Reports from the frontlines

posted on December 25th, 2009, 5:17 am

Will this patch add any new units or stations to the game? 

Since features are already finalized, I'm almost a hundred percent sure that no new units have been added - next patch and the ones after however will see the introduction of a new Romulan vessel, new Romulan refits, potentially the Command Cube, and a new Dominion vessel.

This was mainly a balancing patch - not a feature patch, while the next few patches concentrate on features and faction tweaking, rather than outright balance changes 

posted on December 25th, 2009, 5:24 am

Christmas Eve and Dom is patrolling the forums.

  GO TO BED or Santa won't bring you any patches.

posted on December 25th, 2009, 5:56 am

Haha!  (had to make it twice to get the point across)

And what are yooooou doing up so late? . Folks kicked me off the computer earlier (ah, the joys of visiting home) so just wanted to screw around

posted on December 25th, 2009, 6:19 am

Alas...I am up as well. We were allowed to open a few things early...my sister got a Wii...for some reason, it thinks that i'm almost 10 years older than I really am....one downside of gaming...for some reason, it does not exersize the body as well as the mind... 

posted on December 25th, 2009, 7:28 am

Haha!  (had to make it twice to get the point across)

And what are yooooou doing up so late? . Folks kicked me off the computer earlier (ah, the joys of visiting home) so just wanted to screw around

  Yeah my fam just finished watching Gran Torino.  I really didn't like it ... Eastwood was the only remotely decent actor, the script was obvious and self-indulgent, and the moral lessons were like a children's book.

  SO ... I thought I'd tease you.  Any bets on whether the patch is a Christmas present?

posted on December 25th, 2009, 8:31 am

Since features are already finalized, I'm almost a hundred percent sure that no new units have been added - next patch and the ones after however will see the introduction of a new Romulan vessel, new Romulan refits, potentially the Command Cube, and a new Dominion vessel.

This was mainly a balancing patch - not a feature patch, while the next few patches concentrate on features and faction tweaking, rather than outright balance changes 

That's what I figured. Okay, thanks 

posted on December 25th, 2009, 8:32 am

  Yeah my fam just finished watching Gran Torino.  I really didn't like it ... Eastwood was the only remotely decent actor, the script was obvious and self-indulgent, and the moral lessons were like a children's book.

   SO ... I thought I'd tease you.  Any bets on whether the patch is a Christmas present?

Oh gosh, that would just make my Christmas perfect. I don't dare to hope!

posted on December 25th, 2009, 1:35 pm

Yep, the core features of the current patch are a complete rebalancing and many new features for gameplay, like the new unit profiles introduced in the newspost. It will also feature stuff like the new interface. New vessels and stations are planned for every race in the scope of the next one or two patches, along with greater race, mixed-tech and avatar redos

posted on December 25th, 2009, 7:20 pm

Yep, the core features of the current patch are a complete rebalancing and many new features for gameplay, like the new unit profiles introduced in the newspost. It will also feature stuff like the new interface. New vessels and stations are planned for every race in the scope of the next one or two patches, along with greater race, mixed-tech and avatar redos

Awesome. So, we can look forward to more mixed-tech special ships in the not-too-distant future? 

posted on December 26th, 2009, 2:59 am

Awesome. So, we can look forward to more mixed-tech special ships in the not-too-distant future? 

In a word: yes

posted on December 26th, 2009, 12:49 pm

Any chance we can have a preview of the new abilities?

posted on December 26th, 2009, 4:30 pm

So, one personal question of mine, are any of my ideas in there. I like it when I know some ideas are good ones (because lately I had a bad idea streak).

posted on December 26th, 2009, 5:08 pm

The only things in the patch are what the devs have told us im afraid Gamer

And just because you have a good idea doesn't mean it will go in the patch, sorry.

posted on December 27th, 2009, 1:05 am

The only things in the patch are what the devs have told us im afraid Gamer

And just because you have a good idea doesn't mean it will go in the patch, sorry.

Nah, its cool, besides. I just keep trying to propose ideas until one of them is successful. Which I guess I could be the devs biggest Nag. I mean, I posted so many ideas that I must really annoy them.

I'm probably more annoying than Mal, Boggz, and Funnystuffpictures, all teamed up in the same game.

posted on December 27th, 2009, 10:39 am

ideas and suggestions do never annoy us, Fleet Operations is based on those inputs