It's About Time!

[Sherp]

Wow. Totally blown away by the new site. Looks completely awesome. Well done, Cryptic. After the initial surge of traffic, Startrekonline.com and crypticstudios.com seem to be handling the load pretty well!

The screenshots look wonderful! I haven't been this excited about Star Trek Online since Perpetual started trickling concept art to us back on StarTrek-Online.net.

This is a brilliant start, Cryptic! And I see VIDEO is coming in two weeks! *happy dance* BRING IT ON!

[Thomas45]

Wow. Totally blown away by the new site. Looks completely awesome. Well done, Cryptic. After the initial surge of traffic, Startrekonline.com and crypticstudios.com seem to be handling the load pretty well!

The screenshots look wonderful! I haven't been this excited about Star Trek Online since Perpetual started trickling concept art to us back on StarTrek-Online.net.

This is a brilliant start, Cryptic! And I see VIDEO is coming in two weeks! *happy dance* BRING IT ON!


Yep this game is going to be done a lot sooner and maybe better than if PE still had this.

[Trekkie69]

Wow. Totally blown away by the new site. Looks completely awesome. Well done, Cryptic. After the initial surge of traffic, Startrekonline.com and crypticstudios.com seem to be handling the load pretty well!

The screenshots look wonderful! I haven't been this excited about Star Trek Online since Perpetual started trickling concept art to us back on StarTrek-Online.net.

This is a brilliant start, Cryptic! And I see VIDEO is coming in two weeks! *happy dance* BRING IT ON!

I am so excited I may never sleep again :)

[Gizmo]

I was really excited when I started hearing the rumours that Cryptic had picked the game up after things with Perpetual went south. This studio has been non-stop impressing me lately so I can't wait to see what you guys do with the game. :D

[Finnigan]

I am looking forward to Cryptic doing a far superior job on this title than Perpetual ever had a chance of performing.

And hey, look, a forum for the game provided by the company making the game instead of a fan-run site! Things are indeed looking up.

Best of luck, Cryptic!

[Brenelael]

I too am very impressed by Cryptic so far. Just having this website and FORUM puts them far ahead of anything PE did for STO. Also they have already released almost as much stuff as PE did in 4 years of development. I'm also very much looking forward to the game play video we are getting on the 10th. That puts them lightyears ahead of anything PE did in the same amount of time. Yes it's good to see STO in the hands of actual professional developers that we know will get the job done without all the drama that PE had.

Bren

P.S. It's also nice to have company representatives on this site that can talk to us about the game without constantly having to pull their foot out of their mouths like another developer we all know who will remain nameless. *Cough* Stinnett *Cough*

[Falin]

Yep this game is going to be done a lot sooner and maybe better than if PE still had this.

Yup, 2 years as opposed to PE's 5 years and never got past alpha. :)

[IanD967]

Yup, 2 years as opposed to PE's 5 years and never got past alpha. :)

i actually think it was in Alpha (cant really show ground shots and in-space shots without something heh

[J.L.Picard]

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man i cant wait

I'm hoping the game is still on track for a December release like PE had planned. So come Christmas this year i wonna be playing STO!!!

[Falin]

i actually think it was in Alpha (cant really show ground shots and in-space shots without something heh

oh let's not get into that arguement again, we'll have people pouting and touting "we know it was in alpha2!" all over again. those shots could have easily come from a pre-alpha capacities build.

[IanD967]

oh let's not get into that arguement again, we'll have people pouting and touting "we know it was in alpha2!" all over again. those shots could have easily come from a pre-alpha capacities build.

didnt even know there was an argument about it :eek:

[Brenelael]

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man i cant wait

I'm hoping the game is still on track for a December release like PE had planned. So come Christmas this year i wonna be playing STO!!!

Patience my friend, patience. We all want it now but we need to give them time to do this right. None of us want to play a half finished non-polished STO now do we?

Bren

[IanD967]

Patience my friend, patience. We all want it now but we need to give them time to do this right. None of us want to play a half finished non-polished STO now do we?

Bren

yes! :D


nah only joking :) i would prefer polish first than release then a ton of patching and bug fixing later only to find out one of the major systems didnt work so the game cannot really continue the way they wanted it to :)

[J.L.Picard]

oh let's not get into that arguement again, we'll have people pouting and touting "we know it was in alpha2!" all over again. those shots could have easily come from a pre-alpha capacities build.

lol

the way i see it if its called alpha-X it dont matter its alpha so it could be alpha-4000 its still alpha :D:D

either way if they have a working demo then the game should be progressing well hopefully its gone REAL well. I have a feeling they have been working on this for ages but only announced it so it concides with the ST convention how else would they have a demo ready? PE's site has said they are going to focus on developing their engine, whoose to say STO is not going to be using that engine??:D

most of this is just me hoping for a release this year. I really dont want to go back to wow I've had enough of lvl 70 blue's calling me fully epix(no stupid pvp ****) a noob.

[J.L.Picard]

Patience my friend, patience. We all want it now but we need to give them time to do this right. None of us want to play a half finished non-polished STO now do we?

