ship thoughts

have the ships ever been done with flash in any of the previous flash treks? cuz I was thinking that it might make be more customizable for the ships and maybe better damage looks and weapons could fire from actual spots on the ship instead of from the middle.

So anyone that knows flash better than me, let me know if this is a good idea or not.

I only really now computer graphics and not so much of the programing of flash.

Well, the biggest deal is how good something looks, that's why we use photoshop. It doesn't really make the ships more customizable, it's just a matter of setting it up.

I can do photoshop so I'm more than happy to help

If I get what your saying, the game is based on flash. go to www.vexxiang.com for the original. Also there sprites, so if you can make new ship designs, that would be awsome.

You're going to love this, for the most part, there will be all new ships, maybe only a few old ones!!! And anybody willing to help out on the graphics, let me know! There's a tut on bm sprites in the sig section of VX Flash, which I'll post a copy of here shortly

are these ship going to be based off of source? above 2D designs shouldn't be too bad.

have you ever played master of Orion 2? it would be cool to base it off of that but that might be too complex.

but should there be only parts designed thus you could have saucer A hull G and engines Z

and maybe different parts give you more or less weapon slots.

There's going to be a lot of cool stuff implemented in this game, with three different eras of ships to design!

well I'll try to start designing stuff. I dont have flash at home so I can't get all of the ships from the old game.

That's all right. My initial focus will be designing tos era ships like the constitution dreadnought, which I'm going to enjoy quite a bit!

found this website and downloaded some designs for ships

http://www.staryards.com/

That's great!!

i think that the prometheus class class ship should have the multi vector attack

Agreed, the Galaxy should be able to so a saucer seperation, new ships would be awsome.

I'll try to have that implemented.

I found this website online and I sent him an e-mail if he can help out with ships

http://www.sttff.net/starshipdatabase.html

they look really nice so I hope he accepts

you do realize that these are for the Final Frontier? nothing to do with cannon stuff.

the starships still look good

Yeah. Though I'm not sure who exactly designed them.

me niether so I hope to get a lead atleast

that doesn't matter. The ships I'm designing, I have created from scratch, like my romulan ships.

Hey is there any chance that you can implement more Borg Ships?

we're working on it

Cool cant wait for it to begin Beta Testing.

That's still months away!

O well ill live.

do ya think that makeing diferent ships have different "abilitys" would be a good idea?

e.g the galaxy being able to have suser seperation.

in bm 2, the galaxy saucer does separate. i'm going to try to make the game do as much as I can, though. The big thing that can't really be changed is the phaser origin. The weapons have to come from the middle because of targets in the symbols. Each ship is different in size and shape, so you can't really change where the phasers come from.

cool do ya think you can get the galaxy Dreadnorght to seperate?

probably

cool I think it needs it.

I have played the download and was wondering why the galaxy and many other ships look alot different than what there names sugest.

he just released this so people could try it and see some of the changes. It's still very very buggy

yes most definatly.

Yeah the galaxy looked like one of the ships off the first star trek

I think the galaxy Class should be the biggest federation ship.

Right now I'm working on the TOS era of ships. So all of the 24th century TNG ships are being changed, but a lot of sprites and codes haven't been changed yet

yay fun.

what would be nice is add a few secret ships. like a planet destroying station that costs 1000000 lat. it can be deployed anywhere you want and it fires a superlaser (dont make me remind you of aldaraan) witch destroys the planet, but it blasts out so much shrapnel, that you have to be out of the system in 30 seconds after the explosion. of course it can be destroyed (500 shields and hull) but it has to be with a weapon of the races own. you can only have one of these at a time,but theres an uber one that costs twice as much latnium and costs a bit of duranium too... this one can turn a planet into a ohh i dunno, how about a parking/shipyard type planet?

hmm no I think that is a bad idea.

well, i like having things like easter eggs in the game

yea but that is a little excessive.

well I remember that we did talk about the borg death star lol!

Are we going to see Zindi and Suluban ships like the ones from Enterprise? Those would be cool.

well, maybe we could incorporate those as hidden ships or something. stewi, feel like creating xindi sprites? there was never a real top on shot during the series, so you might have to take a guess by looking at the different angles

oh! just an idea, perhaps there could be a hidden sphere that was never destroyed, and one of the missions is to find it and destroy it or something!

Great idea! why not put that in the "Conquest" section of the menu? and you can bomb planets but you have to bomb them enough to eradicate the pop like in DS9? and having suns that you can destroy like in DS9 when the destroyed the Dyson Sphere? and real traffic.
If i buy a three engined Enterprise,Anyone else should! and a few ships that Vex and dondon left out. like bioships and borg stuff and more stations.

good idea. I agree more ships would be good but BM3 is in a different era.

custom shipyard? you can make ships out of salvaged parts from ships.

yes, know the ideas are coming!! keep bringing on ideas!

If you buy x amount of Suluban ships you can make a Sulban hive base. You can make "wings" or "fleets" of ships to do only one thing like attack a starbase of escort other ships. When you make alliances you can do joint attacks. For example if you are allied with the Romulans and the Earth Empire, you can do a planned Romulan-EE-You attack on the Dominion. The ability to refit ships and give the Constitution class and the other older classes weapons.