Cryptic tacitly admits that you have to have at least 3 Tac consoles to be effective.

frontline2042

fulleatherjacket wrote: »

The T5 Ambassador class has three tactical consoles over the Galaxy's two, yet the Ambassador is classified as a "support cruiser" with a Lt. Cmdr science boff.

Tacit admission.

I really think you're grasping at straws for this. "They changed the layout therefore they admit the old layout was TRIBBLE". If there was a quote somewhere of a dev saying "we wanted the ambassador to be effective for dps so we gave it 3 tac consoles" or something to that effect i could see your point of 3 consoles being needed to be effective. But this argument seems like something from glenn becks chalkboard

virusdancer

Hrmmm, so I wouldn't say that Cryptic has tacitly said that you need 3 Tac consoles to be effective. I'd say they've blatantly said that the Exploration Cruiser is a Star Cruiser variant (an Eng variant to elaborate)...which should have been obvious - but maybe this will help point that out. You'll note that there's even a 3 Tac console version of the Odyssey - a Tactical variant. You go from the Odyssey Star Cruiser to the Odyssey Tactical Cruiser. Kind of like going from an Exploration Cruiser to a Dreadnought Cruiser, eh? Course, they could probably add a Fleet Dreadnought Cruiser...

Rear Admiral

Advanced Heavy Retrofit
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Star Cruiser
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Support Cruiser Retrofit
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Vice Admiral

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Dreadnought Cruiser
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Exploration Cruiser Retrofit
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Odyssey Science Cruiser
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Odyssey Tactical Cruiser
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Fleet

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thebumble

drudgy wrote: »

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dreadnought

The only one to appear on screen was the Galaxy Dreadnought, but several references have been made to them having 3 nacelles. Also a book written in the 80's called Dreadnought! details a 3 nacelled TOS era vessel.

The first Starfleet vessel with triple shielding if I remember correctly, and some type of projection system that made the ship appear in an entirely different place.

Saved by The Enterprise, which then did a victory roll as she passed overhead. (I always thought that scene was so Kirk perfect, I could see Sulu and Chekov grinning as they rolled her over.)

Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-Star-Trek-No-29/dp/0671038524 (Thank you Amazon.)

The half paragraph at the bottom of the ad should tell you its worth the $.01 for a used version..:)