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Personally,
I plan of making a series based on some of the old STO stories, kinda of a 'What has happened
since then"
Some klingon stuff...MOST importantly a Klingon Tutorial
Then as my skills improve, some 3 part epic stories.
so, what will the rest of you do?
I plan of making a series based on some of the old STO stories, kinda of a 'What has happened
since then"
Some klingon stuff...MOST importantly a Klingon Tutorial
Then as my skills improve, some 3 part epic stories.
so, what will the rest of you do?
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After that...probably whatever random story idea strikes me if it turns out that I can do what I want.
Ive been modding for many years now for numerous games etc.
I am going to try my best to make missions for STO , ive prewritten three allready.
One is Fed side only , the other is klink side only , the third should be converteable to both factions.
Ingame i play both factions but i will probably set my sights on klink missions as they severly lack missions to do.
My Klink mission in brief is called 'Gorn too Soon' , it will be about a Gorn splinter group that in the end tries to break free for federation space with the stolen Kar'fi , it will be space and ground and hopefully ship interior. Not giving anything away though
The mission that i could create a copy and port off is called 'The Entity Unknown' and is pretty interesting.
The fed only mission is more a diplomacy type mission , it even involves Andoria and Vulcan.
I am working on early stages of a Klink Mission as well , i want to use the outside of Qonos and hopefully will delve into there culture and honor more.
Im very much looking forward to this Foundary , i can see myself not playing much and doing just that , after all modding etc is my love!
May request a writer though , and dialgue isnt my strongest point , my last team consisted of 2 scripters (actual code) , and writer , and a few testers.
Just wish i could get my hands on it now , i would test that bugger into the ground lol
I wrote well over a thousand words about how bad that mission was during the CB, about how it could easily be improved to be a better example of the sort of missions players will encounter later in the game, about how it was such an awful early game experience since it would be encountered in the first couple hours of gameplay right after the tutorial.
Figure I might as well do a re-write and prove how it could have been better.
After that... One of my favorite patrol missions is the one where you fight alongside a Fed ship which is going to raid a Klingon installation, it starts with you taking out an array of turrets and then some BoPs nearer to the installation. Building off of a framework like that, a series of missions where you work alongside another vessel is something I would like to do, having a recurring NPC vessel that you team up with sounds like a place to start with in writing some interesting stories.
Along with those I'd like to write some more puzzle or mystery based episodes. Where you have to puzzle out what is going on and search an environment for clues. Possibly writing something with a recurring criminal villain, such as a member of the Orion Syndicate smuggling and extorting people or something similar.
What was that one about again?
Search for the mining ship.... that is directly in front of you when you arrive in the mission.
Escort the mining ship... to the location directly in front of it.
Basically you fly straight ahead for about 5 seconds, click through one pop-up box, turn 90 degress to the left, balance power, drop the throttle to about 60% and then go do laundry or wash dishes or cook food and come back five+ minutes later to find you've completed the patrol mission while you were afk.
There is no story, no drama, no urgency, it is literally the most boring and dull mission I think the game has and it's in the very first set of patrol missions that you do.
It could have had the mining ship trapped by rocks that you needed to free them from, or you could have had to beam aboard for a very short non-combat away team sequence where you helped them get their engines online again, or any number of a long list of things the mission could have had you do that would have added to the story and made you feel like you accomplished something or that you actually took part in doing something, other than what it is now.
The hardest part of doing a re-write of it will simply be choosing between which of the many many ways the mission could be improved while still keeping it short enough to be a 'patrol' length mission.
Ahhh I know what you're talking about now. That one is pretty bad, but I don't think it compares to how awful pretty much every mission in the Romulan area is, which nearly got me to stop playing the game.
The thing I hate most about that mission is that I can't just put my tractor beam on the thing and drag it at high impulse to the destination.
As for it not being like you accomplished something, I wouldn't mind not having anything happen so much if it weren't for the fact that it's not like something random you come across while exploring a system. If I came upon this random damaged transport as I was cruising through a solar system I decided to explore, and could tractor it to its base, that would actually be ok because it would make perfect sense you'd occasionally come across that kind of situation.
But it's not. It's a patrol ordered by Starfleet because apparently the mining facility's sensors and communications equipment is so bad it can't see the ship within their own asteroid belt.
Who knows, cryptic might adopt a few of them.
Why redu something that someone already did for you?
assuming they give you permission and the legal department doesn't have kittens over it.
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Well, for my part, when doing lots of the missions I often find myself thinking "This makes no sense" or "Why can't I?" or "This mission would be so much better if..."
Since P'Jem is one of the first missions, and probably the first one where not being allowed to make a decision bothered me, it's the one I've spent the longest thinking about reworking.
On top of that, if I make something myself, it's likely to be more complex than something I would just re-do, so the re-do makes a good test of what I can and cannot do. If I can't even upgrade one of their missions to how it I think it should be, then it would probably not be worth my time to even try to do something original.
Of course... there needs to be some reason you can't just have all ships go together, one point at a time. And to my knowledge STO doesn't have any sort of "mission time limit" mechanic that could help there.
There are a few missions with timers in them (at least a couple early Fed ones vs Klingons), where you have to defend a point for 45 seconds and then the mission moves to the next objective.
