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randolf2
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Since Using the Kepler space telescope and other tools has led to the discovery of thousands of planets orbiting other stars. I suggest adding some of them to STO to make the game seem more realistic. NASA just announced 2 more rocky worlds discovered in their stars habitatal zone so we may soon find another earth like world in real life! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-62-kepler-69.html .
Empress Sela, was assimulated by the Borg drone named Tasa Yar! :eek:
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Seeing more real stuff would be awesome. Because once again, reality proves it's better than fiction.
please type like if you like this so, Cryptic will know how popular this idea is. We must be careful to stay in the Star Trek idea or our game might get messed up! I am sure
Mr. Roddenbury would want us to keep up with reality while sticking with what is fun and Star Treky.
I am so happy we still have something left of NASA and equipment like Keppler is making these profound discoveries. Remember not that long ago people thought that earth might be the only planet out there with stars being devoid of planets.
There are 100 billion stars in the galaxy and if only 1 / 10000 have planets with life and 1 / 10000 of those have intelligent life then there might be hundreds of intelligent species out there.
Agree with OP let's have more real life stuff in sto!
- Judge Aaron Satie
Anything of celestial objects ... I even tried to make my own post on this in the Art department bit of the forums (viewable in my SIG)
BUT I REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY want it!
I hope STO get's better ...
Awhile back Cryptic was working on it, then they decided that it wouldn't be worth it unless they had missions to go with the planets and /then/ it kind of just vanished.
I wouldn't say wasted time and resources, there are people who do want an actual Star Trek experience with exploration.
That's why Star Citizen is popular with many people I know in STO, because it's going to give you actual Open PvP and actual Exploration. Which is what people in STO been wanting since Day 1.
So Cryptic needs to pick up the ball or lose out.
You are incredibly unimaginative.
It would be cool for Cryptic to get a chance to flex their creative muscle a bit, as well, as they could make up some minor alien races and a few missions. It would be a great place to put some non combat missions.
You missed Bajor. Does anyone go to these places outside of mission eps?
I mean Andoria/Risa - bet they see no more than a couple players a day. Is there even anything to do at those places for people who are not RPing?
Lets not forget - this game is about 1 thing only - the ability to captain and fly around your own starship - anything more is just fluff for 99% of people. If they came out and said we are going to replace everyone's ships with freighters the game would die in a week.
Only if Cryptic gives us nothing to do. I myself can think of several things other planets would offer.
62E is the planet that Andoria orbits.
The point being, most of those planets, in a fictional universe, 400 years in the future, likely have real names, and don't go by some numeric designation given to them by humans looking through a metal tube, hundreds of years before.
we need better equipment to point out a system more quickly then light waves, a more accurate measuring system and such.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
[nerd]:: Pushes up glasses :: Actually, since the galaxy is only 100,000 light years across and we are 80,000 LY from the farthest star in it (and 20,000 LY from the edge) our information on the galaxy is at worst 80,000 years out of date, not millions. [/nerd]
Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
The galaxy is not millions of light years across, it's 150,000. The information we're getting in our neighbourhood isn't that out of date. The galaxy progresses very slowly.
On another note, it'd be nice to have some real-time missions, such as terraforming Mars some more, or some planetary development on planets in Earth's Solar System that eventually leads to something real cool. It can be done over the span of one season, so as one season progresses, we can see its development. We wouldn't be able to actually affect its development as it's going to be done over the course of that season. However, getting involved would get you a nice reward.
Risa could have a few missions that will eventually give you an accolade that increases your health and regeneration. You learn to relax! Andoria could help you develop resistance or better meele skills. Doing oh... 50 combats on Andoria would give you +5 bonus resistance to all ground stats. Winning 50 matches would give you +5 damage increase on meele.
Bonus missions on your species homeworld could boost your species' automatic traits. Bajor, could be go get a orb. First time, get plus 1 to your stats, 20 times, plus 2, 50 times, plus 5.
(50 times would be the cap) The missions wouldn't be that easy. Andoria would actually be a pVp event and must be a victory to get it. Yeah I can see a flaw with that, a fleet could just set two people up, one sit there and get killed 50 times, but that's a long time to be beaten up. The reward would be 2,000 xp and skill points, 450 dil and the accolade. Bajor could be a STF, team of 5 to get the orb from a cardassian outpost. Vulcan would be a single player, like a sector patrol. You answer a bunch of logic questions, do some running around, and solve some sort of problem without violence, anger or any emotions.
