so its just gonna be a skin with a console? how depressing

just like all the other +1 ships.

in my opinion, the 'correct' escort line up is this

tire 3 tactical escort- defient

tier 4 heavy escort- hermes/gryphon/dervish

tier 5 fleet escort- akira

tier 5 advanced escort- promethious

Did they happen to mention what the new console was gonna be? If it was bumped to a T4.5, I'd be more willing to fly around in it at endgame only because the Akira is my fav escort ship.

I forget what it is called but it is basically a cannon FAW that does a lot of Damage to Fighters and small vessels within 5 KM of you. It is basically a Carrier-killer type weapon - as the Klinks will have new T3 and T4 Carriers added to the game.

Hmm interesting, was hoping more for a torpedo turrent but it'll be worth testing this console out on the test servers...if i ever get internet at home back..dsl has been out for almost a week

A console that is a Point Defense System similiar to the pre-order PDS but much better versus pets and the like according to the STOked interview.

Yeah, the turret from the pre-order is really only useful against torpedoes you can shoot down.

I agree. The Defiant is NOT all that amazing. It is a battle runabout that had so many problems that they were hesitant to give it a green light for the current commander of the Gas Station at the end of the Galaxy. The Akira is the real deal.

I feel similiar to the op, I would of liked the Refit version to be tier 5, maybe along side the Steamrunner.

its like they say they listen to us but somtimes i think they could care less then their own view of star trek


i dont want a new skin for the ship i want an akira the way its supossed to be i dont even mish mash with the olso or the other one akira is beautiful the new skin bairly looks like an akira i think its a thunder child class if anything it looks like the olso

so anyways that was the long awaited akira refit

its not even a refit grrrrrrr i just am angry

here is link to a picture of the turd
http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...cker/akira.png\

and besides all this the akira is cruiser/escort.........id even say its a frigate or a siege destroyer but is definetly not a small ship

this is just frustrating