Bringing Planets Back?

posted on June 11th, 2004, 4:51 am

Nobody quoted me even tho I said most of the things you are talking about

sure?

posted on June 11th, 2004, 5:24 am

Yes...

posted on June 11th, 2004, 1:12 pm

dont quote me but i think optec and Doca will bring planets back in if theres something special that can be done with them also wit trading

dont quote me on that we were talking about it on irc

yea, thats what we said

DOCa Cola

posted on June 11th, 2004, 5:57 pm

I would have them just for guns, like the Cardassian defenses during the Chin'toka invasion during DS9. Of course resources and crew would come with them. It would make more sense having a colony ship that beamed things down instead of actually landing. I wouldn't mind having planets back with a few or all of these things

I said a few things too...

posted on June 11th, 2004, 6:56 pm

will there be defences (not just shields) on the planets? and can you assign them to players and they give a line of site?

posted on June 11th, 2004, 8:15 pm

good idea that would be great!

posted on June 11th, 2004, 8:26 pm

The thought if putting a shield around a planet thousands of miles circumference is laughable. The Phaser should do unless we can put ablative armor around a planet

posted on June 11th, 2004, 10:44 pm

lol mini dyson spheres!

[Atlantis]

posted on June 13th, 2004, 10:06 am

Last edited by Atlantis on June 13th, 2004, 10:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

Planetary Shielding. Laughable yes, but canon yes.

"Starfleet Dynamics" Tech Manual

Defence System Tier, circa 2285.

Maximum/Active (Terra)
As the home of the Human species, the Federation, and Starfleet Headquarters, it was recognised that Terra was a prime military target. As such, she has defences equaled be few other worlds.
- Planetary Force-field
- 500+ City Force-fields
- Orbital and Lunar Active/Defence Stations
- Interceptor Fleet

Maximum/Passive (Vulcan)
Reflecting an ancient heritage of non-violence, Vulcan leaders flatly rejected the concept of defence-through-force. They were convinced to accept purely passive defence only after an appeal from other Federation worlds.
- Planetary Force-field
- 250+ City Force-fields
- Orbital Passive/Defence Stations

Optimum/Active (Argelius)
Possessing only moderate economicand technological strengths, Argelius elected to utilise what active defences it could afford - manned by hired outworlders (mostly ex-marine veterans).
- 90+ City Force-fields
- Orbital Active/Defence Stations

Optimum/Passive (Colony 4)
Earth Colony 4, a pacifistic culture built by Buddhist Chinese and relatively resource-poor, chose an inexpensive, passive system.
- 37 City Force-fields

Minimum/Active (Zeta-9)
Only recently admitted to the Federation, Zeta-9 has only possessed spaceflight and nuclear power for a few decades. It chose to invest in a minimum, self-built active system.
- Interceptor Fleet

So as you can see, there are different ways to defend the planets. It seems planetary shielding is practical, but expensive.

If planetary shielding is brought back, perhaps different types could be used....?

PS: I just also read that said shielding (the planetary ones) are designed not to absorb weapons (although they can take on a few shots), theyre more designed to block transporters and sensors, to the enemy can't target. It has many generators on the equator.
The city force-fields are proper shields though, i think.

posted on June 13th, 2004, 12:23 pm

A simple no would have done...

posted on June 13th, 2004, 4:51 pm

Wrong again. Put simply, my post was a "yes" to the thread.

Try reading it next time, bud.

posted on June 13th, 2004, 8:12 pm

mh, i never thought there were planetary shieldings in star trek.

there won't be colonization in Fleet Operations. i really don't like the idea of shooting your crew on a wild planet ^_^
but many people requested to bring planets back to the game. i have some ideas to implement them along with the neutral stations for version 4.0 or later. let's see to it

posted on June 13th, 2004, 9:35 pm

well... shootin crews on planets... maybe the animation could be fixed.. that the ships really begin to land on planets...

posted on June 13th, 2004, 9:37 pm

what kind of planets can we look foward to in fo3? can we have nameable planets and planets which can be assigned to people, also will there be suns in fo3 i am getting fed up of using loads of red nebulars to make a fake sun (it works really well though!)

any ideas yet?

posted on June 13th, 2004, 9:52 pm

yep, till now i made 2 suns for version 3.0 - a red one and a "dead star" blue sun. there will be a few new planets to, but they will be the same as the beta 2 planets