Fleet bases... everyone has the same cookie cut base :(

towani

I am not sure if anything more than what we've been given with star bases is possible, but I'd love to see the ability to really customize star bases, embassies, mines, etc.

The best was the housing system on Star Wars Galaxies. Even the hook system in LotRO gives it's guild some customization.

STO has 16,500+ fleets with 16,500 cookie cut star bases. The only difference is the Tier. In theory, over time, they'll all be up to T3/4/5. Nothing really unique about it.

Season 11 should be Alliances and Star Bases.

I think we could provide one impressive list of features we'd like to see which would make star bases truly unique and special to each individual fleet, and it could go hand-in-hand with the introduction of alliances within the game.

If we had the ability to travel to others (probably of the same faction) star base, you could see where I'm going with how having an alliance would prove fruitful as one star base may have something another doesn't, and vice versa. But, by forming an alliance with another fleet, you could both potentially benefit from it.

So you really could have an entire season just dedicated to just star bases and alliances.

And, to keep the money rolling, you have folks who would be willing to pay to customize their star base, embassies, mines, etc. You combine those that are into RP, along with those who like to customize, and through in the ability to form alliances and visit each others star base, and I think you can legitimately justify a season.

Thoughts? I know it's been talked about before, and I'm not introducing anything new per se... but maybe a fresh thread would help and remind the Devs of this feature. Sometime, it's not always about building something new (although the alliance part would be new for this game)... but updating what already exists (in the Star Base, Embassy, Mine, future holdings)

lordgyor

You're forgetting special projects. Some Fleets have done all of them and that changes appearances, others have done none, and lack those Changes, and other fleets pick and choose which special projects to do.

johnny111971

But in the end, the OP is right... eventually... we all end up with the exact same base. The exact same stores, the exact same everything.

The fleet maps should be made into User Editable Maps (much like the foundry allows for map editting). Complete with NPC placement.

I think it would be a huge boost to crafting to allow the crafters to craft, furnishings, consoles, art, fluff, aesthetic improvements. (Maybe even sell their crafting wares in an empty stall at DS9... lets give that place some use again).

nagrom7

One thing that I have always wanted ever since they introduced the starbases, is to replace the UFP/KDF logos inside and outside with your fleet logo. Even if this was brought in as a special project I would be happy.

You can put it on your uniforms and your ships, why not on your fleets 'Headquarters'?

kirksplat

"We anticipate the next major feature to the Foundry being the ability for fleets to design and run their own starbases. This is a monumental addition to the Foundry, so don't expect it right away, but it is the next big thing for that feature," Stahl says.

That was in a 2011 Ask Cryptic. Source.

Dstahl said it, so it must be true. You guys can design your own starbases.

curs0r

sopwithsnipe wrote: »

And we've all seen that Cryptic doesn't learn from it's mistakes.

I can't imagine what you mean by that.

Anyway I think my little heart and love for customization was pretty much deflated when I saw what passes for customizing the outside of the ships, let alone the inside. Therefore when fleet bases were announced I expected pretty much what we got.

mikearoo

I didn't find the SG bases in city of heroes all that troublesome. A coalition base looked like it was inside a cave, complete with a temple and crystal mines, my own base was done up as a starbase, complete with starfields outside the windows, a fighter bay and a glass green house.

Its advantage was that it was a blank slate, you filled it up how you wanted, and there was a forum section devoted to base building, idea's and techniques.

While I doubt we'll see that level of customization, I would love to see some projects to make the outside or the inside look different.

As mentioned before...
using the fleet emblem instead of the Fed/Kdf on banners etc.
a project to change the bases skin from Fed/Kdf to romulan/cardassain etc.

Perhaps projects to change lighting and colour patterns inside the base or even how the layout is done, just like what we do with our starships already

starkaos

Being able to add certain items based on Race would be cool. My first fleet was not going anywhere, so about a week after Season 6, I decided to join a Borg themed fleet since I expected customizable fleet starbases to happen eventually and my character is a Liberated Borg.

mikearoo

Hey, I've seen that base before actually, great work btw!