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Greater control over ship customization?

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I would LOVE to take parts off of ships that I have in inventory and mix and match them on other ships. Defiants with the Miranda's roll cage and engines, Akiras with Celestial-class engines, a "Phase II" Enterprise with the TOS hull and saucer on the Constitution refit.....

It could really allow someone to make their own unique ship- whether it be a fantasy refit of an existing ship, a whole new design or the stock ships.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I would greatly appreciate the Idea, but I think the ship parts would have need to be scaled to the class attached, otherwise there would be some very ugly crisscross ships.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Hawks wrote: »
    I would greatly appreciate the Idea, but I think the ship parts would have need to be scaled to the class attached, otherwise there would be some very ugly crisscross ships.

    HAHAHAHA ok
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    You mean a setting to adjust the scale of the parts wouldn't be possible as well?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Was thinking something like that a while ago. But I. Was thinking about keeping the classes together so a escort would only be able to use escort class ship parts. The same would be for the other class ships
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Not long ago there was a similar thread with some nice ideas about Ship customisation.
    http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=165938&page=3

    It would be absolutly great if you could choose parts from all your previous ships at the customizer.
    Well not all, cruiser could only choose from all lower tier cruiser parts, for instance.

    Thank you for reading.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Was thinking something like that a while ago. But I. Was thinking about keeping the classes together so a escort would only be able to use escort class ship parts. The same would be for the other class ships

    I would love this to happen... would be so cool and add some much needed variation to the ships people are using
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    You guys realize each tier of ship sets is made with specific designs to make the modular parts interchangeable. That's why they look alike. you can't put a connie hull on a galaxy even if it was rescaled because the parts don't mesh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    CapnBludd wrote: »
    You guys realize each tier of ship sets is made with specific designs to make the modular parts interchangeable. That's why they look alike. you can't put a connie hull on a galaxy even if it was rescaled because the parts don't mesh.

    I would like to hear something from the devs if this is possible or not. But i don't think that this is a real problem. I would also like to suggest, that each ship part can only be streched about 25-30% in each axis.
    So we wouldn't see a Galaxy sized Constitution class.
    It is obvious to everyone, that certain ship part combinations won't fit 100% , but imagine who much freedom you could have in customizing your own special ship.

    Thank you for reading.
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