Yet another I want post

[Snooshie]

Here are my ideas, I would like some feedback on them, love it or hate it. Just curious if people think these would be good for the game as a whole

1) I want a BOFF bonus dependent on their time with your toon. It seems natural and overlooked. How many times did Picard glance at Work/Data/Riker and they just knew what he was thinking and wanted them to do. Sometimes even without saying anything or even being on the bridge. Why can't my BOFFs do something similar?!

2) I want open sector space, no more loading screens between Earth and Klingon territory, it not only breaks the immersion but it's just silly. I understand Cryptic likes instances and that probably won't change so leave them in for battlefields, missions, and stations but open sector isn't too much to ask.

3) Foundry TCL, new artifacts and items. Give us access to everything. You have a system here that no other MMO has or even close to yet during the drought of content not even this was updated, featured or encouraged. Granted they just announced a 'challenge' for Foundry authors but have they added new tools,scenes or items? Where are Featured Foundry Missions?

4) Abandon hope for new factions people. Focus instead on new early-end game content for Feds, people level up so fast in this game we are stuck repeating missions or enjoying a grind fest for end game items we will never use since there isn't any new content to use our super items on bar Featured Episodes. Klingons, after thought or abandoned idea?! Why do people want Romulan or Cardassian or more ridiculously Borg playable factions when most people only play KDF because they ran out of things to do on the FED side. I did, and I love what's there but now that I started out at level 40 or whatever I ran out of PVE missions before long.

5) Shipboard DOFF missions, what I mean is. I want to walk my toon down to engineering and recalibrate the warp core or actually see this musical performance that my DOFFs are putting on. The captain should be able to realign phaser emitters with a mini puzzle mission or something like that.

6) in anticipation of next weeks Featured Ep, I want a functional Shuttle Bay. Voyager BUILT a shuttle craft but I have to return to ESD to put torpedoes on mine?!

7) More missions or options to current missions for more peaceful tactics. In Of Bajor we are giving Star Trek stuff not gaming stuff. Reading, diplomacy, learning about a civilization, helping them deal with a situation. Missions should have multiple outcomes and ways of achieving them, sure I can lob torpedoes at your strange provocatively positioned aggressive looking starship or I can open hailing channels and find out why you've entered our space. For me Star Trek has always been like those Choose Your Own Adventure books I read as a kid, You make your own way in this universe. It's not laid out for you on a golden road. As any Federation captain we've ever seen on TV they always talk first and if that doesn't work Plan B is there to jam there sensors while you beam the Deferi off their ship without firing and if all else fails Plan C is the torpedoes. Branching missions or options during missions should be in here. Some missions have something like this but if I'm sailing into the unknown I need to know I can always have some options at my disposal

8) My biggest want, wish, dream whatever is... WAR REVAMP! We are at war with the Klingons, hostile with Romulans, Borg, splinter Dominion/True Way and now Gamma 2800 episode Dominion. I don't feel like I am fighting Klingons, there is no reason for me to feel like we are at war. I go to a menu and enter a TDM ( Team Death Match ) with Klingons and leave with some loot. I waltz to Qo'nos unchallenged and simply because I can. Give us a reason for being at war other then a good story, or a feeling of being at war. I want to get rid of the PVP menu, put in it's place the old Neutral Zone as a PVP queue. You try to cross the border and you're an open target for PVP players to engage in a challenge or entered in a PVP queue. Better then that idea is Sector Control, a fluctuating galaxy. New fleet actions pitting FED against KDF players fighting for control or systems and starbases. Bonuses for controlling a system or starbase like +5% exp or something of that nature. Obviously you wouldn't be able to conquer Earth or Qo'nos but devote a region of space to this fluctuating control system and it would give people new immersion to believe in and a reason to have PVP. It's a self generating content filler that would take some doing to achieve but give new life to the game and give people a feeling of being involved in creating the universe STO resides.

These are my thoughts, I haven't played an MMO before STO but I know what makes good Star Trek. It's simple things, obvious things that are often overlooked and greatly needed. Tell me what you think. Love it, hate it to me it doesn't matter. Obviously we all love the IP and game so let's have our voices heard by Cryptic and each other. Remember the Federation is built on mutual cooperation and so it's this game and community

[grandmasteroz]

you're a genius. i love every idea you said. i wish cryptic would hire you.

that being said, don't count on it. at this rate, i'll be old and def by the time any of this gets in game. but, it is a damn fine list and i really like every one of those ideas!

[Tumerboy]

I want a rabbit in a hat, with a bat, and a '64 Impala. But that don't make it happen.

Neither would hiring this individual.

Some things listed may be possible, and may, in fact, be implemented in time. Some however, cannot be accomplished without a revamp of huge parts of the game, which is unlikely.

[Sosuhno]

I for one can not agree to giving up on more factions. You know why people keep asking for a romulan faction to be playable cause a poll was given by cryptic to see wich faction people would like to see next and guess who won by a landslide no not the deferi, the bloody romulans thats who. Alot of us wish to play this faction. Plus having more factions will open up pvp alot more i think. At the moment its very dull and one sided.

[Malakite]

Most of that's ust unrealistic, but I do like the idea of a shuttle bay. EVERY starship has a shuttlebay/craft of some sort. We should be able to hop inside our ships, run to the turbolift & hop on down to the shuttle bay & take off. Our main ship can just hang were it is, let us go explore like that. Makes absolute sense & is suprising not to have.

Getting rid of the PVP queues menu would be a huge mistake. It works from an immersion standpoint but funtionally it's a huge inconvenience. However, I would LOVE to have an open world PVP area (aka neutral zone) so if klingons decide to wander into federation space they should be an open target.

[Sosuhno]

Shuttle bay is comming there are even pics of it and it looks really good

[Temprus]

Originally Posted by Snooshie

6) in anticipation of next weeks Featured Ep, I want a functional Shuttle Bay. Voyager BUILT a shuttle craft but I have to return to ESD to put torpedoes on mine?!

I am glad I only have to visit my bridge and can transfer to any small craft I have on the toon (some bridges have direct access, most you have to visit the ship's transporter room).

[ObiWanJabroni]

Originally Posted by Tumerboy

I want a rabbit in a hat, with a bat, and a '64 Impala.

Can't you just hire Skee-Lo then?

Not like he's doing anything these days...

[ThePsycoticVulcan]

There actually is sort of a shuttlebay-type thing...if you go to the transporter room on your engineering deck, you can switch to one of your shuttles or even just add something to them (like torpedoes). You can switch back to your main ship from inside the shuttle as well.

[Tumerboy]

Originally Posted by Sosuhno

Shuttle bay is comming there are even pics of it and it looks really good

The shuttlebay update was for the Holodeck portion of 'Of Bajor.' Sorry to say I don't know of any plans to hook it up to ship interiors.

Originally Posted by ObiWanJabroni

Can't you just hire Skee-Lo then?

Not like he's doing anything these days...

Uh. . . That was Too-Short. . . DUH!