Star Trek Online thread

[Vortex]

Better than their Intrepid alternatives.

[Tuskin38]

Image of the new Default Fed Bridge, trying to be out for Season 8, it is also used in the new Fed tutorial.

[ShaunKL]

*sigh* I hope there those aren't the helm and ops consoles at the fore.  Or they might work if chairs are set there.  That has to be one mother of a viewscreen to be easily visible at that distance.  It's not that the bridge is bad so much as the Romulan one is a lot better and it could be so much better.

[nxadam1701]

Holy moly. Can they make it any bigger. That bridge is massive. I mean it's nice. I like but it needs to be on a big ship. Something like twice the galaxy class otherwise it just doesn't feel right.

Adam

[Vortex]

Don't forget it's scaled for an MMO. Pretty cool, but those front consoles do need seats.

(There's a new tutorial?)

[Darkthunder]

Don't forget it's scaled for an MMO. Pretty cool, but those front consoles do need seats.

(There's a new tutorial?)

"It's scaled for an MMO"

That argument doesn't hold AT ALL. STO has interiors which are more appropriately sized, yet still functional for an MMO. They're called Romulan interiors. Ever since Legacy of Romulus was released, those interiors have been ingame. They look good, they're not football-stadium sized. And here we are, back to football-stadium size for the alleged "new tutorial".

[Vortex]

That explains why I like my Romulan bridge more, then. xD

Anyone know what this "new" tutorial is supposed to be?

[captain_obvious]

Good heavens that is one massive bridge.  Worse, it looks just as unbelievable as the starbase interiors.  More like a hotel than a functional warship.  They took a step in the right direction with the defiant interiors and another with the romulan interiors but this?
I don't understand why they can't at least make these things seem practical and believable.  
I agree with darkthunder.  The "scaled for MMOs" argument simply doesn't hold water.  

Hang on, another new tutorial? Didn't they redo them all recently already?


EDIT
I love those development patches.  Really reminiscent of the old nasa mission patches back in the mercury/gemini/apollo days.

[Joshmaul]

Hang on, another new tutorial? Didn't they redo them all recently already?

With the Feds, no - they just give the option of skipping it if you've already sat through it a thousand times.

[Tuskin38]

EDIT
I love those development patches.  Really reminiscent of the old nasa mission patches back in the mercury/gemini/apollo days.

He based them off of Mike Okuda's work for Trek, which he did in NASA style. Mike has even done a couple patches for NASA.

So when the Avenger goes to Red Alert, Armour deploys over the Windows, Bussards and Nacelles, it uses the Ablative Armour sound effect, and when the armour deploys it just fades in like the Ablative Armour as well.

[Vortex]

It does? I didn't see that happen. xD Need to play with it more.

Seeing it in game, I like the look of it a lot more. (Still some things that I'd change, though.)

[WileyCoyote]

Like the Vengeance and JJ-Enterprise, the Avenger's design will look strange at first, but it grows on you when you see it in motion.

[ShaunKL]

Yeah it's the parts where they stop and hold still that make you twinge.

[captain_obvious]

The armour thing sounds cool and all but surely it'd be standard practice on all ships? Or am I being too sensible here?

I've seen that thing in action, fought it a couple times too.  Still think it's ugly as hell.  While the Vengeance has grown on me a lot, I still detest the jjprise.  It's not that they look strange either.  It's just that the jjprise and this "avenger" both look ugly and clumsy in the extreme.  It looks like the kind of boat that even a galaxy x could run rings around.

Forget it. I've had enough of sto. 

[Joshmaul]

The armour thing sounds cool and all but surely it'd be standard practice on all ships? Or am I being too sensible here?

You'd think so, given how common it was in this era - at least if "Endgame" was any indication. Then again, wibbly wobbly timey wimey...

I've not played in a while either, I admit. RP in Old Republic has kept me busy, heh heh.

[Tuskin38]

New Dev Blog Designing the Voth

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1001931

[FarShot]

"...dinosaurs with frikkin' laser beams on their heads!"

As long as I can get a cyber-T-rex mount, I'm happy.

[Tuskin38]

Unless they suddenly added the ability to use mounts in STO, I doubt it. Plus there would be no-where to use them.

[FarShot]

Obviously I'd ride Fluffy across the surface of the Sphere, eternally riding the plains, fighting injustice wherever it shows its ugly Klingon forehead.

[Tuskin38]

Big tribble patch, including the new Fed Tutorial! Also Voth Rep. Fleet Veteran Ships.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=12844211&postcount=1