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Is Andoria now off-limits?
smi3th
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Tried to go there yesterday but the enter system interaction would not appear. There again today and same problem.
Is Andoria off limits now? Is the planet being re-done or something
It's not a huge deal but the location was useful for dropping off Andorian refugees.
Is Andoria off limits now? Is the planet being re-done or something
It's not a huge deal but the location was useful for dropping off Andorian refugees.
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Hopefully temporary, and maybe if we're lucky - we'll get something new - I really like sirsitsalot's idea above.
Heck, even just adding Bank/Mail/Exchange to the consoles under the tent would let those who want to RP use it as their base.
Maybe we're finally about to get our Ushaan.
Aside from the yearly 'Q' event; there's no reason to go there. It was supposed to be a place for open/unrestricted ground PvP (no real reward, just the ability to PvP) - but that aspect of the game never really was a thing.
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I didn't realize this, several of my bridge officers had their correspondences sent back.
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But he's a Klingon! And you know what to do with Klingons:
Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
OP, have you tried using your nose when you were close to the planet? If it smells, it's more proof that it must be the Klingons!
Kael being surprised about something is pretty much the standard.
That Idea could also work for New Romulus, 2 ingame years and the Romulan people still haven't even built a capital city, let alone an Academy to train young refugees/recruits/child soldiers.
Still... I've let him know so he can pass it on... and if I hear anything I'll try and pass it on to you guys here.
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Remember the regular city invasions for the GCW, I loved those
And then there were a couple of unannounced one off invasion events they did that of course I missed, but I think one had a giant Ewok wondering around Theed...
It's probably just a bug.
But it would be nice if it got a revamp.
With the artic DIS map with Captain Lorca, and mentions of updating the Winter Wonderland map (using lessons learned from creating the Risa Summer Event map, and most likely maps made after that)....
Anyways, here's hoping
On topic - I think Andoria has been made off limits for a reason. What is Cryptic trying to hide on Andoria ?
I'd give an example from a different game, but then, I remember Defera already exists with that system.
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If they're so worried players wouldn't have fun having the social HUBs invaded/trashed/under attack, then they should make two instances. One for those who want the damaged storyline version and those who want the normal, "static" one.
Which is partly why I don't buy the "2 ingame years" stuff. I ran into an RP fleet a long while back that basically marks RL time in-game. So it'd be 2421, not 2411. Which makes more sense to me - I mean, how do you get major galaxy shaking wars involving the Klingons, the Romulans, the races of the Delta Quadrant, the Iconians, the Tzenkethi, the Hur'q, House Mo'Kai, and now possibly the Terran Empire into just two years? Just the Dominion War took two years on its own. You can only wibbly-wobbly the timey-wimey so much to fit all that in.
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I agree. It's why, when writing my characters' bio's, I've been working with my own timeline for years now.
Also because it makes no sense to have ten captains perform the exact same roles in every conflict. Ten captains may all have patrolled the same system at different times and encountered some Klingon ships there, but ten captains aren't all going to be responsible for saving the same Vega colonists or the ancient Iconians.
And a single captain's actions may be more heroic/significant/outstanding/whatever if some others did not play quite as big a role in a certain situation or multiple conflicts.
Besides all that, stretching out the timeline allows the player to do something we can't do otherwise in STO: to have a 'true' Star Trek universe in which our captains are from different era's, do different things (you could have a Sisko-like captain fighting the wars and a Picard-like one who's busy building and supporting colonies) and can refer to other captains' actions/bio's. Some might even have served on another captain's ship or be part of a 'Starfleet-lineage' like the Sulu's or Paris's.
All of which is only limitedly possible in the official STO timeline, as static as it is. Making the game more dynamic would greatly increase immersion. I'm not sure a planet-wide disaster is the right way to do it though. But at least such a thing would likely make use of some much needed mechanics if it's done as suggested above.
Even better would be to then have different versions of maps in different instances indeed. To take New Romulus as an example: you'd have one instance with an almost fresh map, another with a partly-built city like the current one and finally a more developed map. Players could then choose where they want to go based on where and when they want their captains to be.
They have before, but not in a very long time. I think that there are still youtube videos of when the Devs were playing as the Borg and invaded Earth Spacedock.
I'm not even sure 10 years is enough. Alot has happened and if that's all in 10 years let alone 2, society wouldn't be ok. And while missions go past in an hour of gameplay, they feel like they take up alot of time. New Frontiers is the only fast storyline as it's all about the race to catch up. The others, like Delta, all feel like there are large amounts of time of off-screen research missions, travelling and diplomacy stuff?
If it all happens in 2 years then, half of these storylines aren't even major events and must have happened so quickly that they're not important. If the klingon civil war is over and done with in what, a fortnight? would most klingons have even had time to hear about it before it was over? The storyline says it's a huge, empire spanning civil war with countless battles offscreen, which should imply months or longer.
As for New Romulus not having a capital or academy, good? It's got a whole world to build and millions(billions?) to rehome. I'd hope they're prioritising that over administration given the 'egalitarian'/we wanna be vulcans ideology they have going on, and given all the crises that keep breaking out probs most of their resources have been tied up building ships and fitting soldiers?
Also, maybe everytime you go to NR you're going to it's first year as STO has the different places different time thing going on with TFO's and battlezones
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It isn't like Eve Online where there is no story except an explanation of the background and the players provide their own stories live so the setting is always changing, always evolving. And while there is an appeal to that it would not work out as well for a game based on a show where people expect episodes that they can play alone or with others (in fact, in a player-driven game if there are no other players in the area there is nothing but mining or crafting or whatever to do).
I have a number of character backgrounds that refer to backgrounds of some of my other characters, like for instance one is the sister of another one. Also I use relative and/or floating time on most of the bios I do, I have an El-Aurian who was studying Earth cultures until things got too hot in the Eugenics wars without setting exact dates since the canon timeframe is a bit nebulous for instance, who later joined Starfleet in the 2260s as a temporal scientist (since AoY is fixed-time) before getting bounced to 2410 (again, a fixed point set by the game).
The few mentions of things in the game scenarios that I do in bios assume that the particular character is the only one who did it, not that all of the characters did the same thing (except for mass combats with many ships or people, like the ongoing battlezones and whatnot where it makes sense that multiple characters would be there, but doing different things).
Like, the Wasteland arc on Nimbus would take, at most, a few days. Same thing with like the 2800 arc, the Breen arc, the Spectres arc, etc. most of the game's early arcs are really short events. And by the time STO begins both the Federation, and Klingon Empire, have transwarp gateway networks, linking most of their major worlds together, so travel across a large part of the known galaxy is pretty quick.