Request: using the Star Cruiser costume on the Arbiter class

risian4

I understand if this would be too much work for/time to spend on one specific ship, especially since the ship is already in the game and therefore Cryptic wouldn't earn much on it, but one can always try...

I'd love to be able to use the Star Cruiser skin / costume on my Arbiter class ship since it's my favorite design. It already has access to the saucer section, I think it would be amazing if the ship got access to all other parts of the Star Cruiser as well.

I don't even care if I have to unlock the Star Cruiser on each character separately or spend some Zen on the costume unlock just... just make it so, pwease? .

mustrumridcully0

I would like to see a Tier 6 Star Cruiser, but mechanically, the Arbiter really doesn't seem to be a logical evolution for the Star Cruiser.
Su
The Star Cruiser was the science-heavy of the original endgame cruisers, not a battle cruiser.

warmaker001b

mustrumridcully0 wrote: »

I would like to see a Tier 6 Star Cruiser, but mechanically, the Arbiter really doesn't seem to be a logical evolution for the Star Cruiser.
Su
The Star Cruiser was the science-heavy of the original endgame cruisers, not a battle cruiser.

My "take on Cryptic's take" on a T6 Star Cruiser? Practically the same stats as the Fleet T5U version. But with the following changes:

LtCmdr ENG becomes a Hybrid Speciliazation Station
Lt SCI becomes LtCmdr SCI Station
Ens SCI becomes Universal

Gets a Tier 5 Starship Mastery Trait.

Naturally gets some new Console but no Set Synergy because there was never any lower tiered C-Store Star Cruiser. Just like a lot of KDF ships

I can see this happening, really. But among T6 Fed Cruisers alone, a T6 Star Cruiser just will not shine above the already existing ones with LtCmdr SCI. The Guardian has Intel access as well as LtCmdr TAC & SCI stations. The SCI Command FDC is less ENG heavy but can be tweaked to do a bit more different things. However it lacks the Weapon System Efficiency Cruiser Command while the Star Cruiser has the full suite of commands.

A T6 Star Cruiser would have limited Tactical ability due to the BOFF and Console layout. Even if the ship got improved from Lt TAC to LtCmdr TAC (and foregoing BOFF station support for the 4 SCI Consoles which it will have), it's still straddled with 2 TAC Consoles.