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Tribbles in Ecstasy Take 176: A New Horizon

Tribbles in Ecstasy Take 176: 'A New Horizon' has warped on to Holosuite Media. Download and stream from: http://bit.ly/1JpwlE5

This week Captain MidNite Shadow leads the crew of the USS Tribble in discussions about all the news out of Star Trek Online and general Star Trek news.

In this week's episode the Tribbles crew discuss:
* The new Fleet Armada system,
* new Featured Episode,
* new ships,
* Lock boxes,
* the new Role Playing Blog,
* STO Release Notes,
* Star Trek: Captain Pike,
* Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II,
* Star Trek: Anthology,
* Star Trek: Axanar,
* Star Trek Beyond,
* NASA getting to Pluto,
* and more!

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  • alex1geralex1ger Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    Hello again guys.

    First off a little nitpick: Woody kept saying Armitage class when you were talking about the T6 Excelsior. It's called the Resolute class. The Armitage is the T5(U) Heavy Escort Carrier (Akira-style). It actually threw me off a little when I first listened to the podcast, because I know what kind of ship the Armitage is. Would have been great if one of you had caught it live. Oh well, no harm done, just a nitpick.

    To the T6 Excelsior...
    An Admiral spending a lot of resources on keeping his favorite oldtimer up-to-date and running is one (very questionable...) thing, but all those Mirandas we saw getting blown to pieces in the Dominion war? Obviously they were so good, that they were just kept around instead of being recycled/scrapped -.-
    So T6 Miranda next, eh? Of course having full access to the old skins, because "*tribble purr* it! That's why!"

    Yeah, I said Sunseahl sometimes gets a little ranty and now I go and do it myself. You get a free pass on your next rant. Deal? ;)
    And now to end this week's feedback from me...

    What exactly was the point of your Fleet T5U/T6 Excelsior stat comparison? I mean, you specifically called Cryptic out on this one without mentioning the previous instances.

    I'd like to remind you of...
    - the T6 iconic ships
    - the T6 Intrepid/Pathfinder
    - the T6 "Battlecruisers"
    - the T6 1000 day veteran ships

    The main differences between the respective Fleet T5U and Fleet T6 versions of the aforementioned ships are the following (at level 60):
    +1 BOff Power
    1 seat gets changed to a hybrid (profession/specialization) seat

    No, seriously. I double checked it.
    Please, check it yourselves and correct me if I missed something important. I used starfish1's ship charts for this little comparison. (Maybe he messed up some stats?)
    There was a difference in hull HP between the Fleet T5U Galaxy and the Fleet T6 Andromeda, which might be a mistake and a turn rate difference between the Fleet T5U D'Deridex and the Fleet T6 D'Khellra. Oh. And the pathfinder got its Ensign Sci upgraded (the already mentioned +1 BOff Power) to a Lt. Uni.

    So why exactly did you call them out this time around? It's not like that is a new shady tactic. It has happened with every "T6-ified" ship until now. Am I missing something? (I'm not kidding, I'm genuinely curious.)
  • sunseahlsunseahl Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    This was "Woody's Ship" ... The rant was specifically because this was a ship he would have wanted so of course he did his research on it... If I had wanted any of the other ships i would have done my research too.

    As for my rants I've always had these rants for 2 reasons.

    1. Irony, that Cryptic can claim a thing is "silly" while talking about having episodes of even more silly things.
    2. Wanting STO to be "Star Trek" and pointing out what I feel is mismanagement, problems or poor writing decisions(and yes that's a hint for what's coming up Friday)

    I really don't mind that people say that I "rant too much." I know I rant too much but I do so because nobody ever seems to do it and that's the discussion that needs to happen, rant or not.​​
    Member of the "Disenchanted"
    We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
  • alex1geralex1ger Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    @ sunseahl :
    I see. Well, just to be clear, when I say that you get a little too ranty for my taste, that's just personal preference. My comment last week... uhm... how to put it... you need a certain dynamic within a podcast. Almost every listener will have his/her personal favorite podcaster. Almost nobody will like every podcaster the same. And even then, almost nobody would listen to a podcast with 5 MidNites oder 5 sunseahls or 5 Woodys. Most people will want the podcasters to play off each other. To have (and give) different opinions/points of view. And that's great. That's IDIC. That's why I'm here.
    Although there will probably be people trying to challenge me to "Ushaan to the death!" for calling you a little too ranty or something like that.

    "Feedback":
    And to the "T6-ified" ships, maybe that is something you could/should talk about. I mean, you seemed genuinely disappointed by the amount of (supposed) copy paste of stats. But as you can see, it's the rule rather than the exception.
    How big should the difference be? What would you want to see?
  • sunseahlsunseahl Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    And /that/ answer is what i'll save for friday. LiJf02C.png​​
    Member of the "Disenchanted"
    We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
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