Woot! I've recently become a "fan" of Star Trek.. so this'll be interesting.

Thugmunk

Dammit, there is also nothing technologically stopping you from making multi-man ships! It'd would be sweet to have groups rocking out on missions while crewing a Sovereign or Galaxy class or such.

SpasticSloth

@ludwigk: You've never watched the Original Star Trek?? You must be out of your Vulcan mind!!

bakagaijin

@ludwigk:
"Or is this all Original Series canon (which I barely know)?"
A failure is you. How can you not know TOS canon? It's not like the episodes are hard to come by.

FYI, the setting is 30 years after Star Trek: Nemesis

Knara

@tralu: Teleporter man - that's where I want to be... Not important enough to get stuck in death defying situations needed enough he doesn't wear a red shirt.

Rabidsquirrel

I'm a Doctor damn it! Not a captain.

scroll33

I want to play as the Romulans :(. Guess I will settle for being an Andorian.

RockstarLlama

So, how does this game work? Are you basically your vessel? Is it all about space combat? Do you have a crew? Are there away missions? Dungeon crawls? When I team, can we all take one vessel? Or are we a fleet?

And wtf Gorn? What about bejorans or trills? or ferengi? Or is this all Original Series canon (which I barely know)?

ludwigk

I just wanna kill some cardies

darthnader

I don't want to be captain. I want to be Chief Engineer, dammit!

tralu

Did they just say Gorn?!?!?! :O

My excitement level just went from Warp factor 2 to Warp factor 10!

Pezdispenser

They mentioned consoles. What console(s) is this expected to be released on?

bakagaijin

I like the idea of being able to be captain of your own ship. I just hope there's more rooms on the ship than just the bridge and that you can have a team of friends to crew your ship and man the various stations.

photoboy

I wonder if we can time travel and perhaps team up with Kirk or Picard.

ananag

@DARTH_TIGRIS:
Honestly, I thought MMOs weren't for me until I tried the first game by these guys (and now NCSoft's game), granted, I'm soured over playing THAT again, but still, I'd give it a try if it's something you may enjoy.

CommentatorHatman

Sounds alright. I want to know how the xp works. Would xp earned in space be the same as xp on a planet? Perhaps the former affects one aspect while the other affects your command rank or something?

Raziel66

I still like my Star Trek game idea better, but this could be decent.

Then again, I thought the same about SW Galaxies and Matrix Online, until I came to see that they were indeed extremely average and maybe MMO's just aren't for me.

DARTH_TIGRIS

@archibaldleech: Your Man?

oh my.

ZackRI

I wonder where my man Q fits into all of this.

archibaldleech

Just.... give it... please!

Demonbird

After dealing with the Star Trek Fanbase personally,I can tell you they are some smart folks.But,they will pick apart anything in the show.I've seen pages of arguements about where the photo torpedo launcher was on the USS Lakota(Excelsior Class)

enewtabie

"FYI, the setting is 30 years after Star Trek: Nemesis"

Jean-Luc Picard is dead? Fuck this shit!

Rep1Time

We would like that to be the case. There is nothing technologically keeping us from making it so.

I see what you did there.....clever XD

But it sounds cool, but I agree with a few of the commenters, I wanted to be a chief engineer and a Romulan, damn it >> Oh well, maybe in the expansions?

neojames82

@DaveKap:
Not good enough. My main complaint with all MMOs is the inability to instantly travel anywhere ala Fast Travel from Oblivion.

Why in gods name would you want to have instantaneous travel to anywhere as a feature in a combat/exploration/economy-based MMO? It would absolutely destroy the gameplay. Sounds more like a problem with untreated ADD than an issue with games.

Knara

@SpasticSloth:

This was done in TrekMUSE waayyy back in the day. While it does work, it requires you to have the requisite number of people with the requisite type/level of skills to even get the ship out of spacedock.

The more I read about this MMO, the more I think they've been creating an EVE competitor in secret and are now adapting that to the Trek franchise.

(Okay, well, back in TrekMUSE if you were industrious enough you set up a set of macros that allowed you to pilot a ship on your own).

