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sierra078
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I would love to be able to customize my transporter effect. Instead of the default "voyager style" we could choose Enterprise, Original Series, TNG/DS9, Voyager, TMP, or TNGMP (The Next Generation Motion pictures Insurrection etc). Obviously this would only be available for the Federation as we rarely see the other species (besides Klingons and Romulans) use transporter effects.
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Why only for Feds? I'd much rather have the DS9 Klingon transporter effect than the current one which is more TMP...
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But I can see them releasing things like Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, and some other effects if they do get around to it. However... it might be a bit difficult to sync up everyone to register the same Transporter effects. Right now we only have the three types, and they're connected to faction allignment.
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The Federation has its transporter look because that's what it is at this point in the timeline. It wouldn't make any sense to have a TMP transporter effect in the game's "today" (any more than it makes sense to have like Miranda and Constitution ships, or the NX from "Enterprise").
Somewhere along the line, you've got to let the universe the game operates in BE that universe without all the pandering to individual and frivolous wants.
Besides, there's a lot else wrong with the game that they kind of need to work on before they do that kind of stuff.
Although having said that it'd be nice to have a Romulan transporter effect that looks like the Romulan transporter effect from the shows, and not just a slightly modified Voyager one.
I think in-universe it's mostly supposed to look the Same.
There ate difference between races and factions of course, but that would be due to entirely differentbasic tech.
Example:
When Scotty rematerialized on the Jenolan it looked like the more modern TNG effect, not Movie era.
Bit odd for my Sovereign class to have been fitted with a KDF transporter just for one Officer to use
It's so immersive when you and 2 boffs beam out with a Federation effect, your diplomacy boff with a KDF effect, and your embassy boff with a Romulan effect.
Like others have said, the effect used is currently tied to the boffs themselves, not your faction. If they let us customize the effect, it would actually be more consistent than it currently is.
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It'd be nice to have the choice between all the different transporter effects. Perhaps have the default as the default option, and then unlocking other options as you get the ships to go with them.
For instance, having a Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, or Breen effect would require the player to own a Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, or Breen ship respectively on the character. Other effects like the TOS version could be bought on the C Store for a small amount like, say, 100 ZEN.
That'd keep things within reason it'd limit how many players' transporters look totally different from the next players'.
If it turned out the way I've suggested here, or any other way within reason, it'd be a nice addition, and might get me back into my Chel Grett when escorts eventually become the rulers of space again...
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Maybe let people use the Borg version if they have T5 Omega Rep or something?
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Well if you want to be technical neither the Fed or KDF one is right...the KDF one uses the TMP Klingon effect and Fed one uses the Voyager effect which was only ever seen on Voyager and the TNG movies after Voyager's return used a different effect.
http://youtu.be/jHm2JcxN1sA?t=24m23s = Klingon
http://youtu.be/xdqzJvoH-_4?t=2m59s = Federation
I imagine they may have went with the Voyager one because the TNG/DS9 ones for Feds are kinda generic in fact the only thing that sets it apart from the Romulan one really is the blue color.
If that's so, maybe it's possible to add actions for each transporter animation to every species, and have each event that activates transporter animations(I'm sure there's a lot) just choose the appropriate one. Like if the script wants your Fed character to beam up onto a KDF ship, the KDF transporter effect activates. Or if your Romulan-allied BOFFs beam up to your RRF vessel, the RRF transporter effect is chosen for them.
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I also want ST 5 blue firing phaser beam that isn't capped at mk11 like the ToS phaser wep cap.
Hey, I'm a war-hardened exploring captain with millions of dead on my killboard, thousands of missions, hundreds of massive battleships laid waste at my feet. I'm onboard the most powerful weapons of any faction with the most cobbled-together collection of butt-kicking equipment known to the Alpha Quadrant (and Gamma Quadrant!), so if I want to choose my brand of transporter, by gum, they are going to LET me choose it!!
However, it occurs to me that some select few effects should be accolade based. You used to get things with accolades. They used to be minor rewards for hard work. Or... at least for "work." They were a fun addition to the game and gave you something to strive for. When I first started I was keeping an eye on my accolades to see what else I could get.
Now, they're pretty useless. The New Romulus ones, for example, are utter rubbish. Stand on a roof? Really? Look at a bridge? Lame. Okay, I understand they all can't be well thought out or engaging. I get some will be good, some bad, but it seems we don't have any good ones anymore.
So, maybe make an extra borg beam-out effect that you get by... say... winning every sector borg encounter alert. Defeat all Unimatrix ships and you get it. Actually, we already have an accolade for that, but you get my point. Make it borg-related. I got a defera transwarp point unlocked for earning accolades in Defera Invasion zone, so how about a Breen transporter effect (maybe with cold wisps of frost?) for rescuing the deferi hostages 10 times -- a daily mission.
How about if you unlock Ghosts of the Jem'Hadar and complete all 3 doff colony chains you get a Cardassian transporter effect? How about you get a Jem'Hadar effect when you turn in captured changeling (storyline mission) to the security officer?
It opens up interesting ideas, to tie it to easily achievable goals. It engages you to collect the ones you want (in addition to a pool of default choices).
Just some wild ramblings. Take it for what you will.
EDIT: I'd also love to see a few ship materials that can be earned that way. A Jem'Hadar theme, a Breen theme, etc. Something cosmetic I can apply to my ship regardless of what shield I use. The material is already there, in-game, just allow it to be added via ship customization instead of via toggle on loadout screen.
That said, I'd settle for making all members of the away team use the player's transporter effect.
It really annoys me when my enemy faction BOff and my Romulan BOff use a different color transporter effect than my toon and the rest of my away team (applies to both FED and KDF toons).
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