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Will there be plans to update older ship models to be on par with Vesta?
captainwallis84
Member Posts: 169 Arc User
I've been thinking about this alot recently and noticed that since the Odyssey and Vesta ships, STO's ship models are starting to out-look older STO ship models, in terms of detail.
The Vesta class is gorgeous in terms of detail and so is the Odyssey. As much as I love these ships (and have them both), I always fly my Galaxy class and think to my self "Gee...My Galaxy class would look sweet with a unique material made specificley for the Galaxy, like the Vesta".
My main point being, now we have better looking ship models, will the ship team update older models and give us some new materials to make our ships look on par with the new ones, or give us more customization with them. IE: change registry font colour, more decals etc.
The Vesta class is gorgeous in terms of detail and so is the Odyssey. As much as I love these ships (and have them both), I always fly my Galaxy class and think to my self "Gee...My Galaxy class would look sweet with a unique material made specificley for the Galaxy, like the Vesta".
My main point being, now we have better looking ship models, will the ship team update older models and give us some new materials to make our ships look on par with the new ones, or give us more customization with them. IE: change registry font colour, more decals etc.
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But he's just one guy, and he's admitted to re-doing a lot of the older NPC ships on top of creating new ships. His plate is pretty full pretty much all the time.
Would also like a new material for my t2 connie too.
Rear Admiral , Engineering Division
U.S.S. Sheffield N.C.C. 92016
Example:
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=769201
To be honest I feel cheated finding out the USS Enterprise (TOS) constitution light cruiser didn't scale with character level and it was pretty damn useless once you reach level 10 and get your first free ship. The only thing it comes with in terms of equipment are blue phaser beam arrays that do scale with level and have the original series sound effects, but after about 2 minutes it becomes really annoying. I payed real money for Zen that I used to get the classic 1701 style ship because I like the look. Tried it out on my Vice Admiral once and it took forever to kill anything and I struggled to stay alive.
Go ahead, Cryptic/PWE: Prove me wrong. I dare you.
The same happened with the bug, d'kora and the galor. They only got updated ahead of appearing in lockboxes....
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=6827231&postcount=18
Um yeahhhh. Lots of talk about updating *NPC* ships and of course they wouldn't charge us for a graphical update on ships we can't even use. But I believe the OP was referring to PLAYER ships as well and the post you refer to makes almost no mention of this and constantly mentions *NPC* ships being updated to look better. So I would say it's a safe bet they won't update older models on PLAYER ships for free, and that they'll find some way to charge us for it like making it into a mirror ship and cramming it into another friggen lockbox. :P
New people may not know, but when CapnLogan took over as "ship councelor", he redid the Galaxy and a couple of other ships and gave them massive visual overhauls. (I'm sure there are pictures with the V1 Galaxy Graphic somewhere).
And with the link to JJ's post about ship materials being phased out, one material I would love to see (and I'm sure many of you as well) would be an Aztec hull material.
Im 100% with you on this one mate. We need a proper Aztech hull material for all ships. The new fleet material (Unique) sort of has this, but it has a blue tint to it, and looks odd on certain federation ships.
We need a proper grey/white aztech hull material, that matches the ships from the tv show and movies. And would be nice to have an alternate fleet material that was white in colour (like type 6), but with an aztech design and alternate deflector. The Galaxy class would look sweet.
I love all the klingon ship materials, and they look near close to cannon klingon ship materials seen in the movies. The feds however have about 2 that i like. The type two and type 6 (which you can only get with the cstore ships).
The rest arnt very...well...starfleet. I now use the new fleet material as its as close to the aztech hull design that sto has at the moment. Type 4 (the black one)...whats that all about. Makes the fed ships look horrid. This is my own opinion by the way, as i have noticed alot of sto players use the type 4 material.
I agree. These two ships have had nothing modified or altered since there release. The connie may have had the geo altered slightly, but i know the mirander and centaur have been left.
I know its only a small gripe, but the galaxy class deflector really bugs me. Its not just a plain texture. It needs modeld geo on it. At least then nomater which material you choose, you always have the same "cannon" deflector.