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  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    It's not a console on the retrofit, it's built in.

    Since when? It use to be a console?. I have not used my Excelsior in a while.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    I t has a "Transwarp Computer" now. the computer gives you a passive power level boost and shortens TW CD.
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  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    raj011 wrote: »
    It's not a console on the retrofit, it's built in.

    Since when? It use to be a console?. I have not used my Excelsior in a while.

    The T5 Excelsior doesn't come with any special equipment. The transwarp destinations are built in.

    The T3 Excelsior comes with the Transwarp Computer console and the T6 comes with the Tactical Maneuvering Matrix console and these make a 2 piece set. The T3 Excelsior use to come with a Transwarp Drive Coil console but a long time ago it was replaced with the Transwarp Computer console. As far as I can tell the T5 ship never came with a special console.

    P.S. The T5 Excelsior actually requires level 40 to use. Some people here were saying you need to be level 50.
  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    raj011 wrote: »
    It's not a console on the retrofit, it's built in.

    Since when? It use to be a console?. I have not used my Excelsior in a while.

    The T5 Excelsior doesn't come with any special equipment. The transwarp destinations are built in.

    The T3 Excelsior comes with the Transwarp Computer console and the T6 comes with the Tactical Maneuvering Matrix console and these make a 2 piece set. The T3 Excelsior use to come with a Transwarp Drive Coil console but a long time ago it was replaced with the Transwarp Computer console. As far as I can tell the T5 ship never came with a special console.

    P.S. The T5 Excelsior actually requires level 40 to use. Some people here were saying you need to be level 50.

    Okay thank you. Are we getting anymore giveaways or was the T5 ships the last? It is said on the page that it is he final giveaway but it is also said we will get more things due to the release of New Dawn.
  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    Next New Dawn give away will most likely be the Dry Dock system but that wont be for a little while yet.

    Still waiting to be able to use forum titles
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    I'm so annoyed with myself right now. I missed getting the Excelsior Retrofit T5. :angry:
    It's not anyone fault but my own.
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  • saber1973asaber1973a Member Posts: 1,225 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Meh, the only use from T5 Excelsior is to have one more ship for admirality.
    The other 2 ships are much better - one has console (only useful on similar ships but still...), and the KDF one comes with nice hangar, that doubles as boarding parties...
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Meh, the only use from T5 Excelsior is to have one more ship for admirality.
    The other 2 ships are much better - one has console (only useful on similar ships but still...), and the KDF one comes with nice hangar, that doubles as boarding parties...
    Well, one more ship for the Admiralty system was what I would have used it for. That and the occasional joy rides around the Alpha Quadrant. :)

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    raj011 wrote: »
    It's not a console on the retrofit, it's built in.

    Since when? It use to be a console?. I have not used my Excelsior in a while.

    The T5 Excelsior doesn't come with any special equipment. The transwarp destinations are built in.

    The T3 Excelsior comes with the Transwarp Computer console and the T6 comes with the Tactical Maneuvering Matrix console and these make a 2 piece set. The T3 Excelsior use to come with a Transwarp Drive Coil console but a long time ago it was replaced with the Transwarp Computer console. As far as I can tell the T5 ship never came with a special console.

    P.S. The T5 Excelsior actually requires level 40 to use. Some people here were saying you need to be level 50.
    I'm not sure if it's the SAME computer, but both of them come with computers.EDIT: no it doesn't..... It actually has no gear on it...
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  • gjpipergjpiper Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    Dangit Mac users are getting burned! I need this stuff.
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  • katyusha454katyusha454 Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    Are you freaking kidding me? I didn't bother checking this again because the date on the article hadn't changed after the upgrade token giveaway, and that made me miss out on 60 dollars worth of free ships. Not cool, guys. Not cool at all.
  • archonicalarchonical Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    Is there any way us Mac users can get in on this? I finally got a win8 VM up and running, but too late (and it crashes a lot too!)
  • katyusha454katyusha454 Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    I went back to the STO facebook page to confirm this, and I was correct that the day the article shows as having been last updated (October 26th) is the day of the upgrade token giveaway, not the ship giveaway which was in fact the 27th. The article shows as having been last updated on the 26th, meaning when I was browsing the news page there was ZERO indication that anything else was being given out. I never "liked" the FB page, so I had no way of knowing about the ship giveaway because the main site didn't indicate it was happening unless you viewed the actual article, which I had no reason to do as it appeared that nothing new had been posted in it. I am absolutely livid right now.
  • jereboy0524jereboy0524 Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    I missed the free ships!!! dang!!!
  • jereboy0524jereboy0524 Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    I'm so annoyed with myself right now. I missed getting the Excelsior Retrofit T5. :angry:
    It's not anyone fault but my own.

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  • dardnokdardnok Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    i wished they extended it just like some of their special events
  • arionisaarionisa Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    I didn't miss the free ship, I actually logged in and checked, 3 accounts, 14 toons, not a single free ship in the bunch. Didn't think much of it at the time with the way the other free stuff sometimes didn't show up till long after they should have. Fast forward one day, new patch, are the free ships there ? Who the heck knows as the game now crashes as soon as the first map finishes loading.

