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dthompson980
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I've said this twice as a reply but I think this needs its own thread. I want to know who else thinks that there should be an option to play offline single player or with a friend at home.
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Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Test Drive Unlimited had more online interaction than STO, but it had on offline mode (example)
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
fixed for you
If you are offline you can;t connect to the server.
Anyway, an offline mode is simply not possible. You could use 3rd party program, hack, or just modify game files to suit you, like adding 500K dil, or EC, then log back online with it.
Or maybe the OP is just trolling.
My name is john connor.
Apparently not many agree. But I do. There are many people out there who have internet, but do not have high bandwidth. I know because I just moved from one of those areas. - a county with over 700,000 limited to 1 or 2 Mbps.
This is such a great game, and today while I sit waiting for the server to come back online, an option to play while waiting seems a good idea as well.
Until that day..? Not gonna happen.
Star Trek Offline !
A new game with new PvE Queue ...
- The login Queue [Normal]
- The login Queue [Advanced]
- The login Queue [Elite]
star trek offline - sto:D
Ready to spend $10,000?
you've got a spare server knocking around to hold all the data you would need for a offline version then, cool.
do you actually know what causes rubberbanding, its caused when your computer is experiencing difficulty communicating with the server for a few seconds, in that time it appears on your computer that you have moved a distance but when the computer receives the information the server has you spring back to where the server says you are like you have been pulled back by a rubber band, what's on the server always takes precedence over what is on your computer.
if you were in some way able to play sto off line as soon as you connected to sto's server everything you had done would be wiped because as I said what's on the server always takes precedence over what is on your computer.
with this in mind what would be the point of playing off line.
this is why they need a separate server for players to test the game, its called tribble in case you didn't know.
you can transfer a copy of your current character data to tribble but every thing you do with that character will stay on tribble and you can never copy any of that characters data back to holodeck (the actual server you play on) because whats on holodeck can never be changed in this way.
you could open a lockbox on tribble and win that ship you`ve always wanted but you could not transfer that back to your original character on holodeck.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Officially Nerfed In Early 2410
I don't think that's technically even possible (unlike on a typical STEAM game). And I doubt STO would run on a single PC. And those queues would get even emptier than they already are! :P
I dont think it would take much hard drive space. There are lots of people running WoW private servers. I knew two people one was just in my guild and another person i knew IRL. The one i knew IRL actually showed me how some of the character data was stored. They were all alone in the game world but they could still do all the solo content, dungeons and raids. That was possible because they could modify their character stats so they had stupid amounts of health and stats or the weapons would kill stuff in one shot or whatever.
Now i dont know how much HDD space STO would take up. There may be a lot of planets but take a look at each planet and just look at how much ground space there is. Then look at the space map and just think of them in terms of ground maps too. What is the length X width X height of all of these maps. WoW has a ton of dungeons, a ton of raids and even though their continents are just one big landmass how much area (or volume if you want to compare 3d) is there total? then compare that to how much area or volume all the STO ground and space maps take up. Remember how STO space and ground maps work too. When somebody glitches out on ESD and instead starts to walk around ESD in their ship form i think that this is actually the scale of ship objects in space mode.
Having said all that running private servers are against the TOS. I'm pretty paranoid about protecting my game accounts so i consider people who advertise private server stuff to be on the same level as gold farmers. So because of that i wont ever go to their site or click their links for fear of getting something unwanted like a keylogger. Like the person i knew IRL that messed with their WoW server? they told me that the laptop they use never accesses anything important. It was just used for single player games and for the private server that they used to do WoW stuff solo. They dont use it to check their bank account info or to access the real live WoW servers.
ANYONE READING THIS THREAD......
If a post said how it's impossible for tech reasons, please do not take advice from them.
PSA...PSA....PSA.....PSA
It is so funny how many of you have no idea how things work. :eek: Please google private servers, see what can be done and how easy it is.
Arguements about ques are not about "if" it can be done and are easy to fix with server side changes, (so you can solo).
I could care less about the OP and the thread, I just find it funny how many "experts" weigh in and show their lack of understanding. Seriously, most of you shouldn't have posted.........
Necro threads can be so much fun, let's see how many claim they have learned...
"Not possible with a steam game"...That's funny.
"Spend 10,000 USD.."..really funny.
Yeah. Because googling 'private servers' is going to yield you an executable version of the STO servers (including all maps/images, etc), right?! /sarcasm
There's great Irony in being ignorant whilst claiming others are. :P But then again, as an old Proverb goes, 'The fool is wise in his own eyes.'
If it where possible to play that way, imagine if you could create mods (ships in particular) for it or change everything you like.
People who actually like and understand Star Trek could create mods to make the game much more canon like. Changed ships, weapons game mechanics everything much more like in the shows.
I know that's not very likely, but let a old man dream...
I would love that!
Not to mention that CBS would probably frown on people just adding self-made ships to the game.
For years i was hoping for a Star Trek game similar to Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim.
A freeform game set in Star Trek universe, that has both ground and space part. (just like STO, just singleplayer and modable). A offline STO version with a construction kit would be the ultimate thing imo.
That looks promising.
From a technical point of view, i can't imagine a offline/singleplayer STO game would need huge amounts of memory, since the game doesn't have a game world that needs to track events or spawn NPCs. It's more or less a collection of individual maps.
Fixed it for you.
Role play?
where?
Halo did it with only connecting for pvp content and most of this game is written for single player work. So functionally possible. How hard to turn an MMO into a private system I do not know.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.