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Chewbacca and Leia.
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I am ONLY - ONLY - speaking for myself here, but they both qualify as 'too ugly to fly.' I won't be working towards acquiring either of them.
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There are... other problems, too.
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Well that helps. Thanks.
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I agree with others - it's low priority, but it shouldn't be no priority... same thing goes for 90 percent of the bridge designs in this game - where the ceilings of the rest of the ship are like 20 feet tall. That wouldn't take that much to fix (and we know it's not some kind of technical hurdle, since the ceiling heights…
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That doesn't appear to impact it, either. The NPCs on my bridge seem to be composed of a) the people I have slotted into BOFF stations on whichever ship I am playing, and b) the earliest officers I recruited (so, after I dismissed the junk BOFFs I received at the start of the game, the first 3 I picked up to replace them…
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Actually, nobody on my away team is on my bridge.
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The reason I wasn't more concrete in the OP is simply because I'm not being paid to be. Game design - inventing and implementing rulesets - is challenging stuff. As a player, the most I can do 'off the clock' is say something to the effect of "the current system is not great, and doesn't even reflect what conflict in Star…
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What time is the ship being announced? *Edit* Nevermind... I saw it. Well, thank goodness I don't have to worry about working towards that, I guess. It's free, but I still don't want it.
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Why did you find it necessary to take a personal swipe against me? Everyone else is being civil - is it too much to ask that you not demean my suggestions by framing them as lunatic ravings? Thanks.
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I don't mind being that person: carriers aren't really something that fits into Star Trek, so it's somewhat unsurprising to me that they aren't given the TLC that, say, a beam boat might receive. I think some carriers are very cool, and I don't begrudge the people who choose to fly them. But they're about as Trek as an…
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Definitely. In a game like this; in a fandom like this, 'raw' PvP is always going to be of low appeal - even if it's done well (and this isn't). I mean, just for starters, there's a huge cut of fans of Trek who think that the goal should be pacifism. Even if the game isn't about pacifist values; even if the PvE is…
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Two things (and I am not intending offense, so please don't take it that way): I'm not talking about forcing people into PvP. Rather, the game adopting an RvR system (or something like it) that encourages faction-wide participation in a system that ultimately culminates in some kind of PvP (which, is itself, revamped). In…
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The Parliament was so panned upon release, it's hard to believe anyone flies it. /hattip to you, sir, for swimming upstream.
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I won a T6 ship a week ago and was insta-messaged by someone looking to buy. Problem was, he wouldn't take no for an answer - started at some pathetic offer like 500,000 ec and kept ticking it up by 20k. I eventually felt obliged to block him. However, the fact that this person was so immediate and so ruthless makes me…
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I think that the mirror universe is really psychotic, and people there will do pretty much anything sinister. I really don't like interacting with it because it's such a chaotic reality.
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It is a terrible name... and neither we (the USN) nor the Royal Navy don't do such things IRL, as far as I know. Frankly, I think it's a lazy bit of nostalgia fishing that's far too on-the-nose for Starfleet. I'm not completely in love with the design, either. But I want more TMP-era ships. It's clear that Starfleet went…
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No idea. Legally, what 'is' the Ships of the Line calendar?
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He designed both ships, I believe.
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Mission profile ≠ mission result. I've seen enough Youtube clips over the years to know that the Cerritos gets drawn into its fair share of adventures with galactic implications. Their 'day jobs' are benign, but frequently lead to dangerous or compelling encounters.
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Oberth. Obviously, I can't play one (yet)... but it's always been my favorite design.
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But most people don't 'grow up' to be the captain - they don't even grow up to be on the senior staff of a star ship. As in today's military, the vast majority of officers will not progress beyond O-3; the vast majority of enlisted won't get past E-6 or E-7. There just aren't enough jobs in that pyramid scheme for everyone…
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Except that it really wasn't a great answer. First of all, almost nobody is actually serving on star ships. Star Trek itself paints the academy/active service as extremely selective posting typically reserved for people who are genius-level or above (so, in addition to being the [potentially, if you're the captain] most…
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A key problem with Star Trek's economic structure is that, given the relative technological parity of the major known races, all civilizations should probably be in a post-scarcity setup... but they aren't. In fact, the Federation is really the outlier in that it has given up all money, while the majority of the remaining…
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Discovery will still be reviled 20 years from now, and the reason for that is simple: it's an objectively bad, illogical (verging on deranged) story showcasing highly unlikable, one dimensional characters, and designed as a vehicle for pushing an extremely progressive message that (unsurprisingly) about half of fans aren't…
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Yeah, I agree that that statement is completely asinine. The New Orleans is no more or less canon than ANY of the Wolf 539 kitbashes - the remainder of which this company continues to thumb its collective nose at. The Norway, if anything, is working on an even higher tier than that, considering that it appeared in a motion…
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Not looking like that it couldn't. They can take their space boomerang and put it somewhere uncomfortable. Why the heck is cryptic releasing wave after wave of ships that nobody has ever asked for?
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I like it. I'd probably use the original skin, simply because the Oberth is one of my favorite all time ST ships bar-none, but I think this reimagining is pretty tasteful, as far as these things go. Here's hoping for a 4-3 weapons arrangement... although I just assume it's going to be a sad-sack 3-3. When is the new ship…
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We've been collectively waiting for a fair number of ships - in addition to Lower Decks stuff, there's the T6 Nova, T6 Oberth, and the Legendary D7, all of which have collectively been confirmed to be 'in the works' (though this seems to mean very little).
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I really hope they update the core model simultaneously. I think we can all agree that it's a wee bit tired. Also, please don't be a promo ship. Please.