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how about Captain Proton lock box
jim625
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I think the next lock box after hirogen should be a captain proton theme
Things you can get should be
His ship from lockbox
Uniform from the lobi store
His gun from lobi store
Maybe some special duty officers from the lockbox
Things you can get should be
His ship from lockbox
Uniform from the lobi store
His gun from lobi store
Maybe some special duty officers from the lockbox
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and what would ou get out of it?
kdf alined roms, and kdf themselves cant use fed ships.
Factional ships won't go into Lockboxes. Ever.
Hence why we never saw a Romulan Lockbox - because Cryptic didn't want people getting Romulan ships on non-Romulan characters/factions.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
When the nonfaction lockboxes stops selling, Cryptic will sell out. It's only a matter of time.;)
which wont be until every person has every ship they ever wanted from the lockboxes. then they will just do another JHAS event, then make up more non-faction ships.
and Captain Proton needs his own FE, with the outfit, gun etc the rewards. there doesn't have to be some uber power creepy reward enough people would appreciate if for what it is.. although, it would be VERY cool if instead of the bullseye or normal vape of the target that they go monochrome when exposed and the vape effect is monochrome.
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YES! I agree completely!
If you gave us Evil Robot combat pets as a mission reward...
Yeah. That would be just awesome.
You could also do a whole series of holodeck missions; "[Player name], Secret Agent", Captain Proton, and similar stuff. Maybe a good Dixon Hill, and maybe a little Shakespeare? Because Captain Picard has great taste.
Also, if we had a Dr. Chaotica laugh emote...:D
"Sometimes you have to do things that you hate, so you can survive to fight another day."
Also imagine if you will a dixon hill set being used as a potential PvP map, street to street fighting (ok fine it would be ray guns in a 50's enviroment, but still)
And I completely proposed the 'noir' filter before. Just imagine playing a mission in B&W or even a Sepia tone.
Although I hate the oldskool scifi from the 50s and 60s, since it was still horribly primitive in those days, Tom Paris as Capt. Proton was quite entertaining. If they make such a one off episode it just HAS to have Chaotica in it as the bad guy. Remember he would be back.
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No, it would have to be a pretty substantial thing. Think of all of the assets that would have to be made for it. If we're investing that much into something, it would have to be a big deal. Something like an event, or a big part of a season release.
Doing other Holodeck adventures would be equally expensive. Think about Dixon Hill, or Sherlock Holmes. There is almost nothing in the game that could be reused in such a mission. That's the problem.
Which sadly means we probably wont get it. I suppose we could see a FE where the holodeck goes wrong as that is a standard Trek story but it does not fit the current story being told and its not like you are every likely to build a season around a holodeck mishap.
Maybe that kind of thing should be built into events, like the winter or summer one? Instead of it all being Q, its going into a holodeck instead. Then it can be built up over time?
A Dixon Hill adventure would require 1940s-style furniture, clothing, architecture, tommy guns, and probably hundreds of things that don't currently exist in STO. They'd all have to be built from scratch, and they'd all be required at the mission's launch. That's a huge startup effort.
Worse yet, those items really wouldn't be able to be used very often outside of Dixon Hill adventures (barring the occasional time travel story).
Yeah, I'd be totally okay with that.
or we get a seasons worth of missions based on a second gangster world. then we'd be using replicators to make disguises for ourselves to interact with the inhabitants.
also we dont have any of the 'ship in a bottle(on a side note, tying back to the holodeck more like this yes please)' episodes that take place entirely in the players ship.
I wish there was a way we could make this happen. Hell even if you make it so that we have to board some other ship so that the experience is the same and you dont have to deal with variable ship interiors.
+1 For the Return of Sigma Iotia, its far past time the Federation gang went back for its cut from the piece of the action there
I don't know if that is possible, but since its the same engine... why not using some assets from champions online?
Or even neverwinter for "middle age holodeck stories"
I think there are more issues than the style, I think the scales are off as well, no NW pun intended there. I dont think the character models 'match' up the same making moving the textures around difficult. Lord knows if it was that easy...all the things we could have....all the things
It's funny, in TV production, the main reason to do a "bottle episode" is to save money by re-using existing sets, either by setting the entire episode on the ship, or repurposing the sets as something else (like using the Defiant set to represent the Valiant).
Taken literally, in STO a "bottle episode" would be any mission put together using existing assets - a mission set entirely on ESD or another social zone, without any new bells and whistles.
It would be really cool to have missions set entirely on a player's ship, but with custom interiors it's hard to imagine how it could happen.
I've thought about this in the past, and I also wonder if there are legal challenges with using art assets developed for one IP (say, Champions) with a different IP. I could imagine the licensor wmight have something to say about that.
Oh dont think the irony of that isnt lost on me