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I thought those were supposed to roll out on all science ships before the end of season 9.
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as with everything we want ingame, they got it almost done, and then put it on the back burner to try and get some other useless un needed new toy ingame..
we wont see those for at least another year or more probably.. which is a shame..
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Here's how you can bet the progression went.
Start:
"Yay secondary deflectors! Science ships will be so cool now!"
"Hey that's great, but here comes crafting. We've got to make new items and balanace that **** out across the whole game. We don't have time to focus on only one ship type."
"Oh...ok we'll hold off on making new deflectors for now but we'll eventually get back to it, right?"
"Sure."
-Some time later-
"Crafting is done can we finish secondary deflectors?"
"Oh **** no, we've got new ship tiers, new ship classes, new ship upgrade schemes, and Mk XIV equipement! You want to try to get all that together AND revamp a niche ship class with a brand new section of space equipment?"
"....no."
-secondary deflector guys slinks off to the development dungeon of shame-
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Remembering what one of the Devs said way back when Secondary Deflectors were first mentioned, about some ships getting upgraded/modified visuals to show the SD, I jumped onto Tribble (<sigh>yes I have access) and had a look.
Many of the Science Ships (at least for Fed toons) seem to have a graphic/spot on them for what looks like it would be a SD, I'm not sure if they are in fact any different, so it would need someone who is familiar with the curent ships, and who also has access to Tribble to have a look ...
I know that the Intrepid has had an update and that looks very good, so maybe they snuck in a few more changes?
Geko responded to that in one of his podcasts (think the STOked one), where he pretty much said "too much work" (my words, not his). Where they have to basically go into the database and add it for every Science Ship.
So, guessing from that.............you could expect it something.........next summer perhaps?
Though I wouldn't be surprised if one of the new Tier 6 Science ships will have one.
Just like it was too much work to add cruiser commands? Or warp core slots? Boo-f[REDACTED]ing-hoo.
Actually my only disagreement with this comment is the "it'll be another year or more probably." You're probably never going to see it for t5 ships and below.
My guess:
T6 ships will probably be designed around it, and that'll end up being the new "science ship special power". That'll end up being the big difference between t5 upgrade sci ships and t6 ships. They dyson which already has it may... may... then be able to be upgraded to a full t6 ship.
I dunno why it's that awkward, but I am not in the business of building MMOs.
The end of season 9 is still far away. Season 10 is supposed to be scheduled sometime in 2015, which makes DR still part of S9. If they would be released 1 week before S10 hits holodeck next spring or summer they'd have kept their word on the deflectors.
Are there really people who actually buy the zen versions with real money?
Everytime I see one I check which version they are and so far I've only seen the free/lobi versions flying aorund.
Sounds like an excuse to me, as with creating new ships, they still have to go back and re-do them anyways.
So why not get it out of the way now?
You know the old saying "Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do today."
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As I understood it - they just don't want to do it twice - once for the current version of the game, and once for expansion 2.
It is going to be added, just not sure when.
LOLZ, im pretty sure we will keep saying the same thing 2 years from now, right? xD.
Im pretty sure they will come with the next expansion. If not, just forget about it, you will never get secondary deflectors. It will be another "look how cool guys this feature will be - but dont worry we will never release it xD". And this is another feature that needs to be implemented as priority, since the more content and ships they add, the more difficult will be to implement secondary deflectors (same for almost any fail on the game). So, i tell you, if at this point we dont have secondary deflectors, i dont think we will see em someday.
I seem to be a bit slow. What is the Particle Manipulator trait and how is it OP? I have always played science and still end up taking a back seat to vapers in PVP and tacscorts in PVE.
If I can rule the day, I would love to know how it is done.
They wouldn't be doing it twice, if they released them at the launch of X2!
They instead, want to put it off is all!
And the longer they do that, the more ships it means to incorporate it to later on!
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^^ So very much this!