Forward base of operations

posted on August 31st, 2010, 9:01 am

So here's an idea;

How about being able to upgrade your outposts to a starbase.
Starbases would be able to recrew and repair any kind of vessel making them ideal as a base of forward operations.
They would be costly ofcourse so they would be buildable at mid - late game.
Also they would be a bit more powerfull than an outpost.

This idea is because I like to put an outpost at an expand or even near the enemy base and work from there.

posted on August 31st, 2010, 9:24 am

Seen various starbases and similar things in A2 although usually they are separate buildable stations not upgrades.

I have in my personal mod a starbase with a mini-shipyard attached.  I made it so it could only produce the smaller ships.  It could repair ships of any size therefore there repair hardpoint was on the outside of the attached shipyard (otherwise it would have looked very strange).

I also have a modular shipyard which has 4 sections that I got off A2 files.  First you get a shipyard, then upgrade and get a repair yard, then a mining facility, and lastly a weapons platform.  Works quite well.

As we already have the upgradable starbase, why would we need a more powerful, time consuming, and expensive station?  Ok, so on very large maps it could be useful, but why not then just build an outpost and a shipyard next to each other?

I would prefer something more like DS9 (i have seen the DS9 mod for FO), with the possibility for repairs (on the pylons) and it could also be a mining station.  Should be expensive though and require upgrades to get it better weapons/shields like what happened in the series.

Now, if only there was a Cardassian avatar for the Dominion and they could build DS9...

[RedEyedRaven]

posted on August 31st, 2010, 9:43 am

Last edited by RedEyedRaven on August 31st, 2010, 9:44 am, edited 1 time in total.

I don't think the founders would ever forge a new alliance with the cardassians since they betrayed them. The great link doesn't forget or forgive 


Also the Cardassians are already planned as a NPC-faction to interact with, so why not just waiting for them?

posted on August 31st, 2010, 9:52 am

Yepp, a forward base would be cool. Especially on larger maps I tend to think about wanting one for x-mas 
BUT: We already can build Outposts wherever we want and they aren't even that expensive. Who builds them? The resources you spend for fortifying whatever would be better used for building ships.

As nice as a forward outpost sounds I honestly don't think that it would make much sense. Sry... 
We've got Outposts and turrets and I suppose that's quite a lot of stuff to build in a combat area.

posted on August 31st, 2010, 1:51 pm

Well Starbases building basic combat vessels was quite interesting in the Armada 1 TC Millennium Project and i would not mind seeing some of those feature make it into FO

posted on September 1st, 2010, 7:07 pm

I see your points with the shipyard next to an outpost...

but still.... it gives me goosebumps thinking about it hehe