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Anyone remember when we were just explorers?
talonxv
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Seriously? I mean seems now a days STO has fallen into the same trap Discovery has. Defeat one threat to the galaxy or multiple galaxies, here's another one! How many more times must we save the galaxy?
Can't we just go to say the next galaxy over for once and explore? Please? My Arbiter can only do it so many times. At this point she's being held together by spit and bailing wire.
Can't we just go to say the next galaxy over for once and explore? Please? My Arbiter can only do it so many times. At this point she's being held together by spit and bailing wire.
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At this stage surely some admiral must be thinking its a good idea to shove it into a blackhole
it's an MMO
Exploration stories work once or twice, but are not as repeatable as combat-heavy episodes and TFOs.
And before you bring up The Third Borg Dynasty, those buggy randomly-generated tasks were generic and sometimes annoying back when they existed. Hey, my doff just fell through the geometry, guess I'll never see them again. There wasn't any sense of wonder with them after you found ( scanned | folded | spindled | mutilated ) 8 ( randomly chosen items ) left by ( random species ) more than once.
You might check Nexusmods.com to see if there is a Star Trek mod for No Man's Sky.
Thank you for bringing up the Third Borg Dynasty. While they might have needed a little polish, they certainly seemed to fulfill a need for many players who wanted to go do something with their ship and away team where nobody had gone before.
Yes, it certainly was a different experience than playing multiple events per year that offer magical waves of respawning enemies on a timer requiring players to frenetically mash their keyboard until their fingers hurt and that is the point
The occasional non combat mission was nice, but it was ALWAYS the same mission. Scan 5 gubbins or kill 5 enemy groups. And either BOffs or enemies could end up under the map. Worse as enemies because then the mission was uncompleteable.
Yes, in the opening teaser of an episode the Captain's log might have started with: "...and we're here to explore/catalog/etc..." and them 10-30 seconds later, the initial plot complication occurs, and leads to what happens in the rest of the episode.
'Exploration' has mostly been the 'window dressing' in Star Trek.
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Creating any type of content takes days, weeks or even months. Players can rush through it in a few hours, at most. It's very difficult to build a business model around pure exploration.
With all these AI improvements that are currently happening, it might become more feasible to have a good system that continuously generates new content.
Then again, I'm not a big fan of AI-generated stuff. And I don't really see how a company staffed with people could ever have their game generate sufficient amounts of explorable content. So it's unlikely to happen, and it if happened, there would be some serious downsides to it, regarding moral reservations that some people might have (and more should have, if you ask me).