Hi all, Just a quick news report about STFC. As the subject states STFC now has dynamic rather than static menus. What does this mean? With the new dynamic menu systems in the ships and stations menu, formally the vessels menu, destroyed ships will no longer show up in the list of options. That way only ships or stations that remain in your fleet will be listed. Another new change with dynamic menus is your status menus, weapons menus, and even your main menu will be customised to that specific ship or station. For example, if you are currently Deep Space 9 you will have no options for impulse drive, autopilot, warp, etc because it is a station not a ship. The new menu system is smart enough to realise that and removes certain navigational options from stations, but leaves them in for ships. Likewise your weapons menu will change to reflect the ship or station you are commanding. If you are playing for example, Defiant, you will have an option for a cloaking device. If you then switch to Enterprise the Ccloaking device option will be removed from your weapons menu. The status menu is also similar to the weapons menus. You will not be able to check status for something that does not exist for that ship. If you are Defiant or Sal Paulo you can check the status of the cloaking device. If you are anyone else the cloaking device will not be in the status menu. Since stations don't have warp drives that will not be in the menu when commanding a station. Another nice feature with the dynamic menus is when you end up on the main menu it will first announce the ship you are commanding followed by the prompt to select and command. This should help players remember which ship or station is currently being commanded One other new change is the bridge ambience is slightly changed depending on the type of starship or station you are commanding. This should help identify if you are commanding say a starship or a starbase, and also breaks up the constant sound of the same ambience over and over again.
Thomas Ward USA Games Entertainment _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
