Buildable Heroes?!?

posted on March 8th, 2010, 1:31 am

I think it would be cool if you guys made a special ship yard, that would "Warp In" a Hero ship, have several heroes to choose from different heroes to choose from, but allowing only like 3-5 heroes per player at a time...

Suggestions/Examples

Federation
USS Enterprise-E (Capt. Picard)
USS Titan (Capt. Riker)
USS Defiant (Capt. Sisko)
USS Avenger (Cmdr. Worf) (As seen in Armada 1)
Future Enterprise (Adm. Riker)

Klingon
IKS BortaS (Vor'cha) (Gowron)
IKS Sword of Kahless (Negh'Var)(Chancellor Martok)
IKS Hegh'ta (Bird of Prey) (Capt. Kurn)

Romulan
Scimitar (Shinzon)
IRW Valdore (Donatra)
IRW Khazara (Toreth)

Dominion

USS Defiant (Kudak'Etan)

Borg

Borg Queen's Sphere
Locutus' Cube

posted on March 8th, 2010, 1:38 am

Well I'm pretty sure they've decided long ago that Hero ships would not be a part of "Skirmishes" lik multiplayer and instant action.

  I think they said that Hero ships might be present in their vaunted campaign, but given how much work there is to do just balancing the 5 factions we have now, I wouldn't count on a campaign soon.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 1:41 am

Yeah, the devs said no heroes.

But I love your idea.   Really cool concept.

btw, Welcome to the forums!(And love the avatar Soulwolf...sweet.)

posted on March 8th, 2010, 1:43 am

I personally think the campaign will be one of the last things going in, because the point of FO in fact is Multiplayer.

Also the heroes for the campaign should be believable and I tend to think they are going to be represented by the avatars, so you will probably get the Tavara which is commanded by Mijural, or an Excelsior-II commanded by Admiral Mayson and so on.

Just for fun: I think Picard would barely make it that long in Starfleet, Sisko is probably still "living in the wormhole" and Riker is probably dead because he didn't give the order to remodulate shields.  :woot:

posted on March 8th, 2010, 12:43 pm

Heroes aren't needed because we have veterans.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 1:39 pm

but assigning Picard to a vet Soverign could be interesting...

posted on March 8th, 2010, 2:27 pm

I think they have ideas for heroes (or generals, admirals,..) for MP too. Though I doubt its going to be as simple as building them. If there's one thing the FO team never does, is keep things simple

Also about some of those I think are planned for the Mercineary system (Schimitar).

How long away those 2 systems are to be completed is a different matter all together though. It probably depends where they will shift their attention next, but I wouldnt hold my breath for too long, seeing as race redos are probably comming next

Btw, could u REALLY not make up a better hero for the Dominion? :S USS Defiant, really? 

posted on March 8th, 2010, 2:33 pm

What about, "Founders Yacht"

or even something to do with Odo,   "Odo's Dreadnought" 

posted on March 8th, 2010, 2:37 pm

I'd rather the voice issue got sorted: Picards Sovereign taken, everyone killed, Picards Sovereign retaken, Picard comes back to life...

posted on March 8th, 2010, 4:26 pm

I'd rather the voice issue got sorted: Picards Sovereign taken, everyone killed, Picards Sovereign retaken, Picard comes back to life...

While being boarded Picard hid on the enemy ship and somehow when recaptured he made it back on board

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:32 pm

tw, could u REALLY not make up a better hero for the Dominion? :S USS Defiant, really? 

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posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:35 pm

Well aside from the fact that we have veterans, not 'hero ships'; i see a problem with the fact that you have Picard listed as commander of the Enterprise and Locutus as commander of a Borg cube.  :blink: what happens when both are fielded? Don't get them too close, I don't know which one is more powerful!

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:39 pm

It could always be a clone of Locutus, like in Armada I.  I would love to see hero ships in the single player campaign.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:41 pm

It could always be a clone of Locutus, like in Armada I.  I would love to see hero ships in the single player campaign.

Single player sure. I would even be extremely happy with a DOTA version of fleetops with all Hero ships.

posted on March 8th, 2010, 5:45 pm

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Cheesy

Like that for an example, yep