Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

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Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: DOCa Cola on August 21, 2003, 09:43:32 AM
You shouted, now here they are and want you for breakfast :hungry:. 14 more Noxter Screenshots added to the Screenshots -> Ingame -> Noxter section.

DOCa Cola


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 01:40:03 PM
so 14 noxter screen shots and by the looks of it 2 new smiliey well done :hungry:  :dead:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: DOCa Cola on August 21, 2003, 01:58:55 PM
right, i always do some secret changes to the site you have to find out for yourselves :D


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 21, 2003, 02:06:51 PM
so called easter eggs  :shifty:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 02:07:27 PM
we normaly do :-)


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 21, 2003, 02:10:26 PM
i wonder if some time people will play Fleet Ops to be in the forums and not be in the forums cause they play Fleet Ops :D


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: DOCa Cola on August 21, 2003, 02:16:01 PM
of course, thats my objective  :lol:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: trekki on August 21, 2003, 03:41:44 PM
Dude very nice :wub:  :wub:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: ADuc on August 21, 2003, 03:43:54 PM
lol, once stuff really starts going were gonna have a whole mess of smilies


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on August 21, 2003, 04:48:20 PM
Looks like all my annoying posts did it  ;)

and you have the best smilies


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 08:10:19 PM
lol and yep they did it so u did know that they was annoying and your not just like that in general?!


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on August 21, 2003, 09:17:26 PM
wow, very nice shots !! :thumbsup:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 09:33:00 PM
that plante i see in pic 10 will we have them in the next beta or even a patch coz i really want the plantes back i know that they will be armada 1 style but space is so boreing without them can't do any maps with good backdrops btw will there be suns???
o and black holes


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 21, 2003, 09:37:08 PM
they will be available in beta2.. till now they are only background objects, i'm working on getting them back to armada1 style but its a hard piece of work..
there will be few planets in beta2, but you can expect more map objects and such "doodads" in beta3, which focuses on this topics


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 09:38:43 PM
err what the f*#& are doodads???


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Detektor on August 21, 2003, 09:39:58 PM
yes there are new styleements for the maps in Beta 2, like dust or passable asteroidfields and planets


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 21, 2003, 09:41:58 PM
what about black holes???


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 21, 2003, 09:43:39 PM
mh, things which look nice, but don't affect the gameplay as it
for example in the center of the map "midway" you can find a giant asteroid. It does the same yob as the asteroid field which is there in beta1.1 but looks more exiting. You will also find thin asteroid fields and dust nebulas, which are passable and do completly nothing but look interesting and can add a special touch to a map. i'm a great fan of such things :)

black holes will havte to wait for beta3


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Mariner Class on August 22, 2003, 12:58:50 AM
"Doodads" are a generic term used for extra shit (details for you non-sailors :naugthy: ) on models, designs, art, etc. It can also be used for extra features (which A2 is made of, just look at it's engine :lol: ).


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 22, 2003, 06:44:28 AM
o ok them thanks


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on August 22, 2003, 03:25:31 PM
1) do the noxter ships have the same phaser beam color like the feds? because i'm wondering about their weapons on the screens, i can't see any noxter phaser beams but 2 torpedos(?) at pic #12. :blink:

2) is it possible to make some (big) destroyable asteroids ? would be more realistic to be able to destroy so "rocks" hmm?  :)  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 22, 2003, 03:54:06 PM
no, they don't use energy weapons :) they use acid, spores, parasits and "projectiles" as well as meele weapons
well, destroyable astroids would be interesting, i will think about it :)


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: cts006 on August 23, 2003, 05:36:31 PM
nice pics


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on August 23, 2003, 06:29:29 PM
Their Ships are creepy.  ;)  I can't wait to play them


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 26, 2003, 03:20:53 PM
i have but one thing to say stop tourmentening us with ppics and gives us beta 2


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on August 26, 2003, 04:40:06 PM
Now for more annoying posts they seem to work

Beta 2 :angry:
Beta 2 :angry:
Beta 2 :angry:
Beta 2 :angry:
Beta 2 :angry:
Beta 2 :angry:

please  :sweatdrop:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on August 26, 2003, 05:14:48 PM
development takes its time. beta2 is some kind of 2 "full race mods" if you want to call it so.. not to speak about the balancing changes, model improvements and game updates :)
well, the romulans are nearly done and the noxter make great progress. sorry, but we cannot use a magical spell to create beta2, but programms, editors and many hours of hard work :)
please be patient with us  :rolleyes:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Detektor on August 27, 2003, 07:48:17 PM
oh yes

beta 2 will be great, when you see it you will love it, but as Optec said, we need time

The last 3 Day we tested Fleetops Day and Night to eliminat the Ouf of Sync Error  :wacko:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 30, 2003, 06:59:42 PM
cool thanks take as much time as u need but in the mean time i want beta 2
if the ships angins are dead then will u be able to crash into astroids????


