An Asthetic request.

posted on January 29th, 2010, 8:55 pm

Lakota, Venture - and more special "texture-changes" for veterans are going to be in, it just will take time .

The current Excelsior in the game is a war refit afterall - not the easily destroyed Dominion vessels; so it is probably a direct predecessor to the Lakota in any case  .

posted on January 29th, 2010, 9:30 pm

yep, the Lakota is on todo

posted on January 30th, 2010, 12:54 am

Yeah the Miranda was a bit old by BoBW, but as we've seen the sassy little Miranda's were still definitely around to get slapped to shit by the Dominion well into DS9. 

i think the miranda's in the dom war were pulled out of mothballs, they were ships that were once decomissioned, or maybe put on light transport work. all the sass in the world doesnt make up for the fact that they were on par with kirk's wrath of khan constitution class, they probably just refitted better, like the excel class probably were easier to refit than the constellation class.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 3:14 am

yep, the Lakota is on todo

Could it act as a seperate version than the standard Excel? Because a sudden reconfig of the ship when being promoted would make no sense at all.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 4:16 am

Could it act as a seperate version than the standard Excel? Because a sudden reconfig of the ship when being promoted would make no sense at all.

And why wouldn't that make any sense? Galaxy class starships were reconfigured, and the Lakota itself is a refit! Having the most experienced crews they would most likely be privy to the most advanced and powerful technology - if not having designed it themselves

posted on January 30th, 2010, 1:04 pm

When the Excelsior appears, could it be given 2 possible, randomly chosen color schemes? Either dark blue (like the Enterprise) or pale blue (like the Lakota).

Purely asthetic.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 1:37 pm

Could it act as a seperate version than the standard Excel? Because a sudden reconfig of the ship when being promoted would make no sense at all.

i think there is nothing wrong with minor (visual) refits when a vessel gains a new rank. it's that game versus (star trek) reality thing again. many things in fleet operations, armada 2 and a lot of other rts games do not make a lot sense at all.

When the Excelsior appears, could it be given 2 possible, randomly chosen color schemes? Either dark blue (like the Enterprise) or pale blue (like the Lakota).

Purely asthetic.

sure, such variations are planned. we'd like to have more variety in what configurations warp-in vessels can appear. of course in the best case such ship variants will also be included for other races, but warp-in is currently the best platform to do just that.

posted on January 30th, 2010, 4:30 pm

ooh, that sounds very cool.

posted on February 1st, 2010, 8:36 pm

very cool.

Edit: Indeed