T6 Fleet Speculation

birzark

I have a few thoughts on why we haven't seen anything about it, I'm curious to know what others think about it.

I would imagine a new fleet holding for the new ships, it would seem probable that they would do this to access the fleet variants.

Fleet ships don't normally come with consoles as the incentive to still buy the zstore version. (which may or may not be worth it but makes sense)
However in T6 scenario if you got the fleet version you wouldn't gain the console but what about the trait? If the trait doesn't come on the fleet version I'm not even sure anyone would even bother getting it if they don't have they Zstore version already. If it does come with the trait what would be the point of getting the Zstore version, the trait is more valuable than the console. Would they put in a lesser version of the star ship trait if you only own the fleet version vs owning both?

Over all if you own the T6 ships now, Fleet versions are going to be great upgrades but I'm curious for those who just buy the fleet version strait. i have no idea how that is going to be handled, thoughts?

sqwished

I agree with you the possibility of either a new holding or an update to an existing one. As for when we'll see that or the fleet tier 6 ships, depends on how much money cryptic can pry out of the pockets of the player base. The only advantage of buying a fleet version over its c store counterpart, consoles aside is the increased hull and the additional console slot.

Since we're limited to a particular number of consoles of a particular category, then the minor hull strength increase won't be enough in its own right to get people to buy them. Cryptic will have considered this, and if not then they should be. I'd hazard a guess at they're trying to make these ships more enticing to us hence why they've not released any further details on them yet. So two possibilities are either some form of new gimmick that we've not seen before or something that has the potential of boosting something like dps output either for the owner or team, similar to the abilities of the new command cruisers.