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Anyone tried holoprogram missions?

teklionbenrashateklionbenrasha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited July 2012 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
I have this idea I'm going to try out, of using the Foundry to tell stories in the holodeck's objective mode (ENT: These are the Voyages et al.)

The idea is that you and your officers are off to the holodeck (the one on Hathon, likely) to watch a holoplay/holonovel/holomovie. The rest of it is the story, which unfolds in front of you. You don't fight, but watch it all happen.

What do you think? Would this be fun? Has anyone tried it?
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited June 2012
    I'm working on three missions right now that are "holoprograms" in which the player will take on the part of a famous person and act out something mentioned (but not seen) in the shows.
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  • aavariusaavarius Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'm working on a mission that's about a hologram, if that's relevant enough for you. Its working title is One For My Baby.
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  • teklionbenrashateklionbenrasha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    The project I'm working on now is going to put the player and away team as an audience to a holotheatrical play. Essentially, you go to a holodeck (on Hathon, I expect) and the mission is watching a play unfold before you. It's all objective mode - i.e. you don't interact with them, but simply "sit back and enjoy the ride."

    Of course I can't make people exit, so both the player and their character will be forced to "suspend their disbelief" somewhat - I'm going to bring elements in to hide the exiting characters from view (smoke etc.). What do people think?
  • designationxr377designationxr377 Member Posts: 542 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    There is an honest danger here when you try to run a "play story" where the characters are not actively the focus. Many players will not enjoy it. There will no doubt be a few that do, so my advice is to build the mission you'd want to play.

    Just be aware that unless it is like the idea where the player is assuming the role in the holoprogram, alla Captain Photon, Sherlock Holmes, or any of Picard's detective stories, many people will not enjoy it.
  • woghdwoghd Member Posts: 146 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Don't worry about who enjoys it or not.

    "Grazorak City" got first place in Foundry Challenge#2, and is now being spotlighted on the front page...and for every 5 star rating it recieves for being so huge and open ended, it gets a one-star for lack of combat and direction.

    You can't please everyone without being formulaic, so don't try. Make the episode you want to play, and everyone else can like it or not.

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  • teklionbenrashateklionbenrasha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    woghd wrote: »
    To thine own self be true.

    Hamlet, Act one, scene three! Fortunately my mission won't be in the original klingon...
  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited July 2012
    designationxr377 wrote: »
    There is an honest danger here when you try to run a "play story" where the characters are not actively the focus. Many players will not enjoy it. There will no doubt be a few that do, so my advice is to build the mission you'd want to play.

    Just be aware that unless it is like the idea where the player is assuming the role in the holoprogram, alla Captain Photon, Sherlock Holmes, or any of Picard's detective stories, many people will not enjoy it.

    That's why I went the route of putting the player in the role of the main historical figure. So they're at the center of everything. Besides its what they used to do in the shows! Picard didn't play Dixon Hill's sidekick lol.
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