Knara

Will there be realistic travel times in space?
Travel times will be semi-realistic, with a focus on fun. Space is big, and it can take a very long time to travel great distances. That travel time can be impractically long. We will introduce transwarp conduit technology and worm holes to allow players to travel to distant sectors of the galaxy without needing days or weeks of gameplay to do so.

Not good enough. My main complaint with all MMOs is the inability to instantly travel anywhere ala Fast Travel from Oblivion. I want to be able to go to distant sectors without needing minutes, let alone hours, weeks, and days. This, of course, assumes that I've already traveled to the target location (again, like Oblivion).

Please make this a game I want to play and not another "wait 10 minutes to go where you want to go" MMO.

DaveKap

@DARTH_TIGRIS: Big difference. SWG was made by SOE, who makes some of the most shoddy MMOs on the market. Matrix was made by Monolith, who doesn't do MMOs. Cryptic makes MMOs. And while there is debate about how good CoH is (Depth being the big problem), it is definitely a high quality game.

Saberj

*blows load*
oh LORDY do i not want to have to wait that long for this.
i think the long travel times are a good idea too...!

Naif

this has the potential to go horribly wrong!!!!

shaunomacx

I can see so much pain going their way... making a Star Trek MMO requires a lot of bravery, or stupidty, lets hope its the first :D
Its like throwing a lamb into a lions cage and expect the lions not to eat it.

Krumm

@Pezdispenser:

Honestly, I'd enjoy this game a lot more if I get to blow up the Federation instead of be the Federation.

arstal

I must have missed the console version announcement. Now I have to decide whether to get Star Trek or Champions Online on my 360. Great!

OnLegendary86

Tholians! NOW! :)

Raziel66

@feitclub:

Good luck with that, LOL, you wouldn't get past the Sector 001 Defense Fleet and detection system.

SnakeCL

They need to include some of the "bad guy" alien races to get my attention. I want to command a Romulan Warbird and explore the Terran solar system while cloaked.

feitclub

the pvp system is a total rip off of eve online

blackpanther25

"Will you need to have to have an internet connection to play Star Trek Online?
Yes. "

Did they really have to point that out? I could imagine that this came from some horrible focus testing or a Q&A Con Panel gone wrong.

Developer One: Okay, we need to stress that this MMO is extremely immersive, featuring thousands of players at the same time in massive battles...yes?

Person: Will I need the internet to interact with these people?

Developer One: ...

BlinkinPark182

@blackpanther25:

Which is, in turn, just an expansion of the DAoC PvP system. Which is, in turn, just an expansion of any given CTF game. Which, in turn, was just an expansion of deathmatch.

There's nothing original.

Knara

"allow players to travel to distant sectors of the galaxy without needing days or weeks of gameplay to do so."? Sign me up.

Dexyn

@Rep1Time: Well in the first episode of TNG McCoy was still alive and was on the Enterprise D talking to Data in 2364 and he was born in 2227 lulz , soooo basically I doubt Picard is dead cause he is like a god or something like that.

ODSTnathan

I think i just wrecked the system by trying to answer too many questions at once but anyway anyone with questions or hype should watch this;
[www.gametrailers.com]

Dirame

@ludwigk: [www.gametrailers.com]
You'll see that most of the questions you are asking are answered.

@arstal: Yes you can.

@blackpanther25: Not exactly since you actually get to choose to divert power from engine to shields and vice versa and make tactical decisions other than flying in a radius larger than your opponents range in order for you to pick him off with you long range large hybrid turrets.

@RockstarLlama:
In one of the other interviews he did say all the races will be available but not at the start. You'll be able to choose between Klingon and Federation. Also answering the question of if you could try blowing up the federation and yes you can do that if you are Klingon.

Dirame

Good that you can play as Klingon, but I was hoping for a crew of players for each ship. Oh well, still interested

PuppyGuarder

I'm SO there...you get an avatar and command of a ship...SWEET!

hiruu

@ODSTnathan: Jesus, you're right. 137 years old.

Damn.

.endejas.

