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Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
And here I thought the Gal-X couldn't get any uglier. Jesus Christ, get that artist away from the space ships.

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MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




On the upside, they've added variant parts to the classic gal-x skin that lets you get rid of the stupid little sticking-out guns next to the bridge and fins on the nacelles.

Sadly, you're stuck with the third nacelle.

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Oct 5, 2015

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Is the "dump India ink on it and let it settle in all the crevices, and then dip all the edges in India ink" design aesthetic novel to sto or did they get it from somewhere?

Anyway, be charitable, goons. Thomas the cat actually does do good work. Apparently the spergs asked him to make a gal-X like that and he did it for them.

ETA: to anyone who does get this new ship, it is your duty to make use of these parts, be they the canted nacelle pylons or the big weird nacelles, to put together something truly abominable and then show it to us.

3000z is what, 650k dil? Maybe I'll do it.

hakimashou fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Oct 5, 2015

FrostyJones
Sep 23, 2012

:holymoley:

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

hakimashou posted:

ETA: to anyone who does get this new ship, it is your duty to make use of these parts, be they the canted nacelle pylons or the big weird nacelles, to put together something truly abominable and then show it to us.

3000z is what, 650k dil? Maybe I'll do it.

Yeah I sold off a bunch of dil this weekend so I'm down for the 3-pack. I'm genuinely excited for the t6 Gurumba and the Gal-X is a great terrible ship to fly ironically like an autistic hipster.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah I sold off a bunch of dil this weekend so I'm down for the 3-pack. I'm genuinely excited for the t6 Gurumba and the Gal-X is a great terrible ship to fly ironically like an autistic hipster.

The old goomba is the one ship I always meant to get but never got around to. I've never bought a fed c-store ship but making the USS poo poo ugly monstrosity for those times I have to fly a fed toon to risa or something isn't so bad.

Gonna have a think I guess.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah I sold off a bunch of dil this weekend so I'm down for the 3-pack. I'm genuinely excited for the t6 Gurumba and the Gal-X is a great terrible ship to fly ironically like an autistic hipster.
If the T6 variant gives it an extra tac ability it would... well not be good, but fairly competent? At least compared to the original.

And the Andromeda-X/Yamato look isn't... too bad. The Monarch-X there though...:stare:

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


No cloak for the T6 Gal-X, huh?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

To celebrate the triumphant return of the Gal-X we should get together another dreadnought pvp team. Even if pvp is hosed and dead, I'm sure we can find at least a few pubbies to smack around with the lances for a few minutes while we explode ineffectually.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Defiance Industries posted:

No cloak for the T6 Gal-X, huh?
Of course not, you have to buy the T5 version for that! :downs:

Also that's kinda nice, they're adding the refit-style Galaxy nacelles as an option even to the non-downs version of the ship. I get the feeling when they redid the galaxy model they basically built it to be interchangeable with the impending Gal-X rather than a separate thing.

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


I don't think it can MOUNT the console from the T5, according to those notes. Usually when Fed ships can use a cloak it says so.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
I would assume it's an oversight in the blog post rather than an actual change. The ability to waste a precious console slot on a stupid gimmick is pretty important to the core audience for a T6 Gal-X.

Tuskin38
May 1, 2013

Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.

Asimo posted:

Of course not, you have to buy the T5 version for that! :downs:

Also that's kinda nice, they're adding the refit-style Galaxy nacelles as an option even to the non-downs version of the ship. I get the feeling when they redid the galaxy model they basically built it to be interchangeable with the impending Gal-X rather than a separate thing.




I love that.



Stats are coming Wednesday according to trendy.

Which seems par for the course.

Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Oct 5, 2015

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Looking forward to seeing what nightmarish Frankenstein ship this "designed by community" fed carrier ends up being.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Well it's going to be one of those eight designs Cryptic is having people vote between so you can just get a sneak preview ahead of time?

They're all horrible and hideous.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

DancingShade posted:

Looking forward to seeing what nightmarish Frankenstein ship this "designed by community" fed carrier ends up being.

they've picked the worse of the two options *every single time* so far.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


hakimashou posted:

they've picked the worse of the two options *every single time* so far.
It's really kind of amazing, isn't it? I mean as an example the current voting is...



... and "Omega" is winning by like a 2:1 margin. :psyduck: And all the traditional 2-nacelle options have lost already.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
It's going to be the ugliest grossest ship yet.

