Escape Pods

posted on April 14th, 2009, 7:56 pm

NAme sorta speaks for itself, but anyway: The escape pod ability would be unique to the Federation, as the Borg can easily replace their casualties ( ), Dom is same, Roms don't care, and Klings want their crew to die. Escape Pods would be a Replaceweapon weapon that, when launched, would go to the nearest yard for the vessel to be rebuilt with the same class and rank. I will write more later.

posted on April 14th, 2009, 8:06 pm

But the crew in escape pods do not merely imply a recreation of their ships. in many cases the crew are reassigned.
I would find this feature to be good if we had crew as an actual resource that would need to be salvageable.

Also, there should be a ship at the ready to actually retrieve them.

moreover, to be realistic, the enemy ships will just as easily destroy the escape pods before anyone picks them up creating a sort of rush to salvage them and return the survivors to the pool.

sounds a bit more of resource management and reuse but may be cool if implemented well for the feds.

posted on April 14th, 2009, 11:16 pm

Escape pods would probably end up being too much hassle for use on every ship.

However they could be cool in the case of veteran/hero ships. For example if your hero ship (or just high ranked ship, not necessarily a hero) was destroyed rather than using the pod to replace the lost vessel with an identical one/reclaim resources you could use it to transfer some of the experience of the lost vessel, or possibly its hero status, to another ship (in real terms moving the experienced officers to another ship).

I dont know whether that would actually be possible, but seems to me the only practical use for escape pods now the crew resource is gone.

posted on April 14th, 2009, 11:20 pm

Well, you could use them to regain supply .

posted on April 15th, 2009, 6:52 am

true true, but how would you select them, they would be so small

posted on April 15th, 2009, 3:15 pm

You wouldn't. They would launch, go a bit, and decomission.

posted on April 17th, 2009, 1:29 am

mabye the pods go to the nearst ship of the same class and it gains the rank of the ship that was destroyed... thoughts?

posted on April 17th, 2009, 2:09 am

that would be cool if it gave that its new ship "Inside knowledge" about the race that destroyed it.  Maybe like Borg adaptation.