More cool info I haven't seen until now.

Here's an excerpt that I found the most informative, actual link to the article is below.

Quote :

The characters are divided into three core archetypes. These are, as mentioned, Tactical, Engineer and Science. Each of those three archetypes then has three careers off of it, where players can spec their skills as they choose.

For Tactical players these careers are: Soldier (damage), Security (defensive/tank), and Special Ops (stealth).

For Engineers, these careers are: Technician (Buff/debuff), Fabrication (turrets), and Combat (manipulation of the battlefield).

Finally, for Scientists, the options are: Researcher (Emitters, group buffs/debuffs), Scientist (individual buffs/debuffs) and Medical (healer).

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/352/feature/3780/page/1

wow great job on finding that it is intriguing, i will now probably be a tactical officer

hmm this is interesting. I would like to see some confirmation from cryptic on this. I previously believe that engineers were tanks but this says otherwise so yea im not sure what to believe atm.

Special Ops? Thats totally my style! But so is science...hmmmm I'm already in the R&D Division so I'll stay.

Great find, but I agree with Chickenbranches. (not to pick on you or anything)

I mean you can't argue with a legit source.

still i think that this is a good "guide" to work out what career you will pursue.

Shahn wrote:

still i think that this is a good "guide" to work out what career you will pursue.

Possibly, I sure hope so. I'm still geeking out about it =)

your not the only one im boring my dad about it

Shahn wrote:

your not the only one im boring my dad about it

Lol keep it up! I'm the only one in my family that's actually a fan of Star Trek.

They usually have no idea what I'm talking about, Its kinda sad

my dad is a small Trekkie fan but he still gets boarded by me

Shahn wrote:

my dad is a small Trekkie fan but he still gets boarded by me

Awww poor guy >=) I better get to bed, nice chatting with you! =D

same here have a good sleep

Haha Almost posted this info, good thing I pay attention. lol

Great find and its very informative

chickenbranches wrote:

hmm this is interesting. I would like to see some confirmation from cryptic on this. I previously believe that engineers were tanks but this says otherwise so yea im not sure what to believe atm.

So, this article is linked to officially from the STO website. So it's a fair assumption that Cryptic supports what is said.

I can totally relate to boring family members to tears with talk of Trek/MMOs. Heck, just this past Thanksgiving, I was trying to explain to a relative the concept of an MMO. Since pretty much the entire rest of my family (except for my younger brothers and my dad) doesn't have a problem with Trek, but they aren't really into it, it was unbelievably hard to boil-down STO to a few bullet-points while trying to work-in a brief explanation of MMOs at the same time. It also didn't help that my brothers kept chiming-in with information that I was getting to AND they usually spent half of their comments using acronyms that the layman would have NO clue whatsoever what they are talking about. Example: the term MMORPG was met with a blank stair and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

U said it's cool.

It's

Kugis Borgir wrote:

I can totally relate to boring family members to tears with talk of Trek/MMOs. Heck, just this past Thanksgiving, I was trying to explain to a relative the concept of an MMO. Since pretty much the entire rest of my family (except for my younger brothers and my dad) doesn't have a problem with Trek, but they aren't really into it, it was unbelievably hard to boil-down STO to a few bullet-points while trying to work-in a brief explanation of MMOs at the same time. It also didn't help that my brothers kept chiming-in with information that I was getting to AND they usually spent half of their comments using acronyms that the layman would have NO clue whatsoever what they are talking about. Example: the term MMORPG was met with a blank stair and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

lol that gets annoying

Oh yeah, but I try to be as patient as I can because most of my family doesn't play video games of any sort so I can understand how that would leave them a bit out of the loop.

heh I saw the new interview and I've decided on the Combat engineer. I think I'm gonna love having some battlefield wide control. *thinks evil thoughts* Oh yeah. that's going to be fun.
on a side note, I like to tank/heal and will probably have tactical and science alts for those roles once my main is of sufficient rank and skill to allow me to focus on an alt. =P

To avoid adding another thread ill add some more info to this one First of all is the new fleet action vid up on IGN

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14270158/star-trek-online/videos/startrekonline_trl_fleetactions.html

Then theres part 2 of this mmorpg.com preview talking about player bridges and crew

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/352/feature/3792/Star-Trek-Online-Bridges-Bridge-Officers-Preview.html

Definately cool stuff I'm getting more excited by the day!

Sweet

STO just keeps getting better and better and I haven't even played it yet! We're all exited about the release content, can you guys imagine what Cryptic has in store post-release?

Dietskittles wrote:

STO just keeps getting better and better and I haven't even played it yet! We're all exited about the release content, can you guys imagine what Cryptic has in store post-release?

I've got my money on Ewoks.

Kugis Borgir wrote:

Dietskittles wrote:

STO just keeps getting better and better and I haven't even played it yet! We're all exited about the release content, can you guys imagine what Cryptic has in store post-release?

I've got my money on Ewoks.

Would that be similar to Galaxies NGE but E for Ewoks.

guinness wrote:

Kugis Borgir wrote:

Dietskittles wrote:

STO just keeps getting better and better and I haven't even played it yet! We're all exited about the release content, can you guys imagine what Cryptic has in store post-release?

I've got my money on Ewoks.

Would that be similar to Galaxies NGE but E for Ewoks.

E is for Ewoks, that's good enough for me. lol

Ewoks? That would be totally awesome.

But that would have to be a special download thing or Star Trek would have to do some insane merger with Star Wars and we all know the horrors that would entail.

*shudder*