Really? A 4th Caitian ship?

wakeroberts · August 2020

I'm not trying to knock Caitians here. I know there are lots of Caitian fans. But why not branch out a little more to some Federation races that haven't been represented yet? Why not a Denobulan or a Rigelian ship? I'd really like to see them get a little love too.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

* Is readying his claws *

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

Seriously though, it's only the third ship. Second actually, if you keep in mind that this is just a T6 update to the T5 Atrox, which was also one of the last ships to get the fleet treatment, even just shortly before T6's became a thing IIRC.

I mean, if you want to count the T5's and T6's as separate, then the Andorians and Vulcans also have 6 and 2 ships respectively.

I'm not counting the Caitian shuttle. That one has been in the game for years. And how much shuttle content do we have anyway?

Not that I'm opposed to seeing more stuff of some other key species of course. But that's because more ships and more diversity is never a bad thing, not because I'd say that the Caitians are over-represented or anything.

davefenestrator · August 2020

This is a replacement for the existing T5 carrier, that people have been asking for since 2014. There is exactly one T6 kitty-carrier now.

Caitians and Andorians are much more popular than other races, so they get ships first.

foppotee · August 2020

Whereas it would be nice for all the species to be represented with species-specific ships Cryptic can only do so much.

I mean seriously Cryptic, when will the long overlooked Horta get their species-specific ship & while you're at it made into a playable species? :-)

davefenestrator · August 2020

foppotee#4552 wrote: »

Whereas it would be nice for all the species to be represented with species-specific ships Cryptic can only do so much.

I mean seriously Cryptic, when will the long overlooked Horta get their species-specific ship & while you're at it made into a playable species? :-)

Trendy promised us playable Horta, and I'm still waiting! It was an official announcement!!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9890613-star-trek-online:-new-playable-species-horta!

( ... yes the blog date was April 1, why are you asking? )

gaevsman · August 2020

Wait, when we had a third???... the Atrox, the Shikaris and the Aspero... where is the third??? if you say this is the fourth??

captainhunter1 · August 2020

Multiple Caitian ships over a decade.....

...and still not one real hairstyle for the kitty people (looking at you M'Ress).

jtoney3448 · August 2020

Vulcans dont even have much in the way of ships. Problem is cryptic thinks Federation ship = Star Fleet, cept the Federation isn't just Star Fleet. Just like the Klingon Empire isnt just Klingon the Klingon Fleet. That being said Im not bashing this carrier bundle cept for all the TRIBBLE confusion on what carriers can use what, and the master key incident. If you say something is in the bundle HONOR IT. If you are going to post a blog on a product PROOF READ IT more then once for god sake.

And honestly when releasing a carrier, you should be able to make damn sure it all works right, its not like there is a ton of dual hanger carriers they arent cruisers.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

jtoney3448 wrote: »

Vulcans dont even have much in the way of ships. Problem is cryptic thinks Federation ship = Star Fleet, cept the Federation isn't just Star Fleet. Just like the Klingon Empire isnt just Klingon the Klingon Fleet. That being said Im not bashing this carrier bundle cept for all the TRIBBLE confusion on what carriers can use what, and the master key incident. If you say something is in the bundle HONOR IT. If you are going to post a blog on a product PROOF READ IT more then once for god sake.

And honestly when releasing a carrier, you should be able to make damn sure it all works right, its not like there is a ton of dual hanger carriers they arent cruisers.

I also find the restriction of the pets to dual hangar carriers a bit odd. There are too few of them anyway for these pets to be an useful addition to the game for most players.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

gaevsman wrote: »

Wait, when we had a third???... the Atrox, the Shikaris and the Aspero... where is the third??? if you say this is the fourth??

There's the Stalker stealth shuttle.

Not really a ship and it has been in the game since forever, as noted though. It's not the best example to include if someone would want to claim favouritism for this species.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

As for the Vulcans: I can understand why one would expect them to have more ships, since they're one of the few species that are stated to actually have an own, fully operational fleet (besides the general notion that such is the right and custom of species in the Federation in general).

Vulcans also seem to be one of the more popular species in terms of player characters. Then again, there aren't an awful lot of Vulcan ships flying around in the game. Not surprising for a T5 ship of course, but the T6 one was part of an event and is thus likely owned by many players.

I think that I've only seen, literally, one of them in the past couple of months. Their ships don't seem to be that popular. The same would go for most species-specific ships though, I might add. I don't think I've ever seen a Lethean ship, even Andorian ones are fairly rare and the Atrox and Shi'karis aren't seen that often either.

