Expansion

posted on September 3rd, 2011, 11:59 pm

Yes, the Mushroom will be part of the Federation redo and will not replace any current features

all that means is it will be comming in as a new structure and will have it own purpose (means thay have something new that that wanted a seperate station for)

posted on September 7th, 2011, 6:52 am

ehm, its actually not decided yet if the moshroom will be part of the playable starfleet faction

posted on September 7th, 2011, 2:39 pm

ehm, its actually not decided yet if the moshroom will be part of the playable starfleet faction

will it be a map object? i'd love to see a borg cube assimilate one.

posted on September 7th, 2011, 3:11 pm

it is planned as map object

posted on September 7th, 2011, 3:13 pm

will it be a map object? i'd love to see a borg cube assimilate one.

Optec explicitly sayed "playable" faction.

posted on September 7th, 2011, 3:23 pm

it is planned as map object

thanks.

Optec explicitly sayed "playable" faction.

yes, but he didnt mention whether or not it was gonna be a map object, was just checking.

posted on September 15th, 2011, 3:41 am

ehm, its actually not decided yet if the moshroom will be part of the playable starfleet faction

My two cents: As great as the design is, it's by and large a very old design (IE: dates back to the first movie, so we could assume based on it's size that it predated the movie by a bit of tine at least).
Also, it would be older than the Excelsior class by at least a few years.
While the station was seen as late as some TNG episodes (albiet it was MUCH larger due people forgetting to deal with scale issues).

It may be a standard design, but it is an OLD design, with almost every ship it's no longer in service, and it'd make sense that a new design would be used for new starbases.

[Tyler]

posted on September 15th, 2011, 3:45 am

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Why? It does the job it's meant for, so they have no reason to swap to anything else. If they build more full-size Starbases, they'll just build it with new tech inside and skip the pointless 'change the outside look' part.

Stations probably have a much longer design life, anyway.

posted on September 15th, 2011, 5:42 pm

Actually I think the current outpost type of starbase makes plenty of sense. The monster mushroom starbases are only intended for major locations i.e. Earth. and probably aren't built outside of star systems. Nor are they used as ship yards (as far as we know); only docks where major repairs can be conducted if necessary. So it doesn't have much purpose in FO where the conflicts are (supposedly) in more remote locales.

In game I don't think most games would last long enough for such a starbase to come into play. It might have a place in a base conqure or base defend type of mode though.

posted on September 15th, 2011, 5:46 pm

and its size would be ridiculous in the game.

http://www.st-minutiae.com/misc/comparison/comparison_large.png

posted on September 15th, 2011, 6:19 pm

i agree with it not being buildable in most games. the borg are incredibly advanced tech wise, but can only just manage the cube, and thats rare.

it should be a map object imo.

posted on September 15th, 2011, 6:20 pm

How does that relate to design age?

posted on September 15th, 2011, 6:31 pm

didn't we see the station currently used as the main starbase in tWoK?

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Regula_I

posted on September 15th, 2011, 6:36 pm

didn't we see the station currently used as the main starbase in tWoK?

Regula I - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

they look very similar. probably the design is the same, just refitted over the years.

posted on September 15th, 2011, 6:46 pm

Which means that one should also be too old to keep using if the Spacedock counts.