A letter was sent out from Jack Emmert, the game's online producer, detailing some aspects of Cryptic's approach. Development Ĭryptic Studios officially announced the development of Star Trek Online on July 28, 2008, as a countdown timer on Cryptic's web site reached zero and the new official site was launched. Free-to-play for existing, but cancelled, customers began Thursday January 5. Later, it was announced that free-to-play would be starting Tuesday January 17, 2012.
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On September 1, 2011, Cryptic Studios announced that Star Trek Online would switch to free-to-play, but without full access to all the items. Again, the mission is selected and a certain amount of specified time passes until the player is told it is complete, at which time they will be informed whether it was successful. The player will set up the project, click a button and after a specified time the task will be completed, rather than spending time actually performing the crafting.ĭuty Officers can also be sent on assignments which also follow the set and forget methodology, and are not available during the time the assignments are in progress.Ĭharacters of level 52 and higher can send any ships they have, or have had, on admiralty missions, similar to duty officer assignments-but these do not use duty officers to perform them. Unlike in some other MMO's, crafting is a "set-and-forget" procedure. To raise the level of the school being researched, it is necessary to perform a research project using a crafting material. Other aspects of the game include crafting, which in its current form involves using duty officers (junior crew members) to make items, depending on the level of the school (category- such as science, beams, etc.) chosen. Both are offered in concert with the Star Trek storyline and emphasize ship positioning to efficiently utilize shields during space combat, as well as the player's away team's positioning in consideration of flanking damage and finding various weaknesses to exploit during ground combat. The two combat systems are intertwined throughout the game: away-team missions feature fast-paced "run-and-gun" combat, while space combat stresses the long-term tactical aspect of combat between capital ships. Players can also "beam down" and move around as a player character in various settings with access to weapons and specific support and combat skills relating to their own characters' classes. Players are able to play as a starship, controlling the ship's engineering, tactical, and science systems by keyboard/mouse or using an on-screen console. In Star Trek Online, each player acts as the captain of their own ship. In later expansions the Vaadwaur, the Iconians, the Na'Kuhl, the Krenim, the Terran Empire, the Voth, Species 8472 (called "The Undine" in the game), the Tzenkethi and the Hur'q are also introduced as adversaries.
The Borg Collective has re-emerged as a major threat. Abrams' Star Trek film), while the Dominion rebuilds its forces.
The Romulan Star Empire continues to deal with the fallout of the loss of their homeworld twenty-two years earlier (as shown in J. The alliance between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire has collapsed, and they are again at war. Star Trek Online is set thirty years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. 3.3 Expansion pack: Agents of Yesterday.
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