A chance to add the Pioneer bridge to all ships for 23c characters?

angrytarg

When you have purchased the TOS Connie and want to switch during the early AoY period you have to use a default future bridge in case you don't own the constitution bridge.

I'd like to ask the default "Pioneer" bridge be made available for 23c characters on at least the TOS connie and maybe on all ships for those characters.​​

stobg2015

I'll second that request. I'll understand if we're not supposed to get the full Constitution interior, but if we at least had the Pioneer bridge it would be less immersion breaking.

It was jarring to be a 23c character on a 23c ship and end up on a 25th century bridge with BOFFs running around in 25th century uniforms.

davesworth

I support this too!

I like the idea that a time-traveling 23rd century captain would make her engineers alter a bridge to a form they're more comfortable with, and put every crew member in 23rd century uniforms. (The uniform thing makes sense to me, because it's canon that, in 2409, Starfleet started letting ship captains set their own uniform policy.)

assimilatedktar

I support this. Yesterday I switched from my Ranger with the Pioneer bridge to a Paladin. I immediately set the skin to Ranger and tried to set the bridge to Pioneer. Tried. I guess I'll have to use the TOS interior in the meantime.

stobg2015

assimilatedktar wrote: »

I support this. Yesterday I switched from my Ranger with the Pioneer bridge to a Paladin. I immediately set the skin to Ranger and tried to set the bridge to Pioneer. Tried. I guess I'll have to use the TOS interior in the meantime.

Some of us never bought the TOS bundle and don't have access to that interior

Should've come with the Temporal Agent bundle, IMO. But I'll settle for the Pioneer if they make it a choice.

tiekosora

I would like not only access to the Pioneer bridge, but a higher tier version of the ship as well.

Way back in development, I was a very vocal proponent of picking a style of ship, and sticking with it. A career ship, if you would. Kirk had the TOS/TMP Enterprises, Picard had the Ent-D/E, Sisko had the Defiant, Janeway had the Voyager, Archer the NX-01... The idea was, you are the captain, and as an epic hero, as universally recognized by your ship, as much as your physical appearance. How many times did we see an adversary see a Connie on screen and say, "Kirk!"

Anyways, what I suggested back then was an item that could be purchased from the C-Store that would allow you to upgrade your ship to the next tier. Much like a refit as mentioned in the shows and movies. This way, you could keep a ship "class" or style through your entire career if you wished, and still be viable at higher levels of the game.

Fast forward to a point where T6 ships have been introduced, and people have long settled into a T5 ship they love. To be viable, a means was needed to upgrade the ship, a T5-U. They introduced the Ship Upgrade Requisition tokens to enable this. I know many T1/2 ships have been added as T5 and fleet variants, but isn't it about time to fill in the gaps with the rest that didn't make the cut? You can't argue canon, because we have people of one faction flying lockbox ships from enemy factions. But this would also allow all those Mirror ships to be brought up to T5-U standard, thus potentially increasing key sales.

Anyways, the Pioneer would make a great light cruiser variant, not quite as powerful as either the cruisers at T5 and higher, or the T5 TOS BC. It IS a utility cruiser, maybe offset the lower power with a couple of universal TRULY universal BO slots. Where you can use any of the specialties such as Pilot or Temporal, as well as the traditional SCI/TAC/ENG. And make it have a 2410 style hull, so players can choose their flavor, modern or TOS.