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captainwallis84captainwallis84 Member Posts: 169 Arc User
And also the new special feature episode. I'm really looking forward to this new episode. Even more so now that there is word that Denise Crosby (tasha Yar/Sela) will be lending her voice for the special episode.

There is also allot of speculation as to whether the ship will be free or be a c store ship. I really do hope that she also comes with her own unique bridge. She is the Enterprise, and she deserves her own bridge.

If she's not free, then I wonder if the devs will do the same as the Vesta class, and have 3 unique variants. I would still be happy to pay good money for this ship.
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  • direphoenixdirephoenix Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'm guessing we'll have details on the Ambassador in around 2 weeks from now.
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  • c0nd1t10nr3dc0nd1t10nr3d Member Posts: 638 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I wonder if the devs will do the same as the Vesta class, and have 3 unique variants. I would still be happy to pay good money for this ship.

    I'm hoping there will be +1 versions in the Cstore too and 3 variants at that. I have my 5000 Zen ready and waiting!

    And yea... There better be a unique bridge for the Enterprise C! It just wouldn't be right to release the Cstore versions without one! ;)
  • startrek1234567startrek1234567 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    i hope theres a free version of the enterprise c too...possibly coming from the unique episode
  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    The anniversary is around the 2nd of feb if i remember correctly, so they probably wont release the details until a few days before. i would guess around wednesday 30th, thursday 31st.

    there should be a free version in there somewhere.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    1st and 2nd anniversary events both started on February 2. That's a Saturday this year, and the ask cryptic did mention the end of January, so they could be doing it that Thursday (1-30), in which case the Dev blog would probably be Tuesday or Wednesday (1-28/29) that week.

    Unrelated, but the pattern they've established so far (launching a new project when the last one ends, with the current one being the reruns) would suggest a starbase or embassy featured project this Thursday, meaning a dev blog in two days.
  • voyagerfan9751voyagerfan9751 Member Posts: 1,120 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I am fairly certain the anniversary will feature a free version of the Ambassador. Cryptic has said there would be a free ship similar to last years Odyssey. And while that haven't "officially" said it would be the ambassador. They have done everything else, but. Will it have a unique bridge. I am guessing no. I figure it will be a "preview" ambassador, so I can see them not worrying about a unique bridge, cause it is free.

    Now for a C-store version, which lets be honest, there will be one. Ambassador is one of the last great player requests, and is the last of the Enterprise line. I highly doubt cryptic will let that gold mine pass.

    I don't know if it will have three varients. and to be honest, I hope not.
  • deceon55deceon55 Member Posts: 136 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I agree the anniversary sounds like a good time to put it out but you never can tell with Cryptic could be released with season 8.
  • bluedarkybluedarky Member Posts: 548 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I am fairly certain the anniversary will feature a free version of the Ambassador. Cryptic has said there would be a free ship similar to last years Odyssey. And while that haven't "officially" said it would be the ambassador. They have done everything else, but. Will it have a unique bridge. I am guessing no. I figure it will be a "preview" ambassador, so I can see them not worrying about a unique bridge, cause it is free.

    Now for a C-store version, which lets be honest, there will be one. Ambassador is one of the last great player requests, and is the last of the Enterprise line. I highly doubt cryptic will let that gold mine pass.

    I don't know if it will have three varients. and to be honest, I hope not.

    I wouldn't count it out, after all, the preview Oddessey had an exclusive bridge.
  • logicalspocklogicalspock Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I think it is pretty clear that there will be a free and a c-store version of the Ambassador.

    The only question is, will the c-store version be better in some way? I am betting that the answer is yes.
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Would be nice to see the Ambassador. I will move my Capt. right on in and it will be my main ship. That is one ship I always loved for some reason.
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Well what's the theme of the Ambassador class??

    The Enterprise C is famous for one thing, blowing up real good.

    So the console should be one of two things.

