ship thoughts

another thing: why not make it so the fighters can go in triangles and being able to communicate with your fleet with a box so you can talk to your fleet? and, like the damaged akira, if you hit someone (lets say a romulan ship) in the same place about 3 times,it will slowly disintegrate into thin air, and it leaves an orange colored spot (just like the akira theres bars there too.) and being able to destroy/disable
the enemys engines and make engine leaks that are blue,purple,green,or red. fed would have blue and klingon would have red etc.
and have shrapnel from ships that if you touch, will do 10 point of damage.

Is the campaign mission going to stay in the TOS era or are you going to get to, Chrono Trigger-like, bounce back an forth between eras and quadrants influencing events and gathering the tech to stop the Dominion invasion (perhaps by invading the gamma quadrant and pre-emptively destroying the Dominion)?

So, we'll also need Gorn ships, since this is before the Empire exterminated the planet, too?

oh yeah, the gorn are most definately in it. the campaign mode will be all tos.

More advanced diplomatic options would be good, like as General Cohen said combined attacks, perhaps coming both ways, so if two fleets are attacking you they might or might or might not join up, depending on their species' diplomatic stances with each other. But I doubt that it all can be done

that might be difficult. i'm working with vex's ai system. to be truthfull with you, i've never touched anything to do with an ai

The thought of messing with an AI program gives me the heebie jeebies.

we're doomed XD I have a hard time just trying to get teh AI to work in starcraft

you could simulate fighters in formation by making it a single ship

there's a good compromise

hehe... living close to belgium maybe gives me a talent at makin compromises...

(for the ones who don't no why it is, it's basically because Belgium is a land made up of compromises. a "historical spelling mistake" if I may say so. )
french-speakers (Walloons) + dutch-speakers (Flanders) ? BAD combination.

will you be including the iconians? if not it would be cool if they were in it

What do the Iconians look like. I thought it was just a blue glowy ball.


What about crossover ships? One of the ships in BM refers to having seen and x-wing.

Or what about that evil ice cream cone planet killer wandering around the Paso system (or one of the systems without a planet)?

the planet killer. maybe, maybe. it could be the borg replacement because that thing is HUGE!

Wow, the planet killer would be awesome XD I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find some good sprites for it. Ex Astris Scientia has a lot of top-down sprites but it's difficult to cut them out of the image cause the background isn't just a single color you can delete and make transparent. It's kinda annoying, actually =P

If I find any good pics later today, I'll let you know

oh, stewi or i'd probably design the sprite ourself. that's what we have to do with most of the ohter sprites.

why not the cardassian mini-stations seen in one of the battles of chintoka?

what the defense platforms but for them to do anything darkwing would have to put at least ten on each planet
i want some super ship that you can buy from the bajoran wormhole like a gamma quadtrant destroyer and breen ships i love the breen

a bit more grammar please? Anyways, an up and down feature would be good, and the ability to send small attack drones that are like as big as a runabout, and have a big drill on them. ever seen the borg white beam? it cuts a hole in the ship and brings out that part with a tractor beam. i remember seeing borg using the tractor beam as a weapon. a ship was going fast and it fired a beam like the cutting beam but blue.

I do not recall that but when the Enterprise D first discoverd the borg they removed three decks with a tractor beam.

thats what im talking about.

the way that works a borg tractor beam can be posistoined to say get the bridge then it will just increase the strengh and pull it out of the ship its a really effective weapon as sheilds cant stop it

No, that's certainly going to be too complicated!

its to complicated to put in a game such as bm as darkwing's just making it at home but if you take startrek legacy you could do it on a game like that

go on then

i dont understand the coding on that game ( ive got it for the slow people)as the game was rushed into shops as it was just a inbetween devlpment before they reeised a better game

Being able to ram ships if you are on the same level (up and down, remember?) that would be funny.

you can do that on bm 2 but u take alot of damage

What? You can't ram ships in BM2! Can you?

i never knew that, and i've looked at the code. that's exciting, i must find out how!

Yes, you could ram ships into others (I posted a topic about the secrets of BMII), but it required you to go up to warp speed (with the stars stretching by) while in the solar system.

yea only one problem with it you could be in a borg cube and destroy yourself ramming a runabout

Lol.

only if you hit it like 5 times

http://www.st-intelligence.com/begin.php


Here are some ships. The graphics aren't as nice as the ones in the link on page 2. But there are ships from TOS, TNG era, and Enterprise. This Includes Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Borg, and Dominion (not sure about TOS dominion or Borg though ^_^)

Here is an example of the graphics:


How you intend to isolate the top view is up to you. But this should help either way. Even if only to get some design ideas.
And you will probably want to downsize some of the smaller ships pictures.

Woah!:http://www.st-intelligence.com/ship_database/kling/scim.php

that's kind of cool

Yeah Im hoping this site will speed up the progress.