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I finally figured out what is going on with the Gal-X.

opo98opo98 Member Posts: 435 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Federation Discussion
So, the devs have not fixed the asymmetrical skin of the Gal-X now for 3 years, and continued to sell it in its disheveled state.

I could not fathom why they did this, but I now know why.

The Venture-X skin.

The people who cared about looks would drop 1500 zen just to not look at the ugly that is the Gal-X. :eek:

Think I got that figured out?
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Nope, Venture Skin is bent, too, it's just harder to see.
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  • nobletnoblet Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Or maybe no one else cares.;)
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    My guess is that the guy who made the original model has long since been sacked and whatever construction templates were used to build them lost, so the model would have to be rebuilt from scratch.

    The real question is why the hell there were EVER two asymmetric sides of the model. Most Trek ships are symmetrical and so only half of the model would ever need to be built, the other hald simply constructed by mirroring...
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    doffingcomrade wrote: »
    My guess is that the guy who made the original model has long since been sacked and whatever construction templates were used to build them lost, so the model would have to be rebuilt from scratch.

    The real question is why the hell there were EVER two asymmetric sides of the model. Most Trek ships are symmetrical and so only half of the model would ever need to be built, the other hald simply constructed by mirroring...

    I am not sure but it might have been some kind of Rush-Job because Cryptic had very little time to build STO from scratch when they got the job. I think they only had 2 years or so, while Perpetula worked 4 years and had nothing.

    And as you said, it could be a lost template thing too. Some Devs left over the years and their workbenches were lost somewhere. (The same thing happened to Beam: Fire at Will, they had to re-create the math and mechanic from the beginning.)
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    opo98 wrote: »
    So, the devs have not fixed the asymmetrical skin of the Gal-X now for 3 years, and continued to sell it in its disheveled state.

    I could not fathom why they did this, but I now know why.

    The Venture-X skin.

    The people who cared about looks would drop 1500 zen just to not look at the ugly that is the Gal-X. :eek:

    Think I got that figured out?

    People buy that ship for a canon/original look. Even if the venture wouldn't be broken too, it would hardly be a selling point.
    Also the venture came long after the gx, which was broken from the beginning.
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    I am not sure but it might have been some kind of Rush-Job because Cryptic had very little time to build STO from scratch when they got the job. I think they only had 2 years or so, while Perpetula worked 4 years and had nothing.

    And as you said, it could be a lost template thing too. Some Devs left over the years and their workbenches were lost somewhere. (The same thing happened to Beam: Fire at Will, they had to re-create the math and mechanic from the beginning.)

    The game wasn't released with the gx, that came later (I think it was actually the first ship addition, only available for recruiters. But it wasn't there at release)
    So that's hardly the reason for that failure.
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    revandarklighter wrote: »
    People buy that ship for a canon/original look. Even if the venture wouldn't be broken too, it would hardly be a selling point.
    Also the venture came long after the gx, which was broken from the beginning.



    The game wasn't released with the gx, that came later (I think it was actually the first ship addition, only available for recruiters. But it wasn't there at release)
    So that's hardly the reason for that failure.

    Maybe they used the regular model and put the lance and 3rd nacelle on it ? :confused:

    But I think we can agree that it feels like a rushed-job, or the (former) ship artist didn't have much time for fine-tuning.
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    Maybe they used the regular model and put the lance and 3rd nacelle on it ? :confused:

    But I think we can agree that it feels like a rushed-job, or the (former) ship artist didn't have much time for fine-tuning.

    They did. But since the lance and the 3rd nacelle are the broken parts...
    Also actually they worked quite a lot on the gx and galaxy model since both used to look a lot worst.

    However,,gx came after release and given that they originally didn't even put it into cstore they were in no hurry.
    Which is why I don't get why it's a rushed job. Probably because it was supposed to be available to a very limited amount of ppl and therefore didn't really care...
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Wasnt she at first part of a "bring 5 friends to the game and you get a free X" reward programm?

    Maybe it was a short and fast decision and the job then rushed?
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    Wasnt she at first part of a "bring 5 friends to the game and you get a free X" reward programm?

    Maybe it was a short and fast decision and the job then rushed?

    Yes she was.
    Well if she was rushed that would be stupid since there was no hurry with that particular perk. But then again, it's cryptic....
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    revandarklighter wrote: »
    Yes she was.
    Well if she was rushed that would be stupid since there was no hurry with that particular perk. But then again, it's cryptic....

    Oh behave!!! :P
  • vipspredvipspred Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I think the explanation is that the Galaxy X additions were made for the old Galaxy model. When they updated the standard Galaxy, they forgot to adjust the Galaxy X parts. At least that's what smart people have been saying on these forums.
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    vipspred wrote: »
    I think the explanation is that the Galaxy X additions were made for the old Galaxy model. When they updated the standard Galaxy, they forgot to adjust the Galaxy X parts. At least that's what smart people have been saying on these forums.

    That would make actually sense.
    Did anyone here own a GX before the Galaxy model changes were made? Did it have the problems then already?
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    revandarklighter wrote: »
    That would make actually sense.
    Did anyone here own a GX before the Galaxy model changes were made? Did it have the problems then already?

    That was what I actually meant, but maybe I should a: be clearer, b: stop thinking and doing speculations, or c: stop posting to threads :D
  • admiralq1732admiralq1732 Member Posts: 1,561 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    the Venture skin has problems. Missing lights on the bottom of saucer. why didn't they fix these when they made the bundle is an even bigger question.
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