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monkeyman4410
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a number of years ago, it was promised that we would be getting Away Teams in Space, as well as the ability to promote Bridge Officers to Captain rank, it was said it was going to come along with the level cap increase and increase in Player Rank to Fleet Admiral, but it never happened... is that something that's still being worked on, or was it completely either abandoned or forgotten? i'm not trying to demand a huge change like this, but I just would appreciate anything about it's progress, or if it was ever announced that it was going to be abandoned and I missed it. thank you for your time.
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It wasn't really promised as in 'this feature WILL be released', but it was more than just rumors if I'm not mistaken. They were definitely working on it at some point but, IIRC, there were some issues that led them to abandon it. I also remember someone stating that the Jem'Hadar wingmen mechanic was developed in its place.
The wiki used to have some info on it, but it seems to have been removed (and the entire section of 'older ideas' given its own page - it used to be on the main page for upcoming content).
https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Upcoming_content/Older_ideas
Since it specifies at the top of the page:
My guess is that it either has been abandoned officially indeed - or it was mentioned sometime in the past 12 months (which I doubt, as I can't remember any of the Ten Forward notes for example mentioning it recently).
There are some other, slightly ideas there that we haven't heard about for a while, like the
Some interesting, unrelated ideas: the Merian class and the expansion of the Doff system (which I believe was going to be made into something more resembling Admiralty).
Whether it included promotion of boffs to captain rank, I don't remember exactly, but I vaguely recall it being part of that same feature.
But again, it wasn't promised as a guaranteed release or anything indeed.
That rumor was just the result of speculation and wild guesses when cryptic announced the admirality-system.
Nah, I'm pretty sure there even have been development-related comments on in Ten Forward/live stream notes.
Unfortunately the guy who posted most of those threads has been banned and the threads themselves are therefore hard to trace. There are too many of them anyway, and it must have been a while ago. Scrolling down through my own comments isn't very helpful either, since I'm not even sure what keyword to search for.
I may simply be misremembering, but I'm pretty certain that the feature was seriously considered at some point.
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I'd still love to see a system like that made someday as an optional thing, though. Even if you need to handle the builds for your own ships entirely yourself instead of them being made copy-paste NPC builds, even if that's an element.
On the other hand, we were promised playable Horta captains in a blog back in early 2016, and I'm still waiting. No Kill I !
And if they do, I want my Pathyeager, doggone it!
See! I wasn't misremembering.
My memory tends to be reliable, so long as it's not groceries, how to do maths or anything else of real life significance that needs to be remembered!
How would that work?,
The entire crew ditching just their posts to fly to ESD and then skeleton crew your former ships into a fleet, We have a word for that, it's called a mutiny, plus cowardice like that is still punishaboe by death.
IIRC the idea floated about was that you could promote your boffs into captains and assign them to ships, that would follow you, that said it was never something that was promised but rather it was something Cryptic was thinking about and it was later confirmed it didn't work out.
EDIT:this seems like another case of Cryptic saying "This is an idea that's been floated around in the dev teams but we don't know if it will happen" as an absolute "this will happen and soon" announcement, rather then the "this might happen or it might not" speculation.
I mean who would want to deal with that. Sometimes I wonder if at least some of these people know full well that nothing was promised but are hoping if they make enough noise, Cryptic is either forced to implement that or that they'll get premium stuff as "compensation".
Nah, that seems too cynical.
Fact is, it was discussed and considered, but that was a long time / couple of years ago. So people may be misremembering what happened. Some think it wasn't discussed at all and only speculation by players, some think it was a feature promised by the Devs.
The truth is in the middle: it was discussed and considered, but never guaranteed to be released.
Any deviation from that interpretation is far more likely caused by misremembrance than a deliberate attempt at misrepresenting what happened.
Mhm.
What I meant earlier was more "I didn't remember what exactly was the case, but I think the system *could* work if they ever were to reconsider it in the future."
That explanation isn't helping OP's case, it seems too OP for a single player to have, you could abuse the TRIBBLE out of it and have a fleet of 7 ships following you around.
It depends, really. If they gave those ships regular, white quality gear and ensure that they didn't benefit from team or player bonuses, it wouldn't have to be too OP.
I mean, I doubt they were ever considering allowing us to fly multiple ships with each being equipped with 5 spire or research lab consoles and 6-8 MK XV epic beams or PEP's and neutronic torpedoes... And all of that with Beam Overload 3 while benefitting from things like Preferential Targeting and the player's Attack pattern Alpha.
I'm pretty much 100% that those boff would have been flying generic NPC versions of the ships.
I agree. As we've probably all seen in Star Trek V and VI, you can have more than one officer with the rank of Captain aboard. (The Enterprise-A had THREE.) So, why not have bridge officers that can wear that rank?