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Which starship class do you hate the most? And why?
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Last time, I asked you about your favorite starship classes and what makes them appealing to you. This time, I do the opposite: I ask you about which starship classes you hate the most and why you hate them.
In my case, I really have to admit, it's the Constitution class. Really. Now some of you might say I'm trolling, or say "nuh uh it was made in the sixties, they weren't so advanced, you can't say that". But that's it for me. It looks old. Unlike some people, I didn't grow up watching TOS, being born in 1996 I grew up watching VOY. Granted, I also watched TNG and DS9 (Picard is my favorite captain by the way), but when I saw an episode of TOS, it just felt stale to me. And that's what I think about the Connie. It's stale. It's boring. It's like that grandpa sitting on a park bench feeding the ducks, while still wearing what was considered modern in the halcyon days of his youth.
As I stated, my favorite design is the Vesta. The Connie looks like its conceptual opposite. The Vesta is one streamlined, unbroken beauty that looks like it can go mind-numbingly fast (and it can), while the Connie looks like its fragile neck and warp nacelle pylons would break the moment it tries to fly anything faster than warp 8, let alone enter a quantum slipstream tunnel. There are no interesting details on the hull (where are the escape pods?). It looks really brittle/fragile too, compared to the tough looking Galaxy class. The TOS Connie just really cannot appeal to my aesthetic taste.
The Kelvin Timeline Connie is no better, by the way, as it looks like a toy. You know, the ones with the big nice parts so the kids can't swallow anything.
So what is your most hated class? And why? Welcome this thread as an opportunity to hate on your most hated starship design (and please don't hate on me).
In my case, I really have to admit, it's the Constitution class. Really. Now some of you might say I'm trolling, or say "nuh uh it was made in the sixties, they weren't so advanced, you can't say that". But that's it for me. It looks old. Unlike some people, I didn't grow up watching TOS, being born in 1996 I grew up watching VOY. Granted, I also watched TNG and DS9 (Picard is my favorite captain by the way), but when I saw an episode of TOS, it just felt stale to me. And that's what I think about the Connie. It's stale. It's boring. It's like that grandpa sitting on a park bench feeding the ducks, while still wearing what was considered modern in the halcyon days of his youth.
As I stated, my favorite design is the Vesta. The Connie looks like its conceptual opposite. The Vesta is one streamlined, unbroken beauty that looks like it can go mind-numbingly fast (and it can), while the Connie looks like its fragile neck and warp nacelle pylons would break the moment it tries to fly anything faster than warp 8, let alone enter a quantum slipstream tunnel. There are no interesting details on the hull (where are the escape pods?). It looks really brittle/fragile too, compared to the tough looking Galaxy class. The TOS Connie just really cannot appeal to my aesthetic taste.
The Kelvin Timeline Connie is no better, by the way, as it looks like a toy. You know, the ones with the big nice parts so the kids can't swallow anything.
So what is your most hated class? And why? Welcome this thread as an opportunity to hate on your most hated starship design (and please don't hate on me).
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and krenim imperium warship and temporal paradox dreadnaught, tho they all are good for admirality, as what is fleet larger, results are better, so i guess it will be like 99% of my ships, never used just drydocked and sent on mission via admirality
Terrible turn rate.
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it's the kim kardassian of spaceships.....top and bottom heavy, and emaciated everywhere else.
I'm sure there are people out there who know how to equip them properly but my experiences, teamed with them in STF's shortly after the carrier was first released, was one of profound disappointment. Seeing one in a PVE was like being down a player but without a sense of hope. They had no impact. And I won't blame the ship itself for this, only the broad psychological impact it had in making some players skip important critical thinking steps (ex. am I having any noticeable effect what-so-ever on this gate? Can I take out more than one probe before they reach the portal? Should I really be using more than one torpedo on a 3/3 ship?)
And I'm well aware that this is a generalization but it's a fun one to express because, somehow, the Atrox is a fun ship to rag on (big, stylish, premium currency, potentially quite useful, but all too often it was wasted on people. It's a space Escalade.
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As for other ships, the Scimitar looks incredibly stupid. I'm sorry, but it just does to me. And the Enterprise J is a pancake, and I really dislike the super flat pancake ships like that. The Defiant, on the other hand, is one I actually like, even though it could be considered a pancake.
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KDF
An'quat command battlecruiser, I mean serious effort must have gone into this to make it as ugly as possible, with great success. I have no doubt their aim was to force people to buy all 3 to kitbash the ugly out of them and end up with something quite decent.
Most KDF designs have no visual appeal to me, except a few I like very much such as all the birds of prey (Ning'Tao especially), Ma'tha, Starcraft ships, even Qin has something to it despite being weird.
FED
Too many designs have the child-proof don't poke yourself or kid next to you or swallow and choke type oversized soft glowy baby toy look. Don't care for Fed command battlecruisers (except the presidio), JJ & Canon Connies, Constellation, fed pilot ships, the new c-store temporal ships, Temporal xfaction multimission sci and raider.
ROM
Most older Romulan Warbirds to me are designed horribly wrong, with the textures failing to account for their size that's greatly exaggerated. The Ha'nom should not be nearly the size of a Scimitar. It is not some Science Dreadnought packing a flight deck or something. The classics (D'Deridex, Mogai, Scimitar) do look great, as do Ar'Kif, Faeht, Aelahl, command warbirds, T'Laru, Daeinos/Dinaes, and some of the shapes (if not textures) of the pilot warbirds.
Gameplay
Carriers - persistent problems with their carrier commands and pets, fast pace of (unbalanced) game, no real way to add strategic control to pets (Homeworld-style interface) or send out heals when they pop in warp core breaches continuously or drop in health so quickly; they are lots of fun from a role-play point of view or on a main toon with the few pets that still do something worthwhile but on alts it is just bad
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I dislike carriers more, or should I say any ship with a hangar, but that is just because Crypric just refuse to fix the ai properly..
I'm not a fan of the Galaxy-X. It just seemed to be too much for an alternate reality one time on screen ship. And it helped muddy the waters of discussion of the Galaxy for ages on these forums. The whole word Dreadnought these days still gives me a mild headache.
I'm not a big fan of the Kar'Fi either, just because plumes of smoke in space seem ridiculous.
Most of the lockbox ships are like non-existent to me. I mean so many ships from so many aliens (Breen, Tholian, Jem'Hadar, Krenim, Voth, Herald, and on and on and on) that I just can't really feel much desire to captain you know? But I don't hate those. I mostly just don't pay that much attention to them.