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Unscientific Poll : Do you plan to Upgrade to T5U or T6?

spacebaronlinespacebaronline Member Posts: 1,103 Arc User
edited January 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So how many ships do you plan to upgrade to T5U? Did you buy the Delta Pack? Any T6 ships to be bought over the next few days?

Tell us what is happening to your ship roster!



For me?

I did not get the pack. Will get one of the Rommie T6 and probably the Dauntless. I will also probably only upgrade my Scimitar and T'Varo to T5U, and perhaps my very underpowered but beloved Fleet B'rel BoP.



Update : Given the pricing of 700 zen for 1 token or 2000 zen for 4 - I will be upgrading only 4 ships max.
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  • crazyj1987crazyj1987 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    when my next paycheck is here im gonna get me a Guardian Class

    i could propably afford an upgrade because my Zen is at a bit over 1500 but i dont see the need..
  • tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Will upgrade the Charal for all my fed characters, and use the free breen ships too.

    Will upgrade the Fleet Mogai, and the Scimitar for my romulans. Not sure about the T'varo.

    Will either upgrade the Mogh for my klingons, or buy the T6 raptor. Not sure.

    This all depends on just how much zen these upgrade tokens and new ships will cost.

    And no, I'm not buying the pack, since its very expensive, and I do not need the fed ships.
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  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Going to wait till T6 is gonna replace everything below completely (T6 Galaxy i.E. etc) ... T5U might not be completely "obsolete" right now ... but it's going to be sooner or later ... no point in spending money right now ...
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I will upgrade all the characters that use lockboxships, and upgrade my science fleet atrox to FT5U, I will eventually transfer my tactical caitian to a T6 ship as I'm tired of running around in a defiant with him.
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  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I plan on flying a freebie T5 until I either win or buy the Lock Box Cruiser off the exchange or just pony up and get a T6.

    I see absolutely no reason to buy a store T5 now and spend again to upgrade.
  • comdrivercomdriver Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'll upgrade my Scimitar and all free Risan ships. That looks enough for first time.
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  • getsgreasedgetsgreased Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    spacebaronline wrote: »
    So how many ships do you plan to upgrade to T5U? Did you buy the Delta Pack? Any T6 ships to be bought over the next few days?
    I've played for going on 3 years. I've built up an extensive fleet across 4 toons. With Delta Rising, I get the sense that my fleet will immediately become inferior with massive costs in time and ZEN/Dilithium to make my fleet top quality again.

    For me, this may be my exit point from STO. After 3 years, for Cryptic/ARC to demand that I throw so much back into the game to get back to competitive is too much to ask. Loyalty should have been rewarded, not exploited as an opportunity to suck more out of loyal players.

    That's just how I feel.
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I still can't decide. I'll have to get in game and play around before I make up my mind what I want to do.
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  • schloopdooschloopdoo Member Posts: 373 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I don't have enough active alts to make the bundle worthwhile, but the Tier 6 Klingon Raptor is such a unique ship among the vehicles available to the KDF (essentially a Klingon version of the Andorian Kumari, with one Universal console instead of three) that it'll be worth buying one when it becomes available as an itemized purchase.

    If/When I call my Starfleet toon off the bench again, I'll likely upgrade his Fleet Avenger Battlecruiser to Tier 5-U. There's nothing in the bundle for Starfleet that jumps out at me as something that I absolutely must have, although I'll look forward to seeing other players use all those Intel ships in STFs. If you're getting them, here's hoping you enjoy them!
  • hyefatherhyefather Member Posts: 1,286 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    spacebaronline wrote: »
    So how many ships do you plan to upgrade to T5U? Did you buy the Delta Pack? Any T6 ships to be bought over the next few days?

    Tell us what is happening to your ship roster!

    I did not get the pack. Will get one of the Rommie T6 and probably the Dauntless. I will also probably only upgrade my Scimitar and T'Varo to T5U, and perhaps my very underpowered but beloved Fleet B'rel BoP.

    The one I plan to upgrade first is my Fleet B'rel. I love that ship. Its my favorite above all. Followed by my Fleet assault cruiser. There may be a few more but those 2 come first.

    P.S. I was considering upgrading my Galor but IMO the extra engineering console killed it. I see these ships dropping in price on the exchange for 2 reasons. 1 I already mentioned the extra engineering console and 2. The special spiral weapons arn't all that appealing now that we have more desirable mods. and can upgrade. DR killed the Galor. If you enjoy RP and have made a Cardassian/alien character and in the past coulldn't afford a Galor I guess this is good news.
  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I haven't even finished building out the 5 ships each of my 4 alts have now; not even going to consider upgrades until I've finished those builds, and get some experience flying/fighting in them...:rolleyes:
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  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Would probably end up upgrading the main ships on 8 of my characters.... well, except for the one character who is only flying a T1 Miranda.
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  • corethlcorethl Member Posts: 108 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'm going to go with "none". If I have a desperate desire to do a T5U, I'll use one of my vet ships. But my plans are the ships currently in my roster are the ones I'll fly-period.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'm buying one T6 ship, the Guardian. I'll get my hands on that Hazari Destroyer, too, eventually when its price settles down. Other than that I will be upgrading. There are four or five ships I'd like to upgrade, but how many I actually get tokens for depends on the cost. And then I have a few ships that will qualify for free upgrades.
  • spacebaronlinespacebaronline Member Posts: 1,103 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    getsgreased wrote: »
    I've played for going on 3 years. I've built up an extensive fleet across 4 toons. With Delta Rising, I get the sense that my fleet will immediately become inferior with massive costs in time and ZEN/Dilithium to make my fleet top quality again.

