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Would you want Type 7 hangar pets?

pweistheworstpweistheworst Member Posts: 986 Arc User
edited September 2017 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
If we get any more TNG-era ships with hangars I really hope the devs add Type 7 shuttles (regular, advanced, and elite) as hangar pets.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    I'm kinda hoping to see Miranda, Centaur or Shi'kahr light cruisers coming out, or defiants from larger hangar bays to keep up with Klingon B'rels and Breen Plesh'breks. Even up the playing field a bit. a Mobile starbase needs good defenses. :tongue:
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  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    Honestly i don't mind what hanger-pets we get, but to be truthful I would prefer a bit more verity in the hanger-pet's weaon an ability load-outs. If anything it would be nice to have it so you could equip your hanger-pets more to your liking, such as a set-up that you can slot your choice of weapons onto the pets you are using, while having the ability they use linked to the type of hanger pet they are
  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    asuran14 wrote: »
    Honestly i don't mind what hanger-pets we get, but to be truthful I would prefer a bit more verity in the hanger-pet's weaon an ability load-outs. If anything it would be nice to have it so you could equip your hanger-pets more to your liking, such as a set-up that you can slot your choice of weapons onto the pets you are using, while having the ability they use linked to the type of hanger pet they are

    Sounds great and I would love it. But hangar pets right now are a glorified console. The only way I could see them being able to do that would be to look at the small craft you have set and use that as hangar pets and it be an innate ability of carriers. But then you lose the mix and match as well as frigate pets.

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  • trennantrennan Member Posts: 2,839 Arc User
    If they move away from the DPS stand alone setup we currently use. I might consider switching over to a Carrier from a more support/tanking stance. But as it stands right now, you don't need anything more than an escort.

    I have a few build ideas for a carrier. So a type-7 shuttle option wouldn't be that bad of an idea. But, there is just no reason to bother with it. Since there is no need for tank or support ships.
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  • asuran14asuran14 Member Posts: 2,335 Arc User
    feiqa wrote: »
    asuran14 wrote: »
    Honestly i don't mind what hanger-pets we get, but to be truthful I would prefer a bit more verity in the hanger-pet's weaon an ability load-outs. If anything it would be nice to have it so you could equip your hanger-pets more to your liking, such as a set-up that you can slot your choice of weapons onto the pets you are using, while having the ability they use linked to the type of hanger pet they are

    Sounds great and I would love it. But hangar pets right now are a glorified console. The only way I could see them being able to do that would be to look at the small craft you have set and use that as hangar pets and it be an innate ability of carriers. But then you lose the mix and match as well as frigate pets.

    Eh I would be fine with a set-up where you can equip your available hanger-pets either while you are on a star-base like in the ship-yard areas, or via visiting a duty officer in our ship interiors.

    While for me the carriers I wish came with a expanded UI set-up, which might in someways function like the ground boff system giving us access to set they hanger-pet's ability to auto-cast or manual-cast (we signal when they use it basically), but leaving the non-carriers with the old UI (though I actually don't mind the idea of using this on all hanger-pet using ships.). While also I actually think it would be interesting if we had some consoles that would give bonuses to our hanger-pets stats, which though would be at the cost of giving our main-ship a lower bonus (the bonus would be based on what kind of console it is engineering, science, and tactical.).
  • e30erneste30ernest Member Posts: 1,794 Arc User
    trennan wrote: »
    If they move away from the DPS stand alone setup we currently use. I might consider switching over to a Carrier from a more support/tanking stance. But as it stands right now, you don't need anything more than an escort.

    I don't really enjoy carriers much (too slow for me) but I reckon one can make a pretty potent DPS carrier if they wanted to. The pet buff of S13 was pretty big. The Elite Epochs on my Eternal do over 2k DPS each now (up from 500-600 each). It won't top DPS records, but a fully kitted-out carrier should be able to leverage pets to augment its fewer weapon slots.

    Right now ships without pets are at a disadvantage IMO.

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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    pweistheworst wrote: »
    Would you want Type 7 hangar pets?

    Of course. As long as Cryptic doesn't try to charge me 2000 Zen for them. ;)
    But I don't see how they could be much different, stats-wise, than the other shuttle. It seems to be the truck/bus shuttle, so not really a combat vessel. Even if given the same stats as the other shuttle, it'd be a nice visual option.

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