Ships From Star Trek Online

posted on March 21st, 2011, 8:52 pm

If you see these ships as 'in-line with Trek', does that mean you view these a worthy refits for the Galaxy Class?

if you modded the textures to match the rest of the ship, and maby a little polishing.......... Yeah,

actually your first post was a simple question about whether fo would get sto designs. that wasnt answered lol. if u dont want people to disagree with your point of view that sto ships are amazing, then a blog would be a better place to air it. the op isnt always right 

Your right, i think even i have forgotten what this thread was about.........

posted on March 21st, 2011, 8:58 pm

If you see these ships as 'in-line with Trek', does that mean you view these a worthy refits for the Galaxy Class?

The first one might not be too bad, although it's hard to see, it's a very dark picture.
That second one thought, *blech*. It looks someone put that ship though an African neck stretching ritual or something.

By the way Crisis, you haven't been around very long have you, around here almost every thread, especially the opinion type ones. goes off topic by the second page. Don't worry about it and don't fight it too much.

posted on March 21st, 2011, 9:48 pm

If you see these ships as 'in-line with Trek', does that mean you view these a worthy refits for the Galaxy Class?

http://www.spidermitch.com/STO/Spidermi ... pChart.jpg

Here are all of the ships.

Notice how most ship types have three seperate models ?

They're all identical, and you can mix and match parts even.

posted on March 21st, 2011, 9:59 pm

If you see these ships as 'in-line with Trek', does that mean you view these a worthy refits for the Galaxy Class?

I Really like the top one

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 6:06 am

http://www.spidermitch.com/STO/Spidermi ... pChart.jpg

Here are all of the ships.

Notice how most ship types have three seperate models ?

They're all identical, and you can mix and match parts even.

I know that the STO ships look ugly.
But that is far beyond my worst images. The only good looking ships are the ones from the shows and maybee the Magelan , the Celastial Retrofit the Luna and the Excalibur.

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 11:24 am

There are a few STO ships I like, but most of them seem rather ugly to me.
Then again, the STO fans think our Dawnstar is ugly. ... They have no taste! 

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 7:11 pm

There are a few STO ships I like, but most of them seem rather ugly to me.
Then again, the STO fans think our Dawnstar is ugly. ... They have no taste! 

Most of the custom STO ship types are blocky and squared off, much more than the average flops or A2 ship.

Most flops or A2 ship models (the custom ones) tend to be pretty graceful (Other than a certain flops Fed Battleship :p )

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 7:14 pm

well, whatever the design, STO is an aquired taste, you must view the ships as what they are, new,

Most of the custom STO ship types are blocky and squared off, much more than the average flops or A2 ship.

Most flops or A2 ship models (the custom ones) tend to be pretty graceful (Other than a certain flops Fed Battleship :p )

As yes your right, most of the custom designs are very blocky, i only like the stock versions(cannon, and non cannon)

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 8:50 pm

Well, the blockiness probably comes from the issue which plagues most modder made ships, they aren't made by professional designers - assuming we're talking about modder made ships, if they're additional content made by the game company, then that's just sad. The other problem is that it's rather difficult to come up with something which actually looks unique, which is hard. When you get right down to it, the design paradigm of any of the races is very fixed and anything very different looks stupid.

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 11:02 pm

When you get right down to it, the design paradigm of any of the races is very fixed and anything very different looks stupid.

you just summed up STO

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 2:56 am

I was actually referring to cannon, but maybe that applies too.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 6:13 am

Yeah, even with some of the more radical 4 naccled fed ships (Cheyyane, stargazer) there is a specefic 'look' to things based on era.

Stargazer was a late TMP era, had squared off naccles.
Cheyanne was early TNG era, had all curves and rounded naccles.

For STO.... look at the Shikar class, one of the starting ships (unless you pay cash for a NX class)
http://www.spidermitch.com/STO/Spidermi ... pChart.jpg

I mean hell they cant even get the MIRANDA right! Or any TOS era vessel type for that matter.

Whats even sadder ? They DO have TOS sty;e phaser beams, in blue, avalible, but as a mission reward, and they can be mounted on any ship no matter how little sense it makes, when that type of phaser (in orange) should be the ONLY type of phaser that the Miranda, Excelsior, Constitution, and other TMP era ships should be able to mount.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 11:36 am

Nice Avenger Class, thats a cool ship

Actually, it's an Emissary class with the Avenger saucer section. I like to go to the "customize your ship" vendor and suit the ship to my liking.

Also I would like to mention that my comment about my ship was referred basically to the shape.

You see, my computer is ancient, (Sempron processor with nVidia 6200 AGP card, yes, AGP ), so I run STO with all graphics enhacements off (post-processing, shading, etc...) and with the half resolution mode enabled. So my screen looks more like a MCGA-style game from 1990 than a 21st century game.

I had to turn all visuals I dared to turn on to take that screen capture, but when I tried to move the camera for taking a pic from another angle, my client crashed because my video card couldn't deal with it.

I wasn't aware of the Borg-ish look I "managed" to put on my ship. I use the Aegis full set and the Borg console, but from what I knew, one item from the borg set doesn't add much in the visual aspect. So most of the visual is my fault.

Oh, if you don't like the ship contrails, avoid the Aegis set like the plague. They don't call it the "Tron set" for anything, you know.

We should get a flops group going in STO.

Not necessarily a clan or anything, just have folks get ingame and run missions together and what not.

Actually, we already have a "Fleet Operations" fleet in STO. Several of the regular posters here are actually Founders of the fleet, but we have some issues for playing together due to TZ differences.

I agree with it mostly. The game is not that bad, provided you turn off any expectation of Trekkiness. This way, any minuscule bit of "trek-like" behavior you happen to find is way more comforting and rewarding. Yes, things are that bad.

I commented in the STO forums that the game looks like it was designed to be fast played, short-lived, and oriented to milking money from the ST fans in a very efficient way. The game seems to say "Okay, you've managed to get to Vice Admiral, woohoo, you've won STO, now make an alt and start over or get the hell out of here". BUT the current developers seem intent on making an effort in correcting a lot of the flaws and keep a permanent player base. At least, any mission they add scalates in difficulty with the rank so they are adding at the same time new player and engame content.

The Diplomacy system is, to put it bluntly, a failed effort to add the Trek philosophy into the game. But at least it's a step in the right direction. There are several missions that require you to think more than to shoot, even if some of them are outright ridiculous (going to Deep Space 9 to buy the Bajoran equivalent of a kebab for a minor officer in Memory Alpha? Come on... ).

The Featured Episodes also take a turn for the positive in that, though I agree that Colisseum has a part that is pure railroading, and that if you miss a single "check point", you may spend hours looking for what you did wrong. Or the "visual holo route" (more railroading) in the final mission.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 1:45 pm

The game is not that bad, provided you turn off any expectation of Trekkiness. This way, any minuscule bit of "trek-like" behavior you happen to find is way more comforting and rewarding. Yes, things are that bad.

take away the "star trek": star trek online, ie instead of STO we just have O. i'd still not like it

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 5:11 pm

Whats even sadder ? They DO have TOS sty;e phaser beams, in blue, avalible, but as a mission reward, and they can be mounted on any ship no matter how little sense it makes, when that type of phaser (in orange) should be the ONLY type of phaser that the Miranda, Excelsior, Constitution, and other TMP era ships should be able to mount.

Are you referring to the weapon or the color by 'little sense'?