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Two things turned me off on the Dyson destroyers, or I would have bought a set. 1. That 9-ship pack of lookalikes for $120 was way too much. Pare that down to a 3-pack T6 cross-faction bundle at $60 and I might bite. 2. Hate-hate-hated the skin of the Federation version. Wasn't that thrilled with it on the other factions.…
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I like them. The ships look a whole lot better than the aliens themselves do. And Cryptic's storyline departed from the Typhon Pact material a long time ago.
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You sure like to provoke an argument, don't you? To be accurate, both TNG and DS9 also introduced a fair number of races we hadn't seen before. TNG featured exploration as a theme heavily and even DS9 took it on where the wormhole was concerned. Arguably, Voyager and Enterprise were all about exploration beginning to end.…
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*I* don't have a problem with those races dropping out of sight. From a gameplay standpoint, it would be difficult to integrate them into new storylines even if they wanted to. It's not scalable to throw every new race into every new story. And we all know about "aliens-of-the-week" so that's nothing new. I was trying to…
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I think the objection is that we rarely see enemies outside of the story arc they were introduced in, with the exception of the three main factions and the Borg. Breen? Outside of ongoing winter events, they're done. True Way Cardassians? They disappear after the Cardassian arc is done. We do see Cardassians in the…
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What I really want to know is, what will their ships look like? AFAIK those have never been seen onscreen either. I'm hoping for a really sharp design and very unlike anything we've seen before.
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Not gonna happen. You missed the point where they said they had to make entirely new gear and animations for these guys? They're not going to translate hundreds of different bits of playable ground gear into Tzenkethi.
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I don't care for the look of them, myself, but I'm not hung up on the hard-canon/soft-canon stuff. Since they never appeared onscreen, Cryptic can do whatever they like. And of course, they do have to differentiate them from every other reptilian species we have in game, including the Gorn and the Voth. So I'm glad that…
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Anti-Canonheads. Good name for a rock band ;)
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Yeah, not a fan of the 26th century skins in general. Really not happy that the 23c science vessel skin looks so bad but at least it looks like a Fed ship. I love the cross-faction 31st century ships in terms of their capabilities, but not a fan of their looks at all. I will say the raider looks kind of cool with Breen…
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I assume that this thread is mostly about looks. My favorite STO ship overall is the Vesta and its' variants, but with no T6 version on the horizon I'm less invested in it than I used to be and I hardly ever fly it anymore since I'm on the Ship Mastery treadmill. After that, my favorite Federation canon ships in terms of…
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The chart you are referencing does not include either the Gamma Quadrant, nor the Delta Quadrant. So clearly, there are more in-canon locations that have and can be revisited. Just not on one sector block map. I won't argue the technical limitations on that score because Tacofangs was pretty clear on that. But there is…
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STO just added a new 100% made up alien race that is currently factoring into the storyline rather heavily. If they can find a reason to add the Lukari, then nothing is truly off the table. I'd also point out that the Deferi also factor heavily into parts of the storyline and they are also 100% made up. There is no reason…
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Playable tholian never gonna happen, for all of the reasons already stated by others. Aside from the in-universe reasons, it boils down to animations costumes and gear visuals that will never, ever work correctly for tholians without massive code changes. Tholians as bridge officers are only slightly less problematical.…
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I've had full Breen loadout (absolute zero + ship consoles) on my Breen carrier and I think it works quite well for what is basically two free sets with extra click powers. You can go drain + control on the T6 Sarr Theln and the hangar pets help to mitigate issues with DPS. It's still my favorite out of all the Breen…
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If there's anything the future storylines teach us, it's that size doesn't matter. Look at the power of Kal Dano's timeship. So yes, highly advanced small ships can match or exceed the firepower of older, less advanced dreadnoughts.
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Thought that myself until my boys got me hooked on it. It's procedurally generated, so it's never the same world twice. Mods can change the experience dramatically. I don't mean to say that it replaces games that a serious gamer would want to play. But if I just want to waste time entertaining myself for a little while, it…
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Minecraft Command Science
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It's pretty simple. I have laptops in the house. They're not ancient, they all run Windows 10, but they aren't new either. If STO no longer runs on a particular machine, it's done. If it stops working on my personal laptop, no more STO for me and I will finally be in a position to consider cutting the Windows cord for…
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THIS!!! LOL
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Wait and see... I wouldn't bet that you can punch the hole anywhere you want. But I hope you're right about that. Otherwise we'll have people competing for fishing spots like there is in Neverwinter.
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Well there you go. I was resigned to not ever buying the Naj'sov, as irrational or not for a science vessel a Klingon ship without a cloak was going to be a deal breaker for me. (You don't really need cloak on a science vessel. For most of the things an SV does, a cloak is a hindrance rather than a help. But it scratches…
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My boys like free ships and they're fairly fond of the old T5 Breen ships, so T6 versions wouldn't be too bad even if I'm not all that interested in flying any myself. As said previously, there's always the admiralty cards to be had. Failing to obtain the event ships tends to be something one regrets eventually. I always…
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Not a lot they can directly cut-n-paste between both games. Same engine, but the implementation details are way different under the hood AFAIK. Still, I would guess that some of the logic/code probably trickled over in some form. They're big fans of reuse and there are no examples of fishing in Trek lore that come to mind…
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The phrase "built for combat performance" does not necessarily indicate that the design intent focused on that as its' primary mission. It could be an educated opinion, like "Mustangs are built for speed". It could be that combat performance was indeed one (not necessarily the only) of the design goals. We can word chop on…
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Heh. Apparently not everyone got the memo. I'm just happy that my Pathfinder has Sensor Analysis and Secondary Deflectors, not to mention the Sci-focused configuration. In game terms, there's no strong reason why it shouldn't be classed as an SV.
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Annoying as it may be, volunteer mods in the past usually tried to operate on the principle of non-interference in threads like these. They might have tried to relocate them but if there's no obvious intent to troll the poster usually got the benefit of the doubt. In this case the OP is expressing an opinion that people…
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Welcome, good luck, God bless, always remember there are *four* lights, never pick a fight with a drunken Klingon, and take the occasional flare up of nerdrage with a grain of salt.
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I want to see stats before I make a final decision, but I'm very excited about the KDF SV and to a lesser extent the Romulan SV. I can see myself buying the bundle, or at the very least the Naj'Sov. I was never that crazy about the Nebula, so I can take it or leave it. I already have lots of SV options on the Fed side and…
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Cryptic has received -- and deserved -- a lot of criticism for how they've handled the non-Federation factions over the years. KDF definitely got the short end of the stick for a great deal of that time. Nobody argues that. I simply fail to see how it is productive to keep bringing those things up as an indictment of…