Higher level/rank help

[Beaver8]

Are they goingn to allow higher level/rank people help out lower rank people?

Say if I have been playing for a year and have a crazy powerful ship and I finally convince one of my friends to buy the game. Will I beable to team up with him and help him out on his quests/missions? I would assume you could because MMO's are for poeple to play together but I hope there isn't a bunch of solo missions that nobody can help you on.

Now if you can infact go help your lowbie friends I have another question.

Will there be solo only missions that you can only do on your own?

[THORN74]

if u want to repay a mission u wont get much out of, other than helping your friend, then yes. In CoX, a lvl 50 toon could still run lvl 1 missions if u want to help, so i am confidant they will continue this in STO. Are way over powered for the mission though, and it gets boring REALLY fast. if u are that much farther ahead of a friend, i would suggest making an ALT toon to group with him.

[jbarker82]

Well, like you said Beaver, most MMO's are for group gaming and generally allow for either solo or group play for almost any mission/quest or whatever.

I quite like helping out Newbs if I can and I can't really see how the game would work without letting some higher 'ranked' players give you a helping hand if they so choose.

I would be surprised if there were any missions that you had to specifically do on your own as it kindof renders the whole multiplayer aspect redundant. I would say the missions/episodes/quests will probably follow standard MMO forumla allowing you to choose to do a mission solo or with friends.

[Thibor]

While it wouldn't make sense for all mission types, what if there was adaptive mission-AI for combat missions with the idea that given the advancement of communications, your mission "objective" could call in reinforcements should it find itself outnumbered? The game would then have a way to scale the encounter based on what you brought to the fight.

Again, not all mission types would benefit from this. Exploration, delivery (unless running a gauntlet to make the delivery), diplomacy might not work with such a mechanic.