A Couple Questions And Requests

posted on January 15th, 2004, 3:23 am

I was curious if you have thought about have the intrepid class with armor. For some reason I always thought of the intrepid as a powerful ship. Currently I feel like it has no strong purpose. An armor upgrade and a borg weapon(like in the series) that would work well against the borg. A powerful weapon with a long cool down period.

Another suggestion is Heros. Each race would have 3 or so heros (like wc3) and they could be upgraded and have special abilities. This would add extra stategy to the game and inaddition get away from the concept of massive fleets. Instead of 20 or more ships you would only have 10 or so. I feel like a cap limit would be nice for all ships not just strong ones like descent ect.

Anyways all I ask is you consider it for the future beta.
By the way do you have any idea when beta 3 will be out....

thx
shinzon

posted on January 15th, 2004, 5:38 am

it's not planned to add armor to the intrepid. Voyager - our only intrepid reference - is a unique ship which can't pe compared to the stock intrepids produced by starfleet. But from the stats of the ship in the first episodes of voyager you could think it's a frigate or a medium cruiser.

hehe. heros will - perhaps - be one of the no-longer-secret features of a future beta

the development of beta3 is hard work at the moment cause we redo most models for the federation and some other races. we want to rebalance some things. i realy can't state a release date. some of the rather sure features will be:
-new and advanced models
-new and advanced special effects (warpglow, explosions, special abilities)
-support vessels for every race which have 3 levels of special abilities
-avatars for every race as described in other topics
-the Dominion as a playable race
-the first Non Player races to face you on maps (namly the Tholians, the Breen and hopefully others)
-completly rebalanced weaponsystems
-heavy changes to booth the Borg and the Noxter

hope i didn't forget something we hope to get you beta3 as soon as possible!

Greetings,
Optec

posted on January 15th, 2004, 10:52 am

Sounds excellent Optec, can't wait!

posted on January 15th, 2004, 4:22 pm

YAY he remembers borg

posted on January 15th, 2004, 8:12 pm

If only Activison did this in the first place....Warp glows, avatars, new models...

posted on January 15th, 2004, 10:02 pm

I don't know about you guys, but I think stock Armada II is very well done...

posted on January 15th, 2004, 11:14 pm

Yesss the Dominion! Are Cardassian units going to be integrated in with the Dominion or are they just going to be an npc race?

posted on January 16th, 2004, 12:07 am

i was wandering if the current race textures will be improve for example:the defiant class has the same textures on top and bottom like in armada 1.

posted on January 16th, 2004, 3:01 am

A: will the Hirogen be their as a non player race?
B: and is the excelsior going to be one of the redone ships?

posted on January 16th, 2004, 3:22 am

I don't know about you guys, but I think stock Armada II is very well done...

well actually i kind of agree with you i installed a new stock A2 the other day and was impressed it isnt done too badly if u give it a chance and play the campaigns its ok

posted on January 16th, 2004, 5:28 am

yep armada2 isn't a bad game but it's not the kind of strategy game i like and for a successor of armada1 its weak i think

The cardassians won't be integrated in the dominion. they will be an own non playable race.
yep the hirogen will be a non playable race, but i can't promise they will come in beta3

the problem with the defiant is a problem of the model, not the texture. yep there will be booth a new model and a new texture for the defiant.
there currently is now excelsior class in flops. it's an excelsior-II class, the more modern successor. there won't be updates to this model

posted on January 16th, 2004, 11:43 am

yep armada2 isn't a bad game but it's not the kind of strategy game i like and for a successor of armada1 its weak i think

Armada II was very poor, just an expansion with strategy taken out. All the races were pretty much the same in terms of classes of units, bad storyline, and it looked worse than A1. The original was a great game, and IMHO, Fleet Ops is exactly what the sequel should have been (sans single player).

[admiral max]

posted on January 16th, 2004, 7:53 pm

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brilliant thanks for the reply (the defiant is one of my best ships so i want it to look good ) .another question will the ai be improved? for example;the klingons dont build all the classes of there fleet they only build some of the different classes they have in there posetion

[Optec]

posted on January 16th, 2004, 10:34 pm

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yep, there will be AI improvements, too

posted on January 17th, 2004, 9:15 am

on the subject of AI i have noticed that when u build a compuer base on map maker when and give it 2 miner and mining stations it only mines dil do you know why?

btw i have had the moons miles apart and they still only mine dill