Possible new building and unit/s for all races?

posted on December 20th, 2009, 4:36 pm

Hi there....this is my first post ever (as far as I remember), but I've had this idea for a little while now and I was wondering if it would be feasible and/or a welcome idea. It's simply the inclusion of future units for all races, or a special future enhancement for the Borg. The way I see it is that there would be a special building for all races that would bring special units for a particular race from the 'future' into the 'past', in other words the player's game session. These units could be refits or specially created new units for that race to be used in the game. For example, the Federation could have a building called the "Temporal Beacon" which allows the player to requisition one squad of 5 units, e.g: A Saber-class refit, a Premonitions-class vessel (or similar vessel shown in either video games or series, both canon and non-canon), a Prometheus-class refit, a Galaxy-class refit and another ship produced just by this game (probably a name referencing time travel, such as a Paradox-class vessel). The refits would have a different texture from normal (the addition of an extra nacelle/armour/mass etc) and would be more powerful than their normal 'present-day' counterparts. This could even be used to bring in randomly selected ships from the past, such as Constitution or Daedalus class. However, I cannot decide on whether or not a time limit could be placed on these requisitoned vessels so that: a) Players don't use these vessels to completely blitz opponents and b) The use of vessels in the 'past' can be explained as being only temporarily, and their disappearance due to the need of their non-pollution of the timeline.
If you would like, please do comment 

posted on December 20th, 2009, 5:24 pm

welcome to the forums!

this is your second post according to the counter under your name.

your idea sounds fun, but i doubt it will happen because:

1) giving all factions the same feature isnt a good idea.
2) the feds would never get it because of temporal prime directive, no starship would willingly travel through time to shoot past enemies.

but keep the ideas coming, we love them here.

maybe the borg could mess around with time travel as in first contact. the sphere could have a time travel module when you outfit the sphere with all time modules it can perhaps bring another sphere in from another time. going back in time would be impossible.

posted on December 20th, 2009, 6:24 pm

That really sounds like tapping an alternate timeline.

I think that could be a viable ability for Tholian mercenaries.

posted on December 20th, 2009, 6:38 pm

its possible, we did see the tholians (alternative universe) lure the defiant (constitution class) through that rift. it was hinted that they created the rift and knew exactly what they were doing.

maybe for the iconians , they seem powerful, they did build the gateways.

i still like the sphere having time travel like in first contact though, the sacrifice being all module slots would be consumed by expensive time travel modules. but how would time travel be added to the game in a sensible way? maybe the freeze time effect of the vanilla temporal research thingy could work but maybe only on one ship at a time.

posted on December 20th, 2009, 7:46 pm

Welcome to the forums mate

Honestly sounds best as some way of implementing Iconian features - as they are the undisputed masters of time travel in Fleet Ops, something like this could work well for them.

posted on December 20th, 2009, 9:24 pm

Well that's useful atleast...I may have inadvertently produced a feature for the up-and-coming Iconian add-on. 10 points for me 

[Myles]

posted on December 20th, 2009, 9:31 pm

Last edited by Myles on December 20th, 2009, 9:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

what time travel ability could we give them tho? the vanilla freeze effect on only one ship might be useful, but maybe not have it so you can continue firing on them, maybe so the are stunned and cant execute orders, and are effectively removed from the battle for a while, so u can b**ch-slap the rest of their forces then turn to them.

i'd suggest chroniton torps (we already have the galaxy's veteran photon torps and steamrunners veteran tricobalts) but thats a krenim thing, unless krenim are gonna be a npc race. id love to use a temporal weapon ship which would randomly alter ship numbers of all players lol. suddenly you go from facing 2 sabers and a plantpot to facing 16 sovs with engine overload of death (TM) that would be too crazy tho.

maybe using time travel to bring in another ship from the near future or past. or having a time altering effect like where your ship moves faster because local time is faster, but you cant fire at the enemy, but can escape really fast.

EDIT: @CaptainDavros:
i dont think the iconians are gonna be appearing for a while, it appears the devs have been making sure the canon species are perfect. which they have a done a spectacular job of doing.

one point worth noting is that the noxter used to exist but were taken out. download an old version of FO available on the site, u can run it side by side with the new version. if the installer complains about a corrupted download just try a few times again it will work eventually. and if ur using vista the old version may crash at startup, citing a DLL called NetworkManger.dll as being naughty. the devs have an update floating around which fixes it. just search for networkmanager.dll and you can find it somewhere.

oh and the guy above me dominus_noctis, he's the local expert on FO (other than the devs) read his guide which is stickied in the forums and in his signature, it is the bible of FO. its got all the info you'll need to start winning and it even has a happy ending. plus if you turn your screen upside down translate it into french using google translate and read backwards it resembles the script for star trek: first contact.

posted on December 22nd, 2009, 4:54 am

Don't the Iconians already sort of do this?

I like the idea for the Tholians. In my old build, I dressed up a special weapon for the Tholians allowing them to sic a random time-warped ship on whoever was around (included the Defiant from TOS, a Galaxy-X, and the Romulan bird of prey, among others), and that was fun.

posted on December 24th, 2009, 9:56 am

oh and the guy above me dominus_noctis, he's the local expert on FO

  Lol. 

He's also a great big titty. 

posted on December 24th, 2009, 11:27 am

be careful, he control's our minds subliminally thru the guide, he can turn us all against u.

we're a very friendly community, very few flame wars. we shud assimilate the rest of the forums online and make them like us, add their intellectual and maniacal distinctiveness to our own