Startrek Armada Future Tense

posted on September 18th, 2006, 11:27 pm

The issue with the Dominion have been brought up in recent meetings among the FT team and myself.


IF we can figure a subplot to why they would be in the Alpha Quadrant as the Dominion have not been heard of since the war as the two powers have simply kept out of each other's way, then we'll see. One plausable idea that was concieved was that Jem'Hadar were being used to aid the Cardassians rebuild, or some were even slaves to the Son'a due to Katracel White productions.

We are also thinking of adding the Tholians to the maps that involve the Klingon sector as the Tholians' would undoubtably take advantage of Qo'Nos' destruction and the fall of the Klingon Empire, but that too, is still brainstorming at the moment.

My only concern, is that now any MOD that is based after DS9, the Dominion are an instant must. Future Tense' story line is focused on the Alpha and Beta Quadrant invasion. The Borg have been slowly rebuilding since the Voyager incident, and are on the sidelines, assimilating damaged ships to build up a strong enough resistance force. With the Sernaix destroying colonies, planets and systems defences, the Borg are using them to aid them in assimilating the Alpha Quadrant, - there is no alliance between the two races however. The Borg want to assimilate the Sernaix, and the Sernaix would undoubtably waste no time in destroying any Borg ships that approach too close.



Adam,

posted on September 18th, 2006, 11:54 pm

The Borg have been slowly rebuilding since the Voyager incident

not much of an incident loosing a sphere and being infected, which they surelly fixed.
it's a good plotline and all, but it's just not very believeble, put a bacgrount to it, why are they attacking now, after all this time? And who is actually opposing them? Klingons you said were destroyed, so do the feds and romulans ally with eachother, do the other races(cardassians, breen, tholian....) join them in stopping the conquest of the alpha quadrant?

[Anonymous]

posted on September 19th, 2006, 1:12 am

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The issue with the Dominion have been brought up in recent meetings among the FT team and myself.


IF we can figure a subplot to why they would be in the Alpha Quadrant as the Dominion have not been heard of since the war as the two powers have simply kept out of each other's way, then we'll see. One plausable idea that was concieved was that Jem'Hadar were being used to aid the Cardassians rebuild, or some were even slaves to the Son'a due to Katracel White productions.

We are also thinking of adding the Tholians to the maps that involve the Klingon sector as the Tholians' would undoubtably take advantage of Qo'Nos' destruction and the fall of the Klingon Empire, but that too, is still brainstorming at the moment.

My only concern, is that now any MOD that is based after DS9, the Dominion are an instant must. Future Tense' story line is focused on the Alpha and Beta Quadrant invasion. The Borg have been slowly rebuilding since the Voyager incident, and are on the sidelines, assimilating damaged ships to build up a strong enough resistance force. With the Sernaix destroying colonies, planets and systems defences, the Borg are using them to aid them in assimilating the Alpha Quadrant, - there is no alliance between the two races however. The Borg want to assimilate the Sernaix, and the Sernaix would undoubtably waste no time in destroying any Borg ships that approach too close.



Adam,

Thanx for anwsering man
I know what u mean, its just to me it seems logical that if the feds are getting a proper beating and if the enemy is as strong as u say they are going to ask for help anywhere they can get it. And I bet some admiral somewhere would remember that the Dominion are still a force not to be reckoned with and that they have an "insider" amongst the Dominion "gods". Surely they would at least try to recruit their help and also as I said b4 the Dominion arent stupid and they cooperate with whoever they need to if it serves their own needs. Plus Odo would surely want to help his old friends and he is in the Great Link after all

Well even if you dont think thats plausable I think you SHOULD add them as a MP race only or something, cause u know people are gonna be playing this thing over net a lot and lots of people like the Dominion Plus Id really like to see what would u come up with for future Dominion ships

Anyway keep up the good work, u just might get me playing A1 again Damn guys FO for A2 and FT for A1, Star Trek RTS is most defintly not dead

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The Borg have been slowly rebuilding since the Voyager incident


not much of an incident loosing a sphere and being infected, which they surelly fixed.

Yeah and the whole queen dying incident And unimatrix 1 blowing up and **** They took quite some damage :S

[Saijen]

posted on September 19th, 2006, 1:34 am

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[font=Optima]lol... They definately took some damage there Hypercube. Remember that they lost not only the Queen (again), AND the unicomplex, but also 1 out of 6 of their transwarp hubs in the entire galaxy. That's definately got to hinder them a bit in expansion or conquest.

And you guys, I can't tell you how much I am DIEING for Future Tense to come out. When I heard it was for A1, I was extremely skeptical, but seeing their video teaser, and the screenshots, and all the details on their website for JUST the Federation's buildings and ships, I'm convinced. And I agree with Baron, the Dominon is a MUST....

Which reminds me by the way Baron, until Phantom releases FT, I found another mod, the only other TC (Total Conversion) on armadafiles.com that is left for A1, until FT. It's called Alliances. And guess what. It has the Dominion. And by god, I've gotten my arse kicked so many times with this mod. It's the next best thing after FO and FT. All to true that Star Trek RTS is not dead. Alliances should be added to that list of great mods. You ALL should check it out.

But once FT comes out, Alliances will be but a mere memory.... [/font]

[Fullphaser]

posted on September 19th, 2006, 1:53 am

Last edited by Fullphaser on September 19th, 2006, 1:54 am, edited 1 time in total.

