i think it needs to be in own ship. I'm fine with it just being a tier 3 ship.

i know they are not over joyed with adding that ship right now, but the fans want it, just add it please and let people worry about if they want the ship or not.

that last line is a really good point, actually. I don't think i'd be happy with it just being a skin.

I like the 3.5 idea though. Heck, they should add a whole new tier in there so that T5 is captains [/grumble]

All this

I would love it so much if the Ambassador was a Tac Cruiser

They're all too willing to put in cardassian and dominion ships no one asked for, but they have trouble with adding a canon ship that has a huge demand? Am I the only one finding that weird? The ambassador class could easily have similar attributes to a galor.

so another sovereign then??

I bet Cryptic has the number of cheap ships it wants and, if they add it, probably want it to be 1600+ C-Points. I think it's also hard to place by tier.

My inclination would be to make it a level scaling ship that stops at Tier 4.5.

That way it doesn't FULLY compete at endgame, it isn't awkwardly shoehorned as the second cruiser in a tier, and it has Tier 5.5 value without being Tier 5.

From the perspective of systemizing this for the factions, have every faction get one level scaling ship for, say, 2k Cryptic Points. It opens up BO and console stations with player level. In exchange for that, it's an expensive ship.

It's also done up as the iconic ship class of a faction with hybrid-y elements. So that's naturally a BoP for Klingons and a small cruiser with a high turnrate and sci-style bonuses for Feds, So it's a less durable cruiser. High turnrate. Sci-style passive buffs. But clearly cruiser style console loadout.

I think that your right on the Klingon one (mostly) but not on the Romulan one. The Federation and Romulans had the huge war that was supposed to have been shown in Enterprise"s season 5. Ever since they agreed to "peace" every Romulan encounter has involved them attacking throughout TOS. It also seems that between TOS and DS9, the Federation were the only ones who considered the peace treaty to be legitimate (the Romulans certainly didnt through their constant attacks on Federation or Klingon space).

The way I see it, the Ambassador class while not in a time of "war" , was built in a time it had to be prepared for one or at the very least, heavy combat. The Enterprise-C was destroyed because of a Romulan excursion into Klingon space. While maybe it was'nt a war, it was definitly a shoot on sight policy by the Romulans, and a shoot if shot on policy for the Federation.