Originally Posted by Wolf-de-Lyon

Well, what u r saying is that a skilled captain (i.e., knows where to put skill points, what consoles/gear to use and how to use it efficiently) can win from an underdog position, which seems completely in-line with the IP. We did see that the TNG and Voyager crews had enough ingenuity to cope with many "unreasonable" scenarios. The Maquis managed to use shuttles to beat Federation and Cardassian cruisers.

However, it doesn't seem right that it would be easy for a Connie to beat a Borg Cube. It's a smaller, slower and less advanced ship. It should be non-trivial (or even hard) to use it against high-end enemies.

Originally Posted by The.Grand.Nagus

Your not breaking anything to anyone, because I never said it was. What I did say, or rather imply, is that if he thinks it doesnt make sense for a hypothetical T5 connie to be able to own a Borg cube, then it makes even LESS sense for a T2 connie to be able to do so. And yet, that is what we currently have in game. So trying to argue that a T5 connie blowing up Borg cubes doesnt make sense is contradicted by the fact that we can already do that in T2 connies, which are even weaker than a T5 connie would be.

Originally Posted by Armsman

Lets be honest Grand Nagus, if we are talking true IP asherence here - without some sort of technobable tech; it doesn't make sense for ONE Federation or Klingon ship to be able to take on a Borg Cube (at any level) and win.

Thus the arguement itself iseither flawed or moot at that point with regard to that aspect of the current Star Trek IP.

Originally Posted by Wolf-de-Lyon

I think the main problem is that u hit invisible space-walls and have these annoying popups there, not to mention the loading screens.

I always assume the areas between sector blocks are void space, and that each sector block is a local patch in the 3D configuration of the territories (which is why u can jump from klingon space on the bottom to the defery or romulan ones on the top of the map).

A simple solution would be to fade-out the sector block when u reach it's border, and then give u an option (not a popup - just an additional button like the "enable/disable astrometrics" one) to jump over this to reach the "next" sector block. Otherwise, you can "fly around" in the void while the destination SB loads in the background and u eventually reach it when the loading is done. You'd still have SBs, but you'll also have a smoother transition between them.