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Posted - 2006.12.04 06:14:00 -
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I'm gonna hate to disappoint you but STO will be distributed by SOE, and if their record with other franchise games like MxO and SWG are any indication, I don't believe STO will in any way be complete at release, nor will they pump the money into it necessary to make it a good game. They'll count on Star Trek to sell it just like they count on Star Wars to sell SWG, and the product will be sub par at best.
(Keep in mind SOE was the distributor of EQ before they bought it which is how they got SWG)
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Posted - 2006.12.04 08:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Diatom
Star Trek On Line is not a Sony game as far as I know. This is what I know about the Developers.
Perpetual Entertainment is an innovative, San Francisco-based developer, publisher, and operator of networked multiplayer and massively multiplayer online games for the PC and next-generation videogame consoles. Founded and staffed by industry veterans dedicated to the vision that playing games together is simply more fun, more challenging, and more rewarding than playing alone, Perpetual Entertainment's mission is to craft gaming experiences that immerse players in other worlds like no game has before.
Perpetual Entertainment is realizing this vision with its two AAA titles, Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising and Star Trek Online. Both games utilize the Perpetual Entertainment Platform, our other core product and the answer to the traditional struggles of developing a massively multiplayer online game. PEP allows developers of MMOs to focus on their game's potential rather than its technology. PEP is the complete solution for developing, hosting, monitoring, and operating networked online games on all platforms: PCs, consoles, cell phones, and handheld devices. In combination with PEP, Perpetual is also developing the Perpetual Game Engine, a suite of reusable game tools and libraries that enable rapid AAA-quality development of MMOs and other networked games.
Our pioneering games and ground-breaking platform solutions are quickly making Perpetual Entertainment one of the major innovators in the video gaming industry. 
Gods and Heroes is being distributed by SOE as well under a pseudonymn. STO will as well. SOE will then if the games take off offer to buy Perpetual out as they did with Verdant when they got EQ and SWG.
The last part of your post makes it sound as though you are an employee of Perpetual or just copy/pasting their stuff.
EVE due to its size will always have some lag components, the only way to avoid this would be to have the ability to send a signal from the server to your computer every second and have your response go from your computer to the server in the same second and be processed by the server. Currently our technology is not that advanced :).
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