Generating Interest in the Imperial Navy

Mike Mar · Post by **Mike Mar** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:46 pm

CL La Forge wrote:..but the squadron in the navy is really where we started and to let those units die would be a real shame.

I was more thinking about this La Forge's particular argument. And I provided a quick solution to prevent that from happening in a near future.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:18 pm

Vort: I'm liking the suggestions. Very nice list!

MAR: While I do feel that FoC should be implemented in the Navy ASAP, since EaW uses Bridge Crews, no doubt FoC will as well. That would defeat the purpose....

Sadly, the goal here is/was to find a new FLIGHT platform for the Navy and those seem to be rather sparse. With the exception of the imcomplete Fate of the Galaxy mod, I'm not sure anything right now is viable to fill that role. So, we have a couple options:

A) Wait for FotG or another flight platform
B) Take something like Warlords for HW2, and, despite it's similarity to EaW versus (for example) XWA, use it with squadrons. I think that's really fine.
C) Continue without doing anything

(C) in my opinion is unsustainable, as I mentioned in post #1. Given what Governor Vortagh has presented, I move that we begin testing some of those mods, so long as those mods have Navy/squadron potential. I would think the primary focus should be on Warlords for HW2 to start, and we can move from there if we don't like or want to evaluate others.

Keep in mind that popularity is also a factor. Does anyone play the games that these mods are for? If not, bringing it into the fold of the NAvy will not help. But, if so, and if we can advertise with the major communities of players of that/those game(s), we might stand to improve ourselves.

Thoughts?

Post by **Vortagh** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:37 pm

A little update to that mod list...

The "Sins of a Galactic Empire" mod (for Sins of a Solar Empire

), is unplayable for me. It crashes my game, which might be because I have v1.5 and they say it's for 1.0 and 1.1.

The "Star Wars Fleet Command" mod for Armada II is fun, yet it would still need major work. Some models have no faction-markings, the whole thing is laggy at times and ships constantly get trapped behind asteroid belts. Great when you just bought a super-expensive SSD and it isn't able to move out of the asteroid belt pocket your base is in.

I'm going to try the Warlords mod and maybe Imperial Winter soon, as well.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:38 pm

I didn't see a download link for Imperial Winter, but Warlords is on my TO TRY list and I'll report when I've got some more info.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:46 am

So I played Warlords. My opinion: forget it. It looks horrible, game play isn't much fun (to me) and it's basically EaW. We need to find something else.

Post by **Vortagh** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:17 am

I think that, in that case, we'll have to wait for that one Freespace 2 TC.

Dakari · Post by **Dakari** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:49 am

I'm not technically in the Navy but I am going to throw a suggestion in for you guys to consider.

Have any of you tried or heard of Allegiance? It is a free online space sim that's been out for a while. I used to play this game religiously and it had quite the following of people which also made for decent recruiting...bonus! Now, I've not played this in a while so I'm not sure where this project is but there is/was a Star Wars mod very far in development for the game. I had seen several models and screenshots of the mod and it was quality work. I'm trying to find info now on the mod and see what the current status of it.

It's not just space combat, you also have base building, scouting, resource gathering in addition to defending your areas and invading enemies. I've played in MANY matches with 16+ people on each side and those are an absolute blast. If you want to know more about the game, I'm adding the link here or you can hit me up on IRC.

www.freeallegiance.org

Hope this helps:)

Post by **Vortagh** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:04 am

Does it have a Star Wars mod? If yes, it sounds awesome - but the whole point is, that it has to be "SW".

Otherwise, we might as well play BF2 for ground assault. ;P

Hazledine · Post by **Hazledine** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:32 am

Look's like it's got some star wars aspects to it. Look at this screenie...

http://www.freeallegiance.org/screensho ... Battle.jpg

Post by **Vortagh** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:34 pm

After playing another Freespace mod (The Babylon Project), I think I can clearly say that the SW Freespace mod is our "last, best hope".

The engine is great, allowing very precise flying and even the use of maneuvering thrusters, which should make for awesome multiplayer. The graphics of most Freespace 2 mods are awesome and this SW one looks like it might pull that off as well. Also, most FS2 mods have very nice voice acting, mission design and communication systems (including animated pilot heads). I suggest people interested in fighter-stuff to check out the Babylon Project to get a personal view.

Maybe we should write to the developers of the SW mod (I volunteer) and offer to be their "official" partner or something. Hell, there might even be stuff that we could help them out with and thus speed-up development. As said, I'd volunteer to draft a note for Fel to proof-read and ok.

Post by **Jagged Fel** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:00 pm

Hell, there might even be stuff that we could help them out with and thus speed-up development

Meaning: "give Jag more IDMR work to do"

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:09 pm

Vortagh wrote:Maybe we should write to the developers of the SW mod (I volunteer) and offer to be their "official" partner or something. Hell, there might even be stuff that we could help them out with and thus speed-up development. As said, I'd volunteer to draft a note for Fel to proof-read and ok. :)

I'll support that. Maybe we could even get a Beta to play with....

EDIT: Ensign Haz, where'd you find that screenshot? Is it for a mod specifically out there now?

Any other thoughts on this? If not, I suggest we get looking into FotG....

Hazledine · Post by **Hazledine** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:04 pm

LC La Forge wrote: EDIT: Ensign Haz, where'd you find that screenshot? Is it for a mod specifically out there now?

Well I looked at this...

Dakari wrote: www.freeallegiance.org

and looked in the gallery and found that screenshot.
Not sure if it's a mod or part of the game.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:41 pm

Here's a video with that mod or whatever it is in action (for Free Allegiance):
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCgW-qiPnY

Hazledine · Post by **Hazledine** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:46 pm

Doesn't really look like a complete thing... and there'd need to be enough people interested in it to be worth doing.

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