New interview with Zinc @ G4

You can find the interview here.

Ok I know this is probably stupid to bring this up but one thing bugged me about that article and I maybe wrong but where the article says "Star Trek Online would probably be more realistic if you started as an ensign and around level 20 finally moved up to transporter chief (probably the most useless job in the entire series)]" The only chief I can think of was Chief O'brian and he wasn't a starfleet officer he was for a lack of a better term enlisted. Although anyone one who has ever been enlisted knows we do all the work. However Going from an ensign to a chief is actually a demotion and is also losing your commission as far as rank is concerned. Oh well guess it really doesn't matter I just know having been enlisted in the Marines I wouldn't want to be confused with an officer in any form.

You're correct. Although still an officer, they have their separate rank system as non-commissioned but enlisted crew going from petty officer to master chief petty officer. This means technically they are above regular crew but below ensign. Out of respect as they rank up and have more experience, they are considered as more than junior officers. Also transporter chief/operator is usually any enlisted officer (junior or non-commissioned), not just chief POs.

'Instead of the standard numeric leveling system you will find in other MMOs, this leveling system is broken up into military ranks of 10 levels each. You are a lieutenant for 10 grades, up through the ten levels of admiral. It works the same as the leveling in other games, where you acquire talents and even access to new ships and crew as you level '

I found this interesting. Does anwser a thought I had about how you are going to level up.

'These 5 people can be any combination of real players and AI characters. For example, my buddy and I want to do a quest together, so he and I team up, he brings two tactical officers, and I bring along a medical officer in case any of them run off and get hurt.'

Another question partly answered. (who takes BO's with them on away missions)

Generally a good read !

Blackknight8x wrote:Another question partly answered. (who takes BO's with them on away missions)

Just as an fyi, what they seem to be going for is to have the one that initiates the mission decide who to bring. If any slots are still open, the next party member can choose from his/her BOs.

Ah ok, cool. Didn't know that!

That's very cool. Means that if I know I have a good engineer I can bring him and let someone else bring the tactical (or whatever it is that we need).