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DancingShade posted:When they first introduced the fleet ship system they buffed the galor & bugship to their current level. There are two precedents that have been set- the first, as you note, is when the JHAS and the Galor got updated to fleet-ship stats. And I think they'll do that again, and update all of the lockbox ships to T6. There's just too much real money involved in past and future lockbox ships for them to ignore that. The second precedent is the Fleet Patrol Escort Refit- the old FPEs were left unchanged, with no free upgrade option to their replacement. I assume they'll take the feedback they got from that and decide to do the same thing again.
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Given that their panic moneymaker is to re-release bugship drops I can't see them not updating lockbox ships to be in line with T6 stuff.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 19:48 |
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MikeJF posted:Deadlock. You just reminded me Vidiians were thing. They were one of the few genuinely creepy bad guys (in concept at least). Also would have been a great race to use for the creepy surgeon Iconian slave race, but I guess Elachi was less licensing hassle.
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DatonKallandor posted:You just reminded me Vidiians were thing. They were one of the few genuinely creepy bad guys (in concept at least). Also would have been a great race to use for the creepy surgeon Iconian slave race, but I guess Elachi was less licensing hassle. Why do I remember this.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 20:02 |
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Flagrant Abuse posted:The Think Tank claimed to have cured the Phage, though, so we wouldn't really see their creepiness in STO at all. I wouldn't be surprised if STO recons that.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 20:02 |
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Hello tier 6.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 20:04 |
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Also NPC races. Finally we can Strangle Neelix in game! Man, the lockboxes alone will keep STO afloat for years.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 20:11 |
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Here is the updated Intrepid class model, they even gave it an unique hull texture along with Windows and Escape pods. There will also be a canon interior to go with it.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 20:50 |
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I'm honestly shocked they didn't try to mimic WoD and do a time travel thing. I think people would have give crazy for an expansion where you get to hang out with characters and ships from the shows. Then again Voyager is bizarrely popular.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 21:36 |
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So Talaxians have been confirmed and they said there'd be a new boff class too.... I'm sensing Morale Officer!
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 21:48 |
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Be sure to jump on this thread to see pubbies trying to justify their awful behavior on the forums. It has a little bit of everything: Dev hate, Dental hate, incriminating videos of Trek Radio staff, and angry pubbies. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1185461 Tl;dr: My feelings are valid because they're my feelings!' Also, noticed this sig on the forums: quote:There was a sig here, but I gave up. Thanks dental trolls! http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=18389481&postcount=120 Anyone know what that's about? DonDoodles fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Aug 3, 2014 |
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Mondian posted:So Talaxians have been confirmed and they said there'd be a new boff class too.... Emergency Power to Party III
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 22:03 |
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system protocol posted:Emergency Power to Party III Auxiliary Power to Party Rotate Party Frequency Party Team
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SKY COQ posted:Auxiliary Power to Party
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 22:45 |
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Of course they would add in the literal poo poo heads.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 22:54 |
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Mogomra posted:Of course they would add in the literal poo poo heads. This might be my new Butts race.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 23:15 |
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SKY COQ posted:Hello tier 6. What the hell is this poo poo, where the gently caress is my Jupiter Cryptic
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 23:17 |
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Mogomra posted:Of course they would add in the literal poo poo heads. Hey now, the Kazon are bad, but they're not Talaxian bad.
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Mogomra posted:Of course they would add in the literal poo poo heads. Never forgive.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 01:29 |
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Yesssssssss. Hierarchy were my favourite ships, derpy little potatoheads. Looking forward to the Hierarchy lockbox. Also dunno what's up with the Federation T6 ship there but loving the Klingon and Romulan ones. A Fancy Bloke posted:I'm honestly shocked they didn't try to mimic WoD and do a time travel thing. I think people would have give crazy for an expansion where you get to hang out with characters and ships from the shows. Then again Voyager is bizarrely popular. New STFs! Be a part of the famous defeat at Wolf 359! Help the Defiant be the only ship to get through Dominion lines to DS9! MikeJF fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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MikeJF posted:Yesssssssss. Hierarchy were like my favourite ships. Yeah that Romulan one in particular is exactly what I was hoping for. So long as the stats aren't totally abysmal. Honestly the "new classes" of both ships and Boffs are intriguing. We have escorts/cruisers/science as the holy trinity but those lines are heavily blurred by now. As distinct new play style would be huge.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 01:36 |
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Asimo posted:Remember, we could have had a year and an expansion full of DS9/Cardassian/Dominion content, but pubbies voted for Voyager instead!! :iamafag: Even Enterprise was higher voted than DS9 iirc. That's when I lost all faith.
