posted on December 30th, 2010, 4:35 am
Sounds like the Iconians.
For this idea to work you would have to have it work a lot like the iconions are outlined as working in Dom's guide to flops.
1- Warpins would have to warin to a selectable area within a short distance of the station.
2- Your tech tree would have to be based on stations. Replace the flops fed starbase with a traditional blue shroom (or a new flops model for an upgraded version). This station is your one and only. It cannot be replaced. It can call in various forces for a price and build scouts. It also builds mining ships and builders. Builders build a repair yard (prehaps use the McKinley model, set to only repair), mining station, donuts, and a tech station. Tech station researches stuff for the donuts, and unlocks more powerful warpins and special weapons. Prehaps have the starbase have communications attenas for communicating with starfleet aswell, buildable, whci are collected for menus for various ship types.
Warpins would start with small clusters of smaller ships, then a few larger ones. From there it would go to a mix of regular warpins mixed with regular ships. Defiant, Soverign, Excel2 would be single use warpins.
3- Warpin use is timed with a cooldown period, the bigger the warpin or stronger the ship(s) involved, the longer the cooldown period.
4- The end tech warpins would basicly be a small task force, but also disable the use of warpins for a prolonged period of time. Something like a max rank or Veteran Sovereign or Galaxy with 7-8 ships. Strong enough to at least seriously damage all but a spam force or a cube, it'd basicly just bring in nothing but heavies. Not saying it should be uber, but the ability to call in a task force with nothing lighter than an akira or steamrunner would make sense for a end tech ability, especially if it makes it impossible to call in anything else for a few minutes extra.
5- You would pay entirely in supply, which requires you mine to keep supply avalible.
