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Someone stole the Transwarp Gate from Battle Group Omega!

mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
I decided to take a visit to a location I haven't visited in years - Battle Group Omega. Looks like it no longer has a Transwarp Gate. (In fact, aren't all mentions of transwarp gates gone now?)

The fleet kinda now looks like the "ancient ship model" graveyard - including a surprising number of Typhoons . The newest ship there is the USS Victory, a Galaxy-X dreadnought.

Maybe it's time for an upgrade of the ship models there? Or doing something with the battlegroup that makes it worth visiting?
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  • ufpterrellufpterrell Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    I actually went there myself the other day and was surprised by the Typhoons in there. Regardless of what you think of B.Off seating and traits with new ships, you have to admit the quality of the models has improved dramatically.

    An upgrade would certainly seem to be on the cards if the devs actually have the time to go back and re-jiggle the ship arrangement there. It's something of a pointless area now with the queue system etc.
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  • jade1280jade1280 Member Posts: 868 Arc User
    Temporal mechanics...or dark wizards feel free to blame either one or both.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    jade1280 wrote: »
    Temporal mechanics...or dark wizards feel free to blame either one or both.

    It's all very cryptic...
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  • jbmonroejbmonroe Member Posts: 809 Arc User
    The other day in Beta Quadrant I ran across an abandoned ship--and it was a recent-model Command Cruiser. Hard to believe those are being abandoned so quickly.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    Have to make way for the 2016 models.
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  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot Member Posts: 4,545 Arc User
    I'm blaming a Ferengi with dreams of owning his own toll booth for this. Those old ships sitting there? Their Captains did not have Exact Change. ;P
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited November 2015
    Don't you dare ask for the remaining Typhoons to be removed from the game. It's bad enough they were removed from the Fleet Support and Photonic Fleet and from the Terran Empire.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    jade1280 wrote: »
    Temporal mechanics...or dark wizards feel free to blame either one or both.

    It's all very cryptic...

    Yes of course it is :D
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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    Battle Group Omega is a relic anyway. No one needs to pass through there to get to the "Borg" sector anymore. Just look at all those unemployed Omega Task Force people on DS9 as another example. The Borg have become the laughing stock of all the other galactic powers by now.*


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  • mackbolan01mackbolan01 Member Posts: 580 Arc User
    oh come on Battle Group Omega used to be the front door to the mutara sector block etc etc, thats the only TRIBBLE i have when the sector walls fell down....and you'd think that they could afford to put a k7 type station there after such a long time.............​​
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    oh come on Battle Group Omega used to be the front door to the mutara sector block etc etc, thats the only TRIBBLE i have when the sector walls fell down....and you'd think that they could afford to put a k7 type station there after such a long time.............​​
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  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    Should replace it with the old school Earth space dock instead of that relic fleet. Least have a base out there.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    Shaka, when the walls fell.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    talonxv wrote: »
    Should replace it with the old school Earth space dock instead of that relic fleet. Least have a base out there.
    ESD 1.0? heh, most players wouldn't recognize it. :phttp://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/Heat-effect-in-Sol-313078646 It's on the right behind the distortion effect.

    Oh and it's an old pic from before the F2P conversion. :p Just after they added dil to the game.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    talonxv wrote: »
    Should replace it with the old school Earth space dock instead of that relic fleet. Least have a base out there.
    ESD 1.0? heh, most players wouldn't recognize it. :phttp://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/Heat-effect-in-Sol-313078646 It's on the right behind the distortion effect.

    Oh and it's an old pic from before the F2P conversion. :p Just after they added dil to the game.
    There are better pictures out there...
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    Good idea. The original launch era ESD surrounded by old style Jupiters and Typhoons.
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    artan42 wrote: »
    Good idea. The original launch era ESD surrounded by old style Jupiters and Typhoons.
    Oh, great idea. And then they can put in Giant Q from the Save-Sisko Time Travel mission in a far corner, and if you go there, he'll offer you a shortcut to the B'Tran Cluster. "Beware, Mon Capitaine. Exploration is wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
    If you accept, you will play a restored "Borg of the 3rd Dynasty" Cluster missions.
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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Shaka, when the walls fell.
    The river Temarc, in winter. ;)

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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    talonxv wrote: »
    Should replace it with the old school Earth space dock instead of that relic fleet. Least have a base out there.
    ESD 1.0? heh, most players wouldn't recognize it. :phttp://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/Heat-effect-in-Sol-313078646 It's on the right behind the distortion effect.

