Uh, *looks for post on traits* yep it's still there... Just above your post RoloTomasi... What are you? Blind?! You're relieved from duty crewman. Report to Sickbay at once!

I joke of course lol

The link in my earlier post directs you to a list which all the generic racial traits. And btw, were you asking for me or frega

And to be fair the game isn't out yet, so its really hard to say what's the best race/class combination at this point in time. Even with that list I provided, most of its mechanics are still untested (or if they are tested they have not yet been discussed in any public forums), so until we see how it applies to the game we won't know for sure.

Here's a video for the character creator, hopefully it'll help some of you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIRGoVMARTc

And here's a list from that video (courtesy of OwnNav from JupiterColony, http://www.jupitercolony.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2796), so you don't have to keep clicking pause.

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Classes
Engineering - Survivability, support generators, and controlling the paths of enemy advance with fieldworks. The Engineering Officer can withstand the most damage by improving the performance of their own personal shields, while supporting his away team with power generators or by bottlenecking the enemy's advance with defensive minefields. The Engineer's own combat effectiveness is improved by modifications to their firearms or support fire from fabricated turrets and drones.

Science - Weakening or incapacitating the enemy over time, erecting energy fields that damage or hinder, and healing their away team from such effects. The Science Officer has the greatest potential to quickly react to a chaotic combat situation through direct enemy holds, weakening an enemy group's combat strength or resistance, or responding to enemy attacks by quickly healing damage. The Science Officer's combat effectiveness is their versatility.

Tactical - Combat damage, stealth recon, and squad tactics. The Tactical Officer can deliver damage in the widest variety of methods, while supporting his away team by drawing off enemy threat or bolstering their combat effectiveness with tactics and squad commands.

Races Available
Human - Leadership 10% Crew Powers, Teamwork 5% Team Bonus to Exploit Damage
Andorian - Acute Senses 20% StealthSight
Bajoran - Creative 5% Damage and Healing with Kits, 10% Heals Received, 10% Regeneration
Bolian - Corrosive blood 20% Resistance to Toxic Damage, Deals Toxic Damage when Bitten
Vulcan - Logical 30% Resistance to Psionic Damage, Confuse, and Clacate Physical strength 10% melee physical damage
Ferengi - Acute senses 20% StealthSight, Natural Immunities 33% Radiation Damage resist, 33% Toxic Damage resist
Unknown - 4 Traits from the pool.

Also you get a total of 4 traits it looks like. So Humans will get to select two from the pool below, Andorians three, etc.

Trait Pool
Acute Senses 20% StealthSight
Accurate 0.1 Accuracy
Aggressive 2 Sec *+5% All Damage Bonus Strength, +5% Threat Generation
Astrophysicist 10 Starship Operations Training
Cold Blooded 10% Plasma Damage Resistance*, 25% Fire Damage Resistance
Covert 10% Aggression stealth strength, 10% Perception Stealth Strength
Creative Enhancement Enhances Specific Powers +5% All Damage Bonus Strength, +5% Hit points Bonus Strength
Efficient 5% Starship Shield Efficiency, Engine Efficiency, Energy Weapon Efficiency, Auxillary Systems Efficiency
Elusive 0.1 Defense
Lucky 3% Crit Chance
Mental Discipline 3 sec 15% Psionic Damage Resist, 20% Confuse Resist, 20% Placate Resist
Natural Immunities +33% Radiation Damage resist, 33% Toxic Damage resist
Peak Health10% Toxic Damage Resist, 10% Max HP
Physical Strength 10% Physical Damage Bonus Strength
Resilient 5% Physical Damage resist, 5% All Energy Damage resist
Soldier 2 sec 5% All Energy Damage Bonus Strength*, +10 Crit Severity
Stubborn 3 sec 40% Run speed resist, 20% Hold resist, 50% Placate resist
Sure Footed 40% Root resist, 12% Knockback resist
Techie 10 Starship Engineering Training
Telekinesis Targets Foe 22.86 Meter Range .75 sec activate 1 in recharge Knocks back +7 feet
Telepathic 20% StealthSight, .75% chance to Expose, +.5 sec Expose duration
Warp Theorist 10 Starship Warp Core Training

*Only affects certain things

I may have missed some of the *, if I did let me know and I'll correct. Also I noticed three types of traits: Innate, Enhancement, and Passive. I'm not sure what the difference between the three is. I thought Passive meant all the time non activated trait, but some of the passives listed have times associated with them :? At least we can pick what traits we want though! Cheers

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Yep that's one of the most comprehensive lists out there. To those of you who are going to play, please leave your Cryptic @handle name, so we can meet up . Also feel free to list your race/career/ship choices. Lets keep the discussion alive people

Edit: Added link to quote
Edit2: Fixed broken link

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 01:40 PM

imma gonna roll a klingon and name my ship Qapla Buto. i guess no choice but roll tactical class.

