Can we please STOP getting "Ensign" stations on these ships!? It's more annoying than anything and I'd rather just have two Lt. Stations instead. Or at the VERY least make it Universal instead of Engineering! There's almost no reason to get these ships except for the traits. The other Pilot ships are much better.
At least not Ensign Engineering. Because Engineering typically requires a Lt. station (so you can do EPtW2/EPtS1). So an Ensign Engineering station is, for the most part, simply useless (you'd rather slot a single HE1 there, or something).
Nah, not useless...Ens/Lt eng becomes ET1 & EptX1/EptX2 or EptX1 & EptX1/RSP1. Any fixed ens eng on any of my ships almost always become ET1, and if not, becomes SIF collapse/Overload Integrity Field.
Ens/LtCom eng takes the EptX1/EptX2 combo, turns the EptX2 into EptX3, and sticks RSP/Extend Shields/etc in. Having an extra low-rank heal is a nice way to trigger any effect that requires a hull heal (e.g. Research Lab consoles or the trait from the t6 23rd century promo ships)
Okay, let me spell out my situation again, now that I actually have the 3-ship Dewan bundle, the tl;dr version of which is that I can only use 2 stations for Tact. Yes, only 2. Given the fact that I need at least an EPtS/EPtW combo, I can use either the Lt. seat for that, and the Lt. Cmdr for Science, or vice versa, with the Lt. Cmdr for Engineering (which I currently did, with EPtS1/EPtW3 and A2D1 in the middle). The Ensign spot, which I would then normally use for HE1 (now SiC1), is no longer universal.
So, in my above scenario, I must use the Lt. station for Science (or the Lt. Cmdr seat), leaving exactly merely 2 stations for Tact. Is that horribly bad, you ask? No, not really. It just means I can ony make a full beam boat: no 2 extra spots for 2x TS, or Kemo even. The ship still kicks a**, of course. Just sayin' I could have really used the Ensign station in a universal incarnation.
Much as I loathe the idea players have become so conditioned that they now themselves take to actively helping the Devs to nerf stuff
I was going to write a long reply why people on Reddit (myself included) backlashed against PoF's initial state, but Spencer had already worded it much better, so here it is.
Much as I loathe the idea players have become so conditioned that they now themselves take to actively helping the Devs to nerf stuff
I was going to write a long reply why people on Reddit (myself included) backlashed against PoF's initial state, but Spencer had already worded it much better, so here it is.
All of which is fine by me, btw, as long as this also means (see my earlier comment) that we can more-or-less count on this not suddenly getting totally nerfed again in a few months, after the hype is over. Aka, I don't want to see a post from Bort, in a few months, saying he did some more testing, and now came to the conclusion the Trait must be killed. If pre-nerfing, as it were, as the result of early-on player feedback, has the effect that it will prevent huge disappointments down the line, then I'm all for it.
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Okay, let me spell out my situation again, now that I actually have the 3-ship Dewan bundle, the tl;dr version of which is that I can only use 2 stations for Tact. Yes, only 2. Given the fact that I need at least an EPtS/EPtW combo, I can use either the Lt. seat for that, and the Lt. Cmdr for Science, or vice versa, with the Lt. Cmdr for Engineering (which I currently did, with EPtS1/EPtW3 and A2D1 in the middle). The Ensign spot, which I would then normally use for HE1 (now SiC1), is no longer universal.
So, in my above scenario, I must use the Lt. station for Science (or the Lt. Cmdr seat), leaving exactly merely 2 stations for Tact. Is that horribly bad, you ask? No, not really. It just means I can ony make a full beam boat: no 2 extra spots for 2x TS, or Kemo even. The ship still kicks a**, of course. Just sayin' I could have really used the Ensign station in a universal incarnation.
I was going to write a long reply why people on Reddit (myself included) backlashed against PoF's initial state, but Spencer had already worded it much better, so here it is.
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All of which is fine by me, btw, as long as this also means (see my earlier comment) that we can more-or-less count on this not suddenly getting totally nerfed again in a few months, after the hype is over. Aka, I don't want to see a post from Bort, in a few months, saying he did some more testing, and now came to the conclusion the Trait must be killed. If pre-nerfing, as it were, as the result of early-on player feedback, has the effect that it will prevent huge disappointments down the line, then I'm all for it.
Tl;dr: SS3.
FYI, at present the wing cannons and their consoles are not usable on the Andorian ships, but Borticus confirmed it will get fixed: