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Weapons with movie sound effects, scaling ships, change crew uniforms
janicielle
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I would really love to see the following added to the game:
1. Ships that scale with your rank. Some of us have certain class starships that we really love and would like to command them throughout our characters' careers. As your rank levels up, new weapon slots, boff slots, console slots are added depending on the type of ship (cruiser, escort, science). They don't have to scale up to top tier, maybe just up to rear adm/brig gen.
2. Phasers and photon torpedoes that use sound effects from the first 6 movies. I loved how the torpedoes sounded on them compared to next generation. These weapons would fit perfectly with Miranda, Oberth, Constitution refit, Excelsior classes.
3. Allow us to change the uniforms of the crew walking around the interior of our ships. It makes sense that all the crew wear the same style uniform as the captain and boffs.
Please take these suggestions into consideration and thank you for your attention to them.
1. Ships that scale with your rank. Some of us have certain class starships that we really love and would like to command them throughout our characters' careers. As your rank levels up, new weapon slots, boff slots, console slots are added depending on the type of ship (cruiser, escort, science). They don't have to scale up to top tier, maybe just up to rear adm/brig gen.
2. Phasers and photon torpedoes that use sound effects from the first 6 movies. I loved how the torpedoes sounded on them compared to next generation. These weapons would fit perfectly with Miranda, Oberth, Constitution refit, Excelsior classes.
3. Allow us to change the uniforms of the crew walking around the interior of our ships. It makes sense that all the crew wear the same style uniform as the captain and boffs.
Please take these suggestions into consideration and thank you for your attention to them.
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In regards to your first request. If you have a ship that scales with rank, then Cryptic would loose out money wise. Cryptic make money by players purchasing bigger and better ships and BOFF slots from the C Store.
In regards to to your second request. Having the ability to have different sound effects for certain weps and torps won't happen, just like your third request.
In regards to your third request, this has been asked for numerous times in the past, and will never happen due to the complexity of it.
2. Really not sure why they don't use the canonical sound effects. Still drives me crazy that Klingon disruptors don't sound anything like what was on TV.
3. This was brought up before, but seems in order to do that is a major task. And they got better things to work on.
True, but then again they could easily charge players for upgrading their starships to the next tier. And it being so costly that buying the next Tier C-store ship would be more favorable.
Then there's the assault phaser. Sounds like it stings quite a bit. :P
As for #2, I would go as far as saying ALL weapons / fx that can have Tv / movie sound effects SHOULD have them.
I hope STO get's better ...
I'll accept that it's complex, but never say never.
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Aye...I love the sound effects from DS9...Klingon Disruptors sound so awesome in it.
1)Not likely to happen, as people have stated because of the T5 Connie thing. Frankly the spaceframe to power ratio should pretty much mean smaller, older designs just couldn't handle the powerplant needed to make them effective against 'front line' ships of the 25th century.
2)Could possibly happen, but lets be a little honest here, this is far past the days of the 2260-2280s, progress does happen.
3)Lord it would be nice if you could set this easily, but assuming the mechanics work similarly to those that exist in the Foundry, this prospect is not something that can easily be changed because the default costume of NPC's are set at a level 'lower' than your personal account. It would be nice at the very least if they could change them to at least all wear something like the Sierra 1 or maybe even the Oddessey style outfit, at least then it wouldn't look all leathery and terrible
Same here. There should be enough source material to give the Klingons and Romulans their proper sound effects as presented in TNG and DS9.
IMHO the Disruptor DCs would go well with the disrupto sound used by BoPs in DS9 while DHCs could use the ones used by K'vorts in TNG.
2/Maybe some people prefer what we currently have ? Maybe that's just your personal opinion ?
3/It was asked. Also asked, to have our DOFFs instead of generic crewmen. However Cryptic said it was too complicated, and unlikely to happen. It would be cool however.
So to go through different ships, actually isn't that far fetched. I mean take the US Navy for example. Would you want to command the same podunk Frigate or DD you're whole career?
