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thegrandnagus1
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I was playing Star Trek Online the other day and I thought to myself hey it would be fun if you could do combat from your ships bridge like in the game bridge commander so please add bridge commander combat to Star Trek Online very soon maybe next week thanks fyi this is a joke
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yes please maybe tomorrow
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I'm going with account TRIBBLE by a cat.
Besides... I think this is about ready to be added to the FCT because this subject seems to come up every once in a while.
But you can have it. Just turn your graphics settings all of the way down. Then it will be just like playing Bridge Commander. From outside of your ship.
While this is a joke of a post, I don't think they actually came out and said it was an engine limited but more of it being not feasible to do or pull off.
Very long time ago I read the official reason so you could be right though, and no, I don't feel like using this pain in the rear search to look for it.
Edit: Actually it's in the F.C.T.
"However, what I have said in the past, and will repeat now, is that our game, as it stands today, is not set up for this at all. It's not an engine limitation per se, and it's not because our engine is old. It's because it's not how the game was designed. Again, possible, but not probable." - Tacofangs
Also, giant robots.
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They already, and clearly stated a long while back that this would never happen.
If you look at the admirality system, that's the target work/profit balance.
1D text windows with no animations and no models and in turn we expect you to buy every ship in the entire game, I mean it doesn't get anymore low budget than that.
Playing from the bridge and especially piloting from the bridge could be done so easily it's tragic but it's an ACTUAL mechanic that requires ACTUAL work, you'd then have to give away for free.
If you can't put it into a 1D text window with a paywall, it's not happening.
The game should have, 3D in space and 3D in combat, it ought to have exploration, meaningful and with all respect mature topics of philosophy and politics, red alert system, holodocks I mean the list goes on and on.
But no doubt, if you asked 100,000 star trek players what are the no. 1 things they'd expect from a star trek game, NONE of it is in STO.
Not even canon either
Afterwards, please add player crews. Thanks!
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Pick a response:
1. I hate temporal mechanics.
2. Be careful what you wish for.
3. See, Cryptic does listen.
4. Turko, isn't that like, prehistoric?
Asked for LONG ago, and PWE/Cryptic basically said it would require a rebuild of how the game is done, so don't hold your breath.
Edit:and ya got me. Well played.
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Serious request here for in game poker. also Tongo.
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he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
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From Fallout 4 would come large exploration areas with random encounters and objects to scan, steal, salvage, negotiate, craft, and use. And setting up colonies instead of settlements that provide a regular EC income per day.
From Destiny would come even more exploration of the same zones, random zone events, surprise enemy spawns, and a cash shop that sells mo-capped emotes.
From Halo 4 would come powered armor and the ability for our ships to ram smaller ships while at full health and 1HKO'ing them. From Halo 5 would come the ability to call in single-use special weapon and equipment drops while on the ground. I insist that Lifers get unlimited weekly Requisition packs that let them call in the big guns more regularly, while free players have to pay Dil or Zen for Requisition packs.
From Aion would come winged races and magic redone as magitech.
From Blade and Soul would come better melee combat; magic elements will be replaced by magitech. Also, more oriental facial options just because. Maybe some oriental clothing too; so I can either be a chinese dress-wearing femme fatale Science Captain or a kimono-wearing samurai Tactical Captain when visiting non-combat areas, with my Fleet logo on the back of my kimono.
From Devilian would come... I don't know; probably a power mode that requires you filling up a bar then triggering. Except in this case you get a nanomachine rush and become a super soldier. Because you're now a rampaging nanomachine being that rivals Iconian Brutes, your teammates retreat to avoid getting hurt. But you do more DPS than all of them and your normal self combined anyway.
From Armored Warfare comes armored vehicle combat on the ground, because we must have ground vehicles and vehicular combat. Because powered armor combat, nanomachine hulk combat, and calling in one-time use special weapons isn't enough.
From World of Warships comes NAVAL combat. Not just in space. But in the water too! Because that's always more awesome. Wargames on Risa's water and other water planets! Entirely skill-based! No power creep but better ships at better tiers!
From the Visual Novel would come with multiple romance options in the text-based format Cryptic loves, and with the convenience of fade to black scenes for any potentially implied intimacy. No, they weren't getting intimate; they were just turning out the light and cuddling because they're afraid of the dark.
I demand all this and more in Star Trek Online, and I demand it using the CryEngine. Accept nothing less. Make it so!
I was looking for this type of response. Also the OP got me for a few seconds before I noticed there is some black noise after the last sentence.
That is so speciesist.
I do hope you recognized mine was set in the same humorous vein with a tiny bit of seriousness.