Players in general appear to prefer flying regular faction ships. Meaning ships like Intrepids, Defiants, Galaxies, Sovereigns, Connies and so on for the Federation. I can understand that, the game has us act like Starfleet officers after all. Not as members of the Vulcan Science Academy or the Andorian Imperial Guard or... whatever the Caitian fleet command is called.

starshine · August 2020

I like that the carrier isn't a fed one, as I don't really imagine starfleet and carriers as going together. And we just got the earhart too so a second would be eh,
Caitian are nice in how different the ships look to everything else and it makes sense to have them the carrier when they had the T5 one so like, carriers are their thing.
I'd like an Andorian carrier one day maybe as those andorian pilot ships are fighter-y so it makes sense the AIG would have one?

annemarie30 · August 2020

Maybe I should start a thread, Really, Star Trek? I want a Super Star Destroyer... OP, are you one of those who complains because you only got a $25 dollar Christmas present instead of a new car??

angrytarg · August 2020

I want more Tellarite love

foxrockssocks · August 2020

At least the kitty ships are sleek and attractive, unlike Orion ships.

strathkin · August 2020

Yea, it's only the 2nd Caitian Ship. And both are Carriers, it was nice to see the Ferasan's got more of an Escort.

Andorian's, Letheans, and Dewans each have a 3 set group of Pilot ships themselves.

Still I'm excited for a possible T6 Dyson Update, especially given the more cooperative design, since Dyson technology was first introduced in the Sphere. I really see Dyson ships as the precursor to the eventual Temporal 29th ships we first saw in Voyager.

tasshena · August 2020

strathkin wrote: »

Yea, it's only the 2nd Caitian Ship. And both are Carriers, it was nice to see the Ferasan's got more of an Escort.

Andorian's, Letheans, and Dewans each have a 3 set group of Pilot ships themselves.

Still I'm excited for a possible T6 Dyson Update, especially given the more cooperative design, since Dyson technology was first introduced in the Sphere. I really see Dyson ships as the precursor to the eventual Temporal 29th ships we first saw in Voyager.

Er, the Caitians got the Shikaris escort as well, not just the carriers. But the Stalker as a ship? eh. It's basically in the same category as the Scorp and to'duj, it's a fighter for the carriers, so make it a flyable fighter for small craft stuff.

ltminns · August 2020

There are actually 6 Caitian ships if you count the Fleet Varients. Beyond that, there are not 4 Ships, so the point of this Thread is moot.

fallenkezef · August 2020

starshine#7408 wrote: »

I like that the carrier isn't a fed one, as I don't really imagine starfleet and carriers as going together. And we just got the earhart too so a second would be eh,
Caitian are nice in how different the ships look to everything else and it makes sense to have them the carrier when they had the T5 one so like, carriers are their thing.
I'd like an Andorian carrier one day maybe as those andorian pilot ships are fighter-y so it makes sense the AIG would have one?

Yeah, the idea of attritional warfare just isn't starfleet really.

doctorstegi · August 2020

gaevsman wrote: »

Wait, when we had a third???... the Atrox, the Shikaris and the Aspero... where is the third??? if you say this is the fourth??

There is a shuttle though you can fly lol.

trillbuffet · August 2020

Pretty much this is how I see this going because of how companies gauge how popular things may or may not sell determines how many and the frequencies of when they are released. Kind of like the Lethean pilot escorts and their faction counterparts they are some of the most underrated ships but have the problem of most of them being non-canon ships along with how I've noticed that many players do not know how to use pilot ships effectively. So this being said you have one of their best work that involves piloting skill and strategy not being used that much but at the same time I am able to come up with completely separate builds for each class of tact, eng, and sci where they perform so much better than a lot other ships I see out there.

So really what the game needs is a time gated crowd funding ability which could utilize Fleet Starbases and the crafting system via the shipyard to do these. So basically what Cryptic could start off doing is creating templates to sell in the c-store that are the base or foundation of what their ships look like as they start them off. Then with the function of a time gate and the aspect of crowd funding once a timer starts on all the resources being there for something they can then work on the next pieces you get so the time gate is just for them to do the work as needed so they can continue on their scheduled work. Plus the game really needs an agreeable dilithium sink that most anyone can agree upon as well as something that puts more value into shipyards so that once a prototype ship is built that shipyard can then produce these ships.

