Armada gets tech-savvy

posted on December 16th, 2011, 9:42 pm

Not exactly, but the similarities are there.

posted on December 16th, 2011, 9:56 pm

Wouldn't base and techtree sharing be a repeat of the alreay-existing 'Armada' mode? I think that's the name...

In Armada mode, two or more players control the same start location.  What I'm wondering is if players control different start locations, but are on the same team and of the same faction, will they be able to share the technology tree.

posted on December 16th, 2011, 10:33 pm

actually wouldn't be too hard to add. the new techtree implementation's requirement types are designed as modules which can be added or removed without too much hassle. tracking kills or ship captures isn't impossible to do either i like that idea

Xnumberofkills? Prototypical borg adaption could be acomplished with this, I.E. Kill so many units to unlock the ability to refit a vessel to adapt it, thats a very low imagination use of this idea, but you get my point right?

posted on December 16th, 2011, 10:48 pm

Maybe the kills could unlock the research? Are the kills tied to a specific ship, or is the counter faction-wide?

posted on December 16th, 2011, 10:53 pm

Maybe the kills could unlock the research? Are the kills tied to a specific ship, or is the counter faction-wide?

judging by the sophistication, it could be each ship unique, making each ship get so many number of kills to acheive adaption.

posted on December 16th, 2011, 11:16 pm

The Borg should be able to adapt as a whole, though, because that's how they roll.

posted on December 16th, 2011, 11:19 pm

The Borg should be able to adapt as a whole, though, because that's how they roll.

Good luck trying to balance something like that ingame

posted on December 16th, 2011, 11:32 pm

Good luck trying to balance something like that ingame

it would mean the adaption is just a small percentage and posibly that the borg have less counters.

so that if the borg have adapted to a certain ship (you could make the adaptation limited to a type of borgship as a shield/hull responds diferently to diferent weapons) the other player could start building another type of ship. so only after a really long game the borg have adapted to most of the enemy ships.

posted on December 16th, 2011, 11:47 pm

Good luck trying to balance something like that ingame

Seeing as the Borg already have partial adaption (a very similar ability), I don't think it would be that hard.

posted on December 17th, 2011, 12:45 am

I can't wait to try this out for myself wow!

posted on December 17th, 2011, 2:21 am

there are modding options in FO that we use rarely or not at all and are left to be used by other creative minds.
if we make use of the feature at some point, don't worry about the balancing now
as of now i only added a todo for it as available modding option for the techtree

It seems a misunderstanding on my part. However if this feature is ever introduced in mainstream FO then i propose the addition of a dedicated federation troopship (perhaps a miranda.. there's plenty of those around in DS9)

posted on December 17th, 2011, 2:17 pm

Sounds wonderfull, considering how many new options it gives for the MMM Map makers... Anyone outta there : ( ?