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I tried searching through the forums, but it came empty. Has anything been said on whether you will be able to change your career path? I think allowing people to switch would be a good addition.I don't mean just a talent respec either. I mean, you lose everything except maybe your rank, and start over with your abilities and levels. Akin to the pre-SWG. Changing career lines is canon. Several characters have done that in ST.
If this has been discussed, which I'm sure it has, I apologize, I just couldn't find the link.
knightofhyrule730
04-09-2009, 12:16 PM
i doubt youll be able to change your profession (going from Engineer to Tactical) without starting a new charcter. It is basically like your Class in COH/WoW and other MMOs.
From what weve gotten out of Craig, it seems as though that well probably be able to "reset" our skills in our given profession and try something else.
ravenkind2
04-09-2009, 12:16 PM
I don't think you should be allowed to change your career personally, but I definitely agree we need to be able to respec. When the game starts no one is going to have a good idea what are good talents and what are not so good. So being able to respec it absolute key in my opinion. However, being able to completely change your career I don't agree with. There's only 3 careers, it's not like other games that have 15 different classes and you want a character for each. Three isn't that many and if you want more just create another character. Besides the careers aren't going to be the main factor in what you can and can't do, I think it's going to be how you're specced in each career.
Elta_and_Zletha
04-09-2009, 12:24 PM
Think of it like World of Warcraft...
If you start out as a Mage, you're a Mage for the rest of the game! You can't swtich, unless you start a whole new character.
However, I'm sure that one would be able to re-do talent specs in their certain field.
CinC-UFPForces-Cardassia
04-09-2009, 12:25 PM
Yes, according to Craig's interviews with Epic Battle Axe and Ten Ton Hammer, players will be able to at the very least cross train between professions at some stage in their character lives.
Yes, according to Craig's interviews with Epic Battle Axe and Ten Ton Hammer, players will be able to at the very least cross train between professions at some stage in their character lives.
Like I said, many ST officers had changed "skins." Geordi went from red to Gold, as did Worf, who later returned back to Command. Picard was an archeologist, which would most likely have been blue (I'm not real up on anything outside of the shows or movies.) Limiting you to always be stuck as a security officer or an engineer would be off. I guess the best way I could see would be everyone is a "command" but can change specialties anytime, similar to the crafting professions of wow or LotRO. Personally, a mix and match system like SWG would be nice. You can either be REALLY good at one, or know a little in all areas.
Combat , quests, everything else, it's all fluff. I think it will be good no matter how they do it. The true heart of Star Trek is the characters, and this is where I worry about the biggest letdown.
Tamgros
04-09-2009, 12:58 PM
Like I said, many ST officers had changed "skins." Geordi went from red to Gold, as did Worf, who later returned back to Command. Picard was an archeologist, which would most likely have been blue (I'm not real up on anything outside of the shows or movies.) Limiting you to always be stuck as a security officer or an engineer would be off. I guess the best way I could see would be everyone is a "command" but can change specialties anytime, similar to the crafting professions of wow or LotRO. Personally, a mix and match system like SWG would be nice. You can either be REALLY good at one, or know a little in all areas.
Combat , quests, everything else, it's all fluff. I think it will be good no matter how they do it. The true heart of Star Trek is the characters, and this is where I worry about the biggest letdown.
You'll be able to train skills in multiple areas (from dev comments, this is as far as they would say though). So you can be a tactical path that has science or engineering skills, you just won't be able to totally change your class.
Don't you think getting rid of all your skills and changing your class makes a lot less sense than just creating a new character? Yes, you could keep your rank, but this sort of change is just not very realistic at all; in either RL or the ST universe.
Oh I don't think so. For a true roleplayer, character is everything. There are achievements, medals, accomplishments, stories, all of which are gone when you start over. Not a realistic change in real life? Are you serious? So if you get tired of doing whatever you do, you're going to kill yourself and come back as a lawyer or doctor or whatever you want to be? No, you're going to start over. Go back to college, take online classes, whatever is necessary to change careers. And as a result from not using your old skills, your going to forget things. What kind of real life are you living in?
CinC-UFPForces-Cardassia
04-09-2009, 01:16 PM
What kind of real life are you living in?
There's no reason to get snippy.
I apologize. I'm a bit on the cranky side today.
knightofhyrule730
04-09-2009, 01:32 PM
Oh I don't think so. For a true roleplayer, character is everything. There are achievements, medals, accomplishments, stories, all of which are gone when you start over. Not a realistic change in real life? Are you serious? So if you get tired of doing whatever you do, you're going to kill yourself and come back as a lawyer or doctor or whatever you want to be? No, you're going to start over. Go back to college, take online classes, whatever is necessary to change careers. And as a result from not using your old skills, your going to forget things. What kind of real life are you living in?
real life do not exist in video games.