Federation Space Scenaio idea.
 

Anyone remember the old Task Force board game Federation Space? Would anyone be interested in having this turned into an SE4 scenario?
I've been working on this the Last couple weeks (well the map part anyway) and I'm just curious whether I'm doing this for myself or if anyone else would want to play it (if I ever get it done).

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Please do it sounds great!

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This sounds like a great idea DavidG, if i can help in anyway, I will follow this thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

I WILL play it; when you are done http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ October 05, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: JLS ]

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thanks JLS how about this question:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=010097

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Federation Space!? A great idea for a recycling project. Now, if someone would just come out with a classic SFB mod with shipsets... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ October 06, 2003, 02:55: Message edited by: geckomlis ]

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Yep. Some friends and I had a meta-campaign of Federation Space and SFB going on for a few years. Fun stuff. The SFB mod would be the hard part (a lot of work), if you were going to try that part.

PvK

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There is a Kzinti shipset (at State of the Art Spaceyards) that basically looks like the old SFB Kzintis. There was also an incomplete SFB Gorn shipset posted somewhere too.

I once owned a copy of FedSpace - couldn't get anyone to play it, though. Too big and convoluted (the "twitch factor" was already kicking in back then...)

EDIT - That's it! First thing when I get home, I pin on my second bar... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ October 06, 2003, 10:35: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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WTH???

Did I just clone myself?!?!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yea the Kzinti ship set is called the Mirak. I think one of the computer Versions of SFB changed the name for copyright reasons so this set matches that. I also found a ship set that is close enough to the Hydrans for my liking.

I don't intend to recreate all the weapons and stuff in SFB. I plan to make this scenario work the the Star Trek Mod although I will use the old federation ship set. I don't want to change the data files too much but I think will have to add some stuff for the Kzini and hydrans. At the very least I will have to find a way to make fighters more usefull.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Excellent. The more STMod races, the better. I was toying with the idea of writing up the Kzintis myself, but if you're going to do it so much the better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

BTW, which shipset are you using for the Hydrans?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Excellent. The more STMod races, the better. I was toying with the idea of writing up the Kzintis myself, but if you're going to do it so much the better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

BTW, which shipset are you using for the Hydrans?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Assuming the creator does not mind I was going to use the Ur-Quan (available on SOTAS). unfortunatly whatver I do probably wont really be compatibale with the StarTrek mod since I will likely have to edit the data files to get create usefull fighters.

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Hmm, I thought Atrocities' Dominion set looked kinda Hydran-ish... of course that would be rather confusing, using one ST race for another http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Work has been on going on this scenario. I've been having fun playing God as I build up the races. Kind of fun making a scenario as you can temporarily edit the data files. Don't like that star? Well lets add a star killing ability to that Phaser. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

So here is the map I've created:
FederationSpace.zip

Races added in this order: Fed, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Kizinti, Hydran, Tholian, Orion.

there are a few 'Any' starting spots in fed space and Klingon which I will use for Nuetral races to represent Federation members or Klingon conquered planets.

You will notice a lot of empty systems between empires. These represent the sectors on the Federation Space board were the races have Base Stations. My intention is to spruce these up a bit with some minor planets or asteroids. I will also likely tweek the planet values of the main systems to try balance things a bit. The systems shown on the board game all have one major O2 rock planet (since of course we know from TOS that all aliens breath O2 and speak English)

So far I've been playing the scenario with the Star Trek mod files but I'm thinking I might have to modify them as follows:

- Add a fusion weapons for the hydrans.
- Add usefull missles for the Kzinti (possible a direct fire weapon but call them missles so the Kizinti who like missles are not useless)
- Add some a plasma torpedo for the gorns (somewhat less powerfull than the romulans)

I'm also thinking about removing ship weapon mounts. In Federaion space large ships are expensive and small in numbers compared to the light cruser and destroyer types. I think removing ship mounts would make it so the smaller ships would be usefull.

I'm still thinking about how to simulate the Orion Pirates. I gave them a home system in a small planet in Orion hidden behind a cloaking storm but beyond that...??

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KIZINTI????

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Does this mean you've never heard of the Kzinti? They were introduced I believe in an Animated Trek written by Larry Niven. (kzinti are a race in several of his novels) The old Taskforce games Star Fleet Battle and Federation Space used the Kzinti as one of the 6 major races.

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the kzinti don't belong in star trek. a race of caniballs doesn't fit in the universe.

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Kizinti? I don't remember them from the animated Star Trek, but then again, it's been about 30 years since I've seen most of them. I think Sci-Fi channel was showing the episodes a few years ago, but for some reason I couldn't watch them. Eventually, you know Paramount will release them on DVD, just for no other reason but to make a few bucks. And yes, I'll buy the set when it does come out.

As far as the Federation Space mod, sure, I'm interested. I'll d/l it whenever it comes out. Can't have enough mods. Don't remember the board game, however.