Dry Docks??

carmen1983090887

I'd like to see dry docks serve a real purpose. the function of a dry dock is to upgrade or retrofit a ship, but right now they act as a storage bay when they can by used for so much more. I'd like to see a new system put in place for dry docks that will allow the player to upgrade and retrofit any ships that they own. Just think of it if a system like this was put into place you can build that T6 miranda class ship or any other ship that you want

salazarraze

STO dry docks aren't supposed to serve a purpose beyond ship storage that takes up less server hard drive space. If you could bypass the c-store and build any ship class into T6, the business model of the game would break and you wouldn't be able to play the game anymore.

davefenestrator

PWE would also need to negotiate with CBS to let players create whatever ships they want. Negotiating to have the chance to shut down seems unlikely

jaguarskx

Use your imagination. When you install consoles on your ship you are "retrofitting" / "upgrading" it in dry dock. The same can be said when you modify the ship's appearance. When upgrading a T5 ship to T5u... well it is done in dry dock. The same can be said for T6 ships when Cryptic is ready to release T7 ships. They will be upgraded to T6u in dry dock... as long as you are willing to purchase a ship upgrade token.

salazarraze wrote: »

STO dry docks aren't supposed to serve a purpose beyond ship storage that takes up less server hard drive space. If you could bypass the c-store and build any ship class into T6, the business model of the game would break and you wouldn't be able to play the game anymore.

Not if Cryptic can negotiate with CBS to allow it to happen. If they are successful, then Cryptic could potentially sell "Ship Tier Upgrade Tokens" through the Arc Store which means they can only be purchased using real money. The pricing model could be as follows:

T1 to T2 Upgrade = $5
T2 to T3 Upgrade = $10
T3 to T4 Upgrade = $15
T4 to T5 Upgrade = $20
T5 to T6 Upgrade = $25

Such a pricing tier will allow players to upgrade a T1 ship to a T6 ship for $75.

salazarraze

jaguarskx wrote: »

Not if Cryptic can negotiate with CBS to allow it to happen.

Nah there's no point. The players have already proven that they will spend even more than $75 on average per ship by continuing to buy master keys and promo packs to get their T6 ships that have no business being T6.

You'll likely see T6 Mirandas and the sort in lock boxes and promo packs.

baudl

I may be going completely insane, but imagine the drydock would be a way to deal with death penalty and ship dmg needed to be repaired, putting the ship on an extensive cooldown.

For example: Your ship is damaged, slightly because you died in an advanced queue. (in that case I would make ship damage a thing even in normal queues)
Now you need to put that ship into dry dock to repair the ship to prestine working conditions again. This takes time, which ofcourse can be reduced with dilithium (devs need to eat too )
Now one of your ships is on cooldown and you want to fly a mission. 2 options: number one is to pick one of your other ships. and number two is to spend dilithium (costs increase with tier)

dry dock has a purpose and getting killed actually matters. (PVP would be excluded, since it is only on holodeck anyway)

theanothername

baudl wrote: »

I may be going completely insane, but imagine the drydock would be a way to deal with death penalty and ship dmg needed to be repaired, putting the ship on an extensive cooldown.

For example: Your ship is damaged, slightly because you died in an advanced queue. (in that case I would make ship damage a thing even in normal queues)
Now you need to put that ship into dry dock to repair the ship to prestine working conditions again. This takes time, which ofcourse can be reduced with dilithium (devs need to eat too )
Now one of your ships is on cooldown and you want to fly a mission. 2 options: number one is to pick one of your other ships. and number two is to spend dilithium (costs increase with tier)

dry dock has a purpose and getting killed actually matters. (PVP would be excluded, since it is only on holodeck anyway)

Heh, I can imagine the forums after Cryptic announces this in the patchnotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8txY989Iw

baddmoonrizin

carmen1983090887 wrote: »

I'd like to see dry docks serve a real purpose. the function of a dry dock is to upgrade or retrofit a ship, but right now they act as a storage bay when they can by used for so much more. I'd like to see a new system put in place for dry docks that will allow the player to upgrade and retrofit any ships that they own. Just think of it if a system like this was put into place you can build that T6 miranda class ship or any other ship that you want

That's EXACTLY the function of Dry Docks in STO, to serve as storage for ships you're not using but don't want to delete of rfear of losing them forever. They're especially helpful to those who have numerous Lock Box ships that cannot otherwise be reclaimed if they were dismissed, unlike C-Store or Event ships, which can be dismissed and reclaimed.

warpangel

In other words, you think the feature should be something entirely unrelated, just because of it's name?

Yeah, no.

xayss

waste time on that is like the star ship interiors for each new ship they never gonna doit that wasting time.....

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discojer

It should really be called "Mothball" instead of Drydock, since that is what is being done, a ship putting stored away for possible future use.

kiralyn

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

carmen1983090887 wrote: »

I'd like to see dry docks serve a real purpose. the function of a dry dock is to upgrade or retrofit a ship, but right now they act as a storage bay when they can by used for so much more. I'd like to see a new system put in place for dry docks that will allow the player to upgrade and retrofit any ships that they own. Just think of it if a system like this was put into place you can build that T6 miranda class ship or any other ship that you want

That's EXACTLY the function of Dry Docks in STO, to serve as storage for ships you're not using but don't want to delete of rfear of losing them forever. They're especially helpful to those who have numerous Lock Box ships that cannot otherwise be reclaimed if they were dismissed, unlike C-Store or Event ships, which can be dismissed and reclaimed.

Yeah, they started with the premise "we want a cheap ship storage option" and then named it Dry Dock. They didn't start with 'Dry Dock' and then decide to make it storage. (i.e, you're not going to get them to change it to some new function, the entire point is just to store ships.)