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Dray McKenna

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These are just some screen shots of me aboard my ship the U.S.S. Godspeed. Miranda class. I suppose between November '09 and now Cryptic Devs decided to make it possible to walk around the interior of your ship. Even to meet up with fellow players to discuss tactics. It is a huge interior with plenty of areas to check out. You also can see your crewmen/women milling about doing their thing :P Enjoy!

 

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Edited by Dray McKenna

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wow-intersting ship online....see you tonight at 10pm

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IM hONORED that you used my name too-do you download this game on computer or buy it ----thanks

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IM hONORED that you used my name too-do you download this game on computer or buy it ----thanks

 

You can buy it at Game Stop for $10. Yes, I used several people from 'Creeks crew to fill the ranks on my STO ship since they would be familiar to me. Here's an interesting pic..... I was traveling through alpha centauri sector block from Memory Alpha heading to Sirius Sector to dock at Earth Space Dock and out of the corner of my screen I saw a brilliant light moving in my direction.... it was Crystalline Entity and Star Fleet hailed my ship to tell us to get out of there before it attacked... it was pretty interesting to see it up close.... they really make it look beautiful in the game. At least, on a big monitor it looks nice....

 

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It looks like your Starship, the Godspeed is some form of Miranda Variant. She has the saucer/hull section of a standard Miranda. But interestingly, the "roll bar" is not present on the dorsal/aft section of the ship. On your image the torpedo launchers are placed below the saucer/hull section of the ship (dead give away are the small red squares below the impulse engines. One would surmise the forward launchers on your ship are in front of the aft launchers.

 

There also appears to be a spar of some sort linking the launchers/ hull to the Nacelles, whereas your everyday Miranda has Struts extending from below the saucer/hull to her nacelles.

 

The nacelles are lit, as were many in later episodes of Deep Space Nine. The shape of them appears more advanced in my opinion.

 

It almost looks like the Godspeed is some sort of Miranda/Centaur Class hybrid. Something I have never seen before ..the Godspeed is very much a unique vessel.

 

-Precip

Centaur Class image shown below:

Edited by Mitar Precip

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Played STO for a couple months, gave it up as I couldn't justify paying for both it and WoW every month. The Starship customization was one of the most interesting things. You get a new ship every ten levels, and your default ship is based on one of the three classes (Tank, DPS, Heals) though you can buy any type of ship so your not stuck with a "DPS" ship if your character is DPS. Anyways, I digress.

 

The cool thing is that each level class comes in three or four classes of ship and you can swap out parts in any of four sections on the ship. For example my highest level ship I had I could swap out sections of Akira, Zephyr (an original class), and Oslo (an updated Norway class). You can make some crazy looking ship combinations, though I had to geek out and make a straight Akira named the Excalibur-C :P

 

The class pictured above is the default starting ship, has three different types of ships which are all Miranda variants, so you can just as easily take a Centaur saucer section, and slap on the iconic Miranda roll cage and nacelles.

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Played STO for a couple months, gave it up as I couldn't justify paying for both it and WoW every month. The Starship customization was one of the most interesting things. You get a new ship every ten levels, and your default ship is based on one of the three classes (Tank, DPS, Heals) though you can buy any type of ship so your not stuck with a "DPS" ship if your character is DPS. Anyways, I digress.

 

The cool thing is that each level class comes in three or four classes of ship and you can swap out parts in any of four sections on the ship. For example my highest level ship I had I could swap out sections of Akira, Zephyr (an original class), and Oslo (an updated Norway class). You can make some crazy looking ship combinations, though I had to geek out and make a straight Akira named the Excalibur-C :P

 

The class pictured above is the default starting ship, has three different types of ships which are all Miranda variants, so you can just as easily take a Centaur saucer section, and slap on the iconic Miranda roll cage and nacelles.

 

 

At first I was going to comment on how I could have never given up STO for WOW as WOW tended to be very addicting for me when I played a year or two ago. However, having said that, I spend a lot of time after the family goes to sleep on STO just doing basic things that don't even require missions or being in space. Such as - customization of the ship. (Cosmetically) Externally and Internally. Then installing weapons and defense system upgrades. Requisition for new bridge officers. Training bridge officers. Promotions. Assigning stations, skills and such. Coordinating missions with other fleet members. Then there's actually doing the mission which - if it's a long one will most likely consist of system patrol ( space combat ) and some type of away mission on the surface of whatever planet we're orbiting. These take pretty long sometimes. Then after all that's done.... (phew I'm tired just thinking about it all) then there's hailing Star Fleet to report the mission success. Upgrading skills for myself and all my Bridge Officers. Installing any newer ship parts or systems that may have been acquired during the mission. It just goes on and on. Before I know it.. it's 3am and I can't take much more so I transwarp back to Earth SD, walk my little virtual Captain to his stateroom and both of us knock out for the night. Good thing I only do all that every once in a while. All of it can be very time consuming if you allow it to be. I could not even imagine doing both STO and WOW if not for the monthly fees but for the time required to play them thoroughly.

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Well from what I understand, Cryptic is in the process of making Champions Online free-to-play. And if Champions is successful, then STO is to become ftp as well.

 

Edit: And yes, WoW is very addictive. :P

Edited by Kairi

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And yes, WoW is very addictive. :P

Tried WoW a couple of years ago. Didn't do anything for me, as I prefer the Theatre of the Mind for my role play experience. It reminded me, in fact, of the old D&D 'Hack-n-Slash' games from the early 90s.

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Well from what I understand, Cryptic is in the process of making Champions Online free-to-play. And if Champions is successful, then STO is to become ftp as well.

 

Edit: And yes, WoW is very addictive. :P

 

Well, right now people are 50/50 as to whether Cryptic will make STO ftp. It would certainly make sense. They can still receive funding from the C-Store when people want to buy extras just like any other game. And they do. If even half of STO's players are anything like me - uniform whores - then they'll make plenty of money from it. Also, many of the popular titles MMO wise are going ftp one by one so it would appear that that's where we're headed. STO would have to be so unique, popular and sought after to survive an all ftp online MMO world and still have a decent sized player base on a consistent basis. Keep in mind I think STO is a great game that is still evolving and getting better but ... free is free. Just my opinion.

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Tried WoW a couple of years ago. Didn't do anything for me, as I prefer the Theatre of the Mind for my role play experience. It reminded me, in fact, of the old D&D 'Hack-n-Slash' games from the early 90s.

 

I suppose some people, myself included are more visually stimulated than anything else. When we rp on STO, being able to see our ships and characters and run the rp while watching things all unfold just adds another level of realism I suppose. In fact, after playing STO I am atleast able to understand a bit more how things will work out in my STSF sim. Since when you run your own ship you are responsible for controlling everything and every station. You learn how things work. Just works for me I guess

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