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: DOCa Cola on August 30, 2003, 07:28:52 PM
nope, ships crashing into asteroids is not able due to limitations of the armada 2 engine


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on August 30, 2003, 10:12:42 PM
doh that would be cool disableing a ships engins then using a tractor beam to drag it into a astorid field then BOOM!


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on September 04, 2003, 09:51:22 PM
what kind of defense platforms do the noxter have ?


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 04, 2003, 10:46:15 PM
well, thats the big point i am thinking about at the moment..
cause nearly their whole base is mobile there defence stations will be mobile too..


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: nunny on September 05, 2003, 08:50:18 AM
I think that's a wicked idea!! Especially if the species and ships are meant to be one like 8472! Nicely done!  :)  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 05, 2003, 09:43:03 AM
well they are not as advanced as species 8472, and not that.. intelligent :) they are some kind of animals, kontrolled by the mother


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: nunny on September 05, 2003, 03:39:32 PM
That's even cooler  :D  I've read this somewhere else b4 but 4got...did u invent the noxter or have they been mentioned somewhere else? In any episodes?


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on September 05, 2003, 10:32:06 PM
will the noxter have active/passive embryo's or only one embryo like the zerg in starcraft, which can mutate into every unit ? :blink:

do they need dilithium/tritanium or that bio stuff 8472 used ?

i'm info-greedy  :badgrin:  :lol:  


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 05, 2003, 11:53:05 PM
nope, the noxter are an invention for the Fleet Operations universe :) also they have added some creatures to their swarm which are know from star trek episodes (for example the macro virus from voyager)

The breeder (the basic unit, some kind of starbase if you want so) produces larvas, which can evolve to most units and 'stations'. some units or Ästations' can evolve to other organisms, too, but the larva is the basic of all :) yep, similar to the zerg from Starcraft

They harvest dilithium and tritanium like most other races


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on September 07, 2003, 12:57:54 AM
Maby they could use spores to bombard colonies

And what is the ship that the pic is looking at and the huge one in the background in this pic http://www.gamingfiles.com/network/links.b...yebye?link=1915 (http://www.gamingfiles.com/network/links.byebye?link=1915)


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 07, 2003, 10:26:54 AM
you link leads to the main page :)

dou you mean
(http://fleetops.greentworld.com/gallery/gal/Ingame/Noxter/rompb212.jpg)

The organism the picture is looking at is a noxter nest, a "tech organism" which is some kind of science station for the noxter, but is mobile. It can evolve to most other "tech organisms" which allow you to create new "vessels"

The large organism in the back is nothing else but the breeder, which is one of the mother entries and creates larvas to evolve new organisms and extend the swarm with them.


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on September 07, 2003, 05:07:38 PM
about the bubbling mutating animation, will it be changed or is the original used in beta2+ ?


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on September 13, 2003, 07:04:19 AM
Breeders are Big

and the "Nest" is Creepy :badgrin:


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 13, 2003, 09:36:46 AM
on this development screenshot you can see the old a2 evolution cocoons (used by species8472). the noxer eggs will look different in beta2, but i did them yesterday so they cann't be on this screenshot :D


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on September 14, 2003, 06:34:12 AM
Can you post a picture of the largest noxter "ship" to drive us crazy for beta2


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 14, 2003, 10:01:41 AM
(http://www.borgcore.de/outerspace/shit/ursidik.jpg)
Noxter Ursidik

The Noxter don't have real 'strong' vessels like the other races (in the sense of hitpoints). The Ursidik is the strongest Noxter meele vessel.


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: chompman on September 14, 2003, 12:40:59 PM
:woot: omg this looks like a super-mega-hyper-really-big-fat-borg-kickass-weapon! :P

i like it; what (special)weapon(s) are in that thing?


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on September 21, 2003, 02:38:04 AM
can you post 1 iconian screen Optec


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 21, 2003, 08:02:13 AM
hehe :)
the iconians will come in beta3 or beta4, so there is no iconian ship or station till know :P


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on September 21, 2003, 08:14:14 PM
doh that would be nice to see what the races look like is there any pics on you rpg site???


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: Optec on September 21, 2003, 08:28:50 PM
well, to admit, there is no rpg site :) the only thing which does exist from the iconians are some sketches on a few sheets of paper and thoughts in my crazy head :)


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: NieKnight on September 21, 2003, 08:32:11 PM
o ok then could u place a usb cable into the back of your head and show us them please???


Title: 14 Noxter Screenshots
Post by: 8472pinkblobs on September 21, 2003, 08:35:33 PM
lol :lol: