Fed Ships

posted on December 31st, 2003, 11:07 am

Hey, I'm new on these boards but I've been playing the mod for a few days and I must say, excellent work. I was wondering though, what other Federation ships are you planning on putting into the next release, if you don't mind me asking?

posted on December 31st, 2003, 2:32 pm

Welcome to the Forum

hmm, well the Federation is finished, so we won't add more ships

but with the Avatarsystem some Ships will be replaced/addet

posted on December 31st, 2003, 2:36 pm

Yep, Detekro is right. There won't be many new buildable ships.
With the avatarsystem every player can select an avatar - for example a federation admiral - at gamestart, who grant's unique bonuses and vessels.
Therefore the Federation will definitly get a Torpedoplatform and the Norway Class by chosing admiral mayson.

posted on December 31st, 2003, 3:34 pm

Now that your drooling over the prospect-Welcome to the forums

posted on December 31st, 2003, 8:40 pm

I still dont understand this "Avatar system"? What is it? Is it like in B5A2 mod, where you choose between "the alliance" and "selling out" or whatever, so you get different advanced ships. (Eg if you sell out you get Shadow technology)

posted on January 3rd, 2004, 11:35 pm

basicly the avatra is something you have to research and you can only research one of them.they all do different things eg
A1: faster ship build time
A2: faster ship repair time
A3: special weapons
ECT ECT

Optec will the avatras be realesed in pataches like 1 avatra for each race just as a littel tasters for us?

posted on January 4th, 2004, 12:32 am

about the vatar feature:
in the beginning of a game, every player starts with a main base, specified by the race he choosed to play (or got cause he choosed a random race). Now he can select an avatar here, in a menu, similar to research. as soon as he chosed an admiral the base will turn into the normal base (assimilation matriy, outpost, starbase..) what you are used to and normal gameplay can begin. depending on which avatar you chosed you can build 2 new units and have a variety of new bonuses like new weapons on several vessels, new special weapons, short build times and so on.

About the Avatar releases:
we plan to have 2 avatars per race in beta3 and then add additional avatars in later betas to a maximum of 3 or 4 avatars per race.

posted on January 4th, 2004, 5:07 pm

so you are not going to realease themn in pataches and get feed back from them?

posted on January 4th, 2004, 5:59 pm

we hope to get feedback after the betas

posted on January 5th, 2004, 11:32 pm

Eufnoc remember this is still a beta although its good enough to be a full version.