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Undiscovered Lockbox: No Movie Era Ships?
darthmeow504
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I'm confused. The description of this lockbox says it's all about the classic movie era, but that's clearly not the case when the only things in the box from that era are a space weapon, one or two ground weapons, and one environmental suit. The three Dreadnought ships are TOS era, not TMP. Is there more yet to be announced that fits the stated era? Because don't get me wrong, those new TOS ships are freaking gorgeous and I will never complain about new TOS content but it's a bit sad for me as a huge fan of the movie era to see something that says it's about that era but most of its content is not from that era.
Is there a single ship from the movie era in the box at all?
Is there a single ship from the movie era in the box at all?
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Talking about the news post on the PC section new lockbox ships.
ToS Dreads? 3 of them? Is that one per faction or three types of fed? IE sci, tac, eng.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
3 dreads TOS timeline 1 per faction FED,Kling,Rom no details other than the mastery traits and some cool pictures, Also NX refit (escort) announced and its a lobi store ship fed side only.
Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
Unclear if they were still in production during TNG or DS9 or if they had just produced a TRIBBLE ton during TMP era, but it's pretty safe to say that many of them were most likely refit and upgraded with more advanced technology over the years. I could still see these ships being useful inside federation space as transports, planetary security, even armed cargo carriers. Random jobs that you don't need a heavily armed cruiser to do. We also saw on DS9 that the U.S.S. Centaur (A Miranda variant-at least in sto) was being used to patrol the border between federation and dominion space so it must have been capable enough...at least against other frigate sized ships.
I'd imagine it's the same concept as any other refit. They rip out all the innards and fill it with smaller, but more powerful, new tech that does the job far better. Easier just to reuse a hull you already have that's sitting around than building another one, especially with Starfleet liking the whole "modular" design that would most likely make it easier.
I'm not complaining where they've gone here (I want those ground weapons) but there's so much more, and more thematically linked stuff that could have gone in instead of those TOS ships and costumes and the ENT Lobi ship.
I'm also not supporting any faction items in Lockboxes, that goes for Temporal, KT, TOS or TWoK era stuff.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
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Yeah I collect them too, but I ignore lockbox achievements. How many accolade points you got?
Thank you!
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Romulan ship not so keen on, but I love the Rom Ships I have, so no biggie there.
Been saving up EC, but not very sure what for, this may make me quite happy. But like I said I want some more views of that Klingon ship.
God, it feels like playing Starfleet Academy on the SNES.
Ship size/behavior should work. Interest should be in all these ships. And on top of it that lockbox would all of the sudden be true to its name
Also its in line with the T6 TOS Constitution which from what I heard can use the movie Constitution skin.
check out the forum thread with the video of them, great shots of all 3
Fezes are cool.
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Fez + formal wear = 11th doctor
This. Get your priorities straight, gentlemen.
now you need bow ties
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nope none in the box, and imo too late for any to be added.
would love more movie era ships, personally I kinda liked the Chandley class from FASA's material.
hell yes would love movie era skins for TOS ships
couldn't care less about t6 miranda but also would not be opposed to it showing up
Which sucks, because I LOVE the movie-era aesthetic, and would love to see new/original designs made for that era.
I wonder if somebody told the art staff "The original crew film era" and they just heard "TOS" and by the time anybody realized the mistake, assets had been made.