Character creation question

[mufti09]

I have been poking around the past week, and I have yet to find anything on the actual meat of character/species creation. Yes, the CoX/CO standard paper doll vid is nice, and it looks just as good as the other two games in it's ability to create a toon that looks like whatever you want to play, but...

When you create a character/species will you be able to do like you would be able to do with old school
PnP games or even MoO2 and have racial specific Ads and Disads?

Will you be able to create a High G planet species like the Briker, or a Low G species like the Elaysains?

Will the female Orion's have the Pheromones?

Will it be X Species starts off with these points, and abilities, and then your toon will be able to spend points to augment the species template?

[Varrangian]

I have been poking around the past week, and I have yet to find anything on the actual meat of character/species creation. Yes, the CoX/CO standard paper doll vid is nice, and it looks just as good as the other two games in it's ability to create a toon that looks like whatever you want to play, but...

When you create a character/species will you be able to do like you would be able to do with old school
PnP games or even MoO2 and have racial specific Ads and Disads?

Will you be able to create a High G planet species like the Briker, or a Low G species like the Elaysains?

Will the female Orion's have the Pheromones?

Will it be X Species starts off with these points, and abilities, and then your toon will be able to spend points to augment the species template?

There are two videos put out by Hailing Frequency where a forum member here (Tamgros) interviewed Craig STO's producer. The second video has a discussion of this.

Basically, pre-defined species will have a list of species specific "abilities" they can pick from while custom species will have a larger list. From what Craig said they don't want to limit people too much or punish them for picking either a pre-defined specie or making their own.

[mufti09]

Ahhh, okay here. (http://www.youtube.com/user/HailingFrequency#play/uploads/1/evBCLBCBLTQ)

So, there will be iconic races to start that there cannot be player made versions of, but you can make your own races. Good, I look forward to that part.

[Varrangian]

Ahhh, okay here. (http://www.youtube.com/user/HailingFrequency#play/uploads/1/evBCLBCBLTQ)

So, there will be iconic races to start that there cannot be player made versions of, but you can make your own races. Good, I look forward to that part.

Well I think they have said you can make a species that looks just like a Klingon to play on the federation side, but it won't be named "Klingon". But yes there will be predefined species.

[TruthSeer]

Well I think they have said you can make a species that looks just like a Klingon to play on the federation side, but it won't be named "Klingon". But yes there will be predefined species.

They have. You can make something that looks like a Klingon, acts like a Klingon, may even be called a Klingon in its bio/information, but is as far as the game is concerned listed as "Other".

[mufti09]

So, can well assume that will mean that any species listed on Memory Alpha, or just the main 10 or so?

[TruthSeer]

We can't really say every species in Memory Alpha. We have to see what we can do with the character creator first.

Though if your talking about species without using the CC, than I would say yes only the main species. Though I think that would be closer to 20+ rather than 10.

[Inquizitor]

We will also be able to customize our races to look like whatever we want. I would assume we willl have a range of species traits availalble to us. I'll be interested to see how esotic we will be able to get with it. Wil we be restricted to Bipedal Humanoid races or will we be able to recreate Arex or even a Horta?

I assume itll be restricted tot eh standard two legs two arms funny forehead stuff but It'll be interesting to see.

[Varrangian]

So, can well assume that will mean that any species listed on Memory Alpha, or just the main 10 or so?

We can't really say every species in Memory Alpha. We have to see what we can do with the character creator first.

Though if your talking about species without using the CC, than I would say yes only the main species. Though I think that would be closer to 20+ rather than 10.

Like TruthSeer said, we can't be certain how many canon species we will be capable of making. Now we know that we will have the following species pre-defined:

Feds - Human, Vulcan, Andorian, Bajoran, Ferengi, and I think I remember Tellerite
Klingon - Klingon, Orion, Gorn, Nausicaan

We've also seen through various screen shot or videos: Cardassian, Romulan (both TNG style and new movie style) Jem'Hadar, Vorta and Changling. Now we cannot be certain if these are examples of PC's or NPC, but I wouldn't doubt that they are examples of PC's.


We will also be able to customize our races to look like whatever we want. I would assume we willl have a range of species traits availalble to us. I'll be interested to see how esotic we will be able to get with it. Wil we be restricted to Bipedal Humanoid races or will we be able to recreate Arex or even a Horta?

I assume itll be restricted tot eh standard two legs two arms funny forehead stuff but It'll be interesting to see.

Yeah they've said that we can only make bipedal species.

[mufti09]

Yeah, the toon build vid has a lot of the iconic Species shown, so I would assume that those are the ones that will be "protected". But, in the ask a Dev threads it was mentioned that you would be able to create and share a Species that you create.

So, the question still stands as to if you will be able to creat and share a Spicies that is listed in Memory Alpha, but not created by cryptic, would you be able to name it and have it be sharable, or would it be hit by the copy-right hammer?

While I can see it be a problem if there are eleventy hundred versions of Caitian's if Cryptic does not create one, I can also see a problem if player created content, created simply because Crpytic did not have it at launch, gets nuked.