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Shipboard closet/console (tailor) or other means of choosing BOff uniforms before missions
dewolf13
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One of the things I like to do for immersion and role-playing is to change my captain's and BOffs' uniforms depending on the mission. For the captain, that might be using the Odyssey Excursion uniform while on Kobali Prime for extended ground operations (the BOffs I then select are already wearing an appropriate uniform because they are ground combat specialists anyway). For both the captain and BOffs, it could be using a kind of undercover/desert survival outfit while investigating the criminal underworld on Nimbus III.
For the captain this is simple enough to do through multiple outfits that can be swapped on the go by clicking one's portrait, but the only way to do it (that I know of) for BOffs is to first take a detour to a hub where there is a tailor. But of course, this doesn't make much sense 'in world' as the crew could just go to their personal quarters (or quartermaster/replicator) to grab whatever equipment they need before a mission.
It would be great if there could be either of the following options:
1) some activatable trigger (console? closet? NPC?) on the ship interior that opens up the tailor interface; or
2) multiple outfit slots for BOffs like there are for the player, and a means to select them (e.g. a dropdown menu in the Character Status window); or
3) just a button on the interface somewhere to open the tailor interface.
Even if it's a premium feature like purchasing extra outfit slots from the store.
For the captain this is simple enough to do through multiple outfits that can be swapped on the go by clicking one's portrait, but the only way to do it (that I know of) for BOffs is to first take a detour to a hub where there is a tailor. But of course, this doesn't make much sense 'in world' as the crew could just go to their personal quarters (or quartermaster/replicator) to grab whatever equipment they need before a mission.
It would be great if there could be either of the following options:
1) some activatable trigger (console? closet? NPC?) on the ship interior that opens up the tailor interface; or
2) multiple outfit slots for BOffs like there are for the player, and a means to select them (e.g. a dropdown menu in the Character Status window); or
3) just a button on the interface somewhere to open the tailor interface.
Even if it's a premium feature like purchasing extra outfit slots from the store.
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As in, not just outfit, but body and face changes....
Some people want immersion and role playing that adds a lot of extra steps before you can get to the above.
Neither fun is wrong. The thing is, the majority seem to prefer to skip those extra steps. Do you use transwarp? You're doing it too then.
I'm not against options, but to Cryptic it means doing two sets of work for one feature, with one of them only used by a few players. The immersive version also requires more work for less "value" if the majority skips it.
For a small team, that means not doing it at all so they can add a different feature.
That said, it is extremely doubtful that they would ever do that, which is almost a trivial task in the newest Unreal engine but not an oldschool manual one like STO (there is a good livestream showing how hands-on the map building is in this game but I don't have the link at the moment and don't have time to look for it again right now).