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sheppardus
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I would love to know with the latest books introducing a new DS9 station whether STO will be looking into implementing this into the game at some point?
The new station looks cool from the cover of the book and after reading about it in the story I think it'd be a cool station to have, especially for social areas such as the large parkland that is incorporated into the design that has adjustable gravity for flying (could take over as a permanent place to use the floaters from Risa)
Here are a couple of pics that have been put up to show what the station looks like with the park evident at the centre of the station
http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/the-fall12.jpg
http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/the-fall13.jpg
Edit. This isn't a thread to say Replace DS9 with the new design, but maybe possibly use the design for any new starbases in the future (I realise I should have been a bit more careful with the thread title)
The new station looks cool from the cover of the book and after reading about it in the story I think it'd be a cool station to have, especially for social areas such as the large parkland that is incorporated into the design that has adjustable gravity for flying (could take over as a permanent place to use the floaters from Risa)
Here are a couple of pics that have been put up to show what the station looks like with the park evident at the centre of the station
http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/the-fall12.jpg
http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/the-fall13.jpg
Edit. This isn't a thread to say Replace DS9 with the new design, but maybe possibly use the design for any new starbases in the future (I realise I should have been a bit more careful with the thread title)
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This tells you that licenses are nasty business.
They are highly unlikely to add that new DS9 because they would have to use their own story of why DS9 was destroyed and I see no reason why they would do that.
When you play the game you want to visually see the station you know from the show, not some brand new design only a small group of people will have seen. I'm all for them adding new starbases around the galaxy but no need to destroy such an iconic station in a visually heavy medium such as a game.
but it also looks completely impractical.....
A huge ship-sized forcefield hole in one of the largest parts of the station.... Just to show off a park? Who designed this starbase? They need a good Telerite beating....
NO! NOOOOOO!
You really want to upset every DS9 series fan by using a moderate station design from a book?
Let me get this straight: the moment DS9 will look like that is the moment I stop visiting DS9. For anything, including missions.
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If you were starfleet, would you:
1: Do massive, costly upgrades to a small old mining station / create a new station based on alien designs?
2: Build a time-proof, standard station that everybody knew, and was build for the purpose.
DS9, while being a iconic Star Trek station is in reality nothing more than a mining station, that wasn't build for anything other than that. It's not a combat station... It's barely even designed for living quarters, and especially not federation living quarters.
It's not a practical design either as the pylons constantly get in the way of weapons targeting (indicated by the need to install extra weapons modules on them), and severely limits what kind of ships can dock at any given location, further limited by the number of shuttles that can be assigned at any given time.
All in all, the -nor type station-design is a poor choice for a sector hub station, were the larger cardassian and federation stations, with internal docking options or large circular docking rings are a far better choice.
Basically, while looking pretty, the design in the pictures is just as poor as the DS9 design, and somehow, I just don't see Starfleet spending resources on upgrading/building such a design... Much like the original STO ESD.
If DS9 was to be substituted for another Starbase I'd prefer the Starfleet standard-issue Starbase. We have too few of those in game anyway
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There's already enough complaints about how large DS9 is from people who don't understand why it needs to be so large. We don't need a bunch of screaming on the forum from people who have no idea what book it would be from.
So seriously OP, let's see - you want to switch the iconic Cardassian-style DS9 that was the main area of events for DS9, a show that went on for 7 seasons and has many fans with something seen on a book cover of a book that I'm safe to say 90% of the people playing STO probably never even heard about, let alone read it?
Uhm, how about no?
Time of year? It's the "BEAT THE DEAD HORSE TILL THERES NOTHING LEFT" - year.
"New-style DS9", "Can we have the Vengance", "Can we have the JJ-Prise", "Can we have Borg ships", "Please rescale everything"... Just to name what I've seen today.
The Vesta is a special case, only because the Vesta doesn't replace anything. It can appeal to those who have an appalling taste in literature, and at the same time not tick off those who don't.
A new DS9 construced using bajoran architecture and designs
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How dare you want you change great Cardassian architecture. Star Fleet has no such taste and would be a crime to the galaxy to remove a work of Art
The massive and obvious difference here is money. The Vesta and any other ships they may or may not be looking into getting are done for the purpose of selling them and making cash.
Why would Cryptic go through the hassle of legal hurdles that are likely to be expensive, for a model that most people will hate and won't make them money?
As much as i hate to..... I kinda agree, Dukat.... BTW... you still got some of those "faithful" pills? I'm trying to gather a..... group of persons to a particular cause.....
And remember, DS9 was owned by the Bajorans. Starfleet only ran the thing.
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Please note I never said I wanted DS9 replaced with the new design, if you actually read what I said
[/QUOTE]I would love to know with the latest books introducing a new DS9 station whether STO will be looking into implementing this into the game at some point?[/QUOTE]
You will see that I mentioned the books introducing the new DS9 station and not STO to replace the current DS9, granted I could have made it a bit more clear mentioning that I'd like to see the station design as a possibility in game than doing a replacement
Also just realised my title was a bit ambiguous whoops
Personally, I am not a fan of gyroscope/flying buttress space station designs like this, or the old ESD.
I do not expect we'll be swapping out DS9.
I have to agree with Captain Forehead, DS9 is a much better station than the one on that book cover. Maybe they could build one of those in the Gamma or Delta quadrants.
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