TIER 6 SHIPS

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7001833

Pretty neat stuff!

I wonder if the Specialized Bridge Officers are going to be like what we saw in Temporal Ambassador or A Step Between the Stars. Those were pretty neat abilities!

. Even better is that it should shut up all those yabbos in the sto forums, the ones with the pitchforks and torches. B)

Sweet new mechanics! Though I'm really hoping there' s a tier 6 version of the reagent and/or odyssey. Not big on the models they've given us a peek at thus far, aside from the Romulan birds that are rather sleek!

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. Even better is that it should shut up all those yabbos in the sto forums, the ones with the pitchforks and torches. B)

Nah, they've still got the "but what does this mean for my T5 ships" sickles and handaxes.

And I have to admit, the MSD of the Fed ship is making it grow on me. (It's the nacelles that bother me, mostly.)

So we can gain Starship Traits, which in turn can be used on any ship. These gonna be something that override the genetic sequencer packs that have been available in LBs?
And what about that Ship Leveling! So, the quicker you spend the skill points on ships the more they level up(to T5)... soo the real question will turn into Which do you want to spend you SP on, making the ship better, you better, or a balance @_@

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Nah, they've still got the "but what does this mean for my T5 ships" sickles and handaxes.

I'll admit it remains my key concern for DU. Money and time and sweat and blood and tears poured into some of those ships down the drain is integral in some ways to a cap raise. Though it clearly won't jive with Cryptic's monetization model.

Only speaking for myself, natch, I suppose it would help if Cryptic was capable of designing ships that weren't so gosh darn fugly.

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And what about that Ship Leveling! So, the quicker you spend the skill points on ships the more they level up(to T5)... soo the real question will turn into Which do you want to spend you SP on, making the ship better, you better, or a balance @_@

It's an interesting choice.

The trope for many seasons now, essentially since F2P, has been to incentivize newer, faster, better shinies - whether than be through Lockboxes, Lobi, or even the ole' fashioned Z-Store.

Plenty of players (and in this Fleet, of course) are happy to ride that carousel. It's how Cryptic makes their money, and I'm all for it, even if I largely choose to not participate.

Ship advancement and customization is something I could be super-into; but with the caveat that I'm nervous how that doesn't run contrary to Cryptic's essenial monetization priorities.

Put another way, it's been in Cryptic's interest to make ships essentially interchangeable and disposable. It's what keeps players buying the new shinies. So choosing to now incentivize sticking with, and investing in a ship. It just strikes me as cause for concern that there are going to be layers that keep Cryptic's income stream through that system, that we haven't yet been introduced to yet.

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Sweet new mechanics! Though I'm really hoping there' s a tier 6 version of the reagent and/or odyssey. Not big on the models they've given us a peek at thus far, aside from the Romulan birds that are rather sleek!

This is a big concern of mine. The models I've seen of the new ships aren't really my style. I'd love to be able to keep using my Regent class, but it'd suck if that meant missing out on a big feature of Delta Rising.

I really hope they do this smart. People love the classic ships, besides the time and money people have put into them. To suddenly make all of outdated wouldn't be good.

def right about that..! and all of the fleet gear people have bought as well

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I really hope they do this smart. People love the classic ships, besides the time and money people have put into them. To suddenly make all of outdated wouldn't be good.

I've been increasingly nervous over the last several seasons - as the Devs continue to incentivize their own designs, I can't help but wonder if CBS has been pressuring them to wean players away from canonical designs towards novel Cryptic ones. Which I've repeated ad nauseum that I don't care for.

Alternately, one fears that maybe the licenses might include riders for having to pay artists points off the backend for uses of designs they own some rights to - like say, Mark Rademacher's Vesta. Or maybe even as far back as Andy Probert or Rick Sternbach.

A bit of a paranoid fantasy, maybe.

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def right about that..! and all of the fleet gear people have bought as well

Gear, I fear, is probably the one thing we all accept, however begrudgingly, that we're just going to have to eat.

BOUND to character! lol :P :P :P :P

I remember someone saying about 3 weeks ago...

That's like saying the NX-01 isn't obsolete. But how mad would you be at someone for showing up to a STF in one?

I'm sure your "not obsolete" T5 and 5.5 will be just fine after DR is released.

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I remember someone saying about 3 weeks ago...

Uh, that was you.

So now with the Dauntless included in the Delta Pack, we now have a T6 sci vessel along with the T6 cruiser Guardian class for non-intel Starfleet ships. Hopefully by the roll out, we will also get a T6 tac to have a complete T6 non-intel trinity.

Hail, proud warriors of the Empire! We feast today, for we find that our great ship designers have finally mastered the art of counting past four and set to bestow upon us a worthy Raptor with 5 fore weapons and 5 tactical slots and a turn rate that allows us to properly use them to rain death down upon our foes!

It appears that the Federation and Romulan designers have been equally hard at work to give us honorable, delicious targets to utterly annihilate!

(I'm on a touchscreen; otherwise I'd copy in the full ship stats for the Guardian, Dauntless, Mat'Ha, and Aehlal.)

To add to the good news, the House of Nagh reD's shipyard began it's Tier V upgrade project today :)

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To add to the good news, the House of Nagh reD's shipyard began it's Tier V upgrade project today :)

Whoo hoo!!! :woohoo:

I would love to use the Intel Escort, but correct me if I'm wrong, $150 to use them? I must've read that wrong.