I would like nothing more than to pull up to Starbase 24 or one of the asteroids in a mission and try to fly my boat-ass assault cruiser through the drive through at a McDonalds stationed there. Right across from that, a Starbucks of course. And...get this...they take coupons!!! If anyone is up for it, a foundry mission that went over the top like that would get some kind of Stonewall Fleet award. (McStonewalls would be a nice touch).

Free to play should bring a whole different element to the game as well as to the fleet. People who wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee to play may now join which would give our membership a potential boost. My only concern would be any "crazies" who decide to start playing. A deterrent to hecklers and those who cause disruptions is the price to pay. In this new structure I just hope the same moderation abilities apply and people "play nice."

Jamie.

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I might have to give Star Trek Online a go, it seems to be a pretty good game from what folks are saying and from the website.

STO has it's gems as well as it's flaws, no doubt about it.

The biggest thing I'm hoping for with SW:TOR is that it is story driven. I'm tired of quest hubs where you gather a dozen quests then head off. I want a large cohesive story that builds of off the previous mission without me needing to read pages of text before I get started. I've been waiting for a KOTOR sequel for many years and hope that this lives up to be many KOTOR sequels wrapped up into a single game that also allows for cooperative (and competitive) play.

Build the story, give it to me in bite size chunks that keep the action flowing. I loved some of City of Heroes arcs (particularly the Sky Raiders arc), but after a while, you stop making time to stop and read the walls of text.

My biggest fear, having seen some of the Game Con videos is that it is going to play like a WoW clone inside a story-driven wrapper. I'm not sure I can stand to mash the same hotkey power chain over and over again in yet ANOTHER game.

Tomorrow at noon pst is when initial weight needs to be turned in by.

Good luck to everyone!

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I might have to give Star Trek Online a go, it seems to be a pretty good game from what folks are saying and from the website.

Might as well once it goes free got nothing to lose at all, oh wait except for some hard drive space :P

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Thinking of it, that would be hi-freaking-larious. I'm imagining the eye of Sauron (?) underneath a pair golden arches. xD

nothing cool about it: http://images.brighthub.com/20/d/20ddec59a99160f7dd44a5f2b4d4b9083dfca7b1_large.jpg

this one appears in the minimap from time to time tough: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__7gfP4Zk94Q/S5q4T86TLmI/AAAAAAAAAU0/qPOcc8WT7ds/s200/eye-minimap.jpg

http://computered.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/daniel-stahl-sto-goes-f2p-cryptic-and-perfect-world-and-more/

Dan Stahl talking about F2P and promises more and regular content. Interesting he admitted that PW leaked the news before they were ready for it to be known.

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Suddenly I had this vision of orbital billboards around all of the major, inhabited planets. Warp to Vulcan: COLGATE, "GAH!" warp to earth: McDONALDS, NOOOOOOOO!

In LOTRO the user interface is unfortunately filled with buttons to access the store.

The McDonalds store? >.>

Thinking of it, that would be hi-freaking-larious. I'm imagining the eye of Sauron (?) underneath a pair golden arches. xD

I might have to give Star Trek Online a go, it seems to be a pretty good game from what folks are saying and from the website.

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I'm pretty sure that we'll be focusing on a PvE server.

Yeah! big hugz!!!!

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Suddenly I had this vision of orbital billboards around all of the major, inhabited planets. Warp to Vulcan: COLGATE, "GAH!" warp to earth: McDONALDS, NOOOOOOOO!

In LOTRO the user interface is unfortunately filled with buttons to access the store.

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Free to play = Constant rate of content. It's preferable to the current rate we have.

Suddenly I had this vision of orbital billboards around all of the major, inhabited planets. Warp to Vulcan: COLGATE, "GAH!" warp to earth: McDONALDS, NOOOOOOOO!

Though... if they did, I think it should be appropriate. Warping to Andoria should greet you with billboards of "Dentine Ice" and going to vulcan should get you a billboard for "Gatorade" (Cause it's hot and deserty. :3) And, yeah, earth should have a McDonalds billboard. xD

1 for today.

Sounds great.

CJ

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They opened the door by adding romantic story arcs in the first place. It is up to us to upgrade the conversation. I think we have a chance to make a difference in this. It may happen soon, or later, or not at all, but I think it will be worth it.

If you got this far, thanks for reading my rant.
Z

Well said, Z. There is something to be said for going to the effort of adding romance into the game and then making another conscious decision to exclude a group. In this day and age, I equate it to excluding a gender or race from the game.

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I'm pretty sure that we'll be focusing on a PvE server for the time being.

Thank goodness. :)

Ironically, you get a better space combat engine (even if you are limited to what feels like driving a submarine... except for the ability to move vertically without angling up or down and thrusting forward.) in Star Trek Online whose IP has less space combat than Star Wars.

Still, though, the ground game's brilliance almost completely compensates for the space games uselessness.

Free to play = Constant rate of content. It's preferable to the current rate we have.

If this game goes free to play I might give it a whirle to try it out. I know a wee bit about Star Trek so it would be fun to see a bit more and heck your own ship is always a fun thing.

Oh well at least we get a ship even it's a barely minimul usage thing.

I've done end game in WoW and Rift so hopefully I'll get a chance to see some end game in SW:TOR.

It's Friday and with no beta invite I guess I'll clean the house this weekend. :( There are 3 more chances this month!!!

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the lotro f2p system is bad. many things was free before. now u must pay for the stuff like crafting or quests.
thats bad
i hope they make a better f2p system as lotro.

Before going FTP you accessing the quests required a subscription and buying the expansions (SoA, MoM, SoM). Since going FTP you can choose between a subscription or buying quest packs. Several of these quest packs are completely free. I do not know how you would pay with TP for crafting.