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What I would love to see as next DLC...
kiksken
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Well, simply put... a huge new quadrant, explorable.
Or something explorable.
The whole of Star Trek is not war, it's not about conflict, but exploration.
"To Baldly go where no bald man went before."
So far every episode has been around conflict, conflict, more conflict, with some conflict to top it off.
And it's becoming monotone, boring, repetitive.
Sure, conflict IS a part of Star Trek, I will not deny this, but the exploration part has been completely forgotten.
Which is sad, really.
I for one always loved exploratory games, crawling through dungeons, look for new things, as it brought unexpected things along.
Sure, every so often we get a few new toys, but it is not the same as finding these.
Something that always bothered me was, you get from ship to ship to planet to base to ship to...
But never there's something one can find.
Armories are always empty or not accessible, enemies drop no gear (or gear they should not have, like a Klingon dropping earth dessert in the early conflict zones, or an armor or weapon that completely is out of place), things that absolutely make no sense.
It would be fun, if we could get a logical drop from these, but more so, to have actual explorable areas.
What do you think?
Or something explorable.
The whole of Star Trek is not war, it's not about conflict, but exploration.
"To Baldly go where no bald man went before."
So far every episode has been around conflict, conflict, more conflict, with some conflict to top it off.
And it's becoming monotone, boring, repetitive.
Sure, conflict IS a part of Star Trek, I will not deny this, but the exploration part has been completely forgotten.
Which is sad, really.
I for one always loved exploratory games, crawling through dungeons, look for new things, as it brought unexpected things along.
Sure, every so often we get a few new toys, but it is not the same as finding these.
Something that always bothered me was, you get from ship to ship to planet to base to ship to...
But never there's something one can find.
Armories are always empty or not accessible, enemies drop no gear (or gear they should not have, like a Klingon dropping earth dessert in the early conflict zones, or an armor or weapon that completely is out of place), things that absolutely make no sense.
It would be fun, if we could get a logical drop from these, but more so, to have actual explorable areas.
What do you think?
Klingons don't get drunk.
They just get less sober.
They just get less sober.
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well if you want to be technical everything added since launch is dlc.
also this would be nice, not gonna happen but be nice if it did.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
"enemies drop no gear" - huh?? Do you even play this game? The enemies drop so much vendor trash it's absurd - I really wish there was a way to turn off the loot drops. All of it is worthless and it just clutters up the map and screen and really reduces the quality of the game IMO. The best solution I could find is binding "pass" to my mouse click for group content. At least you can salvage that stuff now, which helps a little if you want to bother sorting through all that junk.
Also, I never spoke of removing content, but about new content been added...
What I meant is, they do not drop logical stuff.
Again, in the first confrontations of Klinks vs Fed, one drops Romulan ale, for example.
Why would he be running around with Romulan Ale, or a Banana Split, for that matter?
I do have to agree, I put that a bit wrong there, it's is certainly not, as you pointed out, they do not drop at all, they just drop stuff one would never expect of them...
As for vendors, I know only one, his name is Replicator... XD
They just get less sober.
Well... in Sphere of Influence, we do hear something about Gateways in Andromeda being active. AND with access to the Jouret Gate...
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to branch out into Andromeda if CBS gives the green light.
I was responding to both yours, the person's comments below yours and others not solely you.
Unfortunately, we're kind of at a point where I'm not even sure where there's left to explore in the galaxy.
Beta Quadrant: This one is pretty well covered as far as local space is concerned. In fact, there's not much more they can do to expand the quadrant out anymore.
Alpha Quadrant. originally, this was a 4x5 area which encompassed a portion of Breen space, Cardassian space and Federation. In season 12, they expanded it up northward so that Ferenginar could be in the right reference point on the map they were basing their game maps on. However, this map also cannot be expanded much more northward.
Delta Quadrant: This is really one of the few places left that could have more stuff done if they were to go back and focus on it. However, given that it would have to be mostly new material, I don't think we're going to be going back there as a focus anytime soon.
Gamma Quadrant: We just got this portion finally and there's not really much they can do either with it at this point in time.
As long as we're getting Discovery Tie-in updates, we're likely not moving with another 25th century arc anytime soon.
The Disco one has priority, which is logical.
But the universe is much bigger than mere for tiny quadrants.
Who knows what's out there, time to go take a wee look, I say.
They just get less sober.
Sorry, I am not a programmer, heh...
If they could add a map, I THINK, it "could be solved"?
These discussions are actually marvelous, I learn every day.
They just get less sober.
But one can dream, right?
They just get less sober.
#2 What I would like to see with the next expansion is the Klingons, Romulans and a few others gang up against the Federation. The whole alliance thing is old and tired. It's time to tear it down for a couple of seasons.
One kinda minor nitpicky point?
Actually it's a pretty major point: What the in-game map depicts as known space is hilariously out of scale. Properly scaled, the area of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants depicted on those maps from Star Trek Star Charts looks like this:
Yeah, that little tiny dot in the lower left corner? Is our home territory straddling the A/B border at the middle distance from the core.
Vast areas of the Milky Way remain completely untouched and there are a plethora of ways to use them. Hell, they could even use the "fly to deep space" thing for Exploration Clusters 2.0: maybe you get a randomly generated first contact mission (an actual randomly generated one, not just picked off a list like the old-style clusters), maybe you collect data from a probe or chart a planet, maybe you have a random fight, or maybe you trip a specially tagged Foundry mission and have some real fun.
FTFY.
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Actually, there's no logical reason for the Romulan Republic to even attack the Federation.
You have to remember that the Romulan Star Empire were antagonistic only because they felt they had a superiority complex over the rest of the galactic powers. Remember that after the first time they lost against Earth, they decided to isolate themselves for over a century just to come back and test out their technology against the Federation. Once the Klingons and Federation became more friendly, some Romulans greatly disliked this and did what they could to interfere and destablize their alliance. In STO, the Tal Shiar effectively had a hand in most of the Empire's conflicts.
The Romulan Republic on the other hand does not want to be seen as the same as the Empire, being completely secretive and antagonistic. Their goal is to one day reunify with the Vulcans so that they may be a whole society again.
The Klingons of course we know have always been a power that loves to seek battles, but they would never turn against an ally unless there was something that the ally did that would cause them to want to revoke any alliance, the biggest being the Federation's refusal to believe there was a situation with the Undine.
You can wish for a blood conflict all you want, but it's likely not going to happen.
You're conflating terminology: There's more ways to "chart" stars than by physically visiting in a starship. We on Earth have charted quite a bit of the galaxy in some level of detail with nothing more advanced than optical, infrared, and radio telescopes, at least enough to know locations, sizes and spectral classes of stars, and sometimes even if they're likely to have planets attached. In "Emissary", the Idran system, where the Bajoran Wormhole terminates in the Gamma Quadrant, was explicitly said to have been visited by a Federation-launched unmanned probe almost two centuries before anyone from our side of the galaxy actually physically got there.
What's depicted in the Star Charts map I linked is a rough spheroid of settled space, space that has actually been physically visited (or is within reasonable flight range to be visited) and local governments contacted by Federation authorities (or not, depending on which version of the Prime Directive they decided to use today). But the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across and averages 1,000 light-years thick, and what's depicted even on the new overworld map is a couple roughly square chunks that are at most a few hundred light-years across. So yeah, the game map is ludicrously out of scale.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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