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flash525
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We saw Picard's Buggy in ST:Nemesis, and sometimes, when on a planet I do find myself having to run around quite a bit to get to a certain location; something that that would vastly be reduced in time if I had another form of transport to get around without the use of my boots.
Then it came to me. Wouldn't it be good if we could drive little buggy's. Limit them to three people, maybe strap an enhanced weapon on the back or something (Worf loved that, I could tell). It would be something to get about in a little quicker (maybe for specific missions) and would add something extra to the game.
Adding to that, you could include mini-games for people who own these buggy's (no doubt a C-Store Purchase; though I think 700 Zen for an EV suit is a little steep, so something around the 500 mark would be good).
One option could / would be racing. Get a number of players together (a form of Ground PvP) when said player gets their buggy (with or without Boff's) and drives around a course in the hopes of winning. Rewards could be given for first, second and third positions (be that EC points, Dilithium or Items).
I'm thinking it could work out? Though I'd like to see Poker come in first. Thoughts?
Then it came to me. Wouldn't it be good if we could drive little buggy's. Limit them to three people, maybe strap an enhanced weapon on the back or something (Worf loved that, I could tell). It would be something to get about in a little quicker (maybe for specific missions) and would add something extra to the game.
Adding to that, you could include mini-games for people who own these buggy's (no doubt a C-Store Purchase; though I think 700 Zen for an EV suit is a little steep, so something around the 500 mark would be good).
One option could / would be racing. Get a number of players together (a form of Ground PvP) when said player gets their buggy (with or without Boff's) and drives around a course in the hopes of winning. Rewards could be given for first, second and third positions (be that EC points, Dilithium or Items).
I'm thinking it could work out? Though I'd like to see Poker come in first. Thoughts?
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Looks good, just needs to be implemented now.
And that would mean anyone without such a vehicle would complain bitterly about it just being another cash grab, since trying to do anything on a map large enough to make ground vehicles meaningful would be very tedious without one.
It would be cool to have, but very unlikely... not to mention it would beg the question why they wouldn't simply be beamed from one spot to the next rather than have to ride?
There is still the question of whether this tech would be doable with their engine. As we've seen, when you beam up to your ship, you actually become your ship as opposed to being in your ship. If we had to actually become the ground vehicle it would still be cool, but wouldn't be quite as cool as having 3 people/boffs actually sitting in different seats, performing different functions.
The same question / reason / excuse could be applied to the scene in Nemesis.
Aye, this would be a worry somewhat. Either they'd have to glue the ground officers in question to the vehicle in question (thus no enter/exit vehicle); the mission(s) in question would be pure ground-vehicle based, or they'd have to alter their code somehow to allow for a little bit more customization.
Either they would have rewards justifying the purchase of vehicles (in which case those not willing to spend on vehicles would cry foul) or they would not (in which case there would be little incentive to do them at all).
You are comparing a movie with a game, and a movie that was seen as questionable at best.
The term 'jumping the shark' comes to mind.....
Still, if we could get this for something like the new Romulan ground missions in S7, then that would be awesome.
President of Alpha Solaris, a Federation fleet.
I used to be Sinsofasolarempire
I would much rather have a suttlecraft instead that I can fly around the planet environment.
I know the devs were talking about finding a way to include the Argo a while back in a mission but would love to see this in game.
Something along the lines of getting to drive one would be great and it would be an excellent opportunity to make use of the first person shooter mode by having parts of missions where you are the gunner and an NPC drives.
I'd love to see a hostile sand box planet along the lines of the Nimbus III with regressed technology where the colonists rely on these vehicles to get about. For frontier backwater planets this would be brilliant and allow to get something very trek back into the game that is sadly under represented, exploration.
If used right they could open up large areas of untapped game play and avoid players pulling donuts in the temples on vulcan.
Now I'm sure that people don't walk from one end of San Francisco to another, beam everywhere, or have public transit systems that go exactly from their front door to where they want to be in the 24th century, so vehicles probably see civilian use. But there doesn't seem to be much of a reason for one to be used by the crew of a starship.
From a gameplay perspective: I just don't see a place for it to be used at the moment. It'd have to be brought in as part of a bigger map/mission.
This was what I was thinking. We know that Klingons still use planetary vehicles, they could get some. But really, they don't make any sense at all. Even less then fighter-craft. Starfleet is using antigrav-technology for even the most basic things, urban-vehicles are just obsolete. Shuttles and transporter, period. And I can't imagine Klingons using these in actual combat, but hey in STO they even launch hundreds of puny, useless fighter-craft so go on. And while we're mention it, where are the Starfleet combat walkers? And bad-TRIBBLE battletanks? Lightsabres, please, and personal jetpacks would also absolutely rock...
I bet they will introduce vehicles at some point, only to mess with the star Wars MMO which has them. Damn it, they put every frigging nonsensical thing in this game because anyone else got it, and they can sell it for zen so yes. Brace yourself for buggy-funtime...
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