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Star Trek MMOG???
Posted: 2004-09-07 12:28pm
by Praxis
http://www.perpetual.com/pages/news.html
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 30&tid=209
Apparently they're going to be making a massively multiplayer online game for Star Trek. Star Wars Galaxies for Trek. Thoughts, anyone?
Posted: 2004-09-07 12:32pm
by Tsyroc
Sounds like a cool idea.
Do you know what era they are going to set it in? TOS, TNG (VGR, DS9), ENT.
Posted: 2004-09-07 01:51pm
by Jon
Posted: 2004-09-07 02:01pm
by neoolong
Frankly, this kind of sucks if everyone is limited to being a part of Starfleet.
Posted: 2004-09-07 02:52pm
by Imperial Overlord
If you can be Orion pirates or Klingon raiders, it might not suck.
Posted: 2004-09-07 05:29pm
by Praxis
Die Federation scum!
Actually, it'd suck to be Klingon, since you'd have to fight with Bat'leths. Orion pirate, though...
Or Romulan...
Posted: 2004-09-07 05:45pm
by Kuja
"War is good for business!"
Posted: 2004-09-07 05:58pm
by Lancer
Praxis wrote:Die Federation scum!
Actually, it'd suck to be Klingon, since you'd have to fight with Bat'leths. Orion pirate, though...
Or Romulan...
ahh, the good old Romulan disruptor-in-the-back.
Posted: 2004-09-07 06:19pm
by Keevan_Colton
Will there be crafting?
At launch, the closest activities to crafting will be related to ship modification, repair and improvement.
Posted: 2004-09-07 06:32pm
by neoolong
Imperial Overlord wrote:If you can be Orion pirates or Klingon raiders, it might not suck.
"How will characters advance and grow?
Characters will gain skills and rank by completing missions assigned by Starfleet command or by otherwise advancing the needs of Starfleet."
Seems to me that you're going to be part of Starfleet. Unless they start employing mercenaries and pirates.
It would be kind of cool if it was set during the Dominion War. Smuggling, war profiteering, all kinds of neat stuff.
Posted: 2004-09-07 07:22pm
by Prozac the Robert
I would have thought the original series would be a better time for this sort of thing. More of a frontier feel to things.
Posted: 2004-09-07 08:21pm
by neoolong
Prozac the Robert wrote:I would have thought the original series would be a better time for this sort of thing. More of a frontier feel to things.
The demographic they're going for probably doesn't have much experience with the original.
Posted: 2004-09-07 09:18pm
by Solauren
Depending on how they do it, that game could rule.
However, just being part of Starfleet would suck.
Unless I went rogue, swiped a Sovereign Class Starship and went on a rampage...
HMMMM....
Posted: 2004-09-07 09:27pm
by Anarchist Bunny
I really hope that the warp core is fragile and secruity officers can pump up their phaser rifles to beyond kill levels.
Posted: 2004-09-07 11:43pm
by Slartibartfast
I want to be an Onion Pirate.
Posted: 2004-09-08 01:43am
by Sarevok
I would like to see a game like Freelancer but more balanced. Travell around the galaxy, trade goods, do missions etc. And the ships would be balanced so a Galaxy wont get beaten by a Vorcha.
Posted: 2004-09-08 09:22am
by Vympel
Its an appalling idea. The ST universe is not appropriate for an MMORPG. And that you can only be part of the UFP is even worse.
Posted: 2004-09-08 10:12am
by Alferd Packer
I hope for decent capital ship combat. That'd be fun as hell.
Posted: 2004-09-08 10:39am
by Jon
Silly to dismiss it as appalling at the moment, it's an preliminary announcement, a Beta launch is at least 2 years off, alot can happen between then and now.
I reckon it could and will work- some very exciting prospects, it makes sense at the moment that you can only be a feddie, since all series concentrate on them anyway- I'm sure should the game prove popular it will see plug ins and add ons which will allow you to play another series race (even though you're a feddie im sure you'll be able to be a vulcan, andorian and so on)
Posted: 2004-09-08 10:42am
by Ghost Rider
Interesting ideas if they use the ST universe.
Seriously they have material there...somehow only Starfleet would be a mistake.
Will wonder how it will turn out.
Posted: 2004-09-08 11:08am
by Kuja
Ghost Rider wrote:Seriously they have material there...somehow only Starfleet would be a mistake.
Civil war and schisms galore!
Posted: 2004-09-08 11:10am
by Ghost Rider
Kuja wrote:Ghost Rider wrote:Seriously they have material there...somehow only Starfleet would be a mistake.
Civil war and schisms galore!
Yes, yes I know your want for money and miniskirts
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Ah...now that would be cool...if the female outfits could be TOS minis. Now there was an outfit for the future!
Posted: 2004-09-08 11:13am
by Jon
Ghost Rider wrote:
Ah...now that would be cool...if the female outfits could be TOS minis. Now there was an outfit for the future!
Are those the same mini skirt outfits that male crew of the Enterprise D wore in the first series of TNG?
Posted: 2004-09-08 11:20am
by Ghost Rider
Jon wrote:Ghost Rider wrote:
Ah...now that would be cool...if the female outfits could be TOS minis. Now there was an outfit for the future!
Are those the same mini skirt outfits that male crew of the Enterprise D wore in the first series of TNG?
*shudder*
Meaning Uhura's outfit...the type that barely covered her butt when she stood up.
The man skirt they had in TNG were just bad on some many levels...
Posted: 2004-09-08 11:29am
by Slartibartfast
Man skirt? I don't remember that!