...not a first at all
And if I misread the article, so have a LOT of other people
And if I misread the article, so have a LOT of other people
Okuda and Sternbach -- Star Trek Online
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Instead of reading what some other website posts, I consider what's on the website of the makers of the game to be the closest to accurate information that we can possibly have right now.
http://www.startrekonline.com/
http://www.perpetual.com/star_trek_online/
Note the quote from the second page:
http://www.startrekonline.com/
http://www.perpetual.com/star_trek_online/
Note the quote from the second page:
Nope, nothin' there about "you are a starship."
Star Wars Galaxies does; but that said, I still have never care for the game as implemented.
StarQuest Online, which is still in open beta for about another week
Graphics aren't the greatest, but it's very immersive, has a good community and is a lot of fun
Hope it's OK to name it here??? If not please don't shoot me
Graphics aren't the greatest, but it's very immersive, has a good community and is a lot of fun
Hope it's OK to name it here??? If not please don't shoot me
I had a very similar experience with perpetual around the same time, though my contact didn't go further than a few e-mails. To be honest I was surprised they even bothered with an unknown like myself, I just assumed they were canvassing the various trek art sites & forums looking to pick up cheep labour. Wouldn't surprise me if they did the same with other fan artists like myself, Masao, Bernd, etc. I'm just surprised they did it to a pro Like Rick Sternbach.
As Rick said they were vague about what they were after and the whole thing felt a little unprofessional, so I'm sort of glad I didn't get commissioned - I'd hate to see what one of their a design briefs would look like, if their e-mails are any judge.
Can you describe how the story structure in Matrix Online worked? I noticed in the commercials that it had cutscenes with the major characters, but couldn't wrap my mind around how that would work in an MMO. I'd like to hear how they did it, in the hope that STO might possibly do it in a similar fashion.
If only SQ Online could afford someone like Mr. Sternbach 
Tau Ceti III said:
If only SQ Online could afford someone like Mr. Sternbach
Oh, for the work I would have done for them, they could have afforded me. I suspect that they'll ultimately end up paying for a lot of wheel reinventing, but we won't really know for a few years.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
I didn't play the game myself, so someone else could probably answer it better, but they essentially had story events where people who worked for the gamedev logged in to the servers as the important characters including ones from the movies and some new ones created for the game. This actually caused the story to unfold slightly differently on each server because it was essentially carried out by live actors interacting with the players instead of prewriten NPC action.
to the OP, in a recent inerview they said they'd have practically every ship from the canon in some form or another appear in the game, with around 50 being playable- if their reference request section is anything to go by we'll be seeing ships that might have only had one episodic appearance, etc.
They had Mike Okuda, Andrew Probert and John Eaves working with them so far, which is a nice selection imho. John Eaves participated in a fansite podcast recently and he certainly sounded enthused about what PE were doing.
As for Tau Ceti's comment, well the exec producer Stinnett has clarified this time and again in the forums at sto.net, a recent interview stated that during combat you'll likely control your ship from an exterior point of view, but otherwise you'll still be beaming down to planets, exploring the large hero ships like the galaxy class, wandering around and interacting with other players on space stations and boarding enemy ships.
Seems some people here had strange encounters with them, but considering some of the veterans they have on board from trek and the game industry itself seems to me they can handle themselves. There're few things coming out of PE ive not liked the sound of but generally its still looking good, I think.
They had Mike Okuda, Andrew Probert and John Eaves working with them so far, which is a nice selection imho. John Eaves participated in a fansite podcast recently and he certainly sounded enthused about what PE were doing.
As for Tau Ceti's comment, well the exec producer Stinnett has clarified this time and again in the forums at sto.net, a recent interview stated that during combat you'll likely control your ship from an exterior point of view, but otherwise you'll still be beaming down to planets, exploring the large hero ships like the galaxy class, wandering around and interacting with other players on space stations and boarding enemy ships.
Seems some people here had strange encounters with them, but considering some of the veterans they have on board from trek and the game industry itself seems to me they can handle themselves. There're few things coming out of PE ive not liked the sound of but generally its still looking good, I think.
Well, I've had some interaction with Darren Stinnett in the past, and personally I LIKE the guy. Look at some of his past credits and you'll find some of the better "interplay-era" Trek stuff involved him. And I think Andy Probert is great. I'm not a huge fan of John Eaves, mainly because I see his design style as ... well... "style over substance." But even with my major technical issues with the 1701-E design, I think that it LOOKS great. And I definitely like the improvement to the "Okudagram" style which turns something that's "pretty but useless" into something that actually seems to WORK.
If I were the sort of guy who could make myself live in a virtual world (I'm NOT)... I'd have a lot more appreciation for this. But as far as MMORPGs go, I'm finding it... intriguing.
If I were the sort of guy who could make myself live in a virtual world (I'm NOT)... I'd have a lot more appreciation for this. But as far as MMORPGs go, I'm finding it... intriguing.
Rick Sternbach said:
Tau Ceti III said:
If only SQ Online could afford someone like Mr. Sternbach
Oh, for the work I would have done for them, they could have afforded me. I suspect that they'll ultimately end up paying for a lot of wheel reinventing, but we won't really know for a few years.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
I meant StarQuest Online Mr. Sternbach, not Star Trek Online, sorry about that
^ Sorry, thought it was a typo. -Rick
SOT, but does anyone know when the beta versions will be open for testing?
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