...a lot of players have been asking for interiors to be usable. Obviously piloting from within during a fight would have a huge disadvantage unless you went completely against cannon and added a 3D display console in the centre of the command area, or in a special "tactical room", but i had the following thoughts:
What if you could plot courses and navigate to destinations while on the ship's interior, perhaps work on setting up your trophies or hanging out with a friend while you get there?
not necessarily... i always distribute my skill points during space flight and it often happens, the skill points screen just closes and the map changes. no problem at all.
it would be nice however to get a popup like "red alert - all hands to battle stations!" - and a short briefing about what is happening.
if you might recall it often happened, that the crew of the enterprise were playing poker or Dixon Hill / Sherlock Holmes on a holodeck and were attacked, so they had to interrupt their doings.
I think this would greatly add to the immersion - feeling of being really a part of it.
I think the problem would be that you would have to have a presence on two maps at the same time, the sector space map and the ship interior map. You and your ship are not the separate entities they seem to be. Remember the bug in beta where you'd beam down to a planet AS your ship? I think the tech for that would be the biggest showstopper. Then again, I'm not a Cryptic programmer so this is all theory on my part.
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Then your trophy case gets bugged because you were in the middle of changing it when the map transfer happened, and you end up with more problems.
it would be nice however to get a popup like "red alert - all hands to battle stations!" - and a short briefing about what is happening.
if you might recall it often happened, that the crew of the enterprise were playing poker or Dixon Hill / Sherlock Holmes on a holodeck and were attacked, so they had to interrupt their doings.
I think this would greatly add to the immersion - feeling of being really a part of it.