Build up your oun colony in STO

aerodrive1 · November 2015

Hey,

I think it would be nice if we explore again new space to have
the possibility inside STO to build up our own colony world.
Build up buildings, strategy in development, and get Credits, Dilithium, Latinum or trading goods
based on your development startegy of your colony.

What do you think about it?

f9thretxc · November 2015

I was thinking of something similar just yesterday. Maybe our own private star base or the like, as player housing. I know they have kind of frowned on such a thing in the past, but with the admiralty system in place now, It would be kind of neat to see such a thing in place.

Mind you, it would just be for busy work, as how many of us actually beam to the bridge to issue doff jobs. (Which is why certain windows close while doing some doff missions) .

Unless of course, they could come up with some further reward/sink system tied into such a thing. Maybe tie it into the drydock, or have the chance to open more bank slots, or the like. Yeah, I know, a further grind, but It doesn't hurt to look towards the future.

All that verbosity aside, I kind of like @aerodrive1 's idea also. a colony world.

gradii · November 2015

You mean like being put in charge of setting up a Federation/Klingon Empire/Romulan Republic Colony?

aerodrive1 · November 2015

Yes, like you do with the fleet starbase, but could be a fleet building or linked to the Player.
You should be able to select buildings in the colony. Construct it. Go through the streets and see them.
Based on your selectable builings the colony can work in the Background for you. creating goods, dilithium, credits, Latinum.
But it should not "feel" like an other fleet housing, it should be a minigame with an own map to Visite.
You should be able to manage your small world. Build up or destroy buildings, plants, parks, ....
It should be on a fix place in the galaxy. You can trevell there and see it.
It shoul look different from Player to Player just based on the personal build up.

hanover2 · November 2015

Thumbs up if it's some variation on the Star Trek: Armada theme.

Thumbs down if it's more like Star Trek: Sim City edition. The game is already enough of a bloated, crash-heavy resource hog.

markhawkman · November 2015

If all you want to do is build your own city.... Foundry will be back in a week or so.

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jade1280 · November 2015

inb4FleetColonyBase

bobbydazlers · November 2015

you do realise of course that a colony world in sto would be implemented to work very similarly to the way our starbases work now, in other words it would mostly be about just filling projects with resources.
what I am saying is don't expect to have too much control over the way the colony appears, don't expect it to look any different to the way other fleets colonies will appear beyond a few minor tweaks from the odd special projects that might be run or not.
we would have very little choice on the overall way the colony would appears and in any case how often would we get a chance to view another colony to make comparisons in any case.
at the end of the day fleet holdings such as these are more about getting us to plough our hard earned resources away then it is about building something that is unique to each fleet.

having said that it would be cool to have such a holding providing players don't get disgruntled by the limited amount of control we have over the development and running of the colony, I suspect many players would expect it to be more akin to sim city then it is to one of our existing holdings.

fovrel · November 2015

A kind of RTS game inside this game could be awesome, if implemented the right way.

BTW. I have my own starbase. I have to do all by myself, but it is great. As a matter of fact, I have two, a KDF and a Fed, of course. I am never bored with the game, because I can always build on my starbase. It goes slower than a snail, but I am fine with that.

talonxv · November 2015

I'd like my own personal base/colony. Granted not like the Sims, but somewhere I can see my own fleet going out on missions with the cards, etc.

Being able to have Boffs stationed there and depending on what boffs and skills they have can affect things, etc.

Wpulp be kinda fun.

bernatk · November 2015

That wouldn't be too canon. Also we have the fleet system. While it's not personal you can always make a solo fleet or a small fleet with very close friends. Putting resources into a fleet is always a good investment. You can have your personal Rura Penthe or krenim science station or ancient solanea mass relay station, etc.
What Cryptic should do is to expand admiralty into a proper RTS game. Taking command of your fleet would be as canon as one can get.

Build up your oun colony in STO

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When I think about everything we've been through together,

maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,

and if that journey takes a little longer,

so we can do something we all believe in,

I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.