Question for the Devs on in game Econ

[Elesyium32]

I would really like to know more about the in game econ ideas/plans....

on one hand you have the federation that doesn't use any official form of currency....on the opposite you have the ferengi that are platinum obsessed.....

will there be player professions that allow in game crafting similar to WoW or SWG?
or will it be in game econ similar to what Star Wars Galaxies has done with their new Card Game system?

also will there be star bases/ space based outposts in which to repair ....how would such repairs be handled/ paid for??


any info would be great...im really looking for a dev's response

thanks!! :)

[Elesyium32]

/bump for some answers/thoughts

[DarkBarron]

I would like to see the Feds using energy as a currency. If they need a Phaser then go to a lab
send in your engineer that knows how to make it and use some of your energy reserves.

If you cant make something you can trade energy in some form or other to another player
that can and they can hand it over giving them the energy to make something else.
Its the same as currency really but a little more Fed like.

[Beaver8]

Your questions are quite difficult to answer because we really do not have the details yet.

I am hoping for a common currency that could be used as payment between players for any type of services. Not sure what that would be but hopefully something. The federation as a whole doesn't use money like we do today but there has got to be some common type currency for a MMO.

Q: Will there be an economy?
A: Many of the details are still in the works, but yes, there will be an economy that makes sense in the Star Trek universe. Since the Federation has explicitly done away with money, expect bartering and trading of goods to be an important part of the economy. Less tangible forms of economics such as Reputation are also not out of the question.

Also reading this will probably help you out quite a lot. http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=14535

It also a few posts down has links to the "ask cryptic" sections and are generally a good read.

[dieuwe10]

They did mention 3 types of currency, but how everything works has not been explained. They have also said that there will be an economy and that the players will play a big part in it.

[ramjam380]

Unfortunately, as you'll see from the "Everything We Know" thread, there just isn't much information out on the economy. From twitter, it appears that the big design discussions on that topic were happening just last month, so there probably won't be information out on it for a long time. They might have to wait until they've tried out their ideas in beta before anything's close to final.

Until then, you should probably include the question in the "Ask Cryptic" thread when it is open--that's really our best line to asking questions of the devs.