It is a shame that I can't be the chief engineer. I've even been spending time preparing:

"No, sir, I cannot do that."
"No, that is not possible."
"I can't do that."
"No, that won't work."
"I can't change the laws of physics."
"No way, jose."
"Nope, can't do it."
"I can reverse the polarity of the neutron flow to repair the engines."

"Actually, just kidding. I can't do that."

Fnor

I would have preferred clan/team/friend based ship control. Everyone controlling their own ship sounds too lonely and boring for an MMO. ST games should be more about team work than individual superiority.

ComradeLewis

I still think it would be better to allow teams of players to all work together on the same ship.

Even if it's one players ship & he's the captain, if the other players (also captains) could help out on that ship to accomplish more than what that one player could by himself then it would be real multiplayer.

Only having that option on the ground means 1/2 the game is missing imo.

string_theory

Oh Star Trek.

I've missed you. Please be awesome.

sir_carrot

I'll be a female gorn, captain of the Sexy Lizard Yacht

osteofight

YAAAAY ANDORIAN!!!

Hmm, no Romulans *or* Cardassians though. Maybe they're planning something with those races and they don't want players messing it up? Or, they *do* say 'and several others'.

They probably are never going to add the Ferengi, though. Only people who would play them are griefers.

eskilla

No Romulans! Boooo!

Oh well. I could be a Romulan pretending to be a Vulcan. Those humans will never know what hit them!
Muhhahhhahahah!!!

Ra is on Its Always Sunny in Philly

What happened to the cadet phase? Thought it'd be kind of cool to go through StarFleet Academy.

Ignatius

@eskilla:

If they have a "huge economy", then Ferengi probably would get race bonuses for trading/etc. Here's hoping they have a "real" economy like EVE

Knara

I didn't know this was coming out on consoles. I like these developers a lot.

MisterMcThursday

As long as I can make my own Android class, I'm happy. (Might settle for Vulcan, though.)

I'm not all that keen on being your own Captain. I was hoping that they mask the guild system as a ship with it's crew members. NPC crew mates can be around when there's no one in the guild available at the moment.

(I wanted to be a Federation Scientist or work in engineering. :( )

superfrogsavestokyo

I personally see PC crews coming in the future. Too many good ideas for it coming from the forums over there.

mtheumer

I am so friggin stoked for this game, words cannot even begin to describe it. I grew up with Star Trek, my mom was a huge fan. I learned how to do the Vulcan salute before I learned to walk.

This game looks like great fun, and has a lot of potential. I'll follow it's development closely. I've not been this excited for an MMO since they announced World of Warcraft.

Hahaue

@string_theory:
They said that won't be available at launch but other players can come into your bridge and other areas of your ship to talk tactics and party On! As we do in guilds.

Dirame

@DaveKap: freejumps will make the STO universe feel very small. They'll probably (hopefully) limit the amount of wormholes (think flightpaths) to avoid the above.

rainofwalrus

I'm becoming more and ore stoked for this game. I really think they might have something very fun on their hands.

MSUSteve

Continuum....
What about the Continuum?!?!?!

rockagainstemo

I shall remain skeptically optimistic. Skeptic since it's a sci-fi MMO. Optimistic that it's not a Sony sci-fi MMO. I'm looking at you SW: Galaxies.

robomonk

Yeah, no mention of the Q...
Does that not sound a bit strange?
And will any of the other series
(i.e Voyager) play a part?

rockagainstemo

Will console and PC players be on the same servers?
We would like that to be the case. There is nothing technologically keeping us from ***making it so***.

These guys rule.

City17Mailman

@tralu: me too!

ankylo

Ok. It's official. I'm getting hyped by this game :]

Solidus

@Dirame:
Yea, but as a meeting place. Not actually functional. I don't think anybody other than the ship's owner can interact w/ it. And if they can, I dont think anybody else can while they are. Only seats 1 so to say.

string_theory

Back when WoW had just been announced, I said that I would never join an MMO because they're life-sucking machines, unless there were someday a Star Trek based one.

God damnit.

I suppose I should just go ahead and reserve a place in rehab for 4 years from now.

tcolberg