( Not that in those missions it seems you can actually fail the timed part. In fact, I know that you used to be able to turn on the Pause in the mission and it would continue to count down and the mission would actually advance objectives and complete itself while paused, not sure if they ever fixed that bug as I didn't think to check it when my most recent alt went through those missions. )
It might be possible to have a timer like that run down and put the mission in a fail state if other objectives haven't been completed before the timer counted itself out. Will depend on how complex we are allowed to script mission objectives.
I think I share some of the interest of other posters. I wrote a mission outline a little while back that involved the androids from Exo II from the original series (although they were all Ferengi). That needs a lot of work and includes a bunch of stuff that I'm sure won't be possible in the actual UGC system when it's finally up and running, but I would like to try and make it work. In fact, I'd like to return to a number of the classic TOS episdoes and work on "what's happened since." I've got some ideas about the Iotians (from "A Piece of the Action") for instance.
The second sort of mission I'm looking forward to working on would be diplomatic/mystery missions. There was another thread a little while back that dstahl started--basically began like an old joke: a Breen and a Ferengi walk into a mining colony run by aliens interested in balance... Lots of people came up with cool ideas about what happened next. I had fun spinning a couple of my own that involved uncovering hidden secrets.
Third, I'd want to generate some stuff with some moral dilemmas. That can be tricky, but would like to take a stab at it.
Overall, I'm not big on combat-oriented missions, so I'll leave that to people with more talent in that direction.
I think the biggest challenge for me is going to be that I'll want to do a bunch of stuff that simply won't be possible with the necessarily limited tools we have (at least at first). But I think it's going to be a blast to see what develops.
I'd like to make some ground missions that don't involve running down the same 7 corridors in a too bright underground lab that has skylights above said corridors. I'd like to give people options between battle and brains, but it depends on the options we can put in with the UGC tools. If we can do decision trees like in the Rescue the Deferi mission I'll be using that quite a bit.
I just hope I have time to make missions between playing everybody else's!
Yeah, I wouldn't invest too much time in anything until we have linking, either. What I'd really like is the capacity to make our own sectors for our mission chains to take place within and across. Then I'd really sit down and start hammering out some in-depth stories.
I think before we can even get to that stuff, we have to see what kinds of stuff we can do with any individual mission. My main thing is that I want branching. For example, the P'Jem redo in my head starts with the BO reporting Klingons in the system. The first choice is to Hail or to go to Red Alert. Hailing obviously puts you into dialog, and Red Alert allows you to just fight the Klingons if you like.
Well I would use one that clicks away IF AND ONLY IF you had to defuse a bomb and
could reasonably see the timer
if, instead you had to open a door in 5 minutes, I would have your science officer say..
Sir, we only have 5 minutes, then use a non-visable timer.
But that is me
I just have this "amusing" idea of having "Contact Ambassador Surah to start mission" and the first thing your captain gets to say when loading him up as the contact is "Wait, you're not Ambassador Surah!" and proceed from there
[edit]Also, as a personal choice, I'm likely going to follow the naval traditions shown in the series and have your character called "Captain" regardless of actual rank because you command a Starship[/edit]
Sorry to be a stick in the mud !
lol, well your honest
I'd love to explore areas of the Star Trek universe that we've never seen. What about the Fleet museum? We've heard of it, but we've never seen it.
I'd like to do a shuttlecraft mission. I think I might be able to pull it off, even without a shuttle.:D
I'd like to put in extra sequences that don't really advance the mission, but add to the realism. Like maybe sticking in a shipboard funeral for fallen crewmembers after a big space battle, like in TWoK. Or having an Admiral come aboard for an inspection.
My God, I can't wait for this thing to be released.
Unfortunately I can't imagine ever becoming all that emotionally invested in a story portrayed through the current game mechanics. The dialogue windows just seem to remove me from the situation, especially if it's jumping back and forth between characters. It's just a jarring, un-immersive mechanic.
But best of luck in your endeavor.
Ideas:
1) A story linking with Admiral Quinn and the Trill that work on the KDF side. Explain a little of their motivation, and otherwise deal with Klingon POWs and stuff like that.
2) A story for the Galaxy-X, kinda trying to explain its existence in the game. (Could be done for other ships, too.)
3) A "Damsel in distress" story on Risa. (Maybe even more than one, with different twists, and not always with Damsels)
4) Borg attack on Klingon colonies.
5) If possible, a Q-story with Klingons. Q loved to inspect the human nature and ideals - he might do the same for the Klingons. Kinda a "Mission Farpoint" for the KDF?
Hmm. Raises an interesting notion.
It'd be nice if we could "copy&paste" existing environments, like Risa and ESD, for our characters/events to take place in. It'd certainly save time... and add some excitement to some existing environments that are sort of sterile.
to create a cut scene.
What can you do with a cut scene ?
Set up the adventure.
During conversations it brings the player into the story
It can illuminate important story elements to the player (can show what NPC are doing out of sight)
It can allow sight gages that can 'lighten' the story
and many more things
After that I want to focus on the war bewteen the federation and Klingons by exapnding on my first idea up there but also creating missions for the Klingons. My plan is to introduce defferent races in the many missions so that it doesn't get stale.
im not sure... i'll focus on the Undine and Terran Empire.