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Originally Posted by Dreamor
If say your engineers are offline, bank holiday weekend? then how are you going to maintain the ship? The original STO idea revolved around the idea that engineers would maintain/craft and keep the general ship running, but how likely is it that, if the Captain or Command structure are having fun blasting away on the top deck, the engineers and other 'classes' will want to be confined to the lower decks doing something else and feeling less involved?
And the problems with hitting the MMO Market is, it would have to come to a compromist on what Trekkie fans wanted... and ultimately at a cost of £££££££'s - which i hear is very high for the Star Trek license (as to be expected)
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Read what you just posted and apply it to old and current mmo's where many, many player have for decades played support classes, healers etc and been very happy playing that role. If they are a key part of the overall success and are indeed essential crewmen, it won't be a problem.
I'm sorry, but if you think EVERYONE will want to be blowing shit up, your really quite naieve as to what mmo players actually want in their gaming and even more out of touch with the kind of thing Star Trek fans want.
Honestly you'll probably find more players want to play Tactical Officers, Helmsmen and Engineers than actual Captains.
You asked about Star Trek "flavour" and what Star Trek fans want, well there it is from my perspective.