CAPTAIN'S BLOG

Nope. You are not alone with this. I share the feeling and totally agree on all of them and to be honest, I only have the Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier on my main Toon, because at that time neither a 2 Bay Romulan Carier existed (still doesn't) nor were the Scimitars revealed.
I understand, that Cryptic need to look for other moneymaking methods since the game went F2P, but giving us the opportunity to play every enemy Ship is getting ridiculous. Arguments like "Hey, that Ship is not supposed to support mammal life" seem not to carry. Therefore, I share your hope regarding Borg and Undine Ships. Because "Hey, that Ship needs a Hive mind to control it" or "That Ship needs a pilot with Undine DNA" wouldn't count either, I'm afraid.

I do not wish to disagree with the points of view above, as they are valid reasons! But, think of the reason, why we get the ships.
After every battle, their are winners and losers, the losers retreat and the winners continue to defeat what is left of the enemy. Someone will come and clear the battlefield, possibly the Ferengie get their first & repair or remove ships/consoles and Business is Business!
Just a thought, as the Ferengie are masters in stealing and replicating for profit.
Just think of "Cryptic" being a Branch of the "Ferengie Allience"?
But their again, I do not want to see the game get out of context, some ships/species should be left alone.

Just imagine 20 cubes in sector space stuck in one place trying to get somewhere (similar to Dreadnought Warbirds now).
As I recall, Odyssey was fan made ship in some contest, and bunch of ship concepts I saw are amazing, so there is no excuse for doing such thing all the time.
Agreed on Card/Ferengi ships, and even Jem'Hadar (it was used in DS9 series), but all others...

I'm rather "Meh" about this batch. Mirror ships make some sense since they keep invading like mad. Elachi ships have only been directly encountered by the Romulans at this point in the story line. So to make them an across the board prize is a tad odd.

Of course we could find out that some so and so like Franklin Drake has been out poking his overly long nose into places it shouldn't be and that's where the ships are coming from. One never knows which way things will go after all. Just look at the Klingon history line since TOS.

Its been a while since I posted here! :)

I look at the enemy ships from a different aspect, that of one of my characters whom I intend on blogging on soon. Part of her backstory is that she is in charge of exotic technology research on captured ships.

For a while I had a Tholian Recluse languishing in her roster so I decided to work her through the Nukara reps and "restore" the Recluse to operational state, "factory specs" as it were. Which led me onto the idea of her being in charge of an "exotic tech" division....so now she has a collection of exotica!

I personally don't use them, wouldn't buy them, but I like the option of having them in the game. A lot of people roleplay and being able to have the option of roleplaying the enemy is enjoyable to some people, so they'll need the option of getting the "bad guy's" ships.

I agree with getting tired of seeing every alien ship. That is one of the reasons my JHEC ends up in dry dock so often. Although I did spec it out with phasers and fed equipment, so I can claim it as repurposed Dominion salvage

The larger Elachi ship is basically just a souped up Fed. Dreadnought Cruiser. I'd rather just play that. The Crescent Cannon is basically similar to the spinal laser on the Dread as well. I agree with Andrew that they are quite fun to RP with. I pretend to disable the ships and 'board' them (get invited onto the bridge) where I rescue the beautiful Orion in distress and... oh. back on topic: Having the Tholian ships is like having the Temporal ships; odd, but fun to mess around with. Most of the 'alien' ships are basically the same, ability-wise as the regular Fed. KDF, and Rommie ships, IMO.... so wonderful skins for my ships, but not much difference from regular C-ships, etc. Except for the Rom. Dreadnought and Tal Shiar ships, those are bloody awesome.

The larger Elachi ship is basically just a souped up Fed. Dreadnought Cruiser. I'd rather just play that. The Crescent Cannon is basically similar to the spinal laser on the Dread as well. I agree with Andrew that they are quite fun to RP with. I pretend to disable the ships and 'board' them (get invited onto the bridge) where I rescue the beautiful Orion in distress and... oh. back on topic: Having the Tholian ships is like having the Temporal ships; odd, but fun to mess around with. Most of the 'alien' ships are basically the same, ability-wise as the regular Fed. KDF, and Rommie ships, IMO.... so wonderful skins for my ships, but not much difference from regular C-ships, etc. Except for the Rom. Dreadnought and Tal Shiar ships, those are bloody awesome.