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wardcalis
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Can we has 1. I'd be happy with just one. I'd personally prefer it to be more tactical like the narcine with a 4/3 and 4 tact consoles, but i'd be happy with any carrier as long as we get one.
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Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
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In fact what I think would be cool would be gigantic D'Deridex inspired carrier! I mean imagine a massive warbird with that kind of wing design, except the empty space in between would be like a mini-shipyard with landing pads and docking facilities!
Maybe, but based on the looks of the KE and UFP have, I'd bet that the look of any Romulan faction Carrier, would not look unsimilar to the Jupiter and Vo'Quv classes.
Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/13262502435_5604548f2c_o.png
Maybe a Kar'fi adaptation would be something Cryptic would consider, though. A T6-ified Kar'fi with Battlecloak would be fun. I'd bump the Lt. Eng to Lt. Comm Eng/Hybrid, make the Ens. Sci to Universal, then either the Lt. Tac or Lt. Comm Tac also Uni (though the Lt. Comm would put it on par with the Vesta's flexibility, which I'm not sure they'd be willing to do). That'd be 4/3 weapons, 3/4/3(+1Fleet) consoles.
As for looks, I'd think it'd be interesting to have the bays under large wings (think the wings of the Eng Command Cruiser), just for the pun of taking hangar craft 'under their wings' to guide them in the ways of the universe.
I would rather just re-use the Romulan Drones that the Scimitar can use, as those don't seem to particularly tie into the Scimitar, so it'd make no particular problem lore wise, and they're very capable hangar pets.
Jupiter's trait and console would work fine too, or something similar to that.
The Paradox is not a true Carrier, just a 7 weapon slot Science Vessel that has only 1-Hangar.
There are no 2-Hangar Carriers in the game with a Secondary Deflector, not even the SCI Cmdr ones.
There are no Carriers with 8 weapon slots, either. 6 is typical, 7 is the most you'll see.
Expecting a 2-Hangar Carrier with a Secondary Deflector and 8 weapon slots isn't happening anytime soon.
Right now i can't see one being released, too many things are being revamped and tooled about to release one. Maybe when they are near the end of releasing the current T6 versions they have scheduled will we see a carrier.
maybe because necro'ing dead threads is against forum rules? But beating dead horses is tradition
yer talkin out yer TRIBBLE... we've never been given the opportunity to buy anything but the limited selection of dps focused ships we have. Its impossible to theorize we don't spend the money on TRIBBLE when we've never been given TRIBBLE to spend money on
It's a shame that the Jupiter release was not a cross-faction pack. Seriously guys! The Klingons need a Vo'Quv update, and the Romulans don't have a Carrier at all so far!
I don't think Cryptic has to look that closely at "faction unique" interests... The interests in the different ship types is probably pretty universal. In other words - if Feddies prefer DPS, so do KDF and RR.
a. some sort of metrics based decision making.
a1. Maybe they look at the rom/kdf use of the krenim freebie, Annorax and Paradox and think those guys don't really want a sci ship; perhaps roms aren't rolling many sci toons, how many rom photonic fleets do you see in queues? Maybe they store that info, maybe not. Do you see many 1 hangar rom ships being flown that aren't scimis?
a2. Feds out sell roms that probably out sell kdf, dps out sells sci and carriers. Result Rom/kdf sci and carriers dont get made. Maybe there is a relationship T5 sales and T6, they then look and see the T5 flt Ha'nom and project the T6 Ha'nom to be a waste of effort - it was a horrible ship, no wonder they didn't sell well.
a3. with the skills revamp boosting pets, perhaps the metrics will shift toward making carriers. A big issue with carriers is getting access to the better pets, with the right pets a 2 hangar carrier will be able to top 30k in a pug isa with just pets and basic sci.
b. an irrational pro-fed bias
If its some sort of rational process the best that can be hoped for is that as the skills revamp winds down staff are free to do other things.
They can't TRIBBLE about Rom & KDF ship sales if they're hardly putting out ships for them to buy to begin with. The KDF has had long droughts in between a number of their ships and ship types, droughts lasting years.
Before Cryptic would give us this bauble, we would have to hold our breathe and sing zippity do da zippity day for a year. I'll believe it when i see it.
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Whereas 3-6 years ago there were plenty of carrier capt, before LOR changed the dps landscape. Just saying there has to be a 'decent' elite pet for a carrier to sell, and that the Roms already have one. Alternatively they could swap the scorp fighter's cannon for beam.
When the Jupiter shipped there were instant threads about how bad the Callistos were, the ever sympathetic klingons said welcome to the crappy pet club, first rule of crappy pet club is moan about it for years and eventally move to battlecruisers.
If you want a new ship for Romulans, it'd almost have to be outside the DPS-and-only-DPS paradigm. When it comes to PvE DPS the Scimitar variants are monsters, so anything that is supposed to be DPS leaning needs to be comparable to it, and it was near game breaking when it came out. Considering how little buffed the Scim line was in the T6 version (compared to the buffs the T6 flagships of the other factions to their old T5 numbers), I think they're trying to back off from uber-DPS ships.
I could see something like a Kar'fi Battle Carrier (7 weapons, Lt. Comm and Lt. Tac, 3/4/4 consoles at fleet level) working, you'd loose out on DPS compared to a Scim, but still have some interesting fun tapping into Sci abilities at the commander rank and dual hangars to throw pets out of. Seeing how many Kar'fi are still around, and many being T5-U Fleet, it seems to still be a money-maker. I don't think a 6 weapon Vo'Quv or Jupiter variant going over nearly as well Rom side as a Kar'fi variant. I don't think they'd make a Dreadnought Carrier on the order of the JHDC or Xindi Narcine available as C-Store/Fleet, but those I think would sell even better if they went that route.