Era's

posted on October 2nd, 2004, 9:24 am

how about programming in era's ?

go's something like this :

Early Era :

Races : Feds, Klingons, Roms
Fed ships :

Oberth (scout), Miranda (Destroyer), Constellation (Heavy Destroyer), Constitution (Battleship), Excelsior (Dreadnought)

Stations would look about the same only for the feds the Outpost would be replaced by a starbase in the late era

Klingon Ships :

Bird of Prey (B'rel class scout/frigate), D7 (Battleship) and some other ships wich I not have thought of right now since i'm not to fermiliar with klingon ships thru the ages

Rom ships :

euhh...someone enlighten me? ^_^

Middle Era:

races : fed, kling, rom, borg
Fed ships :

Miranda Class (scout), Constellation Class (destroyer), Constitution Class (heavy destroyer), Excelsior class (battleship), Ambassador Class (dreadnought)

Klingon ships :

B'rel (scout), d7 (destroyer)..etc

late era :

Nova class (scout), Saber class (Frigate), Akira Class (destroyer), Defiant Class (Heavy Destroyer), Intriped Class (Heavy Cruiser), Galaxy Class (Battlecruiser), Sovereign Class (Dreadnought), steamrunner class (artillery)

well something like that, its just a thought

posted on October 2nd, 2004, 10:04 am

Well cause the Fleet Operations multiplayer part you are currently playing is based on the Fleet Operations storyline (which will hopefully be in a single player campaign some day) the time where Fleet Operations takes places is quite fixed (between 2379 and 2390). Therefore the races have been designed to fit that period of time (the Federation does no longer build new Miranda or Galaxy class vessels in this days).

We have no plans to add such a era-mode for multiplayer, also you may jump back in time in some missions of the campaign (if there will ever be one).
In multiplayer you will be able to find old vessels like miranda class vessels in special "starship graveyards" where you can board them and repair them up to their former beauty

Visit this topic for a discussion about space derelicts in multiplayer

posted on October 2nd, 2004, 5:19 pm

The Miranda class vessel wasent being built in the motion picture...The thing is it was being used (like the Excelsior), in the Dominion war so apparently their pretty durable.

In short, if you don't put stuff in I want you to put in, imma kill you

posted on October 2nd, 2004, 6:24 pm

i realy like this idea.

posted on October 2nd, 2004, 7:20 pm

it could always be a 3rd party addin?

posted on October 3rd, 2004, 12:41 pm

i can only provide idea's, can't mod myself

[Atlantis]

posted on October 4th, 2004, 7:37 pm

Last edited by Atlantis on October 4th, 2004, 7:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Other mod teams have experimented with multi-era stuff. Never works very well, too awkward. You always end up with so many leftover stations and ships form older eras. Best off really just either adding such ships in yourself (not recommended really, no MP or support), or getting different mods for different eras. I know of quite a few mods for the TOS and TMP eras (other than my own).

NB: Constellation is a lot more powerful, and newer, than the Constitution class.

[Cmd.Paul]

posted on October 4th, 2004, 9:44 pm

Last edited by Cmd.Paul on October 4th, 2004, 9:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

NB: Constellation is a lot more powerful, and newer, than the Constitution class.

i know it's alot newer, wich makes it obviously more powerfull, however the constellation has the roll of destroyer or heavy destroyer and the constitution as a heavy cruiser/battleship

and with the era thing, I kinda ment that you could choose in the beginning what era you wanted to play just like you choose how much minerals you want