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jrl13
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Ahoy Fellow Captains!
I wanted to ask the community to see how our fellow captains would respond to the ability for us to "customize" one ship in our shipyard? What i mean is that if you're a science captain (or tactical, engineer) and take a Sovereign class, or an Andromeda class and "customize" it with the science consoles, bridge officers, and tier master ability to an equivalent science ship (or tactical, engineer, etc. etc.)?
I like the design and flight characteristics of a ship, but it doesn't have the science abilities or bridge officers etc. etc.
Thoughts? Comments? I appreciate the discussion.
I wanted to ask the community to see how our fellow captains would respond to the ability for us to "customize" one ship in our shipyard? What i mean is that if you're a science captain (or tactical, engineer) and take a Sovereign class, or an Andromeda class and "customize" it with the science consoles, bridge officers, and tier master ability to an equivalent science ship (or tactical, engineer, etc. etc.)?
I like the design and flight characteristics of a ship, but it doesn't have the science abilities or bridge officers etc. etc.
Thoughts? Comments? I appreciate the discussion.
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That would be good, but would have to be done with-in reason and limited on the number of consoles per track, otherwise you'll have nothing but 13 Tac Consoles on each ship.
Hi Leemwatson,
Yes, of course.
What I was thinking of was taking an Archon class and swapping out the bridge officers and consoles for an equivalent, I don't know Pathfinder, so you could get more Science bridge officers, and the equivalent science console slots from the pathfinder instead of the heavy engineering? bridge officers and consoles from the Archon.
Thank you for your discussion.
It would be nice, but they are very unlikely to do that because those layouts are a big part of what makes a ship unique. It is likely to be too much of a risk that people would pick their ship, modify it for their various characters, and then not buy any others.
On the other hand, it might be possible to do something like the convertible science/tac destroyers where a secondary deflector is swappable for an experimental/spinal weapon slot or something tanky for engineers, but it would probably be more like a modified option slot at most, possibly along with swapping the rank length of a set of boff seats like those destroyers do.
What I wouldn't mind is if they had a "space frame" (actually several) with specific console and boff layous that we could almost wholly customize - like an amped-up ship tailor with a lot more options and styles.
And so that there's no need to ever buy another ship.
No, I don't think they'll do that.
I don't really care for customisable boff seatings or console slots that much. Most of the things I'm using are universal anyway and when your ship has at least a lt. universal station and at least one of each career too, it hardly matters what the other things are.
I can think of only one ship where being able to adapt the seatings would be useful, and that's the Dauntless. And that's because it - strangely - doesn't have any universal seating.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
It would give us the benefits the OP is describing - but also more than that.
It doesn't really matter whether you're adapting your Defiant's stations so that they resemble those of, say, a Sovereign. Or whether you take your Sovereign and make it look like a Defiant. But being able to take a Sovereign, make it look like a Defiant and then being able to further customise said Defiant visually, would be a huge additional benefit.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Well they could always make it a character-specific thing.
Or, if they sold this feature, make it such that changing it on one character, means that you'd have to pay again if you wanted to customise it differently.
For example: if I have one toon where I customised a Defiant that now has 5 sci console slots - after paying, say, 1000 zen -, making it have 5 engineering slots on another toon would require spending 1000 more Zen.
Adapting the ship so that it has 5 Sci slots on the second or a third character, wouldn't cost any additional Zen because it'd be the same customisation that I've already paid for.
That way they'd still get Zen. And as long as new traits and consoles remain accessible only after unlocking a ship, I'm sure ship sales wouldn't suffer too much. I doubt many people would fly the same ship on all of their characters anyway, let alone fly it in exactly the same way.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
We'd have a billion Connies flying around, and the PvP community, or some might say what's left of it, would complain that they don't know what they're up against. Could be a full Carrier but it looks like a Light Cruiser, or it could be a Pilot Escort looking like a Full Carrier. Why does that BoP have hanger pets? Why does that Sci Ship have Cruiser Commands? Why does that Juggernaut have a Thaleron Blast? Why did a Titan just use a Singularity Jump?
I mean imagine the chaos that would cause.
We got complaints about Binary Stars changing the appearance of ships to era approprite. And that was just for a TFO.
Honestly there is no "everyone wins" scenario with STO.
Not really keen on being able to completely re-engineer existing ships though. While this game loves to jump the shark, a Defiant specced as a science heavy flight-deck cruiser feels a bit.. dumb.. and spoils the sense of ship identity.
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The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
So? If people want to fly a Connie, let them.
The basic promise of this game is that everyone can fly their favorite ship. Might as well allow them to fly it the way they want.
If necessary, they could disable the feature for PvP.
The Binary Stars thing is completely different. In that case, players are forced into another skin. The OP's suggestion and any variation thereof as presented by others who commented, would boil down to presenting more options to players themselves to use.
It's the difference between having more options to further customise your ship - and have to customisations negated by a holographic skin. Some of the ideas presented here would hand players more control over what their ships look like, the Binary Stars mission takes away that control.
That's entirely different and I do not see how anyone could think these things are comparable.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.