Bren

I could atleast hope for a beta =P

[Falin]

lol

the way i see it if its called alpha-X it dont matter its alpha so it could be alpha-4000 its still alpha :D:D



basics of design in a nutshell:

design phase - docment built up, ahmmered out (the buble of the game)
art phase - get artists to give preliminary designs based of design doc paramiters
engine capacities test phase (pre-alpha) - build engine (or use existing engine) add art departments models, create quick "gameplay" type vid for investors and maybe public showing
alpha 1 - programmers begine building game mechanics into game
alpha 2 -in house beta testors get first crack at design, most game details hammered out by now
Beta 1 - official closed beta, in house beta testers have mostly finalized version
Beta 2 - first public beta - usually closed focus group for player feedbacks on balance issues and playability factors
Beta 3 - open public stress test, a way to advertise and test system at same time
Gold - Game launched to public.

using this model, i expect we'll see the pre-alpha vid from cryptic on the 10th.

[J.L.Picard]

basics of design in a nutshell:

design phase - docment built up, ahmmered out (the buble of the game)
art phase - get artists to give preliminary designs based of design doc paramiters
engine capacities test phase (pre-alpha) - build engine (or use existing engine) add art departments models, create quick "gameplay" type vid for investors and maybe public showing
alpha 1 - programmers begine building game mechanics into game
alpha 2 -in house beta testors get first crack at design, most game details hammered out by now
Beta 1 - official closed beta, in house beta testers have mostly finalized version
Beta 2 - first public beta - usually closed focus group for player feedbacks on balance issues and playability factors
Beta 3 - open public stress test, a way to advertise and test system at same time
Gold - Game launched to public.

using this model, i expect we'll see the pre-alpha vid from cryptic on the 10th.

They didnt say they were shoing a vid they say a live stage demo isnt it? would that mean they are at apha 1 or 2??

[IanD967]

They didnt say they were shoing a vid they say a live stage demo isnt it? would that mean they are at apha 1 or 2??

definantly showing a video of in-game footage :) probably Alpha 1 according to Falins chart :D

[J.L.Picard]

Cryptic Studios will reveal the first gameplay footage from Star Trek Online on Sunday, August 10, 2008, at the Official Star Trek® Convention in Las Vegas. That is what Cryptic have said(i read into it what i wanted i guess:mad::mad:

even so gameplay footgage would suggest they have a game that is playable :D

[J.L.Picard]

OMG Ian you dirty basterd your already nearly at 1K posts LOL are you living of the site?? :D:D

Ima try get into the same fleet as you :;);)

[IanD967]

even so gameplay footgage would suggest they have a game that is playable :D

EXACTLY! or well atleast some form of playable game so that they can implement and create the numerous systems :)

and no i dont live at this site :D im actually playing Mass Effect but take a break ever 20-30 minutes to check on posts and such :)

[J.L.Picard]

Ian how do i make multiple quotes i hate having to post like 2-3 times and im sure it must irratate others

[J.L.Picard]

PC or 360?

[IanD967]

Ian how do i make multiple quotes i hate having to post like 2-3 times and im sure it must irratate others

i normally just use the quote function once then seperate the different points or copy and paste the selected text you want and put [quote*] infront of the text and [/quote*] at the end (without the *'s )


and PC (minimising)

[J.L.Picard]

have you played the 360 version?

[IanD967]

havent got and dont want a 360 :)

[Falin]

i normally just use the quote function once then seperate the different points or copy and paste the selected text you want and put [quote*] infront of the text and [/quote*] at the end (without the *'s )


and PC (minimising)

have you played the 360 version?



like this? there is a multi-quote button, click the threads you want to quote, then click "quote" on one of them and you get multiple quotes to respond to.

[IanD967]

like this? there is a multi-quote button, click the threads you want to quote, then click "quote" on one of them and you get multiple quotes to respond to.

aha!! the little "+ icon is the multiquote :) thanks! will save me time now heh although i will probably forget about it by tomorow :)

[J.L.Picard]

havent got and dont want a 360 :)

like this? there is a multi-quote button, click the threads you want to quote, then click "quote" on one of them and you get multiple quotes to respond to.

HAHA LMFAO im such a nab :D:D

thanks guys lol

[ngille]

While I do have high hopes for this game as its finaly being worked on by a company that's been around a while. What information other than it is Star Trek do we have that says this game will rock?????

Don't get me wrong I'm just as excited about this game's potential as the rest of you but lets call a spade a spade, we just want a Star Trek MMO so bad that we'll jump at anyone that will give it to us. Think the little dog in Dr. Doolittle....throw the damned ball!!! :)

Hopefully they'll throw us a bone soon and we'll have some real info to discuss.

[IanD967]

While I do have high hopes for this game as its finaly being worked on by a company that's been around a while. What information other than it is Star Trek do we have that says this game will rock?????


well for one the information in the "about star trek online" on the front page will give you some idea s alot of those features are what we want with the only 2 real concerns most of us have is wheither we will be the ship or have player crews and the other being how to fly around the galaxy

[ngille]

Thanks, I'll go read that now....don't know how in the hell I missed it.

[ngille]

I read that, not much info on it.

[Nooblet]

and no i dont live at this site :D im actually playing Mass Effect but take a break ever 20-30 minutes to check on posts and such :)

Oh Yeah! My favorite game!

[ngille]

Currently playing AoC here. I'm so sick of fantasy games which is one of the many reasons I'm chomping at the bits for this game!