{"id":1515,"date":"2010-02-01T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:06:16","slug":"sto-shall-we-engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/02\/sto-shall-we-engage.html","title":{"rendered":"STO: Shall we “engage”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StarStar Trek Online goes live in production … tomorrow?! <\/em> Yeesh, how the months have sped.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been on STO since the closed beta, for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Even there, we didn’t devote endless hours — I really didn’t want to invest a lot of hours creating characters I wouldn’t be able carry on later.<\/p>\n

Here are some thoughts on the game, and where we (Margie and I) are headed on it.<\/p>\n

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  1. The game is nicely immersive.\u00a0 It feels like you are in the world of Star Trek (despite the efforts of some players<\/a>).\u00a0 The writing is pretty solid.<\/li>\n
  2. A nice mixture of “Away Team,” admin\/base busy-work, and ship-to-ship combat activity, each of which provides a different flavor.<\/li>\n
  3. Ship combat is … fun.\u00a0 Felt very war-gamy.<\/li>\n
  4. Away Team activities are more complex, but managing an actual away team <\/em>is a nice feature.<\/li>\n
  5. The idea of growing yourself, your crew, and your ship adds complexity to the gameplay — but is also pretty cool.<\/li>\n
  6. It’s less “role-playing” in some ways — yes, you have a race, and a history, and so forth — but, essentially, it remains a tactical game that is not focused just on your toon but on your team.<\/li>\n
  7. It’s nice that not everything is about combat — but that will be an ongoing challenge (war in the Alpha Quadrant or not).\u00a0 Star Trek is not, basically, Star Wars<\/span>, DS9 notwithstanding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Overall, it feels well-balanced, well written, and potentially a lot of fun.\u00a0 I think (formal discussion pending) we’re going to subscribe, and stick with it for some period of time.<\/p>\n

    That would make three MMOs we’re subscribed to, which may be too many.\u00a0 More on that to come …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Star Trek Online goes live in production … tomorrow?! Yeesh, how the months have sped. I haven’t been on STO since the closed beta, for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Even there, we didn’t devote endless hours — I really didn’t want to invest a lot of hours creating characters I wouldn’t be able carry on … Continue reading “STO: Shall we “engage”?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-resources-rules","category-star-trek-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}