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ST.17.20120129b.17

General:

• Updated all the ship consoles, tier 4 and below, that come on C-Store ships so they no longer are restricted by ship class.
• The TOS Tier 1 Constitution ship now comes with +3 bonus power to all subsystems.
• Updated Starbase 157 to make the floor a little more solid.

Known Issues:

• Currently, the Rhode Island console that grants Photonic Displacement is still only valid for Science ships.
  • This is not as intended and will be updated to work on all ships soon.

Interesting... I'm going have to go look up what consoles that affects

EDIT: ... wow... this includes a lot of good consoles... Isometric Charge...Magnetometric Generator...Nadeon Detonator... should be fun

Why stop at Tier 4 ... :p

Cloak + Ablative armor would be fun

Give it time. Personally I like this change and if this goes well I suspect it will include at least some of the tier 5 ones eventually. :p

Those Gorn sci vessels are about to get fun...

I see one glaring balance issue already: The PDS console from the Thunderchild class ship should not be allowed on shuttlecraft. If you ever intend to create shuttle PvP maps with the season 6 update, or even shuttle-based missions, allow for shuttle-based foundry content, etc, this console will be a problem.

Since the vast majority of players don't ever use their shuttles much, this shouldn't annoy too many people, and would avert a serious balance problem from a niche aspect of the game.

Seriously? I just left that ship a week ago!

What?!??!!?!? Thinking cool... but wow. Never thought I would see something like that. +1 consoles are really starting to compete for slots with standard consoles.....

Does that mean those Consoles can be used on Shuttlecraft too? If so, Awesome. (Though I still wouldn't be able to RP a cloaked captain's yacht, oh well).