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One of the concepts in MMO games that attracts groupings of players together is specialties or specific roles.
It might be interesting to have a branch of multiplayer that allows a grouping of players to select specific roles for the play through. Maybe the roles could be based on the characters original role on a starship. Engineer? scientist? officer? Maybe its talent based: robots? vehicles? weaponry? Maybe with specific helpful stats, crafting speeds. Just something that popped into my head.

The Factorio MMO server has something along those lines.

It's a cool idea, but this strikes me as something that would be better as a mod. I don't feel that character classes necessarily fit in Vanilla, but I can't imagine it'd be that hard to implement it in mod form (whether for single- or multiplayer).