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felixhex
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I don't know if this has been in other mmo's but what if they made premade back stories for the different races. All the info of where you are from, when you joined Starfleet. Maybe some of the stories could be making you a Ma'qui or a spy. These stories would add to the depth of your character and to go with it, maybe have a 2 or 3 mission arc to play out that story line. Here are details...
> Only one available for each character
> A short story arc with playable missions
> In the end you will earn a special title for in game, special outfit to go along with your story
> If you choose to be something outside of Starfleet, say a Ma'Qui, you would gain access to a new reputation system where you earn cred with the Ma'qui or what have you.
Ahhh, i'm dreaming I know but honestly I would love something like this. Any other ideas or suggestions?
> Only one available for each character
> A short story arc with playable missions
> In the end you will earn a special title for in game, special outfit to go along with your story
> If you choose to be something outside of Starfleet, say a Ma'Qui, you would gain access to a new reputation system where you earn cred with the Ma'qui or what have you.
Ahhh, i'm dreaming I know but honestly I would love something like this. Any other ideas or suggestions?
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...But of course, this is Cryptic we're talking about here. So who knows. :P
Besides, Cryptic would only be able to write so many, and there are better things for them to spend time on, such as improving missions we have, graphics effects, and writing new content.
Money should be spent on things that you CANT do yourself (ships, costumes, etc), if you want a truly original back story, you go to your biography page, and you write it yourself.
If you want a pre-written one, visit the Memory Alpha website, pick your favorite Star Trek character, copy/paste, and replace any references to their name with yours if you want to be lazy.
I realize that there was more to it than just the backstory itself, but then developer time would have to be spent on writing missions for that one backstory that other players would not be able to enjoy. Again, if you want to make missions for your own backstory, you can do that too in the Foundry. (when its working of course)
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I could even make you a Maquis, or a French Resistance fighter, or maybe a Spanish Conquistador.
Yeah, I agree. With the infinite number of background possible, and the MMOs prevalences for not being character specific, this would be too much of a coding and writing hassle for such little return.
This, and alot of RPers I know have such unique and interesting backstories as it is that it would cheapen their characters if they chose background A, B, or C. The best that an MMO background unlock would be is cliche or Mary-Sue by comparison. Serious RPers won't use them. Casual players won't know about it, or won't care about their RP history. Hardcore PVPers won't buy them period. This means that the only people that would bother buying these premade backgrounds are RPG noobs that don't know any better. I doubt even vanity collectors would get into these.
This is such a clever way to point out how unnecessary the proposed feature is with what is already available to us that it gives me cause to wonder why we cannot "Like" forum posts
However, felixhex, just to clarify my stance here, I do still completely agree with you on THIS quote. This has happened to me all to often.
By the way, the actual definition for "Maquis" usually describes the word as being used as a means of labeling a resistance movement against an occupying foreign government.
This means that the Bajoran Militia that fought against the Cardassian occupation of Bajor could technically be described as being "The Maquis" as well.
Just FYI.
There won't be much market for all the effort required to make it a marketable system.
So you'd have: Character Backstory Bundle Pack: 5000 Zen.
These packs could come with some bonus items: new ally/pet, clothing, etc.
I'd buy those up in a heartbeat.
4 years ago this might have been a neat idea (before they started coding the missions).
A special set of "backstory missions" to explain the Federation Klingons, Federation Ferengi, liberated Borg or any of the races that are in Starfleet but not part of the Federation. This can be expanded to some other races that fit the "not in the Federation but in Starfleet" mold like the Breen, Deferi, Jem'hadar, Androids or Vorta.
SURE you can......250 zen
If I remember correctly, as a KDF player you can recruit a Marauding Bolian Duty Officer
that was brought up on the edge of the Demilitarized Zone. He shows resentment to Starfleet
in his quote and has wish not to help them, since the Federation didn't do just so in kind.
It's definitely makes for a potential that an underground Maquis force could still be around.
You my good sir, are a genius, someone wanting this service available in the Zen store could still make this sort of purchase using Zen ((through the method of using zen to buy items to sell for energy credits and using those energy credits)) to pay for custom background/origin stories from freelancer foundry authors, not a transaction I would be on either side of, as I do not need it, but would be intrigued to know if it works