Maybe for Summer 2021. This year will be a Risan Science ship that we can vote for just like what they did for the 2017 Anniversary Event with the Lukari ship.
Why would you ever want a Federation/Romulan joint effort on a Starship? Romulans having access to the very core of the Federations database and archives will give the Romulans that much more incentive to destroy the Federation from the inside. With the Romulans obtaining Borg technology, both species of whom are bent on destroying the Federation would use such a ship for just such a purpose.
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rattler2Member, Star Trek Online ModeratorPosts: 58,582Community Moderator
As someone who plays a Romulan Republic Admiral, I would love to see a Romulan/Starfleet collaboration as both tend to design ships that are elegant in nature. a Starfleet type of nacelles with a Romulan wing and Bird head type with interchangeable to a more Starfleet look so both Starfleet and Romulan players can have a choice would be a great choice in my opinion.
I do 3D modeling myself and have made ships for FreeSpace, Freespace 2 series of games which I still love to do. I have done many textures for various games over the years and I WISH Star Trek Online would let members make texture...or skins for our ships as some of the current examples are low quality textures.
Aren't all of those fan/EU designs and thus out of bounds of Cryptic anyway and letting fans texture/model things for the game is a legal minefield that's never gonna happen.
Aren't all of those fan/EU designs and thus out of bounds of Cryptic anyway and letting fans texture/model things for the game is a legal minefield that's never gonna happen.
Cryptic has to go through too much legal pain to contemplate doing another Fan contest or EU design ever again. The closest we will get is the Jupiter, Lukari, and the current Summer ship contest where the devs create a bunch of designs and we vote for the 'best' ship. Of course, there is the possibility that some fan design or EU design becomes part of a Star Trek show and we get it due to it now being a canon ship and no longer a fan/EU design.
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rattler2Member, Star Trek Online ModeratorPosts: 58,582Community Moderator
Pretty sure we CAN get an updated Luna, as the ship is already in game, but it took a LOT of work to be able to use the Vesta.
Pretty sure we CAN get an updated Luna, as the ship is already in game, but it took a LOT of work to be able to use the Vesta.
If they did do a T6 RSV I would definitely get it, it is one of the few Federation ships I like (though the Sol-class rather than the Luna class itself).
I assume the OP is talking something vaguely like this
That would actually be a good start. Now broaden those pylons (and maybe add a little texturing on the aft surface) to make them better resemble wings, and maybe widen that aft end a touch...
I assume the OP is talking something vaguely like this
That would actually be a good start. Now broaden those pylons (and maybe add a little texturing on the aft surface) to make them better resemble wings, and maybe widen that aft end a touch...
Another good version would be to make the engineering section less angular, make it flow with organic curves into a warp ring (whole or interrupted type) like the Romulan MMEs instead of nacelles.
A similar idea would be to start out with a Fed Sol-class RSV, make the secondary hull flow out into a Romulan style with an interrupted annular warp drive to make a sort of dragon-like look.
Or they could combine the two above and come up with a sort of reverse manta ray look, though I think one of the aliens already does something like that.
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I do 3D modeling myself and have made ships for FreeSpace, Freespace 2 series of games which I still love to do. I have done many textures for various games over the years and I WISH Star Trek Online would let members make texture...or skins for our ships as some of the current examples are low quality textures.
Cryptic has to go through too much legal pain to contemplate doing another Fan contest or EU design ever again. The closest we will get is the Jupiter, Lukari, and the current Summer ship contest where the devs create a bunch of designs and we vote for the 'best' ship. Of course, there is the possibility that some fan design or EU design becomes part of a Star Trek show and we get it due to it now being a canon ship and no longer a fan/EU design.
If they did do a T6 RSV I would definitely get it, it is one of the few Federation ships I like (though the Sol-class rather than the Luna class itself).
Another good version would be to make the engineering section less angular, make it flow with organic curves into a warp ring (whole or interrupted type) like the Romulan MMEs instead of nacelles.
A similar idea would be to start out with a Fed Sol-class RSV, make the secondary hull flow out into a Romulan style with an interrupted annular warp drive to make a sort of dragon-like look.
Or they could combine the two above and come up with a sort of reverse manta ray look, though I think one of the aliens already does something like that.