    Either the console is a more powerful version of abandon ship...or when you die and ship blows up, it really doesn't and a vortex opens with your ship back at 100%, with a cool down of 10 minutes or something.

    that's all I got for this one. :confused:
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  • thratch1thratch1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    bluedarky wrote: »
    I wouldn't count it out, after all, the preview Oddessey had an exclusive bridge.

    Wasn't the bridge for the free Odyssey just a gutted version of another in-game bridge? I remember people complaining that they had taken out a lot of consoles and stations from the inside of the bridge, so the whole thing looked very barren and empty.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Yeah, the Free Odyssey was the Star Cruiser bridge with one of the MSD's revamped.

    Be nice if they did include a canonical bridge, which was originally the TMP Enterprise Movie set. So with a little work they could make that bridge set too.

    Same goes with the Prometheus Bridge set, which was the Excelsior set.
  • xigbargxigbarg Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    Well what's the theme of the Ambassador class??

    The Enterprise C is famous for one thing, blowing up real good.

    So the console should be one of two things.

    Either the console is a more powerful version of abandon ship...or when you die and ship blows up, it really doesn't and a vortex opens with your ship back at 100%, with a cool down of 10 minutes or something.

    that's all I got for this one. :confused:

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  • puttenhamputtenham Member Posts: 1,052 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    Well what's the theme of the Ambassador class??

    The Enterprise C is famous for one thing, blowing up real good.

    So the console should be one of two things.

    Either the console is a more powerful version of abandon ship...or when you die and ship blows up, it really doesn't and a vortex opens with your ship back at 100%, with a cool down of 10 minutes or something.

    that's all I got for this one. :confused:

    actually, there was no evidence that it was destroyed, it is believed that it was captured by the romulans..

    i would have to venture a pretty sure bet that this ship will have some sort of temporal power.. well the free one will probably be bare bones.. just your run of the mill t5 ship..
    but the c store one will most likely have some sort of temporal console.. i believe a dev might have said that at one point..
  • puttenhamputtenham Member Posts: 1,052 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Yeah, the Free Odyssey was the Star Cruiser bridge with one of the MSD's revamped.

    Be nice if they did include a canonical bridge, which was originally the TMP Enterprise Movie set. So with a little work they could make that bridge set too.

    Same goes with the Prometheus Bridge set, which was the Excelsior set.

    now im not a big fan of the c store, but something i would love to see is more bridge packs like they used to do.. it would be nice to have some bridges that would work with most of the ships in game..
  • thratch1thratch1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    puttenham wrote: »
    now im not a big fan of the c store, but something i would love to see is more bridge packs like they used to do.. it would be nice to have some bridges that would work with most of the ships in game..

    I would love for them to release Escort and Science ship bridges done in the same aesthetic as the Odyssey, as well as maybe a more generic cruiser type. The Odyssey bridge is pretty slick.
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Ask Cryptic seems to imply that the Ambassador and it's KDF counterpart come in tier 3 and tier 5 versions... I'm betting the free one is tier 3 (which actually could be a nice boon for new players if it becomes a permanent part of the story progression). Maybe with an extra console slot, but I doubt it'll have a console (if it did, that would be great if it came back for FE replays). Tier 5 will probably be C-store and/or fleet.
  • captainbmoneycaptainbmoney Member Posts: 1,323 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'm PRAYING the specs are like my thread "What the ambassador should be". PLEASEEEEEEEEEE

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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,791 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    Well what's the theme of the Ambassador class??




    The one shown in DS9 during the Wolf-359 battle moved like an Escort. Other than that and the Enterprise-C, we don't much about them.
  • age03age03 Member Posts: 1,664 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    You need to fix the cruisers and Tacs need another escort like a raider.
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  • logicalspocklogicalspock Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    Ask Cryptic seems to imply that the Ambassador and it's KDF counterpart come in tier 3 and tier 5 versions... I'm betting the free one is tier 3 (which actually could be a nice boon for new players if it becomes a permanent part of the story progression). Maybe with an extra console slot, but I doubt it'll have a console (if it did, that would be great if it came back for FE replays). Tier 5 will probably be C-store and/or fleet.

