Any theories/hopes for new mega bundle?

djf021

Historically, (at least for the last few years) there is a mega bundle release shortly after the start of the Anniversary Event. If there is concrete info I'm not aware of it, so I'm curious about what you predict, expect, or simply would like to see in a mega bundle.
Discuss...

leemwatson

My prediction is a Science Scout Mega Bundle. Usually they release the Anni Ship with a console that goes the Mega-Bundle that's released as 4 piece.

tom61sto

My guess/hope is a two-faction 6-pack that is Discovery themed, no particular ship type limitation, just random Fed and KDF Disc ships. Keep in mind that the Krenim Science Vessel from the Event years back had a set bonus with the T6 Oddy, T6 Bortas, and T6 Scimitars, which is pretty far off of the KSV's base type of Science ship.

I'd like to see the Cleave and Sech class ship on the KDF side.

wideningxgyre

I realize it's sort of the point of the mega bundles, but I wish they'd do one that wasn't three of essentially the same ship with slightly different console configurations.

I wish the ships would very different ships in appearance and specialty - sort of like if they made a bundle of the Defiant, Vesta, and Oddy, instead of three versions of the Oddy.

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avoozuul

I usually ignore the engi biased variant of ship packs.

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rattler2

Missing a 3rd Fed in there.

Anyways... not sure if it would be Discovery related or not. We ARE going to get more Discovery ships, but there's not really a good fit for an anniversary mega bundle. Too much variation, and none of the ships would be related to each other for kitbashing.

avoozuul

It probably wouldn't be much different from what the AOY bundle did.

rattler2

AoY bundle was Fed only though, other than the 3 cross faction temporal ships. We've ALWAYS had some kind of bundle that included KDF, and later Romulans for the Anniversary. I don't see them changing that anytime soon just because they have access to Discovery content.

avoozuul

I never said they wouldn't do anything for KDF and Rom, I think they will do something similar to AOY but with support for other factions as well.

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ltminns

If you are going past KDF/Federation to include Romulans in a Cross-faction Mega-bundle you are going to have to add Jem'Hadar as well. That would give you a 12 ship Mega-bundle at, I would guess, 16,000 Zen.

No mean feat that one.

warpangel

My wish is that they'd do away with the faction restrictions and thus the need for copypaste the same ship with different graphics.

markhawkman

I'm guessing.... cruisers. The concept art for the Discovery era ships shows that J'ula's ship is one of 3 very similar designs. That just screams "bundle" to me.

rattler2

reyan01 wrote: »

Agreed - and to be honest, the Mega-bundles are usually Cryptic home-baked designs.

Which may include variants of Canon designs. I mean look at the Scimitar variants! Scimitar is canon, and she got 5 Cryptic variants.

markhawkman wrote: »

I'm guessing.... cruisers. The concept art for the Discovery era ships shows that J'ula's ship is one of 3 very similar designs. That just screams "bundle" to me.

But there really isn't any Fed equivelents. The Fed ships are too varied to kitbash.

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asuran14

Honestly with the fact the anniversary ship is a scout ship, it would be interesting if they did a form of scout light-cruiser type ship, as honestly with the ship they used for the design of the anniversary ship had been i think a cruiser. Though looking at the fact of just what ships we have seen released it was a cruiser type recently, so unless they want to release a new set of cruisers for the romulan/kdf factions, that I would think it would be a science ship (though we just had a science ship) or a escort type ship (so raider, destroyer, escort.).

tom61sto

asuran14 wrote: »

Honestly with the fact the anniversary ship is a scout ship, it would be interesting if they did a form of scout light-cruiser type ship, as honestly with the ship they used for the design of the anniversary ship had been i think a cruiser. Though looking at the fact of just what ships we have seen released it was a cruiser type recently, so unless they want to release a new set of cruisers for the romulan/kdf factions, that I would think it would be a science ship (though we just had a science ship) or a escort type ship (so raider, destroyer, escort.).

The idea of a new ship classification is one I hadn't considered for an Anniversary pack. Seeing that they've recently been introducing classes with the 'Juggernaut', adding to series of very rare classifications in the 'Scout ship' (only two others before the Annivesary ship), and adding in a C-Store Destroyer for Feds and KDF when most have been Event or Lockbox (though the Mogai is classed as a Destroyer Warbird andwas released much earlier,) I guess that'd certainly be on the table.

Not sure how they'd 'Scout' to a Cruiser/Battle Cruiser type instead of a Science ship... Maybe a fairly light cruiser (1.0 hull and shield mod or less on a pack-only ship), but with Raider Flanking and only the Engineering commander BOff being fixed?

avoozuul

ruinthefun wrote: »

avoozuul wrote: »

I usually ignore the engi biased variant of ship packs.

