Topic: General Meeting For Anyone Interested In Giving Input To SFC4 Design (Read 19247 times)

Corbomite · « **on:** July 14, 2014, 12:44:24 am »

Exeter would like to have a general meeting on Team Speak soon with anyone who would like to give input to the SFC4 project. You don't need a mic, there is a chat area to type in. The TS version is 3.0.14.

This is for anyone, not just the design team. We won't have many of these, so if you would like your ideas considered, now's the time.

Please post what days and hours are most convenient for you and we will try to come up with a time and date that the most people can come. Once we have that we will give the server address to anyone who doesn't have it.

If you can't make the meeting and have an idea burning a hole in your head, then try to post it for consideration before the meeting or PM me with it if you don't want to post it. Put your idea in its own thread. The Rules thread has become bulky and we are going to start dividing topics up at this point.

Thank you.

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2014, 02:15:32 am »

My schedule varies from week to week. This particular week my openings are: (all times Central Daylight Time)
Monday: After 6pm
Tuesday: After 4pm (Would be free this day, but pre-scheduled errands are taking up the morning and early afternoon)
Wednesday: Free all Day
Thursday: After 6pm
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Must end before 5pm (this is usually the only constant in my schedule from week to week)

[UFP]Exeter · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:13:30 am »

My schedule is pretty fixed, Mon - Fridday after 6 pm Saturday all day, sunday after 1pm, central time

Javora · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2014, 03:05:31 pm »

We may want to move this thread to the private section.

Corbomite · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2014, 03:07:03 pm »

Quote from: Javora on July 14, 2014, 03:05:31 pm

We may want to move this thread to the private section.

Why? What part of general meeting open to anyone was unclear?

Captain Adam · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2014, 03:15:00 pm »

Javora · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2014, 03:19:58 pm »

Quote from: Corbomite on July 14, 2014, 03:07:03 pm

Why? What part of general meeting open to anyone was unclear?

Ack. Wrong thread, I was thinking about the other 10 page thread. Sorry I'm still stuck on my phone. Bought a hard drive today, should be back up and running in a few days.
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FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2014, 04:55:34 pm »

Usually available Monday to Fridays after 7pm. Weekends not available.

Corbomite · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2014, 05:02:07 pm »

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on July 14, 2014, 04:55:34 pm

Usually available Monday to Fridays after 7pm. Weekends not available.

Need a time zone please.

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2014, 06:11:41 pm »

Quote from: Corbomite on July 14, 2014, 05:02:07 pm

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on July 14, 2014, 04:55:34 pm
Usually available Monday to Fridays after 7pm. Weekends not available.

Need a time zone please.

Sorry. Eastern North America.

Corbomite · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2014, 07:06:51 pm »

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on July 14, 2014, 06:11:41 pm

Quote from: Corbomite on July 14, 2014, 05:02:07 pm
Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on July 14, 2014, 04:55:34 pm
Usually available Monday to Fridays after 7pm. Weekends not available.

Need a time zone please.

Sorry. Eastern North America.

I thought so, but for all I knew you moved to China.

Tus-XC · « **Reply #11 on:** July 14, 2014, 10:16:22 pm »

Good everyday but Wednesday, evenings on the weekdays, anytime on the weekends (pacific)

Chetech · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2014, 08:01:36 am »

I got the PM by Corbomite, thank you for including me in the meeting.

Once you guys get a date straight, I'll try to adapt and join you in the discussion.

Corbomite · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2014, 09:25:10 am »

Quote from: Chetech on July 17, 2014, 08:01:36 am

I got the PM by Corbomite, thank you for including me in the meeting.

Once you guys get a date straight, I'll try to adapt and join you in the discussion.

I need the times you are available to schedule the meeting please.

Corbomite · « **Reply #14 on:** July 18, 2014, 12:14:23 pm »

Today is the last chance to give me info or ask to join the meeting before I try to schedule a time.

Thanks.

