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[FarShot]

I had high hopes for that ship design.  That forward-ventral 3/4's killed it for me though.  The deflector was passable, but the pylons?  Ugh.

[nxadam1701]

Looks like a clunkier version of my Polaris.

Please. It hurts my eyes to read. Don't compare your beautiful design to that piece of c@&$. It's terrible.

Adam

[Darkthunder]

Avenger Class opinion:

Dorsal View: Looks pretty decent, except for the clunky nacelles
Ventral View: Ugh, looks like crap.

Summary: Cryptic can't design good looking ships worth a damn.

[Tuskin38]

More Angles, not mine,

http://imgur.com/a/8S6mC#7

[Darkthunder]

That stardrive needs a serious re-work. From the top it doesn't look too bad, but sideways, or seen from below, it looks like junk. A garbage scow, as the Klingons would say.

[captain_obvious]

That stardrive needs a serious re-work. From the top it doesn't look too bad, but sideways, or seen from below, it looks like junk. A garbage scow, as the Klingons would say.

The whole damn thing needs redoing from scratch imo.  It's the culmination of an (IMO) awful set of design rules for the 25th century feds.  It looks rather like they took an oddy (yuck), a vesta (double yuck) and a regent (MULTI yuck) bashed them all together (ULTRA yuck) and greebled the results a bit (M.m.m.m.mm.mmm MONSTER yuck..uck...uck..uck).

For some reason, the ventral bow shot looks reminiscent of the jjprise...

Looks like a clunkier version of my Polaris.

That is not unprecedented Wiley.  A lot of people who I've shown the century class to (the true ent-f imo) have remarked on just how similar to it the oddy looks.  A few of them called the oddy a rip off actually. 

[captain_obvious]

Bye bye balance  1.21 shield mod, 41k hull..... and it looks like a jjprise... why oh why do they make the best ships stats wise so goddamn ugly.....

[Tuskin38]

I just linked to that 2 posts up

Also I don't see how it looks anything like the JJ Prise. Looks closer to the Vengeance then anything. Especially with that VATA thing.

[captain_obvious]

I just linked to that 2 posts up

Also I don't see how it looks anything like the JJ Prise. Looks closer to the Vengeance then anything. Especially with that VATA thing.

Actually, what you linked was only one shot.  I linked a whole gallery

if you look at it from almost any angle below it, the JJprise silhouette is there as clear as day.  The layout of the neck, secondary hull and pylons especially.

EDIT

Weird. Earlier your link was only one shot rather than a gallery.  Meh.

[Tuskin38]

Dev Blog on the Design

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=998371

[Vortex]

I nearly burst out laughing at this: "Taking the 2409 Federation design of traditionally elegant sweeping lines". Their designs may have improved, but they aren't really elegant.

After liking that first shot they showed, I knew the ventral would be a let down. Wouldn't have been so bad if only they'd have at least attempted to integrate the secondary hull into the under saucer. I like the idea for the deflector, but not the execution.

Still, it's a damned sight better than the Odyssey.

[FarShot]

Only things I don't like are the textures, secondary hull, and pylon fronts.  Everything else is good.

[Tuskin38]

You can see the Avenger now on Redshirt in the ESD Window, no public testing

We conducted focus testing this past weekend with a group on Redshirt and have made a few changes to the ship based on the feedback we've been mulling over. While there will not be open testing for the ship on our test severs, the stats for the Avenger will punished in tomorrow's Dev Blog.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

[Vortex]

At least they're punishing the stats. Bet they won't remodel, though.

[captain_obvious]

At least they're punishing the stats. Bet they won't remodel, though.

Aye. Shield mod of 1.21 on a cruiser is way too high, especially one with the kind of teeth and layout that thing has!

[Joshmaul]

Looks like a clunkier version of my Polaris.

See, Wiley, this is why Cryptic should hire people like you to design ships for them. Now I'm a fan of the Oddy, I'll admit, but most of Cryptic's 2409 designs...for lack of a better word, they suck.

[captain_obvious]

New dev blog regarding that cruiser we were discussing.

Too damn ugly for me.  Not getting it.

[Tuskin38]

I like the Development Patch, Thomas is great at makes those. There are high-res version of the ones hes done before here

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Utopia_Planitia_Shipyards#Starfleet_Department_Patches

Not all of them are there though, the Armitage one is on the page for the Player version of the ship.

[Vortex]

Love that Sovereign Development patch.

[Tuskin38]

So the fleet version of the Avenger has an alternate pylon configuration