Make Warp-In Ships Buildable

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:01 pm

I know I made a mod to allow players to build warp-in vessels, but for one of the future patches, could the warp-in mod, or something similar, be included in the next Fleet-Ops patch?  I'm sure that it can be balanced out rather quickly.

By the way, I'm currently working on version 1.2 of the mod which will give the vessels avatar bonuses and updates for the tooltips.  Please don't move this to the Mods in Progress forum section.  This thread is just asking for the warp-in ships to be buildable.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:04 pm

Warp-In ships are already buildable; the McKinley Yard map object builds them.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:19 pm

if you are asking for this as a buildable feautre, ie you can build it without map objects, then its been discussed before and the devs made it clear that they dont want warpins buildable.

the way they are buildable now is probably the closest to truly buildable the warpins are gonna get. ie from the mckinley yard map object. i know i wouldnt wanna play a map with a mckinley on it.

i like the way warpins are now.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:39 pm

However I think they should either make them buildable from a different (not yet included) map object station and not the McKinley, since it's a semi-mobile maintainance station and not a yard at all.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:44 pm

McKinley Station was one of the combined yards; building, repairing and refitting.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:50 pm

McKinley Station was one of the combined yards; building, repairing and refitting.

Never heard something of the building-part. But since you literally ate memory-alpha, I'll trust your words here 

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:51 pm

Well, I got my question answered.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:52 pm

the earth orbiting mckinley station was the only named station of a type of stations which is called the Mckinley Type

there was one clearly visible at utopia planetia, with a galaxy class docked. presumably it could build too.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 9:53 pm

there was one clearly visible at utopia planetia, with a galaxy class docked. presumably it could build too.

Well, the thing is that it's called station and not yard. They always referred to McKinley station and Utopia Planitia yards which always made me think that the McKinley is not a shipbuilding structure.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 10:02 pm

well we only heard one particular station identified as that. mckinley staiton, the one in earth orbit, the others may be called yards. or docks.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 10:04 pm

Earth Station McKinley is the name I see the most, though not all stations are named after their facility type; DS9 doesn't have Starbase in the name, despite functioning as a starbase being part of the design. Neither does DS5, despite being the same design as Starbase 173.

Enterprise went through the final phase of construction at McKinley, so it's capable of doing something construction-related at minimum.

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

Enterprise went through the final phase of construction at McKinley, so it's capable of doing something construction-related at minimum.

Although completing a vessel after it was already built up far enough to move or be moved to a different station doesn't imply it can build that much. Since the shape is optimized in fitting a Galaxy (Ambassador and Excelsior as well I assume) I'd rather say it makes final drafts and refitting stuff and also maintainance and repair.

Refitting old SF vessels could be a game-feature of it lateron.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 10:15 pm

Since the shape is optimized in fitting a Galaxy (Ambassador and Excelsior as well I assume) I'd rather say it makes final drafts and refitting stuff and also maintainance and repair.

its shape fits anything that has a saucer and nacelles. ie most of starfleet.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 10:16 pm

its shape fits anything that has a saucer and nacelles. ie most of starfleet.

If you're ignoring the size, yes.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 10:18 pm

If you're ignoring the size, yes.

well in space you dont really need to be held in place that tight. as long as the ship is easily accessible to the yard it would be fine. look at utopia planetia yards making sabres that are way smaller.