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"We are working on a LOT of ships for the future Expansion" (Al Rivera)
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That is a quote(well condensed) from Al Rivera's last STOked radio interview.
So what can this mean for expansion 2??
Does it mean a brand new faction(even though they said no new faction)?
Are they updating all the ships to T6 level?
There are lots of interesting comments made by him:
'why we are not doing any current ships - because we are working on all these ships for the expansion'
'We have so many ships to work on for the expansion, we would have to do updates twice'
http://youtu.be/dYsw_GYP8Ok?t=1h23m12s
So will we get the Level 60 cap increase, ship upgrades, and a new Faction for Expansion 2?
Cardassian Faction? How about a liberated Borg Faction?
"A lotttttt of ships" - So Mr Rivera??? What exactly does that mean? Any comments?
So what can this mean for expansion 2??
Does it mean a brand new faction(even though they said no new faction)?
Are they updating all the ships to T6 level?
There are lots of interesting comments made by him:
'why we are not doing any current ships - because we are working on all these ships for the expansion'
'We have so many ships to work on for the expansion, we would have to do updates twice'
http://youtu.be/dYsw_GYP8Ok?t=1h23m12s
So will we get the Level 60 cap increase, ship upgrades, and a new Faction for Expansion 2?
Cardassian Faction? How about a liberated Borg Faction?
"A lotttttt of ships" - So Mr Rivera??? What exactly does that mean? Any comments?
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As for T6 ships, I say no... it's possible, but a ton of people on here say it won't happen (plus, I believe the T6 ship idea was shot down by the devs, at one point).
So, what ships will be available? My guesses:
Kazon ships (my hope for KDFers... fighter, cruiser, shuttle... maybe just a lock box)
Krenim ships (my bet for the next lock box!)
Vidian ships (rolled into Rom faction?)
Dauntless-class
Constellation-class
Admiral Janeway's shuttle
remastered Vesta
remastered Intrepid
remastered Nebula
remastered Negh'Var
And, my hope is that all factions will each get a few new 2410 ships. The Roms want a carrier, so that would make sense.
Makes sense. Maybe he was also referring to a LOT of new NPC ships?
He also specifically mentioned a 5/2 Kumari-like Raptor for KDF is coming, at long last.
I've, uh, learned never to believe him when it comes to KDF ships. Everything else he says - whether he says it is coming or it is not coming - ends up in the game...but the KDF ships...meh, just doesn't happen.
That's true - he does refer to using a lot of the existing player ship code - which would not be used for NPC ships.
Very interesting.
:cool:
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Would take me longer than to the end of the year to make 5m EC since S9.5 though...
Edit: This post don't seem too "I have a sandwich so you can't be starving", does it?
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The KDF has that Negh'var refit (VoD'Legh?) they been talking about for nearly a year.
The Dauntless surely will have to appear given it's connection to the Delta Quadrant.
Romulans likely get a new ship to balance the equation.
We got a ton of Delta Quadrant species in lockboxes. The Vaadaur fighters will go into the Lobi store.
Yeah, they made it clear that they knew the playerbase would go into meltdown knowing that their Tier 5 ships would suddenly be outdated. Lockbox ships, Fleet Ships, Lobi ships, C-store ships.......
But given Gekos recent snubery, I got a bad feeling ...........
Nah, doesn't seem that way.
I mainly earned EC from trashing Deflectors/Shields/Cores/Engines. Missions that would get me 100-500k now don't even get me 20-30k...meh.
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[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Weapons Battery for 80 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Tetryon Beam Array Mk XI for 6,788 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Dual Phaser Beam Bank Mk XI for 6,788 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Console - Engineering - Ablative Hull Armor Mk XI for 1,989 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Engine Battery for 80 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Transphasic Mine Launcher Mk XI [CrtH] for 9,028 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Critical Components for 3,200 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Tricobalt Mine Launcher Mk XI for 6,788 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Dual Disruptor Beam Bank Mk XI for 6,788 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Auxiliary Battery for 80 Energy Credits
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Console - Engineering - Injector Assembly Mk XI for 2,939 Energy Credits
I just happened to be doing a trash from a mission: 51336 EC
I would have made more from having just 2-3 Deflector/Shield/Core/Engine drop.
edit: Here, I just got a Deflector drop while doing the Dyson daily in the Allied Zone.
