STM "Final v1.7.5" Discussion

[Atrocities]

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I received a very nice email yestarday complimenting me on my work with the Breen, Cardassian, Dominion, Hirogen, Klingon, Romulan, and Son's ship sets. The author of the email was very impressed with the new Klingon and Romulan ships and seemed very pleased with the "logical" creative avenue I took with many of the ship designs for the all of the races. Unfortuneatly I deleted the message by accident while deleting a bunch of spam and virus emailings. I had empitied the deletion folder before I realized what I had done. I was going to post the email on the Star Trek Mod web page and present the link here, but that is not going to happen now. I was sickened as I realized what I had done.

The email was signed and it did have a noted Califorina Studio email address. Because I do not have the email to offer as proof I won't say who the email came from nor the studio name, although I think you can figure that one out for yourselves. If it was a prank email, I was covered while I had it. If it was authentic, well then, hot damn I could prove it. But since I deleted it, without replying, all I can hope is that the person who emailed me will read this and know that I appreciated his kind words and if you want to email me again, I promis I will not delete it. If this was a prank, well you got me. However I would like to think it was real and it pleases me to think that at least someone in Hollywood enjoys this game as much as we do.

Now watch me get sued.

[ March 24, 2004, 08:08: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Atrocities]

I would like to tell you a little bit about the game that I am now playing.

It is a large WPL Standard Map with Warp Points located anywhere. No events, tech cost low, low tech start, 5k racial points, 1 planet start, good conditions, and good resources.

I am playing as the Klingons against:
Cardassians
Dominion
Federation (STNG)
Ferengi
Romulan

With 10 neutral empires.

At turn 86 I find myself in 4th position behind
Federation 1st, with over 600 ships
Cardassian 2nd with nearly 500 ships
Dominion 3rd with nearly 300 ships

I am at war with the Federation and Cardassians, but have only been in combat with the Cardassians.

Both the Federation and Cardassian designs are superior to my ships and the Cardassians are using Intel attacks against me.

The Federation is quietly building up forces and expanding.

The Romulans and Ferengi are most likely at war with each other at this point or something as both are not expanding and both appear to be loosing ground. I do have a partnership with the Ferengi and they have grown smaller over the course of our peace accords.

I am finding it hard to keep up with supply demands so I am focusing on building improved remote mining ships and deploying them. At least 60% or better of my resources now come from remote mining.

I have a nice size fleet of about 150 B'Rel and K'Vort class ships with ok armor and weapons. I have designed larger ships but have not yet put any into production.

I have managed to explore over a 3rd of the map and have only encountered the Federation once but boarder on the Cardassians and have Ferengi.

I have contact with only one of the six neutrals, the Bolians, and we hold a partnership agreement.

I am attempting to focus my research on weapons, armor, shield technology and thanks to ruins have gained Gas colony tech very recently. Since I have only one major planet capable at this time of producing colony ships, I am limited.

I have 74 colonies in 36 systems and am in the process of fortifying those systems and planets with satellites, mines, and weapon platforms.

Special note to TNZ. I love the mine options you submitted for the mod. Those are way cool man.

As the battle continues I will try and keep you updated.

[Atrocities]

I have to say thanks again to David "Avatar" G for his advice on re-rendering the ships. The Klingon mini ships look just great in the game.

[BlackRose]

You deserve as much of a break/rest from making this mod as you could ever want

Dare I say it? ummmm


Best

Trek

Game

Ever

Quite serious here I know SEIV deserves a lot of the credit for making the template but heck I'd pay $60 if all i could do was play this mod

[Dragonswrd]

Star Fleet Battles brings back memories.

[Tribble]

Originally posted by Dragonswrd:
Star Fleet Battles brings back memories.

Federation and Empire was quite fun too - kind of like a strategic SFB. I miss some of the SFB races, I really liked the Lyrans (espc. their cool catamaran and trimaran hulls) and the Hydrans (hellbores!)!

Tribble

[Atrocities]

Thanks guys. You know all the hours, time, and dedication to the mod was done for love of the game and for folks like you to enjoy.

In a year I wonder what it will be like.

[TNZ]

Atrocities, the Borg + big ships = Space Monster. Now that is an idea!

[Tribble]

Originally posted by BlackRose:
Best

Trek

Game

Ever

Quite serious here I know SEIV deserves a lot of the credit for making the template but heck I'd pay $60 if all i could do was play this mod

Absolutely, I haven't had this much fun (playing a game anyway...) since playing Star Fleet Battles in my teens many years ago :-)

Tribble

[ March 24, 2004, 13:05: Message edited by: Tribble ]

[Atrocities]

Well the Cardassians have decided to attack me. First they took out the Neutral Race (Bolians) then they massed there ships and began attacking my northern most colonies wiping them out. They are breaking up there forces and attacking me on two fronts.

I just lost a fleet of 20 ships to 3 Cardassian Battleships. Satellites and planetary weapons are proving useless against them at this stage.

The game has become very interesting. Many of my worlds are about to riot so I must work on the anger files a tad.