Yes I would pay for screen accurate bridges and interiors, I know this may cost as much as the ship or perhaps more.
I voted yes, my opinion is that interiors for lockbox ships should be in the c store and can only be used if you have the ship that goes with it. Like ferengi interior can only be used on the d'kora, nandi and nagus marauder. Now for fed ships, these bridges and interiors should be fitting on all fed ships. Same for Kdf and Rom. Now the problem lies in the fact that there is nothing to do, but I have an idea, hear me out. Add a holodeck gate to the interior, and put in some mini games, like when Picard and guinan are doing that shooting range thing , shooting those moving colored orbs. Add some rewards like dil or ec and a 20 hour cool down for that specific mini game.or like that google glas like thing from tng , the game, where you drop coins in those moving tubes, plenty ideas to do a mini game,maybe add the foundry missions to it, that way you don't have to search the starting point in the entire galaxy. The fleet officer of the watch, or whatever his title is gives you small tasks to do, put this feature also on board your ship.mini games are a thing that will people do to get good rewards, they will beam to their bridges and to other parts of their ship. I would even say that selling correct shuttle bridges would be a favored thing. Now I could be wrong, but just my 0,02$
Unless it's a comprehensive interior with plenty of functionality, whats the point? I spend < 1% of my time inside my ship as is, seeing as your either in space or ground combat.
Yes, if the functionailty is improved and there is a use to them beyond the cosmetic.
I'd also pay for a function which allows me to use the bridge from any ship I own on any other ship I own. For example, I think the Aquarius bridge is awesome, but as it's locked to the Oddy class that I don't use anymore, I don't get to see it. I'd pay to change that.
I've also held that startship interiors could be done like Fleet Starbases, but with projects scaled towards the individual, and instead of Fleet Holdings, new decks could be added.
That sounds like a great idea to me - it would provide a new dil/resource sink and would allow each player to participate as much or as little as they chose.
Tacofangs explained in another thread on here somewhere why they probably won't do something like this. Another reason is called Return On Investment. Unless and until PWE/Cryptic can achieve a profit on making better interiors, and there is a significant fraction of the player population across all three platforms wanting better interiors, there is NO PROFITABLE REASON for them to expend resources on making better interiors.
Besides, they already did the only one I was ever interested in. The TOS interior.
Threads like this really should have achieved F.C.T. status long before now.
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i would but only if i could see the bridge when in combat, like bridge commander. I'm not a big role player so i don't visit the interior of my ships that often.
Definately for a functional bridge where I have all consoles in one place as it is the case for event ships f.e.
Not sure about complete interiors. I could see myself paying for the interior of a small ship (Bird of Prey or Defiant), but definately not for the sheer endless corridors of a Galaxy class cruiser. What do you want to do in there ? Pi Canis Marathon ?
Yes I would pay for screen accurate bridges and interiors, I know this may cost as much as the ship or perhaps more.
Hell yeah, add Mirror universe bridges and interiors as well for us MU fans
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Yes I would pay for screen accurate bridges and interiors, I know this may cost as much as the ship or perhaps more.
I'd pay for it even if there's nothing to do there. I just sit my character down in the interior sometimes when my computer is idle, so I can listen to the hum of the engines and consoles.
I rarely use the bridge for anything.
How about first give us a good reason to use it, then I may buy some.
I know! Let me buy the Cell Ship bridge for my other ships!
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
I want to say yes. However, my biggest 'issue' with ship interiors is that we need something to actually DO there.
So my answer is 'Yes - if they made them more functional atop improving the aesthetics.
Unfortunately, there are too many bridge interiors for them to actually do anything functional there, since it would necessarily require working on ALL those bazillion maps at the same time.
This is incorrect. If you ever do anything in the foundry you will realise how simple it is to hook up any console to be interactive, it literally takes seconds and the Devs have a far better toolkit than foundry authors. Customising approximately 1 new bridge a month with interactive consoles such as mail, exchange, bank, doffs, mini-games, piece of cake, I could do it for them in minutes as could anyone familiar with the foundry.
