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Starting Missions in Holodecks.

selraxxxselraxxx Member Posts: 89 Arc User
edited December 2012 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
What I'd like to see is the ability to que up a mission from the Holodeck. Say at the acadamy or fleet starbases. This would give those large spaces some function and create the possibility of Holodeck missions, training, entertainment/holo novels, etc.

Is it possible?

- Sel
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Yes its possible
    you can use the accad ones at least (played a mission that did this) im afraid I don't know how it was done
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I think there's a control panel that you can use as an entry door.
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  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    selraxxx wrote: »
    What I'd like to see is the ability to que up a mission from the Holodeck. Say at the acadamy or fleet starbases. This would give those large spaces some function and create the possibility of Holodeck missions, training, entertainment/holo novels, etc.

    Is it possible?

    - Sel

    The problem is that none of the holodecks have a 'trigger' point located inside them to start anything.

    Placing a 'clickable' control panel in each of them would do the trick. We just have to keep asking for the Foundry Team to 'make it so'. (most Fed holodecks already have panels in them, they just can't be 'clicked' currently :()

    So until this happens, all the holodecks everywhere are pretty much useless.
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited November 2012
    What would be nice is just a single option to start on a Holodeck, and if you select that, your mission can be started at ANY holodeck throughout the game, whether at a Starbase or at SFA or on your ship interior.
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  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    What would be nice is just a single option to start on a Holodeck, and if you select that, your mission can be started at ANY holodeck throughout the game, whether at a Starbase or at SFA or on your ship interior.

    Aye, this is a great idea.

    I should be able to start any holo program from ANY holodeck or holosuite I am in.
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  • designationxr377designationxr377 Member Posts: 542 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    What would be nice is just a single option to start on a Holodeck, and if you select that, your mission can be started at ANY holodeck throughout the game, whether at a Starbase or at SFA or on your ship interior.

    Indeed, I second this great idea in the hopes that it gets known by the devs.
  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    What would be nice is just a single option to start on a Holodeck, and if you select that, your mission can be started at ANY holodeck throughout the game, whether at a Starbase or at SFA or on your ship interior.

    If you mean story missions, then i think that you should at least have to have played through them once on the toon, then 'replay' them on the holodeck? makes more sense :p like reliving the glory days of old assignments ^^
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited November 2012
    elandarksky wrote: »
    If you mean story missions, then i think that you should at least have to have played through them once on the toon, then 'replay' them on the holodeck? makes more sense :p like reliving the glory days of old assignments ^^

    That'd work for plenty of missions, but I have three missions, the ones in my sig in fact, that are designed to be actual Holodeck programs. As it stands I don't have a Holodeck to start them on, so I made like one of the doors on the Qo'nos Shipyards leads to a holodeck. Would be nice to be able to start them from an actual holodeck. I'm sure there's more missions out there that would benefit in this way.
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  • selraxxxselraxxx Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    What would be nice is just a single option to start on a Holodeck, and if you select that, your mission can be started at ANY holodeck throughout the game, whether at a Starbase or at SFA or on your ship interior.

    That's exactally what I was thinking about.

    Please Dev's, make this so.

    :)
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  • voicesdarkvoicesdark Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It would open up so many story possibilities if you could actually start from a holodeck. Holodecks, Poker, and Dabo have been shown as the prevalent forms of entertainment through out the different series.

    Right now there really isn't a convincing way to start a holonovel, and yet in the 2400 series of episodes they had us use the holodeck for training so it's obviously possible to do, they just haven't unlocked that option for us, but really how hard would it be?

    Even if they only opened up the holodecks on fleetbases, SFA, and ship interiors that would give plenty of options.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Well... adding a door at a specific holodeck would be easy. Letting you go to ANY holodeck for the mission start might be hard. I think they'd have to recode something to make that work.
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited December 2012
    They just added two things that they told us were impossible: going to character select screen instead of logging out and allowing us to despawn NPCs. Surely a little thing like holodeck functionality isn't going to stump them? right? lol
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It's obviously not impossible, but it's not as easy as letting people use a random object as a mission start point.
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  • donridgedonridge Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    The game already has multiple access points for the Exchange. How hard could it be to adapt the same function for mission start points? Each holodeck would be the same door copied and pasted at diffident locations.
  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited December 2012
    Well I think some of the tech is already there as you can replay any stock Cryptic mission from the holodecks at SFA (right?)
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