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Will you be able to travel and explore space?
Yes. Space travel is going to be a fun and unique experience. Mission assignments will include dozens of ship types which are open environments that move through space.
I like that idea...
An article regarding the game. Khyron fucked around with this message on 09-07-2004 at 05:32 PM.
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They will get to explore the surface of planets, although it is not clear whether those beaming down first will suffer the same sticky end that was often the fate of crew members in the original series.
Ahahaha.
Armor in this game: "Red Shirt. -100 HP, +300 to enemy ranged accuracy."
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
The fastest draw in the Crest.
"The Internet is MY critical thinking course." -Maradon
"Gambling for the husband, an abortion for the wife and fireworks for the kids they chose to keep? Fuck you, Disneyland. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the happiest place on Earth." -JooJooFlop
Though I don't like that you can only be in Star Fleet, should be able to be part of the Klingon Empire, or the Dominion....or anything really. A Star Fleet only game seems kind of...not the whole Star Trek experience?
And yeah, I think more races would be waayyyyy cooler. I wanna be a Romulan. Mr. Gainsborough fucked around with this message on 09-07-2004 at 05:59 PM.
The fact that the only thing this company has ever done is have "AAA online games" in development is worrying.
I might be interested in the game, but I really stopped liking the shows after Next Gen.
Plus, I don't wanna start out as a red shirt!
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Mr. Gainsborough likes to scream this out during sex:
YES!And yeah, I think more races would be waayyyyy cooler. I wanna be a Romulan.
Expansion packs.
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Blindy had this to say about Captain Planet:
Expansion packs.
Oh yeah.
YES!
This does seem pretty sweet to me though. Add a few features where we get to teach alien women how loooooove and I'm sold.
Kinda like SWG jedi.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Ryuujin said this about your mom:
I am Ensign Corbett of the Federation. When I was a child, Borg assimilated my parents. From then on, I have vowed to destroy all Borg I encounter, etc.,etc.
Even Hugh?!
Setting Phasers to Laaaaaaame.
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Okay, there isn't any roleplaying in a MMORolePlayingGame, but still...
Like Karnaj, I hope for good space combat.
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Tarquinn attempted to be funny by writing:
Hmmm...
As I've told a friend years ago, 'I like Star Trek and the Star Trek Universe, but I don't want to roleplay in it.'Okay, there isn't any roleplaying in a MMORolePlayingGame, but still...
Like Karnaj, I hope for good space combat.
I'll play ship combat simulators until the cows come home. I sat through Elite Forces and it was disappointing...can't imagine sitting through an EQ-style game of the same variety. Star Wars can work, because it's a story about groups of individuals. Star Trek is too much of a team story. Trying to change that won't work too well.
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diadem fucked around with this message on 09-08-2004 at 02:27 PM.
I was actually writing up a Star Trek MMORPG proposal all of two months ago and they go and steal my thoughts again.
Now it's going to come out and suck, and I'll say "hey that was my idea" and then by connection I will suck.
Bastards.
I really REALLY hope this is set in the old universe (with Kirk, Spot, and McCoy). I thought those ships were awesome back then.
24th century was Next Gen era right?
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Leopold had this to say about dark elf butts:
God DAMMIT.I was actually writing up a Star Trek MMORPG proposal all of two months ago and they go and steal my thoughts again.
Now it's going to come out and suck, and I'll say "hey that was my idea" and then by connection I will suck.
Bastards.
Damnit you wrote one too?
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Nae Model 2000 was programmed to say:
It says it will be set in the 24th century, but it will have parts of all the different shows in it.. through expansions or missions or whatever.24th century was Next Gen era right?
I loved the old uniforms. They didn't look like the tights they use in the new series now.
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Tarquinn was naked while typing this:
Hmmm...
As I've told a friend years ago, 'I like Star Trek and the Star Trek Universe, but I don't want to roleplay in it.'Okay, there isn't any roleplaying in a MMORolePlayingGame, but still...
