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cradia
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When will it be possible to do things onboard the ship while the ship is actually traveling through space to its next destination, like DOFF Mission assignments, sitting in the ship lounge or the ready room or the Captains Quarters, without the ship being parked in space until you exit the interior of the ship. You could have your #2 or whoever is in Communications contact you that you have arrived at your next destination.
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That is not possible with the game engine, the ship interior and space are 2 separate maps and have no connection to each other, so will never happen.
Ill beat u to it lmao
Wait for Star Citizen
It will never be realistic without using weird tricks. And you talk as if its really simple, its not.
Im not saying it cannot be done, but if you really want to implement something like this you might as well rewrite half of the engine, which is way too much investement for a chinese company, lockboxes is where the $$$ is, and powercreep.
What you want is impossible with the current game engine. They would have to rebuild a new STO to a open sandbox environment and complete reegineering.
It shouldn't be overly difficult to do. Yes they're separate maps but how about simply beaming off your bridge to a different map, maybe after a certain amount of time has passed? Currently you beam back to the map you were previously on and in the same location, so the game knows where you last were. How about changing that info to your destination, either a space or planetary system map? So you beam to your bridge, choose your destination, maybe you see space pass by on the view screen, and after a little while you can beam off to your destination.
(for an example, when you move from Tau Dewa to New Romulus, or Sirius to Sol, your ship always spawns in the same area. Use those coordinates when you beam off your bridge if you set New Romulus or Sol as your destination. What difference does it make going from Sirius to Sol or your bridge to Sol?)
I'm sure they can figure it out if they had the desire, but of course things like the unnecessary ESD revamp take priority for some reason.
Yes, they could probably put timers in and plop you at your destination however at that point sector space is pointless and you'd never see red alerts, and other things.
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The ship and the person on the ground are essentially the same thing: an avatar for the player.
And you can only exist in one place at the time: either in sector space or on your ship.
You can't be on both at the same time, which would be required for you to move in sector space.
Oh, BTW the changes to ESD are done by completely different people than those who make alterations to the game's engine. So I really don't get your complaint.
Are you demanding the environment artists should be working on stuff they're not trained or qualified to do?
Then you do not understand the game engine, your ship in space IS you, it is your avatar, or do you not understand what caused the glitch that allowed you to look like your ship when on the ground. Please learn about game engines before you start talking about something you obviously have no idea about.
Actually, they have stated that they make little to no money on stuff like bridge packs and interiors, that combined with little reason to ever go into your ship, makes it a waste of time to do this.
Not possible. Your ship is your player character, just with another costume on it. You cannot be in 2 places at once.
Bridge access to bank, exchange and mail.
Bridge access to ESD zones chat (for community).
Personal option to open bridge or not to others. If open people can rightclick your name and "beam to bridge".
Please.
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Well, with all due respect, but have they seen their bridges?
I mean the C-Store ones availible to purchase. Not quite the top notch quality and they're like concert halls. Boffs fall through the floor or float over the chairs. Especially the Federation packs. The KDF ones are slightly better IMHO, they're still very large, but the BoP bridges for example are excellent in my book.
Ofcourse they won't make a lot of money on them, even though I own quite a few myself.
They could make money on this if they invested more in creation of full interiors with higher quality(like the new stuff they've been pulling out - Romulan ship interiors or the new Fed. interiors from the tutorial). What I'm thinking is making the ship interiors STO's version of player housing present in many MMOs out there. If they make customizable interiors of higher quality I think they'll sell. Especially if they manage to tie some activity with them like social games (poker, video tongo, etc.) or some daily missions akin to something we saw in the shows.
Agreed. Star Citizen is also supposed to be mod friendly, with player run servers, and the game developers are fully expecting fans to make Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Firefly mods. So probably a year or two after Star Citizen is released someone will make a Star Trek mod, and we'll get a proper Star Trek MMO, albeit an unofficial one. And then bye, bye Star Trek Online, and I'll never play a Cryptic game again.
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It is a peculiar phenomenon that we can imagine events that defy the laws of the universe.
It also works with 3D Printers and will make you the pizza you want to eat while playing.
