Yesteryears: The Game

[Syf]

That turret request will for sure be in the Red Ash RTS title, as that has an important part of the RTS.

And Modability is very important.

 

[Jasoneagle]

Any chance for Being able to Customize ships?
This was hinted for a lot of games but I never really say it outside of games like Galactic Civ, what I would like to see it the ability to fine tune ships (i.e. if stock ship has this but you want this)

 

[Syf]

Some customization options may be in the game. Specifically, it will be hard to say until we axplore that.

 

[Atlantis]

Will we be able to set ships as being in "groups"?

For example, the system used in B5W has "Capital ships & HCVs" as one group, "Medium ships and LCVs" in a second group, and "Shuttles and Fighters" in a third. Each weapon has different fire control for each of these groups, for example a Heavy Laser has good fire control (to-hit bonus) against capital ships, but a heavy penalty against hitting fighters.

Basically like A2s system of setting exceptions to the to-hit chance, but instead of a line for each ship, a line for each group that you set up...

Making sense? Probably not, hehe

 

[Aerilon]

Either that was in another thread, or there is another issue with the server that we will have to look into.

If any other posts turn up missing, let the staff know.

Found It: Majestic Sci-Fi Central - View Single Post - Yesteryears, for A2 no longer

By the way, shouldn't the parent forum name be changed now, and moved to a different location?

 

[Syf]

Will we be able to set ships as being in "groups"?

For example, the system used in B5W has "Capital ships & HCVs" as one group, "Medium ships and LCVs" in a second group, and "Shuttles and Fighters" in a third. Each weapon has different fire control for each of these groups, for example a Heavy Laser has good fire control (to-hit bonus) against capital ships, but a heavy penalty against hitting fighters.

Basically like A2s system of setting exceptions to the to-hit chance, but instead of a line for each ship, a line for each group that you set up...

Making sense? Probably not, hehe

We are planning a much better fleet system than Armada. We are open to suggestions. I'd like to hear more about the grouping system your talking about.

And before people ask, there will be assignable fleet groups, but on a bigger scale. More than 16 ships per fleet, and there is plans to have a special hotkey to allow a virtually unlimited number of fleets (more than ten for sure)

Found It: Majestic Sci-Fi Central - View Single Post - Yesteryears, for A2 no longer

By the way, shouldn't the parent forum name be changed now, and moved to a different location?

Yes, I believe so. We just haven't moved it yet.

 

[Sqweloookle]

Fleet Operations for Armada 2 have announced a promotions system where the more battle experience for a vessel that vessel will get like stronger shields, an additional weapon, and so on as the vessel goes up the ranks.

Wondering if your game will have something similar?

 

[Atlantis]

We are planning a much better fleet system than Armada. We are open to suggestions. I'd like to hear more about the grouping system your talking about.

Each ship is classified as one of the following types:
- Capital Ship
- Heavy Combat Vessel
- Medium Ship
- Light Combat Vessel
- Fighter
- Shuttle

Each weapon has a fire control designation, for example +4/+3/-1. If you fire this weapon at a capital ship or HCV, you get a +4 bonus to your hit chance. If you fire at a medium ship or LCV, you get a +3 bonus. If you fire at a shuttle or fighter, you get a -1 penalty to hit...

Some weapons can only fire at fighters or shuttles, some can only fire at ships of medium size or larger, the types of ship behave differently, etc etc etc

 

[Syf]

Darklight - An experience system is on the planning table. What all in will involve, I can not say yet.

Atlantis - So what you are talking about is an accuracy rating system. That is a good idea to fit within the basics of the ship combat system. More details will be a refined before the time comes to code it. Thanks

 

[Sqweloookle]

I'm assuming that this game will be a download and not on a CD?

 

[Syf]

The Yesteryears title will be a download, that is correct. Since it will be a freeware title, and to avoid any copyright issues, we will not be offering it on CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay DVD, or any other form of media. It will be simply our tribute to Gene and his awesome vision of the future.

 

[StarBlade]

Just be careful how y'all distribute this in the long run, as well. Lawyers don't distinguish between "tributes" and copyright infringement, and Viacom's plenty rich enough that it doesn't need to take a bite out of you as well.

 

[Syf]

As I've said, there will not be any distribution on any media. Strictly a download, and Isolated to MSFC, and most likely our affiliates.

 

[Excelsiors190]

i was playing starfleet command 2 and i was wondering if thier can be a TMP GUI for the feds?

 

[La Patience]

This is definetly something to wakeup for lol. I'm glad YY is going to be this way as the idea's you have for it are great (ya had me at fighters and shuttel craft) and as you said with a private game engine much more becomes possible. well can't wait for this to come to life.

 

[Atlantis]

I think I'm going to be taking a great interest in this as it progresses =)

I'm also looking for an engine I can make a B5W game on, however there aren't any with the setup/features I need, and I haven't a clue how to make my own yet... The "wish list" for features could be a bit long, but quite a few of them could be useful for YY, and any other mod/game made from the system... Mind if i make an annoyingly long post?

Also, I would like to join/help, any way I can.

 

[Syf]

Sure, post your wishlist.