Calling All Red-Shirts

I would totally spend hours on a Star Trek MMO.

I'm right there with you...it's calling us...

I want to play as a redshirt.

Star Trek hasn't a good game in forever. I just don't think the property works well with action-oriented games. The Raven Q3-engine games were not too bad, but in general I don't have high hopes for the series.

I think I'll pass.

Birth of the Federation was good, until you got to about turn 300 and everything slowed down to a crawl.

The site says you play as either Federation or Klingon, which already sounds a bit disappointing since those two super-powers are diplomatically buddy-buddy with each other.

I want to play as the person who works in the mess hall and serves food for three hours a day.
Just like Star Wars Galaxies!

Being an avid CoH player, I'm much more into the idea of the Champions Online MMO, but I find the idea of Cryptic running the Enterprise an interesting choice. Star Trek, quite frankly, needs much more variety in how you play it than City of Heroes needs or has. In a superhero-themed MMO, at least it makes sense for pretty much the entire game to revolve around your spandex-wearing main pounding guys into the dirt.

But Star Trek is much more than that. I think Cryptic learned a lot from their tenure on City of Heroes & Villains and it shows if you look at the development of Champions Online. I think that the entire process behind designing a Star Trek MMO should be entirely different than designing a superhero one. While I've enjoyed Cryptic's work, I'm not sure that familiar with a formula that can accentuate such a different style.

Perhaps I'm not giving them their due credit, but I can't really get too excited about the thought of a Star Trek MMO from the guys that have only superhero-themed games under their MMO-laden utility belts.

The City of Heroes team did a great job IMO so this might turn out okay.

Will be surely looking forward for this game :)

As someone who hasn't seen star trek once, that 3rd paragraph might as well been in a foreign lanuage.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

for this to work they would need either of 2 things [ preferably both ] one.. the most original idea for an mmo to date that would make great use of the star trek universe... and/or gigantic reserve of cash and manpower to make every idea they come up with " or steal from other mmo's " work perfectly..

if they don't they going to have allot of angry Star Trek fans out there.

this could be cool

Cryptic is probably the most suited developer for a star trek game. Could be awesome but i'll have to refrain my optimism.

I'm tired of MMOs...

Shoot... I LOVE ME SOME STAR TREK, but I hate the fact that it's going to be an MMO... (I just don't have enough time for those)... It's been YEARS since a decent ST game (Or movie, for that matter, but JJ might take care of that next year)... I SO WANTED Star Trek Legacy to be a cool space battle simulator, but it sucked in 5 different dimensions, I think... Anyway, I will keep an eye out for this...

Aparently you can choose to be with the Klingons flying BoPs or with the Federation. And that there will be gameplay footage on August 10 so can't wait for that =D

i find Star Trek too "geeky" for me.
the people who love it really love it

Will star trek every finally die?

I'm a loyal redshirt here for you!

*Foil1212 Dies*

Fuck...

I think every guild should have their spaceships and their tabards will be their uniforms
In my opinion....

LFG Mobster Planet need healer

Hmm.. one problem is how wil they handle all the history and the material. Will you be able to travel all over the known univers in Star Trek? I mean, how can they justify quests where you go to war? I know, I'm a fanboy.. but in Star Trek, you can't use kill someone or destroy something. It is not how it works. Do they really want to open a Federation-Klingon-Romulan conflict again? Or invent new evil races? 

Did it say what time period it will be in? I hope it's during TNG and DS9.

fI this game is good my life is over.

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!!

I forgot to mention that I totally watched through 5 seasons of DS9 during the GB launch. Definitely fav show of the franchise.

LFG THE MOON!

Move over, Jesus, there's a new resurrection in town!

I am staying far away from mmorpgs.

Well lets wait until we see the real gameplay until we pass judgement.

Long Live The Redshirts!!

 The star base looks ok.

I wonder if they will use sort level up style use in starfelt academy  game. Where you start of with one of the low class ships and work your way to a ship the size of the enterprise by completing missions.

