posted on September 30th, 2007, 3:08 pm
Hi all,
Could we please include hero units on maps as derelicts that could be captured for use by the players. Think Junkyard map from A1.
We could increase the strengths of the shields, weapons, and systems accordingly. If need be, unique special weapons could be added to make the ships stand out from the normal ships of their respective classes. Also, when these units (when beamed to and taken over) are part of a particular player's arsenal they should be able to augment production, cost effectiveness, and combat effectiveness of the player's fleet (note should only do so if the player's fleet is of the same race - would not make sense if Sela's Warbird augmented Fed fleet abilities, but Picard's enterprise would.)
Also depending on the race the special character's voice would kick in, if the special unit is from that race otherwise takes on simple capital ship voice effect.
- Enterprise E: Picard's voice if picked up by feds
- Martok's Neghvar: Martok's voice if picked up by Klingons
- Sela's Warbird (stick with D'Deridex not norexan nor Nhavara): Sela's voice (we can copy files from A1) if picked up by Roms
- Dominion we can leave alone for the time being. If need be then we can include Weyoun on a Battleship (hopefull we'll have these giants soon in the Dom tech tree)
- Borg: Here the programmers can decide if they want Locutus's cube from A1 or the Queen from A2; and take the files accordingly.
Plus if we are able to integrate the Cardassians we can use Dukat in a Galor (no BOP please) and maybe reuse some publicly available mp3s of Dukat's dialogues.
Hope to see something like this in a future release (hope you guys have a future release; if not could we please add this feature to this V3 release maybe as a future patch). A strategy game without a hero like character (called "hero" in other games) would be incomplete. Plus Startrek without the Enterprise is incomplete.
your ideas above match pretty much of what we thought so far 
