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I am so happy for all Dyson captains! New hull material choices!

variant37variant37 Member Posts: 867 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
From today's Tribble patch notes:

All Dyson Destroyers now have standard faction appropriate hull materials.
This is free and automatically unlocked for all Dyson Destroyers.

You're no longer stuck with just the My Little Pony grey/lavender! :cool:
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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    variant37 wrote: »
    From today's Tribble patch notes:

    All Dyson Destroyers now have standard faction appropriate hull materials.
    This is free and automatically unlocked for all Dyson Destroyers.

    You're no longer stuck with just the My Little Pony grey/lavender! :cool:

    Wow that is awesome. I may revisit my neglected kdf dyson with this.
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  • walshicuswalshicus Member Posts: 1,314 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Yeah, but they're *taking away* customisation options on the Hierarchy BOFF. For no bloody reason.
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    walshicus wrote: »
    Yeah, but they're *taking away* customisation options on the Hierarchy BOFF. For no bloody reason.
    They're useless, that's why.

    Finally I thought to myself when I heard you could customize him, finally they're going to start opening up the tailor for our rewarded Boffs - and then they go and lock the newest one up. :rolleyes: I often wonder why the hell we bother when they can't correctly fix something so bloody simple.
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  • generator88generator88 Member Posts: 698 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    variant37 wrote: »
    From today's Tribble patch notes:

    All Dyson Destroyers now have standard faction appropriate hull materials.
    This is free and automatically unlocked for all Dyson Destroyers.

    You're no longer stuck with just the My Little Pony grey/lavender! :cool:

    Really, always looked white & blue on my screen...

    Good for folks to have more choices; I haven't been playing my KDF DSD for a while because shortly after I got mine, I fell for another ship (the Vo'quv) in a big way. It got relegated to a change-of-pace ship, and one where I can wistfully imagine how science vessels might look with Secondary Deflectors... :-/

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  • rswfiredotcomrswfiredotcom Member Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    walshicus wrote: »
    Yeah, but they're *taking away* customisation options on the Hierarchy BOFF. For no bloody reason.
    flash525 wrote: »
    They're useless, that's why.

    Finally I thought to myself when I heard you could customize him, finally they're going to start opening up the tailor for our rewarded Boffs - and then they go and lock the newest one up. :rolleyes: I often wonder why the hell we bother when they can't correctly fix something so bloody simple.

    What's a Hierarchy BOFF?
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    rswfiredotcom wrote: »
    What's a Hierarchy BOFF?
    The Hierarchy (from the Delta Quadrant) - they look like a Sontaran (from Doctor Who). Suffice to say, in one of the Delta Quadrant missions, we're rewarded with one, and it's currently customizable. It would seem though, that there is soon to be a patch that will stop this from occurring.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Cool, that shade of white always looked really out of place on KDF and Romulan ships.
  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    flash525 wrote: »
    They're useless, that's why.

    Finally I thought to myself when I heard you could customize him, finally they're going to start opening up the tailor for our rewarded Boffs - and then they go and lock the newest one up. :rolleyes: I often wonder why the hell we bother when they can't correctly fix something so bloody simple.

    You mean like unintended customization options for a special reward boff? They're fixing that! :P

    BTW the Xinid and Talaxian are both customizable. And if you really want a Heirarchy boff with a superior choice of pants the parts are available for Aliens at the tailor (which IMO is a better solution to the special boff customization problem, if cryptic wants special looking officers thats fine. Just give us a workable alternative if we want to try something a little different instead.)
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  • rswfiredotcomrswfiredotcom Member Posts: 262 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Cool, that shade of white always looked really out of place on KDF and Romulan ships.

    Oh yeah! I remember them now! :)
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  • catjarrettcatjarrett Member Posts: 285 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I am looking forward to seeing some awesome looking Dyson ships!

    That is definitely one positive of the game, the ship diversity.
  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    duncanidaho11 wrote: »
    You mean like unintended customization options for a special reward boff? They're fixing that!
    I don't get why they're unintended though.

    Surely it's more practical and beneficial to allow people to customize these special Boffs, hell, if I could customize the FE Reman and Embassy Romulans, I'd actually use them. When we've got players flying around in Voth, Cardassian and Undine ships, there's sure as hell no reason why a Reman, Romulan, Jem Hadar or Voth can't go running around in a Starfleet Uniform.

    Whoever made the decision to lock these boffs out of the tailor ... well, lets just say it's a stupid idea, save me getting another warning for having an opinion. :rolleyes:
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    variant37 wrote: »
    From today's Tribble patch notes:

    All Dyson Destroyers now have standard faction appropriate hull materials.
    This is free and automatically unlocked for all Dyson Destroyers.

    You're no longer stuck with just the My Little Pony grey/lavender! :cool:

    ^^^

    First I was like,
    but then....

    vvv
    walshicus wrote: »
    Yeah, but they're *taking away* customisation options on the Hierarchy BOFF. For no bloody reason.

    Ah Cryptic, one improvement port always has to result with another f****p starboard. :rolleyes:
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  • birzarkbirzark Member Posts: 634 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    If you already have a customized version of the boff, you get to keep it, just going forward new ones after the patch wont be.

