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Total ship customization

dredizzy619dredizzy619 Member Posts: 9 Arc User
edited July 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It would be cool and i stressed the word, COOL to give the word TOTAL CUSTOMIZATION a more in your face meaning by allowing your your loyal fans the ability to customize our ships to the fullest by first determining if the player wants to be a cruiser, escort, or science vessel. Then start building your ship from the ground up like customizing the complete interior meaning bridge, quarters, mess hall, transporter rooms, stuff like that to all the way to the exterior like from window types, deflector dishes ship plating. Also, it would be nice to customize your own unique nacelles and hull, and to change move your ships weapon banks to a different location depending on the type of weapon like fore stays in the front and aft stays in the back. this is my opinion and im just bringing it out there.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    It's been a long dream for us to have such a system. But CBS said no to such ship exterior customization a long time ago. However, Cryptic has given us plenty in leeway that we can customize our exteriors nicely.

    With customzied interiors, hopefully someday we might have more of a personal touch. Not sure on the level how SWG's housing customization was, but hopefully something to give interior decorators something to be proud of.
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    dredizzy619 wrote: »
    this is my opinion and im just bringing it out there.

    Yes but starting yet another thread about this just spreads things around and makes it harder to search the forums.

    Plus now a volunteer moderator has to go back and merge this thread with one of the previous ones. You've created more work for them.

    It would have been better to have searched for a previous thread and added your voice to that instead of making a new thread.

    To answer your posting though, what we've gotten back from the devs is an idea that using the foundry, one could come up with an interior. From an art point of view, they;re kind of picky on how the ships behave and pivot on a center point to make them believable when they fly.

    Customization like that is probably not going to happen. Again you may want to search for that to see the previous discussion on the topic.
  • wildmousexwildmousex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    if you wanna build your own space ships to explore the galaxy with, you can always play Spore.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    wildmousex wrote: »
    if you wanna build your own space ships to explore the galaxy with, you can always play Spore.

    Yeah! Spore all the way! :)
    Save the Foundry!
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  • cusashorncusashorn Member Posts: 461
    edited July 2012
    azurianstar wrote: »
    It's been a long dream for us to have such a system. But CBS said no to such ship exterior customization a long time ago. However, Cryptic has given us plenty in leeway that we can customize our exteriors nicely.

    With customzied interiors, hopefully someday we might have more of a personal touch. Not sure on the level how SWG's housing customization was, but hopefully something to give interior decorators something to be proud of.

    Not to mention the developers also (only very recently) commented on this. The ships in the game all have "connection points" for all their parts along a basic skeleton.

    What you would get if you combined the hull of a Fleet Escort, the saucer of a Galaxy, the pylons of a Recon Science Vessel, and nacelles of a Miranda class is a bunch of disjointed parts floating in space. NONE OF THEM would actually be connected. They'd all be floating in space in the position that they're intended to be for their own ships.
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