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what does ship upgrading get?

heffernan3heffernan3 Member Posts: 60 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hello, i think about buying a ship frpm the Exchange, can anyone who owns it tell me what upgrading THIS from T5 to T5u gets me?

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Undine_Nicor_Bio-Warship
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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    It gets you more hull HP and an extra console slot immediately, and as you use the ship over time the hull will scale up more to your level and four tiers of passive traits will be unlocked. And on the Nicor, the upgrade is free, so there's no reason not to do it.

    Nicor gets the destroyer/warship passive traits from ship mastery, which are all the best damage-centric ones, too. The console it gets is a fourth sci console.
  • heffernan3heffernan3 Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    futurepastnow wrote: »
    It gets you more hull HP and an extra console slot immediately, and as you use the ship over time the hull will scale up more to your level and four tiers of passive traits will be unlocked. And on the Nicor, the upgrade is free, so there's no reason not to do it.

    Nicor gets the destroyer/warship passive traits from ship mastery, which are all the best damage-centric ones, too. The console it gets is a fourth sci console.

    no 6th Tactic console? is there even any ship with a 6th tac?
  • cbrjwrrcbrjwrr Member Posts: 2,782 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    heffernan3 wrote: »
    no 6th Tactic console? is there even any ship with a 6th tac?

    No, no ship has 6 Tac consoles.
  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    This has no doubt been asked, but since it's related is there a difference between upgrading a standard T5 and a fleet T5?

    I was under the impression that only a fleet T5U got the extra console slot.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    coupaholic wrote: »
    This has no doubt been asked, but since it's related is there a difference between upgrading a standard T5 and a fleet T5?

    I was under the impression that only a fleet T5U got the extra console slot.

    The difference is that the upgrade process adds the same things to both normal and fleet ships, but fleet ships are already better to begin with.
  • heffernan3heffernan3 Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    The difference is that the upgrade process adds the same things to both normal and fleet ships, but fleet ships are already better to begin with.

    i wonder if T5u lockbox ships can even compare themself to T6 ships? like if T6 ships are way better or just slightly?
  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    heffernan3 wrote: »
    i wonder if T5u lockbox ships can even compare themself to T6 ships? like if T6 ships are way better or just slightly?

    I guess the best bet would be to directly compare the stats on the wiki.

    Also, this may help. It's the upgrade list for all the ships. It shows you what console slot and passives you receive.

    EDIT

    I have my eye on upgrading the Varanus, but if I understand correctly it would be a good idea to get the fleet version first and upgrade that. I'd get higher base stats and an extra tac console from the fleet upgrade, then the extra sci console and the passives from the T5U upgrade.

    This stuff is getting confusing...I've not even touched the gear upgrade side of things yet!
  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    heffernan3 wrote: »
    i wonder if T5u lockbox ships can even compare themself to T6 ships? like if T6 ships are way better or just slightly?

    t-5u lockbox has 1 more console than c-store t6, the same consoles as t6 lockbox, it does however lose a boff power compared to both t6 c-store and lockbox
  • birzarkbirzark Member Posts: 634 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    if you upgrade a non fleet ship and later get the fleet version you can upgrade that for free. Also upgrades are account bound so any character using that ship if upgraded once will get you fleet and standard version for free across accounts.
  • buddha1369buddha1369 Member Posts: 386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    heffernan3 wrote: »
    i wonder if T5u lockbox ships can even compare themself to T6 ships? like if T6 ships are way better or just slightly?

    Yes and no. There is no doubt T6 Box ships are better but the difference comes down to one BOFF power, saying they can't compare is flat wrong. I have already been accused of cheating twice for beating a pair of Benthans with an "obsolete" T5-U Narcine and a Wells.
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