The other day I was watching a video of a dude I follow on YT. (Star Trek of course)

He had recorded a video about Cryptics Halloween-costume competition where they visited 3 different instances on Risa and declared a few winners that would receive a prize.

In the last part of the stream, the YT-Streamer actually made it to one of the instance by getting a team-invite by another player.
During that scenario the dude's name seemed familiar to me.. After I did some digging (watched the video again) I reallized it was Brad@SockableClaw..

This nice gesture clearly shows what kind of people we are in SSG / KSG..

Star Trek Online - Halloween Costume Contest 2017 - and go to around ~40 mins into the video.

I built the USS PALADIN when I saw TiberiusJP streaming his Scott class Miracle Worker ship (original Video, German). A slightly different BO seating and a console less did not hurt the design - the ship is a hull tank that treats shields mostly as optional. It's all about Hull, Resistance, Evasion, Heal and Threat generation.

You find the STO Academy build here: Click Me.

The ship does not much damage - shy to 20K dps, but easily collects 50%-80% incoming attacks in ISA. In the Traits you find some damage enhancers just for Threat generation. I might replace Point Blank Shot by Ablative Shell or Expedient Repairs (when bugfixed) after Weapon upgrades.

The Skill setup ignores Science completely. "Right Shield failed. Forward Shield failed. Left Shield failed. Aft Shield failed" is almost The Anthem of this vessel.
Energy Settings are uncommon, too: 100 to Weapons, 15 to Shields, 15 to Engines and 70 to Auxilliary.

In the Spam Trays you find abilities used as CDs in other builds. The USS PALADIN spams these für resistance and other synergy effects. There is no Attack pattern in use as I generate considerably more Threat by a duplicate Fire-at-Will and a difference in dps was not measurable.
Currently I learn not to use the heal ablilities in the dedicated thrays when not needed. 

Polarize Hull is not part of the original build - as TiberiusJP on his Scott build has just Hazard Emitters-1. I use it as Clicky/CD for mobility when under Tractor Beam attack - the damage from those beams is quite neglible. In full battle this beast raises it's resistance values to up to and beyond 82% and occasionally sports a Hit-By rate below 36%.

During the next Upgrade WeekEnd I will care for gold plating weapons - at the moment of writing, the U.S.S. PALADIN  is a bit of killing foes by boredom

You may have already known this, but I just found it and Ed suggested I share it here.

Its a keybind used for crafting and its only three keys.  4, 5, and 6 on the numberpad.

Lets say you want to craft ship shields...you begin with Covariant Shields MK II, and you want Resilliant MK XII.  So you change it and start.
With the keybind, after the first craft you only need to hit Numberpad 4 to bring up the last item crafted, then hit Numberpad 6 to start.  I have found though that when you hit 4, you need to mouse click CONFIRM otherwise you will actually craft an MK II item.  

The real time saver is with items and components, I craft alot of hypos and components, and Numpd 4 works perfect here, and when you max out the number of items in the first craft...then you need to only hit Nmpd5 to max quantity and the Numpd 6 to start. 

You can fill your slots in no time this way.

Numpad4 "GenSendMessage Doff_Recipe_Start_Action clicked"
Numpad5 "GenSliderSetNotch Doff_Recipe_Quantity_Slider 100"
Numpad6 "GenSendMessage Doff_Recipe_Actins_Starttask Clicked"


https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8yrx3wx9dapd4...g.txt?dl=0

I personally use the STOKeybinds program which is WORLDS easier.  https://sourceforge.net/projects/sto-keybind/  

And you can select this keybind there as well.

Enjoy!!
Dante

We are honored to be able to promote @Darkthorne to the rank of Fleet Captain!

Your contributions to the fleet, the game, and the players, has made our fleet what it is today - which is FREAKING AWESOME!

Thank you for being a member of the Strike Group!

Regards,

Adm. Mom

We're starting off the new month with two - technically THREE! - promotions! Please extend your grats to our fine fleetmates for their hard work and generous donations to the fleet!

Congratulations to @neutrino28 for two toons promoting to Lieutenant
Congratulations to @ivofiv for promoting to Lieutenant!

Well done!

First there was Strike Group chat channel, then Vent, then Team Speak - now Discord!

Chat and voice via: https://discord.gg/MeU5GDf

Huge thanks to the awesome @spacecadet83 for setting up the Strike Group discord channel!

To all members of the Starfleet Strike Group and Klingon Strike Group,

I am honored and delighted to announce the promotion of @Edarta and @Beardypicardo to the rank of Fleet Admiral of SSG, and the promotion of @Edarta to Fleet Admiral of KSG.

I have had the great pleasure of working and playing with both of these esteemed fleet members for the last several years, and know their dedication to the fleet, the game, and most importantly, to the players. They exhibit the best of all that makes STO an awesome game, and the attributes that have made the Klingon Strike Group and Starfleet Strike Group the best fleets.

In the last few months, they have been the best of advisors, friends and fellow players, and as we move forward, and I know that with their guidance, advice and hard work, we will continue to grow as a fleet.

Please take a moment to send them a note of congratulations.

I salute you, Ed and Beardy!

Regards,

Fleet Admiral Mom

Level up your ships with Mom on October 28 and 29! We'll be taking a four hour run dedicated to XP for your ships, both Fed and KDF!

Saturday - 1 pm - 5 pm CST
Sunday 11 am -3 pm CST

Everyone's invited!

Congratulations to our fleeties who received promotions to new ranks!

Grats - and thanks, because the donations you made not only earned you a promotion, but made our fleet holdings bigger and better!

Send your grats and thanks to:

Braxton
Leylani
Quint
Andrews
Bundyy
Faith
Eldix
Dimitar
Linnie
S'un

If I may quote Captain Picard, "Well done!"

In less than 17 hours our Star Fleet Strike Group Fleet Colony reaches Tier 1 - time for a moment of happy and silly patting on our shoulders