Hee hee. As if you guys didn't have enough upcoming server ideas to look at already.
Almost all servers have concentrated on the General War era. Taldren tried to add the advanced era with OP. But there is a whole other era from SFB out there that Dynaverse players have never seen.
*The Federation was not yet united, and its member worlds were still involved in byzantine struggles for dominance.
*The Andorians, Rigellians, Alpha-Centaurons, and Vulcans still operated independant fleets, resisting the earth call for a "United" starfleet
*The Gorn were still at war with the Paravians (who were not yet extinct)
*A canine race between the Kzinti and the Lyrans were terrorizing the galaxy, much like the Vikings of old (and were not yet extinct)
*The Hydran Kingdom had not yet been conquered by the Klingon Empire
*The Romulans were looking at new torp and cloak tech in order to make a comeback, after making big news on the Fed border.
*Novae cannon, death bolts, wave-guided torpedos, and nuclear tipped missiles.
This was the time of the "Early Era", as protrayed in SFB module Y1: The Early Years, and soon to be continued in the upcoming module Y2. These ships and this era are a lot of fun to play in SFB. I?d love to build a D2 server set in this era. With some clever edits and tricks I think I have ways of making or representing nearly all these races and weapons in the D2. Era advancement would occur based upon the transition from old (even for the early era) warp-refitted ships to "new" tactical-warp designed cruisers. (Neither of which you have ever seen before, unless you own Y1).
*The shiplist would start from scratch; non-SFB players have seen none of these ships before.
*The Paravians and Carnivons could serve as new races. (We?d have to make room.....)
*The Andorians, Rigellians, Alpha-Centaurans, and Vulcans could form a joint list with the early earth ships or form new races. (Again, we?d have to make room.) I like the idea of allied races and a partition of historical Fed space.
*Nearly all ships would have been built with a different military doctrine in mind, and players would get to explore what this means.
While we call these ships "early era" in SFB, their captains did not know that they were "early". