Talk: Playable starship

turrets

Is the restriction of not being able to mount turrets in the forward weapon slots true as stated here? --Swordmage 03:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Merging articles on playable starships

We have too many articles about playable starships:

I want to delete "Starship (types)" and combine/merge all the other ones in this article (i.e. "Playable starship"). Any objections or remarks? Especially with the release of Season 6, maintaining and updating all these pages is just not feasible. --Akira-sensei 18:30, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I like the idea and imagine a comprehensive article that could be featured as one of the top material of STOWiki. However, would it also be a good idea to transform "Starship (classes)" into "Non-playable starships", or is that superfluous? Either way, I would like to help you. --Markonian 20:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I too think this makes a lot of sense! Will pitch in if possible. --Walshicus 21:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, I'll give it a start. We just tackle this step by step. I'll combine all of those articles and get rid of the bulky tier charts by SpiderMitch. Don't get me wrong, they are beautiful, BUT they take a lot of space for information, which (as part of this wiki) can better be displayed in a sleak, functional table. --Akira-sensei 22:51, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Please give me a hand redesigning the ship lists at Starship tier chart!!! I will later incorporate them on Federation playable starship and Klingon playable starship. I already replaced Starship (types) with a redirect to Playable starship and moved Starship (classes) to Non-playable starship. --Akira-sensei 01:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Glad to see someone tackling this at last! Messing around with starships has always been my favourite part of the game. I had planned to do this myself but never found the time, and recently I've gotten bored with STO to be honest! :(

The most important thing, in my opinion, is for you guys to re-write as much of this as possible so that it all shares the same writing style and terminology, and then to link them all together with a sidebar nav template thingy (e.g. w:Science fiction), so that it all flows together as a single piece.

The stuff that I was going to address with the individual articles were...

As you've suggested, unifying the various articles about ships, and tidying it all up
Clear separation between playable and non-playable ships, especially for Klingon and Federation vessels. It ought to be clear to readers that, for instance, the playable Exploration Cruiser is completely different to the NPC Galaxy Class Cruiser.
Clarity on which NPC ships you'll see in combat and which are like non-combat 'set pieces'. Also classification of combat NPC into types, i.e. Fighter, Frigate, Cruiser, Battleship (or something along those lines)
Basic instructional articles, all linked together, about ships and space combat..
- Types of ship and the difference between
- The different types of space (system vs sector space) and how to move around and get to places
- Basic space combat information (think this already exists)
- Power levels! The current articles on power levels are really out of date and not very useful at all.
- Weapon and energy types (again exists, but should probably be re-written)
A separate set of guides or tutorials on which is the 'best' ship, or how to take down some of the tougher opponents
Note that its VERY IMPORTANT to distinguish articles which should have a neutral point-of-view, and 'guides' that can include the author's opinion.

I had also tried to classify playable ships into broad categories to simplify these articles, i.e. Cruiser, Escort, Science Vessel and Raider, Raptor, Heavy Warship, however Cryptic have been screwing with that by adding loads of new ship types. I'm sure you guys can come up with something.

Good luck! :D --Zutty 12:34, 18 July 2012 (UTC)