Automatically in starfleet? or elsewhere?

[Black-Ram]

Of course Star Trek is about Starfleet and their super awesome ships.

I can't seem to find if this was answered anywhere.
When you join the federation faction and you have a ship are you automatically placed in star fleet?

There are many other possible opportunities to explore without joining starfleet i.e. merchants and also the Vulcan Science council (they still have their own ships and designs).
The ship seen in the latest star trek film is clearly not starfleet and is of vulcan design. And in this game if the Ferengi are on the federation side they aren't exactly going to let go of their profit making side any time soon.

I hope we get the opportunity to choose to enrol in starfleet and then take a tutorial on ship piloting, command etc...
If merchant: how to pilot ship, and the finer points in commerce i.e. mining for dilithium, cargo running, setting up shop on a spacestation

Even the Klingons had their own casts with engineers, i'm sure creating the best ship for combat and helping to win a battle was a very honorable thing.

How many would like the opportunity to not be in starfleet or part of the klingons task force

[Capulet]

I agree it would be nice to be un constrained in that way however I am skeptical. A merchant ship typicaly has a cruise speed around warp 3 or 4 right? I would hate to be puttering along at half the speed of smell when a Borg Cube or ferengi marauder comes along.

[Vorador]

Devs have answered this a few times. You are either in Starfleet or the Klingon Defense Force. There are no other options.

[Kinjiru]

Vorador is correct above.

You will have to choose to start out in either Starfleet or the KDF. Cryptic has mentioned the possibility of a Romulan faction to follow the game's launch, and I'm personally hoping for a neutral faction. There have got to be some Harry Mudds and Cyrano Jones-es out there. :)

[_Pax_]

Of course Star Trek is about Starfleet and their super awesome ships.
... and the Klingon Empire and their super awesome ships.
... and someday, the Romulan Empire and their super awesome ships.
... and someday, the Cardassian Union and their super awesome ships.
... and maybe someday, the Dominion and their super awesome ships.

Seriously, Star Trek is a lot more than merely Star Fleet.


When you join the federation faction and you have a ship are you automatically placed in star fleet?

Yes.

[Velociraptor]

After a year or two when all their members stop their subscriptions they'll raise prices to keep their same generous profit margin they were once enjoying. Then all the members will be like WTF? so then they'll have to justify the price increase with major updates, not anymore minor glitch fixes. So they'll add more factions, more planets, a few more episodic missions... Then you'll get the super guilds who just grind their way through all the missions multiple times and ruin it for everyone else. It'll turn into a monotonous procession of sensless back and forth killing and dumb level 60's will find out how to glitch their way into crashing ships onto starfleet academy or whatever. They'll do a massive reboot and add in commercial options which will be hoplessly glitchy and people will complain till they Nerf everything. Suddenly new content will be only accessible to higher level people because it's not well integrated for all players or the normal universe. When people get tired of the same clone-stamped planets littered throughout the galaxy they'll add in an expansion like fluidic space or another quadrant or something but of course it'll be level 70's only or whatever. Then it'll only be interesting for super high-level no life players and they won't get any continuation of new players, however there will be lots of new players, they just won't play long:)

P.S. I know there isn't leveling, it's "Skill" but that means upgrades and better ships and better dps than your enemy and those players who put in 16 hours a day blasting through all those kids who like to play for fun:eek: crazy concept that it is.

[Thibor]

After a year or two when all their members stop their subscriptions they'll raise prices to keep their same generous profit margin they were once enjoying. Then all the members will be like WTF? so then they'll have to justify the price increase with major updates, not anymore minor glitch fixes. So they'll add more factions, more planets, a few more episodic missions... Then you'll get the super guilds who just grind their way through all the missions multiple times and ruin it for everyone else. It'll turn into a monotonous procession of sensless back and forth killing and dumb level 60's will find out how to glitch their way into crashing ships onto starfleet academy or whatever. They'll do a massive reboot and add in commercial options which will be hoplessly glitchy and people will complain till they Nerf everything. Suddenly new content will be only accessible to higher level people because it's not well integrated for all players or the normal universe. When people get tired of the same clone-stamped planets littered throughout the galaxy they'll add in an expansion like fluidic space or another quadrant or something but of course it'll be level 70's only or whatever. Then it'll only be interesting for super high-level no life players and they won't get any continuation of new players, however there will be lots of new players, they just won't play long:)

P.S. I know there isn't leveling, it's "Skill" but that means upgrades and better ships and better dps than your enemy and those players who put in 16 hours a day blasting through all those kids who like to play for fun:eek: crazy concept that it is.

Hooray for you. Your ability to post a wall-of-text filled with negativity on pure speculation and based nothing on fact is ... well ... underwhelming.
I think someone needs to re-up their antidepressant prescription. :p

[Beaver8]

Devs have answered this a few times. You are either in Starfleet or the Klingon Defense Force. There are no other options.
Correct.


However, it would be cool if they did allow you to be some kind of neutral faction but it will not be that way.

[RE-Kirk]

Hooray for you. Your ability to post a wall-of-text filled with negativity on pure speculation and based nothing on fact is ... well ... underwhelming.
I think someone needs to re-up their antidepressant prescription. :p

Pessimistic or prophetic - only time will tell

Hopefully we will someday see a third party which irritates both Starfleet and KDF. It'd be more fun i think