There are a few things worth mentioning to those who want the Galaxy bridge pack.
1) The LCAR looks horrible. The color is wrong, the lower panels are cut off, they have helm arrow a few feet over headand the Tall ground to roof panel closest to the turbo lift is sideways.
No effort went into this bridge for the revamp. It has not changed since they released it.
At the end of the day the free battle bridge has better LCAR.
The bridge is also GIGANTIC. I mean oh my god. It's like they outright doubled the size of the whole bridge. I would love for them to make an Interior in the same vein as the Constitution or Defiant where we get everything in much closer scale and detail and other rooms. I mean just imagine having your own Ten forward... But it'll never happen.
So what you are saying is - for the first time in the history of the game Cryptic is not only releasing a bundle AND placing it on sale IMMEDIATELY, but they are also hiding it from players who cannot access it?
Uh huh.
Oh, get off your high horse. You know what I can't get now? It's called the Odyseey 3-Pack. I bought the Tactical one early on and now I can't get the bundle. So, it's NOT the Galaxy bundle pack, so please, STOP WHINING!
If it's desperation, it's god damn working, brother. There are Gal-Xs crawling all over the place. I just went into an SB Defense with a team of all Gal-Xs (minus a low level Akira) and we kicked butt, so don't judge a book by its off-centered-lanced cover.
Hey cool, I cannot wait until they put the hangar on the Assault Cruiser and Star Cruiser since the Dreadnought's "newly universalized ensign" lets you use both of their layouts now (instead of just the former)! That will be golly gee willikers dee dandy slick what with their having the better cruiser commands and all!
The bridge is also GIGANTIC. I mean oh my god. It's like they outright doubled the size of the whole bridge. I would love for them to make an Interior in the same vein as the Constitution or Defiant where we get everything in much closer scale and detail and other rooms. I mean just imagine having your own Ten forward... But it'll never happen.
in all fairness to the people responsible for sizing things - eh I have nothing.
On the flipside I was invited onto those pack bridges - it seemed to have a lot of empty spaces boffs could be in and there was no picture of the galaxy on the back wall where the akira usually is.
I love how the pic on the main website shows the Gal-X right up front in the middle with it's crooked lance.
Sale is cool though.
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. Players have been complaing about the offcenter issues with the standard Galaxy Dreadnaught skin since it was released. Crypitic's general response has been to "post error reports and screen shots" only to follow up with nothing. Well there it is, posted in an image taken by Cryptic and put up for all the world to see in blog on the website.
Looks like a cool deal. Too bad I can't purchase any of it because my Fed is only lvl 6. I get not being able to use it until Vice Admiral, but to not even be able to purchase it seems silly to me.
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. Players have been complaing about the offcenter issues with the standard Galaxy Dreadnaught skin since it was released. Crypitic's general response has been to "post error reports and screen shots" only to follow up with nothing. Well there it is, posted in an image taken by Cryptic and put up for all the world to see in blog on the website.
All the more reason for you to bug the devs. to release the Enterprise-D interior pack!
An interior pack plus fixing the Galaxy model. Even on the splash page for this ad on the main page you can see that the phaser lance is not set center with the saucer.
Sadly, I doubt we'll ever get a full TNG interior because Cryptic has stated they aren't doing those any longer because it doesn't bring in money. All the more reason to get tech in so players can use the Foundry to create to-canon interiors on their own. Though, I doubt that will happen, either.
Which ships do you own? And did you simply use your VA token to buy one for a single character? Or did you buy one of the C-Store variants and thus unlocked it for your entire account?
If you did the VA token, that does not disqualify you from getting the bundle.
If you bought the C-Store version and can still buy it, then Houston, we have a problem.
~CaptainSmirk
If you look at that image, to the left, you will notice that the venture and gal-x are already purchased and available.
Wow! I wasn't expecting this, and was going to get the pack in the next few months to give me time to save up the zen. This has me thinking hard as this deal is even sweeter.
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
Damn you! I just bought the Gal-X 2 days ago because it was finally going to get saucer separation, which is why I never bought it before. It never fails that you put something on sale just after we buy it. :mad:
First time that's ever happened to me LOL.
I already had everything else for a while. So, yeah.
Did you guys give people who owned all three ships already the Bridge Pack?
Someone told me you did.
Is this true?
I highly doubt it. Dev blog #54 clearly stated that if you own anything from the bundle you won't be able to purchase the bundle. It also said that the bridge was free if you purchase the bundle. Someone lied to you.
