I forgot something, something not talked about in canon Star Trek (TV shows
and movies) and that is quantum slipstream, shown only in the season four
finale of Voyager and another episode in the fifth season.
That would technically still be wormhole like in Armada and Armada II,
allthough user created mods exist, you cannot realice them, because all
wormhole objects in the games are jump points, where you are at point a,
select your point b and jump to it. And this kind of tech is allways a
special weapon, meaning that it is not standard.
And if we are talking about a ship simulator, then we should do something
like Bridge commander, but then it should be possible to allow the users to
create their own ship modifications, at least for a free battle mode. You
still could create campaign missions and expand your game after initial
release with new missions and put something in like the quickbattle of
Bridge Commander.
Or you could give users access to more aspects of your game.
Remember Star Trek Eliteforce and Elite Force II?
Both were based on Quake 3, and besides mission scripting the user could
create their own maps and could also alter some more things like game menus
and weapons if you had the source code to several compiled files you were
allowed to recompile, since you did not alter the main EXE files.
The Armada titles allowed you to create multiplayer and singleplayer maps,
but no missions (scripted missions), and I am not sure if Legacy allows it
either.
The only thing I know is that most Legacy fans are encouraged to download an
over 1 GB big universal Legacy modification called Legacy Ultimate Universe
to add more game modes, more ships, improoved models/textures, better music
and sounds, before gameply becomes worthwhile, according to fans...
In either case, if we go for a ship sim, we should have it as open as
possible, even if it is not open in mission mode, but I'd like the idea of
creating my own missions...
If we were going for strathegy, then I'd say not to hold back when it comes
to non scripted maps where it's free for all as you like.
Even if Dauntless was not a federation ship, I'd like to use her, or to be
able to command the ship of the borg queen for once in an accessible game...
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