Federation Admiral Public Update

MadSeason · Post by **MadSeason** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:33 pm

Too bad... I was hoping you guys would get it done in time for Origins. Especially with a new Trek movie out! The sales potential would have been awesome*.

* Well, you know, awesome for a niche strategy game market.

mwaschak · Post by **mwaschak** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:28 pm

MadSeason wrote:Too bad... I was hoping you guys would get it done in time for Origins. Especially with a new Trek movie out! The sales potential would have been awesome*.

Yeah, me too. But the good news is that it gets an extra month of playtesting too, which is never a bad thing.

MadSeason wrote: * Well, you know, awesome for a niche strategy game market.

I know what you mean

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And 500th post too!

-Jay

MarkG88 · Post by **MarkG88** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:45 pm

mwaschak wrote:
I know what you mean .

And 500th post too!

-Jay

Slacker

I mean congratulations on 500th post.

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:25 am

The more I hear about this, the more excited I get! Please keep the updates coming.

Charles Lewis · Post by **Charles Lewis** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:05 pm

Wolverin61 wrote:The more I hear about this, the more excited I get! Please keep the updates coming.

As we know more of the overall status and progress of the project, we'll be sure to share. We're just as excited!

MarkG88 · Post by **MarkG88** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:24 pm

Wolverin61 wrote:The more I hear about this, the more excited I get! Please keep the updates coming.

Wolverine, I like your avatar and your quote, welcome to forums too btw.

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:31 am

Thanks.

Just stopped by to change to the avatar I just made.

Lemme know which one you like best.

MarkG88 · Post by **MarkG88** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:52 am

Wolverin61 wrote:Thanks.

Just stopped by to change to the avatar I just made.

Lemme know which one you like best.

They're both pretty cool but I'm leaning towards the second (current) one for now.

Charles Lewis · Post by **Charles Lewis** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:48 pm

Wolverin61 wrote:Thanks.

Just stopped by to change to the avatar I just made.

Lemme know which one you like best.

Definitely the second one.

mwaschak · Post by **mwaschak** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:00 pm

Charles Lewis wrote: Definitely the second one.

And those ships in particular are very valuable in a campaign setting, if I do say so myself

.

-Jay

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:05 pm

They sure are, but actually I've been thinking more about repair tugs and, to a lesser extent, hospital ships.

I'm stoked about FA!

mwaschak · Post by **mwaschak** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:16 pm

Wolverin61 wrote:They sure are, but actually I've been thinking more about repair tugs and, to a lesser extent, hospital ships.

Oh, for sure. I have been going over which ships would be required for a campaign, and which will be nice to have, just to fill out that campaign ship book SVC talked about. I think the first priority will go to repair vessels, shipyards, and FRDs.

Wolverin61 wrote: I'm stoked about FA!

Thank you, as are we. It has been a monumental amount of work to get it to play right, founded in VBAM mechanics, but one which adheres to all the nuances of the SFU. We kept the modular design so it could be made more simple or complicated as needed. I have a number of plans for expansions if given the chance.

As playtesting is going on I am mulling the idea of a "First Campaigns" PDF to go along with the "First Missions" that seems to work so well for FC.

All the best,
-Jay

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:55 pm

mwaschak wrote:Oh, for sure. I have been going over which ships would be required for a campaign, and which will be nice to have, just to fill out that campaign ship book SVC talked about. I think the first priority will go to repair vessels, shipyards, and FRDs.

Great! I wasn't sure what would be coming out, as far as campaign support ships go. Tugs are coming into FC, but SVC said they'd just have cargo pods. A repair pod would be good for a campaign, plus I saw a 'warp engine repair pod' in a book awhile back, so between the two I've been toying with the idea of trying to convert a pod mini into something like that.

mwaschak wrote:As playtesting is going on I am mulling the idea of a "First Campaigns" PDF to go along with the "First Missions" that seems to work so well for FC.

I know you'd mentioned doing some type of preview or example PDF before. I hope you do. I'm so curious and excited about FA, I can hardly wait for more info!

terryoc · Post by **terryoc** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:26 am

The Federation hospital ship is in Briefing #2. Other empires' hospital ships are probably based on civilian hulls, i.e. modified freighters, possibly with upgraded engines for speed. There's also armed freighters in Briefing #2.

Repair tugs would just be a tug or light tactical transport with a repair pod. LTTs for FC have been published in Captain's Log.

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:17 pm

Any new news here?