    On topic, i love that the ship gets new hull materials i hated the standard one.
  • royalsovereignroyalsovereign Member Posts: 1,344 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Cool, that shade of white always looked really out of place on KDF and Romulan ships.
    I actually didn't mind it on the Rihannsu DSD - after all, the original T'liss was Starfleet white, except for that big bird on the belly.

    The Klink DSD, that's another story. Hoo, that is one ugly ship in white. I let it rot until DR went live because I couldn't bear to look at it. Then i broke it out, threw the Jem'Hadar shield on it and decided that was a livable look. I'll have to look at the material options now. :)
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    The irony is that we can make them look like faction ships now that they are sub-par in the current balance

    Cryptic wouldnt allow it when the ships were marginally competitive, now they allow it when nobody cares
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    ursusmorologus wrote: »
    The irony is that we can make them look like faction ships now that they are sub-par in the current balance

    Cryptic wouldnt allow it when the ships were marginally competitive, now they allow it when nobody cares

    This is so hilarious because it's so true.
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  • oldravenman3025oldravenman3025 Member Posts: 1,892 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Funny, but the only thing I was able to change was the hull pattern (and the color of the pattern markings). Still the same white hull, with the same ugly lavender lighting. Looks better with the Orion pattern all around. But not by much.


    I wouldn't call it a big leap forward.
  • nickcastletonnickcastleton Member Posts: 1,212 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    thank god

    now i have a amazing science ship that will also look Romulan.
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I didn't see any change to hull materials, all I get is the usual options of hull patterns between the 3 ships so, what exactly am I missing again?

    I can only guess, that it hasn't made it to live on holodeck yet?
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  • leethorogoodleethorogood Member Posts: 302 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    shadowwraith77 wrote: »
    I didn't see any change to hull materials, all I get is the usual options of hull patterns between the 3 ships so, what exactly am I missing again?

    I can only guess, that it hasn't made it to live on holodeck yet?
    Not live on holodeck yet, went live on Tribble yesterday. :)
  • atlmyklatlmykl Member Posts: 305 Arc User1
    edited October 2014
    Has anyone grabbed some screenies from tribble?
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    flash525 wrote: »
    I don't get why they're unintended though.

    Surely it's more practical and beneficial to allow people to customize these special Boffs, hell, if I could customize the FE Reman and Embassy Romulans, I'd actually use them. When we've got players flying around in Voth, Cardassian and Undine ships, there's sure as hell no reason why a Reman, Romulan, Jem Hadar or Voth can't go running around in a Starfleet Uniform.

    Whoever made the decision to lock these boffs out of the tailor ... well, lets just say it's a stupid idea, save me getting another warning for having an opinion. :rolleyes:

    Yes, it would be great for players if it was customizable, but they didn'T have the time to actually make it working. Sure, you can change stuff, but you get effects like costume options where the BOFF has no arms. There is no time allotted for fixing all these details, the character art team is on other tasks obviously.

    But I understand things correctly, existing customizable BOFFs will remain so. (I bet if they were tradeable that would create a "gray market" of people trying to get their hands on that BOFF).
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Went on tribble, and the KDF Dyson ship with KDF colors looks pretty badass
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Picture Gallery for the Aves: http://s883.photobucket.com/user/Mustrum_Ridcully/slideshow/Startrek%20Online%20-%20Aves

    The pictures were made without any renderscale adjustment and in the tailor (they look weirdly off-center because of that - the tailor UI is not visible.)



    I'd love to see the Federation and Klingon variants, but I don't own them. (I found them just too ugly with the old skins, I wonder how they work with some standard materials.)
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Well.... the rommie skins look amazing! Will patch tribble and see for myself, awesome gallery.
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    Picture Gallery for the Aves: http://s883.photobucket.com/user/Mustrum_Ridcully/slideshow/Startrek%20Online%20-%20Aves

    The pictures were made without any renderscale adjustment and in the tailor (they look weirdly off-center because of that - the tailor UI is not visible.)



    I'd love to see the Federation and Klingon variants, but I don't own them. (I found them just too ugly with the old skins, I wonder how they work with some standard materials.)

    I didn't mind the old skins but, I do love options and, those are some nice options. TY Cryptic!

    And to the poster, those are some very lovely shots, very well done. TY
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  • nickcastletonnickcastleton Member Posts: 1,212 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    Picture Gallery for the Aves: http://s883.photobucket.com/user/Mustrum_Ridcully/slideshow/Startrek%20Online%20-%20Aves

    The pictures were made without any renderscale adjustment and in the tailor (they look weirdly off-center because of that - the tailor UI is not visible.)



    I'd love to see the Federation and Klingon variants, but I don't own them. (I found them just too ugly with the old skins, I wonder how they work with some standard materials.)

    love it love everything about it.:D
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I would also really appreciate if anyone would show off the other the Fed and KDF Dyson ships. I don't own them, but I am curious. :)

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  • captainkeatzcaptainkeatz Member Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    So, any FED screenies yet?
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