Some Ideeas i had for a few days - with sketches :P
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 9:02 pm
Well, i love this mode ( in my opinion it's the best one ever done in terms of quality, quantity and amount of changes ), and for the past 2 weeks it's the only thing i play ( well maybe sometimes i play RotR mod to 
). While playing the mod i couldn't help feeling that some things feel kind of wrong, at least in my opinion.
First Dominion : while the overall look of the faction ( especialy the ships ), is great there are some structures that i think need a new design: The cloning facillity, large shipyard and tech center. The cloning facility looks to much like a flower, and has a really non-dominion design ( the skin is excelent but the model needs a new shape if you ask me ). The large yard - well between the light one and the mixed-tech one this one looks bad. A round circle is something i don't think looks dominion enough. The tech center looks more like a rafinery than a research structure in my opinion.
Second - Federation - this guys don't really feel like the feds i know - they research tech at their shipyards, and have the lowest amount of structures. I think a third research structure were you research the weapons/sensor/shields upg is needed. The sf engineering can research the antares researches, while the sf research structure can take the eraudi ones. Also some other structure would make them more interesting but for those ideeas later.
Klingon - they should research at their staryards and as someone already suggested, a staryard addon were you research abilites for the vesels in that yard but be better than all those research stations ( keep the armory, but scrap the rest in my opinion). Also a secondary heavy battleship would be kind of cool since they are all about warfare.
Romulan - nothing here - they are just to awsome - although that tavara is kind of OP sometimes.
Borg - their starbase takes to much space and i think their structures should have a regeneration module upg once built, since they don't have any shields or repair ship. And they harverst to slow, but i think thats a counter-part to their massive power.
As a general ideea, i think each mixed-tech yard should have it's own uniq ship, depending on the race you mixed with. There are lots of ships in the lore that might find a place here. also starbases should get an aditional weapon with each weapon upg - for example feds outpost gets an aditional pulse phaser for each weapon level ( = +2 pulse weapons in the end ). Same with the perimeter.
Now for my ideeas. First are some sketches i made for the dominion structures - sketches of how i think each one of the three would look more dominion.
And the feds improvement:
1. The Federation SF Upgrade Facility - shield/weapons/sensor upg.
2. The Federation Defence Facility ( needs new name ) - basicly a medium station that can gain 4 weapon addons ( each one with it's own hp/shield ). The addons are : 1.Pulse Phaser - fires dual pulse phasers - does a little more dmg than the turret ones; 2. Phaser - fires dual phaser weapon; 3.Photon Torpedo - does a little more dmg than the turret one and 4. Tricobalt Torpedo - limited to 1( maybe 2 ) per structure. Cannot directly detect stealth, but has the tachion scan abillity.
3. The Federation Temporal Facillity - basicly it generates anywere on the map a temporal field similar to that of the premonition, but with a little more area of effect. It requires alot of energy, and needs a few minutes to recharge. Also costs credits, and for the engineer avatar, it has a light phaser as defence weapon.
Links to the pictures ( dunno why the attachments didn't work ... togheter they were only 600kb )
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... arbase.jpg
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... ndTech.jpg
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... Ideeas.jpg
Btw for the feds stations - the green part would be the cool federation blue, but i don't have a blue marker right now.
Well this is it. Pls think about them a little. I don't expect them to be accepted, but at least give birth to new possibilites.
PS: is there a way to change the angle of the maximum zoom, so it would look more isometric and less as if you would watch the battlefield top-view only?
). While playing the mod i couldn't help feeling that some things feel kind of wrong, at least in my opinion.First Dominion : while the overall look of the faction ( especialy the ships ), is great there are some structures that i think need a new design: The cloning facillity, large shipyard and tech center. The cloning facility looks to much like a flower, and has a really non-dominion design ( the skin is excelent but the model needs a new shape if you ask me ). The large yard - well between the light one and the mixed-tech one this one looks bad. A round circle is something i don't think looks dominion enough. The tech center looks more like a rafinery than a research structure in my opinion.
