[Tnarg]

Originally posted by Sabin:
I have some ideas for the Star Trek Map. Mind you, they may have been already implemented or are not very good.

1: Add the "Dyson's Sphere", which was featured in at least one book. It seemed to be similar to a Sphereworld. Adding it in may make the gameplay more varied.(everyone trying to take it, ect.)

2: Begin renaming the planets in each system to their regular titles.(Sol I to Earth, ect.) I would also think that making the descriptions for homeworld planets and other sigificant items more specific would be helpful.

3: Add the Guardian of Forever. Perhaps it can be a facility that can never be destroyed or built.(Thus keeping it to one planet) I am not sure what powers it may have specifically, but perhaps it can aid in research, intelligence, and so on.

4: Perhaps add in a damaging barrier that would be disabled after a number of turns.(It had much to do with The Original Series, since it limited space exploration and destroyed any ships that attempted to cross it, or subverted their crew.)

They probably can be nebulas, in that they can represent a number of abilities.

Sabin, A long time ago I was playing around with a map for the AST Mod. You can find it in the PBW map files under Trek Major Systems Map. I did try to make the map a little more interesting by doing some of the items you mentioned ie naming of major planets, making some homeworld larger or smaller, giving the Borg a ring world starting planet, and isolating various quadrants with black holes to keep the uber races in there own quad until later in the game. A number of other things too.

I abandoned the project as there was a lack of interest, but would be interested in trying to get it too work with this mod if there were enough interest. Mostly I just need to figure out how to get this map to be compatible with this mod, and then I would resume work. I have most of the races and nuetral races systems strategically located throughout the map and used a number of resources to find my information.

If you are interested let me know and I'll see what I can do to get this to work. In the mean time you can download it and check it out in a map editor.