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Can we get ground vehicles like the Argo?

avarseiravarseir Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited January 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
With more ground maps appearing in the pipeline, i would think that its a right time to start talking about a ground vehicle..like the Argo :)
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  • cedricophoffcedricophoff Member Posts: 153 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Almost none of the maps are large enough to warrant vehicles. And even if they added them in the far future, you might not enjoy the way you will have to require them (Open up wallet!).

    Never going to happen, although a nice thought. :P

    Reminds me of an old post about this and this design:

    http://vauxhallviva.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Phaser-Tank-207180743
  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Would be a LOT of dev time
    and probably would simply create a "vehicle combat mode" like space combat
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  • lolimpicardlolimpicard Member Posts: 309
    edited January 2013
    How many Star Trek canon ground vehicles are there?
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  • rachelj88rachelj88 Member Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    what about a segway?
    hehe

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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Canon ground vehicles ??

    Hmm not many
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  • burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    ..Ooh! can we have the Hammerhead or Mako? :D
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    avarseir wrote: »
    With more ground maps appearing in the pipeline, i would think that its a right time to start talking about a ground vehicle..like the Argo :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhcjTQ8r6qc
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2013
    I would be fun on New Romulus.
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  • denizenvidenizenvi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    A ground vehicle would be fun, but we've already seen what can happen when a new variant of combat is introduced.


    I'm talking, of course, about shuttles. Shuttles use different groups of enemies, as they can't handle normal multiple-frigate groups. Ground vehicles would presumably use new enemies, or a larger number of normal ground enemies. Shuttles also use normal space maps, but ground vehicles would pretty much require maps built just for their use.

    Anyway, shuttle content has been slow coming, partly because before this season you had to change out at a starbase before using them at all. Of all the missions in the game, only 3 are for shuttles: the Vault, Vault defense, and Operation Gamma. Even without fundamental challenges on the maps themselves, making missions for a somewhat 'novelty' content type is slow. Normal ground and space content will always get priority.


    Not that these reasons would prohibit ground vehicles or missions made for them, but it shows that any such attempt would likely be the only content of that type for quite a while. So I wouldn't expect a whole 'third' combat type any time soon.
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  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    avarseir wrote: »
    With more ground maps appearing in the pipeline, i would think that its a right time to start talking about a ground vehicle..like the Argo :)

    Have you seen what Champions has done with their vehicles?

    Lockboxes and C-store.

    Every.

    Single.

    One.

    And you bet your TRIBBLE STO will do the exact same thing.
  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    rachelj88 wrote: »
    what about a segway?
    hehe

    I had too


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    Here's an idea:

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  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    The problem i see with ground vehicles/mounts is, that there is no need to have them,.. at all.

    Short of giving roleplayers some new toys (i dont mind that) its just a dead end project in my eyes.

    Maps in STO are generally small/contained, and the bigger ones usually warrant a reason AGAINST having a vehicle

    the two examples i remember being brought up last time i saw request regarding argo and other GVs (ground vehicles from this point on), were the map from 'coliseum' and 'Cure Ground,' in coliseum you are snatched up from your ship/transporter beam/derelict station and plopped into the middle of no where, a vehicle there would make no sense, and cure ground would need LOTS of changing just so a GV can be implemented (difficulty/optional etc)

    I can see if GVs do get introduced they will likely become the shuttle of ground missions, used so sporadically and getting so little use out of them, they might as well not be in game possessions, rather just statically part of a mission such as the BoP from the doomsday mission/ runabout from the KDF prision break mission(s)
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  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    stirling191 wrote: »
    Have you seen what Champions has done with their vehicles?
    Wait, since when has CO had vehicles?

    Especially since almost everybody can fly...
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'd settle for a Segway. :D
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  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    darkjeff wrote: »
    Wait, since when has CO had vehicles?

    Especially since almost everybody can fly...

    Since Cryptic decided it would be brilliant to create content where the only way to adequately participate is to gamble on lockboxes or drop money on c-store items.
  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Last time I was on CO they were just rolling in their Dil-equivalent. I should have a hefty stipend built up by now, hmm...
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited January 2013
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  • livinrtblivinrtb Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I wish i could build this in game i could finally put that phaser turret i always wanted on it...8D

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  • trellabortrellabor Member Posts: 209 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    It sounds pretty cool, but would probably add more bugs and problems to an already very buggy and kludgy ground system.
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  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1240/argo.png :rolleyes:
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  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited January 2013
    Rumor has it ground vehicles are coming in season 8 here is a pic of a work in progress model

    http://www.ufocrashsite.com/scripts/photoalbum/albums/roswell2005/normal_04-shuttlecraft-01.jpg

    K9 non combat pets aren't until season 9 though
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I would not be surprised to see ground vehicles (or some alternative form of fast transportation) added in an adventure zone at some point. They can't keep adding small transporter pads to every map, it wouldn't make sense on some planets.

    Did I read somewhere (or hear it on a podcast) that Nimbus was going to be the next adventure zone, or did I just imagine that?
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