I want a total new approach.

reset the era to the loast era (post TMP-pre-TNG)

drop the whole class deal (engineer, tactical, medical) and inster a skills based system. use char creation templests, but don't resrict players to a "class" path.

drop the Starfleet only aspect. put in 3 factions, let players choose what Faction theywant to align themselves with. I'd say Fed, Klinks and Rommies to start with, others could be added in expansions.

Also on that token, allow players to play a civilain path, explorers, merchants, ect

Ships: should have interiors for the most common places, allow players to interact with the ship, repairs, replicators, shuttle bays, ect. also ships should be fully destroyable, making players really dedicated to preserving it. Ships also should require fuel and supplies. want to go warp 9.99 around the place, fine, but realize you'll burn up fuel and have to use fleet points to replenish it.

Space: vast, make sector big, use warp scale in them and make players take more than 2 seconds to go from earth to Romulus. on that token, make some sort of fast warp system to get from sector to sector, i don't think many players would enjoy the 3 month journey from one side of fed space to the other very much.

Player run economy (yes i know the feds don't use cash), in which players make goods, transport and distrubute them for either their Faction, or as independent mechants for profit. and we all know around the LOst era, there were still soem fed citizenxs with greed.

that's my short list for now......

So in short, Falin your say you want a STO that is the exact opposite of what PE was developing. nk2 Thats good. I like some of your ideas.

I'd want the game to be realistic as possible, but I'm not going to call anything "cartoonish" untill I've seen it move.

I have to agree with you Zach, I would like to see that ammount of detail in STO, I will however point out that you'd probably need to have a zone based system to have that much detail. I couldn't see many computers being able to keep a ton of that high end graphics running all at once, its just to much data.

Very high graphics liek that are good on solo/ low # MP games. I'd love to see details like that as a ship interior, as most ships would have probably no more than 6-10 players at a time on them. however, let's move this to a starbase or planetside, 1000 players there would bog even the best system down, the amount of details on avatars alone would do it, but then take into account your system keeping track of all 1000 avatars last known locations (as what was sent by the server), then saying ok, they're therre, he's looking this direction, what do i draw in view, and what do i draw just in case he turns the camera?. belive me, MMO's are not the "highest" graphics because they refuse to do it that way, it's because of some serious cost-benifit anaylis on graphics levels was done.

give it about another 10-20 years, when PC's get newer technology, and can handle more without super heating up and we might start to see far better graphics in MMO"s.