Game Mechanics

[MDFMalice]

Hello I've been a part of a group of fellow gamers Maquis Destruction Force and have been beta testing games with this group for roughly six years. I'm greatly anticipating this game and i know a few of my fellow gamers are as well. I have a few questions about the game and am hoping someone would be kind enough to enlighten me.

1. Will you be able to board ships to pvp / commence trade?

2. Is there a crafting skill in this game to use as a commerce? ie: I am grouped with a engineer and i am a tactical officer, will he be able to make things unique to the engineer class and be able to trade/ sell these items to me?

3. Will there be a party buff / fleet buff for being grouped with other captain classes / ship types?

4. Will I as a captain be able to upgrade my ship and train myself and my crew?

5. Will i be able to join a fleet of ships "pvp" and attack another players / NPC's Star Base or planet?

As I said I and others are greatly anticipating this game. I'd like to learn more about this game and will continue to read these forums as they are a great information source. Thank you for your time.

[CinC-UFPForces-Cardassia]

Hello I've been a part of a group of fellow gamers Maquis Destruction Force and have been beta testing games with this group for roughly six years. I'm greatly anticipating this game and i know a few of my fellow gamers are as well. I have a few questions about the game and am hoping someone would be kind enough to enlighten me.

1. Will you be able to board ships to pvp / commence trade?

2. Is there a crafting skill in this game to use as a commerce? ie: I am grouped with a engineer and i am a tactical officer, will he be able to make things unique to the engineer class and be able to trade/ sell these items to me?

3. Will there be a party buff / fleet buff for being grouped with other captain classes / ship types?

4. Will I as a captain be able to upgrade my ship and train myself and my crew?

5. Will i be able to join a fleet of ships "pvp" and attack another players / NPC's Star Base or planet?

As I said I and others are greatly anticipating this game. I'd like to learn more about this game and will continue to read these forums as they are a great information source. Thank you for your time.

In response:

1.) It's possible, but likely to be limited at best - Starships will not, at launch, feature independent, freely explorable interiors; starship interiors will be featured through instances and missions, which generally would mean PvE. It is possible that Cryptic will create a mechanic for shipboard PvP, but we've been given no specific information about that. Commerce will likely not be featured aboard starships at launch.

2.) Yes, but information is very limited as of now - Cryptic has indicated that crafting will be a feature of the game, but we have next to no information about how it will work.

3.) This is unknown - There will almost certainly be advantages and disadvantages based on what types of starships are included in your group or fleet, and based on the individual talents of those ships and their crews. How that mechanic will be implemented, and the subject of buffs in general, is unknown.

4.) Yes. - The player will be able to customize their starship extensively, within certain limits. The player themselves, as well as their NPC bridge crew, will also be extensively customizable.

5.) Yes, for the most part - Exactly how vulnerable NPC (or PC) starbases and planets will be to PvP remains to be seen. Fleets will be able to engage in PvP, however.

[TreffnonX]

Will you be able to board ships: probably, probably not...
Will you be able to craft things? Afawk there will be an economy so there will very likely be a crafting system.
Will there be buffs? Hopefully not!
Will your skill and that of your crew increase? Very likely, yes!
Will you be able to assemlbe a fleet and mess up the other factions bases and noobies? Most likely yes, but limited to PvP areas.

[No1UKnow]

Hello I've been a part of a group of fellow gamers Maquis Destruction Force and have been beta testing games with this group for roughly six years. I'm greatly anticipating this game and i know a few of my fellow gamers are as well. I have a few questions about the game and am hoping someone would be kind enough to enlighten me.

1. Will you be able to board ships to pvp / commence trade?

2. Is there a crafting skill in this game to use as a commerce? ie: I am grouped with a engineer and i am a tactical officer, will he be able to make things unique to the engineer class and be able to trade/ sell these items to me?

3. Will there be a party buff / fleet buff for being grouped with other captain classes / ship types?

4. Will I as a captain be able to upgrade my ship and train myself and my crew?

5. Will i be able to join a fleet of ships "pvp" and attack another players / NPC's Star Base or planet?

As I said I and others are greatly anticipating this game. I'd like to learn more about this game and will continue to read these forums as they are a great information source. Thank you for your time.

I would think that such a seasoned beta tester would be all over a Search button, you know because you are used to exploiting all available opportunities to gather information... I'm just sayin.......

I don't know maybe I'm out of line. I'm itching for new conversation I think. We are really starting to see so many topics repeated over and over.. do forgive me,

[MDFMalice]

Yes you are correct i should and am using the search function for these forums. If these questions have already been posted 1000 times i apologize. Thank you for for your time and the posts.

[walker555]

Have the devs personally answered any of these questions? or are we still completely speculating

[MDFMalice]

I have not seen any Dev posts about these questions but am currently looking in the forums. So as far as i know this is speculation.

[CinC-UFPForces-Cardassia]

The developers have spoken, in whole or in part, on all these issues. I'd encourage a review of the front page news articles, as well as a review of the transcript from the TenTonHammer Voon chat from several weeks ago as well as the press from the New York Comic-Con.

I'd also heartily recommend reviewing each edition of Ask Cryptic.

[Moryan_Sorg]

Have the devs personally answered any of these questions? or are we still completely speculating

I didn't quote the whole thing due to length, but CinC's post generally follows what the Devs have put out. But remember, even what the devs say shouldn't be taken as absolute truth. Everything is still subject to change, that's why it's fun to debate and add suggestions :D

[MDFMalice]

Thanks again for the posts. Im continuing my search. thank you for narrowing the search for me CinC.

[Deyvid]

You can also read the various interviews that gaming websites have conducted with the STO developers. You can see list of the published interviews via the link in my signature (http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=301365#post301365), which leads to a forum post here where I collected links to the interviews.

Also, check out HyorD's thread, "Everything we know about STO (http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=14535)" for lots more information about the game.

[MDFMalice]

Great links Thanks!