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Maybe a joint captain operated ship in the future Cryptic?
shadowwraith77
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Just an idea is all, I'm thinking maybe something on the lines of a grand total of 1-5 captains operating a single ship. All base captain abilities can be used at any given moment with their own cool downs, but multiple spamming of abilities will not stack. Same goes for skills will not overlap or stack, and captains would be in charge of abilities normally assigned to regular bridge officers and their limited ship ranks. If standard bridge officer's are assigned to ship slots because you are short on actual player's, than their abilities would be controlled by the ship owner to use, or could be assigned to a player captain of the same department whichever would be easier to design into the game in programming. The main ship owner would always be in charge of piloting and weapons, unless an active tactical player is aboard than it becomes their job to be in charge of weapons. If multiple tac players are on board than the jobs are split to one in charge of weapons fire the other in charge of targeting enemies if something like this could work just a basic idea. Unfortunately engineering and science players won't have a whole lot to do other than making sure the power levels are in good shape and the ship is healed and spamming enemies with holds, placates and other nasty debuffs, but they still contribute none the less. This would add to some fun and a sense of co-op between people willing to use this system, as well as allowing the devs or foundry creater's to develop new missions or pve's specifically for this use and adding a level of extreme difficulty and possibly awards and accolades for completions. Now again this is only a possible idea or dream that would be awesome if it could become a reality, but only Cryptic and their design team could answer that. Comments and idea add-on or changes are welcome, and maybe these can be possible in the game's future or maybe not.
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Lmfao that's good!!!! if a situation arises like this you can quickly swap boff slots with standard npc ones, you might be limited to doing this when not in a red alert situation or than again maybe they will allow it totally up to the devs, but it can be fixed easily.
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All I am saying is it would create a system of co-op amongst players who would enjoy something like this, and even add to the fun for RP player's. The ship captain is still in command, all that is happening is he is allowing other captain's aboard his ship the ability to act as a fill in boff atm. He/she still controls who fills that spot whether it be an actual player or npc. Heck maybe they could go so far as to allow a player to pilot a fighter/frigate launched from a carrier.....but probably too much.
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Its a absolute disgrace the things that have happened over the last few months first the farce with LOR and the rampant server crashes that were literally coming out of the storage compartments like tribbles.
For me that was the primary reason why I decided to step away from STO since I just don't feel inspired to play and they would have to work damn hard to get other players like me to come back . So as for the future of your idea I don't see it being achieved by them maybe someone else with better vision and knowledge :cool:
"I'm drunk, whats your excuse for being an idiot?" - Unknown drunk man. :eek:
Here's what I could see: MVAM in reverse.
It's a single ship that can dock with another ship of the same class.
You pick your role and toggle it on.
Whenever a ship of the same class with a complimentary role/stance toggled comes within 3 km, they have a "dock" power that becomes enabled.
So for example, you have four "stances": +eng, +wep, +shield, +aux.
Whenever someone flying this class of ship in another stance flies close, they can dock. Up to four copies of the ship can dock.
For each ship docked, they get a 100% boost across the board but certain abilities disabled.
So if someone with aux bonus docks, their non beam weapons are greyed out.
Who steers gets determined by a paper rock scissors system. Eng>Aux>Shields>Weapons.
However, maybe the weapons ship can act as a gunner console and free rotate.
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Not a matter of how well it is done, but the players involved. Say I lose my connection to the internet either through someone unplugging it or just a bad connection. Then the ship loses weapons, shields, impulse engines, or some other system. Then there is the issue of players not doing what the Captain wants because they think they can do their job better. Would be a decent system for people in the Military, but not for the average person that can't follow orders that well. Most of the people disciplined enough to do it are more interested in doing challenging and rewarding content so there would have to be some impressive reward for doing it for them.
cause sometimes its party time!
Yep that is a possibility that may happen in fact a similar scenario has played out many times in STFs most annoying when suddenly there are only 4 of you lol. So that is not a good enough reason to give up one of the main jobs of a dev is to solve problems like this one and it could easily be solved with a simple logic gate that says if player A is disconnected then NPC B is inserted to replace that player until they either come back or the battle is won
Second it does matter how well its done for if its poorly executed then players won't use a clunky system which doesn't run smoothly. Bit like ground combat in that respect which is very clunky and not very interesting lol.