Oh...err...yes, SonOfMogh, I was on about a game. I didn't think that someone would be confused by my posts, but I understand now how you were confused.

Basically, Starfleet Command is a Star trek game, set around the time of Kirk and the Organians.

The game is really boring, until you get into the fighting part of the game. That is when it gets good.

There is a massive range of weapons: -
Phaser types 3 - A weak defensive weapon and is red in colour.

Phaser G - A gattling phaser which can take out seeking weapons easily, since it fires up to four times with one charge. It is purple in colour, and has the same offensive strength as a phaser 3.

Phaser 2 - An offensive/defensive weapon, that is more powerful than a Phaser 3, and has a much greater range. It is orange in colour.

Phaser 1 - An offensive weapon, and is the most powerful of ship-based phasers. It is yellow in colour, and also has the highest range of the ship-based phasers.

Phaser 4 - An offensive weapon, that can only be used on stations (Unless you mod the game) It has the highest range, and causes the most damage of the phasers. A single hit from a phaser 4 at point blank range can do the same amount of damage as 3 phaser one hits. It is white in colour.

Photons - obvious.

Hellbore - A weapon that wraps itself around the entire ship, causing damage to all six of the shield arcs. Because of the way it is designed, the most damage will be incurred by the weakest shield.

Plasmas - A seeking weapon, that can cause huge amounts of damage. They have a limited range however, and quickly lose power, over distance. There are six types of plasma, ranging from violet fighter-based plasma, to defensive ship-based plasma-I's, weak ship-based green plasma-F, yellow plasma-G's, Orange plasma-S, and the purely destructive red plasma-R.

Disruptor - obvious.

Plasmatic pulsar device (PPD) - A beam 'seeks' out an enemy ship, and once a lock-on has occurred (Which may not occur) three waves of destructive energy travel to the target. This energy spread out along the three shields that it hits (Or two, depending on where it hits) causing damage equivalent to a photon, per wave.

Fusion beams - A blast of charged hydrogen gas is emitted at close range to a target, which then ignites. They do damage equivalent to an overloaded photon at point blank range. These weapons have a suicide overload setting, which allows you to completely overload the weapon, causing damage equivalent to a plasma, but the weapon is obviously destroyed in the process.

Expanding sphere generator (ESG) - This weapon is highly unusual, since it is both offensive and defensive. A sphere of destructuve energy surrounds the ship, destroying all seeking weapons, before they impact with the ship. It can also be used to 'ram' an enemy during a close flyby. This weapon has an unusual reaction with the Hellbore, and if a Hellbore come into contact with a working ESG, the ESG generators take severe damage - even if shields are up.

Missiles - obvious.

The pics of ships that I have made for the unusual ships thread have been made by using the print screen button, whilst I am in the tactical screen of Starfleet Command 2, if you want to know.

For a game involving battles with no more that about 20 ships, disabling weapons works fine. Obviously it's way way too much for a turn based game. Just pray we get a reducing torpedo stock...


Matress, if there are no 'friendly' aliens, you'll run out of fuel and eventually die, simple as that. Just hopw if it ever happens there are some. I didn't understand your point about needing the Ocampa to refuel before you can go anywhere, if your ship has a full tank when you arrive then you'll be able to go a fair distance before running out.

So a Galaxy class ship with 1,014 crew could at the rate could end up with a colony of 168,000 people after 200 years...that's a lot of people, but in BOTF terms, that isn't even one population block! 8O

Still, if the numbers could be adjusted to avoid me and the other nerds nit-picking it to death...it might be a cool idea!

and just for being clever, this is`nt going to happen happy now cvn