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Would you like to see another ship design contest?

omegasprimeomegasprime Member Posts: 289 Arc User
edited September 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
For those of you who came to the game after Enterprise F was introduced. It was designed by a member of our community as part of a contest to design the new Enterprise.

I an mot saying that the contest has to be about the Enterprise, but just a new design created my a community member to be in the game.

I think this should be as part of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek.
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Would you like to see another ship design contest? 87 votes

Yes, this would be awesome!
63% 55 votes
No, not interest
32% 28 votes
Undecided
4% 4 votes
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    As a designer, I would love it. But they made it clear after the DTNE Contest that they won't be doing another ship contest. Because there was so much that went wrong.
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    From my point of view (not a designer), it could be a lot of fun seeing the mess.

    Well at least I heard that last time it was a mess. Though I love the Odyssey class.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    I'd rather it be a contest to design a crazy-looking alien/minor race ship though and NOT a main faction ship.

    Designing a Kzinti ship? sure... sounds good.
    Betazoid? awesome.
    Species 3982? sure why not? :p
    Nakuhl even? enh we never saw their ships either.

    But as Azurian said the idea was good, but people(read: the players) only followed as much of the rules as they had to.... So it went south, and the idea sank. The devs MIGHT do another, or they might not, probably not.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,923 Arc User
    So they learn from the mistakes and carry on, cause let's face it, of the non- canon ships the oddly is the best looking
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    I think it would be nice to see one, but like the others said. I'm sure it will turn into a mess. Usually contests like these always end up in a mess.
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    Cause let's face it, of the non- canon ships the oddly is the best looking

    To the eye of the beholder. To me the Oddy is the worse looking one. The Command Cruisers looks the best.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,284 Arc User
    Thanks for including "undecided". However, I like this one as is hG7UctY.png​​
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  • sovereign47sovereign47 Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    Yes, I would love to be able to design mine own ship for STO. It doesn't have to be Federation flagship. It could be anything at all, like some new Federation class or some Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian ship...
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    omegasprime wrote: »
    For those of you who came to the game after Enterprise F was introduced. It was designed by a member of our community as part of a contest to design the new Enterprise.

    I an mot saying that the contest has to be about the Enterprise, but just a new design created my a community member to be in the game.

    I think this should be as part of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek.

    You must not have been around for the "Design the Next Enterprise" contest. There were multiple accusations of discrimination by Cryptic for making the contest US-only (one of the fan-favorite designs was from a Canadian), not to mention plagiarism (both real and imagined), and then the fan-picked winner was vetoed by CBS in favor of the Odyssey-class, a design that didn't even make the top 20.

    Cryptic made it very clear it's never happening again.
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  • omegasprimeomegasprime Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    I hope the do one for each faction​​
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  • tm706tm706 Member Posts: 334 Arc User
    Great in concept, but was terrible in execution, for all the above named reasons. The butt-hurt is still strong from the DTNE contest.
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  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    No. Because they obviously aren't done reusing the art assets from the T6 battlecruisers for every new T6 ship coming out it.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    starswordc wrote: »
    omegasprime wrote: »
    For those of you who came to the game after Enterprise F was introduced. It was designed by a member of our community as part of a contest to design the new Enterprise.

    I an mot saying that the contest has to be about the Enterprise, but just a new design created my a community member to be in the game.

    I think this should be as part of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek.
    You must not have been around for the "Design the Next Enterprise" contest. There were multiple accusations of discrimination by Cryptic for making the contest US-only (one of the fan-favorite designs was from a Canadian), not to mention plagiarism (both real and imagined), and then the fan-picked winner was vetoed by CBS in favor of the Odyssey-class, a design that didn't even make the top 20.

    Cryptic made it very clear it's never happening again.
    Also... the DtNE contest rules specifically said that any and all voting was no more binding than an opinion poll
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Also... the DtNE contest rules specifically said that any and all voting was no more binding than an opinion poll

    Yes, it did. And people even talked about it. But people wasn't expecting for that clause to actually be put into action. Especially against the majority who wanted Chris Madden's ship to win.

    Right there was the main controversy of the DTNE. And why Cryptic said, "Never again".
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    Yeah, I have no idea why they came to that silly conclusion. I mean really.... it was literally spelled out in black and white....

    this thing?

    Never liked it. Looks too much like the Ent-J.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Yeah, I have no idea why they came to that silly conclusion. I mean really.... it was literally spelled out in black and white....