There are a few things worth mentioning to those who want the Galaxy bridge pack.
1) The LCAR looks horrible. The color is wrong, the lower panels are cut off, they have helm arrow a few feet over headand the Tall ground to roof panel closest to the turbo lift is sideways.
No effort went into this bridge for the revamp. It has not changed since they released it.
At the end of the day the free battle bridge has better LCAR.
1) It would be nice if they could get around to updating to the new LCARs look on older bridges. I don't remember if Tacofangs said they would get to it eventually or not.
2) No ship interior, as far as I have seen, has an observation lounge. It has been something requested by the community for a long time.
3) None of the Galaxy bridges, free and c-store, are canon actually. The 'Order' bridge from the c-store Galaxy variant bridge pack is about the closest we have to being canon and it's still wrong, and why there is no ship plaque.
I'm going to guess that these two costume sets must be the slowest sells of the TNG themed costumes? So the AGT set must sell itself well at regular price. Hence, it's exclusion from the sale.
It's possible they expect sales to go up for the Gal-X and due to it's sudden popularity they expect players will want the AGT uniform to go with it. So the outfit isn't on sale so they can make a little extra money because they know players will buy it.
As for me, I already own every single outfit in the c-store (and everything else that is in this sale), and I just purchased the Gal-X at full price a couple days ago. So, whatever.
You can only buy it if it appears in the Store. For me I have no options anywhere to be able to buy it so I CANNOT BUY IT AS IT IS NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO ME ALREADY OWNING THE VENTURE. This is not the same as the Odyssey pack.
On A F2P account the bundle shows up so I do know exactly where to look for it and how it shows up so I can guarantee I am not overlooking it anywhere.
Then perhaps you have a display bug or something, because purchased items should still show up (fairly obvious, I know, but still).
Was named Trek17.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I bought the Galaxy bundle - the problem is it won't let me use the Venture class, or its skin. A pop up window on the ship customization screen says "you have to buy additional skin pack" - shows it is free -> i am pressin buy button, but then a fly in message says (obviously) "you already have this item". And nothing happens, I cannot press "OK" on the window. :mad:
I'm actually considering buying the bundle, mainly so my doffing alt can fly around in style with the dread in venture skin. Is the skin supposed to work on the dread or is it just bugged atm??
EDIT: Just saw smirks answer here. Ignore my question.
3) None of the Galaxy bridges, free and c-store, are canon actually. The 'Order' bridge from the c-store Galaxy variant bridge pack is about the closest we have to being canon and it's still wrong, and why there is no ship plaque.
What we have in game are variants of the Generations bridge. What we need is the original TNG Galaxy bridge, the smaller more cozy one without crew stations on the sides of the Captain & First Officer's chair. With that one (if they ever make it) we'd probably get a ship plaque and the observation lounge.
If we're lucky they might finally decide to release the Enterprise-D interior pack, that would be awesome!
What we have in game are variants of the Generations bridge. What we need is the original TNG Galaxy bridge, the smaller more cozy one without crew stations on the sides of the Captain & First Officer's chair. With that one (if they ever make it) we'd probably get a ship plaque and the observation lounge.
If we're lucky they might finally decide to release the Enterprise-D interior pack, that would be awesome!
I agree. I was just stating a fact that the bridges in game aren't an exact replica of what was seen in the TV show.
This wasn't a revamp, this was repackaging, but fine, I already have the Dreadnaught and the Venture and I might get the retrofit to get saucer sep just to have something else to play with, I really don't give a TRIBBLE about the bridge pack.
But what I really wanted after all this time was for them to finally take a few minutes and line up the damn parts on the saucer so they don't so ridiculously cockeyed. I look at all of their promo pictures and it's like looking at a car advertisement showing big colorful pictures of a brand new car with it's front bumper out of line and a headlight missing and I wonder what you have to be imbibing to think your customers are not going to notice this?
If something is not broken, don't fix it, if it is broken, don't leave it broken.
I am VERY disappointed with the galaxy reboot, it still only has two tactical consoles and a lieutenant tactical. I would guess the majority of the people are playing STO is because of The Next Generation and the galaxy class reboot is still subpar. Yes, it is an excellent tank but it does so little damage it is almost unplayable. I had two friends that stopped playing the game for this reason alone.
Please, consider a tactical reboot for the Galaxy Class.
