Alliance race

posted on August 31st, 2007, 10:22 pm

what I would like to see is an alliance race because we don't have much to go on you could have like the breen, tholians, feringe, remans and others in as one race in like an alliance of lots of sub races that would be one of the coolest things in the game like on race made of many because we don't have the amount of stuff we need to make them into one complete race.

the same design of ships like you have a feringe starbase and a Tholian mining yard, weapon research made by the breen but it affects all "alliance" ships and an alliance ship yard that builds all each races ships and well you get the idea

posted on August 31st, 2007, 10:24 pm

they are going to be placeable objects stations and ships.  we already have two new races to work on: the ciadan and iconians

posted on August 31st, 2007, 10:39 pm

I race cobbled together from all the cool guys who we can't manage to fit in otherwise just seems kinda... unprofessional... 

posted on September 1st, 2007, 5:41 am

unprofessional... 

That was the word I was looking for.
Star Trek is not B5 and that's why "races" like the League of B5 - which actually is more a faction than a race - would hardly work. As much as I liked the B5 mod für A2 I got my problems with the League because it's a bit weird to build a Narn-vessel in a Drakiri-yard - or something like that at last.
Most of the races which don't have enough stuff to make them a race for their own will appear as non-playable races and I think it's fine this way. I never liked the idea of a Ferengi-armada kicking the Klingons' back-parts...
It simply would not have happend in Star Trek.
Bringing other races into the game by making them a non-player-race because we don't have enough stuff to make them a full race - that's what I consider a pretty professional solution to have those races at all!

posted on September 1st, 2007, 7:47 pm

B5 did have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, but they were a contradiction in terms because in being a 'league' they were in fact aligned.  However, they each supported an independent military.

I'm not even sure they always defended each other, as when the Drazi got into a war with the Centauri, I don't remember the other Non-Aligned Worlds putting their buts on the line for their allies.

Still, this alliance was already established, so it would be permissible to put in game.  Making up an alliance just for the sake of a game is a different matter.

posted on October 13th, 2007, 10:52 pm

Here is my 2 cents worth  for  the ideas on  Alliances. Think "OrionPirates"  from the  The  Original Series. Shurely there are Crime syndicates  who still exist and thrive by Piratacy. soo as for the races  type ships the would have  every  flavor of ship that the could steal or from shipyards  they  took over . a  sugestion for the allliace would be  the Lokie, a derivative of the  of the Terran word  from Norse mythology LOKI  ,

posted on October 14th, 2007, 3:24 am

...this sort of thing though is not really a major race. If they were to be added, they would probably be map specific or npc (activated at menu) at the most. If we let in one of these really small confederations, what is stop other ones from being made: most notably the Son'a or ....
I think we are best served by only using huge races like the Borg or Feds or... you know what I mean