So, looking over the Chimeria Class specs, I gotta say I like it. It's everything I've always wanted in an endgame ship. Manueverable, Durable, and not the size of the Empire State Building.
Way to go!
There is a problem though. Cryptic, you seem ADDICTED to 4-nacelle starships. It's a bad addiction, and it's hurting some of the people you love. (Your customers)
So I'll make you a deal. Take the Chimeria back to Utopia Planitia, and do a Revision on the design plans. Rev 1 should include an option to utilize only 2 nacelles, instead of 4. That way, it'll look like a normal Starfleet ship.
If you do that, make a 2-nacelle visual option, I promise I will buy an LTS at my very next paycheck. Guarenteed.
But you have to want to break your addiction Cryptic. You have to want to get better.
Do we have a deal?
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Tons?
I can only think of 2.
Constellation (and it's subsequent Cheyenne successor)
Prometheus
And besides, if you re-read my post, I'm not asking them to convert the ship from 4-nacelles to 2-nacelles. I'm asking them to give us a toggle/option in the shipyard to only display 2 of the nacelles.
That way, if you like 4-nacelle ships, you're golden, and if you hate 4-nacelle ships (like I do) then you can still use this ship without the loathing for it's appearance!
It's a win-win in my book!
Other than the 4 nacelles, I have no complaints about the ship's style. It looks good to me. Just need the ability to drop some nacelles, and it would be perfect!
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
I know they exist! I know they are canon!
All I'm asking for is a visual option. A tweak to the graphical model so that in the Starship Customization, you can change it to a 2 nacelle ship instead of a 4 nacelle ship.
It's a visual preference. Nothing more.
You could change the Strut so it rounds off at the connection point for the under-nacelle, and by picking that option, you'd have a ship that looks more like a 2409 Excelsior, than a 2409 Cheyenne.
Or you could fly it just the way it looks.
Have we really become so intransigent in the STO community that the requests for some choices and options have become verboten?
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I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
That I was not aware of.
Yeah, tweaks to components of the ship involved in an animation, are likely to be time consuming and the devs are not likely to want to tackle that.
Bummer.
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You're seriously counting the Cheyenne and the Constellation as 1?
I mean if you do that you can count just about every ship with two nacelles as one ship design.
Cheyenne:
http://www.scapecraft.us/stdarkfate/images/stsfc2352CheyenneM.jpg
http://alunowen.org/sfmuk/components/com_joomgallery/img_originals/article_pictures_1/cheyenne_class_17/cheyenne_class_20090524_1322458554.jpg
Constellation:
http://evilgenius180.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/valkyrie_orbit_001.jpg
http://www.klingon-empire.org/photopost/data/500/galexploration_constellatn.gif
I mean..yeah totally the same ship.
I do count it as 1 ship, because they aren't unique designs. The Constellation and the Cheyenne are nearly identical, with the exception that one is kitbashed from Connie Refit parts, while the other is kitbashed from Galaxy parts.
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
Does this mean you count the Miranda and Nebula as one ship too?
Because one was made out of Connie reft parts and the other out of Galaxy parts.
No I don't because the Nebula has 2 major differences.
1. It has the Galaxy Class primary hull underneath it. The Miranda has no primary hull. The nacelles attach directly to the saucer.
2. The Nebula is not a "next in line" design revision and update to the Miranda. It was instead designed as a "variant" of the Galaxy. The Cheyenne, visually might look more Galaxy than Constitution in terms of progression, but it's functional design is nearly identical, just a modernization of the original Constellation design.
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
No it doesn't, it has a completely custom-designed underside hull.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050601150727/memoryalpha/de/images/d/d0/NebulaKlasse.jpg
And the Constallation is a one-piece ship while the Cheyenne was set up so it can seperate so it is also technically a ship with two hulls.
How do you kow that?
I couldn't find that information in any canon source.
If you consider these ships to be basically one design because they are "next in line" (again somathing I could not find any evidence of anywhere) and their functional design is nearly identical as you put it, does this mean you see the Constitution refit, the Excelsior, the Ambassador, Galaxy and Sovereign as one design as well?
Because the exact same criteria also fit them.
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Actually, it is the same primary hull.
http://pokethatfish.com/images/galaxyexterior.jpg
From the foreward point at the deflector dish to the aft point where the nacelle struts begin, the hull is identical.
This from Memory Alpha:
Studio models
First appearing as prototype kit-bash studio model in the debris field of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", the design of the Nebula-class was upgraded to a full worthy studio model, to represent a major class of starship. As Michael Okuda explains on Doug Drexler's blog, "The original concept for the Nebula-class ship was to develop a design that was in the style that Andy Probert had so brilliantly established for the Enterprise-D. (You may recall that every other Federation starship in early TNG episodes was made with recycled movie ships.) Our initial hope was that Greg could use the same molds from the 4' Enterprise-D, but that he could add a bigger bridge and give it bigger windows. The idea was to suggest that this ship was a contemporary of the E-D, but it was a smaller vessel."
While the Cheyenne was developed so it could seperate, there is no evidence that the Constellation couldn't seperate. This follows the vein of "unspoken abilities" that the Constitution Class Enterprise had, as the 2006 Ships of the Line book speaks of the Constitution Class being able to detonate explosives to seperate the saucer if necessary, even though we never saw this on screen.
Additionally, Michael Okuda verifies that the intent of the Cheyenne was to mimic the Constellation, which would give it an implied design lineage.
From Memory Alpha:
Okuda commented,"I think the fourth was the Cheyenne-class U.S.S. Ahwahnee. (Again, without my notes, I'm not entirely sure). This was a scaled-down Galaxy saucer with four nacelles, arranged in a manner similar to the Constellation.
From Memory Alpha:
The Nebula-class shared a similar design lineage with its larger Galaxy-class counterpart. (TNG: "The Wounded", etc.)
It is unknown, precisely, which class spawned the other, or if they were designed simultaneously. The only chronological evidence that exists can be determined by a comparison of dedication plaques, which reveals that the Nebula-class Phoenix was commissioned (on stardate 40250.5) just a short time before the launch (stardate 40759.5) of the Galaxy-class USS Enterprise-D.
This entirely suggests that the Nebula was designed, in the kitbash phase, to be a variant of the Galaxy class, only smaller. Though, we know from TV appearances that the Nebula was not that much smaller than the Galaxy, as evidenced by the scene where a Nebula is docked at DS9, as well as the scene from Generations where a Nebula is flying side-by-side with an Oberth and Miranda.
While each of the "Enterprise" classes were "next in line" for the flagship, that doesn't make them "next in line" in terms of design lineage.
3 of the Enterprises could be considered "next in line" in terms of design lineage. The Excelsior-Ambassador-Galaxy share enough common design components to make that leap, however there are substantial differences as well, which make the ships unique enough to be entirely new classes. Also, beyond the Constitution Refit, there was a substantial change in size, as well as mission profile, thereby breaking the design lineage.
So no, just because the listed classes are successors of the original Constitution, I do not consider them 1 vessel class.
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I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey