Section 31, aka Control, some sort of Drone Carrier I'm sure with a specialty like Intel/Comm/MW. I think it looks like a kitbashed Vengeance saucer section stuck on a kitbashed Europa main-hull with kitbashed Eclipse nacelles. I'm sure it will be a gamble ship & the animated gif does look really cool with those swarming drones dislodging from the saucer then encircling.
promo ship, im thinking it may be a mechanic as opposed to carrier pets, like a saucer seperation or tactical mode, the saucer visual change makes me think this.
Yeah, I'm sure it's a console power or some other sort of clickly, not actually a huge horde of pets.
(hmm, well, you could do regular fighter pets, but with the visual for each individual fighter being a small swarm of drones. Still, that doesn't match the orbiting cloud visual here.)
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Propably it will have console with AOE damage around it when clicked - something like that NPC Tholian Carriers.
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And two of them in one TFO will kill framerate on most PCs...
With all the hangar spammage being added into the game will this be the year when they finally do some work on the pets in terms of ai and how stupidly flimsy they often are.
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
With all the hangar spammage being added into the game will this be the year when they finally do some work on the pets in terms of ai and how stupidly flimsy they often are.
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
get yourself the wing commander space strait, the scramble fighters mastery and some flight deck officers in your roster, all of that really helps
With all the hangar spammage being added into the game will this be the year when they finally do some work on the pets in terms of ai and how stupidly flimsy they often are.
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
get yourself the wing commander space strait, the scramble fighters mastery and some flight deck officers in your roster, all of that really helps
Isn't one of those REALLY expensive? Also, I wonder if such traits will even work on these drones. It didn't have a hangar bay right?
With all the hangar spammage being added into the game will this be the year when they finally do some work on the pets in terms of ai and how stupidly flimsy they often are.
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
get yourself the wing commander space strait, the scramble fighters mastery and some flight deck officers in your roster, all of that really helps
Isn't one of those REALLY expensive? Also, I wonder if such traits will even work on these drones. It didn't have a hangar bay right?
No idea. It's not a carrier and not really sure how the damage of this ships pets will work. Or even how you will command them to do what you want. Protect, Assault, Escort. It probably won't be able to take any commands since it seems to be a cruiser and not a carrier.
Though i think that is more a plus then a negative.
Since it will free up slots left and right for carrier captains be it trait or console so their will be a little wiggle room there to try out newer more innovative builds. There.
Though i Do wonder what the damage will be. If it will be based on Exotic or Tactical and if it's tactical will it scale with your phaser damage cons and con sets like your energy weapons do. If so, this swarm would be unbelievably powerful. I mean if you have say 10-15 swarms out and they crit 15-20k+ Per crit or 3-8k none crit. These things would level a battlefield for me in seconds... That would be interesting. But I have no hopes of that being the case. Lol That would be ludicrous.
With all the hangar spammage being added into the game will this be the year when they finally do some work on the pets in terms of ai and how stupidly flimsy they often are.
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
get yourself the wing commander space strait, the scramble fighters mastery and some flight deck officers in your roster, all of that really helps
Isn't one of those REALLY expensive? Also, I wonder if such traits will even work on these drones. It didn't have a hangar bay right?
Well it depends if you count the external docking as a hangar or not. Sure it technically didn't have hangar per say. but at same time you could argue that external docking they had could function as de facto hangar especially if there's repair bays and strorage to keep the spare parts, fuel and munitions in there somewhere.
Only reason I could see this not becoming a carrier is that so far there hasn't been a single carrier that changed model geo when they launched their pets.
with all these drone ships and carriers I want a ship with the capabilities of the Lyrans from the old star fleet command game.. the energy ball that is destructive. like bugs on a zapper
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That beauty is the Section 31 drone carrier, a mean and beautiful ship!
(hmm, well, you could do regular fighter pets, but with the visual for each individual fighter being a small swarm of drones. Still, that doesn't match the orbiting cloud visual here.)
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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And two of them in one TFO will kill framerate on most PCs...
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ships like this are ships taken from the movies and tv series. take your issues up with CBS
Just a thought but if they wanted to make this a more interesting ship than generic carrier they could forego the hangars and instead make the drones wingmen.
get yourself the wing commander space strait, the scramble fighters mastery and some flight deck officers in your roster, all of that really helps
Isn't one of those REALLY expensive? Also, I wonder if such traits will even work on these drones. It didn't have a hangar bay right?
No idea. It's not a carrier and not really sure how the damage of this ships pets will work. Or even how you will command them to do what you want. Protect, Assault, Escort. It probably won't be able to take any commands since it seems to be a cruiser and not a carrier.
Though i think that is more a plus then a negative.
Since it will free up slots left and right for carrier captains be it trait or console so their will be a little wiggle room there to try out newer more innovative builds. There.
Though i Do wonder what the damage will be. If it will be based on Exotic or Tactical and if it's tactical will it scale with your phaser damage cons and con sets like your energy weapons do. If so, this swarm would be unbelievably powerful. I mean if you have say 10-15 swarms out and they crit 15-20k+ Per crit or 3-8k none crit. These things would level a battlefield for me in seconds... That would be interesting. But I have no hopes of that being the case. Lol That would be ludicrous.
Well it depends if you count the external docking as a hangar or not. Sure it technically didn't have hangar per say. but at same time you could argue that external docking they had could function as de facto hangar especially if there's repair bays and strorage to keep the spare parts, fuel and munitions in there somewhere.
Only reason I could see this not becoming a carrier is that so far there hasn't been a single carrier that changed model geo when they launched their pets.