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Negative impressions of the New ESD
nabreeki
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I am crying as I write this thread, and have been for several hours prior. I find my faith in the Cryptic team irrevocably shaken, to the point where I had to phone in at work, pop a couple aspirin, and spend the remainder of my day in my room, under my covers, the lights switched off (to ease the throbbing pain in my head), the mobile phone set to silent, lest an attempt was made to contact me in my despair. It's been a long, hard road, Cryptic, and we haven't always seen eye-to-eye, but we've always managed to come through for one another. Then I logged in for season nine.
The patch downloaded quickly, and I was excited to jump in and experiment with the new content, chat up some of my STO buddies on their impressions of the season, and, what the hell, maybe get a drink or two at the Drozana bar. My first stop, however, was ESD, to get a peek at the new zone. The design was beautiful, the station appeared more open, more spacious, and more accommodating to a Vice Admiral like myself. I could see a future there, one spent roaming the corridors, chatting up the tailor in the odd spare moment between mission, watching ships come and go, feeling like I finally found a place to call home.
Then, disaster struck. I was cruising around the station in "walk mode" (running in a Fed station, while no alarm is sounding, is a definite immersion-breaker) getting a feel for the layout of the place, a feel for the ins and outs of what will be my new "home base," so to speak, when I stumbled upon the changing rooms. Now, I am all for a private space where one can experiment with new outfits (as long as they are canon-approved), away from the crowded, public corridors of ESD. In fact, I applaud the idea of modesty, keeping oneself out of the public eye in the act of dressing/undressing. It matches nicely with my own morals and values quite nicely.
However, Cryptic, this is where the problem begins. I walked inside one of the changing rooms to inspect the space, and I ran into a major problem: I am not appropriately covered while in the room. My character is well over seven feet tall, Cryptic, WELL OVER, and these dressing rooms appear to be a kind of "one-size-fits-all" kind of deal. But I noticed that my entire upper body is well within view to anyone standing outside. I am no exhibitionist, and I cannot fathom why the devs thought it would be a good idea to refrain from accommodating aliens of different shapes and sizes. My immersion has shattered, and is lying at my feet in tatters. I am a broken man, doomed to a computer game that doesn't understand or love Trek the way I love Trek with its mantra of inclusiveness and tolerance for others.
This is beyond disturbing. I demand that someone address this issue with an explanation of their thought process as they were drawing up and green-lighting this design. This has cast a giant shadow over the rest of season 9, and I want answers.
I am a victim in distress.
Nbreeki.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7vnOC4hoY
The patch downloaded quickly, and I was excited to jump in and experiment with the new content, chat up some of my STO buddies on their impressions of the season, and, what the hell, maybe get a drink or two at the Drozana bar. My first stop, however, was ESD, to get a peek at the new zone. The design was beautiful, the station appeared more open, more spacious, and more accommodating to a Vice Admiral like myself. I could see a future there, one spent roaming the corridors, chatting up the tailor in the odd spare moment between mission, watching ships come and go, feeling like I finally found a place to call home.
Then, disaster struck. I was cruising around the station in "walk mode" (running in a Fed station, while no alarm is sounding, is a definite immersion-breaker) getting a feel for the layout of the place, a feel for the ins and outs of what will be my new "home base," so to speak, when I stumbled upon the changing rooms. Now, I am all for a private space where one can experiment with new outfits (as long as they are canon-approved), away from the crowded, public corridors of ESD. In fact, I applaud the idea of modesty, keeping oneself out of the public eye in the act of dressing/undressing. It matches nicely with my own morals and values quite nicely.
However, Cryptic, this is where the problem begins. I walked inside one of the changing rooms to inspect the space, and I ran into a major problem: I am not appropriately covered while in the room. My character is well over seven feet tall, Cryptic, WELL OVER, and these dressing rooms appear to be a kind of "one-size-fits-all" kind of deal. But I noticed that my entire upper body is well within view to anyone standing outside. I am no exhibitionist, and I cannot fathom why the devs thought it would be a good idea to refrain from accommodating aliens of different shapes and sizes. My immersion has shattered, and is lying at my feet in tatters. I am a broken man, doomed to a computer game that doesn't understand or love Trek the way I love Trek with its mantra of inclusiveness and tolerance for others.
This is beyond disturbing. I demand that someone address this issue with an explanation of their thought process as they were drawing up and green-lighting this design. This has cast a giant shadow over the rest of season 9, and I want answers.
I am a victim in distress.
Nbreeki.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7vnOC4hoY
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But given how many puerile trolls run around spraying everything in sight with fire extinguishers your results may vary.
/10 characters
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
I see what you did there. Bravo
also lol'd in advance at people who won't get the thread(and the two who already didn't)
This seems more like a 10 forward thing.
they might just as well have put in a second transporter room and had done with it.
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.
Well, there's a way in somewhere. I spotted somebody on top of one of the Yellowstones with a discoball, trying to get the dockworkers to throw a dance party.
Says the guy with a taco for a face.... lol
Ok that made me laugh.
You are one of those lovable lunks with fire extinguishers. I kinda figured you Dental types were upbeat all of the time, being party legends and all.
Regardless - I am a Gorn Klingon Warrior and would have it no other way!
I am sure the Federation experience is great, however we know much about the federation from the old tv series and films. We have much less insight into the Alien cultures of startrek so when I started this game last year and saw that I could be a Klingon (A gorn no less!) and a Romulan, it was a simple choice for me to go for the aliens.
Why the hell would you want to be a boring human with all of this choice available? (It is a game remember so to each their own I guess)
At any rate, Cryptic... ESD is ... amazing.. If you could get all ship interiors, the other racial hubs & DS9 to look this good.. wow..
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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And please, go take your troll somewhere else. You call most of us trolls, but yet here you are complaining about how your Dental oversized character doesn't fit in a human-sized change room.
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you should not worry, you haven't got anything that other players want to look at anyway.
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.
maybe he got in there before they put the block in and could not find his way out, I must admit I had a job finding a way out myself.
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.
but i agree 10/10 game is forever ruined for me
This is amusing. Does Taco realize who the OP is :P?