    Oh and it's an old pic from before the F2P conversion. :p Just after they added dil to the game.
    There are better pictures out there...
    Old_Earth_Spacedock.jpg

    It really is a pity that they couldn't find some use for that station. I realise the interior required some serious attention, even right before it was 'retired'. Nonetheless, it undoubtedly still exists in a file somewhere, and it does seem like a waste of what could be a perfectly good asset.

    I, personally, would pop it in orbit of Risa - from both an in-game and series perspective, Risa receives enough space traffic that having a dock in orbit makes a LOT of sense.


    That actually looks very slick! Even if you can't enter it any more (on account of the interior being too old and obsolete, design-wise), I wouldn't mind seeing this hanging in a sky somewhere -- if even just as an asset.

    P.S. @Tacofangs: thanks for the Herald bridges: awesome job! :)
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,376 Arc User
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

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    That's a hell of an idea for a mission right there.

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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    thay8472 wrote: »
    Space Alien collides with Starbase... Starbase crashes onto planet surface ... save as many survivors as you can in 15 minutes before everything melts!

    Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
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  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    jbmonroe wrote: »
    The other day in Beta Quadrant I ran across an abandoned ship--and it was a recent-model Command Cruiser. Hard to believe those are being abandoned so quickly.

    So that is where they left it. Some of my doffs got a bit tipsy at the summer beach party and took it for a joyride.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

    23388707042_ed465e83c0_c.jpg
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    reyan01 wrote: »
    talonxv wrote: »
    Should replace it with the old school Earth space dock instead of that relic fleet. Least have a base out there.
    ESD 1.0? heh, most players wouldn't recognize it. :phttp://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/Heat-effect-in-Sol-313078646 It's on the right behind the distortion effect.

    Oh and it's an old pic from before the F2P conversion. :p Just after they added dil to the game.
    There are better pictures out there...
    Old_Earth_Spacedock.jpg
    It really is a pity that they couldn't find some use for that station. I realise the interior required some serious attention, even right before it was 'retired'. Nonetheless, it undoubtedly still exists in a file somewhere, and it does seem like a waste of what could be a perfectly good asset.

    I, personally, would pop it in orbit of Risa - from both an in-game and series perspective, Risa receives enough space traffic that having a dock in orbit makes a LOT of sense.
    That actually looks very slick! Even if you can't enter it any more (on account of the interior being too old and obsolete, design-wise), I wouldn't mind seeing this hanging in a sky somewhere -- if even just as an asset.

    P.S. @Tacofangs: thanks for the Herald bridges: awesome job! :)
    Actually, the interior is still in Foundry. :P

    My pic I posted was actually demonstrating the distortion effect and not created as a pic of the station.

    Here's some pics of the interior: http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/gallery/46640467/STO-Foundry?offset=24
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    And the shipyard:
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  • amayakitsuneamayakitsune Member Posts: 977 Arc User
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

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    Oh man, taco, I can taste that salt from that post.

    The model was unique and not bad. It shouldnt have been ESD, but it could stand to be used in any number of places and be completely ok. Risa would be cool. Battle Group Omega wouldnt be a bad idea either.

    Not the interior though... the interior was butts...
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,174 Community Moderator
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

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    YAY! Awesome Taco is Awesome.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Here, guys! I found the old Starbase 1 Model . . . ooops!

    Oh, darn, I dropped it. . .

    23388707042_ed465e83c0_c.jpg

    Oh man, taco, I can taste that salt from that post.

    The model was unique and not bad. It shouldnt have been ESD, but it could stand to be used in any number of places and be completely ok. Risa would be cool. Battle Group Omega wouldnt be a bad idea either.

    Not the interior though... the interior was butts...
    I dunno... I guess Sci-Fi is always full of impractical shapes for starships and bases, but the old ESD is certainly among them.
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