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Where's the Ship's Computer?

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Canon? The Trek Experience? The Ship Computer is as much a part of this as the Federation and Klingons.

Now preferably, we'd have a Majel Roddenberry voice synthesizer. Any voice synthesized response. Text and graphics. Or just text.

I think it'd be great as an aesthetic addition, but I want the functionality.

For example; I'm currently trying to find out where I can acquire Industrial Replicators. I've visited a couple of brokers who didn't have them and wouldn't tell me where I could find them. In any Star Trek imagining I'd simply ask and the Computer would answer. The Federation database was always portrayed as extensive.

Seriously. This game is fun, but it is lacking in accessibility to information for both interface and content.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Don't you replicate industrial replicators from your ship?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Didn Majel Barret-Roddenberry Die December 18'th 2008? *hint*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The ships computer is busy waiting to give you a sense of moral superiority when blasting innocent and oblivious alien scum by stating the starfleet version of southparks "IT"S COMING RIGHT FOR US!".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    anazonda wrote: »
    Didn Majel Barret-Roddenberry Die December 18'th 2008? *hint*
    Hence the need for synthesization.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Roxbad wrote:
    Text and graphics. Or just text.

    :picks up mouse:

    Hello, computer.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Perhaps it could operate as a function of the ship interior?

    Just to be clear. I'm not as interested in the method as I am the information.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Cormoran wrote: »
    The ships computer is busy waiting to give you a sense of moral superiority when blasting innocent and oblivious alien scum by stating the starfleet version of southparks "IT"S COMING RIGHT FOR US!".

    lol !!! (I had to add the exclamation marks to make the message long enough to post)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Roxbad wrote:
    Canon? The Trek Experience? The Ship Computer is as much a part of this as the Federation and Klingons.

    Now preferably, we'd have a Majel Roddenberry voice synthesizer. Any voice synthesized response. Text and graphics. Or just text.
    1) I hear Majel's voice all the time, she's constantly letting me know when the enemy's shields have dropped and recommends that I fire Photon Torpedoes. All you have to do is to enable that in the options.

    2) You can use your ship's replicator to create all types of commodities.

    3) There is a Library Data Computer in game. You access it by clicking on the little computer icon next to your mini-map.

    4) If that Data Bank isn't sufficient you could always use this one, or you could use the official forums. It's too bad that you can't find the official STO forums so that you can ask some of those guys your questions. I bet they actually know the answers too.

    This game isn't lacking any accessibility to information. You need to learn where to go to ask the questions.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    1) I hear Majel's voice all the time, she's constantly letting me know when the enemy's shields have dropped and recommends that I fire Photon Torpedoes. All you have to do is to enable that in the options.
    Yeah. Noticed that. Wouldn't it be nice to see the voice response expanded?
    2) You can use your ship's replicator to create all types of commodities.
    I didn't know that. I thought it would just retrieve only what had been recycled. I didn't scroll past the food to see the commodities.
    3) There is a Library Data Computer in game. You access it by clicking on the little computer icon next to your mini-map.
    Actually, it's the question mark under the computer icon, Just above the menu selection "Report A Bug". Not really the kind of aesthetics that keeps one immersed in the game environment.

    That's an aside to the fact that the extent of its content is frankly, pitiful.
    4) If that Data Bank isn't sufficient you could always use this one, or you could use the official forums. It's too bad that you can't find the official STO forums so that you can ask some of those guys your questions. I bet they actually know the answers too.
    I've done so. Perused both wiki and the impressive collections in the Academy section of this board. Most information is readily available, after leaving the game to search for it.
    This game isn't lacking any accessibility to information. You need to learn where to go to ask the questions.
    That's kinda what I did. I've done it a couple of times here. This is the first time I've interpreted any "attitude" in the responses. Sorry if, I offended you.

    Then again, I just may be too old. I remember when companies tried to accommodate customer requests and didn't chastise them for not being willing to put forth more effort.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Roxbad wrote:
    Yeah. Noticed that. Wouldn't it be nice to see the voice response expanded?
    Meh. I don't care either way.

    Roxbad wrote:
    That's an aside to the fact that the extent of its content is frankly, pitiful.
    Very true. I can't disagree with you there.
    Roxbad wrote:
    I've done so. Perused both wiki and the impressive collections in the Academy section of this board. Most information is readily available, after leaving the game to search for it.
    Yeah. Cryptic habitually doesn't produce any in-game documentation, ever. I suppose that it makes a kind of sense. MMOs are so large and the players typicially write up info nowdays. I guess Cryptic just figures they can either spend their time writing up the in-game documention or they can spend their time working on the game. So they choose number two.
    Roxbad wrote:
    That's kinda what I did. I've done it a couple of times here. This is the first time I've interpreted any "attitude" in the responses. Sorry if, I offended you.
    Sorry if my post sounded upset or like I had an attitude. It was unintentional.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Yeah. Cryptic habitually doesn't produce any in-game documentation, ever.
    So, "Cryptic" is also descriptive?
    I suppose that it makes a kind of sense. MMOs are so large and the players typicially write up info nowdays.
    Understood. That would be expected for very detailed mechanical analysis or various game strategies. I wouldn't expect it to carry over to basic information. (that's basic not minimal)
    I guess Cryptic just figures they can either spend their time writing up the in-game documention or they can spend their time working on the game. So they choose number two.
    I don't see a distinction between the two. The goal is to provide a gaming experience that will appeal to as many people as possible. Frustrating new players, by ignoring their need for information that experienced players take for granted, seems counterproductive.

    All I've tried to suggest here is a method to satisfy that need while keeping/adding to the Star Trek experience.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    1) I hear Majel's voice all the time, she's constantly letting me know when the enemy's shields have dropped and recommends that I fire Photon Torpedoes. All you have to do is to enable that in the options.

    Isn't that actually Lani Minella?

    (Then again, before I looked it up, I thought it was Judi Durand. Shows what I know.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Isn't that actually Lani Minella?

    (Then again, before I looked it up, I thought it was Judi Durand. Shows what I know.)

    Wow... she sounds a lot like Majel, I always thought it was Majel doing the computer voice but her IMDB profile doesn't list it.

    In that case I would mind some more interactions with the Computer during missions aboard Starfleet starships and starbases. Doesn't have to be overly detailed, just a phrase when you first interact with the computer would be nice.

    I must admit I agree with the OP though, there should be a Computer lab that acts as an in-game wiki, perhaps either sourcing from an established wiki or player added content. Imagine all the biographies and races that could be shared.
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