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What if STO were real?

maxlevelgod69maxlevelgod69 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
What if STO were real and these were real live people being commanded?

Would you play the game differently?

What if your decisions to fight and destroy reflected on you through Karma?
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  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    maxlevelgod69 wrote: »
    What if STO were real and these were real live people being commanded?

    Would you play the game differently?

    What if your decisions to fight and destroy reflected on you through Karma?

    Well this being a role playing game I generally role-play.
    And well.... since the game forces me to kill those people usually in self defense, I'd do the same if it were real and real people attacked me.
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  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If STO were real I would wonder how ships come out of Boxes.

    I mean, even my car didn't even come out of a box. But a massive starship comes out of a ridiculous box.
    Who makes those boxes?
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    If STO were real I would wonder how ships come out of Boxes.

    I mean, even my car didn't even come out of a box. But a massive starship comes out of a ridiculous box.
    Who makes those boxes?

    lol.
    Especially how 3 boxes with scimitars in it fit into the pocket of one Romulan.
    So they are probably based on Tradis technology... if that doesn't help: Q did is.
    Or Subspace. Its related to subspace. Its always related to subspace...
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  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    revandarklighter wrote: »
    lol.
    Especially how 3 boxes with scimitars in it fit into the pocket of one Romulan.
    So they are probably based on Tradis technology... if that doesn't help: Q did is.
    Or Subspace. Its related to subspace. Its always related to subspace...

    and again, why are their locks on them?
    If it is an impenetrate-able lock, why wouldn't I just go through the wall of the box to get to the starship?

    If the wall of the box is impenetrate-able and it would be impossible to go through the wall to get to the said starship, i would wonder why you didn't just make the ship out of the walls of the lockbox?
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    maxlevelgod69 wrote: »
    What if STO were real and these were real live people being commanded?

    I'd be commanding some Orions to hit the street corner and move all this Ketracel White I've got in my hold. :P
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    maxlevelgod69 wrote: »
    What if your decisions to fight and destroy reflected on you through Karma?

    Karma? Why are you bringing my Orion boff into this conversation? She carries a disruptor sniper rifle, you want to treat her right! :D
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    and again, why are their locks on them?
    If it is an impenetrate-able lock, why wouldn't I just go through the wall of the box to get to the starship?

    If the wall of the box is impenetrate-able and it would be impossible to go through the wall to get to the said starship, i would wonder why you didn't just make the ship out of the walls of the lockbox?

    Isn't it obvious? :rolleyes:
    The lock is there to prevent people who do not have a key from opening it. ;)
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  • daedalus304daedalus304 Member Posts: 1,049 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If these were real people?

    Well then I'd be the head in trade of the slav.....er...I mean Bridge and Duty Officers.

    and I'd be trading ships and weapons like a Black market Ferengi.

    Hell i wish there was a STO 2.0 where this could happen....something extremely next gen....something to surpass even Star Citizen....but then again it's a terrible world where the MMO equivilent of EA has a hold on STO and it's IP
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    maxlevelgod69 wrote: »
    What if your decisions to fight and destroy reflected on you through Karma?

    Then we'd likely be subject to one of those easily-manipulated karma systems as found in so many games, where we'd deliberately kill certain numbers of friendlies to keep our numeric karma rating within the "neutral" range if that were our bent, or massacre them outright if the "evil" end of the scale were our goal. And as in so many games, it would probably do more to trash immersion than to reinforce it.
  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    If STO were real I would wonder how ships come out of Boxes.

    I mean, even my car didn't even come out of a box. But a massive starship comes out of a ridiculous box.
    Who makes those boxes?

    Factory on Gallifrey.
  • maxlevelgod69maxlevelgod69 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    If STO were real I would wonder how ships come out of Boxes.

    I mean, even my car didn't even come out of a box. But a massive starship comes out of a ridiculous box.
    Who makes those boxes?

    The same people who made something else 'Seem bigger on the inside'...

    What came first. The technology of Star Trek. The tv show.

    Or the tool using it thinking war is the only way to use it?
  • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I know a few things I would do differently if only for the opportunity to do so, first, the Klingons at P'jem, I would at least take their accusation seriously and order a medical examination of the ambassador and place him under arrest upon finding him to be 8472, similar thing at Impera, upon finding medical supplies galor and no weapons I would have to call regulation on the admiral and refuse her orders and preferably take said admiral into custody for given orders that go against the federation's principles. (i.e launching an unprovoked attack on a medical supply station)

    I'm afraid I would also ave to question a fair few other actions taken by starfleet.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I role play, so to me I treat each situation as real as I can. And I try to react as well for it. By doing emotes or saying stuff to my away team/crew.

