The second weapon was added last in the redesign, but I will describe it first. The third Pulse-Phaser beam array remained as I quite liked the visuals of the weapon even after all this time.īut what of the aft facing weapons? First an Omni-Directional phaser beam array was obtained as I already had one from a crafting adventure back in 2018. This meant discarding two of the three forward facing Pulse-Phaser beam arrays which was easily done. This meant the Prolonged Phaser beam array and the Quantum Phaser Array had to be shifted from aft weapon slots to forward weapon slots. As the special beam arrays contained special procs and abilities that would quite beneficial to Vizier’s design. With Vizier being redesigned to a forward-facing weaponized platform this meant her “special” beam arrays had to be kept as well as changed locations to ensure they could be utilized. The first though was what beam arrays to keep and what to discard. Reshuffle Vizier’s weapon loadout to be forward facing and utilize omni-directional beam arrays and weapons wherever possible. I wanted to keep her twelve-weapon design. How to resolve this issue without Vizier losing her “uniqueness”? Vizier had already proven herself to be one of my top performing starships despite her issues. Pretty quickly I determined the issue (as discussed above) and I asked myself a serious question. But events in my personal life as well as the USS Zuikaku’s redesign meant I did not have time to devoted to Vizier’s retrofit. The problem had been nagging my mind for at least twelve months. Sometime in June 2019 I decided and finally got time to investigate this issue. Regardless of how many weapons a ship has strapped on. Or Ī conflicted and distracted captain is a captain who is not performing at their full potential. When I “dipped” Vizier’s nose to bring those specials to bear I was constantly in a conflicted state of when to disengage the maneuverer and return to broadsiding. Considering the blueprint of the design of the Vizier I was discarding one of her core design principals as flawed as it is. However, I was not using my torpedoes or special weapons. When I decided to broadside the opposite occurred. While this meant I could bring those weapons to bear I was cancelling out a significant part of my ships firepower by making my rear mounted beam array’s useless. When I decided to use my QDB (Quantum Destabilizing Beam) or Meteron gas torpedo I had to be relatively speaking front facing my target. However, with the USS Vizier having weapons that could only be fired in a frontal fashion this caused major issues. This allows them to bring all their beam arrays mounted both fore & aft to bear. Broadsiding cruisers spend most of their time on a 90-degree angle to their target. She is at her heart a broadsiding cruiser. This is even more critical when you consider the Vizier’s build type. Covering as small as an area of 90 degrees on the torpedoes to the full 360 on the Drill Laser console.Īs you can see here with arcs spread all over the place it is a complete mess. Table 1 – Weapon Arcs – USS Vizier – June 2019Ībove, you see 5 separate arcs across twelve weapons. Please note the below table taken from one of the previous blogs. It is also the swiss-army approach regarding weapons used that causes piloting issues for the Vizier. While she is a swiss army knife in terms of weapons she losses out on the capability of dedicating resources to further weapons to make them more devastating. Straight to the point, this is where the Vizier suffers. Then again, I don’t think many captains would think of such a crazy design when they could easily build a ship that could out DPS Vizier by factors of upwards of three to five times. As far as I know to my knowledge, I have not seen another build or entry into Reddit/STO builds or on the official forums. Having a twelve-weapon armed cruiser is something unique. The Weapon Arc Problem The Original Design As well as detailing two fixes in her critical flaws of her build. This includes changes to her design, elements added or considered. Now in December 2019 with the USS Vizier over two years old we look at where the USS Vizier is now. This included issues in her six-month review back in April 2018. I reviewed the USS Vizier’s radical design elements and how they had worked and hadn’t. In the previous blog Vizier – TNG II – Review of a Radical Design that’s now several months old.
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