I can't wait.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
Is the bathtub ship model still in the game?

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




IPCRESS posted:

Is the bathtub ship model still in the game?

Occasionally. They tried to replace them all with Odys and Gal-Xs, but I'm pretty sure occasionally you can still find one they missed.



...hang on a sec







Look at Omega's saucer, and then look at the bathtub's saucer.

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Oct 6, 2015

Bloodly
Nov 3, 2008

Not as strong as you'd expect.
If that's the case, have we seen the other designs elsewhere?

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Asimo posted:

It's really kind of amazing, isn't it? I mean as an example the current voting is...



... and "Omega" is winning by like a 2:1 margin. :psyduck: And all the traditional 2-nacelle options have lost already.
I'm not sure that "Sigma" winning would be that much of a victory. They're both hideous ships.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




g0del posted:

I'm not sure that "Sigma" winning would be that much of a victory. They're both hideous ships.

Sigma'd be fine with a proper 2-nacelle arrangement.

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
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I'm pretty sure Omega is winning because there are people who actually want the Jupiter.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Can you really call them "people", though?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

Everyone ignore Asimo, he doesn't even play this game and is mad that we're finally getting The Best Ship.

Also everyone go vote for Omega or I'll cut you.

Foul Ole Ron
Jan 6, 2005

All of you, please don't rush, everyone do the Guybrush!
Fun Shoe
Is commad specialisation worth it ?

Also is a cannon/beam boat worth it ?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

No and No. Go all beams or all cannons.

Actually, scratch that, just go all beams, cannons are in a bad place right now. You can justify DBBs if you're using antiproton and flying a sufficiently zippy ship.

MREBoy
Mar 14, 2005

MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !
Sigma is a Heavy Cruiser Retrofit kitbash using Stargazer and Dakota bits. Seriously:




Also post ITT your bestest Spaceship Barbie thing. I think it's great they made the Risan color palette the standard one now.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal
Yeah all beam arrays + borg cutting beam. Also Command is pretty underwhelming I recommend Intel primary and pilot secondary. Of course we're due for a new spec with the new season coming so you could just hang onto your points in case they release one that's better than Intel at this point.

kafziel
Nov 11, 2009

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah all beam arrays + borg cutting beam. Also Command is pretty underwhelming I recommend Intel primary and pilot secondary. Of course we're due for a new spec with the new season coming so you could just hang onto your points in case they release one that's better than Intel at this point.

Of course, to use that, you need a ship with intel slots, don't you?

What actually are the best ships for a tac fed at this point? They've shat out so very many.

Mimsy
Oct 25, 2008
Hey, can I please get guide access on my account registered with the same name. If no and I am required to submit a bone marrow sample for auth, can I get the mailing address?

Wizard of the Deep
Sep 25, 2005

Another productive workday
You don't need an intel ship to use the intel specialization. You need an intel ship to use intel boff powers. Even without an intel ship, you can use boffs that are specialized, you just can't use any of those specialization powers. That's across the board: The spec trees are almost entirely unrelated to the ship. They do let you train your boffs, but the stuff you get directly from the tree applies to everything.

Sorus
Nov 6, 2007
caustic overtones
It'd be better if instead of voting they just release all of the parts and allow you to mix-and-match your own Frankenship

Foul Ole Ron
Jan 6, 2005

All of you, please don't rush, everyone do the Guybrush!
Fun Shoe
So I just wasted my 3 specialisation points in command..... poo poo.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Eh they're not too hard to get these days, thankfully.

Goat Pillager
Mar 1, 2013

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah all beam arrays + borg cutting beam. Also Command is pretty underwhelming I recommend Intel primary and pilot secondary. Of course we're due for a new spec with the new season coming so you could just hang onto your points in case they release one that's better than Intel at this point.

Was there not talk of them making commando a full tree to give a ground counterpart to pilot?

Trebuchet King
Jul 5, 2005

This post...

...is a
WORK OF FICTION!!



commando isnt really monetizable the same way pilot was, unfortunately.

Hard Clumping
Mar 19, 2008

Y'ALL BREADY
FOR THIS
hello friends I just registered under the wesley wiki under hardclumping and would like to look at some builds and tricks for this space game, could i get access?

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AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011



Why is this image so hilarious to me?

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