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CaptainGeko: Captain's Table Update Ideas
pweistheworst
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Since CaptainGeko asked for players to submit ideas for a revamp of the Captain's Table (vet reward starbase), I wanted to put my ideas here ... and I welcome everyone else to add their ideas to this thread so Geko can see a bunch of good ideas in one place.
My ideas are pretty simple:
1) Give the Captain's Table "Universal Fleet Store Access" ... in other words, the Captain's Table will have a computer terminal or vendor NPC that gives you access to ALL the various fleet stores that your fleet has unlocked (fleet ships and fleet weapons from the starbase, fleet warp cores and armor consoles from the mine, fleet tactical consoles from the spire, etc.) but ALL IN ONE PLACE so you don't have to transwarp all over the galaxy to visit the different fleet stores.
This would be a HUGE advantage to visiting the Captain's Table because you would have a "one stop shop" for all your fleet gear.
2) Since the Captain's Table is supposed to essentially exist outside our time/space continuum and Captains/Admirals from various eras have access to the Captain's Table, it would be cool if there were random "Temporal Missions" that (if the player accepts the mission) would send the player to one of the Trek eras (Enterprise, TOS, TOS Movies, TNG, DS9, VOY) and you have to complete a mission to preserve the timeline.
These don't have to be massive missions with voice work from cast members ... I'm talking about simple random space combat and random ground combat missions (or exploration/puzzle solving missions on a ground map) that use the existing visuals that the devs have already created for these various Trek eras in time.
Anyway, those are my two big ideas.
I welcome others to add there ideas to this thread.
My ideas are pretty simple:
1) Give the Captain's Table "Universal Fleet Store Access" ... in other words, the Captain's Table will have a computer terminal or vendor NPC that gives you access to ALL the various fleet stores that your fleet has unlocked (fleet ships and fleet weapons from the starbase, fleet warp cores and armor consoles from the mine, fleet tactical consoles from the spire, etc.) but ALL IN ONE PLACE so you don't have to transwarp all over the galaxy to visit the different fleet stores.
This would be a HUGE advantage to visiting the Captain's Table because you would have a "one stop shop" for all your fleet gear.
2) Since the Captain's Table is supposed to essentially exist outside our time/space continuum and Captains/Admirals from various eras have access to the Captain's Table, it would be cool if there were random "Temporal Missions" that (if the player accepts the mission) would send the player to one of the Trek eras (Enterprise, TOS, TOS Movies, TNG, DS9, VOY) and you have to complete a mission to preserve the timeline.
These don't have to be massive missions with voice work from cast members ... I'm talking about simple random space combat and random ground combat missions (or exploration/puzzle solving missions on a ground map) that use the existing visuals that the devs have already created for these various Trek eras in time.
Anyway, those are my two big ideas.
I welcome others to add there ideas to this thread.
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Maybe if there was a way for us non-lifers to be able to see it every once in a while, like be teamed up with a lifer or a C-Store "Guest Pass" Consumable sort of thing. We have one mechanic we can exploit for this already, trading in the Rich Dilithium Mining Claims to an NPC at the mine. Something similar could be used for the Guest Pass. The Guest Pass can be like a key card you slot into the door and voila! One time access!
The one issue I've heard about the Captain's Table is that it really doesn't provide anything outside of "Hey! I can go here and you can't". Most of the vendors there are available at major hubs already. If there was something that set the Captain's Table apart from the normal Hubs... that might help increase the population there.
I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
Transwarp to there, and maybe some major Transwarp gates to other sectors (maybe not all, so it cant be exploited by a tour the universe run)
2:
Vendors for all Stuff, Fleet Gear Vendors, Tailor
3:
Special DOFF missions, and maybe even a little special 5 man ground stf , timetravel based, a fun thing not too serious maybe with Q in it. fleet mark reward.
4:
redesigning it, more open, and more NPCs from different eras present. all uniform sets should be visible at some point.
5:
a "holodeck" mini ground battlezone where you can take your away team and battle NPCs AS WELL as other players.
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That way you can use it to get around, but it's not as simple as a transwarp. It's more a novelty, and if you wanna use it as access to sector space, you take add an extra step.
Indeed. And maybe even add an exit Transwarp Gate (like the Fleet Gate) that can send you to any sector or homeworld you wish.
2. I agree with the vendors/fleet vendors idea.
3. Although some will not agree to this, The ability to invite ONE friend to the captains table. veteran or not.
4. Special snacks. not the plain and simple things from the replicators, but unique and new foods and drinks (and tribbles to go with them).
5. A person to exchange reputation marks for marks of a different reputation or fleet marks.
6. No playable ships, but maybe a window viewing the docks showing some new ships to come.
7. A club (after club 47 get put back in please).
2. unique doff missions
3. better vendors, perhaps with low impact special items.
