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Early speculation winter event items /ship.

questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
edited December 2024 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It's a little early, but let's start our speculation for the Winter event ship.

What direction do you folks think it'll go this year?

Last year it was the Tamarian Cruiser, the year before that the Interceptor.

Which direction do you folks think it will go?
Orion based with Lower Deck season 5 influence?
Paklet from Lower Decks
Gorn design from SNW?
Confederation ship (there were other ships beside the World Razer and La Sirena) from Picard?

The designs usually do not blend in with the story line event ships.



This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
    phoenixc#0738
         Member Posts: 5,890 Arc User
    I don't know where it will go, but personally I think the most appealing option on the list there would be the ancient Orion designs like the D'var if they should choose to go that route this year. Their elegant, lithe, pre-fall aesthetics are lightyears better than the klunky, ugly, barge-based garbage the Syndicate tends to run.
  • capnspankycapnspanky Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    If I never see anything from the cursed Confederation timeline again it'll be too soon.
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,693 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    I don't know where it will go, but personally I think the most appealing option on the list there would be the ancient Orion designs like the D'var if they should choose to go that route this year. Their elegant, lithe, pre-fall aesthetics are lightyears better than the klunky, ugly, barge-based garbage the Syndicate tends to run.

    That one would be a nice change of pace to fly. And either fun or a torment to the ship designer depending on how far out on the edge of the game engine the features required to make it are.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
    edited October 2024
    capnspanky wrote: »
    If I never see anything from the cursed Confederation timeline again it'll be too soon.

    Considering the only actual Confederation ship we saw besides the La Sirena was a seemingly normal looking Steamrunner and Nova, if maybe more aggressive colorations, I think we're not likely to see anything unless STO's ship designers decide to try and do their own take on some designs, but that's a... rather risky move as some fan designs have already been seen, especially from the YouTuber TriAngulum Audio Studios and his kitbashes that were made to flesh out a narrative on Confederation ship designs, compared to their Federation counterparts. All Fanfic work of course and drawing from both Alpha and Beta Canon sources, but still... there are fan designs of Confederation ships that exist.
    questerius wrote: »
    Which direction do you folks think it will go?
    Orion based with Lower Deck season 5 influence?
    Paklet from Lower Decks
    Gorn design from SNW?
    Confederation ship (there were other ships beside the World Razer and La Sirena) from Picard?

    Honestly... it could be ANYTHING. Since we had a Gorn design in a lockbox, I'm kinda iffy on Gorn. But then again we had the Eisenberg class as a Winter Event ship.

    Hell... we could even get the TNG Freedom Class from Wolf 359!
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    I don't know where it will go, but personally I think the most appealing option on the list there would be the ancient Orion designs like the D'var if they should choose to go that route this year. Their elegant, lithe, pre-fall aesthetics are lightyears better than the klunky, ugly, barge-based garbage the Syndicate tends to run.
    Heck, let's go really old-school and get the original version of the Orion ship from before TOS had its graphics upgrade. A ship that's just a spinning diamond of light!
    Lorna-Wing-sig.png
  • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,457 Arc User
    edited October 2024
    questerius wrote: »
    Last year it was the Tamarian Cruiser, the year before that the Interceptor.
    The Fek'Ihri Interceptor is likely the final Fek'Ihri ship we'll see, but I always found it disappointing that the consoles from the four ships didn't gain set-bonuses similar to how the Breen ships did. (Same could be said for the Alliance designs?)

    It's difficult to predict too, because when the devs make an exception to the established pattern, they really do become unpredictable.

    In 2021, we got a Starfleet ship - the Eisenberg class, which was very nice to have.
    Last year, the Tamarian Cruiser appeared at Winter, yet I'd always thought that might have been better as a Summer Event ship.

    So, I think the only thing we can predict is that the ship will be unpredictable.

    However, given we even got the Farpoint Cnidarian a couple of years ago, although it was Summer, I wouldn't be surprised if we got one of the following:
    - - - - I n f e r i o r i t y - C o m p l e x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Everyone has a better name and Youtube Channel than me...  :/
  • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
    Mirror Typhoon?
    NMXb2ph.png
      "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
      -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
    • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
      if i had to flip a dime it'd be the Farragut from SNW, An Orion design or the Paklet.

      These simply because they tie in with current running shows, aren't cash grab material for lockboxes and do NOT tie in with the development for the current story in STO.
      This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
    • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,457 Arc User
      Isn't the Farragut already in the game?
      - - - - I n f e r i o r i t y - C o m p l e x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      Everyone has a better name and Youtube Channel than me...  :/
    • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
      inferiority wrote: »
      Isn't the Farragut already in the game?

      Forgot that was ingame.
      Don't think i have ever seen this ship in a TFO.

