Give us choices in quests that matter and effect the universe.

The problem there is that in many cases, later missions assume what happened in earlier missions.

For example... if, theoretically, you were to refuse to accept Neth Parr's surrender and cooperation in "Scylla and Charybdis", and instead killed them, then that decision destroys the entire basis for "The Renegade's Regret".

Conversely, if you were to follow a more strict interpretation of the Prime Directive, and thus refuse to assist the Talaxians, Turei, and Kobali, those decisions would wipe out the reasoning behind about half (or more) of the Delta Quadrant storyline. Maybe more, as those are the things that bring you into conflict with the Vaadwaur....

And how about "Keep the Tox Uthat and sell it to the Ferengi!" Instead of burying it on past-Risa... congrats, you just broke a time loop.

Issue with branching storylines is that like westmetals said it would have consequences to the later storylines, with a the end result being that galaxy for player A might look nothing like the galaxy for player B this not only need something like 100 storylines per each storyline written atm (and even that number is a low estimate) to account for all the possible choices it would also split the player base like there's no tomorrow. There's a reason why pretty much all MMORPGs have fairly linear storyline with pretty much no player choice, it's simply not worth the effort.

If you want player choice play a single player RPG.

gojikaichou1#8389 wrote: »

> @westmetals said:
> Some of those episodes still exist, and actually were not part of the TOS storyline to begin with; they were a separate, pre-existing story arc. (Spectres, which is now in the "Available" tab.)

...Nope. Most of the fun past content is missing. I checked every tab. "Spectres" is gone.

If anything, they need to just get rid of the Disgracery content entirely, as true Trekkers know that it isn't Trek at all. Klingons were not in LotR, the Federation and the Uruk-Hai were never at war.

I like the Lower Decks stuff being added. Having Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi in my deck officer cadre is actually kinda fun. (at least Lower Decks takes place in the Prime Timeline, and contains NO magic mushroom drives or Tardigrades used to navigate.

You CAN still get "Spectres"... I think it now requires being at level 65 and then there's a mission called "The Galaxy at Large" or something like that (depending on faction) which unlocks three or four story arcs to the Available tab that were previously in the episode tracker. This includes Spectres, as well as the old Breen and Dominion arcs and (for non-Romulan characters) the Nimbus arc.