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shen69
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Every time I visit the bridge I feel like it is empty. I was wondering why the DOFF's I've assigned to Space aren't there as well as some other generic officers. I would be great to have those extra faces on the bridge.
Also, It is nice to visit the bridge, but that's about all ya can do. It would be extremely cool to be able to go to the bridge, sit in the captains chair while traveling through normal space, and be able to access the maps and direct the ship to your destination. You could just take the normal view and shrink it to fit on the bridge view screen.
Also, It is nice to visit the bridge, but that's about all ya can do. It would be extremely cool to be able to go to the bridge, sit in the captains chair while traveling through normal space, and be able to access the maps and direct the ship to your destination. You could just take the normal view and shrink it to fit on the bridge view screen.
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Some people have proposed to make a UI that simulates travel to a destination by combining a timer based on distance and the transwarp function that is already in game anyway.
I had another idea.
When you zoom into your ship until the max setting and go one step further "into" your ship, the rendering of your ship disappears and you get a new animated UI overlay that looks like your bridge with a 1st person POV from the captain's chair toward the viewscreen.
You wouldn't be able to move or turn your head. But the normal UI buttons would be spread out toward the 2 or 3 generic officers sitting in your field of view you can issue orders to: Helm (Speed/Throttle), OPS (using all the fancy abilities like shuttlepets, calling the Azura) and Communication (Galaxy Mini Map plus related buttons).
I've never had this problem with my bridges, always had enough Bridge officers to fill them up, which I prefer because they have names, names that I made up.
That conflicts with your idea because, like you pointed out, the Bridge and Ship interior is its own map, and Space and Ground are basically separate spaces. Early glitches in STO had ships appearing on the ground, human-sized, and some Foundry missions do similar tricks.
Unless you intend to change the entire game engine and probably the whole structure of the game, what you want won't happen. Just play Bridge Commander and be happy.
On the Bridge and in the ship interior you can set up and obtain special Doff missions that have unique rewards. Before Season 5 the Bridge was the only interface you could use to access Mission Replay. The bridge is also the only way to enter a small craft without having to warp to a base. There's a decent amount of functionality in the bridge.
As for finding faces, you might not have enough Bridge Officers, or you might want to select a bridge with enough space to support them. The Star Cruiser bridges can hold up to 12, but the Defiant bridges only hold 6.
Ideally I'd like interior (as in Corridor, Crew and Engine Room) makeovers to match the Small, Medium and Large layouts. A Defiant-sized ship can't hold a two-storey warp core.
Also if they could sell the Belfast interior separately from the Bajoran pack, that would be good.
This means if you have all Sci BOffs you'll end up with a random selection of them each time you visit your bridge, along with unnamed Tac and Eng officers.
I believe the quotas for each bridge is random.
But, before they come out with new bridges, fix the existing ones so the Boffs aren't levitating or embedded in the floor.
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