Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Hi there :)

Todays newspost is about a larger change of the possibilities to defend your bases in v3.
We took a closer look to how defence stations, platforms and turrets worked in the PR and decided to give them a little more depth. Therefore most races got a redo of their turrets with individual changes.

The Federation, for example, does now construct a basic Platform instead of turrets or sensor stations. This Platform does then contain mutliple construction options to be extended into a Defence Platform or a Sensor Station. A new "Phaser Platform", a early-game medium range turret made it into the game this way, too.

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"You have entered Federation space!"

Other races will of course feature different turret systems. Romulan turrets may now cloak, making the Cloaking Generator a little more attractive and Klingon have been sighted to put more and more armor plates on their stations.

Nice idea, but will you be able to build it instantly to a certain upgrade, because it tents to be annoying if you build a lot of turrets and you have to upgrade them all. Off course you had too build a prototype first.

Wow.  This looks good.

However, Krael has a point.  Won't it be a bit annoying to upgrade?  You have to keep in mind that the player is busy mircoing as well.  :sweatdrop:

that sounds great. and yeah i to have to agree resurching the new options would stink. but if they were tied  to something else.  like you get photon turrets at level two weapons.

Looks great.  I too worry a bit about having to go through each turret as I build turrets and then upgrade them. I hope the upgrade is either instanteous, or the build times have been balanced so that it works out.  But I'm sure you guys have already looked into this in terms of balancing. 
And btw, I like the light blue behind the wireframe image.  Gives it a nice look to it.   :thumbsup:

Maybe upgrades for turrets will cost enough that you're only likely to upgrade a few every once in a while.

Oh, and why would long build times make things more difficult?  You still just click on a button when you want to upgrade either way.

Sounds like a neat idea. Fed sorta reminds me of the component towers off of Tiberian sun (ah the memories ^-^). I'm guessing Admrail Mayson will have an additional "Torpedo turret" upgrade option instead of the old standalone turret. I certainly look foward to seeing them have more of a role; i couldn't help but think they were too weak in 3PR (they even struggled with the basic destroyers).

Out of interest, will the Borg have an Auto Assimilator or Holding Beam turret?

Krael did make a very good point though; it might be annoying for a Fed player to have to go back and upgrade the turrets one by one while everyone else can just tell it to build and then leave it. I don't know what to suggest except maybe making the pulse phaser turret the basic platform, and then having the upgrades replace that instead of a basic platform.

Is there a way to be able to select more than one turret and upgrade it?

Kinda like the romulan ships? i bet there could be.
i like t-mans idea, a basic setting at first.

Yeah, like the Romulan ships.  And many other kinds of turrets in many other games.

Looks cool. With thare be a new station with mixed tech?

[F-I-I]VAdm-MJP gets a donater logo.....

ewm90

Hey look at that i do!! Kicking!
I donated a while ago, it's on the home page. Matthew J Pulaskee (MJP)

Awesome.  I haven't donated because I've never had the need to get a credit account or paypal.

lol i need'em, got bills to pay and the internet is oh so much faster, and the hole need computer parts some times.

Haven't moved out quite yet, but when I do I'm sure that the internet will come in quite handy.  :lol:

Yep, turrets can now be selected similar to normal vessels (a doubleclick for example selects all visible platforms allowing you to upgrade them all with one click :)

Admiral Maysons Torpedo Platform is now an upgradeoption, too. The Torpedo Platform got a little more powerful for v3 :)

mean you outside also is changes?
or it only the strength of the torpedo platform?

:ph34r:---edit---
I have missed the train.
about the post : Hold your ground
is there now three torpedo platform??

Will it select WITH normal vessels?  I don't think anyone wants to select a group and then come up with 11 ships... and 5 turrets.  Having to ctrl-click them out would not be fun.

double clicking on a vessel selects all vessels on screen of that type

I mean the click-and-drag method.  Would they be selected as well as ships?

Yep  ^-^

Is there any way to avoid that?  I have no intention of sending my turrets into the enemy base, so I can see potential problems with the selectability.

i will have a look at it :)

Thanks, Optec.  :D

i like the auto assimilator turret idea

but it has to have more than that, plasma cannons too

Maybe an avatar bonus?

Turrets looking good Optec! :thumbsup:

i'll stick to my build ships instead of turrets tactic; map control and building up pressure is more important than anything else.

Aye, just avoid leaving your base open to ambushes.

Really taking modular technologies to the next level aren't cha'.  :D Do you think this maybe expanded upon? For an example the nebula swaping its science gear for extra weapons, or something like "modify ship with extra phasers". Perhaps you could let NPC buildings mod ships. For an example a romulan goes to an Hirogen facility and that facility can refit the ship with hunting sensors. Of this seems like alot there could be an "Advanced Game" option.

Thanks For Reading

well for that i have scouts/sensors and a defending array of ships; and if i hit him first and take out his starbase or research stuff - ouchie;

advanced game option means 1000 more days until v3 release
great idea, if all of activision was working on it
then again they would mess it up

lol, if Activision were doing FO we'd all be screwed.

activision Doca- YOU KIDS QUIT YOUR COMPLANING! THE GAME GETS OUT WHEN IT GETS OUT!
us- :whistling:

Heh, Activision has no problem pumping games out.  It's making them worthwhile that they seem to suck at.

so v3 tomorrow but its worse than stock a2 :sweatdrop:crap :sweatdrop:

Yup.  :D

this really is the best mod for a2.
there are so many people getting it to.
i was looking throught the forum and found a thread that said 50,000 downloads!
just from this site not even mirrors!
and who knows how long ago that thread was

Heh, there are many official games that don't sell that many copies.

that incudes legacrap if you factor in returns :lol:

Yeah, but only if you count the donations to goodwill & the Salvation Army...

the donations were returned in exchanged for cash.
what can a homeless man do with a POS video game but sell it and buy drugs or alchohol!?

I didn't say that they were boughten...  :lol:

they were used as firewood

Actually, they roofed houses with the disks.

no! those were portapottys!

Oh, so that explains the shiny portapotties I've been seeing!

Very Good Idea, but I'm not sure if a Romulan Turret can cloak? I've never seen a Romulan turret cloak before. I don't think it's possible for any station to cloak.

What would be the borg turret? :borg:

Borg nanoprobe launcher  :borg: