New C-Store Ship. GALAXY-X CLASS!

[xivim]

JULY 4 WEEKEND SALE

Greetings!
We have some great news for you!

Just in time for the long Fourth of July weekend, we're offering a 20% discount on existing ship variants in the C-Store! From 10:00 a.m. Pacific on Friday, July 2, until 10:00 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday, July 6, any existing ship variant you purchase is 20% off!

And new to the store is the super desirable Dreadnought Galaxy! Best known from the Next Generation series finale, All Good Things, the Dreadnought Galaxy is unique. A refit of the Galaxy Class exploration cruiser, the Dreadnought Galaxy is equipped with a massive Spinal Phaser Lance and a cloaking device. It is the only Federation cruiser that can equip dual cannons.

Visit the C-Store to see what's available.

Season One: Update Two is also available now! Here’s just a bit of what's featured in our latest major gameplay update: Accolades: The Accolades System is a brand new way to track your stats, show off your tactical skills and advance in Star Trek Online. Squad Support: In Season One: Update Two, we're happy to introduce the Squad Support System. Now, players of any level can team with each other using our special level scaling technology. An Improved C-Store: The items you view as you browse will feature better descriptions and imagery. Even More! Visit the Season One: Update Two information page to learn more.

Thank you for your continued support for Star Trek Online. We can’t wait to see you in the Alpha Quadrant!

-The Cryptic Team

[Morgan Shackelford]

Guess what, I have a huge problem with this. Shouldn't be a surprise to those of you I've spoken with about the C-store; my disdain for what I consider to be double-dipping by Cryptic is no secret.

But fine, whatever, it was all well and good, as everything in the C-store up until recently was generally cosmetic shwag.

With the addition of the Caitians, and now the Galaxy X, you have items in the store with game changing mechanics involved. I personally find that unacceptable. And I really hate to see this happening, because if succeeds here, it will be copied over to other titles in the genre.

It's not a question of whether it's affordable. I just think it's wrong to offer this kind of advantage over other players for real $. It's bad enough that I get shortchanged on the number of character slots compared to any other game... now this. So, I apologize if I find this news less than exciting...

[Myles Keogh]

Galaxy X will cost $25 worth of Cryptic points, FYI.

[Christian M. Hanson]

Galaxy X is online.. 2000 CP points

[Valinar]

Gotta agree with sparrow...this double dipping with game altering items like this for real world cash is complete and utter bullshit.

[Myles Keogh]

Givine and I blew up up several of them today in PVP. I wouldn't exactly call them "game altering".

[Morgan Shackelford]

Myles Keogh wrote:

Givine and I blew up up several of them today in PVP. I wouldn't exactly call them "game altering".

Ya, I realize that. It's the principle. This is not a cosmetic item. They start charging for items or ship classes like this, what's next? Charging me to loot my kills? Here's some blue loot, click to spend 5 C-points and take the item...

BTW, it also sounds like a really, really bad purchase at $25 a pop. Considering that the level caps will be raised and we will be in tier 6, these will be outdated fairly soon.

[Myles Keogh]

sparrow794 wrote:

BTW, it also sounds like a really, really bad purchase at $25 a pop. Considering that the level caps will be raised and we will be in tier 6, these will be outdated fairly soon.

Agreed.

[xivim]

i personally bought mine because i like the class. Its not super OP, in fact i think its perfectly inline with all other T5 ships. Why? its SSSLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW.... your talking about the Cloak, the Phaser Lance, and the Cannons on a cruiser being OP, well bringing each of those to bear is extremely hard.

Yes the Cloak + Lance can be a nice Opening combo, but after that is used, your looking at a Cruiser with Slower turning ability, less Hull Points, and 1 less weapon then the other cruisers.

So lets look at this, using a number scale (gonna pull it out of my butt here)

Cruisers: Dmg = 7 Shield = 7 Hull = 10 Turn = 3 Accel = 3
Gal-X: Dmg = 7* Shield = 7 Hull = 8 Turn = 1 Accel = 4

*Note: Gal-x Damage based on +Extra Dmg using Cloak + Lance, and -Extra Dmg for lack of 1 weapon slot

[William Anders]

I don't know. I'm for sticking to Star Trek canon. As far as I can tell the Treaty of Algeron is still in effect.

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[Morgan Shackelford]

xivim wrote:

i personally bought mine because i like the class.

Mr. Greenhaven, don't let my pisspoor attitude rain on your parade. Congratulations, it is definitely a unique and gorgeous ship.

[Givine]

To be honest, i wouldnt mind if the new ship is only a costume. I personally got a Star Cruiser of the Nomad Class, which has no difference from the other Star Cruisers.

But this is not fair gaming...its a violation of gaming rules, which they dictate '' A player should have access to something different from the other players not through Money but through game-play, game-time played,skill or ingame reward''.

With other words everyone should have access...(its democracy....imagine your vote by elections would have an ''extra weight'' by paying 100$ to the XY Bank or to the Goverment...)


PS: They are good fireworks ,as Mr. Keogh said :-)

[RampantArc]

Givine wrote:

With other words everyone should have access...(its democracy....imagine your vote by elections would have an ''extra weight'' by paying 100$ to the XY Bank or to the Goverment...)

Yeah... because that /so/ doesn't happen.

for the record... i was drunk at the time of purchase.