Man oh man, this is the MMORPG I've waited for all my life! It'll be bigger than Jesus!

Speaking of J, when is someone gonna make a Bible MMO? I call dibs on Pontius Pilate!

KAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNN!

I just want more Bridge Commander. That game with some Mass Effect on-foot action would pretty much be the ultimate star trek game. 

I have high hopes for this game, the potential for greatness is very high. It seems that space combat will play a major part in the game, hopefully there are PVP servers where you can participate in large battles. I'm also curious as to what races will be playable in the game. Sure there will be the Federation but what else? Would anyone else be interested in playing as the Borg? I' am, it would be a very unique experience.

It'll be interesting to see how this works out. Another similar MMO is of course Stargate Worlds - less starships, but still having existing military like heirarchies and being based around space exploration. Of course, Trek Online has the potential to reach an even bigger fanbase than SGW, then again... look at Star Wars Galaxies...[cliché] the bigger they come, the harder they fall. [/cliché]

Here's hoping it doesn't suck!

I'm with you Brad, while I never touched WoW for those reasons, this is the one MMORPG I would ever think of touching. I can't wait to see what they do! They should take some lessons from EVE Online to see what works there and what could be improved and how they can adapt it to a Star Trek friendly concept.

You can see why  a number of companies have tried and failed with it. It is a big IP, massive in fact and an mmo of this would be massive and Brad is right in regard to just how you go with it but you got so many good options what do you go for?

For me they have to have some form of levelling, if your federation through the academy etc. For me what would work is guilds would form but your guild leader is your captain but as a guild you would have to prove yourself ( a bit like how guilds will work in WAR) and then get your ship. If a Klingon this could be through combat trials etc, federation would be missions of some sort and then if the guild completes this they get hold of a ship but then of course you take orders and to keep the ship and your rank or more you got to do missions etc. The big wigs of the federation would be the game developers / npc's. And I think I would like to see you be able to go rogue and get your own ship, kit it out how you want and do what you want. Of course you may not get say the cheap or free upgrades as you would in the federation but then you would not have to do regular missions to keep them but then you could do raids.
There has to be planets for away missions, starbases you can go in and commerce etc and there has to be ship to ship battles and then full inside ship moddles and if the shields are down you should be able to board things.
Some races should be there but not playable, the borg for example could be about and appear now and again, say trying to attack earth with a cube where people have to mass to attack them. See a sphere? You could try boarding it and die a lot....

A million and one cool things you could do to make it good but your most likely going to get all the easy and less interesting stuff done.

I would have prefered, if you would play as a crew member, rather than the captain of the entire ship. You could starte as an ensign, attend Academy, get assigned to a ship and level up to become a commanding officer. There could be plenty of chorse to tread the grindmill aboard the ship as well as on landing missions.
You could even have instances, where your ship is in a battle, and depending on your position you'd maybe had to repair something on the ship, fight of intruders, board the enemy ship, and so on.

That would have been awesome ...

I am a huge Star Trek-fan, and I am still looking forward to this one. Especially as it's eventually coming to X360. But I am not stoked about, what's been revealed so far....

I find myself at a turning point. Do I call Brad on his mistake, and be revealed as the hopeless nerd I am, or do I leave it and feel a kind of shame... hmm... oh what the hell, you only live once. You spell it Qo'noS not Kronos.

Oh jeez I feel so dirty.

sfi fantasy but not cartoony, this could be interesting

I was following this back when Perpetual were working on it, but I didn't exactly have high hopes, although they did have some pretty neat ideas.  Cryptic are at least a developer I think we can trust, so it'll be interesting to see how this works out.  Apparantly, they're going to be showing a lot of the game off at the Star Trek convention in August.

If it turns out to be good, this is one MMO I wouldn't mind paying the monthly fee for.

I expect many many many "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!" jokes while playing this game.

The only nerdier thing they could release would be "Forum-Kid-MMO". Seriously Star Trek and MMOs are a match made in heaven.

KKKKAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds cool! I will only buy it if I don't have to pay a monthley fee.