Battlestar Galactica Online E3 trailer divides players... literally

This is a little too late. Loved BSG on SciFi, but I've moved on.

I'm also skeptical of MMOs that use 2 faction systems. It's a lazy way to create PvP conflict and will inevitably result in all sorts of balance issues that previous MMO have been dealing wit for the last 10 years.

My thoughts exactly.

Exactly.

I'd much rather play the Board Game. If you want to muck around in the BSG world, that's a gorgeous way to do it- you get to actually play the characters and the feeling of suspense and back-stabbing is very intense (at least in the forum version I've been playing.)

The strength of BSG is the human (and cylon) interaction, not the space battles.

Right!!! That would have made at least a little sense.

Yeah, I didn't think of that right away. I was too busy thinking "OMG OMG Squeeeee!!!" but yeah, that would have made more sense. I am going to play this, but it may be crap.

Well i guess no more than a couple thousand players will play this xD

That is some funny stuff right there... So you think maybe they're shooting for a 39,000 strong player base which will dwindle over time?

Replying to your other comment since I couldn't reply directly to it.

Anyways, I really hate when people say that browser MMOs are "pretend" MMOs. They're no more pretend than so-called MMOFPSs are. Also, with upcoming technologies such as Unity and the SparkPlayer by SparkPlay Media (they made Earth Eternal), there's really no need for such prejudice. Hell, RuneScape has been out for how long now and it's a real browser MMO!

Seriously, that did it for me, too.

I think BSG would make a better game if it were designed like a Battlefield series game, rather than a pretend MMO. You could have a scenario where you have Colonial NPC's on the planet collecting a metal, fuel, food to supply the fleet. You wouldn't actually see these NPC's, it would just be a set timer on how long it would take to collect the resource. Then the Colonial Ground Players have to protect an objective from being taken by the group of Cylon Players on the ground. Over the planet in space, you would have the Battlestar (with working turret & missle stations) and it's player pilots protecting the planet from the attacking Cylon Player Fleet and Basestar (with equal turret & missle stations).

At the beginning of the fight the Cylon's could land a certain number of player units on the ground, but as the battle goes on and if they get more points or take an objective, they would be able to start landing more troops to the ground. If the Cylons completely wipe out the Colonial Space Fleet, then they would finally be allowed to Nuke the ground target from orbit, "because it's the only way".

Yeah I would rather play that, then try to make an MMO out of it. I love BSG to death, but it would just be to hard to make a MMO based off a storyline where you're supposed to be constantly on the move and doing your best to avoid the enemy at all costs.