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baddmoonrizin
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The Constitution III, seen in Star Trek Picard as the Titan-A, is coming this week to the Infinity R&D and Duty Officer Promotion Packs!
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11545743
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11545743
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YAY, said no one ever.
When looking it over, I dived first for the seating, then the trait and console, as is my preference. Noted the new weapons on the way.
All of these things screamed that turn radius was going to be an issue with this ship, so I perhaps naively assumed it was going to be a battlecruiser with similar turn to the various Galaxy BCs on offer, because why else would you need all that...
And scroll back up to find it's a normal cruiser with a decent (for a cruiser) turn rate and 4/4 weapons for broadside rather than a 5/3 weapon layout and weaker turn rate like I was expecting.
As I said, I'd love to know why the choices here were made, because the ship seems confused. Was it just that too many BCs were released lately, or some lore reason?
Not the biggest shock this, the main question was always going to be which kind of lockbox/non C-Store way it was going to get released as. So many of the ships from Picard S3 are likely to go this way though I really hope that a 'Shrike' is this years Summer Event Prize (one can dream).
I think it's due to trying to match out that canonically the Connie-III class is an Exploration focused vessel to what they have decided before. Closest is the Exploration cruiser so they may have gone with that as a 'fit' for what they wanted, it's a fairly OK attempt at doing so. I'd have swapped the Pilot/MW specializations and have a Pilot Cruiser, which is fitting for both La Forge legacies of Engineer and Pilot but that's a minor nitpick.
There was a stream last night where Jonathan went on at some length about his design philosophy with the C3. Link below to segment.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HpGv11W1laU?feature=share&t=2270
TL/DR: it absolutely wouldn't have been a 5/3 because nothing in the show suggested it was a battlecruiser. Other ships Cryptic has some latitude to create what they want for pure gameplay but here they had a full season worth of footage and explicit dialog characterizing the ship. They're selling the ship *per* that characterization and that is going to be paramount (no pun intended) in design. A more nimble (pilot) science-leaning cruiser with some tanking ability (MW) was the optimal path to follow from the show. That's then massaged into what they think will be a fun and synergistic set of stats. It's a long and very carefully considered process balancing on-screen presentation with STO gameplay.
I'm *actually* slightly temped by R&D packs getting cheaper and coming with advanced console materials. There's utility in those now and in the first few weeks getting all the advanced consoles you need for every character is going to be a major grind (especially if you want materials for a elite queue that doesn't get traction with the general zeitgeist). The incredibly small chance for a ship's just a weak bonus to me, which is a much better dynamic to play with here than "here's junk that's just papering over a pure gambling package."
Once the market saturates that dynamic isn't going to hold, but for the short term this isn't in *too* bad of a place (ie. R&D packs being desirable just for the R&D pack).
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Currently saving up all the EC I can in the hope at least one will turn up on the Exchange; failing that, I will happily choose it as my reward in next year's event campaign. Gotta say, this is the first promo ship I've found exciting enough to go to this much trouble for since the T6 classic Connie. Bravo, Cryptic. Sincere thanks for making this beautiful ship mechanically worth flying.
Looks nice for Beam Boat players. I do question the 4/4 Broadside design paired with Narrow-Angle Beams, though.
How big will this ship be after maintenance? Comparable to a Sovereign or an Odyssey?
So should be a bit smaller than a Galaxy. No where near the Sovereign at 685m and no where near the Oddy at 1,061.1m.
Thanks.
I hope they'll make it a bit bigger than in the show then.
Read the blog at the start of this thread
Welcome to the world of lock boxes. You are not guaranteed the ship on opening one box. might take a couple of hundred. Other players it might take 10. It's all to do with luck.
Wow, that's ludicrous. Forces you to waste money (that I don't have!) to try and get the ship. I can see others have it in game and I've just wasted £60 on buying lock boxes with no effect.
The other way to get it is to use the premium ship token from the event campaign, though you have to use the one from the year AFTER the ship comes out and not this year's token. With the token there is no gamble, you simply select it from the list-tree you are presented with when "using" the box.
It may also be possible to buy it off the EC exchange, though that is iffy (and the price may be too high to use the exchange at all even if the box is tradeable).
There actually is a chance to get a neo connie from the pack, it just is not good odds by any stretch. R&D packs are not quite as dismal as the odds for elite phoenix tokens, but it is considerably worse than regular lockbox odds and seems to be meant to price the ships at around Mudd's Market three-digit "regular" prices to wring as much cash out of potentially most popular ships as possible.
Either wait for the next Promo event, hope to the Great Bird of the Galaxy you can afford one off the Exchange, or wait for next year's event campaign.
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As @inferiority has already stated ONLY if players put it on the exchange.