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rgrgeom
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i love this game and have played since beta. i have to say though it doesnt have that star trek feel to it. there are many ideas i would love to happen but i know the never will so i will suggest a small change. please change some of the sounds. when i hit certain power such as abandon ship or evasive manoeuvres i would like to hear someone give or talk about the command. similarly just before you explode into nothingness it would be nice to hear someone say something like the "warp cores going critical" or even "structural integrity failing". Those wee nice catch phrases that give you the warm star trek feel. another good example would be brace for impact. You hit the button and someone says "All hands brace for impact" or even simply "brace for impact". Of course the key to it is picking the powers that arent used overly. You dont abandon ship too often (i hope) and similarly brace for impact isn't over used. You really couldn't do something like "firing phasers" every time you fire phasers or it would get very boring and repetitive. Hope the devs pick this up and make a comment or take it on board. if not then what about some sort of external plugin or dare i say it a mod of some sort. anyway love to hear some feedback. i know this has been discussed before and there is a youtube video (not mine) showing what possible sounds could be in the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeCdTzUPyXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeCdTzUPyXc
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Would be nice to have some more trek feel to it. Maybe give them a few different ways to say each phrase too
Re-route power to shields!
Re-routing power to shields!
etc
1) Cryptic will have to pay someone to do the voice overs. Then pay someone to encode this into the game across the powers.
2) As for the Bridge officers and my sounds, they would be different from other people's crews. For example, my Ops officer is a young human Male, so having a saultry female voice would ruin it for me. Others might have Vulcan crew, whose deadpan aflection would seem inappropriate for other races, but a standard voice would be deemed highly inappropriate for others.
You also added bits of "humanisms" in your dialog options, such as "We'll have her fixed up in no time." My Andorian Bridge officer who has not spent much time with humans would sound awkward saying that.
That being said, in order to pull this off, Cryptic would have to add another layer of customization to Boffs by adding a personality/VO options. While it could still be done, it would be a major season update and lots of bugs before this would be pulled off.
TBH, with how often I'm in and out of space dock this would be like playing epic music when you pull out of your driveway in the morning. It's just another day at work, so to speak :P
For undocking, it should be a proc, just like the random Enterprise-F encounters. Happens every once in a while, not every single time.
Interesting to note that both Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto recorded generic NPC voiceovers for the game in addition to what we've heard from them already. A player could make his or her own Spock Boff.
The customizable bridge/DOFF voice packs is the selling point IMO (literally) - the company isn't going to pay people to develop content that has no moneymaking potential at all but by adding new voice packs down the line for Zen they will be able to build the P2P on top of the F2P as they have with other areas of the game such as duty officers.
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While this would be fun to a certain extent it would take valuable time away from developers who need to spend that time fixing bugs.
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