Hate to break it to you, but you can't play a Klingon... they're not part of the Federation... I suppose you could custom build a Klingon though.

Ah and a slight elaboration to that - Federation Klingon peace treaty ended, thus igniting a war - so it is in these desperate times that we join the Federation - Klingons are available for play but they're very pvp-centric (they only lvl from PvP) and I do think you need to play Starfleet for a while before unlocking Klingon content.

i think klingon faction is available at start.

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/784

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/792

they just lack pve content. need to choose one of klingon house and pvp each other. in fed space only consent pvp. open pvp in neutral area.

i want bird of prey. can cloak in combat. and klingon ship can fit more tactical officer than fed ship.

p/s ah yes need to unlock it. for around five hrs of fed gameplay. and begin at same rank of fed char that unlock the content.

This post has been edited by RoloTomasi: Jan 6 2010, 03:56 PM

so this game is like old Interplay Star Trek game?

Haha, Klingon's are more warlike compared to the Federation. I do however think that The U.S.S. Prometheus would at least be at par if not more powerful than any Klingon Vessel.

Have you made an account on Cryptic yet RoloTomasi? If so what's your @name there?

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Added on January 6, 2010, 4:39 pmI'm sorry, I don't quite understand your question. How do you mean "like an old Interplay Star Trek game"?

Lets see, STO is first and foremost online (duh), so you'll get to create your own character/ avatar, you'll also get to customize your own ships. Its combat interface will be approximately 50/50 space combat and ground combat (away missions). Space combat will lean more to a tactical combat scenario where you'll have to weaken the enemy's ship with phasers and destroy the hull with photon torpedoes. Ground combat is more fast paced, comparing it to WoW would be a crude comparison, it takes up its combat engine from Champions, so its quite fast paced, not much downtime. There will also be chances in the game to partake in non combat situations, such as a research mission to save a planet from a disease (if I'm not mistaken).

Did that in anyway answer your question?

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 04:39 PM

For the ability of cos. I think the knockback will be good since I'll be Science/Science. Not sure I'll be pewpewing much as science. So its good for maybe when an ******* keep focusing me, a defensive move.

yup, thanks

No worries

So can I expect to see you in game as well? Haha

i'll wait for review first. but the server will be in US right?

Yep. Server will be in U.S.

Edit: Also there are some previews around the web, most of them are quite positive .

This post has been edited by xyber_matrix: Jan 6 2010, 06:33 PM

1 server just like eve. since everybody will have fed char, we all can be in same guild.

@xyber: i created b4 i play warhammer. after i decide i'm not going to play stargate world. i play war and aion during start. i might wait few patch b4 join star trek.

btw any1 have pre-order? pls update us here when ob start.

Open Beta starts on the 12th of January (Western Date). Its not a free for all entrance though, you either need to pre-order or get it by winning contests etc.

there's a 4 page preview of ST online in this month PCgamer mag

The Open Beta client is available for download for D2D pre-order customers now.

i am really looking forward for this game.

but lag issue is my major concern...

So I have my beta key.... downloading the OB is just gonna suck. and it starts tomorrow. no way in hell 7.7gb is gonna be done... maybe a few weeks thru fileplanet >.<

Open Beta is a go! ....and I can't get in. Stupid client still patching...zzzz. Damn slow.

I'll wait to see how the latency from here holds up.

some nice stuff

Step 1. go to Star Trek Online and log in
http://www.startrekonline.com/openbeta

Step 2. type I love you in Klingon in the OB key field

Step 3. Click Submit

Step 4. be happy ..




This post has been edited by cloudtee: Jan 13 2010, 01:25 PM