I was listening to STO:Kast...
http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=65470
One idea that really caught my attention was the idea that once ship interiors are live you could interact with your "Lower Decks" crew wandering your ship and promote some of them to Bridge Officer.
I've never seen anything about that. But it sounds cool.
Has anyone seen anything about that?
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Yes, it's been mentioned by developers before as something being passed around (but not certain).
It is on topic.
I on the other hand find this hilarious, and hope to add more delicious chaos to the universe before this is done.
--Todd
I guess it would only be a source of generic style BOFF's. I cant imagine you finding a purple down there!
Did you watch TNG? Wesley Crusher was the cadet found aboard the ship.
If that's not purple - I don't know what else is!
Excelent point! hmmm, you are making me revise my idea. ok so how then do we make this an interesting mini game of searching your crew for the savant while not making it a farm? maybe have that purple appear on the ship for 15 min once a week?
He will either be moaning in 10-forward or asleep at a console.
This will introduce a mini-game, as demonstrated from TNG:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX8NsJn_KpM
It's a diplomatic encounter with Wesley Crusher - for every inane, randomly-generated idea: you get a chance to counter with an epic line.
j/k
Going back on topic, yes.
Here's dstahl's post of what's being discussed (no guarantees):
I hope the bridges shrink more too!!
We ran into some trouble, and my BOs fell to a pair of Klingon swordsmen. Not that redshirt, though. Unlike every single episode of Star Trek, the characters with names were all killed, and the nameless redshirt fought on. And man, did he fight. Fought like a friggin' lion. At the end of the battle, it was just me and him.
I wanted to promote him so bad.
I've heard devs say they'd like a mechanic to encourage people to use random redshirts in place of bridge officers sometimes.
It would be neat if playing with the redshirts let you "get to know them" and discover untapped talent that way.
Or if they had missions that required redshirts and had them get mutated/assimilated/whatever and become exotic BO candidates.