I have to agree with this. As of late, the ship designs have gotten worse and worse. I'd like to see more designs like the Venture, Odyssey and Dauntless. Those look like futuristic Starfleet vessels. The Arbiter, Resolute and Scryer (there are many more, but I'll stop myself there) do not.
To be fair the Arbiter is basically a warship so its not supposed to be focused on aesthetics, it supposed to be focused on killing Heralds.
Does it offer more locations for its Adv. Transwarp Computer? On the looks.... I gave up on the looks for Fed ships many moons ago. BUt if they wanted this ship to sell like hot cakes, they should have made the console like the original Transwarp Console and had the locations tied to it and not the ship and add the DQ to it as well. I would have bought it for that alone because it would make DoFFing so much more convenient.
there are two new „designs” that i HATE , Resolute class , and Scryer , and im forced to live with Scryer since is the best sci ship T6. At least on Resolute you can use the old skin , or mix them , but Scryer ... everything you do is ugly.
Gave it a C because:
*I like the new skin but it's not very excelsior-esc
*Stat wise it's basically the T5
*Command is underwhelming in space
*Still has an ens eng
It's not a bad ship, because the original isn't a bad ship but the T5 is 2k zen, the T6 is 3k and yet they're practically the same ship.
After tooling around with the new Excelsior for a few days I've found that everything good about the T5 Excelsior was ported over to this ship. The new skin is not my cup of tea, except the new neck, which kitbashes well onto the original Excelsior model. I'm underwhelmed by the Command Spec though. I already have the Command Cruisers and the Andromeda, so this ship does nothing that any of the others cannot do, and do better. A pilot spec seat, even if only at the Lieutenant level, would have made me answer with something much higher than C. As it is, I was underwhelemed by this ship.
- It's new looks are... questionable to put it mildly.
- The new trait is... well... USELESS!
- The console is a bit... come on why would I buy a ship for a console these days? So many good ones already out there.
- 3000 ZEN for a ship that I ALREADY bought as a T3 and T5 version? How about a bloody discount for those of us that already spent a healthy amount of money on your old and now USELESS T5 ships then Cryptic? Haven't spent a dime since I came back into STO and honestly I don't see ANY reason at all to buy new ships when my lockbox ships are a lot better (Which I bought for ingame ECs and dilithium).
Come up with something better both in the looks department and traits and we'd have a deal Cryptic. Also lower the prizes of those ships, 3000 ZEN is just a random scam fest now...
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To be fair the Arbiter is basically a warship so its not supposed to be focused on aesthetics, it supposed to be focused on killing Heralds.
Original STO beta tester.
*I like the new skin but it's not very excelsior-esc
*Stat wise it's basically the T5
*Command is underwhelming in space
*Still has an ens eng
It's not a bad ship, because the original isn't a bad ship but the T5 is 2k zen, the T6 is 3k and yet they're practically the same ship.
- It's new looks are... questionable to put it mildly.
- The new trait is... well... USELESS!
- The console is a bit... come on why would I buy a ship for a console these days? So many good ones already out there.
- 3000 ZEN for a ship that I ALREADY bought as a T3 and T5 version? How about a bloody discount for those of us that already spent a healthy amount of money on your old and now USELESS T5 ships then Cryptic? Haven't spent a dime since I came back into STO and honestly I don't see ANY reason at all to buy new ships when my lockbox ships are a lot better (Which I bought for ingame ECs and dilithium).
Come up with something better both in the looks department and traits and we'd have a deal Cryptic. Also lower the prizes of those ships, 3000 ZEN is just a random scam fest now...