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Fed Heavy Escort Carrier for console missing lt cmdr station? Or typo?

The recently announced heavy escort carriers for console:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/10164653-heavy-escort-carriers

The one for fed has 1 commander and 1 Lt. commander slot, while the ships for Klingon and Romulan factions each have a commander and TWO Lt. commander slots (they each have a Lt. commander universal slot that the fed ship does not. Is this a typo (i.e. should the final lt universal slot in fed announce actually have said lt commander universal)? Or is the fed ship BO's gimped vs non-fed ships? The significance of this slot is that the fed heavy escort carrier has no ability to create gravity wells while the other factions ships can.

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited September 2016
    Some Tier 6 ships have 2 Lt.Cmdrs and an Ensign, others have 1 Lt.Cmdr and 2 Lts.

    That should also be the same stats as on PC.

    And yes, that means no Gravity Well for you.
    Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
  • wraithmeisterwraithmeister Member Posts: 397 Arc User
    edited September 2016
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    And yes, that means no Gravity Well for you.

    Wrong! It means I'm rolling a Romulan.
    Down with the Federation! Long Live New Romulus!

  • nccmarknccmark Member Posts: 1,084 Arc User
    Why would this be a typo?
    The existing (same) ships are just like this.
    You can read about them in the game wiki.
  • talientalien Member Posts: 712 Arc User
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    And yes, that means no Gravity Well for you.

    Wrong! It means I'm rolling a Romulan.
    Down with the Federation! Long Live New Romulus!

    And as for Ensigns...I load my ensigns into torpedo tubes and fire them at the enemy..thats really all they are good for.

    Actually no, most boff abilities are just fine at Ens. Any of the Emergency Power abilities, Polarize Hull, Transfer Shield Strength. The list goes on. Plus if you use Tac Team 2 or 3 you're gimping yourself, TT1 is all you need.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited September 2016
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    And yes, that means no Gravity Well for you.

    Wrong! It means I'm rolling a Romulan.
    Down with the Federation! Long Live New Romulus!

    Or that. :)

    I believe that Cryptic has been always intentionally making Romulan ships a bit more powerful then Fed or KDF ships, to compensate for the fact that people might otherwise not play Romulan at all. And to a lesser extent, t hey are now doing that on the KDF, too. But that wasn't always the case. I think there was a point in development where the devs and the marketing bean counters realized that power really sells, and they can no longer produce ships naively on some type of platonic ideals and symmetry (oh, we have a science and a tactical Cruiser variant, let's add an engineering variant), but to make them based on hard DPS facts. That's why the alleged "Exploration Cruiser" in its T6 retrofit version got a Lt.Cmdr Tactical slot, instaed of a Lt.Cmdr Science slot like would seem fitting to its theme.
    Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
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