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What would fellow captains think of having the ability to build a space station using R&D materials in one of the quadrants and the ability to transwarp there. The style would be dependant on your chosen faction?
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And this. In STO (and for most captains in the TV shows) your ship is your home.
As Dave said just above your post, your ship is your home
Would be, but technically we have housing already, in our own ship interiors. Its just not as customizable as we'd like.
Ship interiors are a useless waste of space with no customization, no progression and no function.
So just ignore it when you could actually use that as a base for a housing system?
And not being sure of Cryptic's database abilities, I'd assume there'd be 1 ship 'home' per toon, not per ship.
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Player housing (and Space Barbie) is totally my thing. But player housing without customization, without the possibility to give your home a personal touch, is simply not player housing. As it stands, Cryptic couldn't even be bothered to let me use trophies on my Rom ships (being overly sarcastic here: it doesn't matter any more, as Rom ship are now a thing of the past anyway). So, my hopes of getting player housing are rather slim.
We know you currently can't customize your house-ship, but the point is that it makes more sense to change that (add ship interior customization) than to add some land-based "player stronghold."
Being able to link one (per faction?) fully customized ship interior to any or all of the ships you fly would be nice. Cryptic could even sell the ability to create additional ship-interiors to the people who want multiple, different ship-houses for different themed crews (such as TOS, Discovery, mirror, mercenary, Vulcan, etc. within Federation).
And while I personally couldn't care less about scrapping the current interiors, others do like them and wouldn't appreciate losing them or being forced to replace them with a generic one to use the housing system. People have paid money for those interiors.
It is therefore better to have player housing as a separate feature.
All of this has been discussed many times over every time the topic comes up.
Dude... the ONLY thing that actually changes in 95% of the bridge interiors that aren't tied to ships or full interiors... is the bridge itself. The number of FULL interiors we have is actually quite small, and they all share the same exact Ready Room.
KDF have no such options, and Romulans only have the Romulan Interior. With the normal bridges and interiors, the Crew and Engineering Decks are actually all THE SAME based on chosen size, and the only differences are any trophies we've put up in our ready rooms and crew lounges.
SO... here's how it can work.
If a player chooses to use a stock interior rather than one of the C-Store full interiors, then rig it up so that the Crew and Engineering Decks can have a level of customization. We already have a minor amount of that with the trophies in both the Ready Room on the Bridge and in the Crew Lounge. Why not expand on that?
For example the Captain's Quarters. Why not have an interact panel on say... the desk? Hit that, we can swap out the table, couch, chair... whatever... with any stock or earned/purchased items. For crying out loud it might give us a frickin' use for GPL even!
Then say in Engineering we have an interact panel that lets us choose the model for the Warp Core. So lets say you have the Kobali Core and want to actually see it. Owning the Kobali Core unlocks that as an option. Same with the Obelisk Core mission reward, and so on. Even if most of them are just a pallet swap... its SOMETHING that can be customized to a degree.
There are ways to make it work.
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Then allow small changes within the room...simple window dressing over the frame of the room...ie a different warp core, different room dressings colours etc.
Allow trophies and such to be placed.
For the captain's quarters allow changes of bed, chair designs, furniture...maybe a range of wall decor...table top items etc. Etc.
Most of this would just be stuck over a base model then add or change the small items around to customize it.
I can think of dozens of things that would be great for small options to swap around.
The items could be common across all ships for a character or you could possibly find a way to connect it to the bridge so that it changes by ship.
^^ And the players love it!
Sadly, I don't see this happen. The way I understood it, essentially every bridge/interior is just a shared instance: a single map somewhere, where others (except for your invited party maybe) are, naturally, obscured from view. What you're proposing, would amount to personalized, private instances of each bridge/interior. I don't think that would scale very well. But I'd love to see it happen nonetheless.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
> What would fellow captains think of having the ability to build a space station using R&D materials in one of the quadrants and the ability to transwarp there. The style would be dependant on your chosen faction?
If by some miracle we got player housing......my Romulans would much prefer a house with a first rate view on Mol'Rihan.
That's why you can't mix and match them as it is. It doesn't matter if the only difference on the map is the bridge part, they're still separate maps and any features added to the "same exact Ready Room" would still have to be separately copied to every one of them. Copypasting a standard Feddy interior to all the bazillion stub bridges would still be work, too.
On the other hand, making each deck a separate map to be combined by the player comes back to requiring a new system built from scratch again.