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Using Ablative Generator on other ships

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In the recent dev post, they stated:

Updated all the ship consoles, tier 4 and below, that come on C-Store ships so they no longer are restricted by ship class.

Does this include the Ablative Generator? I want it, but I will not give up my Recon Science for it.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    if i recall correctly, the ablative generator is on the T5 RetrofitIntrepid... which means no other ships cannot use it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    So VA is Tier 5?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    VA is concidered T5 yes. Another way to tell whether your console is bound or not is by seeing if it has any model changes to the object. That console when used tototally changes the appearance of the ship using it, which means it wouldn't work on another vessel due to the appearance change, similar to the saucer seperation or multi-vector assault mode consoles which split your ship up into smaller pieces.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I highly doubt they'll ever make it available to any other ships. You haev to realise that the Intrepid has 2 models, one with the armour and one without it. For them to open it to all ships, they'd have to made brand new model parts (that work in the multiple configurations) for all ships in the game, which is simply far to large a task to do!

    That said, if they ever do add Tier 6 ships (assuming they increase the level cap eventually), then it would be nice if the new ships could use technologies like Saucer sep, cloak and ablative armour as standard (since they would surely have the most advanced tech availlble). :-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Cloak would be easy, just make the ship semi-transparent.

    The ablative hull could be a texture change or a casing.

    Saucer sep, completely understandable.

    Oh well, I guess I will just keep my Recon and save my C Points for something else.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    VampireZIM wrote: »
    Cloak would be easy, just make the ship semi-transparent.

    The ablative hull could be a texture change or a casing.

    Saucer sep, completely understandable.

    Oh well, I guess I will just keep my Recon and save my C Points for something else.

    The ablative armor is great, but the only way it would be a console system that could be used on any ship would be to do multi-phasic shields so it wouldn't need to change the physical look of the ship itself. Failing that, some sort of attribute modification (like Feedback Pulse) which changed the ship to a solid color or something to that effect.
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