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ATTN: Dear Dev's re: Ship Interiors
captainperkins
Member Posts: 379 Arc User
While I completely understand time constraints and the fact that this is a business on top of being a game,
I think the lack of original Discovery Bridge interiors is a mistake. (One I suspect you'll probably fix the same way you eventually added a TOS interior, and a Voyager & Galaxy class interior once there was a reason/story line for it. I urge players to realize it took 7 years of Star Trek Online being live to get an accurate Galaxy Interior, literally the length that Star Trek TNG was on tv!)
Star Trek Online, as you've said is a "virtual theme park" where players can experience their unique story from their favorite era of Trek...
I can understand not doing unique bridge interiors for some of the ships, but frankly something isn't adding up with the excuse of: "There just wasn't enough time."
The fact is: you've made a unique bridge for the Khazon raider ship, the Miradorn ship, and some other ships (such as the Kelvin Intel Dread) whose interiors weren't even used in any story line. You can not deny that there's been a decline in unique bridge's lately. I get that it's a business and your metrics show that people still buy ships even with out unique bridges- but in the long run this lack of detail is going to hurt this game.
I was disappointed; as were the majority of players who invested money and time to get the Discovery ships, that we didn't have at least one of the unique bridge's. (walker-class or crossfield)
Even if you have to pay your designers and programmers to work on a interior for half a month- the amount of people who would buy the interior in the C-store would make you a profit and just add to the depth of the game which can not be bad!
The thing about Star Trek is that every trekkie gets in to it for different reasons. I fell in love with the first six movies. So I love cinematic trek which is why the T6 Connie and undiscovered lock box were SO important to me (I still want Movie Era Interiors BTW: see Tomas M.)
Please reconsider giving us our interiors. A ship without it's proper interior is only half a job and is a missed opportunity.
I think the lack of original Discovery Bridge interiors is a mistake. (One I suspect you'll probably fix the same way you eventually added a TOS interior, and a Voyager & Galaxy class interior once there was a reason/story line for it. I urge players to realize it took 7 years of Star Trek Online being live to get an accurate Galaxy Interior, literally the length that Star Trek TNG was on tv!)
Star Trek Online, as you've said is a "virtual theme park" where players can experience their unique story from their favorite era of Trek...
I can understand not doing unique bridge interiors for some of the ships, but frankly something isn't adding up with the excuse of: "There just wasn't enough time."
The fact is: you've made a unique bridge for the Khazon raider ship, the Miradorn ship, and some other ships (such as the Kelvin Intel Dread) whose interiors weren't even used in any story line. You can not deny that there's been a decline in unique bridge's lately. I get that it's a business and your metrics show that people still buy ships even with out unique bridges- but in the long run this lack of detail is going to hurt this game.
I was disappointed; as were the majority of players who invested money and time to get the Discovery ships, that we didn't have at least one of the unique bridge's. (walker-class or crossfield)
Even if you have to pay your designers and programmers to work on a interior for half a month- the amount of people who would buy the interior in the C-store would make you a profit and just add to the depth of the game which can not be bad!
The thing about Star Trek is that every trekkie gets in to it for different reasons. I fell in love with the first six movies. So I love cinematic trek which is why the T6 Connie and undiscovered lock box were SO important to me (I still want Movie Era Interiors BTW: see Tomas M.)
Please reconsider giving us our interiors. A ship without it's proper interior is only half a job and is a missed opportunity.
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Yea, kinda depressing to enter your luxury liner bridge to have it look like a rust bucket (KDF).
I suspect the "don't cares" outnumber the "do wants".
I visit my bridges for maybe 30 seconds every few days to dump stuff in the account bank if I can't be bothered going somewhere else to do it.
I'm utility over aesthetics though.
Ship bridges could use some love.
Maybe some amenities mixed with bank, exchange and tailor access... You know, like your own mini-fleet. After all you're the captain in the middle of nowhere representing whatever you represent, and don't want the locals to think your faction is a shack somewhere in the beta quadrant.
tacofangs wrote: »
Bridges/Interiors take far longer to make than ships. As such, if there is sufficient reason to make a full ship interior (such as the newish Romulan Ship interior, being used all over LoR) we'll make one. If there isn't, we won't. Making a custom bridge, let alone a full interior for the Corvette (while cool) would be a significant investment of time/resources. So, we could have skimped on Risa more, and built an interior, or done what was done, and skipped the interior which would have served little purpose anyway, and went with beefing up Risa.
Building custom bridges takes longer than a couple of days. Something like the Suliban/Andorian/Tholian Bridges, were each 5 days of Environment work from me. Then it needs design time to hook up any interactables, doors, etc.
Doing a full interior is significantly longer (i.e. 3 weeks to a month)
They are in the midst of doing a major, major new content update, so everyone will be focused on that.
And putting ATTN: DEAR DEV'S in your header will not attract their attention in this sub-forum as it's the wrong one. You need to put this in the FEEDBACK forum.
The Enterprise D had a barber shop and replicator stores where crews needs were met fully. There's no reason why our ship interiors shouldn't or can't have a tailor and some replicator stores for basic equipment. Give interiors a bit more purpose.
The reason they didn't do this to begin with was to try to encourage social hubs such as ESD to be active. And that makes sense. I still think the Exchange and other attractions should only be available at ESD to keep traffic high- but give us a bit more to do on our ship interiors please!
here are the pictures
https://colourbrand.deviantart.com/art/Commissioned-University-Class-417561688
https://colourbrand.deviantart.com/art/Commissioned-University-Class-at-Warp-417561220
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