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Are these new Kelvin ships going to be worth it?

kayajaykayajay Member Posts: 1,990 Arc User
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I usually get swept away and go for pretty much every new ship released and maybe it's despising the reboots, but are these Kelvin ships going to be worth going for, do you reckon?
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    artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    Star Trek has never been rebooted. The words you're looking for are Kelvin Timeline or Alternate Reality.
    And yes they will serve their purpose.
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    garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    ehh da
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    donitiardonitiar Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    They are just ships, no better and no worse than what we have now. People get them for the traits, or for the look.
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    scarlingscarling Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    The vengeance is very good. **I don't know how I know that.
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    alpharaider47#7707 alpharaider47
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    For me, these ships will be worth it simply in appearance. I tried building T1 and T2 Connies that could compete at end game, but it's hard making that viable when we have 6 tiers of ships. Now that these new Kelvin ships are T6, it will be a long time before they become so far outdated that I cannot use them. I'm a huge fan of TOS and JJTrek, so I'm willing to shell out to upgrade my weapons and consoles to the max to get as much use as possible from them.
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    snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    kayajay wrote: »
    but are these Kelvin ships going to be worth going for, do you reckon?

    Once they end up in an infinity lockbox a couple of releases down the line, then they will absolutely be worth it. The infinity lock box is going to alter the valuation of exclusive items in a much more affordable way for people. So if you can wait it out, then yeah, the ships will be worth it.
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    sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

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    chispin55chispin55 Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    Ye, and verily the Kelvin ships were (unsurprisingly to all but the Kelvinist acolytes) were revealed as lockbox ships. And thus a thousand hearts swooned and broke, as the hope of c-store JJ ships vanished and went up its AR posterior. well, hate (nah, that's being disingenuous) to say I told you so, but... :D
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    evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    As far as I'm concerned, anything that's not an account unlock isn't worth more than one dollar.
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    samt1996samt1996 Member Posts: 2,856 Arc User
    They are specialist ships, that makes them very unique.
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    farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    Yes and No.

    Yes - many players will eat it up. Thus make the game $ and keep it goin.

    No - I don't care for it.
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    warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

    Hugely expensive for Feddies.

    KDF/Rom only have one ship to get since they didn't care to give us lobi ship at all this time. Which kinda sucks. But on the other hand we can buy the Vengeance console+trait on the cheap, so... B)

    See now the stupid restrictions asterisk even the feds up the tailpipe.
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    captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    For some people they will, for others they won't. That's how it is with anything.
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    hugin1205hugin1205 Member Posts: 489 Arc User
    short asnwer: no
    Long answer: if you have more than one toon on a side, you have to spand :smile: 1.) probably more Money than buying Zen ship and 2.) only get the ship for one toon. Not to mention 3.) if you dismiss the ship you cannot reclaim it (drydock helps but oerhwise you may have to spend extra Zen to get more ships Slots)
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    sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    evilmark444 wrote: »
    As far as I'm concerned, anything that's not an account unlock isn't worth more than one dollar.

    Yup, agree totally.
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    warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

    Hugely expensive for Feddies.

    KDF/Rom only have one ship to get since they didn't care to give us lobi ship at all this time. Which kinda sucks. But on the other hand we can buy the Vengeance console+trait on the cheap, so... B)

    See now the stupid restrictions asterisk even the feds up the tailpipe.

    You see the set bonus for the console set? Phaser. Not Disruptor. Not Plasma. Not All Energy Weapons Damage. Phaser :D

    If Vengeance falls into my lap, cool. The only one I'm remotely interested in is the Romulan ship's trait.
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    nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    evilmark444 wrote: »
    As far as I'm concerned, anything that's not an account unlock isn't worth more than one dollar.

    Your inventory slots and Doff caps must be very modest :).

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    officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Worth it? What youll spend to get the jackpot on a lotterybox.

    Of course not.
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    nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    Huh. When it was revealed there's no Narada-lookalike in the pack my interest shifted to almost every reward-result other than the ships. Those phasers will be sweet :).
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    evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    nikeix wrote: »
    evilmark444 wrote: »
    As far as I'm concerned, anything that's not an account unlock isn't worth more than one dollar.

