Early Commission

posted on August 19th, 2010, 8:13 pm

i already raised this a few weeks ago, the idea is heard lol.

Must have missed that.

The other day I had two warpins with Galaxys and Ambassadors. Imagine they'd have been veterans  :kid:
I'm all for it just for the fun of warping ships in until I would have a free vet fleet 

Well, you would want them to not be at rank 5 or 6, so they could warp in at any rank between 1 and 5.  These ships could have minor to large amounts of damage as well.  I don't know how to get them to randomly have damage, but you could just write a few more odfs and add them to the warpin pool, each of which could have any number of duplicates which were at different ranks, and with different amounts of damage. 

posted on August 19th, 2010, 9:47 pm

my suggestion had the warpins being from ranks 1, 2 and 3 only. anything that is officer rank would already be assigned to more important stuff.

posted on August 19th, 2010, 10:14 pm

Yeah, I suppose.  I still like the idea of them not all having perfect health though, it would help them to not be too much more op than they already are

posted on August 20th, 2010, 7:33 am

Actually in my personal mod I have something very like this, for my Centauri. Normal ships that you build (Centauri Royal Navy) or ships you warp in from the Navy come in at rank 2, but "inexperienced" (cheap) ships that you warp in from the House Fleets (local militia) are rank 1, and it takes quite a long while to rank up to rank 2. An extra rank could be added to counter the "loss" of a normal rank.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 11:28 am

how about just remove the passives, reduce sensor range and reduce the crew on those incomplete ships. Also add a button that says "complete the ship for cost bla bla bla" (but ofourse, make the uncomplete ship and the completion together a bit more expensive than simple building a complete ship). the show stated that the ships used in dom war were at least combat ready (even the incomplete galaxys) but didnt have any science stations and so on.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:11 pm

That would work too.  these are all good ideas

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:34 pm

my suggestion had the warpins being from ranks 1, 2 and 3 only. anything that is officer rank would already be assigned to more important stuff.

Don't mean to go off topic, but maybe SFC would be upgradeable, the the upgrades meaning you have increased chances of getting higher ranked ships.

Say level 1 you mainly get 1s and a couple of twos. Level two you could get some 3s and 2s more likely, level three you cant get ones anymore etc. Might be fun.

Back on topic, I think this would be a cool ability for klingons, or give the klingons an ability to build certain ships instantly, but have them be destroyed after some amount of time, probably between 2 and 7 minutes, something like that.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:41 pm

When i see "early commission" i envision the federation Frankenstein fleet.