacy XP? I try to do assignments that appear simply in the assignments choices, but maybe there is a hidden way to get better ones? Sometimes I click the head of departments tab, then First Officer assignments, but it has usualy just the Entertain Foreign Dignitaires assignment.

The ship design looks likes a combination of Akira and Galaxy design features. Not an exact feature of those two ships type but there are some similarities...

Hey guys, just a reminder the next PvP Tutorial Livestream is tomorrow night at 8 PM.

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If I'm not mistaken, that was a concept drawing from the company that was originally developing STO before cryptic started working on it. I forget who the original company was but that was definitely part of their info page on the official star trek site years ago. I think there may be licensing issues with the original company for using it but perhaps they're finally resolving it and we'll see it in game. :)

Perpetual Entertainment. When Perpetual Entertainment went belly up and Cryptic got the rights, they also got all of the intellectual property from PE, including the alpha game engine that had created, but the threw everything out cause they wanted to use their engine, except for some artwork.

You can actually see this ship ingame. When you warp into many sector defends, you'll see this ship broken and abandoned near the spawn point, as kind of a nod towards the PE STO.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL
oh wow I adore this ship.

If I'm not mistaken, that was a concept drawing from the company that was originally developing STO before cryptic started working on it. I forget who the original company was but that was definitely part of their info page on the official star trek site years ago. I think there may be licensing issues with the original company for using it but perhaps they're finally resolving it and we'll see it in game. :)

If you look at it's hull it looks like the Atrox.

Swordsman it seems to be a more magical version of Age of Wushu.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL
oh wow I adore this ship.

yup me too!

Hey guys!

/u/dproeder from Reddit made this Guide Map of GW2. I think it can be helpful for some of us with new characters to quickly explore Tyria! It can also help with getting some waypoints for guild missions. Happy exploring!

I'll be in Vegas the following week, so I doubt I'll be able to make it for the convention too. I'm going to be jealous of you all though!

Have fun! ...and don't catch anything from the Orion slaveboys... =P