Nebula Class Starship

[Travis]

Plz Plz Plz please :D One of the most versatile ships. Lots of creative room, with their interchangeable pod. Armada showed their true power as the main science vessle. You could resurrect the Gemini Torpedo, point defence and extend shields ability :D Just lots of room, even repair teams. Its just my fav, and was dissapointed in not seeing it in the art. (We all know its coming, but sad to see it not there already. Many famous nebula's that they deserve a tip of the hat.)

[BettyBlue]

you can bring this up on discord the DEVS are usually on. Unfortunately, they did not include the Nebula class because the Federation has so man options like the saber, norway, steamrunner and akira. Hopefully someone can add mods to include the ships.

[Ice Robertson]

Considering a preorder bonus gives a ship as DLC we may see a ship DLC pack in the future, But maybe I'm just wishing, i dunno.

[BrianDavion]

Looking at the federation ships we have for the federation: Soverign, Galaxy, Excelsior, Intrepid, what looks like a syndney class, a miranda class 2 types of transports (proably the construction ship equiv) and an oberth.

[Soccer]

Looks somewhat like a sydney class, could also be like the holoship from ST9. Maybe thats the spy ship? Or colony ship?

The game also includes the Defiant class. See artwork from last friday, where all ships are shown. The frighters look like those used in Star Trek: Enterprise. J-Class and Y-Class. Guess one is the construction ship.

In the screenshots i do not see a colony ship. And there is a governor ship.

So colonies are bulid with construction ships or governor ships?

[HMtK]

I feel the Nebula is research vessel, staple. I mean, if they're throwing the California Class in there, why not?

Either way, my life would be complete with a fleet of Sovereign and Inquiry class ships.

[Winter]

I would imagine the Nebula would be a workhorse during that time. The different pod variations were good.

[Soccer]

Yeah Nebula are the Mirandas of the 24th Century.

Very powerfull in combat with weapons pod.
Also could have the sensor variant.

Either way more powerfull then Excelsior. On the Level of Ambassador Class.

Sovereign is in the game, doubt the inquiry is. Guess modders will add all the canon federation ships? Game year is actually about the time a lot of constellation class ships (Hatheway, Stargazer, Victory) are in service.

California class / unifrom seems more like fan service for pre-order customers.
I like the klingon voice over as pre-order bonus.

[Bufnitza]

Novel ideas everywhere, but I'm afraid that's not how ships work in this game.

Unlike Armada, where you controlled individual ships and each ship had specific abilities (extend shields) or special attacks (whatever torpedoes), this is a macro game where you command fleets with a certain composition of ships, but have no control over what individual ships do. Each ship type had bonuses or penalties and might give a buff to the fleet overall, but at the end of the day, it's a game of numbers and dice rolls, not tactics.

There are certain non-combat ships with specialized roles, such as transport ships or colony ships, but the above applies to all ships with a combat role.

This is also why a huge variety of ships would simply be for eye-candy purposes, because at the end of the day, they'd all have some +/- x% modifiers compared to the next similar ship type.

[Bufnitza]

Someone was also saying on Discord about the Galaxy class ability to separate the saucer section, but it was confirmed it's not in the game because you do not give specific orders to individual ships within a fleet.

[Kegbelly]

this sounds kinda sucky =p but i guess we wont really know till its on our hard drives

[Bufnitza]

Originally posted by Zendu:

this sounds kinda sucky =p but i guess we wont really know till its on our hard drives

It is, but is it really?

I played hundreds of hours of grand strategy and combat was always probably the least important aspect of the game (unless you were a murder hobo on a world conquest run). It's a means to an end, not the core of the gameplay in the genre.

I think the most disappointed people in this will be the ones expecting flamboyant, action-packed or tactical, micromanaged battles in the vein of Armada 2, Ashes of the Singularity or BOTF.

[Kegbelly]

hero ships will make or break it , we dont know yet how much of a factor they will be

[Moses]

I didnt play botf for the tactical battles, it was nice to see the ships in action but the battles had no depth to them.
Im content with seeing my ships in action, I guess :)

[Soccer]

Originally posted by Zendu:

hero ship*S*

There will be 1, the Enterprise. (D, + E as upgrade). When "destroyed" it means it is just "lost in action" an respawns later.

There are ships with specific purposes, such as spy ships and governeu ships thought.

Reliant class seems to be as an upgrade to the Miranda class in ST:PIC (as the U.S.S. Reliant was a Miranda class, maybe thats why the new class was named that way).
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Reliant_class

The Nebula class got an upgrade as Sutherland class (maybe because there was the U.S.S. Sutherland as a Nebula class commanded by Data briefly)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sutherland_class

And yeah Oberth and Miranda are cool ships. Hope for a Nebula class in the game in the future too.

[Corset Lebelle]

Originally posted by Ice Robertson:

Considering a preorder bonus gives a ship as DLC we may see a ship DLC pack in the future, But maybe I'm just wishing, i dunno.

most likely since this is a fully licensed game so am sure there will be ship pack dlcs and probally more factions added