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What is Star Trek?

- a Series
- with lots of non canon Fanfiction, Books, Comics etc.
- and every now and then big f***ing epic MOVIES


Star Trek Online has the Series part covered with the Weekly Episodes. (makes me want to tune in every week)
UGC will be there to entertain the Fanfiction crowd. (keeps me entertained between the official content chunks)

But there is no "Wrath of Khan"... no "First Contact"

So what new thing can be done to fill this gap in the game?

rare 2-3 hour epic missions?


ideas?


/brainstorm
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Something that starts with "R", likes the colour green, and little birds perhaps.

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    If you are thinking a sort of "movie" mission for the game, I would suggest keeping the same format for the episodes but instead of weekly releases have the missions released daily, or every other day. They would tie together to form one long story. Maybe it could span 2 weeks.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    hmm movie wise... wait for the long war to start :D

    hmm i dunno... fox stuff that breaks... fix the stuff that breaks while fixing the other stuff

    Romulan, Spoon head, Borg, Undine Playable faction arguements.
    Fed carrier arguements
    Tier 6 arguements
    open pvp talks
    Poker
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    But there is no "Wrath of Khan"... no "First Contact"


    They did add the Mutara Nebula into the game.. I've been pondering what it's going to be used for.. which would be epic if it was some kind of episode dealing with something relating to ST:II Wrath of Khan.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Romulan, Spoon head, Borg, Undine Playable faction arguements.
    Fed carrier arguements
    Tier 6 arguements
    open pvp talks
    Poker

    realy what is it with POKER all the time?

    Red Dead Redemption has Poker
    Test Drive Unlimited 2 a RACING game has a casino with... Poker
    Team Fortress 2 keeps spamming me with news about "Win TF2 items in Poker Night at the Inventory" i dont even know what that means.

    Poker is everywhere...


    why not Tongo?
    or
    PLAY DOM'JOT HUMAN!

    :rolleyes: :D

    /off topic
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    What is Star Trek?

    - a Series
    - with lots of non canon Fanfiction, Books, Comics etc.
    - and every now and then big f***ing epic MOVIES


    Star Trek Online has the Series part covered with the Weekly Episodes. (makes me want to tune in every week)
    UGC will be there to entertain the Fanfiction crowd. (keeps me entertained between the official content chunks)

    But there is no "Wrath of Khan"... no "First Contact"

    So what new thing can be done to fill this gap in the game?

    rare 2-3 hour epic missions?


    ideas?


    /brainstorm

    I would like to see 2-3 hour missions designed for 5 players that are relatively easy and enjoyable, not super difficult like STFs. It would be more epic than the Weekly Missions and played at the end of every third season or so. I have to say What Lies Beneath was so mega epic, I only wish it was designed with 5 players in mind.

    The more features they add to UGC the better our missions will get.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    well zero it started in las vages... some money lunatic there though hey if we pay games to put poker in a positive light maybe we can get more people addicted to it thus wasting their money at his casino. anyway...

    stuff after UGC(season 3)

    - More Sectors to explore
    - Oiron,Gorn,Nausican Clothing options for the Klingon Alien species
    - More Undine
    - More Melee Weapons
    - Typhoon Class Dammit!
    - Open PvP

    ?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Sernon wrote:
    Something that starts with "R", likes the colour green, and little birds perhaps.

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    Yes, please.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Sernon wrote:
    Something that starts with "R", likes the colour green, and little birds perhaps.

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    I don't know about the green, but you must mean him

    Edit: I guess it is him, the last picture of him is while wearing a green visor
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Z3R0B4NG wrote: »
    What is Star Trek?

    - and every now and then big f***ing epic MOVIES

    But there is no "Wrath of Khan"... no "First Contact"
    So what new thing can be done to fill this gap in the game? rare 2-3 hour epic missions?

    /brainstorm

    I don't think they need 2-3 hour long missions, as the STFs are like that and they are not popular.

    To bring a touch of the movies into the game, I'd say they should focus on adding more cinematic quality or feeling to the game. Add in some touches, like awesome cutscenes during missions, some voiceover stuff like Patrick Stewart introducing something, maybe missions that have opening credits like this, etc.

    Even things like dramatic camera sweeps, multiple camera angle changes during conversations, incidental music, JJ Abrhams style lens flares in the background behind people in every scene (ok that's a joke - what is that about, seriously?).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The following features integrated in a single, robust, and balanced package:
    • Exploration Overhaul/Redesign

    • Starbases and T6 Fleet Ships

    • Territory Control / Diplomatic Influence

    I've kicked around a few ideas - some have gained a lot of traction but getting these three features together feels like they'd change up gameplay dramatically.

    If you want your 2-3 hour mission fix, UGC can still cover that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Galactrix wrote: »
    maybe missions that have opening credits like this, etc.

    <3<3<3 this is realy something that the game needs to make it feel more epic.
    Your little demo there pretty much proves that :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Let's walk before we run and get into the weeklies first. Then we can think about epic movie-type stuff :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The next step needs to be a player driven large persistant conquest/territory system that is primarily pvp supported by pve, something that players can invest time in and changes based on player actions, can eventually include later factions.
    this combined with ucg will provide substantial replayability for years.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Drakkos wrote:
    I don't know about the green, but you must mean him

    Edit: I guess it is him, the last picture of him is while wearing a green visor


    You have a good eye for spotting the villains. ;)

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The game needs content. Plain and simple. It needs leveling content to fill in the grinding gaps from LC to VA and it needs end-game content to give the thousands of admirals something to do. New features are nice but people aren't here to play difficulty sliders. No one sits around talking about the really cool difficulty slider mission. The game needs content.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    ok, long missions, good enough idea, but more smaller missions and greater diversity. so templates can be reused at other ranks and in explor epps. its a better use of dev time at the moment, maybe a big movie epp to unlock romulans
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Bohort wrote: »
    maybe a big movie epp to unlock romulans

    now that is an idea i like

    big epic movie episode to unlock big epic feature instead of little items.

    Would finally make the game feel like i have to do stuff ingame to earn stuff.
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