Questions

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Will we be able to add more rank slots for fleets
Can Cryptic put in Fully Customizable Fleet Space Stations theyd make this game the Zeus of all games
Are Romulans going to be playable
Are we going to be able to go to the rest of the sol System like Mars, Jupiter, Neptue, etc
Can the CE be easier its impossible with the groups because they dont listen
Will there be more character customization

and again FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE FLEET SPACE STATIONS JUST HAVE TO BE MADE THEY WILL MAKE THIS GAME THE GOD OF ALL GAMES AND IT WILL GET MILLIONS TO PLAY IT!

[Archived Post]

Will we be able to add more rank slots for fleets
Can Cryptic put in Fully Customizable Fleet Space Stations theyd make this game the Zeus of all games
Are Romulans going to be playable
Are we going to be able to go to the rest of the sol System like Mars, Jupiter, Neptue, etc
Can the CE be easier its impossible with the groups because they dont listen
Will there be more character customization

and again FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE FLEET SPACE STATIONS JUST HAVE TO BE MADE THEY WILL MAKE THIS GAME THE GOD OF ALL GAMES AND IT WILL GET MILLIONS TO PLAY IT!

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes

Engineering Reports (http://forums.startrekonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=158)

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Fleet Ranks: No mention of additional fleet ranks from devs. We're getting more ranks...as in player levels in Season Two (July-August), but nobody's said anything about more ranks for fleet rosters.

Romulans: The devs had a poll to determine the next playable faction (http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=153818). Romulans won, with 65.33% of the vote.

Full Solar System: Already done, apparently. Expected to be released in Season Two (Jul-Aug).

Character Customization: They're adding new off-duty outfit style in Season Two, and have said they'll continue to add new things.

Can the CE be easier its impossible with the groups because they dont listen

Don't know what you mean by 'CE' here.

FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE FLEET SPACE STATIONS JUST HAVE TO BE MADE THEY WILL MAKE THIS GAME THE GOD OF ALL GAMES AND IT WILL GET MILLIONS TO PLAY IT!

Okay. See, devs have said they'd LIKE to do player stations, but they haven't COMMITTED to this. There's a pretty high likelihood they will eventually do this, though, because they did it for their first MMO, City of Heroes.

BUT! This is NOT AS AWESOME as you think. Here's what happens in City of Heroes:-

To have a really big and awesome guild base, it needs to cost something. Players need to earn it. So you need a really big guild with lots of active players to afford a cool base.

Thing is, only one person gets to MAKE the base. The guild leader. Okay, technically you can set the permissions so even the lowest ranking members can edit the base. But nobody's gonna do that.

So basically you need to have a ton of people working real hard so ONE person can play with the base editor. Obviously there's an issue. This means 90% of the players never get to really use the base editor. And if that one person who's making your base had better be a master architect, because if he's got the artistic talent of a rabid monkey on acid...well, sucks to be you..

Customization alone ain't a winner either. You need FUNCTIONALITY too, because looking pretty just ain't enough. Bases in City of Heroes look cool, but they don't do that much. They can have a type of basic vendor, crafting tables, storage, teleportation shortcuts, and a rez point. Sounds like a lot? It isn't. Really.

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If they have player stations, wouldn't that just put stations ALL OVER the maps eventually? How many stations could you fit between Sol and Vulcan, really? I hope I'm misunderstanding how the City of Heroes bases work.

If they do, I hope they make it non-viewable. Or expand the map tremendously.

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If they have player stations, wouldn't that just put stations ALL OVER the maps eventually? How many stations could you fit between Sol and Vulcan, really? I hope I'm misunderstanding how the City of Heroes bases work.

If they do, I hope they make it non-viewable. Or expand the map tremendously.

Star Trek Online is a heavily instanced game. If they introduce player bases into the game, they probably won't be visible on the sector map. I suspect fleet starbases would essentially be private instances that everyone in the fleet can access, and that you can invite other players into. Like the current starship bridges.

This is essentially how it's done in City of Heroes. Bases have no real exteriors as such; bases are accessed through teleport points. The base editor engine is purely for the base interior.

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That's better then.

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It is probably going to be somthing like the captains table... Some Special Transwarp ability or maybe a Anomaly that everyone can acess, but leads to individual bases.