Ship Overview article with Ship Tier,BO,Crew supplemental articles

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• Brenelael Member UncommonPosts: 3,821

  October 2009

  Very interesting read. I like the way they are giving people real reasons to choose a certain type of ship based on their career path and play style. I do however wish they would stop using general MMO terms in their descriptions like 'buff'. Every time I read something like that I cringe because I know the WoW comparisons won't be far behind.

   

  Bren

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• DrCochrane Member Posts: 1

  October 2009

  I agree. Terms like "buff" "Tank" and "Healer" need to be left out of the STO lexicon.
• Xodus316 Member Posts: 12

  October 2009

  More klingon info, less federation info please :P
• jmd10222 Member Posts: 427

  October 2009

  Originally posted by Brenelael
  
  
  Very interesting read. I like the way they are giving people real reasons to choose a certain type of ship based on their career path and play style. I do however wish they would stop using general MMO terms in their descriptions like 'buff'. Every time I read something like that I cringe because I know the WoW comparisons won't be far behind.
   
  Bren
  

  
  
   

  I agree, on BOTH statements
• sdgd Member Posts: 19

  October 2009

   I was really hoping that a runabout would be our first "tier 0" ship

  It should at least be an option
• Osias Member Posts: 14

  October 2009

  I was very glad to see this post by the guys and girls at Cryptic. I'm not going to lie, the ships have been the source of much debate and argument over at the official forums and it's hard to answer questions when we knew hardly anything about the ships and what exactly the differences were. Sure we had rough ideas but this just makes it so much easier!
  
  
  
  Great Job Rekhan!
• Coco_Jones Member Posts: 10

  October 2009

  Originally posted by sdgd
  
  
   I was really hoping that a runabout would be our first "tier 0" ship
  It should at least be an option
  

   

  A runabout could be integrated in the tutorial to learn handling a ship. But once the game starts, you'd need something bigger so you have room for bridge officers and can defend against enemy attack.

  So I'm guessing they went for older ship classes as your first command so you have a real ship but outdated tech. Unlike Kirk, normal captains usually started out on an older model so this makes sense.
• ZerothLaw Member Posts: 24

  October 2009

  I'm working on a basic ship tactics treatise, outlining the basics of each role, and their interactions with each other. It should be done in a little bit.
• slingbladez Member Posts: 26

  October 2009

  rekhan added two links within the article to new info (edited my first post to include it)