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I want a Playable Borg Tac Cube in a few months

There seems to be no reason for me not to get it since size is no longer an issue. Make it so cryptic! I have got credit card ready.
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    I want eight tac cubes fused together to make a super cube!
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    thay8472 wrote: »
    I want eight tac cubes fused together to make a super cube!

    Pretty sure that gimmick is still owned by Activision (which Cryptic has been under orders by high above not to use).

    That being said, I'm normally not a fan of the idea of a playable borg cube/sphere. However, I think Cryptic should do it just to call the bluff of all the players who say they'll quit the game forevers and evers or that STO is jumping the shark for the Nth time or that it's another desperate "last cash grab" or whatever other hyperbolic nonsense excuse they feel compelled to come up rather than just being honest and admitting that they just don't like the idea.

    Because we can't just say "I don't like this", we have to throw in some heavy drama otherwise Cryptic won't understand how much we don't like it.
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  • newromulan#1567 newromulan Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    I think the 'end is soon when this happens' is not reasonable response either. I think they are just very much under pressure to get large spikes of money on a quarterly basis. So the universe class r and D will do it for this quarter. The Tac cube could be next quarter. Crystalline entity the next and so on maybe a movable starbases? Don't laugh, they move ds9 in the series.
  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    Somehow tiresome that players still think playable Borg ships are supposed to be the best (not to mention the end) of all things.

    Looking at the state the NPC Borgs ships are in at the moment they must be some ultra-bad crafts if ever translated to a playable version.

    Seriously, every NPC Orb Weaver gives me a harder time than a Borg cube in STO.
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  • seriousdaveseriousdave Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    thay8472 wrote: »
    I want eight tac cubes fused together to make a super cube!

    Can't do that, not because it's ridiculous but licensing issues would kill that. Fusion cubes are already a thing in other games.

    Better go for something more plausible, a voth fortress ship with citadels as hangar pets. :D
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    I'd anticipate a T6 Voth Citadel Dreadnought to replace the Voth Bulwark, along with a Tzenkethi Dreadnought (after the inevitable Tzenkethi lockbox), and in between releases we have the Infinity R&D Promo packs that will contain all R&D ships in them that you can choose.

    Like I said, normally I'd not be a fan of playable Borg ships (outside of ships from the Borg Cooperative since they have clear distinctions between what direction they're facing), but as usual, the amount of incessant whining from the STO playerbase has managed to flip me on the side of playable Cubes/Spheres/whatever for no other reason than to call their bluff.

    The players do way more damage to the game than Cryptic could ever hope to accomplish.​​
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    The Tzenkethi ships are basically guaranteed for a lockbox version, are they not?
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    The Tzenkethi ships are basically guaranteed for a lockbox version, are they not?

    Yeah, it's pretty much inevitable. I'm guessing the Tzenkethi dreadnought will be an R&D promo ship given its immense size, but it's equally plausible it'll be either the grand prize or the lobi store ship. I like to think have a decent track record of predictions, but the one thing I've gotten wrong most often is which specific ships are offered where (Lockbox/Lobi/R&D), so I'd take that with a grain of salt.​​
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  • newromulan#1567 newromulan Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I'd anticipate a T6 Voth Citadel Dreadnought to replace the Voth Bulwark, along with a Tzenkethi Dreadnought (after the inevitable Tzenkethi lockbox), and in between releases we have the Infinity R&D Promo packs that will contain all R&D ships in them that you can choose.

    Like I said, normally I'd not be a fan of playable Borg ships (outside of ships from the Borg Cooperative since they have clear distinctions between what direction they're facing), but as usual, the amount of incessant whining from the STO playerbase has managed to flip me on the side of playable Cubes/Spheres/whatever for no other reason than to call their bluff.

    The players do way more damage to the game than Cryptic could ever hope to accomplish.​​

    Voth Cidadel is a strong possiblity. I just want the Tac cube and soon - and have the game keep going - just to show that you can keep "jumping the shark" - over and over and people will still play and pay!
  • seriousxenoseriousxeno Member Posts: 473 Arc User
    Yeah the Citadel (which I deemed too large originally) is now a very real possibility. City Ships for everyone (lucky enough) I suppose.

    System traffic is gonna be a nightmare now isn't it?
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  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    Meh, what the hell, as we're already circling the drain of madness..
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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,951 Arc User
    Tac cube will only ever be released as a Cooperative faction-exclusive C-Store ship, whenever Cryptic gets around to adding them.
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  • galattgalatt Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    Why stop there?
    I want a Citadel with two of the Doomsday weapons strapped to it for nacelles.
    I will call it the U.S.S Mine Are Bigger
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    thay8472 wrote: »
    I want eight tac cubes fused together to make a super cube!

    Pretty sure that gimmick is still owned by Activision (which Cryptic has been under orders by high above not to use).

    That being said, I'm normally not a fan of the idea of a playable borg cube/sphere. However, I think Cryptic should do it just to call the bluff of all the players who say they'll quit the game forevers and evers or that STO is jumping the shark for the Nth time or that it's another desperate "last cash grab" or whatever other hyperbolic nonsense excuse they feel compelled to come up rather than just being honest and admitting that they just don't like the idea.

    Because we can't just say "I don't like this", we have to throw in some heavy drama otherwise Cryptic won't understand how much we don't like it.
    So use a different formation.