    Your inventory slots and Doff caps must be very modest :).

    Well, inventory isn't much of an issue since you can toss stuff in the replicator from pretty much anywhere. And I never found the doff system interesting so all my characters just have the base doff cap. Before you go into all the "rewards" you can get from doff missions, WoW's last expansion had a very similar system that I tried to get into because it could reward raid gear. After about two weeks of that, I got so burnt out from doing something I did not enjoy that I logged out one day, and didn't log back in for over a year.
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    nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    I follow. You certainly can keep your inventory tight - especially if you're ignoring the Doff system as the largest part of my permanently reserved inventory space is hauling around commodities to do Doff assignments :). And I certainly won't try to sell you on Doffing. I happen to like the themes that drive it - nice to know my crew spends a lot of time helping out around the galaxy in between blowing stuff up :). It's pretty much a closed loop though - the best Doff rewards are mostly better Doffs to run the mission next time. That some Dil and XP fall out is just a byproduct :yum:.

    Just in general I find buying some bank slots to hold all my spare ship cosmetic gear items and having an extra +100 Doff slots on every character to be worth the couple of bucks it takes to unlock them. I still wait for services sales to get them though :).
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    warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

    Hugely expensive for Feddies.

    KDF/Rom only have one ship to get since they didn't care to give us lobi ship at all this time. Which kinda sucks. But on the other hand we can buy the Vengeance console+trait on the cheap, so... B)

    See now the stupid restrictions asterisk even the feds up the tailpipe.

    You see the set bonus for the console set? Phaser. Not Disruptor. Not Plasma. Not All Energy Weapons Damage. Phaser :D
    Your point being?
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    nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    Phaser bonuses are very, very rare. And a LOT of players still run them for lore-fidelity.
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    dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

    Hugely expensive for Feddies.

    KDF/Rom only have one ship to get since they didn't care to give us lobi ship at all this time. Which kinda sucks. But on the other hand we can buy the Vengeance console+trait on the cheap, so... B)

    See now the stupid restrictions asterisk even the feds up the tailpipe.

    You see the set bonus for the console set? Phaser. Not Disruptor. Not Plasma. Not All Energy Weapons Damage. Phaser :D
    Your point being?

    His point being that Klingons and Romulans are somewhat screwed.
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    warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    dalolorn wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    warmaker001b wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Yes and no.

    Yes because they're ships that a lot of people have wanted the look of for ages, myself included.

    No because they won't be that different from current ships. Only the console/trait will set them apart.
    They're also hugely expensive and character bound.

    Hugely expensive for Feddies.

    KDF/Rom only have one ship to get since they didn't care to give us lobi ship at all this time. Which kinda sucks. But on the other hand we can buy the Vengeance console+trait on the cheap, so... B)

    See now the stupid restrictions asterisk even the feds up the tailpipe.

    You see the set bonus for the console set? Phaser. Not Disruptor. Not Plasma. Not All Energy Weapons Damage. Phaser :D
    Your point being?

    His point being that Klingons and Romulans are somewhat screwed.
    Ah, because Klingons and Romulans can't equip phaser weapons...oh wait, they can. B)
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    redvengeredvenge Member Posts: 1,425 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    Ah, because Klingons and Romulans can't equip phaser weapons...oh wait, they can. B)
    It's more the fact that these consoles can be put on any ship. So you can run them on your Gal-X or Defiant or Scimitar or whatever. So why didn't they go with +All Damage? Especially since two of the ships are not Federation.
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    holyknight22holyknight22 Member Posts: 174 Arc User
    The KDF certaintly is not screwed. A Pilot BOP with five universal BO slots including Pilot and Temporal specs? Cry havoc and let slip the BOPs of war!

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    kamuii2kamuii2 Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    holyknight22 wrote: »
    The KDF certaintly is not screwed. A Pilot BOP with five universal BO slots including Pilot and Temporal specs? Cry havoc and let slip the BOPs of war!

    More like Cry Feds. Cause you know they will start whinin bout it.
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