{"id":1588,"date":"2010-02-28T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2010-02-28T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:44:09","slug":"sto-no-retreat-no-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/02\/sto-no-retreat-no-surrender.html","title":{"rendered":"STO: No retreat, no surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Why is every battle in Star Trek Online to the death?<\/p>\n

That’s not quite true — there are (in my up-to-LT9 experience) a couple of canned cases where folks surrender (rescue the scientists from the Gorn ship, for example).\u00a0 But 99% of the guys you encounter fight a Bitter Battle to the Death. Klingons, Gorn, Undine, Orions … they’re all totally into fighting until you blast them into a flaming hulk whose warp core shortly goes boom.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

I think it would be interesting if at least some of the “Bad Guys” were willing to try and flee. Yeah, the Klingons are all about honor and that, but even there, “Only a fool fights in a burning house.” Some of these guys should be willing to wild-weasel their way out of combat, to live and fight another day. Even moreso Orion pirates, and Undine with added info about the Federation.<\/p>\n

And, in some cases, people should be willing to surrender. And then the Feds have to decide whether they can afford to just leave the shattered hulk behind (to perhaps escape), send over a prize crew (reducing overall ship efficiency), or blow the bad guys to anti-matter flinders.<\/p>\n

But every fight to the death (except when the Fed ship manages to break away)?\u00a0 Not quite believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is every battle in Star Trek Online to the death? That’s not quite true — there are (in my up-to-LT9 experience) a couple of canned cases where folks surrender (rescue the scientists from the Gorn ship, for example).\u00a0 But 99% of the guys you encounter fight a Bitter Battle to the Death. Klingons, Gorn, … Continue reading “STO: No retreat, no surrender”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-star-trek-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}