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Will we be able to see our ships from inside the new ESD?

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I've been wanting this in game now for a while and I know DStahl love the concept image of what it would look like. I think it would be awesome to go to ESD and look at you ship from inside ESD.

If it was possible , an instance where anyone who looks round ESD at present will be on the normal social map and when you go to the docking bay your automatically taken to an instance where you can see your ship from inside ESD.

It would defiantly make you feel like the ship you have is truly a huge Galaxy class starship.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Being able to dock with a shuttle would be the ultimate turn-on. I'm saying this because it is the most impossible dream I could conjure up, in this specific context. ;)

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Well we know they store our ship models data of course so when they had ships moving outside the windows before seems they could do something similar but have us only view out own ship out there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I was thinking that. It would be cool like if you had a Galaxy class starship, the moment you go into the docking bay instance a generic Galaxy is spawned outside the widows with shuttles flying around etc. That would be great.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    there's only so many room for so many ships and the windows aren't that big. But I guess if they add a new zooming option, this could work
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Well, having the ships viewable from indie the dock would be cool. Or maybe a random selection from the people currently in ESD.

    Like if we're all in ESD, but you can only see 2 ships, you could possibly see mine and the OP's being worked on.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I don't see why not... A door that instance you to a hanger where your ship is so you can marvel at the size of it! if they can do a bridge and ship interiors they can do a personal hanger where you see your ship.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Except technically the ships dock inside Spacedock, so you wouldn't see them looking outside.
    Now if they had a viewport to look in on the docked ships...

    edit: misread the OP. my bad.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    It would be nice to see additional information when selecting (if this would be possible) one of these ships. Like who captain's it, what is it's firepower, what is it's primary mission and how many succefull missions has it accomplished.

    I would also love to see ships departing now and then. From a distance but also up close like when the enterprise came in all damaged in the beginning of the search for spock. This way you get a great sense of scale
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    its possible to do...but keep in mind...that would be a lot of work for what amounts
    to a fancy exterior tour for you and any invited friends.

    but lets pretend cryptic has 3-4 bored developers

    ok, you attach a pod room <small> to your interior layout
    it works like a turbo lift, you go there, it asks, Do you want to inspect your ship...you click yes
    it lets your grouped friends join you.
    ok, you go to yet another - different instance...where you in a pod...that flys a pre-programed
    route in 'space' around a LARGE version of your ship.
    que in new age music

    it could be done...but whoa a lot of work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    We all know it can be done. Remeber a few months back when ESD had the ships fyling by out side the windows, all that needs to be done is to change the space background to a spacedock interior.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    ok, you go to yet another - different instance...where you in a pod...that flys a pre-programed
    route in 'space' around a LARGE version of your ship.


    I LOVE THIS, aboslutely love it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    ok, you attach a pod room <small> to your interior layout
    it works like a turbo lift, you go there, it asks, Do you want to inspect your ship...you click yes
    it lets your grouped friends join you.
    That's pretty much the only way I could see this work. If you wanna show each player their own ship, they need to be in their own instance. Otherwise, in an instance filled with, say, 35 players, you'd have 35 ships cramped up together.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    all i can say it will happen in Season 7, when the plans for it to happen. of course, that's just my thought of idea.
    something like that can only happen in Season 7 unless Dstahl says.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I havn't seen anything on the new ESD yet, however, I know Stahl would love to get something like this in. We'll see what happens soon, and of course, I'll make sure he knows you guys are interested in this.

    Thanks,

    Stormshade
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Given enough time they could probably use the cutscene technology they're working on for something like this.

    I would love to have a commissioning ceremony animation play every time I got a new ship!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I miss the random ships that were outside the windows of the current ESD for a time, I wonder what happened to those.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    They moved away when they heard about the upcoming explosion. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    StormShade wrote:
    I havn't seen anything on the new ESD yet, however, I know Stahl would love to get something like this in. We'll see what happens soon, and of course, I'll make sure he knows you guys are interested in this.

    Thanks,

    Stormshade[/Q

    Sweet. im sure Mr Stahl would love to get this in game. I think it would just be uber cool to see ships docking inside ESD, and watching from a "ten forward" like lounge.(Star Trek 3 comes to mind)

    Cheers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    What about a little cut-scene triggered the first time you beam up from ESD after getting a new ship?

    Like the fly-bys from the first few movies. You're in a little pod/shuttle and it does an external tour of your new command to some beautifully conducted orchestral score.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I'd love to see an earth ESD with a madlib ship in the center - this ship would be substitute with the client's ship.

    Every player would see their own ship docked in the interior, like this.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    It would be cool that when you beam down, you see your current ship outside the windows, but docked. This would probably mean everyone who is on the station would see their own ship from their view, out there, unless they could accommodate a dock that shows everyone's ship who is currently on board.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Tbh I find this idea very interesting...but knowing Cryptic...not sure if it'll happen anytime soon.




    Oh also....why is ESD being changed again anyway? Isn't that somewhat of a silly thing to go "Oh hey everyone....this game has been out for over 6 months and we are randomly changing ESD with no real story driven reason to it at all....have fun!"

    Hell Drozana got changed (for the better tbh...) but that WAS because of a story driven purpose....if ESD changed it has to be because of something big in the current Trek Universe...not just a dev changing it's skin.... :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I'd love to see an earth ESD with a madlib ship in the center - this ship would be substitute with the client's ship.

    Every player would see their own ship docked in the interior, like this.


    I love that image. Thats the image that made me start this thread, It looks amazing.
    I would be quite happy sitting down drinking my Kanar whatching everyones ships coming and going.

    Even if they were just static models, have little runabouts and shuttles flying around.
    Darren, have you got a high rez file of that timage.
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