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I admit, the LCARS look more NX-01 like than 24th century LCARS. I like that they seem more functional, something that could exist today on a computer.
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Which is, surprise! what they're supposed to do.
I mean, trying to emulate a licensed property to the detriment of actual gameplay is why tie-in games are almost always awful.
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I think there's enough variation with the current batch of uniforms to allow significant customization -- and I personally don't believe what we've seen is all that's available.
Given the stated era of the game, however, we're dealing with these uniforms, for which there has been little exploration into variants. I welcome speculation in this arena in that regard, but I think their "conceptual illustrator" needs to be stuffed in the same airlock as John Eaves and Doug Drexler. Back to the drawing board, boys -- and get it right this time. You know, something that actually fits the established continuity (oops, I just said a dirty word!)?
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And as far as Star Wars Galaxies goes, unless you're playing an actual Imperial officer or some such, you can wear just about whatever you want. Most players are the sort of "scum and villainy" types that inhabited Mos Eisley, or maybe are respectable free traders or shipwrights. So clothing and accessories (or rather the uniformity thereof) is far less a concern than a Trek game might be.
Couple questions leap to mind... Are there going to be Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, Cardassians, and other races with their own distinctive cultural "look"? Does every Federation player have to be Starfleet, or can we have civilians, or scientific teams or diplomats? What about fringers like the Orion Syndicate? Restricting a MMO Trek game to just Starfleet would be as bad as restricting Galaxies to just Imperial personnel. Yeah, you get to fight the Rebels, but what if someone wants to be a Rebel? Or not be part of the conflict at all? That's what these folks need to look at.
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Maybe, they think about creating whole new world, just simillar to the one we know and call it Star Trek universe. They think Trekkies are fanatics, have no show right now, so they will play it and they won't care, it's not correct.
Have you noticed they distorted even the DS9/Voy era combadges?
These types of uniforms are meybe suitable for combats and battles, but what about the rest of medics, engineers?
Maybe they will started with StarFleet and then add an Klingon/Romulan/Cardassian expansions...
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Of course, a new movie might change everything. Who know, in two years, there might be a TV show in the making, set at that time period.. or even have a tie-in.
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Do you think these changes bring Trek new fans? (like Enterprise suppose to do) Or more fans remain watching and enjoying the "old" trek?
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First, it's a GAME, not a TV show, and thus subject to mainstream playability concerns, and second, I'm sure the number of hypernerds who refuse to play it because the uniforms and computer interface graphics DONT FIT TEH IMPORNTANT CUNTINUDITY has been comfortably factored into the profit&loss equation by Perpetual's publisher, so the future of Trek is probably just as bright or dim as it was before these screenshots sent them all into a frenzy.
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Those are gross uniforms they don't even look like starfleat uniforms where before they have been unifrom (like the word implies, everythings the same) where only the department colors are differeant but now they are like making halo-star trek edition and master chief is actually master chief engineer george laforge or something and who wouldreally want to play that like they should have made secret of vulcan fury except they made shattered universe for the ps2 and that sucked and how comes star trek games suck just look at gtasanandreas how come they cant make a game where you are on a starbase and you can interact with anyone and sometimes you can phaser people and you can steal shuttlecrafts and kill space hookers if you want to be a space pirate maybe an ORION but anyway back to the uniforms I don't know why they are making everything look like what normal people would want its as if they dont even want us fans to play the game like my friend Kevin (username CAPTAIN_DALTON_OF_THE_USS_ARCKANGEL_NX-99999) would buy it if it were good and based on ds9 or something and so would I and we live in a small town of like 200,000 so like, in the whole world if the world is 6,000,000,000 the ratio is like 1:100000 and so you could get like at least 60 000 people and that is good for a mmmorpg game like EQ2 is good why not just use that engine but instead of spells use tricorders and instead of swords you could have bulkhead pieces that you swing at the borg maybe they could make a mission based on wolf359 that would be good because you wouldnt have to beat the boss (locutus of borg)
I can't even believe they would do this to me.
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