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Warbird class. Forrunner to introducing Warp Cores into the game?
rustiswordz
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So Romulan ships aren't listed as Sci, Tac or Eng but it's own class: The Warbird. The warbird its suggested capability is tied to the singularity core of the ship.
How on Earth is this going to work? And is this the forerunner of the suggested idea of introducing various Warp Cores into ships to increase their flexibility. Myself who is mainly a cruiser captain is cautiously optimistic. By having various swappable/ modifiable core types Cruiser sized ships may finally be able to ramp up their turn and weapons power far greater than they are now.
Speculation?
How on Earth is this going to work? And is this the forerunner of the suggested idea of introducing various Warp Cores into ships to increase their flexibility. Myself who is mainly a cruiser captain is cautiously optimistic. By having various swappable/ modifiable core types Cruiser sized ships may finally be able to ramp up their turn and weapons power far greater than they are now.
Speculation?
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What did you see on Tribble?
Thanks vLaddie i wasn't aware of that. I'll do some digging.
They come in a wide variety, allowing you to tailor your ship to your liking. You can read more about them here.
My character Tsin'xing
Care to elaborate? I can't get on Tribble for several days!
They don't have flat power bonuses like M/A cores, but they have an "up to" bonus to a single power system based on something called Singularity Charge. Better ones have skill bonuses, but some have 20% increased singularity charge build rate, implying that whatever singularity charge is it can be accumulated.
Blue ones have a power attached. Many of these appear to modify powers rather than grant them directly, like Improved Plasma Shockwave and Improved Singularity Jump. Could be innate warbird powers, alternate Romulan versions of boff powers, or new boff powers (possibly even Romulan-only).
There's a couple theories floating around, mine is that singularity charge is a sort of "mana bar" that builds with time and can be used for unique Warbird powers.
true, but 7.5% power synergy bonus on a Mk X blue isnt that bad, can give a little more to another power level based on which one you get. have no idea what a blue Mk XII might do, 9% maybe?
Wait! What am I using for my Warp core now?
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It's pronounced "S.T.O." "Stow" sounds idiotic! lol
From tooltips and Ask Cryptic, "Warbird" seems to be the generic term for all Romulan ships, from the bird of prey up to the Scimitar and that nightmarish Scimitar variant that showed up on the Tribble foundry, whether they're fast, slow, or whatever. The ship you're referring to would now be designated the more specific "D'derix Warbird." And, yeah, it might be big and slow, but others like, say, this warbird may not be.
True the D'deridex-class warbird yes I chose that pokemon :P
My character Tsin'xing
Well, not exactly.
The suggestion you're thinking of basically worked a lot like Base construction in City of Heroes, if I remember it correctly.
Warp Cores would provide a certain amount of Power and Computer Cores would provide a certain amount of Control (CPU was the term used, I believe). The kinds of Cores you could use would depend on the size, class, and rank of the ship.
Every component that you wanted to slot in would have a power requirement and a control requirement, and deduct what it needed from the available Power and Control provided by the Cores. Once you used up all of the available Power and/or Control, you couldn't slot anything else.
This could be a baby step in that direction, I admit. But I think I like this way better. A lot of room for customization and optimization, with less complexity (and headache from trying to put together a working configuration).
Makes me wonder how they'd implement Computer Cores, IF they decided to...
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Considering the Defiant wasn't considered an escort in DS9, I hope that's the way things will go.
I would like to have all ship classes removed, and just be "This is this ship, that is that ship, this is what's awesome about this ship, etc".
It creates greater dynamics to the game as a whole by doing so.
I have no idea what-- *reads somewhat more carefully before continuing to type
I like it, I like it!
Can we have this? Can we have this? Please?
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
This whole expansion stuff almost has me chomping at the bit to see it all unfold
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You're using the same white matter-antimatter core that you'll be able to take out and replace when the update hits.
Suricata, among others, proposed an idea which separated engines/warp cores and had them controlling weapon layout among other things.
Yes, it was. Very first line spoken about the ship after everybody cleaned up their pants from Sisko's prank with the cloak. "Officially, she's classed as an escort."