Earth would be some sort of great project to develop the solar system, such as a terraforming project on Mars. Humans would be able to improve their teamwork trait by working to better the lives of the people of Sol System.
Ferengi would have to do a bunch of exchange deals and buy/sell stuff to vendors, something like sell 300, get 3 percent off, sell 1000, get 10 percent off, capped there.
Klingons, that's easy. Kill 500 people, get 1 percent to damage stats, kill 5,000 people, 5 percent to all damage stats with a bonus to meele. Get killed 50 times, get 1 percent to resistance, get killed 500 times, 5 percent to all resistance, with a bonus to kinetic.
I just realised I totally went off topic, lol... but it would be nice to add exploration missions to those worlds, or bonus missions that improves our characters. It would spread us out, yes, but we would be on different worlds. Andoria could be a ground pvp arena and a focus point for those who want to fight on the ground. Combat there would give your character a greater change to do meele damage. I'm so tired of everyone hanging out on ESD.
And we can't get much data on the farthest parts, because the galactic hub and bar are too dense. Our usable range is more like 50,000 ly, and we can't detect planets at that range yet. The farthest exoplanet we've detected is 27,700 ly.
But even if we had the full 100,000 range, we'd have a pretty good idea which ones were or weren't destroyed by the time the light reached us. Stars don't just suddently explode for no reason except in certain types of stellar collisions. It's a slow buildup with identifiable phases, and the final phase when the explosion is imminent "any time now" lasts tens of thousands up to several million years depending on the type and mass.
At 27.7k we can easily tell if the nearby stars pose a danger to the planets we're finding, and I'm only aware of one planet candidate that may not be there anymore, a gas giant whose orbit is almost inside the maximum radius of its highly variable parent star - it may not be there anymore or it may not be a gas giant anymore.
That would all depend on the amount of gravity in the center of our galaxy. Due to the fact that C is dependent on G
Open PvP, there are ways to implement it without needing flags. Just have certain locations being "high risk" areas and it's up to you to enter it or not.
And you really think the things we do in Exploration Clusters is exploration? :rolleyes:
If I had my way, Id have Cryptic get rid of those useless Exploration clusters, and add visitable solar systems (the same systems we do our missions in) and people (at their liesure) actually explore. You go up to a world, scan, and see if anything interesting comes up from scans.
New Life?
New Resources (maybe a new Dilithium vein players could mine).
New Civilizations (have actual Prime Directive protocols).
Or finding trouble (missions).
Some systems in the game like Regulus have multiple canonical worlds (another world in Regulus is the Caitian homeworld).
Just doing this makes these mission locations useful again outside of Foundry missions. And when Cryptic opens up Deep Space, they could easily tie it into a Foundry system where authors could create their own civilizations and missions around them, maybe go a step further and make rivial factions that make you choose between the two.
I rather see this than .........boring.............exploration clusters doing the same thing..........over...........and over............ /yawn and over.
If I wanted to play EVE Online, I'd bloody play EVE Online.
Did I say a system like EVE? NO, I DID NOT!
I was pointing out how people voluntarily enter PvP zones like Ker'rat and Otha. If you enter a PvP zone, expect to get shot at. Plain and simple.
Actually, what about the Atlantis Project? Where they build an artificial landmass in the ocean? Picard was thinking of taking the job as its manager.
I like this whole post, btw. Mostly non-combat ways of getting permanent trait boosts.
As for exploration missions: Notice how one poster said that there's nothing to do on Risa, except role-playing? The implication being, role-playing is actually "nothing to do". I don't agree, but personally, I like tangible results even from just walking around. Its the reason I don't bother earning vanity pets or costumes. So it would be nice if you can get some kind of bonus: a few accolades, maybe a bonus to your run speed and scanning range because your experience lets you "explore" faster. You've just completed a mineralogical survey of the world; have some dilithium.
Hey, maybe there are some doff missions you can only get on "unexplored" worlds.
To be really "exploration", there can't be any way of knowing what you're going to find there. It can't look too much like a place you've already visited, and you certainly read it in advance on the wiki. I think you'd have to implement the Genesis engine that could create settings randomly.