    So, NO free ships, and now 4 days of no ability to play the game anyway...............
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  • mayito2009mayito2009 Member Posts: 643 Arc User
    So what are we getting today? ;)
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  • saber1973asaber1973a Member Posts: 1,225 Arc User
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)
  • fiberteksyfirfiberteksyfir Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)

    Sarcasm alarm failed :) but yeah looking forward to WW again myself pulled the flurry gun, winter tribble, winter jackets out of the closet the other day :)
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)

    If I have to do a race for it, that ship is not happening.

    Tie it to Tides of Ice, however, and then we'll talk. ;)

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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    gulberat wrote: »
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)

    If I have to do a race for it, that ship is not happening.

    Tie it to Tides of Ice, however, and then we'll talk. ;)

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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)

    I joined last year just after the WW ended, so I don't know about any free ship for that Event, but the Anniversary Event I got two free ships, the Rhode Island and the Anni-Event Rep project for the Kobali Samsar Cruiser that we had to collect Qmentations for Daily. When I wasn't gathering Qs I was gathering Omega Molecule. I swear that was all that I did for a month and I think I leveled my main from Lt. Commander to Admiral.

    I don't think it was just the Event missions that level my guy so fast. I'm pretty sure the newly minted Duty Officer System did a lot of that heavy lifting back then. If I was logged on, I was forever keep my Doffs busy. And whenever I logged off, I made sure I had selected 20 missions. I might have had them doing between 60 to 80 missions daily on week days and even more on the weekend.

    So, to get back to my point, I do not know what WW will bring, but if the Anni runs similarly to last year, you might want to make room for more ships or at least one T6.

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    dalolorn wrote: »
    gulberat wrote: »
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)
    If I have to do a race for it, that ship is not happening.

    Tie it to Tides of Ice, however, and then we'll talk. ;)
    The eternal gunslinger... :tongue:
    It WAS a lot of fun to be sure. :D
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    dalolorn wrote: »
    gulberat wrote: »
    saber1973a wrote: »
    Giveaways ended, the one with ships was announced... on german site...

    Next, almost free ships will be propably Q's Winter Wonderland grind ship, i'm really impatient about it :)
    If I have to do a race for it, that ship is not happening.

    Tie it to Tides of Ice, however, and then we'll talk. ;)
    The eternal gunslinger... :tongue:
    It WAS a lot of fun to be sure. :D

    I prefer the transwarp threshold. ;)

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  • katyusha454katyusha454 Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    Given the complete lack of response from any Cryptic people here it's probably safe to assume that their attitude is just "sucks to be you" if you couldn't log in or didn't try due to not being informed.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    How is it Their fault if you didn't check the forums to see what was going on?
    There were certainly enough Discussion Threads opened in the GENERAL DISCUSSION part of the forum, talking about this.
    (for several days)
    Even if you didn't see the Original Post from Trendy, there was no reason to be uninformed.
    All ya had to do was take a gander at the Forums.

    It does "suc to be you", if you can't be bothered or aren't that interested in looking things up for yourself.
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  • katyusha454katyusha454 Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    How is it Their fault if you didn't check the forums to see what was going on?
    There were certainly enough Discussion Threads opened in the GENERAL DISCUSSION part of the forum, talking about this.
    (for several days)
    Even if you didn't see the Original Post from Trendy, there was no reason to be uninformed.
    All ya had to do was take a gander at the Forums.

    It does "suc to be you", if you can't be bothered or aren't that interested in looking things up for yourself.
    >SMH<

    It's not my responsibility to check the forums, it's their responsibility to make sure to announce it properly. I checked the news page and the giveaway article DID NOT show as having been updated for the last day, so I reasonably assumed it was over. You also completely ignored that my issue is not the only one. Plenty of people were unable to log in for any part of the giveaway due to game bugs. No amount of forum checking is going to fix that. 100% of the responsibility for fixing the game and properly announcing game events lies with Cryptic/Arc, not with us users.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    How is it Their fault if you didn't check the forums to see what was going on?
    There were certainly enough Discussion Threads opened in the GENERAL DISCUSSION part of the forum, talking about this.
    (for several days)
    Even if you didn't see the Original Post from Trendy, there was no reason to be uninformed.
    All ya had to do was take a gander at the Forums.

    It does "suc to be you", if you can't be bothered or aren't that interested in looking things up for yourself.
    >SMH<

    It's not my responsibility to check the forums, it's their responsibility to make sure to announce it properly. I checked the news page and the giveaway article DID NOT show as having been updated for the last day, so I reasonably assumed it was over. You also completely ignored that my issue is not the only one. Plenty of people were unable to log in for any part of the giveaway due to game bugs. No amount of forum checking is going to fix that. 100% of the responsibility for fixing the game and properly announcing game events lies with Cryptic/Arc, not with us users.

    So if the grocery store sends out sale flyers and you don't bother to look in your mailbox, it's the stores fault?
    You're perfectly willing to come to these forums to complain, but you didn't want to take a peek at them during the 5 Day Event?
    Not the most logical of thought process going on there.


    As for folks who were unable to get into the game, you'll get no argument from me.
    But that is not something either one of us has any control over and wasn't the part of your post that I replied to.

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