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What is the purpose of Sector Space, again?
sirsitsalot
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Most missions that have a place in story progression give us the option to just transwarp straight there, eliminate the need to actually travel through sector space if we don't want to. We can, quite literally, jump to any mission start point in the galaxy instantaneously. And you know, that is consistent with what we have seen in every single Trek show or movie to date. They determine the mission, set course, and just GO. There's a brief cut to the ship going to warp and then the next scene shows them arriving at their destination... or just beaming down to some planetary location or another ship...
We used to have to actually travel to those locations physically in sector space, which at one point meant having to load into a bunch of different sector blocks, but when they merged those blocks into much larger sector space maps, load frequency decreased. And yet, for the purpose of mission content, we now no longer even have to physically travel from point A to B on the sector space map at all...
So... like the title says, what is the purpose of Sector Space, again?
We used to have to actually travel to those locations physically in sector space, which at one point meant having to load into a bunch of different sector blocks, but when they merged those blocks into much larger sector space maps, load frequency decreased. And yet, for the purpose of mission content, we now no longer even have to physically travel from point A to B on the sector space map at all...
So... like the title says, what is the purpose of Sector Space, again?
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
There are some small things there. The random-location encounters, crafting material spots (nebula, abandoned ship), doff spots, etc.
I think you'd have more people complaining if there wasn't a sector space in a game where you travel the stars. There's not much to it, but it's so easy to skip it with transwarp if you want to. I kinda view it as a cosmetic feature at this point, and it's pretty
Top speeds in sector space used to be slower, too.
You have to be fairly close to them for them to show up.
Also Comets. There's comets out there too. Nebulas give you ordinary mats, Abandoned ships and comets give you uncommon/rare mats.
People often talking about wanting more “exploration”—but there is still quite a bit to explore, if you are not too busy grinding for shinier rewards.
Of course they are not random. But with all the content in STO I could play all week and probably not repeat content, if it wasn’t for featured events and irl schedules.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Category:Starfleet_System_Patrol_missions
Sector space originally had random encounters called DSEs or Deep Space Encounters that was specific to each faction space.
It also had randomly generated missions at certain planets and sector unexplored areas.
It was fun back then to be able to do exploration...
These things were taken out in favor of more PEW PEW because some people don't like to think... they just want to go in, blow up stuff, then collect reward, rinse and repeat...
I miss the days where you could team up and go explore and do randomly generated missions with friends... that weren't always kill a bunch of mobs and head to sector space when done.
Would be nice if there were RAIDS where you team up with a bunch of people and the story of the RAID takes you all over the galaxy doing not only ship and ground fights but puzzles and exploring.
This game would be awesome with long raids like City of Heroes had that were 6 to 8 hours long, maybe not that long but a decent evening spent with your teammates.
This queue TRIBBLE is making the game boring.
Agreed. Sometimes I like to take pics/screenshots of my ship just cruising along. All while playing the McHale's Navy theme.
And knowing is half the battle!
21 'til I die!
This reminds me about how I've seen threads from folks asking for the 2-3 sec interact delay with banks on the kdf side to be removed (citing that they're already gone fed side)....
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.'
Oh, wait, that was a rejected concept for TNG...
Sector Space might seem useless for some, but without it there's no Tour, to name just one thing.
It's an important part of the game as without it, all the planets and solar systems are just a big jumble and we don't get to see just how big space really can be.
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.'