4. An event, defend the captains table. Five man queued mission only available with CT access.
Rewards to be a reasonable amount of dil and a universal mark box.
It is completely different inside and out (except the areas they obviously reused for Fleet levels. :rolleyes:)
Also, if there was ever a map simply did not allow for the Subspace Party Amplifier that should be it.
i agree
indeed
that would be great
of course
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It would be pretty nice if it included a outside map as well the coolest would be if it had kind of a combined complex featuring a combo of all the fleet holdings in a kinda pocket dimension with some of the nebula and other eye candy they have going elsewhere in game.
Inside it would be nice to have a kind of arrival room ie. the low load time and gfx area just your base bank, exchange and vendor access. then you have the option to go further in or go outside or whatever but this would be where you enter/transfer in just your basic small functional room designed for optimal speed both loading and in getting things done. If you want to enter the main complex you can from here or check out outside but the arrival room would be essentially all business.
Inside it would be kind of nice if they added some features of cool places in the universe for instance a arboretum featuring some plant life from new romulus, risa, earth and other interesting things epohh and other critters roaming around some combined architecture you wouldn't usually see together (dyson lattice stuff & white marble with steel that kinda thing)
Having a node of pure dilithium or something that could be mined on a cd to give refined ore as a alternative to current vet refine thing might be interesting as well.
Defiantly needs access to a club & bar as well, pool couldn't hurt either, dabo would be nice as would the ability to have 1 or more boff's join you.
aquarium with feedable fish could be amusing as well.
a dyson style portal / portals with options to go to your homeworld (academy, esd, kdf shipyard, kdf academy, kdf home, new rom command, new rom shipyard) as well as risa, ds9 and possibly a few other locations would be kind of pleasant as well or just portals to homeworld and the functionality of the others ie. ship selector, customizer & vendors.
Mostly it would be amazing if while providing some useful utility, it stood as a kind of backdrop showing off some of the coolest thing's in star trek online, something where people would go "o wow that's from x location, its freaking amazing looking.. they did some amazing work on that !, i need to go back and do that mission/check that out again" that kinda thing.
- for me those items that amaze me every time I see them are, the dyson lattice stuff, dyson consoles & watery field stuff as well, most if not all the plant life and critters on new romulus, dilithium mine stuff, embassy fishtanks, a number of the nebula out there and a lot more I need to hunt down
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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I would like to see purchasable versions of these from all cannon trek captains from different eras, that are based on what we saw them do in the shows and movies.
Make them a pack of 10 consumable abilities, that cost Expertise and EC, making a worthwhile sink for both. That's not too overpowered but useful, and limiting it to a consumable to stop out rite power creep from it use.
Would be really nice on the interior map to go up to Archer, Janeway etc npc's that had a short flavor text of one their famous battles the power ability is based on and then to be able to buy that consumable off them, making it a bit more tied in to the trek theme. and a reason to revisit the map.
Also have some famous battles like Bassen Rift, that we can play, maybe mini fleet action style that reward a universal mark box as suggested by rinkster.
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That, and if you beat him at a game of poker then you get a cool accolade with a title like "The Real Number One" or something like that.
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2. If they redesign the place I would love to see different styles of rooms from different era's.... like an old bar (like Tom Paris's holo bar) ..... TOS style corridors, a futuristic meeting room (29th century).... and so on, each door way could have like a wavy shield/water effect to represent temporal barriers...
3. Temporal Doff missions with the very rare chance of getting a temporal doff/boff (in the case of the boffs they would come wearing the uniform of their era but it would not unlock that uniform on you or the rest of your Boffs if you do not already own it).
I have plenty of ideas all as bad :P
That would be pretty cool. Just being able to buy the stuff like Attack Pattern Tuvok and the like. (Super-OP, but with DPS breaking way over 100K already, does it matter?)
And to jump on the bandwagon, I'd appreciate all of the vendors being accessible from the Captain's Table.
And a transwarp to get there.
1. It should be easy to get to.
2. You should be allowed to conduct all in-game business you'd want to do from that location.
Locking vet rewards in there also seems like a slam dunk... getting everything from BOffs, to Mugatos, to vet ships... this would make everyone who HAS access to the place actually GO there. Why it's not like this already is surprising.
I like the ideas of marks converter, Doff missions, and the "practice" holodeck... but, again, non-vets would probably have a meltdown if such extras were added. I'd also throw in a dilithium refiner, that would allow you to refine an extra 8k of dilthium per day... but, all of this is talking about adding vet rewards, really. Not sure they are looking to do THAT (although, I would not complain if they did).