Starship visuals overhaul

phoeniz1994

As we know, each ship class we buy ( Light Cruiser, Heavy, Assault, Escorts and so on) has only 3 (with some exceptions) variants of the same class...making ship customization a lot less creative than Character Custmization. (for which STO is truly commendable by how varied and well made it already is).

What if we make a similar benefit available for our beloved ships, the second half of our gameplay experience?

What if the devs make a huge change that makes those ship classes actual Ship Type / layout?

-For Example: Connies have their unique main design style (saucer and engineering sections divided by a neck, two nacelles and its overall peculiar shape), while (for example), the Titan based classes have their own designs characteristics, The Heavy Cruisers (T3) have their Quad Nacelles and so on...

But instead of only making 3 basic version of each, why can't we have a system wehre each ship layout made available can use more templates based on era designs? (TOS, TMP/ TOS Movies Version, /TNG - Movies ones, STO era designs.

The rest is undestandably a premium design like the Dauntless, NX Era, Far Future Version (Enterprise J), and varius Alien shiups made available in LOBI store or Lockboxes so they can very well remain to their own ships making this overhaul completely unharmful to the ship sales.

Klingon and Romulan Ships can (where possible) benefit from this as well.

saurializard

phoeniz1994 wrote: »

But instead of only making 3 basic version of each, why can't we have a system wehre each ship layout made available can use more templates based on era designs? (TOS, TMP/ TOS Movies Version, /TNG - Movies ones, STO era designs.

Err, that's kinda already the case for many of them and the reason others do not is because, well, the ships didn't exist before or were decommissioned a while ago.

Take the Sovereign for example, it has the default STO, TNG, Fleet, and T6 hull options.

Or are you suggesting to sell more of the same ships but with a different Boff stations layout?

phoeniz1994

not sell more of the same, but designs more variants based on era and flesh out the cuatomization

For example, instead of selling only, for example, Noble, Majestic, Sovereign, Archon ecc ecc (Assault Cruiser Example), why not add more variations of them, for example, we can have some red / blue nacelles, or some like the Excelsior that have both the engine blue color and the dark blue/grey variant that the prometheus (one of its variant) and the Typhoon also have.

Or, another example, more armored pilons rather than sleek ones, i would like to be more options for our ships to customize, or at least a way to make our ships feel more...personal.

phoeniz1994

not skins sold in the C-Store, an actual ship customization upgrade that would improve it ::)

kiralyn

Many of the ships already have plenty of options (the Sov, for example, has three T4? "free" versions, the T5 & Fleet ones, and the T6), and then there's engine color variations from slotting visual impulse engines, plus all the shield visuals. For the ships that had a leveling version, a T5, and now a T6, there's lots of costuming available. Not sure what else you want, besides "more". /shrug

Really, the only "weak" ships customization-wise, are the alien ships that only had one or two versions & that don't have selectable parts (like the Breen ships, lockbox ships, lobi ships, etc). But those would have to be entirely re-built, since they're mostly single-piece models. No nacelles/pylons/saucers/etc. Can't see that happening.

phoeniz1994

i am not talking only about the Sovereign (that's an example) or skins available, i am talking about making the customization mechanics more fleshed out, like in some episodes or movies of this saga we have particular ships that look in some way different than their standard class(Like the Bozeman, some concept of the Excelsior that was a mix between the actual look and TMP tech, s9ome ships from the concept they showed that didn't make it to the game and were actually nice), some ships look more armored than their class is, or look like across between one tech design and the next.

I just wondered since some mechanics have been improved overtime during this game's lifecycle and if the Ship customization, something that i enjoy, can actually have some potential.

phoeniz1994

Anyway my question is mostly concerning game overall improvement that has been made overtime