Blame my paranoia, but I keep seeing the Nova class getting tossed around and think I'm being referred to

I really don't have any delusions of grandeur as far as the longevity and servicability of smaller classes of ships, but I wouldn't mind having the opportunity to have the dude on the other end of that Vorcha thinking "man that little ******* gave me a good scrap" after I have been thorougly vaped

here here, you said it better than i did. I too like the middleweight classes .... particularlly like the Intrepid, Akira, and Prometheus. and with the exception of the prometheus (that small ship IS as powerfull as a sovereign) i dont expect a smaller ship to be able to take a ship the size of a sovereign or galaxy.

however, i would very much not want to feel left behind because i chose to keep a smaller ship till my character maxes out. So i would like to be able to upgrade my smaller ships system so it can "compete" or hold its own with other player of similar experiance. I would hate to be an admiral or captian in rank with a very experianced crew and have some dumb LT jg with an inexperianced crew stomp me JUST because he has a bigger ship than i do.

To address a few things.

First to address refits and the idea of "re-engineering" a ship. I am fine with this idea, but there must be limits. The "refitting" cannot change the role of a ship. I'll give a real life example. The Military will often take older aircraft and put new "parts". The most common parts being electronics. This changes the aircraft to a degree, but you will never see an A-10 become an F-16. They have different roles and they have different aerodynamics, they are different aircraft. So refitting to me is fine, as long as you don't alter the physicalities of the ship.

On the idea of upgrading components vs. upgrading ship. I think there will be times when we are forced to upgrade to a new ship. For instance it has been said that we will start out with a ship roughly the size of a shuttle craft (GI article), no one is going to keep that ship. My suggestion is that ships are divided into "tiers" kind of like how SWG unofficially did things. So there will be a list of Escorts for the Feds that have a "tier" range and once you hit the end of that range you'll face "gimping" yourself or upgrading. Now there should not be any drastic differences between all Escorts, but a tier 1 escort should not have as many module slots as a tier 3 nor should it have as good of stats. In addition, a Tier 3 Escort should not have the same number of slots as a tier 3 Cruises/Explorer, but it should have stats that compare, but with a different focus.

yes no one should be able to "moddify" their norway class ship into a galaxy class ship, no matter how many parts combinations their are.

i think something along the lines of SFC3 would be inorder. Ever Class or typr of ship has a minimum and maximum mass. you should not be allowed to exceed either limit, but you would be allowed just about any modds within those parameters. for example maybe lower your sensor pallet 1 lvl to free up mass for more weapons. or lowering your weapons 1 lvl to give the mass to bigger engines for a faster ship.

that kind of modding would be acceptable to me.

Indeed, I liked the SFC3's upgrade ideas. Where you can have a fast, but lightly armed ship. Which in you be harder for you to be attacked. Or load up your ship for pure combat, but be slow.

But with STO, you got other variables as well, like more sensor pallets for exploration. Perhaps something like from the Starship creator where you can specify crew quarters, which could spare room for other equipment, or have leg-stretching room and have your crew happier.

That sort of thing.


Hopefully we will soon learn more about this possibility.

I made a reply to your thread(http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=11526) and my post seems to be gone. Do you have any record of why this was removed? The question was regarding ship/crew management and the possibility of being apart of another ships crew.

PS: Please clear or make room for private messages.

Thank you,
Mike W

I was kinda surprised how much Craig embraced the many non-combat aspects. The last statement about the generated combat taking it where no other game has really caught my attention.

I think it's a wake up call for alot of people who keep claiming this is just a shoot-em-up.

Hmm, not sure how I feel about a 50/50 space/ground distribution. I hope this is not enforced harshly because sometimes I will just want to get in my ship and fly.

"Exploration is almost endless! Players will be visiting major Trek locations like Vulcan and Deep Space Nine, "

Now that's what I'm talking about! I can't wait to visit DS9! Great read and answered some burning questions for me

This was my favorite response.