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So androids when?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited October 2010 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
So when are we getting androids?
All we've had is a vague mention.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I am curious as to if all androids will be like Data/Lore/B-4/Juliana Tainer or if their will be several different classifications.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    last time they said "never"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    claydermunch wrote: »
    last time they said "never"

    when did they say that?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I don't know, but I do know that nearly everyone in the forums jumped on their backs when they suggested the possibility, so it's likely it got shelfed for other less unpopular projects.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Androids are on the "In Design" list along with Aenar, Talaxian, and Hologram playable and BOs. In Design means months rather then weeks.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Is this Soong type we're talking about, like Data et al., or generic androids? Because I recall a dev saying CBS had issues with Soong type androids (don't have the post handy, sorry).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I'm guessing it's a generic android that equates to a Soong-type in the 25th century. They can't use one that looks like Data; but all of Soong's didn't look like Data so that's no big deal.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Cosmic_One wrote: »
    They can't use one that looks like Data

    They COULD, but they'd have to pay Brent Spiner for the use of his likeness.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    S-T-R wrote:
    They COULD, but they'd have to pay Brent Spiner for the use of his likeness.
    Yeah, thus they can't. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    We should be able to design our own humanoidish looking Android and it will bypass the Brett Spiner issues.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I assume the androids will have plain features and that you'll be able to adjust some of the superficials, such as hair type. They'll probably have the same skin tones as Data, though. If it doesn't look like a machine in some ways there's not much point in having it be an android. I can build an alien and make him look like whatever I want. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Both Juliana Tainer and Lal were Soong-type Androids. In the Episode "The Offspring", Lal choose Human Female from among several pheno-types. Another that made the final cut was Male Andorian.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Cosmic_One wrote: »
    I assume the androids will have plain features and that you'll be able to adjust some of the superficials, such as hair type. They'll probably have the same skin tones as Data, though. If it doesn't look like a machine in some ways there's not much point in having it be an android. I can build an alien and make him look like whatever I want. :)
    NeilCell wrote: »
    Both Juliana Tainer and Lal were Soong-type Androids. In the Episode "The Offspring", Lal choose Human Female from among several pheno-types. Another that made the final cut was Male Andorian.

    Not to mention androids in TOS looked like normal humans.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I don't know if Kirks ghost would let them make playable androids :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    There were Cravic and Pralor type androids in the Delta Quadrent. Perhapse the Cravics could be a player android race for the Roumulans when and if they become a faction. They could also be inserted into the exitsitng game as an enemy NPC unit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    As far as I know, the Android and Holographic races are already in the game's programming, they just haven't been activated yet because CBS is having second thoughts on them. So it isn't a matter of them being done, it is a matter of convincing CBS to let Cryptic use them.


    http://www.stowiki.org/Unused_Traits

    Also, their seems to be some sort of clone or superhuman in development.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    wrote:
    As far as I know, the Android and Holographic races are already in the game's programming, they just haven't been activated yet because CBS is having second thoughts on them. So it isn't a matter of them being done, it is a matter of convincing CBS to let Cryptic use them.


    http://www.stowiki.org/Unused_Traits

    Also, their seems to be some sort of clone or superhuman in development.
    I don't believe CBS is having second thoughts. Both the android and holo captains are listed as upcoming on the Engineering Report. Perfection and approval are just a slow process.

    As far as the superhumans, I believe that was begun as part of the Children of Khan STF, that was put on hold. My guess is that an Augmented Human BO is probably the prize for winning that STF.
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