Like Karnaj, I hope for good space combat.
Why do people keep saying you can't roleplay in MMOGs?
That's always puzzled me.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Personally, I think that the emphasis should be on ships and space, rather than planets. That'd be much truer to the series.
Now that I think about it, there are other problems they're going to have to resolve, like the fact that the TNG-era Federation is communist. It'd be impossible to built a MMOG economy without means of investment or different ways to earn money. Maybe you'll be able to play Ferengi or something. Or maybe they'll just shit on ST continuity and put a free market in for the Federation anyway. Or, if you want to live in an emasculated communist paradise, you can play TNG Federation, and if you want to live in a time where Starfleet officers earned pay, women wore miniskirts, and no one drank synthehol, you could play in the TOS era.
So many nerdy questions!
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Bloodsage said:
Why do people keep saying you can't roleplay in MMOGs?That's always puzzled me.
It's not that you can't roleplay. You can roleplay in DOOM 1 if you feel like it ("Imps killed my parents, but I'm a pacifist, OW FUCK THAT BURNS"). It's that traditional MMORPGs (ie. Everquest) have game mechanics that reward ganking everything you can gank, and damn the RP justification. Even if you impose a backstory on yourself, the fact that everybody around you isn't makes it more productive to go someplace else when you want to roleplay (ie. a pen and paper game) rather than try to force it on an environment, so as a matter of practice the number of roleplayers (outside of certain guilds that have a strong enough contingent to force their own environment on portions of the game), and especially serious roleplayers, are insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Bloodsage said:
Why do people keep saying you can't roleplay in MMOGs?That's always puzzled me.
No one wants to group with the guy that talks in ye olde english.
God I hate those people...
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This one time, at JooJooFlop camp:
No one wants to group with the guy that talks in ye olde english.God I hate those people...
I used to guild with a guy in EQ that was a dwarf and he did that. I loved how he could always keep in character.
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Nae had this to say about Pirotess:
I used to guild with a guy in EQ that was a dwarf and he did that. I loved how he could always keep in character.
Did he actually do a good job of it or was he ridiculous about it?
It's the people who do the latter that chafe my hide.
When I finally met him, I was literally surprised that he wasn't a dwarf. He was a skinny 6'2" guy. He wore his character so well.
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Karnaj had this to say about the Spice Girls:Now that I think about it, there are other problems they're going to have to resolve, like the fact that the TNG-era Federation is communist. It'd be impossible to built a MMOG economy without means of investment or different ways to earn money. Maybe you'll be able to play Ferengi or something. Or maybe they'll just shit on ST continuity and put a free market in for the Federation anyway.
I assume you pay with rank- or influence points which you will get for completing missions.
Or something very similiar.
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Karnaj stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
If the capital ship combat is decent, I'll give it a shot.
Just wait until the guy manning the shields takes an unannounced AFK and some little shuttle takes you apart.
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Tarquinn said:
I assume you pay with rank- or influence points which you will get for completing missions.Or something very similiar.
I'd hope so. Money in the TNG era would be so horribly wrong, since it wasn't in use in the Federation any more.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mortious said:
I'd hope so. Money in the TNG era would be so horribly wrong, since it wasn't in use in the Federation any more.
While that is true, I seem to remember frequent references by most federation civilians, to 'credits'. IE - I am fairly confident that Ben Sisko's father, who ran a shop on Earth, earned Credits as $$$. I assume that this is mostly a civilian thing.
What would we spend credits on, anyways? The replicators can make most things for you... the larger things (IE : Upgrades and such for your ship) would be acquired via Star Fleet. I can only imagine that the acquisitions from Star Fleet would require a faction point system much like SWG has...
Though, who can say all your dealings will be with Star Fleet? Maybe they'll add money, in the form of gold-pressed latinum, and give you the option to barter with Ferengi Traders who run scrapyards, to get some upgrades to your ship?
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Khyroning:
What would we spend credits on, anyways?
New replicator codes
