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patcrow
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Andoria needs a major update. I mean it's a pointless social zone with nothing to do. I would like for cryptic to create a city place like on Bajor. I think a ice or crystal city would look awesome. Add a disco area and a bar for online parties. You should also add an arena for Ushaan.
It would be really cool to have a pvp area where you can only us blade weapons or even bare fists. However you could even have a pve area. Players can fight various npc's and earn some extra energy credits, dilithium, or even lobi crystals. It's been done in other games so I can't see way it can't be in this one.
The arena area could be a recycled version of Coliseum mission. Just turn the sand white to make it look like snow.
Just an idea to improve the game.
Thanks
Andoria needs a major update. I mean it's a pointless social zone with nothing to do. I would like for cryptic to create a city place like on Bajor. I think a ice or crystal city would look awesome. Add a disco area and a bar for online parties. You should also add an arena for Ushaan.
It would be really cool to have a pvp area where you can only us blade weapons or even bare fists. However you could even have a pve area. Players can fight various npc's and earn some extra energy credits, dilithium, or even lobi crystals. It's been done in other games so I can't see way it can't be in this one.
The arena area could be a recycled version of Coliseum mission. Just turn the sand white to make it look like snow.
Just an idea to improve the game.
Thanks
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I've often thought a breen controlled planet/adventure zone similar to nimbus III would be cool. that environment is pretty awesome. you would think it would be easy to adapt that environment from desert to ice world. but it might actually be just as easy to start with a blank canvas and have something more unique. that's something only one of the art/environment devs would be able to answer.
"In 2375, after the Breen joined the Dominion, Weyoun claimed it in fact had a temperate climate. (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil")"
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Breen_(planet)
I do like the idea of another Nimbus III type planet though, maybe 2-3.
Each social zone needs something unique to offer individual players.
I'd love to update Andoria, but there needs to be a purpose to it, and I don't know what that is.
I will say, Feds dueling Feds is probably a no go.
A no win arena daily mission where u fight waves of enemies with higher rewards as you continue. Add a desirable consumable and dil reward based on waves complete d
The others, Bajor, Andoria, Vulcan/P'Jem (can we visit these outside of missions?); they currently pointless and serve no purpose. Mol'rhian and Defera on the other hand work perfectly (Mol'rhian more so). We can go there and do things, whether that's taking samples, fighting wild animals (or the Tal Shiar) or scanning radiation points.
Couldn't you guys (Season 10) throw more daily missions or whatever into other social zones? Give people a reason to visit Bajor or Andoria. If not that, then (dare I say it) just remove them? It's somewhat bad enough that there isn't a huge difference to what can be done at the working social zones (they all work the same; they're just at different locations).
How about some more games? It's been mentioned before, but Poker, or 3D Chess? Throw these into Dronaza or DS9? Throw an Orb related mission into Bajor. Throw an icicle themed mission into Andoria (let us create ice creams?) :P
Holograms?
I would like to add my name to the list of support for zone revamping, though I'm so pleased by recent updates to other zones and new areas, that i'm thankful for getting anything at all.
Whats wrong with having a "Melee Only" arena there, with special melee weapons as rewards you can buy with Ushaan tokens?
The reward for the winner would be to have his/her character be used as the contact for the ground/space missions (with some exceptions of course, you wouldn't want to receive a hail from a Vice Admiral I'mana'hole)...
What do you think?
CM
ehhm, we already have cross-faction PvP (and before that, we even had the possibility for FED vs FED "wargames"). FEDs can already "duel" each other. If anything, an Andoria-revamp should be centered around the Ushaan. As the game could use a melee combat revamp (better mechanic with associated UI, more weapons, melee-only arenas) anyways, it should probably be connected to that.
The alternative would be story content on a revamped Andoria (something about the Aenar?), however, Bajor already demonstrated how short-term such a solution is. If anything it should be a Feature Episode with an additional repeatable PvE mission (like it is done for Bajor now, with quite some delay, tho)
Relocating Q's Winter Wonderland to Andoria is not a realistic option in my eyes.
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this is the 3rd thread i seen u posting "Wrong Area!" lol doe sit matter the Mods will move it if! needed lol :rolleyes:
If you build it, they will come.
Fun ideas. I'd also like maybe some more stuff involving the aenar.
