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Risan floater restriction, the in-character version
warpangel
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We know the real life reason they gave for not being allowed to use the Risan floaters anywhere else. Maps were not designed for it. And apparently still aren't, even new ones. But...
Dust to Dust:
Kim: "OK, Admiral, now you have to shoot these glowing orbs in the walls to make the platforms appear. You'll have 5 seconds to run across the platforms before they retract and you fall to your death. And don't touch the glowing plates because then the platform will retract immediately and you'll fall to your death. Input the Kobali flagship's command codes on the consoles in between the platforms to unlock the next set. Jhet'leya and I will wait here until you turn the trap off from the other side."
Me: "Last year on Risa, I picked up this handy anti-gravity jetpack. I happen to have it with me here, so how about I forget the killer platforms and the various glowing things and just fly over there?"
Kim: "No, you can't do that, sir. Map's not built for it. Get jumping."
Or is there perhaps some in-character, story reason we're stuck risking our lives instead of flying?
And just for fun:
Me: "You know I'm the Fleet Admiral here, so how about you go jump on the platforms of death and I wait for you to disarm the trap, Captain. It's your misbehaving zombie clone we're chasing."
Kim: "Umm...I...I got a...a bad knee, the doctor told me no more platform jumping. Sir."
Me: "And your girlfriend?"
Jhet'leya: "I'm not his gi...you're not the boss of me, I refuse!"
Me: "It's impossible to find good help these days. And what were the Vaadwaur thinking when they built this place anyway? These platforms serve no useful purpose. And why do we have to use your flagship's command codes to operate them? This scene makes no sense."
Kim: "You'll get a load of accolades if you do it without dying."
Me: "Deal!"
Dust to Dust:
Kim: "OK, Admiral, now you have to shoot these glowing orbs in the walls to make the platforms appear. You'll have 5 seconds to run across the platforms before they retract and you fall to your death. And don't touch the glowing plates because then the platform will retract immediately and you'll fall to your death. Input the Kobali flagship's command codes on the consoles in between the platforms to unlock the next set. Jhet'leya and I will wait here until you turn the trap off from the other side."
Me: "Last year on Risa, I picked up this handy anti-gravity jetpack. I happen to have it with me here, so how about I forget the killer platforms and the various glowing things and just fly over there?"
Kim: "No, you can't do that, sir. Map's not built for it. Get jumping."
Or is there perhaps some in-character, story reason we're stuck risking our lives instead of flying?
And just for fun:
Me: "You know I'm the Fleet Admiral here, so how about you go jump on the platforms of death and I wait for you to disarm the trap, Captain. It's your misbehaving zombie clone we're chasing."
Kim: "Umm...I...I got a...a bad knee, the doctor told me no more platform jumping. Sir."
Me: "And your girlfriend?"
Jhet'leya: "I'm not his gi...you're not the boss of me, I refuse!"
Me: "It's impossible to find good help these days. And what were the Vaadwaur thinking when they built this place anyway? These platforms serve no useful purpose. And why do we have to use your flagship's command codes to operate them? This scene makes no sense."
Kim: "You'll get a load of accolades if you do it without dying."
Me: "Deal!"
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Stopped thinkung too much about the story a long time ago, mostly ruins the fun since very few things actually make sense at all.
Like that annoying captain that's bossing us (vice admiral +) around durig the kobali prime stuff....
Yes folks, Neelix wants you to help him look for spices and other related junk even though you're a high ranking officer.
Shopping. That's what you went to the Academy for. Shopping.
Free Tibet!
It is an old Vaadwar stasis hidey-hole. The Kobali just called it a temple to hide the fact they were grave-robbing.
This is "true" .. but not in the way you imply. On the day they released the floater I transwarped back to earth and down to the acad, hit my floater <it was still active> and took off, got about 10-15 ft in the air and it then went grey and shut down. We can fly in all maps. However they never designed the roofs and other areas we could get into with a floater, so they say "The maps aren't designed for that", there's no mechanical reason, no game reason, just a "we don't want you to do that".
**shrug**
Hmm, let's see: they're consumer devices, sold/rented to anyone, on a resort planet that wants people to have a good time....
...I'd be willing to bet those things have so many "protection from user idiocy" features built into them that it'd take a team of the best Federation engineers weeks to disable the safety protocols. :P
While it would make sense to be able to use the jet pack, which I did try it with one of my characters lol, I was just pleasantly surprised that they did something that involved thinking, instead of the whole thing just being shooting enemies. Till then, I really didn't expect to see anything more than "Go here, and shoot this till it dies."
I hope that more of the episodes we get have more puzzles, and things that make players use their brains.
Scotty would make it in 3 and a half days.:D
Wouldn't it be funny if Summer Event 2015 was moved somewhere else because the Risans were sued out of business?
I am still very new, I just started playing a few days ago. But then I run this mission...
* Spoilers even though I am sure you have all already done this *
I am back in the past (at level 15 nonetheless, didn't wait long to throw time paradoxes at me did they...). The station I am on is about to be destroyed by radiation and Scotty of all people sends me to the space equivalent of a Quik-E Mart to buy some kind of 'power coupling' to save everyone from death.
"Ok", I think, "that is dumb, but maybe this could happen". Except that I can't buy the power coupling BECAUSE THE STORE ATTENDANT WANTS A DRINK!.
Yes, I have to get the store attendant liquored up before I can buy the power couplings to save her and everyone else's lives.
BUT IT GETS WORSE... because no one knows what she wants to drink and I have to run around finding clues as to what will most effectively get her smashed while the entire population of the station slowly burns to death from 'Triloric' radiation...
Seriously Cryptic. Do not let your children write your mission plot lines as part of their 7th grade creating writing assignments. If you can't do better than this just plagiarize something.
I really wish this song played during the whole platform jumping thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGX4obVl64w
You don't want them to notice you don't belong there. So telling Scotty to go get his own trinket or yelling at the shopkeeper to get drunk after giving you the trinket is out of the question. Humoring them actually does make sense.
Can't imagine them bouncing their superior officers around like that, though.
Dude, it's a TOS homage. It's intentionally hokey.
Are you going to complain about the Type 3 Phaser Rifle having lame SFX too?
Of course, inexplicably, this doesn't prevent you from beaming out of there at any time if you want to abort the mission. :rolleyes:
He did that all the time on voyager...
Chakotay was hunting roots all the time.
Rofl That would make a good unending Doff mission chain.
They shouldnt have tied level to starfleet rank!
Just have us be captains! Captains to start, captains at the end!
It just make no ******n sense why a flag officer would do alk the missions him/herself.
Although the same can be said for the "captain" rank but as starships are at times the only representation of the federation in a "strange, new" world. Thats okay...
Flag officers shouldnt be on strange new worlds to begin with!!!
/rant over
Thats why i refuse to wear admiral pips on my toon!
Dont get promoted, captains! (Parapheasin kirk)
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