One of the things I havant seen in the sto forums and made a thread on is about what kind of scenerios we will be looking forward to playing through in the game. While numerous posters have been discussing at great length pvp and other aspects of combat, no one seems interested in discussing what we may be doing exploration wise in the game. Surprising considering this is a major component of STO.
On the diplomatic front it would be interesting to play through scenerios, where you are required to investigate if the world applying for membership is suitable and ready for membership. During this scenerio, imagine they dont fit the criteria, but discover the world in question is rich in a very rare resource that the federation needs. Do you accept their membership to the federation and deal with the consequences of that acceptance for that much needed resource or do you say "they are not ready yet". and file the world as " to be later contacted"?
A variation on this for the klingon players in mind. The empire sends you to a remote world to study it's potential resourses to the empire, nevermind that it is inhabited by a species in it's early industrial era. The klingons might have to avoid combat, if only for the sake of the large numbers of the species to see if there are resources sufficent to justify a later invasion force. Depending on what you find you can then recommend that the empire can justify the cost of an invasion force or not.
Another situation, involving the feds could be discovering a previously unknown species on a world and finding evidence that the orions or the ferengi have been exploiting the world and it's citizens, how will you handle that situation and any contamination there of, or if they are in the early stages of development of space exploration do you order a quarrintine of the system until you can asess the situation?
What about worlds uninhabited? what sort of stories can we expect to see in this case? any ideas?
Another aspect of exploration. While we can chart many systems from afar it's a different story altogether when you get there. Say you come across an absolutely massive debris field asteroids and gasses similar to our own Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system. perhaps with difficulty we can navigate our way in and discover a system of worlds that had been hidden away never before seen. Or a system of planets hidden inside a nebula that was never detected before.
While I dont expect anyone to answer the above scenrios with "I would respond with this answer", I would like some opinions on what other ideas we can come up with that may help the devs in writing exciting stories for those of us who love to make new discoveries and explore.
