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Ok because all of the bird of preys are so similar all allowing you to have 4 totally customized bridge office slots. All that changes is their rank and the number of weapons you can have. Since that is the case I think you should be able to pick from all the BoP parts from all levels to completely customize your BoP. You could stagger the hull points. If you decided to stick with the Heg'tah then you would have 34,000 HP, if you stayed with mostly Ki'tang parts then you would have 33,000 HP, Norgh 32,000 HP, Qul Dun and B'Rel 31,000 HP.
Secondly maybe someone can help me with this. But from the episodes of TNG that I remember with great detail, the BoPs never lowered their wings so drastically to attack. In fact during the episode when the Klingon Civil War was going to protest Gowron's appointment, I specifically remember that none of the 3 BoPs ever lowered their wings at all to attack. So why is it that in the game the animation has then going from 15 deg above horizontal down to like 60 deg below horizontal? It seems way to drastic.
Secondly maybe someone can help me with this. But from the episodes of TNG that I remember with great detail, the BoPs never lowered their wings so drastically to attack. In fact during the episode when the Klingon Civil War was going to protest Gowron's appointment, I specifically remember that none of the 3 BoPs ever lowered their wings at all to attack. So why is it that in the game the animation has then going from 15 deg above horizontal down to like 60 deg below horizontal? It seems way to drastic.
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And I'd like to have an ability to chose if i wanted my wings to move, to stay down, or to stay up, while in combat.
Good idea for customuzation but why would you peanlize people for not liking the ugly things we fly at T5?
A skin in this game is supposed to be just that.
If it affected them in a positive way as well, like -hull equals +turnrate I think I'd be okay with it.
But even then I don't think current game mechanics would allow this since skins don't affect the actual ship underneath.
The reason for that is a bit odd.
In early TNG they had no Vor'cha model and getting the K't'inga model out and refurbishing it was too much hassle.
As a result we got the "K'vort class battlecruiser" as it was called in one episode of TNG.
And even though that was "only" a parallel timeline episode ("Yesterday's Enterprise") the ships appeared in that config in several episodes (like in the Klingon Civil War episodes "Redemption" pt 1 &2
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9442/vlcsnap2011071414h49m29.png
or "The Defector)
http://www.suricatafx.com/?p=274
and there was an IKS Koraga shown on a display in DS9 that was called "K'v'ort class".
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070106192644/memoryalpha/en/images/8/82/IKS_Koraga_display.jpg
They reused the BoP model but scaled it up to roughly 350 meters length.
Those ships had thei wings horizontal during attack
Star Trek rationale: probably because at that scale moving them would have been too much.
Real World explanation: the motor inside the model used to move the wings was actually broken.
The difference to various glitches that appear in other episodes the fact that they employed a new class name and put it into the battlecruiser category (and for the Klingon civil War episodes even invented a totally new torpedo special effect)
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8059/vlcsnap2011071414h50m03.png
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/6018/vlcsnap2011071414h50m16.png
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1593/vlcsnap2011071414h50m28.png
shows that this was intentional.
Not to mention that relative to the size of the torpedo tube the torpedo seems rather tiny indicating a much larger ship.
So the K'vort "BoP" would actually fit into the battle cruiser category in this game, with wings horizontal.
The problem would only be that due to the limited quality of the old TNG special effects we could not see details on the ships like windows.
However in STO we could easily see them.
As a consequence they'd need to make a new ship and use the B'rel as a basis but add details like rowns of windows and other details like escape pods to indicate it's a ship of a totally different scale.
I want my BoP to flap it's wings like a real bird!!!
As far as I know the main reasons for the wings staying up is simply that the model was broken and the wings couldnt move any more.
On a funny side note: the only time the we saw a ship that was named "B'rel", wich is consideret to be the "smaler" BoP, it was stock footage from Yesterdays Enterprise, wich is the only time we actually saw K'Vorts (and not only on a display)... wich makes them exactly the same size (both the large-350 meter variant).
That link is pure awsomeness. Thanks a lot for that, will become very usefull the next time when somebody tries to decanonize large scaled BoPs..
Thats why I said very ugly alt skins.
There was not ONE good part addet... and the worst thing (wich I keep repeating like an insane person) is that with that the original Hegh'ta model (wich I have grown to like very much) was changed with the new parts for the much worst....
Sorry kind of missed that...
I wouldnt consider it a error at all, at least not in canon since its the ONLY mentioning of the "B'rel" class.
I thing in canon the B'rel is simply an earlier version of the K'vort... like you said... and the smal BoP variants are named diffrent.
The Duras-sister BoPs designation was "d12", we saw the duras sister with a prety small BoP (compaed to a runabout) in an early ds9 episode.
And Klingons selling thier datet ships seems to be a common practise... not that often in canon (but as rascals prooves it happens here too), but in many non-canon sources too...
My persoanl theorie about why the BoPs in DS9 seem all to be "small" varients is that, in most cases, we see them in fleets. May be the K'vort sized ship is simply build to opperate alone or in small groups while the "small" one is designed for fleet operation and scout missions.
I was never a believer of the 700 meter variant, but the 350 varient seems prety right to me as "large scaled", it is, for sure bigger then the BoP in Generations and most of the ds9 appearences.... or for all that matters... the one from ST III and IV (that might not have kept the same size for 2 szenes in a row, but in all varients it was smaler)