As the most common type of ship in the game is cruisers, and the least useful thing to stack on a cruiser which already comes with a hefty chunk of Eng is even more Eng, Eng Cruiser variants tend to be the weakest variant. Eng consoles are similarly the worst kind of console, so giving a ship more Eng consoles at the expensive of other consoles is never an asset. No ship truly needs more than 2 Eng consoles since I can't really think of more than two Eng consoles you'd put on the same ship.

I was actually refering to ships in general when they have three varients where one is slightly more engi, tac or sci, and one of them being heavy in it's main type. Like for an example I ignore the more engi like Vesta science vessel or Andorian escort, but I also ignore engi heavy ships like the samsar, however I will also ignore science cruisers too, I only go for cruisers with tac as secondary. I will still use tac or sci ships with engi as secondary but only not the ones from the 3 variant packs unless they have a good trait I would use.

rattler2

tom61sto wrote: »

Not sure how they'd 'Scout' to a Cruiser/Battle Cruiser type instead of a Science ship... Maybe a fairly light cruiser (1.0 hull and shield mod or less on a pack-only ship), but with Raider Flanking and only the Engineering commander BOff being fixed?

Scout Ships have already been established as Science/Raider hybrids. Kinda like how Warships are Escort/Cruiser hybrids. Although Warships only get the cruiser weapons loadout rather than a mechanic.

asuran14

tom61sto wrote: »

asuran14 wrote: »

Honestly with the fact the anniversary ship is a scout ship, it would be interesting if they did a form of scout light-cruiser type ship, as honestly with the ship they used for the design of the anniversary ship had been i think a cruiser. Though looking at the fact of just what ships we have seen released it was a cruiser type recently, so unless they want to release a new set of cruisers for the romulan/kdf factions, that I would think it would be a science ship (though we just had a science ship) or a escort type ship (so raider, destroyer, escort.).

The idea of a new ship classification is one I hadn't considered for an Anniversary pack. Seeing that they've recently been introducing classes with the 'Juggernaut', adding to series of very rare classifications in the 'Scout ship' (only two others before the Annivesary ship), and adding in a C-Store Destroyer for Feds and KDF when most have been Event or Lockbox (though the Mogai is classed as a Destroyer Warbird andwas released much earlier,) I guess that'd certainly be on the table.

Not sure how they'd 'Scout' to a Cruiser/Battle Cruiser type instead of a Science ship... Maybe a fairly light cruiser (1.0 hull and shield mod or less on a pack-only ship), but with Raider Flanking and only the Engineering commander BOff being fixed?

Not sure I would say it would be a light cruiser scout ship, but just taking the idea of what the scout is an adapting it to use with a cruiser type ship. Like said would most likely be a light cruiser maybe with a slightly higher shield mod compared to hull, would say give it something closer to a more front oriented weapon loadout (though if it could use dual cannons not sure. Now to give it a feel of a cruiser that would be out scouting areas i would give it the analyse ability of the science ships, raider mechanic, but in place of the universal seats (not sure they all got this) an innate sub-system targeting that scout ships get this might get instead the mobility an defensive command auras of the cruiser.

miirik

Noticing a lack of mega packs with the anniversary this year so far.

rattler2

The Anniversary ship pack doesn't drop immediately. Give it time.

tom61sto

Ah, a thread merge, I was wondering why it dissapeared while I was typing a reply.

miirik wrote: »

Noticing a lack of mega packs with the anniversary this year so far.

rattler2 wrote: »

The Anniversary ship pack doesn't drop immediately. Give it time.

Yeah, it looks like last year's bundle wasn't announced until the 12th of Feb, 2018.

salazarraze

Do I have any theories? Nope. Do I have any hopes? Sure I do. I hope that it's a full 9 pack. If it's a 6 pack FED/KDF only, there's going to be TRIBBLE to pay.

ltminns

12-pack should be the new Meta.

disqord

How about an Allied Miracle Worker Carrier bundle, alongside a revamp of the Miracle Worker ship type to make people actually want them? There are so very few MW ships, or even ships with a low grade spec seat, it would be nice to see the tank ships get a bit of a rework to make them more DPS viable so we can have more than 4 of them altogether.

lordsteve1

Scout ship bundle would be my guess but who knows and I’m not sure how you’d have 3 different ships for each faction out of that.

Sabre, Nova and a smaller cruise for Feds as a pack with some variety?

Rom and KDF just get some variants of warbirds or BoPs?

avoozuul

Usually it's homebaked designs for anniversary packs.

nickcastleton

Well for feds id at least go with the flow and have...
3 25th century variants of the Suurok class (sarak spock and Soval class)