This has been something many fans have asked for, though this class should have been retired by now, the Excelsior class is getting a fancy new ship. Does the design look as you expected? Will you be happy with Cryptic's recent design choices that have made many original ships look significantly worse than the original or will you just put on the old skin? I am curious, discuss.
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You can use the old costume... I for one appreciate their artwork but you don't have to use it so don't complain.
Based on their recent offerings, its a pretty good bet that the classic Excelsior parts will be available to it. If I got one I'd probably go classic except for the more modern nacelles myself. Did that with my old T2 Connie by slapping Excalibur Nacelles on her. Looked pretty good too.
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I believe Trendy posted on Twitter through the STO Account that you dont have to buy the older versions to use the model.
Now I can understand if you walked into this game a few months ago and wanted to play a top tier AHC you might be disappointed to find there were no Tier 6 Excelsiors. But even at this point T5.U is still some of the best ships in the game meaning you could buy the Excelsior and some upgrade tokens and dish out a lot of pain with it. So the argument that youre posing has no weight.
Intrepid
Galaxy
Excelsior (very soon)
Negh'Var
D'Deridex
Mogai
Canon ship designs have always been popular in Star Trek fandom. They're "The Other Stars" of the franchise. Frankly, I'm still surprised that people around here are caught off guard when a lower tiered canon ship makes its way into T6.
Edit: Oh, and kudos to "The Source" again for seeing this stuff before it officially hits. You guys are on the money almost every time
Right out of the blog post:
"The Resolute Class Advanced Heavy Cruiser can use all costume parts from any existing Advanced Heavy Cruiser regardless if you own the Advanced Heavy Cruiser or the Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit."
I'm not a fan of most of the new T6 ship skins - most od them look pretty bad to me, but then again I'm getting an Excelsior to command an iconic Excelsior, not some new random design.
Personally I'll be using the classic skin of Sulu's Excelsior, the first one of her class, just as I did until now.
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If I said "Ice will not melt, regardless if it is 32° F or 0° C" my statement would be true. If I said "Ice will not melt, regardless if it is 32° F or 0° C or not" my statement would be false. The "or not" releases the statement (Ice will not melt) from the stated conditions, so if it were 100°, according to the sentence, ice would not melt. The "or not" is definitely not there in the blog, still making the usability of the skins dependant on one of the two stated conditions.
So, the way I read the blog, the new ship can use the old skins if you have either of the old ships. If you can use them or not if you don't have them is ambiguous.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
picked up the (T3) version.
by PWE/Cryptic. The game needs more fools like me. And loving every moment in game.
BCW.
my only complaint is I cant get that instead of the t6 galaxy when I buy the cross faction bundle to get my t6 mogai
Slapping an extra nacelle on doesn't really work and IMO would be the lazy approach to ship design. They already said you'd be able to use the classic parts so you can mix and match if you want or just use the classic parts.
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QFT...unfortunately, there has been a longstanding tradition at Cryptic of Excelsior > Sovereign. I doubt we'll be seeing a T6 Sovereign before sometime well into 2016...
Frankly, to me, with the exception of the Romulan Command Cruisers, the Mat'ha Raptor and the Andromeda Class, all T6 designs look more or less like TRIBBLE. The only thing that redeems the T6 so far for me is their ability to use the iconic or T5 skins. What the hell happened to the guy that designed the Tempest Class? And what happened to their Klingon design team that created the most awesome ships in the past, all after the Mat'Ha look like plastic toys for toddlers.
On those terms, I don't even care what the T6 skin looks like - I just want the classic TMP era Excelsior that Sulu had and that's why I'll eventually getting this ship. Plus, saucer >>> chevron any time of the year.
Keyword: "regardless". Look it up in a translator.
Pretty much. The Tempest design was a great adaptation of the patrol escort, clearly a patrol escort, clearly starfleet but at the same time very distinctive in it's own way. The T6 Intel ships managed to be distinctive and look fairly functional for the most part, I'll give them that and the Iconic cruisers (along with the T6 Intrepid) look the part, in fact they look like pretty logical evolutions of the starting design.
The Excel... Yeah... This doesn't say Excel. The more I look at it, the more it looks like the child of the Exeter and the Rhode Island as birthed by the Oddy. I like the original Excel, it is the one I fell in love with way back when but when they presented the Lakota refit as a more modern Excel, to me it was perfection. Had they done something with that rather than adapting a cmd battlecruiser slightly and reselling it as an Excel, I'd have been happy.
The are far more deserving ships of Tier 6 than Geko's favourite.
Sovereign
Akria
Steamrunner
Sabre
Prometheus
Nebula (This one needs an update)
Nova
Defiant
Norway
New Orleans (This ship model needs to be added to the game even if its at lower levels)
All these ships are newer designs than the Excelsior and still likely to be in operation and production as of 2410. The Excelsior is very likely been retired by this stage, or no longer in production or relegated as she was seen to be a Courier or Ferry for dignatries in TNG.
She still has a very capable Fleet T5u version available, time to let the old girl gracefully go into retirement.
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and before someone jumps on it, yes an argument can be made for the T'varo being "new" now and the Ent era versions being Temporal Cold War related.
Enterprise was nothing more than a very long holo-novel, so anything other than Riker and Troy talking outside the holodeck on the Ent-D can not be taken as cannon as all the stuff in Enterprise never happened lol
At very least, it is a questionable sentence structure, many sources saying that "regardless if" isn't even proper English, so even if English want my primary language, if a translator are needed, as you suggest, it'd likely spit out garbage, as it frequently does with properly constructed sentences.
Look it up in an English Grammar book.
For that matter, a year after the Delta Rising Pack and we still have inequity in that, with the Feds getting 5 or 6 ships out of it and KDF and RRF getting two each ...