New Orleans

posted on November 5th, 2011, 8:17 pm

I remember reading somewhere that the New Orleans class was a testbed for new torpedo launchers, if it gets put in FO give it maybe rapid firing photon torpedoes with a random chance for a quantum torpedo burst.

Sounds like a great idea

I would like to point out that the ships in fleetops move really strangely.

True, but its pretty hard to get a game object to move realistically, and even harder to make the movement smooth. The same way a character can get stopped on a small rock that wouldn't phase an actual person. My point being its hard to make movement work well, and I think Fleetops did a pretty good job of it considering

posted on November 7th, 2011, 3:47 am

I always thought it was just kind of an assumption that the pods were some kind of torpedo launcher. Personally i thought that pulse cannons would be more interesting. However i do want to see the return of the triloader.

posted on November 7th, 2011, 4:39 am

I've always liked the idea of some super sensor pods or something  . Why does everybody like a warlike Federation 

posted on November 7th, 2011, 5:04 am

What about implamentation as a Hybrid/support middle slot warpin?
Being as theres 3 pods and all.... i could think of sereral uses.

one would be target scanners, i.e. the remore ability only a sorrta fleet boost effect, maybe 10% incrase to weapons rate,

Or particle projectors, givin a little extra speed to help slow warpins escape. (i.e. projects lighter than vacum warp bubble aruond target ship allowing faster impulse speeds)

Holo-emitters maybe? simulate a bigger warpin fleet?

posted on November 7th, 2011, 5:14 am

Because we are playing a war simulation :p dom plus we already have the super sensors. Im ok with them being something else i just dont want them to be torpedo tubes. After all the Feddies are not really at a lost for torpedo boats right now.

posted on November 7th, 2011, 5:22 am

How about pulses?  I always loved those blue pulses on the miranda mk2, or even red pulses..... or maybe a point defense system of some sort, shoot down incoming torps?  decrease torp hit rate by maybe 10 percent? and that could be a cool visual!

posted on November 7th, 2011, 6:00 am

What about making those pods something like launchers for various probes? I mean you hear all the time about Starfleet shooting probes all over the place, maybe the New Orleans could fire probes that reveal parts of the map from anywhere by launching a probe in that general area, or maybe a probe that sends out a false sensor reading that looks like a enemy fleet attacking.

Now the real question is, will the New Orleans have saucer separation? 

posted on November 7th, 2011, 2:15 pm

I've always liked the idea of some super sensor pods or something  .

Same here, it fits much better for a TNG-era ship.

Why does everybody like a warlike Federation 

Beats me, the peaceful ones are already monsters at fighting... they don't need to be warlike.

posted on November 8th, 2011, 7:10 pm

Kill and overkill, Tyler. Kill and overkill.
And because they're hardly peaceful. Quark knew his stuff.
Not to mention they're more fun this way.

posted on November 11th, 2011, 6:58 pm

Beats me, the peaceful ones are already monsters at fighting... they don't need to be warlike.

That's because peace is just too boring, why do you think people go to war all the time?

posted on November 12th, 2011, 9:41 am

But there's no fun in them being warlike; the peaceful ones can kick almost anyones ass, so they'd get no challenge if they were actually focused on war.

posted on November 12th, 2011, 5:45 pm

Starfleet had some tactical ships to threats like the Borg. It would be very wise to have some defenses to keep the peace.

posted on November 13th, 2011, 8:06 pm

But there's no fun in them being warlike; the peaceful ones can kick almost anyones ass, so they'd get no challenge if they were actually focused on war.

Yes, but their peace is just part of their master plan. They get a bunch of peaceful races together, take and combine all their resources, and wait for all the warlike ones to wipe each other out... then they go chaotic and conquer the entire sector without anyone to oppose them.

The Borg are the only ones who caught on to this scheme, and went to Earth to try and save the other races from the evil human plot... and look how that turned out. One malfunctioning translator and they get the impression that for some reason you'd want to take over their entire quadrent