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Too bad it's going to be an expensive ship, too expensive for just that. I won't be trying to get it.
And not only is it a gamble-box ship, it's engineering heavy, a 4/4 layout, with a terrible trait and only a moderately decent console.
This thing is absolute trash. I'll pass, thanks.
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Probably don't have any immediate plans. Odds are we'll see her in a later update.
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You mean, such as the exchange?
No, the exchange is not an option since it costs too much real money to get all the keys (averaging over 100 last time I heard) needed, and I do not have the patience for the intense, tedious market grinding for that alternate route in the market either. It is safe to say that premium ship prices on the exchange are beyond the means of most casuals, especially altaholics like me.
And that is assuming that the ship is even sold on the exchange, a lot of the more popular ones are priced beyond the even the extended cap nowadays and require some sort of direct trade, and inflation keeps those prices going up.
Maybe if they were to re-evaluate the entire lineup of engineering boff abilities, these ships might be worthwhile. Maybe if they'd re-evaluate rear weapon hardpoints.
As it is, though... if you aren't a 5/x weapon layout with tactical seating, or a science ship, you simply don't do well in this game. Even carriers have been largely outdated (They were, at one point, the best ships in the game, and I spent a ton of money and effort putting together an amazing carrier build that used to wreck TFO's... now it's middling at best compared to any science ship, battlecruiser, or escort).
I'm a cruiser main. Flew the Command Assault Cruiser for a long time. Flew the Walker, Temporal Connie, flying a Sagan... I fly the MW Connie on an alt, I actually enjoy the Legendary Miranda...
I don't follow the meta either. For me a basic cruiser build is 6 beams and 2 torps, so more Broadside. Wouldn't matter if it was 5/3 or 4/4 if you broadside.
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I prefer the 4/4 ships as well with big slow cruisers, I fly an Oddy on my main.
It is just that people with similar tastes tend to gravitate towards similar fleets.
4x4 ships and tanking (i'm one of those in Random TFO who keeps those glass cannons from going "BOOM") while a different playstyle than just tac heavy is also enjoyable.
For me the one thing which pushes me away from the Farragut is that i am absolutely not into the old skool TOS look.
Edit: That being said i could see use for both the console and trait in a tanking role. Too bad it is lockbox.
Big number sell, and they've been selling bigger numbers to DPS players for years now to cash in on that market; ultimately the cost has been every other role in the game.
The thing is that there are still far more players with low gear that tanks may actually be of greater importance now than ever before if you play random RTFO.
Sure if you measure your worth against something as weak as ISA than it is easy enough to solo, but that TFO is old enough for even inexperienced players to know the tricks and inflate their DPS.
A pretty covers Connies, Konnies and Donnies since it's literally same ship regardless what shows or movie it's in.
The Farragut is also not as Iconic as a Connie, a T'liss, a D'deridex and a D7, so I don't see a point in collecting one.
It really isn't pure TOS aesthetics (which is Googie for Fed ships and a lot of the TOS architecture in general) though it is a lot closer to it than DSC designs, close enough to at least have some of the TOS feel.
It has the (more or less) round nacelles, and they pretty much got the saucer edge right at least, but the proportions/layout are almost all wrong from the top (the side almost works though), the surface details are unnecessarily busy, etc., and those features, along with the Excelsior-style bridge-through-engineering strip gives it a sort of transitional feel between the TOS and movie eras, sort of an Art Deco variant trying to emulate Googie style.
Personally, I like it despite the aesthetic errors, but tastes vary.