I was having a bit of a brainstorm this morning and suddenly I thought, wouldn't it be cool to start a thread to start some ideas flowing to what we would like to see in STO. So my ideas are:
1. In WOW you can fly. Wouldn't it be cool to use the runabout to visit planets, gas giants and moons to collect samples for crafting and for general research? Also for general missions, you could scan for life forms and achieve points for doing so. Mass effect 2 had a great idea with sending probes to planets to get ores and minerals.
2. In sector space, it seems that you dont really need the lower part of the screen. So wouldnt a pop up screen be better to fully immence yourself? On that note, if people remember Star Trek A final Unity, the best feature was to visit the Conn, plot a course and warp off - then see the stars fly by on the viewscreen. An idea maybe that you would see sector space fly by if you was to visit the bridge - given your chosen theme? I think an interaction with consoles is another essential requirement. Have an LCARS database to welcome members and put things in like help and tutorials, history, background, edit profiles, conduct research and then work on it at memory alpha, also tier it in with your character level so you can access secret information such as a brief on the Omega directive - have some missions based on that too!
3. If you have bridge themes, why not engineering themes? Or to boot, total customisation of what ship you want. As for your personal quarters, I would like to be able to customise and use items in that room. Much like the Sims has achieved or Fable 3. If you visit engineering, remember the Panel in Star Trek AFU? It was amazing how you could allocate power to systems and get warnings if you was to set something to dangerious levels. This could - in turn affect how you set your attack, defence, speed and Aux power levels. This you could then delegate to your chief engineer and then based on their skill level would then set a default level of the tatical settings.
4. It would be great to see more planets and systems - I think that this is being worked on but there are some pretty major ones left out still. That I feel is criminal!!! lol
5. KDF - I think it is half way there, but they need to be able to form alliances with other factions. While they have the honour system in points, something is still missing. Klingons fight in the name of their house / faction and family honour. It would be great to name a house on Qo'Nos or another planet in Klingon Space where you can visit and customize with the typical stuff. I guess a guild system would work in that respect.
One based on fighting for the empire, one based on spying, one based on research and another for creating alliances either by conquest or diplomacy.
I feel in some respects that there needs to be a bit of an RPG element to it as well.
Anyway, thats as far as I could manage in a morning. lol Just ideas really, but thought I would share and see what you all think. I do know it would take months to do etc if it was possible, but I think maybe if enough of us say what is a good idea it would seriously help put it in motion.:rolleyes:
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