You could possibly do some story missions or an arc based loosely on what the novels are doing with Andoria and the Andorians. You could also incorporate the Aenar, and THEN with that happening, you have a dev-focused reason to get up into expanding the area.
After that door is opened, you can maybe get the green light to implement some of the ideas from this thread to expand the social aspect of the zone.
Which is kind of how the Bajor stuff came around, the FE brought us all onto Bajor and we've been stuck with it ever since.
I don't know, just trying to come up with something.
I think it's less of them being able to come up with something and more of their superiors and bosses going: "Okay, I'm allowing you guys to spend time on coming up with something for these things."
(UFP) Ragnar
Maybe they should take showers or go to the bathroom more. You'd be surprised how great they would be for inspiration.
I see what you're getting at, but I still think it's not the lack of inspiration that's an issue here. It's more of the time they are permitted by the project managers and supervisors to do such thing. A dev may get a great idea while on the crapper but when they go to their boss or lead or supervisor about it, that person would say "Uh-huh. Write it down on a post-it somewhere and then get back to working on that other project I assigned to you." Kinda like how Taco was only given a limited amount of time to revamp ESD and the new Club 47 will have to be worked on after s9 launched since he didn't have enough time left in what was allotted to him.
(UFP) Ragnar
I'll never understand WHY the Cryptic content team doesn't add one to three dailies in each of the major social zones that exist (Andor, Vulcan, et al.) Yes, when you first start STO, if you're a Star Trek fan, you probably will take your ship to the major available planet social zones to have a look; but after that visit. there's really NO reason to return. They ALL need to have something to do on a regular basis (IE a daily mission or two, that gives players a reason to go back there and make use of them.
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The best offer (and hope) that I can give is that such issues are part of the "old issues and revamping" they are saying that they are doing. Maybe the new Undine queued events with the randomized planet (Andoria, Cardassia, etc) are a step towards making the social zones meaningful (like how you have normal Defera and then the Borg Invasion version of Defera)?
I don't know and the only thing I can do is make guesses.
(UFP) Ragnar
Andoria and Vulcan's only seeming purpose right now is doffing. Move the Winter event to Andoria and make a Risa type update.
I'd prefer nothing get removed. Sure I'd like better looking and more "useful" social zones, but if they're not going to get revamped for a while that doesn't mean they should take them out. People still use the zones for other purposes, RP'ing for instance.
The game needs more persistent areas, not more instanced queues you can do while standing around in ESD all day. We need places to see and actually *travel* to in the Star Trek universe, to boldly go and all that.
Since the game first came out, we've lost a lot of neat things, missions, the old, more interesting STFs, persistent fleet action zones and the like. Don't need to cut out more of the game world.
That being said, Andoria *does* need a revamp, and it *would* be nice if there were functional things to do there to draw some attention. It doesn't have to have a full Reputation system unto itself, but it could have some dailies, perhaps. Non-combat events, maybe? But nothing that throws the whole map out of whack if there are people who want to just enjoy the place to themselves as well.
Could have ice mining? Warning NPCs exploring caverns of those ice-melting worm thingies? Small tasks to do for NPCs in an Andorian city/town? Finding a lost child on the surface?
I imagine if the devs worked on something like a featured series of episodes, they could tie one to Andoria for some purpose, picking up a contact for instance, and introduce a new Andoria that way, doing a sort of "tutorial" for dailies or projects there.
I would like to see it, visually, as a small slice of Andorian life, from the barren surface to an Andorian city, well part of a city, with caverns in-between.
Also...Ushaan-tor.
My character Tsin'xing
Why not use it for the winter event one year?
It is important that there is something that you really can do there, elsewith it would be as dead as Hathon.
Or you can "force" the players to move there for any reasons, because obviously, your idea of fun is better than anybody else, and they'll leave ESD or another place. Then, you'll complain because ESD was revamped twice for nothing, and how we would need something to "force" the players to go there.
Personally, I don't really care about those zone. I went there once, and yes they are good and well designed, but I don't care much beyond that. If they added something that forced me to go there for some carrot, I'll do it.
Just like I did the Mirror Universe invasion event, for the reward. I positively hate this mission, and felt like a job more than gaming. But 50k dil/char was simply too good.
So yes, I'll go there. But not for fun.
It may also have been a joke. The way it was said and all that.
How about skiing?