Walking Inside the Ships

[Kaiidyn]

Not sure if this is posted/asked bevore, I could not find it.
But I'm curious, Will it be possable to walk around (freeroam) inside the ships?
Would be cool.

if so, give orders to people on the bridge (as in Bridge Commander) but without the limitation that you cant leave the damn chair :p

Kind regards,
Kaiidyn.

[Profedius]

Maybe later but not when the games goes live.

[Kinjiru]

Hi Kaiidyn, welcome to the STO forums!

It's been revealed that there will be some instanced interior areas (Both ships and stations) as part of mission content, but we won't be able to walk around our ships at launch. Zinc has said that they want to do something like that, but they want to be able to spend the time to get it right, so they're going to wait until after launch to look into it further. :)

[knightofhyrule730]

I could not find it.


Impossible

http://forums.startrekonline.com/search.php?searchid=1724941&pp=&page=

but to answer your question, no. at launch we will not be able to walk around in our ships. we will be able to walk around certain starbases and on some ships during missions (see teaser trailer from last year)

THe function to walk around on our own personal ships will be added in after launch to better focus on them to make them the best possible, instead of just having them buggy and suck at launch to add an extra bullet on the box.

[ZeframCochrane]

Welcome to the forums Kaiidyn. This topic was covered pretty extensively by the devs and in different threads on the forums and Kinjiru gave you a quick and accurate answer. We will have limited ship interiors at launch and maybe something more in depth later on.

Have fun bumping around the Forums!!!!!

(Psst...Mods. Close this thread now before something goes terribly, terribly wrong.:))

[Arsinoe]

Welcome to the STO forums, as some have said you can't walk around in your ship, at least not at launch. They have mentioned that you will have some scenes in your ship.

Give Cryptic the time and anything is possible. :D

[Kaiidyn]

Okay, Thanks for the useful information :-)

PS. I am realy looking forward to this game..

[onesoul1982]

Okay, Thanks for the useful information :-)

PS. I am realy looking forward to this game..


We all are =)

[Arsinoe]

We all are =)

I can only agree, still, let them take all the time they need. :D

[TweFoju]

while were discussing about it

did you guys have any idea of how big the star stations will be? and will there be more than 100 star stations installed throughout all the galaxies?

i know we cant explore all of the sectors yet..

but im expecting that we can fully explore all possible sectors and rooms too in the future!! :D

i always loved star stations base from all space related movies and would love to experience walking in it :D:D

[Arsinoe]

Good idea, to my knowledge nobody has said anything about it. :)

[gabrielgraysylar]

that's lame, hope they will make adjustmants fast after release because I always imagine something like this. Walking around your own ship going to engienering, mess hall etc.

Well let the game come out first that is a priority : D

[Kinjiru]

that's lame, hope they will make adjustmants fast after release because I always imagine something like this. Walking around your own ship going to engienering, mess hall etc.

Well let the game come out first that is a priority : D

The main issue is that the interior areas need to be relevant to the game in general. For example... what do you do there? What about NPC crew? Would they be interactive, could you give them orders? Could you go down to Sick Bay to visit a wounded crewman? Could you conduct repairs to the warp core?

We've discussed it at length, and I'm fully in support of having the capability, but I don't want to see generic hallways and rooms, with either no, or just faceless NPCs. Not to mention the sheer size of the task. Creating an interior for a Defiant is definitely a lot more doable than a Galaxy or Sovereign. In that case, I'm thinking that we'll probably see specific rooms; Bridge, Engineering, Science Labs, et cetera, accessed from a turbolift, instead of seeing each deck modeled.

[JoyRiderCaptain]

The main issue is that the interior areas need to be relevant to the game in general. For example... what do you do there? What about NPC crew? Would they be interactive, could you give them orders? Could you go down to Sick Bay to visit a wounded crewman? Could you conduct repairs to the warp core?

We've discussed it at length, and I'm fully in support of having the capability, but I don't want to see generic hallways and rooms, with either no, or just faceless NPCs. Not to mention the sheer size of the task. Creating an interior for a Defiant is definitely a lot more doable than a Galaxy or Sovereign. In that case, I'm thinking that we'll probably see specific rooms; Bridge, Engineering, Science Labs, et cetera, accessed from a turbolift, instead of seeing each deck modeled.

I think you're right. But I am confident Cryptic can get interiors right. I just don't know if they ARE GONNA do it or not.

Creating the interiors for a larger ship like the Sovereign should not be too hard. Remember, they are not supposed to map out every nook and cranny. When you size it down to the bridge, quarters, mess hall, engineering, sick bay, and holodeck and some corridors and decks to connect it all you really don't have that much to do.

The big question here is will Cryptic put these post-launch or not.

[JoJimGregory]

Welcome aboard, Kaiidyn! :)

[Kaiidyn]

First of all, Its an MMORPG,
To be 100% complete from the start wont work, as then there is nothing to expand to to keep the game interesting..
Modelling the interior for a lets say Galaxy-class ship is a lot of work, but it surtenly isn't impossable..
And as JoyRiderCaptain already said, not everything needs to be mapped, at least not from the start..
It might be well possable to expand the ships interior with updates and expansions of the game..

Example, Voyagers Astrometrics Lab.
That wasn't there in the beginning, it came in a later season.
Same thing can happen with the game :-)

[RookActual]

It seems to me that ship interiors would be an awesome expansion content, but a ridiculous amount of effort to achieve in an efficient amount of time to launch.

[Kaiidyn]

Perhaps it would be possable to realease software or tools so that the community could provide it..
Ofcouse it would need to be checked bevore released...

[RookActual]

Perhaps it would be possable to realease software or tools so that the community could provide it..
Ofcouse it would need to be checked bevore released...

Way too many liability issues there. I'm sure we'll see this in the future, if the game succeeds.