It is the double rainbow of MMOs. Just wait. It will kill all competition!
They also once posted that cruisers were not profitable. Yet the Avenger and the Galaxy Bundle are recent stuff they did for cruisers. So ... their metrics don't impress me.
It'll be like minecraft with raids and loot and purples that are so real you can smell the laser burns on your rug!
I should have mentioned that back in 2008/2009 the Star Trek Online Devs were promising all sorts of cool features that never panned out. The same thing might happen with Star Citizen, although they haven't given a firm release date. Instead they say it will be released when it's ready and not just slapped together and released as is, with the hope of fixing it later, like STO in early 2010.
There is precedent for high quality player made Star Trek mods to commercial games. Someone recently made a total Star Trek conversion to Sins of the Solar Empire. And Bridge Commander would have been forgotten shortly after it was released, if not for the player made mods that extended that games life longer than it had any business being.
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It already is sort of pointless, when you're simply traveling somewhere anyway. And you wouldn't have to travel via your bridge all the time, just when you feel like it. When you want to do red alerts or use a cargo vessel you'd travel normally.
It could be interesting if you could bring others along
Yes I do know it, and it makes no difference. When you're on your bridge you do not exist anywhere else in the game. What's the problem? Enter bridge from anywhere, let's say ESD, input destination, wait a while (with an artificial timer), exit bridge at destination.
You're not actually moving or anything, it's just simulating traveling. It would work similar to transwarping, except you're "transwarping" from the bridge to a new destination rather than back where you started like now.
It's not impossible to do, but what is impossible is actually moving through sector space while on your bridge. But that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is it's possible to simulate it through timers and the ability to exit the bridge at locations other than where you just were.
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I certainly don't have access to their budgets, but the fact that Cryptic hasn't made any more C-Store interiors since the TOS and DS9 bundles (the TOS and Belfast interiors are amazing) suggests that it's not worth their time/effort.
I'm talking about the transwarp functions. As it stands, we have transwarp capabilities that allow us to instantaneously jump from one point in space to another, with a slight cooldown afterward. Thinking outside the box, we throw that logic in reverse, putting the cool down first.
Basically what I'm suggesting is this:
From the Bridge (preferrably while sitting in the captain's chair), you can bring up the map as per usual, with the added feature of double clicking a sector to bring up that sectors map, then double clicking your destination, where your Captain gives the "Engage" emote and the view screen goes to warp. From there, the coding would take how far that destination is as well as how fast your ship goes (minus transwarp drive) and places a countdown timer. At the end of the timer, you get a popup from your first officer saying you're there. Accepting the option will transwarp you to your location, while saying "Not Yet" will place it on the side menu, next to invite to bridge and leave bridge, Fully charged and ready to use.
Once you use it, you load out of your bridge and into the map, just like you had transwarped there. It's a quick and dirty work around, but it allows you to be on your ship while "travelling" to your next stop.
To further enhance this function, you could place a 5% chance for alternate missions to happen. These can be anything from mysterious anomalies, to raider, to a distress call (which might be an ambush. It would happen randomly during the countdown timer, and the player would receive a pop up giving the appropriate dialog, as well as the option to stay on course or divert course to the situation.
It's a great way to add the Bridge travel that people want while adding a little something extra for the roleplayers. Having friends on your bridge would allow them to travel with you, and given that you're "traveling" at the appropriate speed (time based on distance and velocity), you can activate this power when ever you want. Changing course mid flight though, would cause it to restart from your original location though.
This seems like a totally do-able way of getting this feature into game, but making it a little more than just a boring timed transwarp jump. It would also still be entirely valid if they made it all one giant sector space, ot left it instanced as it is now.
What do you guy think?
Does your proposal require the game to track your ship's position on the sector map in any way? It's been repeatedly said that implementing that functionality is a non-trivial task. This doesn't mean impossible; it means it would be difficult and time-consuming.
As tacofangs has said, what happens when you leave the ship interior or otherwise interrupt the timer before arriving at your destination? Do you end up back where you started?
And most importantly, what would you do while on your bridge? Doff assignments? Stare at the ceiling? At least in Sector Space, there are other players to look at...