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holyknight22
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Fellow Warriors,
I have seen many threads focusing on the desire for a T6 KDF science ship. One of the frequent comments made in the thread is the fact that the Varanus is an inferior ship compared to Federation T5 science vessels. I am by not means an expert on science ships and builds, but the question I did have is this. How do you make the Varanus competitive with Federation science ships like the Vesta? Please keep advice constructive and not insulting.
Some initial thoughts -
1) Change its consoles and seating to closer match that of the science Vesta
2) Give it an Auxiliary Hanger that can launch any of the drone type "fighters" as a support for the ship and team mates.
The floor is yours. How should the Varanus be fixed?
I have seen many threads focusing on the desire for a T6 KDF science ship. One of the frequent comments made in the thread is the fact that the Varanus is an inferior ship compared to Federation T5 science vessels. I am by not means an expert on science ships and builds, but the question I did have is this. How do you make the Varanus competitive with Federation science ships like the Vesta? Please keep advice constructive and not insulting.
Some initial thoughts -
1) Change its consoles and seating to closer match that of the science Vesta
2) Give it an Auxiliary Hanger that can launch any of the drone type "fighters" as a support for the ship and team mates.
The floor is yours. How should the Varanus be fixed?
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Sarcastic (but accurate) answer:
That's just me, though. :P
Serious (but extremely unlikely) answer:
Personally, though, I'd rather they finish the Intel line for the KDF/Roms, make at least one T6 Science Ship for the KDF/Roms, or do both at the same time. :P
T6 can clone the Pathfinder, just needs skins...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I would recommend releasing it together in a 3-ship faction bundle, e.g. create an equivalent Federation and Romulan ship, too. This way, many people that consider the ship for one faction will just choose to buy it for all 3 - at the price of two, which will often be a net win for Cryptic. (Which is why they make the faction bundles in the first place, I think.)
Not sure if the Ha'Nom is the right Romulan counterpart, but clearly the Deep Space Science Vessel Space Shoe of the Federation is the right Starfleet counterpart.
A Tier 6 Varanus could be:
Starship Mastery Trait must be something everyone will want. Maybe something that increases the length or damage of exotic damage effects, or reduces cooldowns? Something that buffs a less used power to become more desirable?
Ideas:
Starship Mastery Trait - Improved Photonic Shockwave
Increases the range of PSW to 5 km, and gives it 50 % shield penetration. -> Suddenly this power might be a useful for DPS again!
Starship Mastery Trait - Improved Photonic Officer
Reduces the cooldown and the global cooldown of Photonic Officer by 50 %.
Starship Mastery Trait - Stabilized Exotic Particle
When dealing damage to a target with exotic damage, the target suffers -25 % damage resistance for 10 seconds and a penalty to stealth.
Starship Console - Sensor Platform
The Varanus can deploy a Sensor Platform that scans surrounding targets for weak spots and attempts to uncover cloaked vessels. The platform lasts for 60 seconds. Any enemy within 10km of the platform suffers a penalty to damage resistance, and all allies within 10 km of the platform gain a bonus to stealth sight.
Repair Platform + Sensor Platform Synergy:
If you have both platforms equipped, you gain the Joint Platform Synergy:
+10 % tun rate.
When deploying a Sensor or Repair Platform, you release a joined sensor/repair platform that shares the abilities of both. You can have up to two of these platforms active at the same time.
It wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing mixed ship bundles to throw us off a bit. The most recent bundle stuffed 2 Battlecruisers (Fed Avenger/KDF Mogh) with 1 Escort (Mogai).
Though I'd really appreciate if they did that.
The deep space science vessel has the same layout and a turn rate the same as the varanus. Most other KDF ships that have a similar federation counterpart have higher turn rates.
A T6 varanus really only needs the Fleet T-5 layout and a boost to turn rate, maybe turn rate of 15 like the Korath temporal science vessel, for it to be in line with KDF ships, and a Fleet T6 version would have the 5th sci console slot.