    I doubt that. I could be wrong, but I doubt Cryptic will do a c-store unlock for the event and that is the only way a T-3 ship would be useful to most players.

    I am betting we get some kind of T-5 ship. How it will differ from the c-store ship(s) is the real question, and we will not know the answer to that for some time.
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    jslyn wrote: »
    The one shown in DS9 during the Wolf-359 battle moved like an Escort. Other than that and the Enterprise-C, we don't much about them.

    Which is why I'd probably make them the anti-Destroyer.

    Destroyers occupy the space between Cruisers and Escorts. But they're a bit closer to cruisers, albeit with DHCs.

    I'd probably make the Ambassador closer to an Escort but without DHC capability and with Quad Beam Banks similar to Quad Cannons. More durable and maneuverable than a Destroyer.

    Maybe each one comes with a unique QBB.

    You have the free one, which is later put on the Fleet store like the free Odyssey. A T3 +1 version with QBB and a console. And a T5 version with QBB and a console, set bonus with the T3 console.

    For a total of 3 QBBs if you get all three. QBBs would be usable on Destroyers, Dreadnaughts, and whatever the Ambassador is.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    It didn't move like an escort. All it was shown doing was making a single hard turn, matched by a Nebula class, before both got stomped. The sort of turn most of the mid speed or better cruisers can managed with, for example, evasive maneuvers.

    A destroyer would be an excellent niche for it to avoid overlapping with its bigger brothers since the cruiser grid is pretty cluttered already, but I'd lean it more towards the cruiser end than current ones have been, like the Chel Gret with engineering emphasized over science.

    The existence of the Chel Gret (far more than the veteran destroyers, which don't stray far from the escort model) does invalidate a lot of assumptions about ship setups, though. A lot of things are on the table now. A true escort with an engineering commander or full fledged cruiser with a science commander, for example.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I doubt that. I could be wrong, but I doubt Cryptic will do a c-store unlock for the event and that is the only way a T-3 ship would be useful to most players.

    I am betting we get some kind of T-5 ship. How it will differ from the c-store ship(s) is the real question, and we will not know the answer to that for some time.

    I think he means the T3 will be the free ship, and the T5 would be the c store version.
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  • age03age03 Member Posts: 1,664 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    jslyn wrote: »
    The one shown in DS9 during the Wolf-359 battle moved like an Escort. Other than that and the Enterprise-C, we don't much about them.
    you never show much of the Enterprise B did you except what was in that loser of movie Generations long live Kirk.
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  • puttenhamputtenham Member Posts: 1,052 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    I think he means the T3 will be the free ship, and the T5 would be the c store version.

    highly doubtfull. we will get a plane jane t5 verseion, just like the odyssey. and they will release a t3 with a console, and probably a t5 that has fleet like structure to it to the c store.. that is what i am guessing at..
  • logicalspocklogicalspock Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    I think he means the T3 will be the free ship, and the T5 would be the c store version.

    If you mean the free version they give away at the anniversary event? I doubt it. Unless it is a c-store unlock that comes with a console, it is useless to most players.

    If you mean a T-3 ship you can get with a promotion token, I tend to doubt that too.

    I don't know exactly how they are going to handle this, but I suspect the one they give away will be T-5.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    age03 wrote: »
    you never show much of the Enterprise B did you except what was in that loser of movie Generations long live Kirk.

    No, but we do get to see a good few Excelsior class ships in action against a variety of enemies to gauge the class.

    Pretty much every Ambassador class ship we see is either already wrecked, in the process of being wrecked, or mostly wrecked and about to go get itself the rest of the way wrecked, which is a lot less to go on.
  • xigbargxigbarg Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Does that make it the red shirt of the cruiser family?
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