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Tzenkethi Vanity Shield Gallery

lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
in The Art of Star Trek Online
There's no way to preview the shield visuals on the new vanity shield (hint, hint devs) so I've uploaded some screenshots of the ships I currently have in the roster. My personal favourite is the KDF Veteran ship (shown below) and the full album is https://imgur.com/a/GxItf

The general effect is teal with Tholian-esque hull texturing. The parts that would be fluorescent on the Reman shield are black and there's a green/white effect on the engine as far as I can tell. The shield looks very good on Tholian ships, with an honourable mention to the Undine Nicor and Elachi Sheshar, but I particularly like the balance of blue/green and black on the KDF Duvqu'.

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Comments

  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,690 Arc User
    Thanks for posting this. It's always nice to be able to see the visual effects without having to earn that piece of gear on a character / faction.

    "Space Barbie is the real endgame" :)
  • djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,382 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    Those look really nice. This might actually be a decent answer to the terrible visuals on the 31st century ships, especially for a KDF character.
    I hope they put out more vanity shields, maybe even some faction specific ones for those who want to make "alien" ships look more like their own faction.
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    Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
    -Captain James T. Kirk
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    If you want some more Tzenkethi'd ships. The thing that annoys me with these visuals is they're low-rez compared to others:
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    #TASforSTO
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  • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
    saurializard wrote: »
    If you want some more Tzenkethi'd ships. The thing that annoys me with these visuals is they're low-rez compared to others:
    20171006005121_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006005309_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006005943_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006010106_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006010511_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006011019_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171006011156_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005145349_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005145706_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005145826_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005150049_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005150400_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005150650_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005151041_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005151244_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005215926_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005220154_1.jpg?raw=1
    20171005220651_1.jpg?raw=1
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    Looks good on the Malem and Suliban ship
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      "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
      -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
    • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,690 Arc User
      djf021 wrote: »
      Those look really nice. This might actually be a decent answer to the terrible visuals on the 31st century ships, especially for a KDF character.
      I hope they put out more vanity shields, maybe even some faction specific ones for those who want to make "alien" ships look more like their own faction.

      Good idea, even better if the faction ones can be used by the "wrong" factions. Some Fed ships look good with the Reman visuals.
    • djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,382 Arc User
      davefenestrator wrote: »
      djf021 wrote: »
      Those look really nice. This might actually be a decent answer to the terrible visuals on the 31st century ships, especially for a KDF character.
      I hope they put out more vanity shields, maybe even some faction specific ones for those who want to make "alien" ships look more like their own faction.

      Good idea, even better if the faction ones can be used by the "wrong" factions. Some Fed ships look good with the Reman visuals.

      Agreed.
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      Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
      -Captain James T. Kirk
    • miirikmiirik Member Posts: 483 Arc User
      what really bugs me is how this one vanity shield is frankly better than 80% of the reputation shields in aesthetics, i could use this on nearly every ship I own, but I wouldn't cause I like variety too.
    • shadowfirefly00shadowfirefly00 Member Posts: 1,026 Arc User
      lopequil wrote: »
      There's no way to preview the shield visuals on the new vanity shield (hint, hint devs)...
      And there is, to my knowledge, really no excuse for this being the case for shields/deflectors/engines with vanity components - it's functionality that could easily be added to the ship tailor. On a related note, it occurs to me that qualifying reputation items should have vanity-only versions requisitionable as well. These would cost only dilithium and rep marks; however, if you pick up one and later decide to requisition the real deal, the latter's cost is reduced by the cost of the vanity-only version. Something similar could be done with the rep ground sets, but applying the discount in those cases would be a bit tricky.

      saurializard wrote: »
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      Oh, that's interesting. How unfortunate that, at present, that shield costs about as much as a Recluse-class carrier...
    • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
      fleetcaptain5#1134
             Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
      Thanks for the pics OP and @saurializard .

      I'd been considering getting this shield. I hope to see the visuals on a Vesta and a Son'a Science ship appear somewhere soon.

      It would be nice if, next time they release a vanity shield, we could get some images of it, applied to different ships. Or maybe a preview-function, though I would understand if that is too much work. Having some examples in a Dev blog shouldn't be too much work though.

      Considering the high price (more expensive than all T5 lobi and LB ships, even more expensive than some T6's) I really want to have such information before I'd buy it.
    • lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
      fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »
      I'd been considering getting this shield. I hope to see the visuals on a Vesta and a Son'a Science ship appear somewhere soon.

      Send me a Son'a ship and I'll be happy to oblige.
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    • djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,382 Arc User
      I do want to know why it's so stupidly expensive. Can it be made a rare drop straight from the lock box on the level of secondary tier 5 ships? That would make them numerous enough to hang around 5-7 million. Right now it's 500 million on the exchange. That's down from 1 billion, but still...that's ridiculously expensive for a visual item.
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      Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
      -Captain James T. Kirk
    • reemus#2383 reemus
      reemus#2383
             Member Posts: 185 Arc User
      Few more with the vanity shield (I got one today).

      Jupiter
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      Temporal Dread
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      Sheshar
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    • reemus#2383 reemus
      reemus#2383
             Member Posts: 185 Arc User
      I have a Son'a but on a diff character so....
    • reemus#2383 reemus
      reemus#2383
             Member Posts: 185 Arc User
      theraven2378 wrote: »
      saurializard wrote: »
      If you want some more Tzenkethi'd ships. The thing that annoys me with these visuals is they're low-rez compared to others:
      20171006005121_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006005309_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006005943_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006010106_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006010511_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006011019_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171006011156_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005145349_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005145706_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005145826_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005150049_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005150400_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005150650_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005151041_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005151244_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005215926_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005220154_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005220651_1.jpg?raw=1
      20171005222530_1.jpg?raw=1

      Looks good on the Malem and Suliban ship

      I'm glad I didn't buy it for my Valkis. It doesn't give it much

    • themadprofessor#9835 themadprofessor
      themadprofessor#9835
             Member Posts: 1,203 Arc User
      On the Astika...

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      Space Barbie Extraordinaire. Got a question about Space Barbie? Just ask.

      Things I want in STO:

      1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
      2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
      3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
      4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
      5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
      6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
      7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
      8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
    • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
      Interesting but nothing I'd spend millions on.
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