Next faction.... In between!!! mwa haa haaa

http://forums.startrekonline.com/sho...d.php?t=163824

I brought up the idea of a rogue faction but it met with mixed results lol

whatever path you choose could gain(or lose) faction standing or racial...whatever.
(could even gain the trust of a race so much that they give you one of thier ships to fly... that would be a great reward for grinding faction)

bee cool if decisions you make affect how others respond to you....

Ok, it sounds like a good idea, but it sounds, again, too much like Mass Effect-STO. As interesting as it sounds, it would seem like this could just rapidly degenerate into the same kind of generic mess that the star cluster missions are: i.e. same exact mission, different dressing every time. I'm not programmer, but I can imagine that the development logistics of having a mission start at one place, send you to another place, then back to the original place, might just be too prohibitive and might divert developer resources from working on other funner, more needed game assets.

Theres SUPPOSED to be a reason behind the RPG part of MMORPG, and its not supposed to be made up by the player base, its supposed to be provided by the game.
Yes, it would be mass effecty, but thats because thats a good RPG system.
MMOs by contrast, usually arent, especially when the RP community is looked down upon for doing it.

Me like idea

I like the concept but the entire point of these diplomatic missions was to open up non combat for those of us who wants it. Sticking combat back into the equation would be rather counter productive. I like the idea of being given subplots and perhaps some. . .underhanded. . .diplomacy.

~D