Flag Ships

[Anonymous]

posted on June 9th, 2004, 2:06 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on June 9th, 2004, 2:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i was thinking, and i came up with an idea. wouldn't it be nice to have flagships, every player would pick a flagship (the ship could be changed during the game), and if you wanted to negotiate the flagships would have to meet to trade with dil,tri,crew and supplies. If the flagship is destroyed you lost all control over your ships, until you select another one, also the flagship should have the name of the player(for ex. uss hypercube ). The ship would also gain technology and improved shilding and weapons

posted on June 9th, 2004, 2:20 pm

that's really a very interesting idea. i think something similar to this can be found in a future version

posted on June 9th, 2004, 2:34 pm

thanx dude

posted on June 9th, 2004, 3:43 pm

one problem could be the player name but i will think about. something like defining your nickname and flagship name via the loader. i don't know if it works on lan games then...

DOCa Cola

[Anonymous]

posted on June 9th, 2004, 3:48 pm

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I think that flagships should be like hero ships of each avatar.
You choose avatar and get his flagship. Differen't avatar --> you get different flagship. Or something like that.

[Lt.Cdr.White]

posted on June 9th, 2004, 3:49 pm

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Isn't the player's name already a variable? You enter it before starting a game and it is used in the communications for example. So it should be usable somehow...

But I don't know the structure of Armada II, so forget what I said.

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

lol you have hundreads of soves and you chose a venture as a flag ship lol

posted on June 9th, 2004, 6:34 pm

no you would choose another ship every game stage, for example: saber,intrepid, excelsoir II ,soviereign, or whataver your best ship is every game stage.

[hyperion]

posted on June 9th, 2004, 6:46 pm

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Sort of like a hero system from warcraft 3, a cool idea, you have my support on it

But I thought you should choose a flagship from the begining and it would be very strong and it could be upgraded to carry more weapons, shields,...
example: Federation flagship could be USS enterprise and if you choose different avatar u would get the prometheus.

If you were klingon u could get martoks neghvar, and it would be much stronger than the normal neghvar,....
U get my point.

This way you could get those special ships in the game we all love and adore, without ruining the balance system

[Anonymous]

posted on June 9th, 2004, 6:58 pm

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i don't like that very much we had that in armada 1, the entrerprise was like a galaxy on steroids and so was the martoks nehvar, and locutus and sheila's warbird

posted on June 9th, 2004, 7:11 pm

They dont have to do it the same as in armada 1, think of it sort as a hero from warcraft 3, the more enemys he kills the better he becomes.
I dont see the point in choosing one of your normal vessles as a flagship , like u said in different stages of the game a different flagship this would mean that in the early part of the game u would have a ventura class ship as your flagship.
And what happens if it gets destroyed huh? what then? and u have no other combat ships to choose from

posted on June 9th, 2004, 7:48 pm

than you build one or select a mining ship

posted on June 9th, 2004, 7:52 pm

Hmh, I vote for that hero system flagship. (hyperion have described it).

posted on June 9th, 2004, 7:55 pm

yes it's a good system, but it's old, already warcraft and red alert had it, but otherwise is a good idea

posted on June 9th, 2004, 8:00 pm

It's a proven system, but I doubt it can be done with armada 2

BTW: It wasn't used in red alert 2, the thing you're thinking of is experiance system, wich works for all the units, this one would work only for the hero wich would get special abilities over time.