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Any new T6 Ships incoming?
evostvo
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I am really enjoying the guardian but truth is im a ship nutt and was wondering if anyone has info on new upcoming ships for the federation. Are there any plans for a universe class type ship (Far fetched i know) but would be pretty awesome. Any feedback would be much appreciated and thanks in advance.
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I'm sure there will be more, but we'll most likely never see the Ent-J (Universe class). The ship is game breakingly huge. It's pretty much as long as ESD is tall. As a matter of fact, I recall dstahl shooting that very idea down before he left, for that very reason.
So, same size as the Scimitar then?
If by same size, you mean more than three times the length, and who knows how much volume, then yes. Yes it is.
According to Drexler, the Ent-J is 3210 meters. Scimitar is only 890.
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
Not disagreeing with you but wondering out loud:-
1 Is this more a measure of how well the DR pack sold, than how well just the ships sold?;
2 How many of those ships you see everywhere now, are only being flown to unlock the Trait, and will then never, ever be flown again by that player?
Though I'm also looking forward to what new Intel ships they have in store as well, as I love the Intel skin and their Intel abilities.
That being said, the Intel series have gotten more popular as of late, as more people take the helm and enjoy a number of the Intel powers (both Boff and built-in) and ship capabilities.
Between them, these ships build a strong backbone for any FED player, lacking only a non-intel Escort. For all other purposes, the T5, or T5U get the job done. I can see additional skins being released sometime soon for these ships, but not necessarily new ships themselves, not outside of Events or Lock Boxes anyway.
It's a shame, cause there's some potential to be had with existing builds, and KDF players are still waiting for that new Negh'Var that was on it's way some 50 years ago...
The Universe Class (Ent-J?) would be absurd, I'm sorry. It could feature as a map object in a time travel episode arc, but as a playable cruiser, it's just too big and would otherwise look out of place.
Source?
But what are we buying now? Ships? Or Traits? As stated above, for the most part, we have all the ships, and all the builds that can be made use of. There's very little variation to be had. Their only option (which I'd think them reluctant to do) would be to (re)release some of the T5/T5U ships as T6. I might be mistaken, but I don't think the Intel theme has taken off as much as they'd like it to have done either.
Ya'know, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Winter (and Summer) ships remained T5 (or, after upgrade, T5U). Needless to say, if they did release the newer ones at T6, then I wouldn't mind a T6 Chel Grett Upgrade.
~ fleet versions of the intel ships
~ refit and/or fleet versions of the Odessy, Vesta, Bortasqu, etc.
~ a "delta" version of the intrepid with new interior package
~ mirror hero ships?
There's some tinkering to be done with boff and console layout that PWE would be silly not to monetize. All that assumes that Cryptic really cares about power creep. If not, there's all sorts of things they could do with Tier 6s.
Klingons still need their T6 carrier and Raider - staples of the KDF navy. An argument could probably be made for a new Eng/Sci FDC as well.
Romulans are still in need of a proper T6 support ship. The Faeht does not have the staying power for it and the Aelahl is very much an assault ship. (*cough* Reman Stealth/Intel Carrier*cough*)
At best, the only thing the Federation is really lacking at T6 is something with fighter capacity. They've got an escort, a battlecruiser, an all-purpose cruiser and two aggressive science ships.
Unfortunately what I expect them doing is making ships and putting them in lock boxes so that they can get people to spend way too much trying to get them.
AS a romulan and KDF player (about 2/3rds of my toons) I feel like the small orphan looking at the fat FED and wondering....
Please sir, can i have some more?
I find myself in that position. I had enough Dil Stockpiled that i got the Eclypse (the Phantom would´ve been my first choice if it didn´t looks SO BAD). Its a fine ship and if I were a cruier player i´d surely consider it as a permanent choice, but being an escort pilot I´ll only fly it as long as it takes to unlock its Mastery.
Probably the Typhoon will be heavily tac-oriented, and with a Lt. Tac/Intel BOff seat; and maybe they redesign it before release, though I'd like for the original skin to still be usable.
Don't know and PWE/Cryptic won't say.
There's lots of T6 ships flying around regardless of source.
And it doesn't matter if the ship is flown only for the trait. The T6 ship sold. That is the key there.