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terryoc · Captain Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 1386

There are plenty of "stock" civilian ships in the SFU that can do what you described, no real reason to allow ship design IMO.
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Mr_Tricorder · Lieutenant JG Joined: 05 Aug 2011 Posts: 59

Scoutdad · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:55 pm Post subject:

Or do what I do.

I've got several "stock" generic ship minis from... ehem... other companies. I simiply select the one I like, use that mini, and pull the equivalent ship card from my FC stock.

I've used the APT ship card for several different minis that look nothing like the APT, same with the small / large / jumbo / heavy freighter cards.
Any freither / transport mini can be used as a "stock" Fed Comm freighter. Just assume the ship card is a standardized representation of the various makes / models of privately manuafactured ships.
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Alex Knight · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject:

Nerroth · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject:

Well, now that CL43 includes an SSD for a Barbarian battleship in SFB, perhaps there could be scope for a Frax-like Barbarian ePack somewhere down the line?

(So long as the rules covering the weapon, NWO and power options could be handled cleanly enough, perhaps.)
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Magnum357 · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 223

In my opinion, I use to be in the crowd of customizing SFB ships with some sort of system, but after reading up on all the R modules for SFB, ADB has practically come up with every possible type of ship (at least for me) you would ever want in your games of SFB or FC.

I don't know anything about this "Travelers" system (sounds kinda interesting) but I have have heard many attempts to design a system to build custom ships. You either fall into the problem of building "pocket battleships" or your design the next generation of X ship.

Is there something wrong with the custom options of Pirate vessels? Yes, limited performance compared to empiral ships, but Pirate versus pirate battles can be just as interesting as empiral battles.

If you want total customization of ship design, maybe you should check into Starfire Design Studio or something.

mjwest · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject:

Gary,

Barbarians were somewhat down on my list of simulator empires to take a look at, but I suppose I could at least pitch them to Steve. (Though I have no idea why the presence or absence of a BB would influence this.)

But, to be honest, I am not sure that there is sufficient interest in the Simulator empires to worry about them too much. The Frax had interest as they predated C4, and were the prototype for simulator empires. I honestly don't know how much interest there really is for the others.
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Dal Downing · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:19 am Post subject:

Instead of investing time into another simulator race I would rather se rules for Heavy War Destroyers or a Modular System applied to APTs Skiffs and Free Traders.
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Mr_Tricorder · Lieutenant JG Joined: 05 Aug 2011 Posts: 59

Nerroth · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:56 am Post subject:

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