Star Trek total conversion questions/ideas
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Hey, I can't seem to get an admin to log me into the star trek total conversion mod site, so I want to get some ideas out here before I forget them. If the modders are reading this, I don't know if these can even be implemented, but I don't think they're as outlandish as some suggestions I've read.
These may not be new, but if they're not, well, use your power to ignore them.
What about having some script that randomly generates new ships of a particular class, at least for the Federation, that have the actual ship names. I noticed in the class descriptions for most of the ship classes, there are examples of historic ships of that particular class. Could you make it so that each new ship created of a class had the name of one of those historic ships? I have been creating ships manually with the names of the historic ships listed, so that now I have some thirty or forty ships in the later eras each with it's own name and upgrades, but that takes a solid twenty minutes to then go back through and upgrade each ship individually when I get a new warp core. Is something like that possible? Having the NCC numbers would be cool as well, but that might be pushing into the tedious and/or impossible. Still, I think the general idea would be pretty damn cool.
Second idea is to have the starbases themselves authentic star trek. I know at least for the Federation there are enough different designs that you could have one for each type; maybe the DS9 design for economic or influence starbases, the starbase in Star Trek III for military starbases, etc. This too, would be very cool.
Aside from that, if anyone who gets onto the Total Conversion website could tell me how to get into the "screenshots" area with these new Constellation class designs everyone's been raving about, I would be much appreciative.
Anybody have any thoughts, know if these could be implemented?
These may not be new, but if they're not, well, use your power to ignore them.
What about having some script that randomly generates new ships of a particular class, at least for the Federation, that have the actual ship names. I noticed in the class descriptions for most of the ship classes, there are examples of historic ships of that particular class. Could you make it so that each new ship created of a class had the name of one of those historic ships? I have been creating ships manually with the names of the historic ships listed, so that now I have some thirty or forty ships in the later eras each with it's own name and upgrades, but that takes a solid twenty minutes to then go back through and upgrade each ship individually when I get a new warp core. Is something like that possible? Having the NCC numbers would be cool as well, but that might be pushing into the tedious and/or impossible. Still, I think the general idea would be pretty damn cool.
Second idea is to have the starbases themselves authentic star trek. I know at least for the Federation there are enough different designs that you could have one for each type; maybe the DS9 design for economic or influence starbases, the starbase in Star Trek III for military starbases, etc. This too, would be very cool.
Aside from that, if anyone who gets onto the Total Conversion website could tell me how to get into the "screenshots" area with these new Constellation class designs everyone's been raving about, I would be much appreciative.
Anybody have any thoughts, know if these could be implemented?
