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  • omegaphallicomegaphallic Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    You might get the top two, but the city ship is a movable starbase that can do transwarp. No way that will be lockbox ship, it can eat Scimatars and it takes fleets to beat it. It'd be like making the crystalline enity into lockbox ship.

    Now what could be cool in a future season is having a damaged Voth City Ship as a Fleet Holding. The tiers could be Voth City Ship tiers I to III, with subtracks Repairs I to III and Upgrade tiers I to III.

    Repair would fix up the ship and Upgrade would intergrate some fed, rom, and klingon tech into the ship.
  • nikolunusnikolunus Member Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Love the Concept art, the two finished looking ships are beautiful. Hoping that the top right one will be player usable. She looks very fun, I love the lines on her. The First ship looks like it would be one hell of a bruiser to go up against. This new Season is looking to be a lot of fun.
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  • chrisolliecchrisolliec Member Posts: 256 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    dmfreddie wrote: »
    The city ship just looks like a missive space gun to me....

    I just wonder which side would be the one where you don't want to be in front of...
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  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer Member Posts: 1,328 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    dirlettia wrote: »
    Very nice, but I'd place a bet the top right picture will be the lock box prize.

    I sure as heck hope so ... the cruiser to the left doesn't strike me as much as the escort to the right. :)
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Looks good. Can't wait to fire beams, cannons, and torpedoes into their hulls.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The Voth and their ships are a paramount of technology, the result of eons of development.

    And yet they keep pet dinosaurs. :P Sorry, couldn't resist.

    Those ships look awesome. I can't wait to blow them up!
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  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer Member Posts: 1,328 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    You might get the top two, but the city ship is a movable starbase that can do transwarp. No way that will be lockbox ship, it can eat Scimatars and it takes fleets to beat it. It'd be like making the crystalline enity into lockbox ship.

    Now what could be cool in a future season is having a damaged Voth City Ship as a Fleet Holding. The tiers could be Voth City Ship tiers I to III, with subtracks Repairs I to III and Upgrade tiers I to III.

    Repair would fix up the ship and Upgrade would intergrate some fed, rom, and klingon tech into the ship.

    Heck ... I just want to see the city ship in the Foundry.
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  • mogenarzmogenarz Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I just want to give a shout out to the artists at Cryptic for their work here. I feel that what you guys do is often underappreciated, and the Voth concept art is pretty awesome.
  • jumpingjsjumpingjs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Fascinating.
    and Season 8: The Sphere is shaping up to be one of our best updates yet!


    Just to be clear, best UPDATE as opposed to expansion (IE: LoR)?

    I have been here since Season 3, and one of the most exciting updates for me was season 5. I loved Defera ground and those ensuing red alerts.
    Hopefully I'll come back from my break; this break is fun; I play intellectual games.

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  • saekiithsaekiith Member Posts: 534 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I... really like these Ships :)
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Seasons 1-7 the Cube now Season 8 The sphere. I am hoping for a rectangle and triangle season soon.
  • stomperx99stomperx99 Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    VOTH LOCKBOX!!!




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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    ^ Ha, won't be surprised. :P


    I like these ship designs.
  • aleaicaleaic Member Posts: 352 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Proof that silly asteroids can't get in the way of science fiction.

    And an official 'wow' to all the images, at that.
  • drreverenddrreverend Member Posts: 459 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    And yet they keep pet dinosaurs. :P Sorry, couldn't resist.

    Hey, wouldn't you want a pet dinosaur to tag along with you as you go cruising through space in your ancient magnificent temple ship? I sure would.
  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I will enjoy hanging smouldering pieces of their bulkheads in my ready room. Not to mention the trophy room ;)
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  • wayofderawayofdera Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Cryptic,

    Great looking ships! Can't wait for season 8 to be released!:) Now, if only there was a playable Suliban race for the Romulan republic...;)
  • vonhellstingvonhellsting Member Posts: 543 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Is it too late to defect to the Voth side?:P
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Very nice to show a couple design sketches, always welcome. And large screens available to boot. Thanks for that.

    More to the point, these ships don't look to bad, specifically the top right and the city ship concept.
    And I don't know about anyone else, but I look at that City-ship concept and I'm seeing the head of a Xenomorph from "Alien"...

    Ah, that might be why I like the city ship concept so much. Even if it looks like a hand gun as well. I hope the front doesn't get changed, it looks perfect.
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  • denizenvidenizenvi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Voth_city_ship

    That concept is certainly not the one ship we actually seen.


    The canon ship is in the game as a Citadel Dreadnought. Presumably it can be used by the Voth as either a smaller city, or a powerful combat vessel (presumably without the millions of civilian inhabitants).


    I would imagine the new city ships are an even bigger model, a sort of NY/Shanghai/Mexico City metropolis compared to the canon city ship's smaller urban center.
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  • endorfinatorendorfinator Member Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Love the designs, but any new about the new FE, come on people.
  • thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The two ships at the top of the page are gorgeous. Great Job!!

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  • cidstormcidstorm Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    edited October 2013
  • mysharon4mysharon4 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    One looks like a TRIBBLE with testicles, the other looks like something out of Star Wars
  • killdozer9211killdozer9211 Member Posts: 919 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    1) Your concept artists do great work. Honestly, I like some of the concept ships better than what we got. In particular, 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, and 14 from the group sketch. All those visible cityscapes look gooooooooooood.


    2) Please let the top right ship from the two models we did get be a full carrier, preferably the FE reward. It's got that great internal runway look like a venator class star destroyer from star wars.

    3) Please please please tell me we get a bridge and you haven't given up on those yet. Preferably more than one giant room with a broom closet like the kumari was.

    4) More news on the FE! You're killing me with all this art. I'll see it when I see it, I want developments!
  • sechserpackungsechserpackung Member Posts: 135 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I agree with others that the city ship reminds me of a gun.

    Then again they are in the same area as the Borg. You can?t adapt to death!

    They also make me think of those Homeworld 2 progenitor ships you could get in the campaign.
  • pardusian141pardusian141 Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    dmfreddie wrote: »
    The city ship just looks like a missive space gun to me....

    I'm glad someone thinks the same thing about that as I do...
  • eradicator84eradicator84 Member Posts: 1,116 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Looks good, for a giant space gun :D

    Looking forward to seeing them in game.
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  • commadorebobcommadorebob Member Posts: 1,223 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    What would have been interesting is if the ships had a subtle Starfleet feel to them. The Voth supposedly evolved from Earth. It'd have been neat to see a similarity to the modern Earth residents.
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