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Green photon torpedoes for Klingon ships

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Some Klingon ships fire green photon torpedoes ST 3, ST 5, ST: Generations, and some of the episodes on the various series. I would like some photon torpedo launchers (crafted perhaps? or randomly looted would be fine too) be green. I don't mind having red ones as well. This way everyone can have whichever is their preference. There would be enough difference in appearance from green to red in photon, because the size of plasma ones are much different than photon, so people could still tell them apart without any trouble. Or make them a slightly different green than the plasma torpedoes. This would make almost everyone happy and allow personal preference and choice to reign.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    jas-ava wrote:
    Klingon ships fire green photon torpedoes in TNG, DS9, VOY, and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. I would like this in STO as well, or at least the option of having them green.

    colors are assigned to different beams and torpedos i would think , so that they are easily distinguished from each other, important in pvp when you have to change armor and shield resists around. It's a visual indicator , i like it as it is.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    (I may be a little color blind but...) I dont think there really is a green torp, the plasma doesnt look too green, the hy is for sure, but from what I remember the kling photon had a neat light show around it, the plasma doesnt, there ya go...AND it would be easy to tell the diff because of the proc...no fire on the hull means its a photon...

    I LOVE this suggestion, make it Canon!! what els can we ask for?

    AND if my memory is bad (I dont watch the old star trek much, just Voy really...give the plasma some little extra flare, on fed and kling, and that way green projectile comeing from a kling is a proton, a yellow orange ish one from a fed is still a proton.

    The phase of the game is now mostly fixing, making things canon ect ect and and Imo, the game needs some serious shoe shinin, not just a spit job here some scrubbin bubbles style. They made a good game, and they have fixed crafting...I like it a lot better
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    opzulu wrote: »
    (I may be a little color blind but...) I dont think there really is a green torp, the plasma doesnt look too green, the hy is for sure, but from what I remember the kling photon had a neat light show around it, the plasma doesnt, there ya go...AND it would be easy to tell the diff because of the proc...no fire on the hull means its a photon...

    I LOVE this suggestion, make it Canon!! what els can we ask for?

    AND if my memory is bad (I dont watch the old star trek much, just Voy really...give the plasma some little extra flare, on fed and kling, and that way green projectile comeing from a kling is a proton, a yellow orange ish one from a fed is still a proton.

    The phase of the game is now mostly fixing, making things canon ect ect and and Imo, the game needs some serious shoe shinin, not just a spit job here some scrubbin bubbles style. They made a good game, and they have fixed crafting...I like it a lot better

    Your ship flies like a submarine.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Cryptic told us ages ago taht weapon colors were determiend by CBS. So afraid you have to get use to red Photon Torpedos.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Cryptic told us ages ago taht weapon colors were determiend by CBS. So afraid you have to get use to red Photon Torpedos.

    that honestly seems strange, when DS9 used green torpedos for klingon ships too (not always, but enough for it to ne not seen as an aberration).

    not sayin i don't believe you, just strikes me as odd, tbh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    as much as this would be awesome...

    i think the point that keeping certain weapons a certain color aids players in making split second decisions in PvP and PvE.

    also... it is unclear whether giant green balls in DS9 are actually green photons... they are probably disruptor weapons of some type.

    also many times BoP's fire red photons in movies and in TNG.

    HOWEVER...

    while we are on this subject...

    sicne Klingon engines are CLEARLY red:

    can the klingons get red or orange "Vent Warp Plasma"
    so we can see which warp spam is ours and which is federation!?!?

    NOW THAT WOULD BE HANDY :)

    plus it would make combat much more colorful!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    We'll run into a similar problem in the future when other races with similar weapons are added, particularly the Cardassian who, depending on the author of a praticular episode, are armed with Disruptors...or Phaser...or Phase-Disruptors.
    Anyway in later seasons of TNG and all of DS9, they hade beams that looked different from Federation Phasers and also had a different sound-effect (I hated the purple first incarnation of Cardassian weaponry!).

    So while it is currently only the colour of a torpedo, it will be more than just that in the future.
    In the other thread, I was mostly against the idea that once you put a Photon onto a Klingon ship, it automatically turns green because of the faction and because some Klingon ships fired green torps.
    I like the red torpedoes on my K't'inga, particularly due to that scene from "That Motion Picture".
    So crafting would be a good idea, as would be more sub-types of Photnons with different characteristics.
    For example I would imagine Photons with identical DPS values but different rates of fire might be intersting.
    Perhaps along the lines of the red ones fire every 6, green every 5 and orange (Cardassian) every 5.5 seconds but each have the same DPS.
    So in the end you could decide which ones you wand based both on aestetics and your unique playing-style.
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