    For me, this may be my exit point from STO. After 3 years, for Cryptic/ARC to demand that I throw so much back into the game to get back to competitive is too much to ask. Loyalty should have been rewarded, not exploited as an opportunity to suck more out of loyal players.

    That's just how I feel.

    I know how you feel. I have over 20 T5 c-store ships. I wish that Cryptic would offer an account-wide upgrade token which would cover all my T5 ships. They could also add a scaling discount.

    Say 500 Zen for 1 Tokens

    2000 Zen for 5 Tokens

    3500 Zen for 10 Tokens

    That would certainly make it a lot easier to make large ship rosters from going mothballed.
  • zarxidejackozarxidejacko Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I have all lockbox\lobi\zen Ships aviable to my Rom, but i will use t6 lockbox ship, because everything else is already outdated because of 1 BO ability, i like to min-max so...T6 in my case.
    Pity.. i was looking forward for my Mad Nicor.
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  • pwstolemynamepwstolemyname Member Posts: 1,417 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I don't see any point in spending money on T5-U upgrades beyond getting the most performance out of a ship hull you like the look of.

    T6 is better then T5-U-Fleet, and has an upgrade path to T6-Fleet, whilst T5-U-Fleet is a dead end.

    A console slot is not, and never has been worth a bridge officer power. What's more the stats on the new space Intel powers are horribly OP.

    With DR's release there are still a few openings in the T6 roster where select T5-U ships have some sort of edge, but those openings are sure to be filled with T6 ships over the next year.

    That said I will be upgrading a number of ships to T5-U simply because I have a large number in my roster that upgrade for free.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I have 4 ships I will Upgrade: Fleet Sovereign, Jem Bug, Fleet Nova, and Vesta. I will buy the Delta Pack with Zen when the bundle hits the C-Store in a month or two.
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  • philchapphilchap Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    i plan uprading the avenger, vesta and dyson my feds probaably the dyson on my rommie other then that not sur yet
  • karr007karr007 Member Posts: 105 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    So far the only thing i plan to upgrade is the Tac Odyssey. I like cruisers and the only reason i swap it was the lack of 4th tac console. The 5U version will get one and since the upgrades are account wide all my fed chars will have access to T5U ship with 11 console slots without the need of fleet modules.

    Edit: Also the Pilot specialization could be useful and make it a bit easier to maneuver. I am not expecting miracles, just a bit more mobility.
  • bubblebaflebubblebafle Member Posts: 273 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I dont. I plan to keep playing the same way i did until now, and maybe in a few months i will consider to start throwing away dilithium to upgrade everything, including ships. Once i know everything works at least at 90% as "intended" (watever that means). At that point i will consider to start upgrading, but even then, that doesnt mean i will do it. If i find that my enjoyment is going down because i cant kill any mob because i dont have equipment stronger enough.. i will consider to just quit the game. Period. At least until the way the resources draining is taken is balanced in some way.
  • spacebaronlinespacebaronline Member Posts: 1,103 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    philchap wrote: »
    i plan uprading the avenger, vesta and dyson my feds probaably the dyson on my rommie other then that not sur yet

    Oh the Avenger and Vesta. Man I hope they offer an account wide upgrade option, or a 10 tokens for 3500 type of deal. So many ships to upgrade, so few dollars:(
  • tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    pwstolemyname wrote: »
    I don't see any point in spending money on T5-U upgrades beyond getting the most performance out of a ship hull you like the look of.

    T6 is better then T5-U-Fleet, and has an upgrade path to T6-Fleet, whilst T5-U-Fleet is a dead end.

    A console slot is not, and never has been worth a bridge officer power. What's more the stats on the new space Intel powers are horribly OP.

    With DR's release there are still a few openings in the T6 roster where select T5-U ships have some sort of edge, but those openings are sure to be filled with T6 ships over the next year.

    That said I will be upgrading a number of ships to T5-U simply because I have a large number in my roster that upgrade for free.


    Agreed. I'll only upgrade the ships that have looks that I really like.

    Like the Fleet Mogai with the Valdor skin, and the Charal... I find most fed ships to be ugly, so if I got a ship that looks cool like the andorian escorts, I'll use it.
    I doubt I'll have problems with PVE with it.
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  • architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I will run my upgraded lobi and lockbox ships until better T6 ships come out . . . Oops they just did.
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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I plan on at least updating my 5 toons ships to T5-U, at least. I'm reerving judgement on getting any T6 ships for now.
  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    spacebaronline wrote: »
    So how many ships do you plan to upgrade to T5U? Did you buy the Delta Pack? Any T6 ships to be bought over the next few days?
    I'll do whatever T5-U upgrades are free, take whatever free stuff they give away, but I'm not buying anything and not grinding for dilithium anymore either--reverting to super-casual in all respects, serious gaming is elsewhere that doesnt obsolete paid gear for greed.
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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'm upgrading 4 ships. 3 for free. 1 Vesta paid.
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  • forthegamerforthegamer Member Posts: 177 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    With T5U being account unlocks, I think I'll at least go that route for my main character (and my saved up Zs) until I'm in a position to get the DR pack.
  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Was planning to upgrade my Kamarag on one toon but will likely use Chel Grett instead while I wait and see what Cryptic does. There currently are no KDF T6 ships that are suitable for my play style.
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  • fruitvendor12fruitvendor12 Member Posts: 615 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'll probably just upgrade my lobi/lockbox ships.
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    That's just how I feel.
    Personally I like an MMO that recreates itself, adds new content, and continually pushes up the game experience.

    But then I know folks who still play Gemstone and Ultima Online. Different strokes...
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