Building A Flagship

posted on October 20th, 2004, 4:04 pm

This might not be possible nor desireable in a RTS environment. But what if, near the end third of the game, players could build a flagship for the fleet. This would be one, very powerful ship that has, say, four or five times the ability of other vehicles. It also has access to many of the special functions (if previosuly researched) that had been distributed on other vehicles.

I think this would be the equivelant of the Sovereign class Enterprise, a huge investment that would not enable a whole fleet of them, but that could do a lot of things.

It would also break up the gameplay a bit, I think for the better.

Some even less logical variations:
> When one side builds their flagship, every side gets one (the rationale being, I suppose, that the empire coughs one up when another side does, sort of a balance of power thing).
> Every five minutes (or whatever) the weakest team gets one.

[Detektor]

posted on October 20th, 2004, 4:28 pm

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we have already planed something in that direction for V4

posted on October 20th, 2004, 9:09 pm

I like the idea, but perhaps more in the lines of selecting a ship to be the flagship, thus eliminating the possibility of having more than one flagship

this flagship would gain some bonuses and tactical advantages, like stronger weapons and shields, perhaps the torpedo beaming

no but seriously, that sounds more logical to me

[Fullphaser]

posted on October 20th, 2004, 10:23 pm

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Mabey make it and odf where there is a special weapon on say for the feds starfleet command which is a one time use beam over (Actually a special weapon) much like the Armada 1&2 tal shiar spy that you pick a ship and it beams over and can only be ridded by repairing the ship and mabey modify that odf to be a one time use that gives the ship some sort of increased fire rate or like a permanent klingon battlecry of sorts.

Or Mabey With the New avatar feautre each avatar has its own unique insta build hero ship that require over half the credits so it would only be buildable once

posted on October 21st, 2004, 7:42 am

we are playing with the idea of a hero ship some time now. using half the credits sounds like a deal but don't expect a change in this direction with the upcoming version but more one of the later versions of fleet operations then

DOCa Cola

posted on October 23rd, 2004, 4:15 am

Doca Cola, a bit off-topic, but why are you called the meanie admin?

posted on October 23rd, 2004, 6:08 am

Because he deletes peoples homepage links and puts most of their name in lower case without permission from the member.

posted on October 25th, 2004, 5:11 am

oh.....thats not mean.....thats just plain rude