Probably not. Now getting something like the enterprise, that's something else.
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I really never understand these requests... If there were more content/missions/things to do on the interior, I could see this... But as it is, there are very few things that can be done there (some doffing missions are only available from a contact in your ship (Science/Engineer come to mind), but other than that... what else is there to do?
I suppose if we commanded our ships from the bridge, or spent more time in the interior, I would understand... I just don't see it as worthwhile from a dev time perspective... but thats just me, I don't speak for everyone.
As for #1, as someone else pointed out... ship sales would suffer...so don't think thats going to happen.
As for #2, another Meh thing for me... but the mechanic does already exist (to some extent), the retro blue phasers (from the Klingon arc) have a different sound than the newer phasers. Now changing that based on Ship might be more difficult... and to be honest, since spending most time in battle... I generally turn off the ingame sounds, and listen to music instead, or TeamSpeak. Again, its one of those content issues with me... I'd prefer to keep the existing sounds if it meant more things to do, rather than new sounds and nothing new to do (kinda my whole ship philosophy... why ask for new ships if the existing ships compelte the content without issue... new content over new ships to fly through old content).
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You're right, which I think explains why the dev time required to make crew uniforms happen hasn't been allocated.
A lot of people would still like to see it happen, myself included. I don't get to see my crew very often, and would love to see them more regularly, but when I do see them, I'd like them to be in a consistent uniform.
As a side benefit, any system for doing this could likely be ported over to the fleet system, so that Starbase/Embassy/Mine/Spire crew could be seen wearing the fleet uniforms.
We're all only admirals by level. Admirals don't command individual ships (which is why some captains prefer to stay captains). They command battle groups, task forces, and whole fleets. Yet we have thousands of admirals flying around in command of starships. Which is why I still wear captain's pips on my uniform, despite being at level cap, and also have the captain title selected. If one of my characters is commanding a smaller ship like the Defiant class or a BoP, I have that one in commander's pips.
I've had the privilege of getting the Big-E (as a crew member, not captain
And let's not forget that Kirk, in spite of being promoted to admiral and assigned to Starfleet Ops, looked for any excuse to get back to the Enterprise and assume command. Sometimes you get to know a particular ship and crew so well you feel like you belong.
As far as older ships not being able to be upgraded to handle 25th century combat, don't forget we have Andorian ships from the 22nd century at T6 level. Obviously they have been refitted to handle battles with 25th century firepower. Besides, isn't the Excalibur class a newer version of the Connie? There could be a T5 retrofit of that one. Today we have B-52s that have been flying for more than 50 years with many upgrades and will probably still be in service for another 50 years because it's a perfectly good bomber that, in spite of high tech stealth bombers and cruise missiles, hasn't gone obsolete. As LaForge said to Scotty, "Just because something's old, doesn't mean you throw it away."
-Amelia Earhart
And if you're flying a Saber or Defiant, it's kind of weird to have basically your entire crew complement shuffling around like zombies.
Except for my Science officer which I Kinda RP as a Rear admiral incharge of a squadron, you're right my other to fed characters wear captain Pips. Never set foot on the Big-E, I was a marine. Only 3 ships I ever saw was the USS Ogden, Tarawa, and Peleliu.
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The Andorian ships aren't the same model as the one from the 22nd Century. And the NX in STO isn't the NX but the Utopia-class (a ship design thats is identical to the original. Like how there are new P-51s that are based off the World War 2 P-51s).
First off the Excalibur isn't a refit of a Constitution, but a new ship with a similar configuration. So in that respects I can see that having a Tier 5 refit, just not having the Constitution skin available.
But the Constitution-class itself, for one thing it was decommissioned over 100 years ago, and there was only like 12-18 of them in the TOS era. The last confirmed Consitution was used was at the Battle of Wolf 359 and was obliterated by the Borg. So there really shouldn't be a Consitution at all in the modern era, outside of a museum.
With the B-52 analogy, the Miranda-class or the Oberth-class fits better with it. Because they been in service for over a hundred years and is still in service.