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Ready To Customise Star Trek Online
Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 5:00 PM on September 19, 2008
Star Trek Online looks great and all, but is it customizable? Is it, is it? Developer Cryptic answers away: It's possible to customise character uniforms as well as your Bridge Officers' race, gender, appearance and name — typical Cryptic stuff. Also possible to modify your ship. Click through the link below for more details.
Ask Cryptic (September 17, 2008) [Official Site]
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Katorok
Posted 5:25 PM 19/9/08
Not a big Star Trek fan myself, but the idea of an MMO taking place in such a vast environment just captures me...
Katorok
hk458
Posted 5:14 PM 19/9/08
I just had a total neardgasm at the thought of playing this game.
hk458
RTW
Posted 5:02 PM 19/9/08
MMMmmm...... this is tasty tasty news.
RTW
everybest
Posted 6:13 PM 19/9/08
I'm thinking the upcoming generation has no idea what Star Trek is, but I guess this wasn't marketed to them anyways. Not really my thing either ^^
everybest
PEWPEWGreenLaser
Posted 6:48 PM 19/9/08
Now this, gentlemen, GENTLEMEN!, is an MMO that I can sink my teeth in to. Finally, something SciFi that doesn't have George Lucas' festering creative stick crammed up its ass. I'm in.
PEWPEWGreenLaser
NintendoFanBoy64
Posted 8:01 PM 19/9/08
" traditional MMO "
- the developer said that.
Which means another fucking grind, but in space.
What a failure to use the Star Trek universe to it's full potential.
Stick to super hero game Cryptic.
NintendoFanBoy64
enewtabie(wants a job at Insomniac Games in NC)
Posted 8:32 PM 19/9/08
@NintendoFanBoy64:
Might actually wanna wait to see what it plays like in a few years before jumping to conclusions.
enewtabie(wants a job at Insomniac Games in NC)
islandknight
Posted 8:59 PM 19/9/08
@everybest: thats why they have a new star trek movie coming out. for the next next generation lol
islandknight
IndustrialJones
Posted 9:55 PM 19/9/08
What I want to know is if when you're PvP'ing, will the music play from that one scene where Kirk and Spock are supposed to fight to the death? Like Jim Carey does in the Cable Guy...
IndustrialJones
lumpi
Posted 10:07 PM 19/9/08
I just watched their trailer out of curiosity, and, I don't know if you can get this if you don't live outside the US, but, the way the guy roars "WAAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!" is beyond hilarious. Remids me of all the Spore reviews complaining about how impossible it is to play a peaceful civilization.
[files.startrekonline.com]
lumpi
Pudgey
Posted 3:24 AM 20/9/08
I want to have a half Vulcan, half Klingon guy. Anyone who messes with him will get some sort of Vulcan death grip, or their face bitten off.
Pudgey
King Hippo
Posted 2:52 AM 20/9/08
Looks OK. I'll play it if I can be that alien race with the webbed fingers who get really pissed off when people are polite to them.
King Hippo
string_theory
Posted 6:36 AM 20/9/08
The thing I'm wondering most about this game is if you can have a ship with multiple players on it working together. Say one steers, one navigates, one balances systems (guns, shields, engines), one fires guns, a few on standby can beam aboard another ship & take it over from the inside as soon as it's shields go down etc..
The reason I wonder this is, in the new GI interview they mention that the "top end" ships can only be built by a fleet (like a guild in other MMOs).
So if it takes multiple people to build one ship, who owns that ship in the game? Is it a collective ship owned by all the people who made it?
Who controls the ship? When you log in do you spawn on that ship, do the other people in your fleet spawn on it?
Can one person fly it into battle and get it destroyed while the rest of the fleet isn't playing? If so do the other fleet members get back the money or resources or whatever they had to contribute to that ship after it's destroyed?
How does it all fit together?
string_theory
FunkyJ
Posted 5:33 PM 22/9/08
Penis shaped starship on the starboard bow, Captain!
FunkyJ