Character Abilitys

posted on January 17th, 2004, 9:24 pm

okay,some fo you may not understand this so if you do not understand, just tell me. okay here goes:

you have a window which has different characters in it with all there stats
stats would be something like:
out of 10
attacking: 7/10
repair: 5/10
navigation skills 6/10
leadership: 3/10

you would then buy one of the charcters which you think would be best and put the character into a ship (preferabbly one that says that they are best at). The stats that they have will then show in there performance. for example: if there in combat he would be good and most likely win as he has stats of 7/10 so his tactics are good. if they were trying to allie with another race or the crew go on strike for his lack of food he gives then he would not be very good as he only has 3/10.

this is preety much it,but i may remember stuff and then put it in at a later state so if you have any more ideas or like then just say what you think.

posted on January 17th, 2004, 9:29 pm

yep sounds interesting for a neutral building. i will se what i can do for a laer beta

posted on January 17th, 2004, 9:36 pm

excellent, i hope it works

posted on January 17th, 2004, 10:20 pm

kind of like the game Conquest Frontier Wars.... that used a hero system similiar to what you're talking about. You could build anyone of the heros used from the campaign and they would start off in there personal shuttle looking thing. Then you could put it into any ship and it would be a stronger version of the ship than usual, and you could add other ships to the heros group to make a fleet of ships with the added specs.

posted on January 17th, 2004, 10:21 pm

nice idea

in a little bit different way, the avatars go in into this direction

Lets see how it can be transfer to Fleetops

posted on January 17th, 2004, 10:24 pm

yeah i think quite a few games use a similar sort of system to what i am talknig about but i think it may bring just that little bit more fun to the game.

posted on January 18th, 2004, 3:40 am

It would be interesting if not too confusing.

posted on January 18th, 2004, 1:46 pm

nah,i don't think it would be that confusing and even if it was it would not be put into one of the games

posted on January 18th, 2004, 6:34 pm

We can hope...speaking of Frontier wars I need to go find a copy somewhere-played a demo game the other day for 4 and a half hours.

posted on January 18th, 2004, 10:01 pm

is it good then?

[Optec]

posted on January 18th, 2004, 10:12 pm

Last edited by Optec on January 18th, 2004, 10:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

if these captains will be doable (for beta4 i think) they won't be available on every map. they will work like the following:
you find a neutral.. space tavern or something. there you chose a captain you wont to hire. then you chose the vessel you wont to place him on. these vessel will now have all the bonuses he grants for the rest of the game, since it gets destroyed. if it gets destroyed the captain will die too (well of coruse he will escape in an escape pod and be available to be hired again )

posted on January 19th, 2004, 2:47 am

Heh, instead of just stat bounuses ciuldent they also bring special weapons or weapon upgrades such as the ship would normaly have photons but with "dude1" as captain it would have quantum torpedos.

posted on January 19th, 2004, 4:07 pm

yes i like the idea cts006, and i liek what you could do with it optec its just about how i would imagine it

posted on January 21st, 2004, 3:21 am

That's almost exactly the way Frontier Wars is played. With an admiral aboard the ship, it increases the ships weapons, and other ships can join it in a fleet. For Frontier Wars, the admiral's personal shuttle had separate icons on what it could do or join, and those options would change dependent on whether it boards a bigger ship, or forms a fleet. Along with that, not only does the ship with the admiral aboard get a bonus, but the ships that you choose to put in the Admiral's fleet also get a bonus....
I will try to find some pictures for those of you who need to see what I'm talking about. But I like that system alot, and I would think it be great if it can be applied in a similar way to "Flops".

posted on January 21st, 2004, 4:09 pm

cool,i liek that but if we did do that. would it not be copyright