    Like 5 cubes in a + formation, call it the plus cube. :D

    And fortunately I can just say "I like this."
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    'You can't handle the cube!!' :)
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  • newromulan#1567 newromulan Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    At this point, other than a cooperative Faction coming, I can't see a reason why they can't put it in a promo pack.
  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,566 Arc User
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    Everyone wants to fly the Borg Space Pickle Ship.
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  • newromulan#1567 newromulan Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    Hey that Borg ship is also not too big to be a Playable ship too. We could have a full line of Borg ships. Personally I am hoping for a Borg Faction, but they seem to like the lotto system for ships.
  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    Honestly i could see it happening quite easy, even with the issue of determining what is the forward section fo the ship just using a visual indicator on the shield system as well as overlay around the ship would work. I could see releasing these during a story arc dealing with the borg going after the cooperative to recoup their lost drones (both groups are quite weak in numbers, with the collective being slightly stronger than the cooperative), or a story arc in which the borg are working towards assimilating tech from the ship wrecks of our recent enemies to bolster their own diminished strength. There is also the fact the borg might go into fluidic space again, which I would not mind seeing if it brought back a Undine lockbox that we could get the Vila heavy bio-battleship/cruiser of the Undine, and maybe even the dreadnaught or a science oriented ship too in the box.
  • groomofweirdgroomofweird Member Posts: 1,045 Arc User
    I kind of think the size of ships is getting a bit much now. It seems like allot of dreadnoughts, I have loads. I pulled up outside our fleet K13 in my Sheshar, the ship was bigger than the starbase!
    We took some fleet screen shots outside our starbase and my tiny raptor can barely even be seen next to some of the other monoliths there, yet it can dance with any of them tactically.
    I love big ships and small, but I'm starting to feel like an effective zoom range scaling is far easier on a larger ship in terms of actually being able to see your ship clearly and appreciate its appearance.
    Though it can slide the other way with some of the huge ships and not being able to see much of the battlefield for its sheer size, even fully zoomed out.
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  • necreliosis#4763 necreliosis Member Posts: 112 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    Just give me a hollowed-out planetoid with warp drive capabilities. Or I guess I could settle for a Voth Fortress, that would be sweet! Maybe kinda hard to park, but it would be worth it.
  • newromulan#1567 newromulan Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Meh, what the hell, as we're already circling the drain of madness..

    It will be a good discussion on the forums WHEN it happens!!
  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,566 Arc User
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Meh, what the hell, as we're already circling the drain of madness..

    It will be a good discussion on the forums WHEN it happens!!

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  • merlinofliramerlinoflira Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    I want a Mirror Universe Borg Cube that bigger than the Enterprise-J.
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    The Tzenkethi ships are basically guaranteed for a lockbox version, are they not?

    Yeah, it's pretty much inevitable. I'm guessing the Tzenkethi dreadnought will be an R&D promo ship given its immense size, but it's equally plausible it'll be either the grand prize or the lobi store ship. I like to think have a decent track record of predictions, but the one thing I've gotten wrong most often is which specific ships are offered where (Lockbox/Lobi/R&D), so I'd take that with a grain of salt.​​

    I feel the tzenkethi dread' will either be the lobi ship, or fill the same 'ultimate prize instead of 4 lobi' slot as the Vonph and Acheros. That prize currently only has two choices in infinity boxes and it's tanked their value. Putting a third ship in there will help stabilize all three.

    But I don't care one way ot the other about borg - my T6 Tal'Shiar Adapted ships come ever closer and my greedy-grabby paws are READY.

  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    nikeix wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    The Tzenkethi ships are basically guaranteed for a lockbox version, are they not?

    Yeah, it's pretty much inevitable. I'm guessing the Tzenkethi dreadnought will be an R&D promo ship given its immense size, but it's equally plausible it'll be either the grand prize or the lobi store ship. I like to think have a decent track record of predictions, but the one thing I've gotten wrong most often is which specific ships are offered where (Lockbox/Lobi/R&D), so I'd take that with a grain of salt.​​

    I feel the tzenkethi dread' will either be the lobi ship, or fill the same 'ultimate prize instead of 4 lobi' slot as the Vonph and Acheros. That prize currently only has two choices in infinity boxes and it's tanked their value. Putting a third ship in there will help stabilize all three.

    But I don't care one way ot the other about borg - my T6 Tal'Shiar Adapted ships come ever closer and my greedy-grabby paws are READY.

    I absolutely love my T5 Tal Shiar ships, but I'm not sure if the T6 versions will be able to pull me away from my T'Laru.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    coolbatman wrote: »
    skoorb that, just gimme a playable doomsday machine or a flyable starbase/ds9 type station, that would do it at [t6]

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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    There seems to be no reason for me not to get it since size is no longer an issue. Make it so cryptic! I have got credit card ready.

    There was a time when I would have taken this opportunity to tell you that you're out of luck and it will never happen.

    Recent developments however, have forced me to change that stance. They will put any ship in game no matter how ridiculous.. as long as it makes money.

    Want to fly a Star Destroyer? Or the Battlestar Galactica? Just make enough threads and it will eventually happen.

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  • fiberteksyfirfiberteksyfir Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    Why does everybody look at cubes as the end all still? I mean we melt cubes like ice in the sahara... think big... like a playable unicomplex :P that might be a worthwilr undertaking
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