I sure wish Leonardi would finish the Ace of Aces thing. I so wanted to get the one for SFU fighters (I know, it's the last of the series if it ever gets that far) so that those books could be used to resolve Dog Fights in SFB.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 03:16 pm: Edit

I talked to Dennis (Al Leonardi's son in law and business partner) at Origins, and he's going to move forward on star fleet aces as we speak.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 09:48 pm: Edit

Hallaloooyaaa sweet mother of (insert whom ever is important to you here)!

By Joseph Justice (Woodball) on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 09:18 pm: Edit

Shuttle Wars. Maybe this could be about Idle rich people who use surplus shuttles to slug it out during the post Andromedan period.

By John Pepper (Akula) on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 11:51 pm: Edit

Ok new idea:
F&E: Reports from the Front
Compile some of the best Reports from the Front,examples of play and tatics, plus the history of general war, plus an example of how general war would historically play out in F&E.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 02:07 am: Edit

I would like to see some type of adventure/exploration SFB module. Set in places like the far survey zones, and satelite galaxies and star gobular clusters around the galaxy.

You would encounter various minor races, unusual space phenomena, and new monsters. There would be small battles, raids and skirmishes. Could serve as a way to build RPG scenarios.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 10:26 am: Edit

Reports from the front: If somebody wants to compile and edit them, I'll print it (at least for mail order), but I'm not going to be doing it.

Adventure exploration: Hard product to define. An SFB thing wouldn't generate RPG scenarios, but in theory you might do either one product that could do both or two products with the same background.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 11:42 am: Edit

SVC,

What product might the background appear in?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 04:35 pm: Edit

Guessing you're talking about the products above, presumably the background would appear in the products above. I'm obviously not grasping your question.

By John Pepper (Akula) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 04:55 pm: Edit

It would be really cool if reports from the front could include some step by step maps of the action. I wonder how much demand there would be for something like this?? Maybe I should create a topic for it in the reports from the front section??

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 05:23 pm: Edit

Yes, it would be cool, but you'd need to find somebody to do the maps. My time is booked solid and I just don't have time to do stuff like this with a sales potential about equal to the LSM.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 08:17 pm: Edit

SVC,

The "hard to define" adventure module is what I was referring to. Perhaps it would be better to call it "survey and trade", which is more related to SFB. I am looking for a product that isn't set during the GW and is more focused on the various empires going to new areas like the far survey zones, satelite galaxies and star gobular clusters. It would be more related to TOS exploration.

The various galactic fleets that are part of OpU would obtain some sensor readings of these satelite galaxies and star gobular clusters. These fleets are learning how to navigate and resupply in areas outside of galactic space on the way to the LMC. They would go explore at some point. This could be as simple as a campaign in some new SFB module.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:07 pm: Edit

This may be a annual "thing" that comes up... but has there been any consideration of a Star Fleet Battles Universe Calendar?

Sea Classics Magazine (a mag devoted to naval history, and all things related to the sea) this month included a 2006 calendar insert...same quality paper as the magazine is printed on, same page size and colored. Nice picture of the USS Constitution on its annual harbor cruise, and other shots.

With the inhouse printing capacity of the Kycera, does ADB now have the ability to do calendars?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 02:02 pm: Edit

We have considered it and may consider it again. The trick is that unless you sell it into the book chains, you're wasting your time printing it. Ken thinks he has an entre into the book chains for his Honor Harrington calendar and if he actually pulls that off, we'll seriously consider doing an SFU calendar a year from now.

By Karl Johnson (Chameleon) on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 01:55 am: Edit

SVC,

Jrc's idea of a survey/trade/exploration module might be a good starting point for a SFU solitaire game. Maybe?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 02:15 pm: Edit

Karl: It's still vaue and undefined. It could be anything. Could it be done as some kind of solitaire game? I guess, but I guess anything could. Sounds more like what the RPG games are supposed to be doing, and we already have those.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 06:40 pm: Edit

SVC,

I wasn't thinking of RPG type game as the scale is to small or focused on individuals. I was thinking more along the lines of an updated survey captain's game set post GW.

Some rough ideas:
Find the route [or one of the routes] to the LMC; Explore a Dwarf galaxies or star gobular cluster, which assumes the survey ship finds a way through the energy barrier; Find a Xork raiding supply outpost; Follow a course into the storm zone and meet something new (monster/race); Find a two way nexus to another part of the galaxy; Create some new terrain for the Dwarf galaxies star gobular cluster and energy barrier holes; Develop fast survey cruisers.

These ideas might not be anymore specific that my post in August. I don't know how to design SFB modules. So I can only express what sounds interesting. May not be of interest to other players.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 11:43 pm: Edit

I am still not grasping the concept here. I think you may be talking about an entirely new game engine (but I can't tell).

How would one "play" exploring a dwarf galaxy? I suppose I can think of several ways, based on F&E for one, based on Module V for another, but I'm not sure how it would work. I can't design what I can't understand; if I try, you won't get what you want. Given what is on my schedule, I don't see me having time to do it anyway. If somebody else can grok the concept and write up a proposal and send it to me, I'll run it around the board of directors.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 12:50 am: Edit

Module V would be a great way to play out all those things. But yes, it's hard to tell exactly what is being requested. Perhaps some basic scenario generator.

Charts of events, make stratigic choices, try and survive. Sort of a Campaign where the senarios are semi-random based on choices made.

Like a cross between a Captains campaign and that Adventure thing MJC did in MPA.

Just guessing.

By Joseph R Carlson (Jrc) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 10:59 am: Edit

SVC,

I appreciate that you read my above post. yes it would need a new game engine. Answering "How would one "play" exploring a dwarf galaxy?" in general terms will define the game engine concept. No I don't expect you to stop and work on this as you have a number of important things to work on rather than some nebulous idea that may never work.

I will e-mail Loren and see if he can grok the concept.

By Nikolaus Athas (Nycathis) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 09:29 pm: Edit

[off topic]

By Nikolaus Athas (Nycathis) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 10:26 pm: Edit

[off topic]

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 11:32 am: Edit

Nikolas: this topic is to discuss new game ideas for this company, not old games by other companies.

By Nikolaus Athas (Nycathis) on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 05:41 pm: Edit

ok understood - mea culpa

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 05:43 pm: Edit

Nothing to apologize for; you didn't know.