Anti-Photons ;-)

posted on March 21st, 2009, 4:07 am

hmm well thats not where i looked. I guess it could be considered one but i was more wondering about something in subspace. Also it cannot fire while phased cloaked which was another one of my questions.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 4:11 am

Also it cannot fire while phased cloaked which was another one of my questions.

That's what they said about normal cloaks.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 4:15 am

That's what they said about normal cloaks.

Well it would have to be some kind of phased torpedo that would drop out of phased cloak at a set time . It could make for a very deadly weapon. (eg phase cloak a torpedo into engineering) so while possible it would be very expensive, because in order to do that (i think) you would also have to fit the torp with a phase cloaking device.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 4:18 am

Would make a good Anti-Borg or last resort weapon.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 4:26 am

Thats of couse if we were going to use it. but as long as we are the torp should be a special weapon and capable of seriously damaging vessels but it should cost di and ti and maybe some supply to fire it.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 6:20 am

We should rename FO to PO...Physics Operations.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 6:26 am

nah i still like the game but lately we need a reason for why everything works the way it does.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 8:30 am

I agree, this was a fun topic to lurk in. ahah.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 5:49 pm

Latly? I think that should be like that eversince. For a long time StarTrek has not been breaking with physics, except it was really necessary, like Warp and Beaming. That was, what discerned StarTrek from e.g. Star Wars. That is what discerns SciFi from Phantasy. The SciFi environment is an possible outlook on the future, whereas a Phantasy-environment is just created to host an adventurous story, that wouldn't be possible in an realistic universe. Possible outlook on the future means that everything is possible, which doesn't lead to logical inconsistencies or is contrary to the recent universe.

At the moment StarTrek ranges somewhere between these extrema, and FO with it. Nevertheless it is an sustainable position to keep the FO-environment closer to SciFi than to Phantasy.

In my very personnal point of view, moving further towards Phantasy by incorporating unrealistic things to the game, takes away much of FO's reputation as SciFi-game. Thus some people like me will always be questioning features from the physical aspects.

Not in the least I think the game should evolve into one side exclusivly! I'd really like to know, which direction is preferred by the FO-team, as they are the ones who will decide it. If they want to introduce SciFi-reputable features, they just should not to be discussed for balancing issues only.

posted on March 22nd, 2009, 1:41 am

We do usually try to cover our new invented technology with either todays real science (or interessting science articles, where i took the anti-photons from in the first place) or on StarTrek technology.

It never collided with balancing till now, as a balancing element, lets say a special weapon that knocks out a subsystem, can have a lot of explanations, like a EMP-like weapon, a special precise snipering torpedo or magic missiles, rank 2.

posted on March 22nd, 2009, 3:32 am

Don't forget that you can grab a hunk of crystal and a metal piece of bed, to make a laser-phaser gun, and shoot 'em in the head!

posted on March 22nd, 2009, 4:37 am

doesn't kirk make a phaser in one episode? i don't exactly remember how it went.

posted on March 22nd, 2009, 6:56 am

Yep.  And he also made a cannon out of a diamond, a tube of some sort, and some rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2v6rXs5J9M

The link is 'The USS Make Shit Up' by Voltaire, off his album 'Banned on Vulcan'.  In the song, he's making cracks about Star Trek violating their own rules of science for plot-points.  It also proves that he's an obsessive Trekkie, but that's beside the point.  The first part is him mocking the creation of the phaser out of crystal and bed.