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Suggestion to improve Federation gameplay
alphaoneoneseven
Member Posts: 3 Arc User
1. System/Subsystem targeting:
Instead of equipping 'abilities/traits/etc.' to target subsystems on hostile ships, why not have hostile ships' primary and subsystems appear like a drop-down menu that players can select from, then the player's Tactical officer can focus weapons fire on that specific system? As the player's tactical officer's 'skill' improves, so will targeting effectiveness and the player's chance of a critical hit on a given subsystem. *Once a ship's critical systems/subsystems have taken enough damage, the player can then optionally board the ship and take it over instead of destroying it.
2. More tactical ground missions:
Cover options/controls need to be added, as do aiming from cover.
3. Green/Yellow/Red Alert:
Players should be able to change their ship's alert mode at-will, instead of always going from green to red, and only when the ship suddenly comes under attack. 'Green' is obvious, 'Yellow' raises the shields, alerts any boarding party shuttles to standby for launch, 'Red' does everything 'Yellow' alert does, plus powers the ship's weapons.
Instead of equipping 'abilities/traits/etc.' to target subsystems on hostile ships, why not have hostile ships' primary and subsystems appear like a drop-down menu that players can select from, then the player's Tactical officer can focus weapons fire on that specific system? As the player's tactical officer's 'skill' improves, so will targeting effectiveness and the player's chance of a critical hit on a given subsystem. *Once a ship's critical systems/subsystems have taken enough damage, the player can then optionally board the ship and take it over instead of destroying it.
2. More tactical ground missions:
Cover options/controls need to be added, as do aiming from cover.
3. Green/Yellow/Red Alert:
Players should be able to change their ship's alert mode at-will, instead of always going from green to red, and only when the ship suddenly comes under attack. 'Green' is obvious, 'Yellow' raises the shields, alerts any boarding party shuttles to standby for launch, 'Red' does everything 'Yellow' alert does, plus powers the ship's weapons.
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From what i am seeing none of these are good ideas at all the red alert system in the game is good as is no need to do anything to that, Subsystem targeting as a selection would require massive coding to implement which would be a waste of resources, the cover system falls into waste of resources atm because things like this takes lots of time coding and testing and they may not even have the tech to do it yet. and last what kind of ground missions are ya talkin bout elaborate please.
^^Vice Versa for Klingon characters.
Another thing I would like to see: As a pilot, I would like to see a "cockpit" view when doing shuttle missions. For me, it is a little awkward to do an external view of the ship. Though I do realize that the coding involved would be ridiculous, and I am not a coder myself, it is something to keep on the books and think about for future projects.
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how hard would it be to recreate the starship trap from TNG where they had the aceton assimilator field? or the encounter with the guardian (first ferengi episode) or an espionage mission like enterprise incident? not every situation requires the business end of a phaser.
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Maybe disabling could take more time, but give a higher chance of better drops.
The same could be done on Ground combat too.
Another thing would be a expansion of the exploration system.
As a fan of the ship tailor, i would love to see more ship parts.
Maybe Cryptic could release something like a "general ship parts pack" for each ship type in the Game (Science, Escort and Cruiser). Such a pack could include a set of new pylons, nacelles and Saucers.
Both of these, though quite frankly I'd prefer to see a replacement of MOST destruction with disabling (Not counting Borg and maybe Elachi and some other minor things)... Blowing hundreds and hundreds of sentient beings up when there is canonically another option just seems kind of wrong.