Developers Diary

posted on November 9th, 2005, 11:54 pm

i remember battlestar galactica lol they don't make em like they used to. i'd like the carrier to have more defensives than a phaser as it will become a target for ambushes i wanna know if its gonna be slow at turning and speed since warp isn't in FO, i tried a conversion for armada2 once but the fighter carrier moved like a planet!!

posted on November 10th, 2005, 12:07 am

i think it should have the speed of an akira or better (that's once of the roles the akira was used in during the dominion war)

posted on November 10th, 2005, 12:17 pm

(that's once of the roles the akira was used in during the dominion war)

thats really more of an assumption, than actual fact since you don't actually see any fighters leaving any of the akiras in a fleet. compared with the other ship classes, the Akira barely got any lone screen time (surprising since it was a newish ship you'd think they would want to showcase it a little more).

as for the carriers speed, i dont see any reason why it shouldn't have the same sort of speed that a similar sized ship has, (whatever that may be, Akira nebula or whatever).

posted on November 10th, 2005, 3:58 pm

Protoss carriers usually carry 4 each, but can be (and almost always are) upgraded to where they can carry 8 fighters.

posted on November 10th, 2005, 10:04 pm

what is a "protoss" what show is this from? assuming it's from a show/movie...I've gathered that it's a Carrier vessel, a large carrier vessel, but from what? any pictures?

posted on November 11th, 2005, 7:23 am

the protoss are an alien race in Starcraft. love that game. sorry i don't have screenshot, nor do i know where to get some.

posted on November 11th, 2005, 4:47 pm

Ah, ok, I've tried starcraft but it's too simulationy for me, you can run out of fuel...i'd rather not drift through space for the rest of my life lol...Seemed like it'd be fun, but my computer's graphics card apparently isn't compatable because in the demo's i've played the game looks horrific.

posted on November 12th, 2005, 7:56 am

are we talking about the same game! starcraft is a space based strategy game (like warcraft in the future). don't think your ships/troops can run out of fuel.

posted on November 12th, 2005, 8:46 am

And is REALLY REALLY OLD, so whatever your graphic card it should be strong enough :s

posted on November 12th, 2005, 10:24 am

oh he is talking about homeworld 1 lol

posted on November 12th, 2005, 5:42 pm

Uhm, i was talking about starcraft, i never saw a "space stratagy" in it, the demos i've played were piloting a starship and flying inbetween this space station (which might have been this carrier you were talking about)and killing randomly appearing bad guys, also using some form of faster than light jumps to other sectors...I'll try and find the demo I played but what ever version of starcraft i played was totally space sim.

The Homeworld series is very much like armada, except everything is mobile, and fighter/capital ship combat based. You don't see through the glass in the cockpit, it's topdown (in general, there are a few diffrent view modes) like A2, you can pan around ships ect. Space Stratagy, It's what Star Trek Armada was made after (Since it came first) except it's better, better story, and in my opinion better gameplay. Homeworld you can run out of fuel, yes, but you are not stranded like I was when I played my demo of starcraft. In homeworld one, when your fighters run out of fuel they just slow down drastically, I usually just FTL(sorry, battlestar term, Faster Than Light, aka Hyperspace or "warp")a carrier in to pick them up and head back. It's not some major problem in homeworld, however, in the demo I played, I CRASHED INTO A FRACKING PLANET! no fuel, so I wasn't able to act an opposite force on the already powerful inertia from whatever that afterburner thing does, just seems to speed me up to the point of fiery death...

I know I didn't play the original Starcraft, i'm not sure if it was a sequal with diffrent game play or what...but it was like a space fighter simulator. If this game is as old as you say though...it must just be plain ugly, because the ships looked like they had a black coloured hull and some kind of light yellow grid and the planet was like green....the only thing that looked remotely attractive was the star fields, the nebula(which you die when you enter, what is that about?) and the asteriods. I don't know if thats my graphics card or if the game is just plain ugly...

posted on November 12th, 2005, 7:54 pm

Yeah a FPS starcraft will be out soon or is already out so you maybe played that. But yeah we were talking about the old Starcraft

posted on November 15th, 2005, 5:01 am

you mean the new Starcraft FPS where your one of the covert dudes? what are they called; ghosts or something like that?

posted on November 15th, 2005, 12:40 pm

I think its ghost yes. I think its stupid they didnt just continue with the RTS style :S

posted on November 16th, 2005, 12:18 am

Its funny 'cause, even though it's ten years old now, Starcraft is better than A2 any day.