Copypasting interact buttons that are available everywhere else already is not useful.
...Your argument that YOU already have the bridge that YOU wanted is irrelevant, that is particular to you, not necessarily everyone else.
And I spent about 45 minutes wandering around the entire interior. To satisfy the imaginings of a six year old boy. When he was satisfied, he told me so. I haven't been back since. Because there is nothing really important which is game related to do there.
Due to the way STO is set up, I cannot effectively play the game from the Bridge. My BOffs are merely extensions of my own avatar. Not personalities in their own right. Whether I like it or not, the majority of people who play this game see it as a game. Not some sort of Temple to the Prophet Gene( In His name we Grind! ) This game is viewed as a business by the company which created it. Its purpose is to generate income in the most efficient manner possible to the widest number of people it can reach. The majority of these people have not expressed a sufficient interest in spending discretionary income on a part of the game which has limited functionality. This limited functionality is due to the design of the game engine.
Yet over and over again we see misinformed and misguided people within these forums asking for things which, with a little intelligent thought leavened by some common sense, they ought to be able to clearly see are not possible for many reasons. But still they ask and assume because they are "Star Trek's Bestest Fan EVAH!" Perfect World will immediately drop everything else and get right on that for ya. You want to play Star Trek from the Bridge? Just like "Real Captains" do? May I suggest dusting off that copy of ST:Bridge Commander?
This is why I see this as an F.C.T. thread. BTW, Thirsty yet, Dobbin?
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One or two missions out of the entire mission series that send you to your ship interior, an extremely rare visit to the account bank because I want something from there right now and I'm not at one of the many, many places with account bank access, and an even rarer visit to access the Doff missions only available from there.
Exactly why would I want to spend money for something I not only don't need, but would only use 4-5 times in a year ?
I voted no. While I do want a decent bridge, I honestly do not spend enough time there to pay for one separately. I do think however, that "Special" ships, Lobi & Lockboxes,... SHOULD come with a semi-accurate recreation of their bridge. I'm looking at you NX,...
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Yes, definitely. I bought the TOS pack and put that bridge on all my FED ships - TOS or not - because A) I love it, it's beautifully done (except for the BOFF layout), and C) it's the size of a bridge, not the size of the Astrodome!
I would LOVE a proper Galileo shuttlecraft interior, too, and a TOS Romulan bridge (as seen in Balance of Terror). And yes, I would pay for them in the C-Store, gladly.
As for functionality, full Bank, Mail and Exchange access ought to be included on all Bridges. I've never understood the reasoning behind Account Bank (of all things) being accessible, but not the others. Your Communications Officer's station SHOULD BE Mail - it's for subspace messages to others, for crying out loud! And why is there Account Bank access, but not regular Bank access? Shouldn't you be able to access your OWN stuff from your cargo bay, before getting stuff from your OTHER characters? And a good argument could be made for your Transporter Room having Exchange functionality ("Beam that stuff up/down"). You'd still go to social maps for the unique functionality there (Security, DOFFs, Tailors, Ship Tailors, Merchants, etc.), but you shouldn't have to Transwarp all the way to a base just to send fricking Mail, or haul your own stuff out of your own hold.
Sorry but they are just not worth it anymore, but i do mind if they add the admiral traits to lower tier ships to make a little bit more useful at end level.
Yes I would pay for screen accurate bridges and interiors, I know this may cost as much as the ship or perhaps more.
How about screen acurate bridges/interiors with recolor options. Seriously, can you imagine the defiant bridge/interior in voyagers color scheme? Drop dead gorgeous I say!
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My Taco-Sense says that the majority of people saying "Yes, I'd pay for canon interiors" are including fantasies about expanded use, or bigger/more complex interiors.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
So, basically you're suggesting nothing would change, really, except the quality, yes? I'd certainly pay a ship's price for that. Quality improvement would have to be substantial, of course.
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
Or allow for the possibility that ppl might say yes without lying.
