Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
Have to agree with mightybobnc on the transformation idea. IMO Cryptic missed a good opportunity by giving the Risian Corvette and likely this ship with a decent weapon layout. The Risian Corvette could have been used for races, but instead we got another combat ship. The cruiseliner could be used for some other type of content than the regular combat missions we do.
The only use for sails in space would be the solar wind thing, maybe when you activate this ability you turn off your engines and get a big bonus power to all other systems
Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
The only use for sails in space would be the solar wind thing, maybe when you activate this ability you turn off your engines and get a big bonus power to all other systems
Sails can also be used for energy or resource collection. Realistically, it would not be difficult to make a solar sail into a propulsion system and solar cells. When a particular solar sail is not needed, then it could be turned into a solar cell. Although, the main reason why it has sails is that it goes back to when men sailed the seas and not space. A cruiseliner is not about practicality, but luxury.
No, I wouldn't even qualify it as that. To be qualified as a "good bad movie" it has to have some redeeming qualities (like good CGI, etc.). It didn't.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
loose the wings and nacelles as it makes it look silly, it would then look like a boat in space and all it would need is funky colors and multiple different beam emitters and you got a real rainbow cruiser.
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
No, I wouldn't even qualify it as that. To be qualified as a "good bad movie" it has to have some redeeming qualities (like good CGI, etc.). It didn't.
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http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/star-trek-online-summer-lohlunat-festival#!slide=2653631
I already fell in love with the "sails" of that one:
http://stolivia.com/2014/04/09/risan-cruiseliner/
Yes, there is a picture of that ship (the one you linked) on Risa in place of the corvette.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
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I would like to kiss you for that idea! Can't wait for that ship to come!
For those of you who seem to have missed the pun here;
Go watch The Fifth Element
And to the OP, I thought the same thing when I seen the Dev Blog picture. I just want the stats now
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Sails can also be used for energy or resource collection. Realistically, it would not be difficult to make a solar sail into a propulsion system and solar cells. When a particular solar sail is not needed, then it could be turned into a solar cell. Although, the main reason why it has sails is that it goes back to when men sailed the seas and not space. A cruiseliner is not about practicality, but luxury.
I've seen the Fifth Element. It was a bad movie. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
No, I wouldn't even qualify it as that. To be qualified as a "good bad movie" it has to have some redeeming qualities (like good CGI, etc.). It didn't.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
No but I will name my Ships :
USS Supergreen, Crystalgreen, Emeraldgreen and so on :P
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
You have no soul.
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link doesnt work. tried to manually copy it and go, open in new tab, it doesnt work.