The issue with the Dominion have been brought up in recent meetings among the FT team and myself.


IF we can figure a subplot to why they would be in the Alpha Quadrant as the Dominion have not been heard of since the war as the two powers have simply kept out of each other's way, then we'll see. One plausable idea that was concieved was that Jem'Hadar were being used to aid the Cardassians rebuild, or some were even slaves to the Son'a due to Katracel White productions.

We are also thinking of adding the Tholians to the maps that involve the Klingon sector as the Tholians' would undoubtably take advantage of Qo'Nos' destruction and the fall of the Klingon Empire, but that too, is still brainstorming at the moment.

My only concern, is that now any MOD that is based after DS9, the Dominion are an instant must. Future Tense' story line is focused on the Alpha and Beta Quadrant invasion. The Borg have been slowly rebuilding since the Voyager incident, and are on the sidelines, assimilating damaged ships to build up a strong enough resistance force. With the Sernaix destroying colonies, planets and systems defences, the Borg are using them to aid them in assimilating the Alpha Quadrant, - there is no alliance between the two races however. The Borg want to assimilate the Sernaix, and the Sernaix would undoubtably waste no time in destroying any Borg ships that approach too close.



Adam,

No offence to the Future tense team, but I always got the sence that the models were way underdeveloped (or atleast from screenshots it would seem) that they models are no where near the cabability of the developers of the mod, I mean, the team has some of the best modelers out there, and every time I see the mod, They just haven't really impressed me.

Was their some intentional reason to reduce the poly count? and level of textures?

posted on September 19th, 2006, 1:59 am

possibly to make the mod more accessable to those with older comps

posted on September 19th, 2006, 2:28 am

well most of the models are kept below 1500 Polys so they arent too bad and most of them look pretty good ingame most of the stuff you have seen were probably WIP

posted on September 19th, 2006, 3:08 am

Which reminds me by the way Baron, until Phantom releases FT, I found another mod, the only other TC (Total Conversion) on armadafiles.com that is left for A1, until FT. It's called Alliances. And guess what. It has the Dominion. biggrin.gif And by god, I've gotten my arse kicked so many times with this mod. It's the next best thing after FO and FT. All to true that Star Trek RTS is not dead. Alliances should be added to that list of great mods. You ALL should check it out.

I got to check that, thanx for the info man

posted on September 19th, 2006, 12:55 pm

Yeah ive downloaded Alliances too Ima test it later today, but Still there are just a few things in FT i want to see

Like TRilithium Torpedoes blowing up Planets

posted on September 19th, 2006, 5:15 pm

woot i accidently come across my lost a1 disk last night!

posted on September 19th, 2006, 5:23 pm

Haha cool

posted on September 19th, 2006, 7:21 pm

I wanted to keep ships to around 1500 polies because there are going to be 6 races on a map, maps that are around 4 times larger than that of Armada's default (thats I guess about half the size of an A2 map) and with loadsa interactive surroundings such as the ability to destroy asteroids, destroy stars (and get a neat level 10 shockwave on your ***) the drain on any computer would be great, so 'most' ships are kept to around 1500 polies.

Future Tense models also have a unique noding system too. We have also uncovered a way to node a ship and edit probabilties via various odfs and weapon ordinance files to give cloaked ships 'shields' while cloaked - serving as armour plating for Reman warships.


The only models to exceed 2000 polies in Future Tense are: Nemesis Yard, Scimitar V3, Romulan V'Netta, USS Titan, Galaxy Class Refit II.

I wanted to ensure a smooth run whatever the computer. The Sernaix models however are around 2000 - 2500 as there are lots of alpha channels, animated textures, and spikes and other details on the mesh, plus to look biological they had to have lots of smoothing on them.



As for the Borg, they launched another attack between Nemesis and Future Tense. The Enterprise-E and several other ships were declared M.I.A. after a Borg cube began to attack the Federation near an ice nebula, but that has been the only attack since. The Borg have been buying time to rebuild and assimilate and reclone the queen (now portrayed once again by Susanna Thompson (Dark Frontier, Unimatrix Zero) who now talks and curses the player with a little help of editing words pretty neat.



Ad'

posted on September 19th, 2006, 7:28 pm

sounds great adam, how is the MVAM coming along? i think u mentioned that on msn a while back and thats what i'm most interested in at the mo. btw checked out the site and the screenies look great!

posted on September 19th, 2006, 7:40 pm

If we can get the seperated sections to agree to player or AI commands then great.


At the moment it is facing the axe because, when you seperate the prometheus, the 3 peices split as planned. However after splitting they just sit there and disobey any player commands like, move jump to warp, attack, etc etc. very annoying.


We have one more idea for it, but it would significantly restrict the MVAM, but at the same time look the dog's bollocks too

If all our tests fail to get a Promie to seperate, then it'll be dropped. There is also no known way to get it to reconnect. Atleast with Seperating Galaxy saucer sections, you have the excuse to the phaser canon on her ventral side.


Needs more testing at this stage.



I have left a Dominion related message with the Team, to collect their views. I have also left a poll for public members to cast vote on. My only concern is that adding the Dominion 'may' push release into 2007.



Ad'

posted on September 19th, 2006, 7:43 pm

ah sucks the prommie wud be a great ship to have in ur game! hope u can sort out the bugs mate!