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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.