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Really? A 4th Caitian ship?
wakeroberts
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I'm not trying to knock Caitians here. I know there are lots of Caitian fans. But why not branch out a little more to some Federation races that haven't been represented yet? Why not a Denobulan or a Rigelian ship? I'd really like to see them get a little love too.
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I mean, if you want to count the T5's and T6's as separate, then the Andorians and Vulcans also have 6 and 2 ships respectively.
I'm not counting the Caitian shuttle. That one has been in the game for years. And how much shuttle content do we have anyway?
Not that I'm opposed to seeing more stuff of some other key species of course. But that's because more ships and more diversity is never a bad thing, not because I'd say that the Caitians are over-represented or anything.
Caitians and Andorians are much more popular than other races, so they get ships first.
I mean seriously Cryptic, when will the long overlooked Horta get their species-specific ship & while you're at it made into a playable species? :-)
Trendy promised us playable Horta, and I'm still waiting! It was an official announcement!!
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9890613-star-trek-online:-new-playable-species-horta!
( ... yes the blog date was April 1, why are you asking? )
...and still not one real hairstyle for the kitty people (looking at you M'Ress).
arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1203368/pve-content-a-list-of-gamewide-polishing-pass-suggestions
And honestly when releasing a carrier, you should be able to make damn sure it all works right, its not like there is a ton of dual hanger carriers they arent cruisers.
I also find the restriction of the pets to dual hangar carriers a bit odd. There are too few of them anyway for these pets to be an useful addition to the game for most players.
There's the Stalker stealth shuttle.
Not really a ship and it has been in the game since forever, as noted though. It's not the best example to include if someone would want to claim favouritism for this species.
Vulcans also seem to be one of the more popular species in terms of player characters. Then again, there aren't an awful lot of Vulcan ships flying around in the game. Not surprising for a T5 ship of course, but the T6 one was part of an event and is thus likely owned by many players.
I think that I've only seen, literally, one of them in the past couple of months. Their ships don't seem to be that popular. The same would go for most species-specific ships though, I might add. I don't think I've ever seen a Lethean ship, even Andorian ones are fairly rare and the Atrox and Shi'karis aren't seen that often either.
Players in general appear to prefer flying regular faction ships. Meaning ships like Intrepids, Defiants, Galaxies, Sovereigns, Connies and so on for the Federation. I can understand that, the game has us act like Starfleet officers after all. Not as members of the Vulcan Science Academy or the Andorian Imperial Guard or... whatever the Caitian fleet command is called.
Caitian are nice in how different the ships look to everything else and it makes sense to have them the carrier when they had the T5 one so like, carriers are their thing.
I'd like an Andorian carrier one day maybe as those andorian pilot ships are fighter-y so it makes sense the AIG would have one?
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Andorian's, Letheans, and Dewans each have a 3 set group of Pilot ships themselves.
Still I'm excited for a possible T6 Dyson Update, especially given the more cooperative design, since Dyson technology was first introduced in the Sphere. I really see Dyson ships as the precursor to the eventual Temporal 29th ships we first saw in Voyager.
Er, the Caitians got the Shikaris escort as well, not just the carriers. But the Stalker as a ship? eh. It's basically in the same category as the Scorp and to'duj, it's a fighter for the carriers, so make it a flyable fighter for small craft stuff.
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.'
Yeah, the idea of attritional warfare just isn't starfleet really.
So really what the game needs is a time gated crowd funding ability which could utilize Fleet Starbases and the crafting system via the shipyard to do these. So basically what Cryptic could start off doing is creating templates to sell in the c-store that are the base or foundation of what their ships look like as they start them off. Then with the function of a time gate and the aspect of crowd funding once a timer starts on all the resources being there for something they can then work on the next pieces you get so the time gate is just for them to do the work as needed so they can continue on their scheduled work. Plus the game really needs an agreeable dilithium sink that most anyone can agree upon as well as something that puts more value into shipyards so that once a prototype ship is built that shipyard can then produce these ships.
Overall they just need a system like this that restores dilithium and other currency values and allows them to know exactly when, what, and how they can introduce ships like these. I am pretty sure its a reasonable but something I know that could be improved upon by Cryptic and others ideas. Plus on top of all this they need to go back and revisit the earlier Fleet Starbase design because there are many vendors in them but they tended to only offer things that were so limited in use like the fleet operational assets that no one ever used them and then now of days no one ever does those specific fleet queues. I'd like to see them redo those and remove faction barriers in one big overhaul that allows everything from non-faction specific ships like these and ways they can be used and valued.
That is only because for some reason STO has so far chosen to base all Orion ships on Harrad-Sar's junker of a barge and ignore all the sleeker, more elegant designs like the Scout and the Interceptor (in fact, they treat the runabout-sized Vulcan T'Pau as a full-sized science scout but treat the Interceptors, which are shown as much bigger than the T'Pau class, as fighter-runabouts.
And giving the smaller civilizations in the factions some attention is a good thing anyway, this time the Caitians get a nice ship, maybe the Orions will be next (though I doubt it), it is all good whoever the next lucky underdog is either way.
A problem is that since ENT (because before we barely got nay Orions at all) the impression got reinforced that the Syndicate is the governing body and sole structure of the Orion society when I think Orions were the most sophisticated scientists and space explorers for a long time. They really suffer from very short-sighted misrepresentation.
It's not that hard to be frank. Two carriers, one escort and one small craft make four.
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It would be nice to see some Orion ships based on the Orion scout ship.
I like its lil energy balls inside its ring
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But yeah Orion escorts would be great to have.
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Well, what could anyone really say to that? I'm not sure what you are expecting.
So I'll just leave it at...
Yes.