What, again? The game already died once when the developer closed down, I guess it got revived

if its not a pc game only.. its going to be worthless.

Does the pope wear a silly hat?

I like the new idea for the game. Before you were just an officer and ships would be like player cities. Your ship was going to be a shuttlecraft or runabout. Now from what I read you are the ship captain. You assemble the crew and customize your vessel.

Or you can be Klingon and do the same thing on their side.

Anyway it would be interesting to see how it turns out. I prefer Star Wars but Sony really blew it with that one.

I have a vision for what it could be and that would be great. A massive version of Bridge Commander.

My vision would be that with tons of bells and whistles. Mid battle you can break away to adjust levels in engineering, you can adjust helm tactics, give orders to tactical about which systems to target. Navigation would be its own art. Crew evaluations, promotion to the right team handling low moral etc.

However, my vision would lead be a very deep game. If it was done as well as Bridge Commander, only with more depth it would be fine.

My concern is that most games these days are produced to appeal to the lowest common denominate. This is double true of MMO's. This is triple true if it becomes a console MMO too.

do you mean an open-ended game where you can do lots of stuff like elderscrollsIV:oblivion?
or like one where you can BE anything like SWG?

Stargate MMO, new Star Wars MMO and a new Star Trek MMO...

I sense a disturbance in the bank balance... as if a million fan boys are about to make some executives very, very rich.


Star Trek has some really nice sci-fi stuff that could be put into a game (better than before at least). This MMO seems likely to be a simple Picard simulator with WoW rules though.



Don't get your hopes up.

Its depressing isn't it.

I remember those days of SWG too, just after the release of JTL it all seemed good... Then the so called upgrades and respecs came ruined it RUINED IT I say.

The STO game has been in development for a while, it was started by Perpetual Entertainment which went bust and probably sold its assets to Cryptic. It's the same game just with a new company name.

I would call EVE Online one of the luckiest MMOs ever. It is a niche game, but it is the ONLY niche game in its category since Earth & Beyond and SWG died.

Ironically, the MMO's best feature, playing with people from all over the world, is also its worst feature. Having to play with idiots from all over the world.

This was also my impresion. Note that the game Perpetualy Incompetent was trying to make started out with some awesome ideas and cut all the fun ones (for obvious reasons in hind sight) so it wouldn't be a good idea to keep their 'work' other than the name.

This really depends on how careful you are and what you do. In general, people will try to find ways to take advantage of you, but this is not much different than most other MMOs. People don't PvP fair in any game, so they'll take a cheap kill if they can get it

But it's perfectly possible to play in a way that doesn't put you in a position to be griefed. If you join a player alliance operating out of player-controlled space, there's little to no griefing really. That's not to say there aren't unfair fights, just no griefing to go with them

I'm also spoiled by EVE's economy and manufacturing. Wouldn't it be awesome to build your own Sovereigns? Though not much hope for that, it really doesn't fit in the Star Trek world