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Starfleet Academy/Shuttlebay improvements

captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,627 Arc User
edited November 2019 in The Art of Star Trek Online
The tutorial for new Starfleet characters has an awesome shuttlebay on top of the main building at Starfleet Academy. Could we please get this 'connected up' to the regular Academy map for player use?

Seems like it would be pretty easy to 'turn on' the door at the south end of the hallway inside the building (simply by adding a dialog box "Go to Shuttlebay" outside) - making it a turbolift to the Shuttlebay, just like it is in the tutorial.

To make the shuttlebay useful (not just cosmetic), have an option to travel to both ESD (ending up in the ESD shuttlebay - and visa versa if you take the shuttle from ESD) and to your ship in Earth orbit. This would add a bit of canon content for those Dr. McCoy types who hate using transporters. :tongue: A simple copy of the tutorial map, as-is, cadets, their dialogs and all, would be super simple and work great, with only the addition of the shuttle destinations dialog box near the orbital shuttle guy needed.

In addition to the shuttlebay (and 'turbolift' access), a set of stairs could be placed along the empty wall just to the right of the door leading to the Commandant's Office. This would allow characters to explore and use the upper levels of the main Academy building. Additional doors could be added on the walls up there indicating more classrooms (or for future Foundry gateways - if it ever comes back). The geometry up there is fascinating and a few additional steps/stairs here and there on these levels would allow access throughout the entire upper works. I'd love to see a physical connection to the shuttlebay up there as well (as opposed to another 'loading screen' door), but am not sure that is possible without some major work (the door just to the left of the turbolift on the shuttlebay map could be made to open and close, leading to stairs that connect to the upper levels of the regular Academy map).

Hope the dev team considers doing at least the 'turbolift' (dialog trigger) door to the shuttlebay map addition. It's minimal work for a great addition to the Academy. The rest would be gravy. :)
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