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Interface: Command from bridge like Bridge Commander

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edited February 2012 in Controls and User Interface
I had an interesting idea,
Recently I play an old game Star Trek Bridge Commander. It was a really fun user interface game where you were literally commanding the ship from the captain's chair on the bridge. You could control it from the outside, but it was a lot more fun to command from the bridge. I was wondering what you guys felt if there was a setting in the game that would allow the player to command the ship with battles and travelling through space from the bridge and have a menu to control the attacks and abilities. I find that it would be extremely cool to do that because that's what I originally envisioned when I started playing the game from its inception. It would also make the game a lot more interesting. Maybe we could even walk around the ship as a battle was happening.

I don't know about you guys, but I REALLY like the idea of commanding from the bridge.

Thank-you,
Andrew Costa
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Ajcbutch2 wrote: »
    I had an interesting idea,
    Recently I play an old game Star Trek Bridge Commander. It was a really fun user interface game where you were literally commanding the ship from the captain's chair on the bridge. You could control it from the outside, but it was a lot more fun to command from the bridge. I was wondering what you guys felt if there was a setting in the game that would allow the player to command the ship with battles and travelling through space from the bridge and have a menu to control the attacks and abilities. I find that it would be extremely cool to do that because that's what I originally envisioned when I started playing the game from its inception. It would also make the game a lot more interesting. Maybe we could even walk around the ship as a battle was happening.

    I don't know about you guys, but I REALLY like the idea of commanding from the bridge.

    Thank-you,
    Andrew Costa

    While it would be fun to do it that way, you would loose the ability to better track the events going on around you. I like to know what targets to my flanks and aft are doing (such as powering up skills etc). You wouldnt get that with a "radar bilp".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    The idea's been clamored for practically since the beta, and the answer from Cryptic has not changed...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    the answer that has been given repeatedly by the devs is that it is currently impossible without a total redesign of the game engine, because the bridge is a completely different zone from the normal space zones, they can't track your character in two zones at once.
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