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  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Not by STO 'canon'. There is no T6 Constitution in Star Trek canon either.

    We have to go by what Cryptic is providing and labeling ships in-game even if completely out-of-wack.

    These new ships are Advanced Light Crusiers or Advanced Light Battlecrusiers. Why a 'Light' Crusier would have the same number of weapons as a Crusier, Heavy Crusier, or Battlecrusier, I don't know. Why a 'Light' Battlecrusier would have less Inertia than a regular Battlecrusier, clueless. Why a supposed 'Light' Crusier would want to Attract Fire with generally less Hull (but not by much), who can say.

    We are stuck with Cryptic's classification.

    I kind of wonder at some of these myself. It's kind of late in the game to revamp somethings but to me a Heavy could mount dual beam arrays and dual cannons and a light restricted to just normal beam arrays and a single cannon. Kind of a step between the Escorts and Heavy cruisers with more hull and better shields then the Escort but not quite a heavy cruiser with better turn rates and inertia. Sort of like the Drednaught class ships of ww1 and early WW2 that used a cruiser hull for speed and agility with some of the firepower of a Battle ship but sacrificed armor to offset the massive weight of the 15 and 16 inch guns.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    edited May 2017
    ltminns wrote: »
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    We are stuck with Cryptic's classification.

    True, and it's so inconsistent and terrible, be it ships, weapons or anything else. Cryptic seems to name things spontaneously after whatever it is that just came up and sounds nifty but you can actually not even tell what a "battlecruiser" in STOverse is. There are four or five different types of ships that all are called "battlecruiser" (or "battle cruiser" or "battle-cruiser") it's staggering. "Light" and "Heavy" are terms just slapped onto something to make the name longer...

    Add to that that the Miranda is actually supposed to use pulsed phaser cannons according to the DS9 TM and that there is an in-game model of it that has quite obvious cannons mounted to the sides having the T6 not use those makes no sense at all.​​
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited May 2017
    I had to doublecheck the date to see that this wasn't a necro'd post! :D

    And why does no one make threads to pine for the old Jupiter?
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  • brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,219 Arc User
    I did about a page back. Man, that thing is a bulldog of a ship: ugly but awesome. I could see it given a second life as a fleet repair ship or mobile starbase. It has the stats of a T3 ship, but I'd still buy it.
  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,215 Arc User
    edited May 2017
    I am one of those people who actually wanted a Typhoon class, and of course its design isn't perfect but to me it looks nice over all and a few tweaks could probably perfect it.

    I would love a T6 Constellation class with the ability to use the lower tier skin.
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  • rogue6800rogue6800 Member Posts: 213 Arc User
    +1 For return of the Typhoon. I would buy a Typhoon skin for 6000 ZEN, hell maybe even 9000 ZEN.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Never ask for stuff from Cryptic by stating you would pay as much as a T6 Ship Bundle. You never know what crazy pricing they may charge, but it would never be put in the C-Store anyway.

    At best, it would be a single Character unlock and the Dilitium Store would be their venue. Consider it like specialized Outfits (see Enterprise MACO) and put it in the Dilitium Store for 2 Million Dilitium. ;)
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