Room Ideas

[Deantwo]

Saw some discussion on the Discord about there not being a lot of rooms types to fill a large spacecraft with. So I went about to make a small list of ideas and felt it was a good idea to share it here. You can all comment with your own ideas, but even more so if you have more rooms that actually serve a purpose as opposed to simply vanity rooms.

Purposeful rooms:

• bridge
  
• cabins/berths
  
• engineering
  
• medical bay
  
• transporter room
  
• spacecraft hangar
  
• ground vehicle hangar
  
• external door access
  

Possible vanity rooms:

• commissary room
  
• observation deck
  
• military strategy meeting room (long map table)
  
• engine room (flashy warp core)
  
• captain's quarter/cabin
  
• trophy room
  
• barracks
  

[AnrDaemon]

Is this all necessary at all with the new designer?

[Deantwo]

Is this all necessary at all with the new designer?

You can have everything in one huge room if you want.
I was just listing some ideas to help inspire some people's designing.
(This isn't the idea forum, if you were confused.)

[pizzasgood]

Useful:

• dining hall
  
• cargo hold
  
• animal pen, for when you run out of DNA sample kits (or want a ship-board zoo)
  
• gardens, for growing food
  
• supply locker in which to drop/place items that you don't want people accessing via ship hold
  

Vanity:

• brig
  
• bathrooms
  
• kitchen
  
• library
  
• auditorium
  
• classroom
  
• day care
  
• chapel
  
• morgue
  
• waste processing / life support
  
• janitorial closets
  
• interrogation room
  
• armory
  
• exercise room
  
• a park or meadow
  
• haunted house
  
• ball pen
  
• 3d-maze
  
• giant chess board
  
• recording studio
  
• arcade
  

I don't recall if we have in-ship design studios nowadays.  If so, that's another useful room.  Otherwise, vanity.

[AnrDaemon]

In the old designer, each room had (more or less) unique, room-appropriate walls. Especially external walls.

[Vectorus]

My approach here is to distribute ship functions as much as possible, so each room has at least some small purpose. Instead of a bridge with absolutely everything, you can have a sensor room encased in a geodesic dome, a shield room, a fire control tower, a map and navigation room and so on. If you want still more, you could separate control and maintenance, so you had a nice sleek sensor control room, then put the service panel in more industrial area.

Other ideas: an arboretum, which the original Enterprise supposedly had, a sub-hangar with an elevator to the flight deck, a bright/research room with airlocked rooms and its own transporter system, a torpedo room with big missiles on a rack. I'll keep thinking.

Chessboard could be fun once we have custom items! Or you could make an incredibly huge one on a planet with spaceships for pieces...

[pizzasgood]

I was thinking troops.