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MMORPG.COM News: Star Trek Online Dev Blog
Dana
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The official Star Trek Online website is active with a new developer blog from Daron Stinnett. In this article he discusses the infrastructure of STO.
| One of the first questions we pondered for Star Trek Online was the nature of our audience. We knew the design would vary based on the answer to that question. Would we design a detailed simulation for the hard core fan? Or create an open-ended world that allowed for individual freedom that would be more appealing to a wide audience? This is especially important issue given the structured quality of Starfleet. While the idea of serving aboard an authoritative starship might be appealing to some, we knew that some would find that experience too confining. |
You can read it all here.
Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios
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sounds like it's just gonne be a game with star trek labeled on it. lets hope that's not the case, like so many other games (SWG, MxO, FFXI...)
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-Anarchyart
All you friggin suburban white kid wannabe poobutts that are in love with G-Unit are sad and pathetic. Find your own identity
Siphons...this game will be extremely different.
Their objective: Becoming the ultimate raiding game. (their talk around the capital ships)
Of course they will try to have stuff for casuals, but they are basically telling uberguilds: we dare you! I think many of the uberguilds from the EQ "era" are to old and to exhausted now, but there will be others, I have no doubts.
Usually I bump and bitch at raiding games. But when they are honest and they have the desire to make a unique product, I can only bow even if I would never play it under no consideration. Of course if they try to lie to much later and say the game will be nice for soloer or groupers, I will bash them...since no raiding game can be nice for non-raiders, since you cant even grow past the infancy as a non-raider. But so far, they dont overly lie (*poke at Johny*).
Star Trek, if we can believe what the devs say, will make EQ and Vanguard like introductions to raiding.
This game look great, not for me, even less then EQ2 if such a thing is possible, but look incredible.
I think it is safe to say that they intend to...BOLDLY GO WHERE NO RAIDING GAME HAVE GONE BEFORE!
I will be far, but I will be wishing you good luck, like I did for DnL!
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
If it's gonna be a purely raiding game as you say, then Siphon's right.
The ULTIMATE raiding game... oh joy. I bet it will be even better then Everquest.
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN!!!
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN!!!
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN!!!
K3rk>LFG ROMULN BASE MISSION nEED THREE MORE ENGINERS SO WE CAN US METAPHSIC SHIELD
Kiiiirk>ne1 now how u get pastr the third klngon mission in blood for honor??!?!!!!!?
KEERK> OMFG just saw some stpid n00b using a defiant class without getting kalis armor upgradde!! Hahaha, what astupid n00b.
S3vEN9>SOMEONE PLZ GIVE ME SOME CREDITS! NEED TO GET MY GALAXY CLASS SHEILD UPGRDE!
S3vEN9>CAN SOMEONE PLZ GIVE ME SOME CREDITS!!!!????
S3vEN9> I AM A GIRL ;)3--<
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN RUN!!!
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN RUN!!!
gh4sp0ke> LFG BORF QUEEN RUN!!! WILL GIVE ENGINERRS FIRST SALVGE DROP IF SHE DROPS BORG PROB!!!!
Well what can you hope for really. Endgame in MMO's is tricky. The best I can hope for is just really well done raiding with regular content updates.
I mean if it had any kind of well done story with closure, people would stop playing. (*waits for a company can do a great story and compel you to continue playing.)
They could add high end pvp toward the end but even thats only good for so long.
Really? I didn't know brains were optional for this job.