Second - Federation - this guys don't really feel like the feds i know - they research tech at their shipyards, and have the lowest amount of structures. I think a third research structure were you research the weapons/sensor/shields upg is needed. The sf engineering can research the antares researches, while the sf research structure can take the eraudi ones. Also some other structure would make them more interesting but for those ideeas later.
Klingon - they should research at their staryards and as someone already suggested, a staryard addon were you research abilites for the vesels in that yard but be better than all those research stations ( keep the armory, but scrap the rest in my opinion). Also a secondary heavy battleship would be kind of cool since they are all about warfare.
Romulan - nothing here - they are just to awsome - although that tavara is kind of OP sometimes.
Borg - their starbase takes to much space and i think their structures should have a regeneration module upg once built, since they don't have any shields or repair ship. And they harverst to slow, but i think thats a counter-part to their massive power.
As a general ideea, i think each mixed-tech yard should have it's own uniq ship, depending on the race you mixed with. There are lots of ships in the lore that might find a place here. also starbases should get an aditional weapon with each weapon upg - for example feds outpost gets an aditional pulse phaser for each weapon level ( = +2 pulse weapons in the end ). Same with the perimeter.
Now for my ideeas. First are some sketches i made for the dominion structures - sketches of how i think each one of the three would look more dominion.
And the feds improvement:
1. The Federation SF Upgrade Facility - shield/weapons/sensor upg.
2. The Federation Defence Facility ( needs new name ) - basicly a medium station that can gain 4 weapon addons ( each one with it's own hp/shield ). The addons are : 1.Pulse Phaser - fires dual pulse phasers - does a little more dmg than the turret ones; 2. Phaser - fires dual phaser weapon; 3.Photon Torpedo - does a little more dmg than the turret one and 4. Tricobalt Torpedo - limited to 1( maybe 2 ) per structure. Cannot directly detect stealth, but has the tachion scan abillity.
3. The Federation Temporal Facillity - basicly it generates anywere on the map a temporal field similar to that of the premonition, but with a little more area of effect. It requires alot of energy, and needs a few minutes to recharge. Also costs credits, and for the engineer avatar, it has a light phaser as defence weapon.
Links to the pictures ( dunno why the attachments didn't work ... togheter they were only 600kb )
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... arbase.jpg
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... ndTech.jpg
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh10 ... Ideeas.jpg
Btw for the feds stations - the green part would be the cool federation blue, but i don't have a blue marker right now
.Well this is it. Pls think about them a little. I don't expect them to be accepted, but at least give birth to new possibilites.
PS: is there a way to change the angle of the maximum zoom, so it would look more isometric and less as if you would watch the battlefield top-view only?
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 9:09 pm
Last edited by ewm90 on February 3rd, 2009, 9:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 9:25 pm
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 10:27 pm
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 10:53 pm
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 10:55 pm
nice concept art! 
some good thoughts
some good thoughts
posted on February 3rd, 2009, 10:58 pm
Some nice concepts 
just went into my sketches folder, if you dont mind! Some future Stations might be based on your ideas
just went into my sketches folder, if you dont mind! Some future Stations might be based on your ideasposted on February 3rd, 2009, 11:44 pm
posted on February 4th, 2009, 6:05 am
Last edited by Jarod on February 4th, 2009, 6:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
silent93 wrote:The 'Federation Defense Station' would likely be called a 'System Defense Array', like the Mars Defense Array that failed to blow up the Borg. And if anything like the Mars Defense Array, would primarily be a launcher for an absurd number of torpedoes.
Or just "Defense Array"?
Perhaps "Defense Array - Level 1", "Defense Array - Level 2"?
And yeah, really nice art!
Looking forward to see it action
posted on February 4th, 2009, 7:05 am
posted on February 4th, 2009, 8:33 am
Anubis_theDark, your concepts look amazing! Great work! Especially the Dominion stations have a real dom-feel. Very well done!
posted on February 4th, 2009, 9:47 am
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