A very, very Distant idea (like version 5.0 or something)

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 4:24 pm

Okay, I have a very distant idea that could work for 5.0 or what ever. So don't just criicize because it could happen! I was thinking of where you can choose your Century in which you play your race as. Here is a list of the eras that could be put in...

23rd Century (NTOS, TOS, TMP)

24th Century (TNG, DS9, VOY, SOV)

25th Century (Future Era)

This era choice is made when setting up the game in the game menu. This would define your Admirals, your Tech tree, the strength of your ships, and resource efficiency. With this option you could almost never go wrong because it allows people to enjoy whatever era they want! 

The 25th Century techtree is currently being schetched. I'll post it here when concept is finalized.

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 4:37 pm

This has actually been proposed several times before, but the FO team has already stated that it is highly unlikely (I think they actually stated they had no plans for this option). First off, it would basically be Federation centric... and there are 7 other races to think off. You'd have to have different balancing and weapons etc for each century, which I imagine would be extremely difficult, not to mention nearly unplayable for the smallish FO community (I can see it now: "so do you want to play 25th century? Naaah, I only play 24th.").

By no means let this discourage you, but I highly doubt that this can ever be implemented satisfactorily.

posted on June 8th, 2009, 2:21 pm

Here is what I got for the 25th Century era so far. How good is it? I've got the Feds, Klingons, and Roms done.

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posted on June 8th, 2009, 3:05 pm

interesting ideas, i like the way that you catagorized the weapons but i could do without the galaxy x. Also im not crazy about the klingon dread (it seems to have lost the Klingon feel), i think you should replace it with the heart of kaless or something along those lines

posted on June 8th, 2009, 3:09 pm

the game cant support ears as far as i know and would just make disputes and too much work, best to keep things simple and focus on making best game with what got now

in this case "we will not adapt" 

posted on June 8th, 2009, 3:15 pm

That is why it is for a very distant version (hence the title). It could, or not happen. We'll see with the course of the future. So, just keep this alive long enough and maybe something can come out of this... there is no harm in thinking or trying. 

posted on June 8th, 2009, 7:15 pm

It can support eras just not in the way that you might think all you have to do is set up various tech-tree files that have different ships based on the era you pick.

posted on August 17th, 2009, 12:03 am

It would be incredibly annoying to create but how about just make 2 more versions of fleet op. Each version would be a different era.

posted on August 17th, 2009, 4:00 am

I would love to see a TOS era version of this mod but I can completely understand it being a really difficult and time consuming so I am not going to push for it or anything but should it happen I will really excited.