Hey all, Not sure how many of you are playing Star Trek Online here, but for those that are, I've created a Starchart for the game to help people navigate, as well asa ship chart to help people choose what ships they want to use.

http://suricatasblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/stostarchartv2.png

http://suricatasblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/stoshiptierchartv21.png

Hope these are of use to the people playing here :-)

If anyone wants to contact me ingame, my user name is, shockingly, @suricata


Changed the inline images into links, if your going to post images please post a smaller thumbnail... even on my connection it took almost 30 seconds to load the time images. File sizes are around 30 MB for the two of them. - Makaveli

Holy crap, that's a blast from the past.  Hey Suri!

(Let's just ignore the fact that I have your blog on RSS. >.>)

The Envoy was the only one that made me do a double take.

To be honest, I'm fine with most of the ships, afterall, one mans junk is another mans tresure afterall. The fact that I see most of the ships flying around means that some people must like them. Oddly enough, I find myself flying a modified Luna class in the game, which is ironic since I was never really a big fan on the Luna class design.

Look at it this way, at least they removed the lego Galaxy class they had during beta, that was a massive 'WTF' ship:-

http://suricatasblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/star-trek-online-20091130020800446.jpg

Apologies to anyone that had to guage thier eyes out after looking at that ship! :-)

Holy She-ite, is that thing fuck ugly.

Yesh that thing is ugly!

As for the ones that actually made it into the game, I think meh pretty much sums it up. Not necessarily bad but just uninspired or derivative.  For example, a lot of the ships look just about the same (The Prometheus, Cerberus, and Phoenix-classes to name three).  The Oracle, Destiny, and Trident-classes remind me of Dominion ships (in the side view at least).  A few look okay though. 

Suricata: You wouldn't happen to have any screenshots of the Horizon-class would you? (Or know where I can find some?)

Suricata: You wouldn't happen to have any screenshots of the Horizon-class would you? (Or know where I can find some?)

I know a few wiki's have some screenshots of it:-

http://stowiki.org/wiki/File:Federation_Research_Science_Vessel_(Horizon).png

The 'dome' field is supposed to be acontainment field so that experiments with gases and the like can be carried out on the ship and can be ejected directly into space if any situations arise.

Changed the inline images into links, if your going to post images please post a smaller thumbnail... even on my connection it took almost 30 seconds to load the time images. File sizes are around 30 MB for the two of them. - Makaveli

Odd, I did post them as links originally due to this exact reason, odd that they became inline images.

All ships have to go though CBS for approval for inclusion in the game, including even canon ships.

Basically, each Tier has 3 catagories of ship, each catagory has a canon design (except Tier 5 which hasa Cryptic design), then each catagory comes with a couple of variants of that ship. The saucer, hull, pylons, nacelles and mission pods are interchangable between these variants, hence why they all look so similar, otherwise it would be difficult to get them to stick together properly.

Most of the 'new' ships were actually designed by Ryan Dennings and John Eaves for Perpetual Entertainment when they had the licence, Cryptic inherited all of the assets from that company, including the ship designs.

Some of the ships arn't actually as bad sa they appear from the side views, and its worth noting that ones mans junk is another mans treasure, there are alot of people flying ships I would be seen dead in, but they think they look awesome, its all a matter of taste at the end of the day.

Anyone know if this can be played on Mac platforms?

If anyone wants to play, send me a message at @Roche_Furman

Ok, so I picked this up today...or rather I'm in the process of downloading it via Steam; which is taking ages, though it should be done by the time the sun comes up.

Yeah, I think I accidently unequipped all my ships main components, so now I'm trying to figure out how to reinstall them.  

My characters name is Alexander Sumpertramp, by the way.


ETA; ok, figured out the ship components thing...sort of like changing the setup of your character.  One would think you'd do that at the shipyard, and not from a menu on the minimap.

I haven't been playing much recently, too busy running people over in GTA4, but I'm @Shizzlick.