Recently we have had a LOT of hidden game history/lore introduced in the way of dev blogs. This information is extremely useful in filling in the gaps the mission storylines just don't cover.
So isn't it time to re-open Memory Alpha - not as a R&D facility - but as the galactic library its supposed to be that includes every scrap of knowledge concerning the game history (including The Path to 2409, the dev blog entries, magazine and book histories, etc.). Let the folks who never visit the forums or read the book/magazine info articles, have a chance to find out about all the hidden goings on the STO universe actually has. No new graphics would have to be done, simply repurpose all existing consoles and item displays to open up dialog boxes about various related information topics. The only hard part is collecting all that knowledge and putting it in one place.
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That would be cool!
Well Memory Alpha isn't an R&D facility - it's a library. For R&D facilities, look to places like the Daystrom Institute or Jupiter Station memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet_Research_and_Development
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Ship building/item specialties would best be found at Utopia Planitia, the main Federation ship design center and shipyard at Mars, which Tacofangs already has made a really cool model of in-game. Now if we could just take a shuttle there from ESD...
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Utopia_Planitia_Fleet_Yards
(Of course the Rommie and Klingon shipyards should offer the same informational facilities as Utopia Planitia if the idea takes hold)
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I like it. Blue thumbs up!
Any chance to use your magical moderator powers to 'kick this upstairs'? lol
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Things like The path to 2409 are tied to accolades, and earnable every 20 hours. Also, the story content from it, is readable through your Accolade list.
The rest of it? not all of it is used in the game and so has no place in it, at all.
Also, only a small minority of people would use Memory Alpha for that purpose.
Absolutely not.
Why would the most annoying place in the game be added after it was finally rightfully removed.
Why should the developers waste time on that piece of <insert strong language>
How can Cryptic/PWE monetize this to make it a viable project to actually commit Dev resources to?
Otherwise, it's just a pie-in-the-sky idea which will never see the light of day.
This link from the STO Wiki is a complete version of The Path to 2049 Accolade List and doesn't cost Cryptic a dime to maintain.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Accolade/Lore
While the OP's idea is great, it's not very likely to happen.
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Heck, I'd be happy to do this for them. No dev resources needed.
It wouldn't be any harder to do than any Foundry project I've done in the past - and would add a great deal to the game.
C'mon Dev Team, I'm volunteering my time to make Memory Alpha the library it should be at absolutely no cost to you; take me up on the offer!
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Are you talking about Memory Alpha or the lore? I don't really care about the facility itself, I just agree that all those dev blogs should have a place in-game. They could even re-use an existing map for it.
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We need more of this fun things... also a visitable Ferenginar (maybe including a visitable Lobi Store... a huge Marketplace/Exchange... and such things).
Many players would love it!
expanded lore can contain anything from a simple tool and how it is used, alien bugs, fauna and flora, atmosphereic conditions on each planet, what it is like living on a specific world from other peoples points of view, techincal read outs of ships past and present, some declassifed weapons projects, using your own rank you can learn a lot on classified weapons and other projects going on, it could even be useful for the exploration system they may have planned or a tweak to the current missions so they can be gotten more than one way instead of a central contact, it can be gotten from information that could be extrapolated by players and start the mission with some extra knowledge that could provide for example extra diplomatic choices assuming you got the required doff rank.
some info should be locked behind doff walls, rank walls and or specific points in the overall storyline, for example you may already travel into the delta quadrant at level 50 but if you have not completed a specific check point the mem alpha database will not unlock for you until then.
it could provide a lot of lore, background and atmosphere to the entire game which has always been lacking. it could reintroduce some realism if you like that was lost when 8472 ships and iconian ships entered service on the side of the feds/kdf/rr.
Ferenginar could be the new social zone where all transactions take place primarily, other exchange zones have a mark up price on all goods, say 10% of each time, so going to ferenginar you have no mark up price and so it becomes the center of finance in the quadrant, depending who you bribe in the chamber of commerce, it could even give you a limited ultra rare discount to any item on the exchange or even the more uncommon specific items.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Noooooooooooooooooo
An ingame library would be interesting, provided that it is open to all factions and doesn't use that hideous memory alpha map.
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Sounds like a great idea to me!
Add there any mini-game like a mining, some interesting doff assignments, so than the people have the reason to visit Memory Alpha more often.
Forget Memory Alpha for the moment, and just create a mission that's about being summoned to a meeting with an Admiral/Historian in some library ( pick a planet/station/local for the mission to begin at ), then, once there, a player will have access to the Admiral/Historian collected files on PADDs ( the text from the stories posted to this board ). Since our Captain was so deeply involved in recent history, he might simply be asking for our assessment of certain information that has been made available to him. Or from there, you can take the mission all kinds of directions.
The Admiral/Historian might even asks our Captain to help him by reading a particular log entries, and/or to watch other media files as holodeck recreations ( absent VO ) like the meeting between Paris and Quinn, but only if you feel something like that is worth your effort. Heck if you and a bunch of Foundry Mission Makers could even create 23 separate missions where we help out the Admiral/Historian that also includes a real Foundry Mission ( long or short ) after speaking with the A/H.
I'm done rambling now, so you can just take it from there.
I thought about doing this.
However I would want it to include everything that I set forth in the OP. This is a pretty big task that I would love to tackle, however...with the current state the Foundry search mechanism is in (see sig below), only 3 people would ever be able to find it.
My next fear is that the Devs would love it and want to include it in-game...but then tell me there is no way to port over all the work I did in the Foundry into a live game asset - thus requiring me to start all over again.
If I could be guaranteed that all the work done could be freely accessed (either with a good Foundry search UI or included officially in-game), I'd start on it in a heartbeat. After all, that is the very foundation of Memory Alpha - free and easy access to knowledge for everyone in the galaxy.
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But seriously, I get it.
Or have relevant clips available for those who don't want to sit through a whole episode.
Very true.
A codex.
It would require lots of writer's energy but yes. That would be fantastic.
For something like Admiral Leeta's logs though, for people who haven't unlocked it via the rep, it would just come up as classified. Makes perfect sense.
I would like it if the knowledge would give hints on say a planet's environment, so if you go to that planet you have knowledge that would highlight say an alternate path, or other advantage. Like this planet's fog is flammable.
Though that's the type of thing they usually feed you on the mission.
I don't think that would work. That would be taking profit out of player's pockets, so unless Cryptic is gonna have the system cover the lost 10% it wouldn't happen.
Besides it's Ferenginar, there's more likely to be a 10% price mark up.