      Guess we can cross that off the list, unless the devs make it a neutered version.
      This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
    • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
      I still want a Promellian Battlecruiser.
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      Yang Xiao Long wrote:
      I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
      The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
      normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
      colored text = mod mode
    • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
      rattler2 wrote: »
      I still want a Promellian Battlecruiser.
      I'm sorry, but Picard blew it up (rather than simply lay our warning buoys and call in some archaeologists from the Federation).
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    • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
      jonsills wrote: »
      rattler2 wrote: »
      I still want a Promellian Battlecruiser.
      I'm sorry, but Picard blew it up (rather than simply lay our warning buoys and call in some archaeologists from the Federation).

      Interesting though it would be, it is unlikely.
      This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
    • captainkoltarcaptainkoltar Member Posts: 941 Arc User
      rattler2 wrote: »
      I still want a Promellian Battlecruiser.

      I'd quite like this too. It could be a good theme. We've had a Breen theme for a few years, and a Fek'iri theme for a few years. Minor race ships from the shows would be a cool theme too - although there've also been plenty of them in lockboxes etc, so maybe it's not that likely.
    • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
      captainkoltar wrote: »
      I'd quite like this too. It could be a good theme. We've had a Breen theme for a few years, and a Fek'iri theme for a few years. Minor race ships from the shows would be a cool theme too - although there've also been plenty of them in lockboxes etc, so maybe it's not that likely.

      We also got the Tamarian ship for a winter event. We got the Jellyfish for a Summer event. We even had a Ferengi ship for an event.
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      Yang Xiao Long wrote:
      I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
      The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
      normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
      colored text = mod mode
    • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
      It's unlikely, but i think it'd be funny to get a waste disposal based Malon Vessel.
      This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
    • capnspankycapnspanky Member Posts: 25 Arc User
      captainkoltar wrote: »
      rattler2 wrote: »
      I still want a Promellian Battlecruiser.

      I'd quite like this too. It could be a good theme. We've had a Breen theme for a few years, and a Fek'iri theme for a few years. Minor race ships from the shows would be a cool theme too - although there've also been plenty of them in lockboxes etc, so maybe it's not that likely.

      If I'm not mistaken, we still don't have a playable version of the oft-seen, diagonally-winged ship that appeared as various minor races' warships, system patrollers, freighters and such, and I believe has already been modeled and used for NPCs in the game a few times. This little guy:

      8y6gt2unhqxo.jpg

      first seen in TNG's "Suddenly Human" as the Talarian warship Q'Maire.
    • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
      T6 Kazon ship, the Raider is in need of a T6 replacement and there's also the cruiser and carrier
      NMXb2ph.png
        "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
        -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
      • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,457 Arc User
        capnspanky wrote: »
        If I'm not mistaken, we still don't have a playable version of the oft-seen, diagonally-winged ship that appeared as various minor races' warships, system patrollers, freighters and such, and I believe has already been modeled and used for NPCs in the game a few times. This little guy:

        8y6gt2unhqxo.jpg

        first seen in TNG's "Suddenly Human" as the Talarian warship Q'Maire.
        The model of that ship is what later became the Tamarian Cruiser. Maybe the devs would let us kitbash them?
        - - - - I n f e r i o r i t y - C o m p l e x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
        Everyone has a better name and Youtube Channel than me...  :/
      • josephphlanxjosephphlanx Member Posts: 27 Arc User
        theraven2378 wrote: »
        T6 Kazon ship, the Raider is in need of a T6 replacement and there's also the cruiser and carrier

        So help me, if the Kazon Raider (which came out as a T-5 intentionally during the first wave of T-6s) gets a retrofit before the Hegh'ta...
      • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
        theraven2378 wrote: »
        T6 Kazon ship...
        The Borg refused to assimilate the Kazon, as they would have actually diminished the Collective. Are we sure they can make a T6 ship? :smirk:
        Lorna-Wing-sig.png
      • captainrc1captainrc1 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
        inferiority wrote: »
        questerius wrote: »
        However, given we even got the Farpoint Cnidarian a couple of years ago, although it was Summer, I wouldn't be surprised if we got one of the following:

        Funny thing is... I'm not against the idea of putting the Millennium Falcon in the game, though we probably wouldn't be able to call it that. Probably something more like "Alien Freighter" or something similar. After all, they put in the hoverboards from Back to the Future to honor the series, and made a Doctor Who homage with Kal Dano's ship, so why not a Star Wars homage, too?