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UoI posted:Even Enterprise was higher voted than DS9 iirc. That's when I lost all faith. loving really? God drat pubbies loving god drat.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 02:12 |
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UoI posted:Even Enterprise was higher voted than DS9 iirc. That's when I lost all faith. What the hell is wrong with these people
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 02:14 |
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In most cases it's one or more of autism, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fetal alcohol syndrome.
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UoI posted:Even Enterprise was higher voted than DS9 iirc. That's when I lost all faith. Faith of the heart?
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 02:31 |
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SKY COQ posted:Faith of the heart? Oh god, that song makes me cry tears of vomit. But even ENT would have been better than Voyager.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 02:38 |
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Few more images
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 03:09 |
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Sontarans, shitheads, aatreks favorite species, and all the rest if the Delta Quadrant dickheads. If this season isn't actually about the DQs recovery after Janeways path of "Go gently caress yourself, gimme that coffee." Then I will be disappointed.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 03:15 |
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Tuskin38 posted:Few more images Cool, looks like I won't be spending money on STO this year.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 03:17 |
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The Hierarchy is awesome, but yeah the rest of this poo poo is just a catalog of the most mediocre Voyager poo poo they could dig up.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 03:39 |
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At least the Malon probably means more farts.
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Mondian posted:the most mediocre Voyager poo poo More seriously though, STO has done pretty good even with the lovely dregs of Voyager lore. I mean there was content patches focused around the Voth (one-note single-episode dumb race) and undine ("kewler than teh borg!!") and wound up with fun queues and at least one decent episode per, so I'll be cautiously optimistic. Asimo fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Aug 4, 2014 |
# ? Aug 4, 2014 04:21 |
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They could have made solid Delta quadrant choices. Take the Sikarians: a powerful species dedicated to partying. We could finally make proper first contact by giving them the gift of disco balls.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 04:39 |
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You know, the graphics quality of that new stuff is high enough that it's really gonna stand out at making old launch stuff next to them look totally out of place and poo poo.DancingShade posted:Now seems a good time to remind everyone that the best weapons in the game (galor pissbeams) scale with your level and you don't need to worry about upgrading them I've never been too sure about where Mk Infinity weapons end up when you're fifty, actually. Is it XI or XII? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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FuturePastNow posted:There are two precedents that have been set- the first, as you note, is when the JHAS and the Galor got updated to fleet-ship stats. And I think they'll do that again, and update all of the lockbox ships to T6. There's just too much real money involved in past and future lockbox ships for them to ignore that. Unless I'm missing something, there is no incentive for them to update past lockbox ships and every incentive for them to not offer an upgrade. Introduce a Galor T6, and all Galor T5 owners will get instawood to have the latest and greatest. Those that don't pine for the upgrade are just taking up bandwidth.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 05:23 |
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The main reason would be future consumer confidence. If they set a precedent that lockbox ships can be entirely deprecated come a new expansion, people may be a lot less inclined to blow a shitload too much money hunting for them.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 05:29 |
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That, and lock box rerun events for a chance to "win that limited time ship you always wanted". They normally have those at the end of each season.
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CrushedWill posted:Unless I'm missing something, there is no incentive for them to update past lockbox ships and every incentive for them to not offer an upgrade. Introduce a Galor T6, and all Galor T5 owners will get instawood to have the latest and greatest. In addition to taking the hit with confidence, it's a missed golden opportunity to introduce some Zen/Dil/Time sinks to upgrade the fleet of ships most people are carrying, and maybe, just maybe improve some shitboxes like the Galaxy that have been left behind in the power creep or fix some layout options on ships like the Defiant. The devil will be in the details since all the designs they've shown so far look like rear end, but they'll piss off the whales if it's nothing more than just a "Rebuy all your poo poo again!"
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GoatSeeGuy posted:and maybe, just maybe improve some shitboxes like the Galaxy that have been left behind in the power creep or fix some layout options on ships like the Defiant. Yeah I'm really hoping since they're doing the 'improve the Voyager' thing they'll take it as a time to improve all the series flagships. After all, from a marketing point of view, the Galaxy, Defiant, Intrepid and Sovereign should really be head of the pack here.
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