Fans everyone cried out in disappointment when Cryptic Studios crushed their dreams of hanging out on their ship's bridge with other crew members when it was revealed that the feature wasn't going to make it into the game (at least not for launch).

Today, however, things have changed! Cryptic Studios has revealed that bridge gameplay will indeed make it into the game for launch, and will serve as a social hub where players can socialize with others. As an added bonus, the bridge will be customizable, to an extent, with players being able to select from around 20 different bridges for their ship.

Very cool!

 That also implies that you can now have more than one player onboard your ship, which is a good step forward! Now, if they would just make it so you could have lots of people onboard all controlling different things....

 +1 point for me

I'm impressed, and it looks like the fans finally recieved one of the things they have all been wanting. It isn't the ability to walk around the entire ship, but it is a small step in the right direction.

Hopefully you can have a large number of players it would be a nice place for Fleet meetings

Nice work cryptic, now invent replicaters. Tea! Earl grey!.....Hot!

Nice but, I hope they get the scale right.

Looking at that pic it seems like the characters are very small and the bridge.... even the captains chair looks like it was made for a giant!!!!!

Scale people.  Get the scale close to what a ship's bridge looks like.  If THAT is an issue I can only assume there will be a lot more problems with this game......

Originally posted by jayanti

 That also implies that you can now have more than one player onboard your ship, which is a good step forward! Now, if they would just make it so you could have lots of people onboard all controlling different things....

Going from single-player starships to having them controlled by multiple players would be a GIGANTIC change to gameplay.  That's not exactly something that can be changed in a patch.

They describe the bridges as a "social hub."  How does that make sense?  That seems more like what you'd be doing in 10-Forward than what you expect a starship bridge to be like.

Point for cryptic, thats hearing your fanbase.

Wasn't expecting to hear that. Very nice surprise thanks.

For the most part I have had nothing but negative things to say about STO so far... but this is definitely a step in the right direction. And evidence that they may actually be listening to us after all.

I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. Way to go Cryptic!

Originally posted by Anubisan

For the most part I have had nothing but negative things to say about STO so far... but this is definitely a step in the right direction. And evidence that they may actually be listening to us after all.

I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. Way to go Cryptic!

I agree. It's a move in the right direction.

Well just look what they did to champs online..  Its just everything to this day .. has NOT gone good with MMO's. They started something great.. left it.. blah blah.. I just PRAY someone will LISTEN

I don't think I'm impressed by this news.  It's just being used as a "social hub".  If that's the case, I would rather them add the bar where Whoopie can sell me a drink and tell me how to solve the problem of the week.  Better than nothing I guess....but still, I want my Whoopie.

that was do or die for me so yeah im putting sto back on my watch list.  guess i need to get caught up with their website now.

 An excellent move, and nice warm fuzzy feeling going into the weekend.  :)

Counselor Deanna Troi to my Ready Room for Cybz!!

 Just.... awesome. Now I really hope we can do combat from bridge view, or atleast let  players have additional roles, like possibly take the place of one of the bridge crew. Maybe one player is in charge of the shield systems while the player who owns the ship can still control the weapons and thrusters

While I applaud this decision I don't believe for a moment it will keep me playing longer than I would have otherwise.  Now if this was a real star trek experience wrapped in a game, then I'd play until the servers went offline...since it's not...I'll sub for a couple months most likely.  And that's being generous because while the game is likely to be bad...it is star trek.  I owe it at least 2 months.