Current Project Status

posted on August 23rd, 2009, 2:55 am

I think a tractor beam would be awesome, it would be much more effective to tractor a ship home rather than try to fix it in the middle of a huge battle where you have to protect your relatively weak newton AND the disabled ship until repairs are done. Which can take a while if repair function is not fully upgraded.

I agree that a Tractor beam would add to the surviveability of both ships . Because the ability to tow a damaged ship to a safer area before repairs are started makes  better tactical sense. Than the present way of fixing some thing when you have someone shooting at you ,when you are  working on a ship  that is dead in the water

posted on August 23rd, 2009, 12:55 pm

This is version 3! 

I meant as a patch for this version... as in sometime within the next [insert number] of patches. Mercenaries are on todo for a future patch as well.

If you want to see a Ciadan vessel example... check out Optec's avatar

posted on August 23rd, 2009, 6:50 pm

ANDORIANS!

They are part of the federation, look at a star map.

posted on August 24th, 2009, 2:07 pm

[quote="Dominus_Noctis"]
This is version 3! 

Oh................whatever. I haven't been here long enough to know how many versions and all of that. But speaking of changes, I really think that the Dominion and Romulans are a bit too powerful. I was playing normal against them both with an ally of Klingon, and me Borg, and after about 5 or 6 minutes there were practically 18 Valdores and 2 Tavaras not to mention to huge group of Dominion Battleships on my doorstep. Plus, I had made a huge defense barrier consisting of Graviton Relays and overlapping assimilation matrixs.  It did almost nothing to stop them. Could you make them a little weaker?

posted on August 24th, 2009, 2:11 pm

No need to change anything about the Dominio or Rommies, if any then about the AI, which you are talking about, i think. The AI is unfair without limits, but noone really cares as we are all playing Network games.

[1337 64M3R]

posted on August 24th, 2009, 2:16 pm

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Hmmmmmm...............................................................................................

...... I got an idea... Can I introduce a possible race that I could make up? And I'll test them and edit them repeatedly so that once I get a decent point I can release a story line paired with scrnshts of my test games.


(Edit) Anyone in favor?

posted on August 24th, 2009, 2:16 pm

This really is the wrong place to start this (I'd suggest opening up a new thread in the balancing section), but are you talking about AI Fralo?

Incidentally, you can see the version number when you download... it says "Fleet Operations 3.0"... and then of course the actual download which says "Fleet Operations 3.0.6"

posted on August 25th, 2009, 1:04 am

Okay, I want to know straight forward... WHEN are the romulans getting their due ships?

It was on the list but IT SEEMS TO BE NEVER.........................................................................................'

Okay... maybe not that but the Feds have got their pile of ships... the Romulans seem to have less ships than anyone (with the exception of Borg).

posted on August 25th, 2009, 1:08 am

Hehe, it's always hard to know. You must realize that the Developers spend an incredible amount of time on this game--they can't tell you when a certain thing will be done because they don't know. Even if everything goes according to plan, things can still go wrong in the real world, or in the virtual, and everything will be set back.

[Bigmachk]

posted on August 25th, 2009, 1:59 am

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In my opinion instead of adding more ships they should be fixing the current bugs and nerf/buff the ships that are currently ingame. So frustrating playing online when people use bugged/overpowered abilities. Sorry if I sound harsh but im in a bad mood.

posted on August 25th, 2009, 2:00 am

That's what 3.0.8 is... essentially a rebalancing of everything  Quite scary 
Of course, there's eye candy and improvements too

[Bigmachk]

posted on August 25th, 2009, 2:03 am

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It wouldnt hurt to hotfix a few things every now and again so we dont have to wait a few months with people using these soon to be nerfed abilities. Again sorry if I sound harsh, just played someone who thought it was funny to spam dominion fighters for defense. >.<

posted on August 25th, 2009, 2:10 am

It wouldnt hurt to hotfix a few things every now and again so we dont have to wait a few months with people using these soon to be nerfed abilities. Again sorry if I sound harsh, just played someone who thought it was funny to spam dominion fighters for defense. >.<

Yes I know, I hope next time a hotfix will be considered higher priority...I bet the patch was just so far along, testing something like these glitches would require extra coding effort--just my guess 

Sometimes I think a blacklist is in order, given how there are a few people who abuse bugs and can't do much else... . I mean honestly, does one need to have their hand held in order to play by "the rules"? Just because you can get away with something doesn't make it right, nor does it make you better.

posted on August 25th, 2009, 2:21 am

(Edit) Anyone in favor?
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I vote for you!

[funnystuffpictures]

posted on August 25th, 2009, 3:05 am

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It wouldnt hurt to hotfix a few things every now and again so we dont have to wait a few months with people using these soon to be nerfed abilities. Again sorry if I sound harsh, just played someone who thought it was funny to spam dominion fighters for defense. >.<

I am sorry  I wasnt aware of of any fighter bug. I had no ships left and thought that was the only way to match klingon numbers. I thought they were weak. The first time I ever used fighters actualy. And you never said so durring the game. Its kind of difficult if you dont tell me.  And dont get yourself all upset over a silly game. A game is all it is. Sorry I havent been able to read the forums as with wippien there are so many people to play!   Except right now.     Once again sorry. I was trying to stay away from bugs. In fact I never rammed you or used cascade. 

Maybe I just shouldnt play as dominion as I allways end up pissing someone off. But for some reason random has given me Dominion 9/10 times.