        Problem is... good luck getting permission from Disney.
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      • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
        Point of order: the boards on Risa are almost the opposite of the hoverboards from BTTF. For one thing, they work best over water, an environment that didn't serve Marty McFly well at all. For another, they're full-size surfboards, not the size of skateboards. The reason our hoverboards hover is because (per Tacofangs' discussion of such matters in CO) vehicles that touch a surface wind up looking really weird the first time the surface isn't flat and level. That's also why the vehicles in CO all fly - the only one they could make that wouldn't point at weird angles on every hill in Millennium City would be a unicycle, and even I only have one toon that would ride a unicycle (although Captain Americlown would very much like one).

        Therefore, no, the Falcon wouldn't be a good addition. Besides, do you really want a ship that can only follow established hyperlanes, and can never go to a star that isn't well-charted? (That's the big drawback to SW hyperdrive - only specially-designed ships can go where no man has gone before.)
        Lorna-Wing-sig.png
      • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
        jonsills wrote: »
        theraven2378 wrote: »
        T6 Kazon ship...
        The Borg refused to assimilate the Kazon, as they would have actually diminished the Collective. Are we sure they can make a T6 ship? :smirk:

        T5 Raider was a fun ship to fly
        NMXb2ph.png
          "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
          -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
        • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
          questerius wrote: »
          It's unlikely, but i think it'd be funny to get a waste disposal based Malon Vessel.

          https://stowiki.net/wiki/Malon_Battlecruiser
          The T5 Malon Battlecruiser says hello.
          capnspanky wrote: »
          If I'm not mistaken, we still don't have a playable version of the oft-seen, diagonally-winged ship that appeared as various minor races' warships, system patrollers, freighters and such, and I believe has already been modeled and used for NPCs in the game a few times. This little guy:

          8y6gt2unhqxo.jpg

          first seen in TNG's "Suddenly Human" as the Talarian warship Q'Maire.

          Considering its smaller than the Tamarian ship... I don't see kitbashing, but could make for an interesting ship.
          db80k0m-89201ed8-eadb-45d3-830f-bb2f0d4c0fe7.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2ExOGQ4ZWM2LTUyZjQtNDdiMS05YTI1LTVlYmZkYmJkOGM3N1wvZGI4MGswbS04OTIwMWVkOC1lYWRiLTQ1ZDMtODMwZi1iYjJmMGQ0YzBmZTcucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.8G-Pg35Qi8qxiKLjAofaKRH6fmNH3qAAEI628gW0eXc
          Yang Xiao Long wrote:
          I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
          The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
          normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
          colored text = mod mode
        • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
          rattler2 wrote: »
          questerius wrote: »
          It's unlikely, but i think it'd be funny to get a waste disposal based Malon Vessel.

          https://stowiki.net/wiki/Malon_Battlecruiser
          The T5 Malon Battlecruiser says hello.
          capnspanky wrote: »
          If I'm not mistaken, we still don't have a playable version of the oft-seen, diagonally-winged ship that appeared as various minor races' warships, system patrollers, freighters and such, and I believe has already been modeled and used for NPCs in the game a few times. This little guy:

          8y6gt2unhqxo.jpg

          first seen in TNG's "Suddenly Human" as the Talarian warship Q'Maire.

          Considering its smaller than the Tamarian ship... I don't see kitbashing, but could make for an interesting ship.

          Was aiming for the Tier 6 variant of the Malon Battlecruiser.

          It'd be nice if it had a trait to uplift old, little used boff powers such as Eject Warp Plama or the Theta Radiation console.

          This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
        • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,402 Arc User
          edited October 2024
          jonsills wrote: »
          Therefore, no, the Falcon wouldn't be a good addition. Besides, do you really want a ship that can only follow established hyperlanes, and can never go to a star that isn't well-charted? (That's the big drawback to SW hyperdrive - only specially-designed ships can go where no man has gone before.)

          The Falcon is perfect capable of making its own lane if needed (I mean if it was stuck to pre-existing lanes what would it need to calculate to jump into Hyperspace, it would be like taking a highway yes you might have to think of the optimal route in those high ways but you wouldn't have to try to figure out where the highway was) and SW ships can turn while in hyperspace.

          EDIT:That said Star Wars ships prefer to stay on the pre-existing lanes especially the larger ones as that makes travelling much faster.
        • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
          jonsills wrote: »
          Therefore, no, the Falcon wouldn't be a good addition. Besides, do you really want a ship that can only follow established hyperlanes, and can never go to a star that isn't well-charted? (That's the big drawback to SW hyperdrive - only specially-designed ships can go where no man has gone before.)

          I think the Wookie pilot is the main selling point.
          This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
        • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
          theraven2378 wrote: »
          Mirror Typhoon?

          With three nacelles and a phaser lance!
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          Thank you for the Typhoon!
        • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
          thay8472 wrote: »
          theraven2378 wrote: »
          Mirror Typhoon?

          With three nacelles and a phaser lance!

          Of course, possibly a TBR console as well
          NMXb2ph.png
            "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
            -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
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