Anybody been playing Star Trek Online?

[Tim]

So it IS multiboxable or not?

[Nghtmr9999]

Got my beta key from a site last night and have been playing it quite a bit this morning and afternoon. It might be boxable, but it seems like it would be difficult to do so.

[Lindline]

Its one of those games that isnt really designed to be multiboxable.

[Tim]

I suppose to be multiboxable it really just needs this:

/follow
/assist
(ability to bind keystrokes to abilities)

Right?

[Nghtmr9999]

ehh... sort of. The ship battles require a bit more attention. Your ship has frontal, left, right, and rear shields that take a beating. You need to maneuver your ship around to avoid damage on the sides with weak shields until they recharge. Your offensive weapons have a "degree arc" of sorts, where one weapon works in the front 270 degrees of your ship but not in the rear. Another one is made just for firing from behind etc.

The most difficult thing is the maneuvering. Once you have that worked out, there really shouldn't be much of a problem. But as Lindline said (and after playing a bit I do agree) the game is very difficult to multibox

[Tim]

Is moving your ships akin to the ToC mounts in WoW?

[Lindline]

Originally Posted by Tim

Is moving your ships akin to the ToC mounts in WoW?

More like sieges, if they had a throttle control and collision detection. Yes, everything in this game has collision detection.

I think the biggest thing is the dynamic difficulty they have that scales with your group size. Youd face a single ship if you were solo, but with 3-4 youd be facing a whole squadron.