Make Excelsior's extra transwarps a console

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I prefer my Sovereign, but w/ the Borg invasion I've been 'forced' to get out my Excelsior. It'd be nice if the transwarps were connected to a console instead of the ship.

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I think there are going to be so many Consoles in the game within 6 months that no one is ever going to want to see another one. :)

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I like the idea but I think Cosmic has an point.

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You think they would lower the cooldown on them since the 25th century and tech would have been perfected some.

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You think they would lower the cooldown on them since the 25th century and tech would have been perfected some.
The current cool-down is for game balance purposes. It is not a 25th Century tech issue. :)

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I'd prefer to see this and many other special tricks as devices. Give us something other than batteries to fill those slots.

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The current cool-down is for game balance purposes. It is not a 25th Century tech issue. :)

True, but I think a cooldown down the road would be a good idea.

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I'd prefer to see this and many other special tricks as devices. Give us something other than batteries to fill those slots.
Currently my Console Slot choices for my Science VA:

Red Matter Capacitor
Photonic Displacer
Plasma Manifold
Scorpion Fighters
Subspace Field Modulator

Plus the 5 battery types. I only have so many Console slots. :)

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True, but I think a cooldown down the road would be a good idea.They already shortened the cooldown from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. Which is more than enough (considering WoW has the same exact mechanic on a 30 min cooldown on a far larger gamemap).

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I think things will be helped along quite a lot if/when the sector walls come down. Set course to a planet in the area you need to be in and go. Should be much faster without the stopping and zoning.

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Currently my Console Slot choices for my Science VA:

Red Matter Capacitor
Photonic Displacer
Plasma Manifold
Scorpion Fighters
Subspace Field Modulator

Plus the 5 battery types. I only have so many Console slots. :)

You say this like choice is a bad thing. Heaven forfend we all run around the galaxy with our own, unique setups!

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since it's not a battle power, i'd say put the Excelsior Transwarps in as an Item you only need to have in your Inventory, like the Azura Console or Fireworks.
No need to change the Console Slot layout on the Excelsior either that way.


...ooor as more F2P Travelpowers in the C-Store? (free to use for Gold Members of course).

PS: add some Icons to the Excelsior so that we see where we are going please! I hate to wait for the popup info :rolleyes:


...i also would love to see more higher Warp ships.
Galaxy-X is supposed to do Warp 13 for example.

The Borg Warp 14 Engine is nice for travel (Warp 9 feels SLOW by now), but otherwise useless for me (i also do not wish to see any of the Borg Set Bonus FX on my non borgified Ship), so i have to switch engines constantly... :rolleyes:


sooo... there is room for improvement.

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I prefer my Sovereign, but w/ the Borg invasion I've been 'forced' to get out my Excelsior. It'd be nice if the transwarps were connected to a console instead of the ship.

Nah, sounds like we just need a Red Alert console. Sell it in the C-store! Then we can add a "Undine" console (warp to any undine mission) or Borg, or Orion.....ETC. No one "Forced" you to get anything, you decided you had to hunt all the RA's down, for whatever reason, and now you make it sound like they are at fault because your favorite ship isn't the min/max way to travel there?

Maybe I read it wrong, but, no, the borg RA's are a lame reason to add it as a console. What happens to the original Excelsiors? Do we have the dev's spend time redesigning them? Simply more problems than it's worth for a few players to get more "convenience" while trying to max out some accolades.

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I think there are going to be so many Consoles in the game within 6 months that no one is ever going to want to see another one. :)

Agreed. I could see this happening as well.

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Haven't missed my Excelsior in the least, I've been working the alerts on my science character, and with good positioning on the map and the diplomacy transwarps I have no problems getting around. Regulus is a good place to be near, you can check several places from it and get to others fairly quickly. I say leave the Excel's TW with the ship.

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I am not sure this is the best solution, but this would have been another cool way to justify the new Refits - add some non-combat related extras.
Nova Rhode Island - Quantum Slipstream Module: Gives ship Quantum Slipstream Capacity
Akira Refit - Transwarp Passcodes: Allows ship to transwarp to each Romulan Sector (which are the primary sector blocks you play in at Tier 3, IIRC).

Ah, well, missed opportunities.

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This console poo is a wee ridiculous if you ask me....pretty soon we will not be able to mount anything else in a slot due to the over abundance of consoles......

Should have left the power with the ship, that way it takes up no space. And if you want to use the power, you have to use the ship. We've taken away what makes those specific ships unuique by using the console model.


There has to be a better way.