I forget which one, but this question came up during a dev interview on one of the STO podcasts. The explanation given was that currently they have two builds of the game. There is the build that we are playing on and there is an expansion 2 build. Anything added right now has to be added to both builds. In terms of ships…
I was actually thinking something similar on the way home. The concept I was thinking of was providing both cannons and beams with 3 abilities each. An ability for targeting multiple enemies (FAW and Scatter Volley), an ability for single targets (rapid fire and a new beam ability), and an ability that would allow you to…