    I just wish there was a option to try to negotiate instead of just shooting all the time.
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  • jodarkriderjodarkrider Member Posts: 2,097 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If STO was real, I'd definitely try diplomacy more, rather than shoot everything... as a Starfleet officer, I'd not want to murder everything, which crosses my path. Sadly, the missions usually force me to do that in the game... booo... ><"
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  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    IF this was real and I was my main, well I wouldn't want to do a few things.

    1. Command an Avenger. I'd probably want to command a Vesta class and be an explorer
    2. I wouldn't want to be an admiral. EVER.
    3. I don't think my main would have a bridge crew of bridge bunnies :cool:
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If I was taking a real crew into real danger, I would refuse to leave spacedock until those stupid Starfleet engineers put some better safety features in place. I mean really, 75% of my crew dead or in sickbay from a single volley... and then going back up to 100%.
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    chalpen wrote: »
    Who makes those boxes?

    .........ummmm ellloo!!!!!! time lords!!!!!!!!!
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    macronius wrote: »
    This! Their ability to outdo their own failures is quite impressive. If only this power could be harnessed for good.
  • lordvalecortezlordvalecortez Member Posts: 479 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Well, since no one at Star Fleet seems to have a brain, I'd stage a coup and take over the Federation. I'd annex Cardassia, tun Bajor into an internment camp for political enemies cause there is nothing worse then a whiny Bajoran, and actually use the Federation's resources to go to full war scaling. Make peace with the Klingons and split the old RSE between the two of us.

    Wow, it's a good thing this isn't real. I'm a terrible Star Fleet Admiral and person. Or Janeway's protege. Can't tell which...
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    lordvalecortez wrote: »
    Make peace with the Klingons and split the old RSE between the two of us.

    over this romulan dead body
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    macronius wrote: »
    This! Their ability to outdo their own failures is quite impressive. If only this power could be harnessed for good.
  • aargolosaargolos Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If STO was real, I'd be terrified of all these magic consoles all over the place.

    That, and solving every problem with moar dps.

    Probably just cloak up and run through the replicator menu.
  • rickdankorickdanko Member Posts: 470 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'd beam down to Starfleet Academy and ask that Tellarite and Andorian what they've been arguing about since the game launched.
    They're not really gone, as long as we remember them
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  • xigbargxigbarg Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    jodarkrider wrote: »
    If STO was real, I'd definitely try diplomacy more, rather than shoot everything... as a Starfleet officer, I'd not want to murder everything, which crosses my path. Sadly, the missions usually force me to do that in the game... booo... ><"

    This. Even with a war going on, Starfleet is about exploration and peace.
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  • kestrelliuskestrellius Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Use the Guardian of Forever to go back in time and stop the Iconians I guess?

    I dunno. But having someone who has literally offered to help you time travel is something you'd think would be taken advantage of.

    But basically, yeah. I would find powerful allies. Try to catch the attention of the Q, maybe.

    Also, like in most video games, I would be completely gibbering mad by this point. And I don't mean the charmingly crazy that I and all of my characters already are. I mean clinically, functionally insane. While I don't oppose killing in self-defense or war -- that is, I don't think my characters' actions are wrong, necessarily -- it would have an enormous impact on the human mind to kill hundreds of thousands of sentient individuals. Seriously, every ship you destroy has probably a couple hundred people on board. Although that is lessened a bit since you don't see them face-to-face, nor do you directly kill them yourself. But even just ground enemies -- I've killed probably thousands. That has...ramifications...of massive proportions. Nobody comes out of that sane.

    Of course I don't really have any evidence of that do I. Not sure how many people any one human has killed, so there's no real way to test it. But still, it's not good for the mind, as far as I know.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    maxlevelgod69 wrote: »
    What if STO were real and these were real live people being commanded?

    Would you play the game differently?

    What if your decisions to fight and destroy reflected on you through Karma?

    What if reality was just a MMO and each of us are just characters being controlled by some being in another reality?
  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Nope, I'd just have Elijah and T'Lumi hook up because that is my headcanon.
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  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If STO was real, I'd set myself up as the King of the Epohhs.

    In seriousness though, I'd actually be ok with my rank as Admiral, and in fact would not mind a desk job. I tend to be more of an administrator or strategist than a fighter or anything anyways.
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'd have PTSS from all the countless Voth that died when I blew up that Vortress ship.

    ANd I'd probably be dead from all the times I was vaporized, blown up, cut to pieces, burned to death, sucked into space and so on.
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  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'd probably have a nervous breakdown.
  • jmaster29jmaster29 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    daan2006 wrote: »
    over this romulan dead body

    *evil smile* That can be arranged green blooded worm *charges disruptor pistol*
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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'd be a whole lot more cautious playing the game, I can tell you that for nothing. There is no respawn in real life.
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