Unofficial Social Maps

drogyn1701

This is just a test balloon of sorts to see if people are interested. We don't know at this time whether there will be any social maps for Ferenginar, Trill, Tellar or any of the other new systems being added with the new sector space. What we do know (if what we're being told is correct) is that they will be Foundry doors.

So here's my idea. We have some incredibly talented map makers in this community, and I think we could take it upon ourselves to make social maps for these planets. Sure, we face certain limitations, like team size, limited assets and no ability to make bank/mail/vendors, but I think we can still make very good maps for people to explore and hang out on.

I've already started an attempt to build the Trill homeworld. It'll have a space map, a exterior city, an interior Symbiosis Commission and an interior for the symbiote pools (and possibly one for the ice falls).

My thought is, if more people want to make maps like this we could endorse these maps as a community. Help them get high ratings and qualify so they show up in the Top 3, and have a common naming system, something like "Trill Homeworld (Social Map)". We could even provide asset lists and coordinates for people who want to build the maps themselves for their missions.

There can certainly be more than one per planet, as these are highly populated planets that would likely have many cities and tourist attractions.

wombat140

Clever idea. I thought at first that it might be awkward if people built a lot of Foundry missions where one of those planets looks a certain way, and then Cryptic decides to do a mision set there and it looks compltely different. But what you said at the end's just made me realise that that would be fine - that would just be a different part of the planet. You could find places on Earth different enough to be a dozen different planets by Star Trek standards! :-D

thay8472

Yeah. I could dig this.

It would be sweet if we all used the same planet for Trill etc ... say

I.E

Class M - Planet 02

onlyslightlybent

I'm working on a Ferenginar. But I'm trying to also incorporate an "exploration" mission into it so people who visit will have something to do. I'll see how it goes.

borrowedtune

drogyn1701 wrote: »

as these are highly populated planets that would likely have many cities and tourist attractions.

I call dibs on the betazoid wedding chapel if tacofangs can whip up some new "assets."

Someone had to say it.

alchevsk1992

Awesome idea... it will be great for my next 2 more foundry missions that I will soon or later publish. It will be fun to see what the other authors will do.

drogyn1701

Have to say my Trill homeworld map isn't going as well as I'd like, but I got another one in the works as well. I'm going to turn my Starbase I map into a memorial of sorts. I'm taking inspiration from the "Living History" stuff you see at modern day national monuments and old forts and things like that. So what it's going to be is a recreation of Starbase I, which for those who don't know was destroyed in the first battle of the Earth-Romulan War, with holograms of the various starbase personnel, who will educate visitors about the events of the war. A while back I made a video showing off the map (and messing about with the green screen assets).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5kD96jDF0

I'll place this somewhere in the Beta Quadrant at or near Galorndon Core, as that's the closest spot to Algeron, where the original base was.