When he says their ongoing continuity, he doesn't mean the players are talking about what they're doing, he means the players are talking about what the developers and writers are doing. STO doesn't have a single fixed continuity that was set when the game was released and never changes, new events happen regularly that move the timeframe ahead.
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When he says their ongoing continuity, he doesn't mean the players are talking about what they're doing, he means the players are talking about what the developers and writers are doing. STO doesn't have a single fixed continuity that was set when the game was released and never changes, new events happen regularly that move the timeframe ahead.
But (takes opportunity to display own ignorance - I'm not and am highly unlikely to become a gamer) can't the participants experience similar events with different characters, i.e. different players play essentially the same scenario, meaning although major events are scripted, there is no actual fixed continuity ?
If not, I withdraw my objection and accept Trek Online as an alternate continuity !
I'm no expert on gaming either, but I think the idea is that the "continuity" of STO isn't in the details of individual gameplay but in the broad strokes of the depicted events, the background that all the gameplay experiences have in common.
Indeed, what very limited experience I have with MMORPGs suggests that nothing you do can really have that massive an impact on the way events unfold; basically you just go in and fight the bad guys until you either win or die, and if you die you just start the level over again until you finish. So the things that would differ from one player's experience to another -- the manner in which you take out the specific bad guys, the way you move around the game map, the bonuses you earn -- don't really have any impact on the overall storyline, which is pre-scripted and advances between action sequences. Basically the storyline is that you get one mission, finish it, move onto the next mission, and so on. And you can pick and choose between different missions so your personal journey through the game world will differ from another player's. But that only affects your personal experience as a player. Your individual choices don't meaningfully dictate how larger-scale events unfold in the game world, just the manner in which you experience them.
Thanks Christopher !
OK - I'll concede, individual player experience details notwithstanding, Online is an alternate continuity.
Unless there's another Online novel I am unlikely to follow it though, unless some of it 'bleeds through' to the normal novel continuity. I rather think the Data/B4 recovery will, especially as Data features in the Trek 11 prequel comics.
OK - I'll concede, individual player experience details notwithstanding, Online is an alternate continuity.
Unless there's another Online novel I am unlikely to follow it though, unless some of it 'bleeds through' to the normal novel continuity. I rather think the Data/B4 recovery will, especially as Data features in the Trek 11 prequel comics.
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