My Taco-Sense says that the majority of people saying "Yes, I'd pay for canon interiors" are including fantasies about expanded use, or bigger/more complex interiors.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
Even with the limited use of the interiors in mind, I would still say yes. While I wouldn't pay for them all, I would pay for at least one.
This is assuming that they would be new bridge packs and not a remodel of the older bridges that would be auto-updated like the remodels of the Miranda and Connie-refit.
My Taco-Sense says that the majority of people saying "Yes, I'd pay for canon interiors" are including fantasies about expanded use, or bigger/more complex interiors.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
I'm sure this is true. And I'll admit that I'm one who'd like to see expanded use, and bigger/more complex interiors. But I also know that realistically we're not going to get something like that unless 1) it's part of the development schedule as part of an expansion, or 2) devs take upon themselves to do in their free time.
It's too bad that something isn't being done with ship interiors, though, because most of Star Trek took place on the ship. I've said before that I'd love to see Starship Interiors done the way Fleet Starbases are done, but scaled to a personal level. I think it's something that would be worth investing development time in, because the work put into it could then be used as a basis for so many other things: episode mission maps, PVE/PVP queue maps, etc.
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My Taco-Sense says that the majority of people saying "Yes, I'd pay for canon interiors" are including fantasies about expanded use, or bigger/more complex interiors.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
I'm sure this is true. And I'll admit that I'm one who'd like to see expanded use, and bigger/more complex interiors. But I also know that realistically we're not going to get something like that unless 1) it's part of the development schedule as part of an expansion, or 2) devs take upon themselves to do in their free time.
It's too bad that something isn't being done with ship interiors, though, because most of Star Trek took place on the ship. I've said before that I'd love to see Starship Interiors done the way Fleet Starbases are done, but scaled to a personal level. I think it's something that would be worth investing development time in, because the work put into it could then be used as a basis for so many other things: episode mission maps, PVE/PVP queue maps, etc.
Could work it into the Competitive PVE queues with a Repel Boarders/Secure the Ship training exercise against a rotating roster of enemies. Like what happens at the tail end of the AoY tutorial levels. Unless that already exists, not tried the Competitive PVE stuff yet.
I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
So, basically you're suggesting nothing would change, really, except the quality, yes? I'd certainly pay a ship's price for that. Quality improvement would have to be substantial, of course.
I'm not sure what you're referring to? The OP was asking for new interiors, right? The Sovereign, the Refit, etc. Things we don't already have?
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Now the problem lies in the fact that there is nothing to do, but I have an idea, hear me out.
Add a holodeck gate to the interior, and put in some mini games, like when Picard and guinan are doing that shooting range thing , shooting those moving colored orbs. Add some rewards like dil or ec and a 20 hour cool down for that specific mini game.or like that google glas like thing from tng , the game, where you drop coins in those moving tubes, plenty ideas to do a mini game,maybe add the foundry missions to it, that way you don't have to search the starting point in the entire galaxy. The fleet officer of the watch, or whatever his title is gives you small tasks to do, put this feature also on board your ship.mini games are a thing that will people do to get good rewards, they will beam to their bridges and to other parts of their ship.
I would even say that selling correct shuttle bridges would be a favored thing.
Now I could be wrong, but just my 0,02$
I'd also pay for a function which allows me to use the bridge from any ship I own on any other ship I own. For example, I think the Aquarius bridge is awesome, but as it's locked to the Oddy class that I don't use anymore, I don't get to see it. I'd pay to change that.
That sounds like a great idea to me - it would provide a new dil/resource sink and would allow each player to participate as much or as little as they chose.
Besides, they already did the only one I was ever interested in. The TOS interior.
Threads like this really should have achieved F.C.T. status long before now.
Not sure about complete interiors. I could see myself paying for the interior of a small ship (Bird of Prey or Defiant), but definately not for the sheer endless corridors of a Galaxy class cruiser. What do you want to do in there ? Pi Canis Marathon ?
^This, its why I voted bridges only. That and considering how much less work is involved in *just* a bridge, I feel it the more likely to happen.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
How about first give us a good reason to use it, then I may buy some.