Overall they just need a system like this that restores dilithium and other currency values and allows them to know exactly when, what, and how they can introduce ships like these. I am pretty sure its a reasonable but something I know that could be improved upon by Cryptic and others ideas. Plus on top of all this they need to go back and revisit the earlier Fleet Starbase design because there are many vendors in them but they tended to only offer things that were so limited in use like the fleet operational assets that no one ever used them and then now of days no one ever does those specific fleet queues. I'd like to see them redo those and remove faction barriers in one big overhaul that allows everything from non-faction specific ships like these and ways they can be used and valued.

phoenixc · August 2020

foxrockssocks wrote: »

At least the kitty ships are sleek and attractive, unlike Orion ships.

That is only because for some reason STO has so far chosen to base all Orion ships on Harrad-Sar's junker of a barge and ignore all the sleeker, more elegant designs like the Scout and the Interceptor (in fact, they treat the runabout-sized Vulcan T'Pau as a full-sized science scout but treat the Interceptors, which are shown as much bigger than the T'Pau class, as fighter-runabouts.

And giving the smaller civilizations in the factions some attention is a good thing anyway, this time the Caitians get a nice ship, maybe the Orions will be next (though I doubt it), it is all good whoever the next lucky underdog is either way.

angrytarg · August 2020

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

foxrockssocks wrote: »

At least the kitty ships are sleek and attractive, unlike Orion ships.

That is only because for some reason STO has so far chosen to base all Orion ships on Harrad-Sar's junker of a barge and ignore all the sleeker, more elegant designs like the Scout and the Interceptor (in fact, they treat the runabout-sized Vulcan T'Pau as a full-sized science scout but treat the Interceptors, which are shown as much bigger than the T'Pau class, as fighter-runabouts.

And giving the smaller civilizations in the factions some attention is a good thing anyway, this time the Caitians get a nice ship, maybe the Orions will be next (though I doubt it), it is all good whoever the next lucky underdog is either way.

A problem is that since ENT (because before we barely got nay Orions at all) the impression got reinforced that the Syndicate is the governing body and sole structure of the Orion society when I think Orions were the most sophisticated scientists and space explorers for a long time. They really suffer from very short-sighted misrepresentation.

ltminns wrote: »

There are actually 6 Caitian ships if you count the Fleet Varients. Beyond that, there are not 4 Ships, so the point of this Thread is moot.

It's not that hard to be frank. Two carriers, one escort and one small craft make four.

ussvaliant2 · August 2020

If there really was one thing Caitians needed added to the game is the M'ress hairstyle.

I demand it is added immediately.

starshine · August 2020

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

foxrockssocks wrote: »

At least the kitty ships are sleek and attractive, unlike Orion ships.

That is only because for some reason STO has so far chosen to base all Orion ships on Harrad-Sar's junker of a barge and ignore all the sleeker, more elegant designs like the Scout and the Interceptor (in fact, they treat the runabout-sized Vulcan T'Pau as a full-sized science scout but treat the Interceptors, which are shown as much bigger than the T'Pau class, as fighter-runabouts.

And giving the smaller civilizations in the factions some attention is a good thing anyway, this time the Caitians get a nice ship, maybe the Orions will be next (though I doubt it), it is all good whoever the next lucky underdog is either way.

It would be nice to see some Orion ships based on the Orion scout ship.
I like its lil energy balls inside its ring

markhawkman · August 2020

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

foxrockssocks wrote: »

At least the kitty ships are sleek and attractive, unlike Orion ships.

That is only because for some reason STO has so far chosen to base all Orion ships on Harrad-Sar's junker of a barge and ignore all the sleeker, more elegant designs like the Scout and the Interceptor (in fact, they treat the runabout-sized Vulcan T'Pau as a full-sized science scout but treat the Interceptors, which are shown as much bigger than the T'Pau class, as fighter-runabouts.

And giving the smaller civilizations in the factions some attention is a good thing anyway, this time the Caitians get a nice ship, maybe the Orions will be next (though I doubt it), it is all good whoever the next lucky underdog is either way.

Hmm the Blackguard isn't actually a T6 potato though. T6 potato would prob be a 2 hangar bay ship.

But yeah Orion escorts would be great to have.

jade1280 · August 2020

What would you say if i told you there are proto caitian suprmeisits team infiltrating Cryptic as we speak under the guise of a culture pheonominon know only to the local population as furries.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

jade1280 wrote: »

What would you say if i told you there are proto caitian suprmeisits team infiltrating Cryptic as we speak under the guise of a culture pheonominon know only to the local population as furries.

Well, what could anyone really say to that? I'm not sure what you are expecting.

So I'll just leave it at...

Yes.

fleetcaptain5 · August 2020

Also, oranges.

Really? A 4th Caitian ship?

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