The Mission Tree

[Hanekem]

I am not sure if I am liking the Federation Mission tree, I am not a fan of the Cult of the Enterprise that Trek has, I mean not from an in setting pov, so making so much of one super ship? not my cup of tea, don't really care about RPing Enterprise in my fed run (or call it Next Gen?)
I don't want to loose the Defiant schematics, though

[Syn]

We should have a cult of the U.S.S. Lollipop instead.
It's a good ship.

[Hanekem]

Originally posted by Syn:

We should have a cult of the U.S.S. Lollipop instead.
It's a good ship.

I meant more like treat it like a ship and not an object of worship, I like the idea of Enterprise being... an above average Starfleet experience with the rest of the fleet having adventures as weird and unusual as them

[Prof Doom]

If there wasn't an Enterprise, and it wasn't special, there'd probably be even more threads complaining that you can't make a Star Trek game set in the TNG era without giving us an Enterprise.

[Dalwin]

The Romulan mission tree is the only one with which I have had close contact. I am going to be on the first mission for a long time. There are 2 requirements. Recruiting 2 spies is easy enough. Having closed borders with 5 empires when there are only 3 out there is rough. I have no idea how widely we will have to explore to start uncovering the nonplayable empires.

I presume the Ferenghi will be one.

[Hanekem]

Originally posted by Prof Doom:

If there wasn't an Enterprise, and it wasn't special, there'd probably be even more threads complaining that you can't make a Star Trek game set in the TNG era without giving us an Enterprise.

Hence why I said giving the option of RPing TNG in the background or, you know, the option of building ships of her class, after all D was just one of the many Galaxy class heavy explorers built and crewed, she wasn't even the first one. so having an event chain to build her feels... dunno, off.

[Laran Mithras]

Originally posted by Dalwin:

The Romulan mission tree is the only one with which I have had close contact. I am going to be on the first mission for a long time. There are 2 requirements. Recruiting 2 spies is easy enough. Having closed borders with 5 empires when there are only 3 out there is rough. I have no idea how widely we will have to explore to start uncovering the nonplayable empires.

Expand just 2-3 new systems outwards and you'll solve that issue in no time. Your contact list will explode - and the "Closed Borders" auto-defaults on the new contacts (I have "Cautious Approach").

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Hanekem:

Hence why I said giving the option of RPing TNG in the background or, you know, the option of building ships of her class, after all D was just one of the many Galaxy class heavy explorers built and crewed, she wasn't even the first one. so having an event chain to build her feels... dunno, off.

The Enterprise was special, it was the flagship of the fleet. Also the only one that ever seemed to be within a couple of light years of Earth for some mysterious reason. To be fair it's not like it's mission tree is particularly onerous; for most of the missions under it it's just stuff you'd be doing with a science ship to begin with - in fact I think I got three of them while having the Enterprise set on auto-survey.

[volbound1700]

I don't mind it other than the Troi mission tree. That one is a mess. Needs to be easier to unlock or perhaps give real Diplomacy options to Enterprise such as being able to use the ship to speed up integration which could count towards unlocking Troi.

I also still haven't figured out Crusher's tree very well also.

[Hanekem]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by Hanekem:

Hence why I said giving the option of RPing TNG in the background or, you know, the option of building ships of her class, after all D was just one of the many Galaxy class heavy explorers built and crewed, she wasn't even the first one. so having an event chain to build her feels... dunno, off.

The Enterprise was special, it was the flagship of the fleet. Also the only one that ever seemed to be within a couple of light years of Earth for some mysterious reason. To be fair it's not like it's mission tree is particularly onerous; for most of the missions under it it's just stuff you'd be doing with a science ship to begin with - in fact I think I got three of them while having the Enterprise set on auto-survey.

Only this side of TNG, remeber by ST2 it was a school ship for cadets on their final year.
and while it was the pride of the fleet, and in many ways one the best billet, she wasn't alone in her tasks, it is just the ship we see the universe thru.
Having the option of a rol play of TNG? sure, opting for something more broad should also be broad. in other words, we should treat the galaxies like the game is treating enterprise.

[RobOda]

It's a bit of a lacklustre mission tree tbh. Fed's is probably the better one out of the lot though.