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Starcraft Total Conv.

Madan

Sun Dec 2 16:15:33 2001

Working on it on my Wintel. Harder than Q3A dev, though.

5 races:

Borg, Federation, Dominion, Klingons, Cardassians.

Each has 5-7 ships. Top view combat. Maps include non-traversable asteroid fields, suns, hiding nebulas and wormholes.

Feds start with dev tree:

Delta Flyer(shuttle) Weapons-25 Hull-50 Shields-75 - Galaxy 35/150/300 - Defiant 35/200/200 - Intrepid 30/100/250 -  Akira 35/125/300 - Prometheus 45/250/350 - Sovereign 40/200/400

Regenerating Shields and Reperable Hulls for all races.

The Akira and Sovereign are detectors. Feds will be distinguishable by their ship's blazing speed, high shields and all-around well-rounded ships. All Fed ships except for the Defiant and Delta Flyer may carry Delta Flyers.

Klings:

Bird of Prey K'vort 25/75/50 - D-7(Ktinga) 30/75/75 - K'vortCha 30/75/100 - Vorcha 30/125/150 - Neghvar 45/300/300

Neghvars possess Yamato gun(in DS9--fortress breaker Pulse Disrupter Canon)

All Kling ships can cloak (burrow) but may not attack while cloaked. Klings are fast to build, relatively cheap at earlier levels and the Neghvar is extremely effective at turtle breaking.

Borg:

Scout 20/50/25 - Interceptor 20/50/50 - Sphere 20/100/50 - Borg Cube 40/2500/200(detector) - Tactical Borg Cube 45/3000/300 -  Borg Queen's Ship(diamond) 30/400/400(detector)

All Borg ships, except for the Scout have "assimilate": (mind control). Borg start off weak, building streams of dozens of scouts and interceptors and only later in the game do they develop into the slow to build, but extremely powerful cubes.

Borg shields do not regenerate(must be recharged with a battery) but the Borg hull regenerates.

Cubes may carry Spheres and Scouts. Tac Cubes ditto.

Dominion:

Jem' Hadar Fighter 30/50/75 - Jem 'Hadar Destroyer 30/125/150 - Jem 'Hadar Warship 30/150/200 - Jem 'Hadar Battleship 45/350/200(detector) - Breen Confederacy Warship 40/200/200

Fighters have stim pack that reduces hp to 0. Their weapons fire once at 200 damage.(ramming attack)
Warships and Battleships may carry Fighters.
Fighters may fire EMP pulse to negate shields of one opponent per Fighter.

Breen Warship may fire lockdown.(energy disruptor)

Dominion build ships quickly at first. Structure for the Fighter may be upgraded to spawn two at a time. Warship costs the same as a Galaxy but is less effective. Ditto with the Destroyer. Dominon are strong through a combination of Battleships, Breens and Fighters. Slow to build later units.

Cardassians:

Hideki 20/75/25 - Norin 20/75/75 - Tonga 25/200/100 - Galor 30/125/100 - Keldon 35/150/200 - Hutet 40/300/200

Hutets are carriers. May both create interceptors(scouts) and may carry Hidekis.
Tongas may also carry Hidekis.
Hutets may fire "Pulse Storm" (Psionic Storm).

Cardassians excel employing Tongas for patroling and ship carrying(due to their tough hulls). Galors make up the backbone, being quite cheap. Keldons reinfornce the front lines and Hutets are turtle breakers.

What do you think? It's going to be...quite interesting.

M.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sun Dec 2 18:38:22 2001

Sounds interresting, though I've not ever played starcraft.
Riso

Sun Dec 2 23:45:01 2001

A few things:

1) 3 race limit
2) a StarCraft to StarTrek TC is already beeing done.

http://dominion.campaigncreations.com

Riso

Sun Dec 2 23:46:16 2001

You might want to get on a Armada II mod team.

Because as usually, the dev team fucked up.

Madan

Mon Dec 3 02:26:49 2001

Uhm, Riso, if you go to www.infocenter.com, there are several tutes on how to add new races, while keeping the old ones. I've already succeeded. I can't play with them because I haven't built buildings but the there's nothing in the Starcraft engine that restricts the races as long as the home directory MPQ has additional archive folders holding all the necessary files.


Moreso, just because someone is doing something I'm trying to do, doesn't mean I can't do it better.

I know the ships *VERY* well and they may not.

I'll post you a screenshot tomorrow. My modem is too slow now.

Trust me, you'll like it.

M.

Imitation Gruel

Mon Dec 3 20:33:19 2001

I have never found Star Trek or Star Wars related things to be anything more than minimally entertaining. I suppose I just don't like sci-fi.
DrPizza

Wed Dec 5 23:26:28 2001

Can Starcraft have "specials"?  Like how C&C lets you find things in crates that aren't normally buildable.
Riso

Thu Dec 6 18:01:50 2001

C'n'C pales in comparision.

Special attacks are common good, if you have the energy.