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Chances of seeing losers of Lukari Community Ship Voting

starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
Obviously everyone has their favorite that might not win or has already lost the first round and some have a few that they like. So what do you think the chances of making a few of the losers into actual ships? Personally, I think that at least one or two of the loser ship designs will be made into actual ships eventually due to the Odyssey and Chimera from the Design the Enterprise Contest.

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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    Na...

    The whole "contest" is to create hype around the "final" ship, so that it sells. It has to pay for itself after all.

    Any ship that ends up at the bottom of the list is just going to be waste... That's why they made it as drawings instead of full 3D from the beginning. It simply takes too long to build a player ship if it's not guaranteed to reward enough Cash.
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    You want to make the losing ships into ships anyways, thus negating the point of the contest and the voting?

    I don't get it.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,331 Arc User
    This question has come up everytime a vote is up, and never have they released a 'losing' ship IIRC.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    anazonda wrote: »
    Na...

    The whole "contest" is to create hype around the "final" ship, so that it sells. It has to pay for itself after all.

    Any ship that ends up at the bottom of the list is just going to be waste... That's why they made it as drawings instead of full 3D from the beginning. It simply takes too long to build a player ship if it's not guaranteed to reward enough Cash.

    Except that the "final" ship is not going to pay for itself. It has been classified as an Anniversary ship so the only sales it will have is players buying Anniversary Prize Vouchers from the Lobi Store because they don't have enough time to grind for the ship or rather pay money to avoid the grind. The loser ships have the freedom to be put into a lockbox for some new alien race designed by Cryptic or as a C-Store Cross-faction ship.

    The concept art drawings could be to figure out which ship to create first and which ships might be a good idea to create later on. Team Bravo got 40% of the vote, Team Delta got 31% of the vote, and Team Foxtrot currently has 41% of the vote. So Cryptic could create Team Alpha, Team Charlie, and Team Epsilon, but only create the winner first for the 7th year Anniversary.
    You want to make the losing ships into ships anyways, thus negating the point of the contest and the voting?

    I don't get it.

    How is it negating the point of the contest and voting? The contest is about determining which will be the Lukari ship available as an Anniversary ship in February 2017. Nowhere does it say that the Losers will never become available. So the second and third place ship designs could be a C-Store ship or a Lockbox ship.
  • scififan78scififan78 Member Posts: 1,383 Arc User
    I could see the losing ships become future Lukari NPC ships but not playable.
  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    How is it negating the point of the contest and voting?

    Because the point of the contest is to choose one ship.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    This question has come up everytime a vote is up, and never have they released a 'losing' ship IIRC.

    And there has only been the Jupiter Carrier vote. Each of those designs are based around a Starfleet Carrier so it would be hard to use the other designs for a new Starfleet ship. The Lukari ship designs are completely unique so Cryptic can use a losing ship for future alien races that we haven't seen yet and release them to us as an Event ship or Lockbox ship.
    starkaos wrote: »
    How is it negating the point of the contest and voting?

    Because the point of the contest is to choose one ship.

    The point of the contest is to choose one ship for the next Anniversary Event. Nowhere does it say that only the winner will be used as a future playable ship and they will toss out the rest of the designs. After all, a "loser" of the Design the Enterprise contest was used to create the Chimera. So if they use a "loser" from one contest, then there is absolutely nothing stopping them from using a "loser" from this contest. From the Lukari Community Ship Voting Dev Blog:
    The Lukari have begun a space exploration initiative after the events of Sunrise. To meet the challenges of the final frontier, they’ve been collaborating with the best engineering minds in the Alliance to produce a new Lukari starship that will launch for Star Trek Online's Anniversary event.

    Over the next two weeks, we need your help in deciding which design to use! These designs will be pitted against one another in a daily single-elimination voting tournament. Pick your favorite design and cast your vote in the next 24 hours!

    Obviously, the winner will be released first and available for free in February 2017 through a grind since it is the point of the contest. While the others might be a Lockbox ship, Event ship, or C-Store Ship after February 2017 provided that there is enough interest.

  • vampeiyrevampeiyre Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    I recognized several of Federation T6 Temporal ships were re-used Jupiter carrier designs that didn't win the vote, so based on that, I'd say it's quite possible.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    leemwatson wrote: »
    This question has come up everytime a vote is up, and never have they released a 'losing' ship IIRC.

    There's been a grand total of two previous votes, Jupiter and Enterprise. And both the Regent and the Chimera were designs for the Enterprise that ended up being released even though they didn't win.​​
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