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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 18:47:46 GMT -5
If your ship is from the STO period, the tech is vastly superior to tech on the Enterprise-C. An Ambassador can still compete with Romulan warships of the same era but those Rommies are powerful enough to where a rock-em-sock-em fight where you both just stand there shooting at each other would not be a sought after option for you. Dry dock for 6 months kind of thing.
If you end up losing your ship, pending the circumstances of your loss, you may be given a smaller, less costly ship for the Federation.
For the sake of simplicity, I think I will nix the optional time periods. I was going to have a scale of options to deal with each one (If you are from TOS, you deal with X threat and if from STO, you deal with Y threat), but this will simplify things.
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 19:05:26 GMT -5
Yeah, I was kinda wondering how you'd do that. Just set a date roughly and we'll go from there. I'm happy with the Ambassador Retrofit. That seems like a decent ship for a new captain. An older ship (I remember them being 50 years old in TNG) but still quite powerful and not a small ship. You could run most of the missions. It's just I remember STO being such a hectic time period. Klingons, Romulans, Borg, all sorts of enemies popping out of the woodwork. Just wanted to make sure I had the best possible ship I could snag because combat was much, much more routine in STO over say... TNG where they very rarely engaged in standing battles.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 19:07:33 GMT -5
Forgot to answer your first question. Yes, use of templates means they would have equivalent skill and understanding of tech in the 25th century.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 19:11:06 GMT -5
Another reason I want you guys to start low is because if you guys do something amazing, a ship upgrade would be a potential reward.
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 19:12:58 GMT -5
Soon:
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 22:48:23 GMT -5
Well, my team is all good to go?
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 22:51:01 GMT -5
Well, my team is all good to go? Mostly solid. I am a little hesitant about the Klingon though, since you will be at war with the Klingons. Worf I think is a unique case because he was raised with humans. If your bio has a good justification, I am down though. Also, the rarity of androids makes me want to possibly have that as a potential reward later down the road. Androids are damn near unkillable and since you will have away missions, there needs to be some risk until I can figure out how to balance something like an android in your party. So it's a temporary no on that one... just until I get the hang of things.
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 23:07:52 GMT -5
Well, my team is all good to go? Mostly solid. I am a little hesitant about the Klingon though, since you will be at war with the Klingons. Worf I think is a unique case because he was raised with humans. If your bio has a good justification, I am down though. Also, the rarity of androids makes me want to possibly have that as a potential reward later down the road. Androids are damn near unkillable and since you will have away missions, there needs to be some risk until I can figure out how to balance something like an android in your party. So it's a temporary no on that one... just until I get the hang of things. Well, in STO you're only at war with a small rebel faction of extremists. The Klingons you fight don't represent the Empire, they're more like terrorists. And Klingon bridge officers were extremely easy to come by. I don't think it'd be that big of a stretch for a Klingon from the House of Martok to think Starfleet was a potentially glorious career path. I am happy to change that though. I'll swap Data out for Wesley Crusher? He's not as good at fighting but he's an extremely good physicist and got the crew out of a lot of jams.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 23:12:01 GMT -5
Mostly solid. I am a little hesitant about the Klingon though, since you will be at war with the Klingons. Worf I think is a unique case because he was raised with humans. If your bio has a good justification, I am down though. Also, the rarity of androids makes me want to possibly have that as a potential reward later down the road. Androids are damn near unkillable and since you will have away missions, there needs to be some risk until I can figure out how to balance something like an android in your party. So it's a temporary no on that one... just until I get the hang of things. Well, in STO you're only at war with a small rebel faction of extremists. The Klingons you fight don't represent the Empire, they're more like terrorists. And Klingon bridge officers were extremely easy to come by. I don't think it'd be that big of a stretch for a Klingon from the House of Martok to think Starfleet was a potentially glorious career path. I am happy to change that though. I'll swap Data out for Wesley Crusher? He's not as good at fighting but he's an extremely good physicist and got the crew out of a lot of jams. Sounds good. I never got far enough in the game to figure out the deal with the Klingons. You can have whatever template you want. The actual species of android is where the problem lies. You want a Data's genius for a template in a human body? That would be cool with me. You just would be limited to human stats.
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 23:13:53 GMT -5
If there is a possibility of a Soong-type Android at some later date (although insanely rare, Data did show he was capable of making new ones with Lal) then I'd just hang out for that potential.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 23:16:42 GMT -5
If there is a possibility of a Soong-type Android at some later date (although insanely rare, Data did show he was capable of making new ones with Lal) then I'd just hang out for that potential. I will definitely have that reward available later. Mostly because I think the idea is awesome. Given the size of your crew though, unless you have a bigger ship by that time, you might be promoting someone out of your crew (or they could... die?) to make room. But those are RPG decisions you can make once we get to those points.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 23:48:34 GMT -5
Hmmm.... Tempted to drop my Counselor. I just had here there for a story element anyway. She has absolutely no combat value in the ship or on the ground.
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Post by Dane on Apr 21, 2013 23:48:41 GMT -5
I have finalized my team. There is room on the bridge crew for two more (An android could take over Operations as Data did and Communications Officer is left open).
My team is pretty heavy on the Science and Engineering brains. Between Wesley Crusher, Spock, Geordi la Forge and Seven of Nine, I don't think there is much the team couldn't think their way out of. If I get an android later on it'll be even stronger.
The away team will probably be Will Riker, Spock, Worf, and Seven.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 21, 2013 23:51:17 GMT -5
I have finalized my team. There is room on the bridge crew for two more (An android could take over Operations as Data did and Communications Officer is left open). My team is pretty heavy on the Science and Engineering brains. Between Wesley Crusher, Spock, Geordi la Forge and Seven of Nine, I don't think there is much the team couldn't think their way out of. If I get an android later on it'll be even stronger. The away team will probably be Will Riker, Spock, Worf, and Seven. Looking great. Just need the bios fleshed out and as usual, you have made a rock-star team.
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Post by Dane on Apr 22, 2013 0:00:14 GMT -5
A lot of my backstories will be reasonably generic and short. A lot of the bridge officers in Star Trek have pretty general backgrounds which are slowly fleshed out over the seasons. I'd like this to be similar. And also I don't really have time to write a dozen essays.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 22, 2013 0:02:54 GMT -5
A lot of my backstories will be reasonably generic and short. A lot of the bridge officers in Star Trek have pretty general backgrounds which are slowly fleshed out over the seasons. I'd like this to be similar. And also I don't really have time to write a dozen essays. No biggie. You can develop as you go but some basic stuff would be great to start you out.
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Post by Dane on Apr 22, 2013 0:45:34 GMT -5
I've added the first two bio's. Let me know if their length is sufficient. I'll add more as I get time.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 22, 2013 0:56:49 GMT -5
That's perfect for starters.
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Post by Dane on Apr 22, 2013 1:06:42 GMT -5
Awesome!
I basically imagine Emmerich/Sivak as a Kirk/Spock type duo. But I always liked Will Riker more as a 'hands on' type Starfleet officer over Kirk. Riker just seems more well balanced.
I'll fill in the rest later.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 22, 2013 1:08:42 GMT -5
Awesome! I basically imagine Emmerich/Sivak as a Kirk/Spock type duo. But I always liked Will Riker more as a 'hands on' type Starfleet officer over Kirk. Riker just seems more well balanced. I'll fill in the rest later. Yeah Riker has Kirk's cowboy attitude, tempered with Picard's extreme discipline. He's a good mix, all things considered.
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