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Would like a new Excelsior Skin!
jdalton1
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I currently fly the Fleet Excelsior one of my main characters and I love it. However, I'd like to see a new design that would be a skin in the C-Store. I'd love it if it would be similar to the Exeter (fantastic design). What are anyone else's thoughts on this?
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Although i'm not a big fan of the Excelsior design, there is one that would make me a Excelsior worshipper.
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(the lower ship, of course.)
NO NO NO NONO nonono.
But I do know of a sovereign skin style for the Excelsior. ANd i bet the skin didn't sell for they were too expensive
It would give a certain elegance to the ancient looking Excelsior, while keeping its general proportions. ("small" saucer, long nacelles and so on. just nicer to look at IMO)
I mean it's not like the deformed JJ Constitution. *yuk*
Do you have any pictures of it?
I can't post attachments here for I saw it long ago and saved it. but do a search on Excelsior class images and you'll see some.
And I WAnt NOTHING related to JJwreck on this game.
It was a fan made ship.
Just ignore the "JJ trek" writing, i do the same.
In fact there are a lot of gorgeous looking "JJ trek" themed fanmade ships out there and most look far better than actual JJ trek ships. (especially 24/25 century ships). I would love if cryptics designers would create some of them for STO (as alternative ship skins for existing ships).
I think Cryptic should create more different looking ship variants for all ships in general.
I hate the tongue - looking saucers they made all the time. What about wide (Nebula/Galaxy like) and/or triangular (prometheus/Nova like) shaped saucers?
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cmdrscarlet posted another picture of the same ship.
I just love that design!, i would pay 5000 ZEN for it right now, just to be able to use it on my Excel. (which corrodes in drydock for years by now)
I hope cmdrscarlet is ok if i repost it here.
some are sovereign based. so imagine a sovreign sized and shaped as a Excelsior.
You mean a Sovereign having much more bulky nacelles, angular pylons and a fat engineering hull plus a really fat neck?:eek:
***shudder***
...please not...
You mean the Fleet Sovereign?
The fleet Sovereign (Imperial) doesn't have what i would call a "fat" engineering hull nor a "fat" neck. It looks more like a dinosaur carcass.
Maybe THIS comes closer to what admiralq1732 meant.
That model is ok too, but nothing that knocks my socks off.
(it lacks a bit of originality, but it's not bad)
I think I would like a thinner profile for the Excel, I quite like the two hull sections, if the neck would brought forward such that it flows from the join with the saucer all the way down the ship and a set of old style nacelles adapted to fit the slimmer profile, I think I could live with, the JJ style nacelles just don't fit, one of the nice features about the original Excel is her straight lines, you could almost rest a spirit level on the saucer and the nacelles and it would be practically flat. compared to those JJ nacelles that stick out.
This coming from someone who adores the Excel and despises JJ 'trek'.
Although a new skin would be neat ... I'm ok without it. The JJ-verse one is actually elegant, which is what the excelsior was when it was introduced.
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This one really raises the level of bad, lol.
I mean it's just the ships shape that would be introduced in that case, there is no reference to JJ verse needed.
As much as we know it could easily be a modernization or a Excelsior-inspired ship, similar to the Stargazer class (which is inspired by the Constellation) in STO.
I'd really like to know what the devs think about that ship.
Yep, even if they make an update with a similar shape (hopefully similar to the Exeter, since that ship is beautiful), I'd still buy it.
As well being that pretty much a lot of these federation ships and most of the KDF ones were done prior to these artists being at Cryptic a lot of them like this need another pass.
Another cool idea just to throw it out there is if they did something similar to what the military's plan was with the F-35 with the counter command in this game make some variations of the more popular ships. For example like the ST:Renegades project pretty much has a federation ship that is basically a promethius/vor'cha combination look. Then they could have a counter command skin and then fed, kdf, or romulan specific materials. Would be another way to get new stuff into the KDF and romulans as well as federation along those lines. Overall though I love their redone D7 I would have a heart attack if we got that one in game rofl.
*** ducks and runs away***
In what way?
Personally i wouldn't care if some other ship has (almost) the same BOFF layout.
I like to fly ships because of their looks/history/meaning in trek. If it's got a good BOFF layout then, so much the better!
But i wouldn't fly a ship soley because of it's BOFF layout. I'm sure my point of view may be a bit antique nowadays (everyone just want's to fly a Dreadnought/Escort/Carrier). Maybe it's somekind of RP in my mind.
So maybe I'm being selfish to not want a Uni BOff, but I like that I'm part of a handful of players (from my point of view) who will fly the ship as is.
Prior to the unlinking of the team abilities, I would have supported a uni ensign boff on the fleet variant, other ships saw a similar update and it would have been a small but meaningfull adaptation, personally I wouldnt have minded a tac or sci ens there since all I could do with that station was throw eng. team in the spot and use it when the oppourtunity presented itself(few and far between)
now without the imposed link cooldowns? I can't see any reason for it, the visuals of the ship are second to none and the boff seating is as good as it's going to get without having to compromise what the ship really is
The Fleet Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit Refit? :P
Do you hate it simply because there are no uni slots? Even with locked seating, for a tactical cruiser the Excelsior's setup is fantastic IMHO. The only issue was the previously-useless engineering ensign which has since been fixed.
So it is certainly not about lacking a universal slot. For this ship I would not want that anyway. It's seating may actually be perfect for the ship, but it's not perfect to me.
Having said that, if the ship I fly was based on BOff seating then I would not be flying the Excelsior. But I fly it for it's looks and no other ship in the fleet looks as good to me - I'll never get bored looking at the Excelsior. So I adapt my game to it and I'm okay with that
Soooo back on topic, A new skin to the Excelsior is not really needed. Yet, I do think the blue of the nacelles could be adapted to the engines, like every other ship in the fleet.