Ship of Heroes Details Intricate Story Plans and Why Customization, Including Your Origin Story,Matters

mmorpg.com:

Ship of Heroes continues on the road to its upcoming launch, and the team has shared a new devblog on their intricately crafted world and stories within it, and the role having robust character customization options and the ability to create your own origin stories complement that.

The team explains some of their process and hints at what to expect. “We at SoH already have detailed plans for how the current storylines will expand over hundreds of future missions, with twists and reactions that make sense given each of the main NPC character’s beliefs. The things you learn about the NPCs and factions at level one will often be relevant much later on, and a mission or comment in one arc can shed light on a completely different mission elsewhere.” 

This is, of course, an MMORPG about superheroes, and those come in all shapes, sizes, species, and styles,so character creation, and availability ofcustomization options, have to matter. People like to toss around the term immersion, but when you commit to a superhero theme, You already take what is an almost limitless pool of options because these stories are built on things we can't do as regular old humans.

With an emphasis on the various ways stories are told, they also detail some of the options you’ll have. You can watch the cutscenes or skip them, read the dialogue or ignore it, pay attention to the small details or focus on combat and overall story. These options, plus the ways to make the experience your own, are how they’ll be hands off in letting everyone have their own heroic experiences. 

Yet, the Ship of Heroes team is creating something that will intentionally come together for those who do want to get into things deeply:

“Many challenges are hinted at, and