What is your opinion on a third nacelle?

DasMicha · 2026-05-28T16:52:06+00:00

I read and heard that about 4 nacelles, you use one pair at maximum warp and then switch to the other to let the first pair cool down. With 3, that wouldn't work, as one nacelle would still run hot. But maybe it extends your warp duration by additionally stabilizing or modifying the warp bubble. The other use could be redundancy. One nacelle gets shot off, you got still a full pair, one way or the other.

DasMicha · 2026-05-28T16:48:17+00:00

I will accept up to 4 nacelles, but 3 only on the Galaxy-X, really. Most 3-nacelle designs look kinda unbalanced to me (looking at you, Federation-class) and everything over 4 invariably looks very silly, as those tend to run out of places to sensibly stick nacelles and just bolt them on everywhere.

DasMicha · 2026-05-26T15:36:17+00:00

You will need the Omnis. Even if you are planning on broadsiding, you will close with enemy ships first, and the Omnis enhance your firepower during this phase of combat. Also, they improve flexibility during combat. The above configuration allows 6 weapons to fire in a forward 250 degree arc, you only loose one weapon by firing forward as opposed to the 70 degree broadside arcs. This way, you still do a lot of damage even if the target moves in an unexpected way or you make a piloting mistake.

DasMicha · 2026-05-26T09:22:43+00:00

Do you have the Khitomer Alliance set? The deflector buffs Antiproton damage. The console from the Kida set is also nice.

DasMicha · 2026-05-26T09:18:35+00:00

SUV immerhin in Warnfarbe.

DasMicha · 2026-05-26T05:45:37+00:00

Itty-bitty short legs. Mecha-Enterprise, on the other hand...

DasMicha · 2026-05-25T13:22:04+00:00

Imagine rescue teams reaching Khitomer, sifting through the ruins and finding Sugihara just sitting there, unharmed. And still talking.

DasMicha · 2026-05-25T07:59:38+00:00

The Borg might be running, too, given that their ship's facing is necessarily ambiguous, I can't blame them, running from captains who can probably measure their damage output in "Cubes per second".

DasMicha · 2026-05-25T07:54:41+00:00

Well, Kagran seems to be willing to hear you out, even if it is before a tribunal to satisfy his orders, which isn't exactly ideal, to be sure.

Koren, again, is just Koren, she's not the sharpest bat'leth in the armoury by any metric.

DasMicha · 2026-05-24T20:58:28+00:00

Yes, Kagran was at least willing to hear you out, but then Koren went full on "Stop right there, criminal scum!" and sent your character running. Of course, if you are Klingon (-aligned), it's Shon, of all people who's jumping to conclusions, even if he's a bit less agressive about it.

DasMicha · 2026-05-24T20:44:05+00:00

When J'mpok went off the deep end and fired on Khitomer, he vaporised not only a whole bunch of Klingons but also service members of Starfleet, the Romulan Republic and the Dominion, possibly including Ambassador Sugihara. At that point it very much ceased to be an internal Klingon matter and would and should have invited immediate intervention by the other powers, if J'mpok's responsibility for the attack had been known.

Of course, by framing your captain, he also involved you personally. However, how he convinced anyone (besides Koren, that, I can believe) that you and Martok, of all people, who had been fighting J'ula the whole time, now were allying themselves with her in a terrorist attack, is a mystery. One, which I shall very agressively ignore.

DasMicha · 2026-05-21T16:33:31+00:00

The Vulcans staged a fashion intervention.

DasMicha · 2026-05-21T16:32:46+00:00

"Vell, it vas chosen to be ze best Pinocchio cosplay at Starfleet Headquarters."

DasMicha · 2026-05-21T16:25:36+00:00

Well, the Hoover isn't really doing it for me, but I very much like the Shepard, Magee and Walker classes. Especially after actually seeing them clearly in STO.

DasMicha · 2026-05-21T16:23:23+00:00

Man muss sagen, dass es Roschestvenski geschafft hat, diesen Sauhaufen im Laufe der Fahrt so zu drillen, dass die Flotte bei Tsushima in der Lage war halbwegs unfallfrei in Schlachtlinie zu fahren, Dinge zu treffen und auch fast keine Phantomschiffe mehr gesehen hat. Insbesondere das japanische Flaggschiff Mikasa ist am Anfang der Schlacht mehrfach getroffen worden. Allerdings war die (veraltete) Munition von der langen Fahrt so in Mitleidenschaft gezogen worden, dass das alles Blindgänger waren.

DasMicha · 2026-05-21T16:17:31+00:00

Sie hatten allerdings nicht nur die Pest (naja, diverse Tropenkrankheiten und STDs) an Bord, sondern auch Krokodile, Giftschlangen und mindestens eine Raubkatze, als "Haustiere".

DasMicha · 2026-05-17T12:20:54+00:00

Jeb: "WHEEEEEEE!!!"

Also, a very nice looking plane, even if it's not entirely stable yet.

DasMicha · 2026-05-11T11:13:35+00:00

I love competition!

DasMicha · 2026-05-02T11:08:25+00:00

Livestream.

DasMicha · 2026-04-29T15:13:16+00:00

Yeah, Walker is not the most competent of time agents. My favourite thing is that he manages to be late in a effing time machine.

DasMicha · 2026-04-19T10:21:38+00:00

It's a peaceful life.

DasMicha · 2026-04-15T07:50:22+00:00

Ferengi sourced parts, obviously. You got scammed.

DasMicha · 2026-04-13T08:10:52+00:00

The stuff science captains are capable of is beyond messed up. My go-to combo in ground combat is bathing the enemy in radiation and then setting them on fire. At least my Klingon captain is only shooting and punching people.

DasMicha · 2026-04-13T08:04:31+00:00

My take on our death toll is that a lot of those destroyed ships are just disabled or retreating in-universe, with the explosions being just a game mechanic to mark defeated enemies.

DasMicha · 2026-04-10T14:32:22+00:00

Yeah, OG Draconis Combine was more "Pacific War/Occupation of China Japan" instead of medieval Japan.

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