CA Cooler · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2016, 11:00:05 pm »

Being an old time SFB player who did the tourney circuit, who played all the SFC games on all the online sites, with many years of game design experience from the old New World Computing, and with a deep love of SFC (still plays it daily LOL), I think I would be honored and pleased to give my feedback. email me at allen.t@cox.net for times of any meetings and I will attend. I would love to see SFC4 keep the spirit of SFC 1 thru Orion Pirates (a SFB emulation) but with the fun parts of SFC 3 (like hidden cloak and on map warp drive; note cloak technology is well defeated by tachyon technology in later eras) but skipping the dumbing down of the energy allocation. Of course different eras and a far improved (not boring) campaign system. I always wanted the Tholians added with Web tech. Could it go 3D? My STO is almost 3-D LOL. I am very excited about the prospects!

CA Cooler

Javora · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2016, 07:15:58 am »

Unfortunately Cooler, the programmer we were relying on to head up this project had to bow out due to health reasons. So this project is pretty much dead at this point. We do have active coders working on the SFC II/OP/CE games through hex editing who would love another set of eyes to help with testing. Thank you, we can use all the help we can get. Welcome to/back to Dyna!

AlDaja · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2017, 06:26:39 pm »

Joining the party late here...but if you guys ever get this back up off the ground, I would be interested in helping with story build. If anyone has a copy of SFC:III you can check out our mod. It pretty much is my resume for webbing together a good flow through story with the lead-ins and ship library for each race. In this instance, I connected it from the the original story build from Taldren's SFC:III cannon interwoven with aspects of the TV shows (NG, Voyager and DS9) and the novelizations surrounding the Typhon Pact series. Web link for anyone who is interested: http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163396765.msg1123056229.html#new

Commander_Graham · « **Reply #18 on:** November 09, 2020, 06:53:06 pm »

Well i have been working on a SFC4 prototype in UE4.

So far I have gotten a fighter mechanic to work where the player can pilot shuttles/fighters and even go underneath the miranda/Ulysses Photon torpedo Strut.

Its easier for me as I am still working on textures in Blender, and Unreal Engine 4 will automatically generate materials from blender models. So saves a lot of time on that front.

I have also made several UI portraits based on the original games portraits and some new ones., just dont know how to make the photon/plasma torpedos and phaser effects to have a generic gameplay loop similar to SFC 1 as OP does not utilize the whole ECM/ECCM system like SFC1 does.

Though if anyone has a list of weapons in OP please let me know about them so I can implement them.

mostly need to be made aware of obscure stuff like Maulers and Hellbores.

Panzergranate · « **Reply #19 on:** November 10, 2020, 09:36:49 am »

For weapons, Klingon shield boring Spearfish drones spring to mind. Also Sunburst drones.

Fighter & shuttle chaff packs, like SFB, would be nice but not essential.

For ship damage (to bring it level with current SFB) hangar deck chain reactions on fighter bay hits containing loaded, ready to fly or rearming fighters.

Pod & pallet separation in game for troop landing missions. I'm thinking Lyran troop assault pallets here.

Saucer & boom separation.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #20 on:** November 10, 2020, 03:48:46 pm »

Got any video?

Javora · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2020, 07:02:03 pm »

This project is dead. Has been for some time after the programmer Exeter passed away. At this point the only active project is the work that Tar, Carlos, Falconer, and Adam are doing at the moment.

Commander_Graham · « **Reply #22 on:** December 14, 2020, 08:14:25 pm »

I've been working on an Intro for my take on SFC4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3px35AZhl4

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #23 on:** December 14, 2020, 08:41:40 pm »

Um, the comment right above yours says the project is dead.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #24 on:** December 15, 2020, 08:46:00 am »

OP works, right now. As well if not better than it ever did.

There is nothing stopping us from playing.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #25 on:** December 15, 2020, 08:46:42 am »

Quote from: Commander_Graham on December 14, 2020, 08:14:25 pm

I've been working on an Intro for my take on SFC4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3px35AZhl4

You actually making a game?

FPF-Bach · « **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2021, 11:08:31 am »

Quote from: FPF-DieHard on December 15, 2020, 08:46:00 am

OP works, right now. As well if not better than it ever did.

There is nothing stopping us from playing.

I might be interested in digging everything our, if there are enough others to participate. What OS do we need?

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