Saucer/Chevron/MVAE Separation; making them work together, and better.

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This is fairly simple -

The MVAE's special-flight-mode-toggle lets the player fly the MVAE in one piece or as any of the three pieces it can separate into (alpha, beta, gamma).

The Saucer/Chevron separation toggle currently only lets the player fly the stardrive of a ship.

Proposal: Leverage the MVAE's "multiple-selection" component on the Saucer/Chevron separation (allowing the player to fly the saucer or stardrive). Then leverage the "destroyer or science" toggle from the Dyson Science Destroyer on the MVAE/Saucer/Chevron separation abilities where boff stations are altered (however slightly it may be) to fit the new situation.

For example:
The "Galaxy" Exploration Cruiser Retrofit (ECR) currently has this seating:
[][],[][][][],[][][],[][],[]

"Saucer-mode" could have this seating:
[][],[][][][],[][],[][][],[]

"Stardrive-mode" could have this seating:
[][][],[][][][],[][],[][],[]

What this represents is down-ranking the ship's LTC station by -1 and up-ranking one its LT stations by +1 in a manner similar to the system found on Dyson Science Destroyer. Let us look at a more "aggressive" ship:

The "aggressive" "Galaxy" Dreadnought currently has this hybrid assault/star-cruiser seating:
[][],[][][][],[][][],[][],[]

A "more aggressive saucer-mode" could have this seating:
[][][],[][],[][],[][][][],[]

And a "more aggressive stardrive-mode" could have this seating:
[][][][],[][][],[][],[][],[]

That seems pretty "aggressive" and a little uneven, moving +3 stations for saucer-mode but only +2 for star-drive mode; will have to start with a difference base-layout for this one and try again later.

So let us try a "really aggressive" ship like the MVAE in the meantime:

The "really aggressive" MVAE currently has this seating:
[][][][],[][],[],[][],[][][]

The "really aggressive" MVAE Alpha (saucer engineering) section could have this seating:
[][],[][],[],[][][][],[][][]

The "really aggressive" MVAE Beta (upper-stardrive tactical) section could have this seating:
[][][][],[][][],[],[][],[][]

The "really aggressive" MVAE Gamma (lower-stardrive science) section could have this seating:
[][],[][],[],[][][],[][][][]

Those adjustments seem "fairly aggressive" and emphasize the "focuses" of each ships alternative configurations.

So the questions are, in light of the samples above shall we give the players the option to choose which part of their ship they break off into, yes/no? and change the boff seating to coincide with the part of the ship taken in a fashion similar to how the DSD toggles Escort/Science modes, yes/no?

allanon1974

Cool Idea.. but i doubt the devs will do that....

rjay1985

Very nice idea! Maybe it will get some consideration from the Dev Team.

ragnar0x

This will happen NEVR....NEVR EVR NEVR NEVRRRRRR :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHaXciVAzI

:DDDD

davidwford

allanon1974 wrote: »

Cool Idea.. but i doubt the devs will do that....

Really? It sounds an awful lot like the Haakona's multi-vector. And that ship only has two sections compaired to Prome's three.

I support the suggestion to choose commanding either the Saucer or the Stardrive. And for the Oddy, if the entire set is equipped, then the option of commanding the Aquarius would be an "upgrade" to the Cheveron's Separation power.

caasicam

Put simply?

Yes.

Not long after the Dyson Science Destroyers were released I had almost this exact same idea, and I really think it would provide more of a reason to use these consoles on one's ship other than to stick with canon. (And all the more rason to buy it, hint hint Cryptic).

The Odyssey may be a bit iffy with it's extremely variable BOff set up, though I trust the Devs to even this out.

projectfrontier

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