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Will we be getting the California class as a playable ship?
lordgyor
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Will we be getting the California class as a playable ship?
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Do you think Cryptic likes money?
If you can answer that question, then you can probably figure out the answer to your question too
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Three-ship Bundle confirmed!
But honestly, I already know the answer to that.
*lazyselfquote*
My character Tsin'xing
Not to forget about the Omega Class Cruiser from the big STO / B5 crossover
When the new Trek shows started the devs said their license applies to all the new shows. And as others have pointed out, the free doffs they are giving away makes this obvious in this case as well.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
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The only reference i can find with California and star trek is an Excelsior Class which is already in the game.
If you mean another class then providing a link might be useful.
It is the ship from the new show Lower Decks.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
You mean the trashed miranda design someone, for some reason, saved from the trash bin?
Cannot imagine anyone spending a proverbial penny on something that hideous.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
The Cali is a workhorse ship. She's not the plum assignment like a Sovy. If people are willing to fly freighters in STO, people will fly a Cali.
Me personally... if people want it they want it. *shrug*
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I mean what I said. It doesn't actually matter if you like it or not, I was telling you what the OP was talking about.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Personally: Dear Gawd! I hope not! It's but-fudge ugly. Only the Crossfield is worst!
Realistically: The Devs'll throw it to us. Most likely it'll be a T6 lockbox, but... I could see it as another scalable T1-T4 CStore ship or grind-ship. That would seem to fit the scope of the ship class anyways...
Cryptic, would you actulaly like me to spend actual Money? It's Simple:
And yes, it does look rather dumb but that is true of most of the CBS Trek ships anyway (don't get me started on the DSC Klingon ships) so it is nothing out of the ordinary nowadays. CBS would have done better to canonize STO or FASA original designs, or at least hire some people that are not stuck on that art deco derived dross, but it is what it is.
The funny thing is, a ship almost exactly like the California class appeared in TAS, a flattish saucer with that squarish hoop arrangement of engines underneath the saucer, though it just had four rather short nacelles down there on the crossbar instead of two normally proportioned ones and the engineering pod like the California has, so there is actually a bit of precedent for the design.
There was another wicket style ship in TAS too, a rectangular main hull, two normal nacelles, and that same hoop only that one had it on top with some kind of square modules on it, possibly cargo containers. Those wicket arrangements seem to be an animation favorite in Trek.
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I think Cryptic should make the ship as close to looking animated/cartoonish as possible for distinction & humor.
*coughdiscoshipscough*
QFT, quoted for truth! I have been re-watching old episodes of ST Disco recently, and as always when I watch something for a second time, I am noticing a lot more of the background stuff like ship designs. The overall thing I am reminded in watching this show again is how mixed it is; sometimes quite good and sometimes really bad.
Style and design are two things I find most repugnant. I hate what they did with the Klingons, (as I did with JJ Trek), and some of the ship designs are, (stops and thinks how to say this without getting "jailed"), not to my taste.