Preview: Veteran Abilities

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on May 11th, 2009, 10:37 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on May 11th, 2009, 10:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

*cough* Norways are Risner specific and they suck against the Borg *cough* 

But of course, Norways are really good (though they aren't station killers *hint, hint, nudge, nudge* Admiral)

posted on May 11th, 2009, 10:48 pm

*cough* norways are MAYSON specific *cough*

posted on May 11th, 2009, 10:54 pm

I think I'll leave that GLARING typo because that was so amazingly dense on my part, that I deserve a kick in the rump 

posted on May 11th, 2009, 10:57 pm

Yah, I think the Intrepid has the only real station killing weapon, other than the steamrunners.

posted on May 17th, 2009, 9:15 am

Dominion S-2 Escort Cruiser: Ammunition Lock-On
Special targeting systems allow Tetrion Torpedoes to lock on the ammunition depots of hostile vessels, dealing twice damage against vessel with torpedoes and disabling their weapons
Akiras assaulting your base, Sang' Class bird of preys harrassing your troops - a Veteran S-2 Escort Cruiser will take care for all those torpedo-vessels out there.

"Ammunition" doesn't have a ST feel... May i suggest a different description be considered?
(Besides, ammo for the Phasers and such are really power cells or coils or something like that, and the torpedoes are supposed to be harmless until they're armed?)
Other than that, i just can't wait to see hero ships in action!

Suggestions, opinions?

posted on May 17th, 2009, 11:07 am

Well, when you enhance you two gold ships with an extra overall ship-upgrade, what is with the idea to make a two gold galaxy from warp in to the 'future Galaxy' class with the three warp pylons?

I dont know exact the statistics, but it would be cool if you can press the 'upgrade' key, the ships will go to the nearest shipyard and will get an overall system upgrade and will become something like the miranda 2 but capable against battleships. The romulan dreadnought got 5 weapons and maybe the galaxy-refit MK 2 will get something similar. This ship should maybe get a new armor and should look like Rikers Typ 2 Galaxy because it looked like 'old technology' when I look up to the souvereign. So maybe the Galaxy gets a new Uppersection with visible turrets and something like one auusault-phaser, two pulse phasers, and two quantum torpedos. This would be one weapon more than the Defiant class and may get to the Fed-Dreadnought? Or should the federation Dreadnought be something like the Prometheus?

posted on May 17th, 2009, 11:22 am

@Jarod: Ammonition is of alsost no concern in FO, this is true, but still there is amminition for the torpedo launchers - torepdos. My my persoal problem with that feature is, that it is fairly motiveless IMO and not really belonging to dominion style. The dominion is only seen to disable shields, and the dominion strategies in FO do not rely on dieabling weapons, instead or roms and feds. Thus such a feature would just flatten the differences. I think there has to be aspecially taken care that the balancing issues do not result in flattening the races face. Further the ammonition loaderer is one of the ew mechanical systems of the ship, and thus the must unlikly to fail. It is much easier to disrupt the EPS by an electromagnetic pulse, as well as the impulse engines for example.

My alternative, if that feature is reeeeaaaalllly needed (which it is not IMO), then it should be a shield breaking tetrion-beam that is focused on weapon system and deals direct damage to weapon systems only.

posted on May 26th, 2009, 8:40 am

I don't know if this has been suggested before:
Wouldn't it be great, if the hero ships would improve/upgrade random systems, not always the same improvements for a ship class... I mean, if you upgrade the same ship class, you would get for example improved shields, weapons and a special ability #1, next time you would get a different set of improvements...

Am i making any sense here?

posted on May 26th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Hi, I kinda had some Ideas of veteran abilities. I have a list here for what abilities for what race. Any body that likes the sound of these can look at my txt file for further detail. Abilities correspond to their chassis.
// Reminder: Details in txt attachment

{Federation}
Saber - Superior Destroyer (Passive)
Intrepid - Deflective Enhancement (Passive)
Steamrunner - Anti-Disruption Feild (Passive)
Akira - Burst fire Torpedoes
Excelsior II - Sheild Acceleration (Passive)
Galaxy - Galaxy Refit (Refitting)
Nebula - Anti-cloak (passive)
Avalon - Sheild Penetrating Phasers
Defiant - Battle Mode
Remoore - Anti-Weapon System
Sovereign - Multi-Target Phasers
Phalanx - Warp Core Enhancement (Passive)
Descent - Subspace Distortion

{Klingons}

B'rel - Anti-Sheild (passive)
K'Vort - Cloak Enhancement
Sang - Regenerative sheilds (passive)
Luspet - Energy Reuse (passive)
Vor'Cha - Sheild Penetrating Disruptor
Negh'Var - Kahless Wrath

{Romulans}

Talon - Superior Fighter (passive)
Shrike - Refined Weapons (Refitting)
Griffin - Sensor Jammer (passive)
Generix (Dreadnaught) - Phase Cloak
D'Deridex - Romulus' Rage
Norexian - Finishing Blow
Tavara - Undefeated Champion (passive)

{Dominion}

Interceptor - Anti-Sheilds
Warfrigate - Ketracel Light (passive)
Heavy Cruiser - Polarized Sheilds (passive)
Battleship - Vorta's Prime (passive)
Dreadnaught (Borg variant) - Founder's Elite one (passive)

{Breen}

Battleship - Thot Gor's Refit (Refitting)

If you like this things just tell me because I'm not sure how good these are...

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posted on May 26th, 2009, 10:50 pm

Not bad effort, but I really like to keep the veterans as they are--too much emphasis will turn this game into a more "warcraft III"-like-game, which really isn't the goal for FO I believe. Having so many hero ships takes away from the emphasis of fleet building (even now, I get scared by how powerful some of the Veterans are  ).

posted on May 27th, 2009, 2:11 am

Wow i like those abilities. It with some tweaking (like Battle mode should either have a timer or reduce ship speed or something, and a few of the power boosting ones are a tad bit overboard) it would be nice to see most or all of those abilities ingame.

posted on May 27th, 2009, 2:47 am

most of them are not new just borrowed from other ships.

posted on May 27th, 2009, 5:27 am

they ARE? i haven't seen a lot of the abilities currently so i wouldn't know...

posted on May 27th, 2009, 5:40 am

well he didnt really invent any new ones just renamed them and shuffled them around.

posted on May 27th, 2009, 1:25 pm

What about the abilities of the Dominion ships? I tried to invent something that would be new. I mean, invulnerability? That is something I've never seen before...