Noob Question: Will we BE the spaceship, or characters?

[ketrine]

I was turned off by Eve's "you ARE the spaceship" view. Will we have physical bodies that can run about and jump and dance and have facial expressions, or are we limited to controling a cold mass of textured metal in a vacuum of space, inanimate and lifeless and electronic?

thanks.

[ianobs]

we will be the captin of the ship and can move about and go on away missions etc.

[Smellykat405]

You are the actual character captaining the ship. So dont you worry. You shall have your glory yet. Actually if you read the FAQ they mention quite a bit about that. Not only can you be a person. You can be Human, Vulcan, Gorn and several other races as well as your own custom race if you wish. Also there is a trailer available that shows you some in game footage so you can see the characters exploring the planets and the inside of ships and stuff.

[LordDave]

I like to think both really.

Our chip is customizable (to some extent) by the player. The captain is created by the player as well. The captain will be our main avatar, but we will have an NPC crew that we level up ourselves like "pets".

[westquester]

When you're in space, you'll be the ship. But you can also break away from that, and run around as your persona, be in through your ship, on planets for away missions, or in space stations.

[vp21ct]

a cold mass of textured metal in a vacuum of space, inanimate and lifeless and electronic?



Scotty is rolling in his grave right now.

[Captain_Intrepid]

It'd be nice to be able to switch views, from out in space behind the ship (but with the extra feature of being able to rotate the camera around the ship; people would like to look at their own handy work, just like with actual characters) to inside the ship from the captain's chair.

[Elfender]

actually, you would be the captain, and your ship and crew would be like you equipment (as far as i can see), the only difference is that instead of buying new crew members you actually train them up. Personally i wonde if you can buy/trade out crew members, or if not you can name your main bridge crew :P

[Cyjack]

I think sometimes you will be the ship, sometimes you will be a character avatar, and sometimes you will be a character avatar inside the ship.

[KO_Gilligan]

I think sometimes you will be the ship, sometimes you will be a character avatar, and sometimes you will be a character avatar inside the ship.

correct.... and the dynamics of being an avatar in the ship leads me to believe that during that time, your ship will not be very active with others who are being ships. It would essentially be like being planetside - except on your bridge. ( hint of topic going into out of sticky topic and into forbidden territory :eek: )

There is another aspect though... will being an Avatar on a spacestation be different from being an Avatar on a ship yet similar and able to be effected by those who are ships. This would be a multi-player ship,

I think they really have not provided game world dynamics regarding these realationships and true position.
It could be that this very topic is what pushed PE into an insurmountable paradox.