Seems the people who predicted that Cryptic would re-release all of the T5 ships as T6 variants were right on the $$$.
That would be ME. Yep. I called it. JUST LIKE I did for saying Romulus would be assimilated by the Borg during those Time Incursion attempts at ridding us of the Iconians.
Chalk one more up for the guy no one likes to listen to because I'm always right. Or wrong. I have at least a fifty percent chance to be correct half the time! So go stew on that ya leeches!
Omega looks larger and way better than Sigma so my vote goes to her. Sigma has a good side-view though, but those nacelles are way to close to the saucer and their pylons are way to short too.
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I went with the Omega design because it is BY FAR the most superior. Its size and four thrust-nacelles, along with the sleek almost pointed forward section of the ship gives enemies the message "This is a ship of both power and speed, so WATCH OUT!!" This design also demonstrates that size DOES matter!
Definitely a tough choice! The sleak design of Sigma is appealing,, however the nacelle configuration on Omega is super sexy. The saucer needs some work, but Alas Omega is my choice.
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I went with Omega, simply because to me Sigma looks like another Epsilon, I did like Epsilon but I think that Omega has a more powerful feel to it. I dislike the nacelles of Omega, but other than that I think it's a good design, more or less.
Still think the Beta or the Delta are the only two designs here that evoke the concept of a carrier. Gamma and Omega designs are decent alternates but the Omega seems like a heavy cruiser and the Gamma seems to be a dreadnaught design. Alpha, Epsilon, and Sigma are small or medium fighting ship designs.
Not sure of the thinking here...
End of the day the designers did a good job of keeping the designs in canon. Good use of standards.
What is with all the delta shaped designs? Did nobody actually watch the shows. Don't like either of these designs but going with Sigma.
Understand your point. However, the idea of Star Trek never was just to repeat what has already been done. It has always been to go to the next step. These guys have taken the world of ST as it was, pay homage to what was there, but have done the right thing in going forward with it. And right now with no real development in theater of Star Trek, the future of this fiction is mostly within their hands and how we interact with them. And personally I think they have done right by the legacy of Gene Roddenberry.
And don't take that as your opinon doesn't count as much as anyone's, cause is does. That's the beauty of the system.
These guys have taken the world of ST as it was, pay homage to what was there, but have done the right thing in going forward with it.
"Star Trekkin' across the universe, boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!"
Oh, come on, we all knew somebody was going to go there...
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Sigma has more potential from what I can see, however 4 nacelles are just silly for any fed ship since we know that doesn't improve its turn rate one bit...
I vote for #TeamOmega. The Sigma design looks too much like the Epsilon design. Though I do wish the nacelles were placed differently or they took off the nacelles on the bottom and left the two nacelles on the top of Omega. Thanks.
#TeamOmega by far. Sigma reminds me of why I voted for Epsilon last week but Omega...she IS a Fed carrier. If the next vote is between Epsilon & Omega then I may have a harder time choosing but I'm relatively sure that I'm going to be riding the Omega-train all the way through. Just do me a favor...Please do not put too tight of a leash on this ship...which ever one wins out. When the Odyssey was first released in-game, she was true-to-form in that she really was the LARGEST Fed ship. I remember an announcement that the Ody would be scaled-down a bit because of something to do with gameplay mechanics and that made sense. Since then, however, she's never seemed like that massive hull (or "hulk") of power that she once did. Something similar could be said of the Galaxy X. I understand trying to keep things "balanced" for gameplay purposes but (for story purposes) please keep this in mind....
This carrier is being INTRODUCED during the galaxy's "new age" of scientific exploration but she would have been DESIGNED while in the midst of possibly the greatest period of conflict in the recorded history of the galaxy's major powers. The Federation has been back and forth from one conflict to the next, some overlapping, with no time for rest...or a proverbial "reset"...from the Klingons, Gorn, and Orions; the return of the Borg; the conflict between factions of Romulans & Remans and the Elachi; Escalation in Tholian & Mirror involvement; return of The Dominion and continued True Way activity; the Breen aggression; the Voth, the Undine, and the following war in the Delta Quadrant and now near annihilation at the hands of the Iconians. Is the war formally over? Yes. But we know that we'll be hearing from T'Ket again. I don't know how the storyline is going from here but I am sure that the Federation Council and Starfleet Command have eaten a lot of crow since shutting down the Borg Task Force.
Starfleet is an exploratory, peacekeeping arm of the Federation, NOT a combat armada. However the fleet has only been able to remain relevant by adapting to it's operating environment. Starfleet needs a support ship that can both dispatch lifeboats for humanitarian aid or planetary evacuation as well as launching quick reaction force-style craft with which to mount an immediate defense against sudden attacks. If you're going to call this ship a "carrier" then give us a CARRIER!!!
And if CBS is the problem, let us know. I'm sure that there are plenty of us who'd be willing to unleash our inner-Maquis and put a foot their rear exhaust port! :P
I did go with the masses myself. Omega it is. We are a ways off toward contributing to the build and model details. Assuming Omega does come out on top, it's those stages where we really need to pull together on. At modeling, we can push for the nacelle scaling/type to be better than the initial outline we see now.
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I went with Sigma because it, in my opinion, looked a little better
That would be ME. Yep. I called it. JUST LIKE I did for saying Romulus would be assimilated by the Borg during those Time Incursion attempts at ridding us of the Iconians.
Chalk one more up for the guy no one likes to listen to because I'm always right. Or wrong. I have at least a fifty percent chance to be correct half the time! So go stew on that ya leeches!
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Not sure of the thinking here...
End of the day the designers did a good job of keeping the designs in canon. Good use of standards.
Understand your point. However, the idea of Star Trek never was just to repeat what has already been done. It has always been to go to the next step. These guys have taken the world of ST as it was, pay homage to what was there, but have done the right thing in going forward with it. And right now with no real development in theater of Star Trek, the future of this fiction is mostly within their hands and how we interact with them. And personally I think they have done right by the legacy of Gene Roddenberry.
And don't take that as your opinon doesn't count as much as anyone's, cause is does. That's the beauty of the system.
"Star Trekkin' across the universe, boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!"
Oh, come on, we all knew somebody was going to go there...
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
This carrier is being INTRODUCED during the galaxy's "new age" of scientific exploration but she would have been DESIGNED while in the midst of possibly the greatest period of conflict in the recorded history of the galaxy's major powers. The Federation has been back and forth from one conflict to the next, some overlapping, with no time for rest...or a proverbial "reset"...from the Klingons, Gorn, and Orions; the return of the Borg; the conflict between factions of Romulans & Remans and the Elachi; Escalation in Tholian & Mirror involvement; return of The Dominion and continued True Way activity; the Breen aggression; the Voth, the Undine, and the following war in the Delta Quadrant and now near annihilation at the hands of the Iconians. Is the war formally over? Yes. But we know that we'll be hearing from T'Ket again. I don't know how the storyline is going from here but I am sure that the Federation Council and Starfleet Command have eaten a lot of crow since shutting down the Borg Task Force.
Starfleet is an exploratory, peacekeeping arm of the Federation, NOT a combat armada. However the fleet has only been able to remain relevant by adapting to it's operating environment. Starfleet needs a support ship that can both dispatch lifeboats for humanitarian aid or planetary evacuation as well as launching quick reaction force-style craft with which to mount an immediate defense against sudden attacks. If you're going to call this ship a "carrier" then give us a CARRIER!!!
And if CBS is the problem, let us know. I'm sure that there are plenty of us who'd be willing to unleash our inner-Maquis and put a foot their rear exhaust port! :P
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