Centaur-II Class

posted on April 5th, 2009, 8:35 am

I must admit i'm no fan of the Star Trek Online starship style (and the new style they are bringin in in the new movie). I favor the clean style they used in all the other series, at least for the Federation.

posted on April 5th, 2009, 9:14 am

well optec i must disagree with you, thats EXACTELY the kind of look the new fed needs now in fleet ops,  change is what the feds need, we know all that old stuff, we need somthing new

posted on April 5th, 2009, 10:09 am

hm nope, we are not up to implement the new style, sorry we are happy with it

posted on April 5th, 2009, 11:10 am

I agree with the team's decision.

There are a some people who keep arguing for more advancement and re-styling for the Feds, and others who keep suggesting more ships from the show, which would be a little older by "now". And there are some people who are suggesting both. Make up your mind! =P

I'm happy with where the Fed style is now. In my opinion, it includes enough established ship classes for everyone to know what kind of ship most of the classes are, with enough new stuff to impress people a little bit.

STO has some "ok" designs... Though I don't like that Sovereign redo.

And Ray, that last post came across a little badly. I know Optec and DOCa do listen to what us guys want, and try to implement things that they like too, but this is THEIR mod, you can't just tell them what their mod "NEEDS" to have, like that. It sounds a little rude, and if it were my mod, I'd be a little miffed at someone saying "you're doing this bit all wrong". =)

posted on April 5th, 2009, 11:19 am

ray it would be nice if you didn't present your opinions as fact, that might be the issue when our other members are less than friendly to you.

Only this occasion I agree with you, the STO ships do look nice and would be awesome in Fleet Ops.
But the Federation doesn't need them. That's your opinion - or rather, a request - on what you would like to see.
But Ultimately The Dev Team decides what FO needs, and it seems a bit rude to demand things of people who spend their free time making a high quality game for you.

posted on April 5th, 2009, 1:31 pm

Why change the Federation ships to use a very un-Federation style?

posted on April 5th, 2009, 1:59 pm

I personally like the style of the fed ships in Fo.  They just need more ships.  Even if they are via warp-in

posted on April 5th, 2009, 3:52 pm

I agree on the NX-9XXXX. I don't think it's tremendously ugly, but if we're talking beautiful, the Sovereign and the Insignia kick its butt from here 'til Tuesday.

I would still like to see the Oslo-class though, think it might fit in a lot better 

posted on April 5th, 2009, 5:51 pm

hm nope, we are not up to implement the new style, sorry we are happy with it

i love the "old" style too 

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:08 pm

jeez guys, dont be playing this out as me whos being a hater or somthing, im not telling them what to do, im expressing that i feel that this is what the feds would need at this point in the timeline, i have been told that sto is around the same period as fleet ops, and it is a few decades after dominion war,

therfore, i would think that the feds would have some big refits to ships, or just new ships overall, but now im being told that the team and everyone else apparently likes the old ships and old style which isnt making ANY sense at all to me

i spent alot of my time on fleet ops discussing and getting pounded, because i and alot of suppters (as shown in the poll) wanted the galaxy class to be able to be built in the game, and after a while i closed the topic and left, because it was a battle

now i suggest new ships, and new designs, and the team and nobody wants anything to do with them?

whats up with that?

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:10 pm

And why would more advanced tech require a change to the appearance of Starfleet ships?

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:18 pm

To be fair Ray, you've suggested it only for the Feds. Don't you think the other races would do the same thing? Heck, maybe we'll get a Borg Dodecagon. Seriously though, the "old" ships are used for all races because it is what we know and love to be Startrek. If we swapped out all the old vessels, for refits or completely new ships... what identifies FO with the STU other than the names of the factions? As it is, the new refitted or redone Fed ships are kind of a present or easter egg to us. The Federation looks forward (i.e. Excellsior II) but it also makes do with what it has (Vanilla Excellsior). Please let it go and concentrate on ways to improve the other races. (And PLEASE give us a Dominion revamp... why won't *nearly* anybody play them... why are they so darned hard to learn and use!). What you are doing now is the equivalent of someone asking over and over again why isn't Voyager tech implemented into every race so that the Borg's Cubes are just as powerful as... lets say... a Sovereign? (which is something that I and probably most other people would absolutely detest) You just have to know when to stop asking the same thing, and move to the next issue.

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:28 pm

okay then, go back to old ships for feds, what about the refits then? old excelsiors cant fight every battle, so thell need refits, but nobody seems to want them, even in sto online, they had the old ship style (which i love) with some new style refit stuff on them

now i have pounded away on getting older ships in the game (with or without refits) galaxy, ambasador, constelation, nebula, to name a few, but i was told that they are to weak, and to old, fleet ops is much later,

so now i suggest new designs, or designs that we hardly ever saw in show, and there all pushed away, i dont get it

and will you people stop fricking acusing me of wanting all the races to be the same, im fucking sick of that shit, i WANT THEM TO BE DIFFERENT, thats my whole point, so shut the fuck up about that, becuase you really are starting to annoy me, whenever i bring a new idea, im accused of hersay, or wanting everything to be the same,

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:33 pm

I still don't see why new (typicaly interior) tech would need a new exterior style of apperance.

posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:39 pm

@ Tyler: neither do I: unless it is physical armor or more weapon ports or sensor thingies. Most stuff is just regutting the interior and putting in a new type of warp core imo. It's a pain in the arse to drill holes into an old ship.