Topic: USS Coronado ready for DL

[starforce2]

Iust wondering, where exactly is the deflector system on this ship? lol

[ActiveX]

What about the Imperator?

[Johanobesus]

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Because the others like the Kearsarge and Burke predate the Connie/Bonhomme - whatever you want to call it by several years and are technically pre-TOS - especially the Burke, that's very old, so they don't get the gold-spinny bussards like on the connie and coronado. At least that's what it seems to me.  

Noi, if I remember correctly, his Bonhomme used the same design as his Sherman and Detroyat, sort of four yellow spots fading to dark red.  He has changed it now on the other two, but this Coronado has almost the same bussards as the old Coronado did.

[Atrahasis]

There are basically 3 styles of nacelles that I am trying to emulate, according to Ships of the Starfleet. PB-31, PB-32, and PB-47. The Bonhomme uses the PB-32 if that makes things any clearer.  

[Captain Ron]

Look like a beauty Atra nad I never liked the way this ship looked, but it looks good here!

[Atrahasis]

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I just had a great time playing my new fleet in skirmishes. Try taking 3 TOS Fed ships up against a Klingon XCA, it's quite a challenge!

[Rogue]

I think you have reason to toot a bit. You have done some really remarkable work on a good number of models. I have been testing the specs on an X refit CB for which I am using your Belknap TMP for. One of those way cool starships you and Rick can be credited for if I remember right. I sooo like that one and play it right often.

One I made up is a Federation pocket Battleship out of Mindblip's Axton, I think it is. I was using the HMS Hood as a concept for it. The armament (8 forward firing photons) and power plant of a battleship on the frame of a heavy battlecruiser. A lot of speed and firepower but not the armor. Stick the historical names of the German pocket Battleships in the string file and you got yourself a fun ship to fly or fight.

Perhaps you can tell me this. What year did the Federation designs become TMP in style? I've been going on year 0 in OP as the break point, as shown in ShipEdit. Does this really occur at a later time and what year does year 0 relate to? I get confused as you have say year 171 as reckoned in SFB. Year 2270 for a stardate and as far as ShipEdit is concerned it is year 0 perhaps. I bet you know this one off the top of your head.      

[Chrystoff]

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Stick the historical names of the German pocket Battleships in the string file and you got yourself a fun ship to fly or fight.

Hey, Rogue, can you let us know what the names of all of the pocket battleships are? The only one I know is the Graf Spee.  

[Atrahasis]

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Perhaps you can tell me this. What year did the Federation designs become TMP in style?

The short answer? ST:TMP was in the year 2271. The end of the 5-year mission, if you inlcude the 22 episodes of TAS, was the year 2269, and the Enterprise spent 18 months in drydock getting refitted starting at the end of that year. That means they had the "TMP-style tech" ready to go in the late 2260's. We don't know if the Enterprise was the first to recieve the new tech, but it probably wasn't. However, shoot for about 2270 as the start of the TMP-tech era.

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 I've been going on year 0 in OP as the break point, as shown in ShipEdit.

The start year in OP, year 0, is the year 2263. Some say it's 2264 but that's not true because I looked through the game files and it says 2263 in black and white.  

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Does this really occur at a later time and what year does year 0 relate to? I get confused as you have say year 171 as reckoned in SFB.

Just remember that the base year in SFB is the year 2110, so Y171 works out to be the year 2281.
 

[Rogue]

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Stick the historical names of the German pocket Battleships in the string file and you got yourself a fun ship to fly or fight.

Hey, Rogue, can you let us know what the names of all of the pocket battleships are? The only one I know is the Graf Spee.  

I'm using these... Gneisenau, Eisenhaur, Scharnhorst, Graf Spee and Lutzow.

Atrahasis, thanks for the information. I copied and pasted all that you have written for future reference. Most useful and undoubtably well thought out.  

[Atrahasis]

Give me a shout if you want an explanation of FASA dates as well.

[Rogue]

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Give me a shout if you want an explanation of FASA dates as well.  

I would consider that useful information. If you have it figured out by all means post it as I would record it. Again, thanks guy 'cause that's what we are all after here. A better Starfleet Command. Better models, better specifications and better textures.    

[Atrahasis]

The base year for FASA is the year 2254. I don't know why this is, but maybe it's because this is the earliest date in which a TOS episode takes place, and that would be "The Cage". It is also about 100 years after the founding of the UFP. Here's what you do: In a FASA date like 2/1706 only the first two numbers after the "/" are important. In this case, it's 17 and so you add 17 years to 2254 to give you 2271. The last two numbers are the month, and the first number before the "/" is the century. 1 means the first century of the UFP, 2 means the second century of the UFP. In a date like 1/8801, you would have to subtract 12 from 2254, which gives you 2242.

FASA makes some assumptions about TOS dates and screws up at times, but using the base year I mentioned will get you by nicely.