    It's simple, the majority liked it and thought that it was a shoe-in for the winner and that Cryptic would never do such a thing. Then when it didn't even get to the finals, well I imagine it was like hitting a wall at 50 mph. Then Cryptic said it wasn't chosen because it looked too much like the Enterprise, well back up and hit the wall again in the same car. :trollface:
    markhawkman wrote: »
    this thing?

    Never liked it. Looks too much like the Ent-J.

    Yep. And that's why people liked it, it was traditional Trek.

  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    I am all for more ships, regardless of who designs them.
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    I don't think Cryptic will do it any time soon. First they got a lot of unused designs the first time. Submissions made those designs theirs to use. Second, I'm sure it was a huge pain to do the contest.
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  • bwleon7bwleon7 Member Posts: 310 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    azurianstar wrote: »
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Yeah, I have no idea why they came to that silly conclusion. I mean really.... it was literally spelled out in black and white....

    It's simple, the majority liked it and thought that it was a shoe-in for the winner and that Cryptic would never do such a thing. Then when it didn't even get to the finals, well I imagine it was like hitting a wall at 50 mph. Then Cryptic said it wasn't chosen because it looked too much like the Enterprise, well back up and hit the wall again in the same car. :trollface:
    markhawkman wrote: »
    this thing?

    Never liked it. Looks too much like the Ent-J.

    Yep. And that's why people liked it, it was traditional Trek.

    It lookto much like an original series ship. STO is 40 years after Next Generation. Sure the new ships should have some things in common with older ones but as time goes on the ships must change and keep up with the times.


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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    bwleon7 wrote: »
    It looks like to much like an original series ship. STO is 40 years after Next Generation. Sure the new ships should have some things in common with older ones but as time goes on the ships must change and keep up with the times.

    If that was the case then the Enterprise-J would've been a drastically different than the giant NX-01 it ended up becoming. So while the Enterprise-J isn't liked, it's 100% canon, while the Enterprise-F isn't.
    dracounguis wrote: »
    I don't think Cryptic will do it any time soon. First they got a lot of unused designs the first time. Submissions made those designs theirs to use. Second, I'm sure it was a huge pain to do the contest.

    I'm pretty sure they used up all the good ideas by now. Then again, doesn't take much to get ideas from other sources.
  • khan5000khan5000 Member Posts: 3,008 Arc User
    I doubt we see another contest due to all the complaints but I would like to see a feature of the game where we can design our own ships.
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  • mayito2009mayito2009 Member Posts: 643 Arc User
    I would like to see (like I said somewhere else) a hybrid design ship.
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  • brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,219 Arc User
    As it turns out, a lot of Trek fans are talented artists and designers who have a firm grasp of computer arts and a personal vision of what Trek can be. Can you not see how intimidating this would be to a person whose employment is jeopardized by someone who will do his job for free?
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    This didn end too well for us the last time...

    Not for Cryptic, Not for the next enterprise, and not for the creator.
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  • samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    Yes the Chris Madden design was much better than that flying obscenity we have now...
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    samt1996 wrote: »
    Yes the Chris Madden design was much better than that flying obscenity we have now...

    o.O
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  • kavasekavase Member Posts: 771 Arc User
    anazonda wrote: »
    This didn end too well for us the last time...

    Not for Cryptic, Not for the next enterprise, and not for the creator.

    Everyone lost. I don't see that changing the next time around.
    Retired. I'm now in search for that perfect space anomaly.
  • tsiretsire Member Posts: 40 Arc User
    Hopefully if they do this again it won't just be for a fed ship...they should have different categories for the different races/factions.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    kavase wrote: »
    anazonda wrote: »
    This didn end too well for us the last time...

    Not for Cryptic, Not for the next enterprise, and not for the creator.

    Everyone lost. I don't see that changing the next time around.

    Isn't that what I said?
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  • kavasekavase Member Posts: 771 Arc User
    anazonda wrote: »
    kavase wrote: »
    anazonda wrote: »
    This didn end too well for us the last time...

    Not for Cryptic, Not for the next enterprise, and not for the creator.

    Everyone lost. I don't see that changing the next time around.

    Isn't that what I said?

    Yes. That's my way of agreeing with you and adding the fact that if they did it again(which I doubt they ever would) same thing would happen.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    kavase wrote: »
    anazonda wrote: »
    kavase wrote: »
    anazonda wrote: »
    This didn end too well for us the last time...

    Not for Cryptic, Not for the next enterprise, and not for the creator.

    Everyone lost. I don't see that changing the next time around.

    Isn't that what I said?

    Yes. That's my way of agreeing with you and adding the fact that if they did it again(which I doubt they ever would) same thing would happen.

    Ah... Well... Confusion cleared.

    You should get an accolade for that.
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