The latest edition of the Star Trek Online Ask Cryptic series has arrived with Executive Producer Daniel sTahl taking on over thirty questions from the STO community. Topics include more about the crew system, where the game may be headed in the near future and when the Andorian/Vulcan ships might arrive. There's a lot more than that too so you'll want to head over to check it out.

Q: HighTek: I've heard that the engine for Champions and STO is similar, if not the same. Would it be possible to add CO's vertical flight movement to space combat, just for flavor?

A: This has been discussed off and on over the last year and when we've played around with it internally it made the ships look really bad when flying around, so we've generally frowned against doing something like this. That's not to say we can't do it, but it would require some serious restrictions as to when you could do it so that it didn't look bad.

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