Topic: OT: A Free PC version of the FASA Star Trek Starship Combat Simulator

[DookeyKing]

I've been adding newships/pics like crazy.  I'm also trying to get rid of all of the scanned pics I can.  No offense to the responsible party, but I want to use rendered images where I can.  Which brings me to my point:  Did Klingon Fanatic ever find a place to host his FASA to SFC collection??  I can't remember, and there a ton of Romulan models I need. 

Thanks,
Scott

[NannerSlug]

<JAW DROPS>

WOW! Thank you man. This is incredible. I will be spreading the word about this. Very nice.

[Merlinfmct87]

I'm quit lost, but I don't have any experience with FASA .

Merlin

[JasonR]

I've put together a pack of Romulan ships and counters. You can grab it here:

http://www.slightlysilly.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=12

There's still no cloaking, but at least the Rommie fans get something.

I'll see what I can do about the beam speed, or make the weapons fire graphics optional.

I noticed the sounds were missing, too. D'oh! Big oversight when I made the distribution file. I'll post a patch with the sounds. Thanks for the report, kv1at3485.

I've been working on a set of scaled ship counters based on various renders or schematics, all scaled three meters per pixel. I included the scans with the game just to be as authentic as possible, but I'm with you -- bitmaps derived from other sources can be better.

Merlinfmct87 - Here's a link to an out-of-date game manual. Though it's not perfectly accurate anymore, it might help:

http://www.slightlysilly.net/distributions/CadetOrientationManual-v106.pdf

[Klingon Fanatic]

Cool! Thanks for the update JasonR.

In regards to cloaking how about making a "transparent counter" that could slide over the map and modifying the program to reduced to hit % in a MAJOR way. I wish I could help but I'm not a programmer.

d/L The Rommie pack now.

KF

[NannerSlug]

just plain FR Dang.

[ModelsPlease]

I've been adding newships/pics like crazy.  I'm also trying to get rid of all of the scanned pics I can.  No offense to the responsible party, but I want to use rendered images where I can.  Which brings me to my point:  Did Klingon Fanatic ever find a place to host his FASA to SFC collection??  I can't remember, and there a ton of Romulan models I need. 

Thanks,
Scott

I have a huge Fasa to SFC collection as well.What Rommies are ya looking for ?

[Klingon Fanatic]

I've been adding newships/pics like crazy.  I'm also trying to get rid of all of the scanned pics I can.  No offense to the responsible party, but I want to use rendered images where I can.  Which brings me to my point:  Did Klingon Fanatic ever find a place to host his FASA to SFC collection??  I can't remember, and there a ton of Romulan models I need. 

Thanks,
Scott

I have a huge Fasa to SFC collection as well.What Rommies are ya looking for ?

http://starfleetcommand3.filefront.com/screenshots/17/files2/25588_4t.jpg Note this ship wasn't in FASA Trek but should have been IMHO.

http://starfleetcommand3.filefront.com/screenshots/17/files2/25588_1t.jpg

http://starfleetcommand3.filefront.com/screenshots/17/files2/25588_2t.jpg

http://starfleetcommand3.filefront.com/screenshots/17/files2/25588_3t.jpg

Darkdrone was kind enough to get the TMP era  FASA Trek to SFC collection hosted. It is a good collection and included as many FASA ships as I could find. Naturally, since the release there have been at least twenty or so more models from the FASA TMP era and more on the way. There is a Larson Class in there by p81 that has a texture that got misaligned somehow but the collection was a good representation of what was available prior to May 2004.

Included are:

FASA Federation 94
FASA Gorn 06
FASA Klingon 64
FASA Other 18
FASA Romulan 39

Note the emphasis of the initial collection is NON-CANON FASA/FASA Fan made ships. Some TAS and TOS adversary ships have been included because there was a shortage of adversary ships overall when the collection was assembled.


D/L here:

http://starfleetcommand3.filefront.com/file/Fasa_to_StarFleet_Command_Mod;25588

I am looking forward to adding to my FASA to SFC collection when Trekmods, Terradyhne and Darth Chandley release the FASA ships they have been working on for many, many months.

KF

[DookeyKing]

Thanks for the link KF.  And thanks for the offer MP.  If I need anything KF doesn't have I'll definitely give a yell.

Thanks
Scott

[Commander La'ra]

This brings back some serious memories.  The first time I ever saw a copy of the FASA TCS, I was at band camp ("There was this one time, at band camp...") and the trumpet player down the hall had a copy.  I didn't get to play that night, but I decided it was a must buy, which started a decade-long love affair with that game and with Star Fleet Battles.

All in all, I think SFB was the better game, but it was hard to get the materials, so we tended to take what SFB stuff we DID have and create house rules for FASA out of it.  By the time my friend's interest petered out, our house rule manual was probably thicker than the manual that came with the game.

Good times...

[DookeyKing]

After messing around with the shipbmp scaling, I finally settled on the pixels being equal to 30% of the ship's length or width.  This would put the Excelsior at 140 x 140 pixels at the stated FASA dimensions.  I stopped at 30% because the Excelsior, at that size, touches the shield facing numbers in the power allocation screen.
   
Also,  I was wondering if the map dimensions are fixed, or if not, is there a maximum? Do they HAVE to be square?

And one final thing.  In my experience, Rom plasmas ALWAYS do the minimum damage on the damage chart( as if the targeted ship had used evasive maneuvers).  I noticed this while playing using the plasma info posted previously.

Thanks again for a great game.  This is the most Trek fun I've had in a long time.

Scott

[JasonR]

If anyone's interested, I've created a forum for the game at my website. You can find it here:

http://www.slightlysilly.net/modules.php?name=Forums

To create an account, click "Login" in the upper right.

Scott- I think I'll be using 3 meters/pixel for future ship bitmaps (which is pretty close to 30%). Right now, the map dimensions are fixed. I'll check into the plasmas.

[KtHyla]

Dookey: The squares are actually hexes, of which is where the 6 shield facings fo SFC and other games originated from. They're set at 10,000km per hex: the counters were never meant to be scale, just representatice of where the ship is on the map and what direction it's facing, since a scale ship would just be a pinprick on the counter. Planets cover 7 hexes, to give you an idea of scale.

This is where SFC, Klingon Academy and the like get their odd scaling, and why the ships seem to be 5,000k across.

[DookeyKing]

I always hated that the ship counters were all pretty much the same size.  Play a Rom Nova and a Graceful Flyer at the same time and I find it very visually displeasing.  Scaling the counters is just a way show differentiation in ship sizes.  I know none of it is really to scale with the map or planets, I just think it looks prettier  .  And Kthyla---I meant that the overall dimensions of the map were square (  3000 x 3000 pixels).  I know they aren't exactly 3000 pixels but it's in that neighborhood.
Anyway,  I'm getting a pretty fair collection of rendered ship counters now.  JasonR,  if you's like I can zip them up and pass them on to you.  Anything you liked you could use and saze yourself a little work.

Thanks again,
Scott