Escape Pods

posted on July 2nd, 2011, 8:52 pm

There are rarely that many officers or vets dying at once,so I dont think there would be much of a resource problem with tiny ships appearing suddenly every now and then besides enormous fleet battles that you won't see often (in which case I think explosion lag is a far greater concern.) We could perhaps even have each ship launch multiple pods (one per rank minus two starting at officer, every two pods collected gives a ship one rank.)

posted on July 2nd, 2011, 10:11 pm

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - FO style Pilots

Had this idea before but it got shot down  But glad to see it's more accepted this time - always thought the pilot added a nice bit of extra incentive to micro him to safety and/or have a shipc apable of towing/covering him in range. Which adds to fleet variety ^^

posted on July 3rd, 2011, 1:15 am

I was told by doca cola it's the pallgon count. There may be a other way to create escape pods with has not bean thought of and for now that is the resson why.

The concern is the game could tern in to a sication like "homeworld" resorse hog.

The ideas not dead just stuck.

There are rarely that many officers or vets dying at once,so I dont think there would be much of a resource problem with tiny ships appearing suddenly every now and then besides enormous fleet battles that you won't see often (in which case I think explosion lag is a far greater concern.) We could perhaps even have each ship launch multiple pods (one per rank minus two starting at officer, every two pods collected gives a ship one rank.)

posted on July 3rd, 2011, 8:16 am

If polys are a problem, for something that small wouldn't a sprite work just as well?

posted on July 3rd, 2011, 2:35 pm

Polygons aren't a problem here . A similar idea exists on the internal list, but will not come anytime soon.