Star Trek Online Preview - Emmert's Top 8 Gameplay Details Revealed
If there's one game that many individuals have been waiting years for, it's Star Trek Online. Through all the tumultuous escapades and scandalous interactions, Star Trek Online has finally fallen into the hands of a worthy developers, and the fine folks at Cryptic Studios are well on their way to creating a space epic masterpiece. At the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, Cryptic Studios' Jack Emmert gave fans eight big details about Star Trek Online, and the Ten Ton Hammer staff has posted them for you to read about at your leisure, so enjoy!
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2. Will you be a captain of a starship?
Yes. Emmert noted that you will be able to control the ship and its crew from day one. However, you may not start out at the rank of captain. “As all of you know,” Emmert said while addressing the fans, “you don’t necessarily need to be a captain’s rank [to command a starship]. You’ll need to earn your way up to it. You’ll start out with a small ship and a small crew and slowly build your way up.”
Interesting, sounds a lot better than I thought it would, disappointing there is only one player per ship, but if they can pull off team work of some kind, like with fleets and planetside, then perhaps this could be good.
Being a big Sci Fi junky I natuarly have a draw to Star Trek and Stargate so both are heavily on my radar. Not to mention KotOR. Always all at once or nothing at all in the MMOG world eh.
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I'm a little disappointed about the one player character per ship thing, myself. But I can also see why it's being done this way. It could be infinitely fun to command a crew of real players, but...everyone wants to be a captain, and it's probably less fun for the people not "driving the boat," as it were.
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