I know! Let me buy the Cell Ship bridge for my other ships!
And I spent about 45 minutes wandering around the entire interior. To satisfy the imaginings of a six year old boy. When he was satisfied, he told me so. I haven't been back since. Because there is nothing really important which is game related to do there.
Due to the way STO is set up, I cannot effectively play the game from the Bridge. My BOffs are merely extensions of my own avatar. Not personalities in their own right. Whether I like it or not, the majority of people who play this game see it as a game. Not some sort of Temple to the Prophet Gene( In His name we Grind! ) This game is viewed as a business by the company which created it. Its purpose is to generate income in the most efficient manner possible to the widest number of people it can reach. The majority of these people have not expressed a sufficient interest in spending discretionary income on a part of the game which has limited functionality. This limited functionality is due to the design of the game engine.
Yet over and over again we see misinformed and misguided people within these forums asking for things which, with a little intelligent thought leavened by some common sense, they ought to be able to clearly see are not possible for many reasons. But still they ask and assume because they are "Star Trek's Bestest Fan EVAH!" Perfect World will immediately drop everything else and get right on that for ya. You want to play Star Trek from the Bridge? Just like "Real Captains" do? May I suggest dusting off that copy of ST:Bridge Commander?
This is why I see this as an F.C.T. thread. BTW, Thirsty yet, Dobbin?
Exactly why would I want to spend money for something I not only don't need, but would only use 4-5 times in a year ?
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I would LOVE a proper Galileo shuttlecraft interior, too, and a TOS Romulan bridge (as seen in Balance of Terror). And yes, I would pay for them in the C-Store, gladly.
As for functionality, full Bank, Mail and Exchange access ought to be included on all Bridges. I've never understood the reasoning behind Account Bank (of all things) being accessible, but not the others. Your Communications Officer's station SHOULD BE Mail - it's for subspace messages to others, for crying out loud! And why is there Account Bank access, but not regular Bank access? Shouldn't you be able to access your OWN stuff from your cargo bay, before getting stuff from your OTHER characters? And a good argument could be made for your Transporter Room having Exchange functionality ("Beam that stuff up/down"). You'd still go to social maps for the unique functionality there (Security, DOFFs, Tailors, Ship Tailors, Merchants, etc.), but you shouldn't have to Transwarp all the way to a base just to send fricking Mail, or haul your own stuff out of your own hold.
I whole hardheartedly agree with this statement
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I would amend the OP question with this: If new the bridges/interiors had exactly the same number of rooms, and same functionality as the current interiors, i.e. not much, would you still pay for the same price as a new ship for them?
My guess is no, or that people aren't being very honest with themselves.
So, basically you're suggesting nothing would change, really, except the quality, yes? I'd certainly pay a ship's price for that.
Or allow for the possibility that ppl might say yes without lying.
Even with the limited use of the interiors in mind, I would still say yes. While I wouldn't pay for them all, I would pay for at least one.
This is assuming that they would be new bridge packs and not a remodel of the older bridges that would be auto-updated like the remodels of the Miranda and Connie-refit.
I'm sure this is true. And I'll admit that I'm one who'd like to see expanded use, and bigger/more complex interiors. But I also know that realistically we're not going to get something like that unless 1) it's part of the development schedule as part of an expansion, or 2) devs take upon themselves to do in their free time.
It's too bad that something isn't being done with ship interiors, though, because most of Star Trek took place on the ship. I've said before that I'd love to see Starship Interiors done the way Fleet Starbases are done, but scaled to a personal level. I think it's something that would be worth investing development time in, because the work put into it could then be used as a basis for so many other things: episode mission maps, PVE/PVP queue maps, etc.
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Could work it into the Competitive PVE queues with a Repel Boarders/Secure the Ship training exercise against a rotating roster of enemies. Like what happens at the tail end of the AoY tutorial levels. Unless that already exists, not tried the Competitive PVE stuff yet.
I'm not sure what you're referring to? The OP was asking for new interiors, right? The Sovereign, the Refit, etc. Things we don't already have?
Can you elaborate on that?