I am VERY disappointed with the galaxy reboot, it still only has two tactical consoles and a lieutenant tactical. I would guess the majority of the people are playing STO is because of The Next Generation and the galaxy class reboot is still subpar. Yes, it is an excellent tank but it does so little damage it is almost unplayable. I had two friends that stopped playing the game for this reason alone.
Please, consider a tactical reboot for the Galaxy Class.
Regards,
John
Sorry, John. Cryptic hasn't listened to us who've been here since Beta they're not going to listen to a guy with one post to his name.
Were excited to announce that from now until 10AM PDT on Monday, March 10, 2014, we will be running a sale on a great selection of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) themed C-Store items, for 20% off their normal price!
I'm interested, but no deal until you guys aknowledge AND fix the elephant in the room.
The T5 Galaxy Classes (c-store & fleet; including the latest F.GalX) require a tweaking in the Boff seating before I consider spending time & money in getting & outfitting any of them.
Fleet Amabssador is a prime example to look at a ship that far from being an escort but still offers the option for diverse builds. Besides being iconic (far less than the galaxy, but still is) it is a ship to have fun with.
Some or a lot my disagree but IMO sacrificing the hanger for a good boff setup would lead to a better ship overall. And with better I mean more or less on equal footing with current line of ship and relativly future save (if more universal boffs seats are given) regarding possible changes to Boff skills. Boff skills do get swapped & tweaked, it already happend. And all of the sudden you have entire stock line of ships "out of sync" because of a rigid boff seating.
This wasn't a revamp, this was repackaging, but fine, I already have the Dreadnaught and the Venture and I might get the retrofit to get saucer sep just to have something else to play with, I really don't give a TRIBBLE about the bridge pack.
But what I really wanted after all this time was for them to finally take a few minutes and line up the damn parts on the saucer so they don't so ridiculously cockeyed. I look at all of their promo pictures and it's like looking at a car advertisement showing big colorful pictures of a brand new car with it's front bumper out of line and a headlight missing and I wonder what you have to be imbibing to think your customers are not going to notice this?
The exploration cruiser refit (venture) comes with the antimatter spread console. The retrofit in the c-store is what has the saucer separation console, and that ship costs more than the refit.
Were excited to announce that from now until 10AM PDT on Monday, March 10, 2014, we will be running a sale on a great selection of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) themed C-Store items, for 20% off their normal price!
Thanks! I chucked a bit of STF Dil into the Z converter and bought the TNG Romulan uniforms, they look really nice.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
They need to rebuild the bridge from scratch, take the Origen bridge for the base size then build it in there. Maybe a 4 pack, the Standard, Generations, Yesterdays Enterprise, and Future Imperfect.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. Players have been complaing about the offcenter issues with the standard Galaxy Dreadnaught skin since it was released. Crypitic's general response has been to "post error reports and screen shots" only to follow up with nothing. Well there it is, posted in an image taken by Cryptic and put up for all the world to see in blog on the website.
Yeah...that just screams lazy for Cryptic. I mean seriously.
That has been broken for how long now? Have they not had a ship modeler in that entire time? No? Then why in the world is that still broken?
Even in CO they would've fixed something that just stupid looking by now.
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The bridge is also GIGANTIC. I mean oh my god. It's like they outright doubled the size of the whole bridge. I would love for them to make an Interior in the same vein as the Constitution or Defiant where we get everything in much closer scale and detail and other rooms. I mean just imagine having your own Ten forward... But it'll never happen.
Uh huh.
Hey cool, I cannot wait until they put the hangar on the Assault Cruiser and Star Cruiser since the Dreadnought's "newly universalized ensign" lets you use both of their layouts now (instead of just the former)! That will be golly gee willikers dee dandy slick what with their having the better cruiser commands and all!
Smirk - it is not nice of you to tease us with thinley veiled teasing.
Worf does not like dress uniforms (though Riker says he should).
in all fairness to the people responsible for sizing things - eh I have nothing.
On the flipside I was invited onto those pack bridges - it seemed to have a lot of empty spaces boffs could be in and there was no picture of the galaxy on the back wall where the akira usually is.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
Damn, that's brilliant in a sad kind of way.
An interior pack plus fixing the Galaxy model. Even on the splash page for this ad on the main page you can see that the phaser lance is not set center with the saucer.
Sadly, I doubt we'll ever get a full TNG interior because Cryptic has stated they aren't doing those any longer because it doesn't bring in money. All the more reason to get tech in so players can use the Foundry to create to-canon interiors on their own. Though, I doubt that will happen, either.
