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Faction ship unlock - how does this work for Wells & Verne?

fluxcapacitor#9257 fluxcapacitor Member Posts: 34 Arc User
The announcement on the game-wide cross-faction ship unlock is interesting news. How does/will this work for the Temporal Science Vessel requisition packs? These automatically unpack to a Wells/Verne on a Federation character, and a Korath/Qul'poH for KDF. Same with the Temporal Destroyer. How do you get these to open up as the Federation variant on a KDF character, or the KDF variant on a Fed character?
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  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    Interesting dilemma.

    Cryptic could keep it as it is since there are faction-appropriate ship versions or let it all hang out & let the players decide which of the 3 versions their character would pilot.
  • fluxcapacitor#9257 fluxcapacitor Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    Well, if they want to increase sales, which is what this is about, they might want to let you choose. People who want the faction-version of those ships will already have them. Letting people choose will open the door to more sales as those people get the Verne.
  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    Well, if they want to increase sales, which is what this is about, they might want to let you choose. People who want the faction-version of those ships will already have them. Letting people choose will open the door to more sales as those people get the Verne.

    I usually tend to like the more options approach myself even if I don't fully utilize an option like that & for this particular scenario I've always liked that Krenn (there's a T6 version now too) ship design over the fed & Rom faction versions.
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  • joshmauljoshmaul Member Posts: 519 Arc User
    Which begs the question, will you be able to choose all three of them (if you're one of those psychos who bought the pack when it was on sale in Mudd's Market and have the ability to reclaim them at will)?
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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 7,058 Arc User
    joshmaul wrote: »
    Which begs the question, will you be able to choose all three of them (if you're one of those psychos who bought the pack when it was on sale in Mudd's Market and have the ability to reclaim them at will)?

    I don't see why you wouldn't be able to.
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  • daedalus304daedalus304 Member Posts: 1,049 Arc User
    Also wondering what will happen to those of us who have the Temporal Heavy Dreadnought Cruisers...like the Universe class and whatnot.

    I'm hoping it'll just be a cosmetic switch option in the shipyard, allowing us to choose which version of the ship we want, between the fed, kdf, rom versions.
  • mattingly1mattingly1 Member Posts: 206 Arc User
    edited January 2021
    Also wondering what will happen to those of us who have the Temporal Heavy Dreadnought Cruisers...like the Universe class and whatnot.

    I'm hoping it'll just be a cosmetic switch option in the shipyard, allowing us to choose which version of the ship we want, between the fed, kdf, rom versions.

    I have my doubts on this one. This is going to be the same as selecting an item out of a loot crate - you are choosing that item; not the others. From Cryptic's perspective, this is a very wise decision, because it will drive people to purchase more of the lockbox items off the market, thereby increasing zen sales overall as players farm the lockboxes for now more-valuable ships.
  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    I could see possibly Cryptic allowing, let us say you have the Fed version, the big flying pizza cutter Enterprise so now possibly all could pilot it, but I'd think you'd still need to win through the gambling or buy off the exchange the other 2: Durgath & Valkis which are the better looking ones imo.

  • mattingly1mattingly1 Member Posts: 206 Arc User
    Has anyone opened one of these things yet today? Because the flavor text on my box hasn't changed...

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