[System] [NumericReceived] You sold Graviton Deflector Array MK XI [InC] for 9,028 Energy Credits
It's trash price was cut more than in half...a Mk XI Green would have been ~30k.
you not the only one.. I have quite a few ships. I want some thing to do with them. Not more of them.
Dude, green quality was NEVER that much. You get at most 30k from a purple quality deflector, but not a green. The trash price is 1/2 of wat the "sell" price is
*Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us.
*Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
Yeah, sell price on a Mk XI Green was 66.5k.
Mk XI Common 50k
Mk XI Uncommon 66.5k
Mk XI Rare 83k
Mk XI Very Rare 100k
Where you'd get 1/2 of that.
Yeah...if it's anything Romulan or Klingon I wont hold my breath till there is a blog about it on the front page lol.
Who knows maybe these new ships will be long range vessels...a.k.a science vessels? Which would be a good time to bring in the secondary deflectors...pipe dream I know :P
Virus - If you want 10, 20, 30 million EC - just let me know.:)
Heh, it was about the bet with orange and Geko talking about KDF ships. :P
Cause how long ago did he mention certain KDF ships...and...we're still waiting on them?
Nah, I was fine living comfortably poor before...going to try out this uncomfortably poor thing for a bit.
Fleet Guramba for how long?
Sure, sure - the Fleet Kar'Fi came along...only cause they wanted to give the Feds the Fleet Atrox and Roms the Fleet Ar'kif.
As long as somebody else needs a ship, the KDF might - maybe - possibly - perchance get a ship too...
edit: Either way, it's a win for me. He actually comes through - awesome. He does the same ol' same ol'...I get to keep complaining. Obviously I'd rather finally have a freakin' ZEN Raptor...but meh...it's been how long now?
That they've basically got to "recreate" all the current ships in the new branch...so they're technically working on a lot of ships without having to work on a single new ship.
Course, it begs the question of why they had to break the data going from 40 to 45, eh? What's going to be different about our ships with 45...hrmmm...
This is the reason I suggested an upgrade to T6 - So there will be new T6 ships - but all the existing ships are being worked on to bring them up a level to.
There there are the two ships for the lockbox. Maybe three if they add in a shuttle for the lobi store.
And finally, there are is the ship for the winter event, which I am sure they will count however they can to boost the ship count of currently working on.
Of course, I could be giving them too much credit and they are just working on adding in secondary deflectors to the science ships and they are counting those as "new."
Oh and Virus, tips on making EC.
1. If in fleet, run the fleet EC doff mission. Its over 100K on a crit, if I remember right.
2. Get dil, change to zen, get keys, sell keys. Probably the fastest way to get a lot of EC.
3. If you don't mind Bing seeing your searches, sign up for Bing rewards. Once you get to gold level (which doesn't take long, maybe about a month or two max) you can get two to three Rixty $5 game cards a month, and you can still swap those in for zen. Then zen to keys to EC, there's about 28 mil a month, easy. Not a massive amount, but its something. I do this, and haven't had a problem yet.
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If they broken the linkage, they'd have to recreate not just the T5 boats - but all the boats, T1-T5...even smallcraft. Might even have to do all the NPC boats. Without knowing why, any speculation about any sort of T6 thing would be pretty out there, eh?
Course, could be something along the lines of an "Upgrade" slot that T5 ships get that you can drop in, eh? All sorts of time to speculate on this up through X2, hrmm....
I'll take a sixth tactical console, thanks.
:rolleyes:
Give us the ability to have an "Away Team" consisting of our ships in certain areas? Maybe.