If you look at that image, to the left, you will notice that the venture and gal-x are already purchased and available.
Maybe you could change that to "select TNG items", or something similar to "avoid confusion".
Thx.
But people already buy those items. That's why they're not on sale. :P
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
First time that's ever happened to me LOL.
I already had everything else for a while. So, yeah.
Thanks anyway.
I highly doubt it. Dev blog #54 clearly stated that if you own anything from the bundle you won't be able to purchase the bundle. It also said that the bridge was free if you purchase the bundle. Someone lied to you.
They didn't said that all TNG stuff will be included.
1) It would be nice if they could get around to updating to the new LCARs look on older bridges. I don't remember if Tacofangs said they would get to it eventually or not.
2) No ship interior, as far as I have seen, has an observation lounge. It has been something requested by the community for a long time.
3) None of the Galaxy bridges, free and c-store, are canon actually. The 'Order' bridge from the c-store Galaxy variant bridge pack is about the closest we have to being canon and it's still wrong, and why there is no ship plaque.
It's possible they expect sales to go up for the Gal-X and due to it's sudden popularity they expect players will want the AGT uniform to go with it. So the outfit isn't on sale so they can make a little extra money because they know players will buy it.
As for me, I already own every single outfit in the c-store (and everything else that is in this sale), and I just purchased the Gal-X at full price a couple days ago. So, whatever.
I would love to have her outfit as an off duty option.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
I'm actually considering buying the bundle, mainly so my doffing alt can fly around in style with the dread in venture skin. Is the skin supposed to work on the dread or is it just bugged atm??
EDIT: Just saw smirks answer here. Ignore my question.
What we have in game are variants of the Generations bridge. What we need is the original TNG Galaxy bridge, the smaller more cozy one without crew stations on the sides of the Captain & First Officer's chair. With that one (if they ever make it) we'd probably get a ship plaque and the observation lounge.
If we're lucky they might finally decide to release the Enterprise-D interior pack, that would be awesome!
I agree. I was just stating a fact that the bridges in game aren't an exact replica of what was seen in the TV show.
I too have been waiting patiently for an actually full Enterprise D interior. I want to see the "pool table" in engineering. This thing http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Galaxy_engineering1.jpg
But what I really wanted after all this time was for them to finally take a few minutes and line up the damn parts on the saucer so they don't so ridiculously cockeyed. I look at all of their promo pictures and it's like looking at a car advertisement showing big colorful pictures of a brand new car with it's front bumper out of line and a headlight missing and I wonder what you have to be imbibing to think your customers are not going to notice this?
I am VERY disappointed with the galaxy reboot, it still only has two tactical consoles and a lieutenant tactical. I would guess the majority of the people are playing STO is because of The Next Generation and the galaxy class reboot is still subpar. Yes, it is an excellent tank but it does so little damage it is almost unplayable. I had two friends that stopped playing the game for this reason alone.
Please, consider a tactical reboot for the Galaxy Class.
Regards,
John
Sorry, John. Cryptic hasn't listened to us who've been here since Beta they're not going to listen to a guy with one post to his name.
I'm interested, but no deal until you guys aknowledge AND fix the elephant in the room.
The T5 Galaxy Classes (c-store & fleet; including the latest F.GalX) require a tweaking in the Boff seating before I consider spending time & money in getting & outfitting any of them.
Fleet Amabssador is a prime example to look at a ship that far from being an escort but still offers the option for diverse builds. Besides being iconic (far less than the galaxy, but still is) it is a ship to have fun with.
Some or a lot my disagree but IMO sacrificing the hanger for a good boff setup would lead to a better ship overall. And with better I mean more or less on equal footing with current line of ship and relativly future save (if more universal boffs seats are given) regarding possible changes to Boff skills. Boff skills do get swapped & tweaked, it already happend. And all of the sudden you have entire stock line of ships "out of sync" because of a rigid boff seating.
go whinge in a corner.
and fyi im just observing this galaxy thing and see where it goes.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
The exploration cruiser refit (venture) comes with the antimatter spread console. The retrofit in the c-store is what has the saucer separation console, and that ship costs more than the refit.
Thanks! I chucked a bit of STF Dil into the Z converter and bought the TNG Romulan uniforms, they look really nice.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Yeah...that just screams lazy for Cryptic. I mean seriously.
That has been broken for how long now? Have they not had a ship modeler in that entire time? No? Then why in the world is that still broken?
Even in CO they would've fixed something that just stupid looking by now.
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