Do more with Ship Interiors / Sit in captains chair for space view

darkraptor7

Our ships interiors have been SORELY neglected since DAY 1 of STO. I am trying to build support to make them more relevant and fun. I have had several ideas about this. Please at the very least help me support ideas 1. and 2. bellow.

1. The ONLY way you should see the Space View Interface is when your character Sits in the Captains Chair of a Ship YOU own. (Such a station could also be in an Auxiliary Bridge if you consider episodes from the series.)
2. Beaming up should be to the Bridge - as happens now only in "Visit Starship Bridge" option - NOT directly to Space View. An option should also be added to beam your character to the Transporter room. It would be a bit more interesting in some ways and a bit more of a pain in some cases because you would then have to head up to the bridge to get to the Captains Chair / Space View.

These first two are a must to me.

3. Give us some leeway to customize our ship interior layouts. STO could even make some money with that. It could be similar to how we customize Star Bases, or even easier. Zen to buy internal features we want. (like an Exchange console perhaps?) When we add consoles - perhaps corresponding devices & consoles could appear inside that ship. Ideas for this are welcome of course.
4. In all of Star Trek - every series - allot went on inside of the various ships. STO should build on that tradidtion in the game. The interior of our ships should be allot more fun than they are now. Some PVE ground adventures could happen inside our ships perhaps. That leads to this next idea...
5. Repel Boarders/Capture ships - something that sounds fun to me, but what happens if you lose? Would you still have a ship? That might suck if you didn't... allot to consider there. But what would happen if we had the ability to capture NPC ships? (How about a nice LOBI ship now and again?) Something to think about perhaps.

That's it for now. If I think of anything more I will add it latter.

Best Wishes to STO and all the Players.

starkaos

Before Neverwinter launched, an Ask Cryptic talked about using a modified version of its Foundry to create customizable interiors.

Here is the June 2012 Ask Cryptic.

Q: (Jared1701) Are there still plans to bring crafting, a working shuttle bay, and new mini games to ship interiors and if so when?

Dstahl: These items had shown up in previous Engineering Reports as designs we were discussing and wanting to put in the game, but are not currently being worked on. At this time, we are focused on Starbase interiors. Neverwinter is working on a Foundry addition to build custom interior spaces (room by room). Once this feature is done and ready, we will have the opportunity to import something similar into STO. At that time, we would consider opening up the ability for players to fully customize their own ship interiors room by room and prop by prop. That is a ways off at this point, though.

Since this is over 4 years ago, a different Executive Producer, and Cryptic only releases a ship interior if they design a mission around it, chances are not good that we will not see this. The most we can do is create a Foundry mission that functions as a ship interior.

reotharmus

I'm brand new to STO, and I was actually disappointed when I found out the only part of the ship I could walk around on was the bridge. I thought you could visit some of the key places in the ship, and see people around it. The bridges look cool, but....

starkaos

reotharmus#2285 wrote: »

I'm brand new to STO, and I was actually disappointed when I found out the only part of the ship I could walk around on was the bridge. I thought you could visit some of the key places in the ship, and see people around it. The bridges look cool, but....

Actually it depends on the ship. Event ships, Lockbox ships, and maybe certain C-Store ships like the Scimitars are limited to the bridge while the other ships have ship interiors. Each faction has their own unique ship interior and Federation has the Constitution, Defiant, and Voyager interiors from the The Original Series Bundle, Deep Space Nine Bundle, and Intrepid Pack.

Console users seem to have a problem accessing the ship interior which might be fixed by going to a Ship Customization contact (contact by Ship Selector and Ship Vendor contact that lets you change the look of your currently selected ship and shuttle) and changing the bridge and interior to a different one.

theotherscotty

I'm not counting on ever seeing it happen, but I'd love to have a lot more of the ships' interiors fleshed out with more rooms and more functions as well. Like a shuttle bay, for example. I'd like to be able to go into my ship's shuttle bay and see all my small craft that I currently have, and then pick whichever one I want to fly.

salazarraze

FCT. As nice as it would be, it's not gonna happen.

rattler2

Sorry OP, but that has already been explained by the Devs. Its not possible the way the game is set up and with the game engine.

Also... this isn't Bridge Commander or Starfleet Academy.

admrenlarreck

Yea op this topic is FCT and will be closed soon, If you are wondering what FCT is look at the stickies at the top of General Discussion read the one Frequently Created Threads.

darkraptor7

Lets focus on Beaming to the Bridge, and then Sitting in your Captain's Chair to get to the Space View - you HAVE to admit THAT would be very Cool and add to the feel of the game. Don't be so negative!

xyquarze

People are not trying to be negative - I do think that some if not many would like the idea - but just pointing out that this topic has already been discussed and stamped with a "Notgonnahappen, don'taskaboutit" by Cryptic. Although I see a difference here, the thing that "isn't possible" with the engine as is isn't exactly what you're proposing.

reotharmus

Thanks. I think I'll have to play around some more than.

salazarraze

darkraptor7 wrote: »

Lets focus on Beaming to the Bridge, and then Sitting in your Captain's Chair to get to the Space View - you HAVE to admit THAT would be very Cool and add to the feel of the game. Don't be so negative!

People aren't being negative as much as they are simply pointing out that the existence of this thread is a violation forum rules. Lots of us have asked for this in the past, including me. And it's been explained to us that this won't happen. Devs have even gone into detailed "hand-holding" type of explanations as to why it won't happen.

rattler2

tacofangs wrote:

The problem, as stated by others, is that your "character" is both a ship, and a captain, simultaneously. When you are in space, you are drawn as a ship. When you are on the ground, you are drawn as a person. So, when you are in sector space (as a ship) and go to your bridge (as a person), your ship ceases to exist in sector space. You are no longer there. You are ONLY on your bridge. When you leave your bridge, and go back to sector space, you become a ship again, and your captain (and the bridge) cease to exist.

An excerpt from the FCT on this subject. Short version: Game is not set up for it.

necreliosis

I'd be happy if I could simply access the transwarp menu from inside my ship, that would make me feel like a real captain with minimal development time and effort. With enough imagination anything is possible .

talonxv

reotharmus#2285 wrote: »

I'm brand new to STO, and I was actually disappointed when I found out the only part of the ship I could walk around on was the bridge. I thought you could visit some of the key places in the ship, and see people around it. The bridges look cool, but....

Incorrect, you can go many places. Crew lounge, engineering, medical.

theotherscotty

^ It depends on the ship. Some have those other decks and rooms, and others just have a bridge only.

tacofangs

darkraptor7 wrote: »

Lets focus on Beaming to the Bridge, and then Sitting in your Captain's Chair to get to the Space View - you HAVE to admit THAT would be very Cool and add to the feel of the game. Don't be so negative!

While that sounds super cool and immersive, that is essentially an entire extra loading screen just for one clicky, and then your normal loading screen into space. That's going to get old REAL fast.

I guarantee you that would (annoy) people off more than the immersion would make them happy.

fced

Neglected ? No kidding ? On PS4 we cannot even visit the ship interior for Federation and Klingon ships, we are stuck on the bridge !!!
Some of us have paid for Voyager Interior (Pack Pathfinder / Intrepid), and they can not even visit it....

reotharmus

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Same with Xbox.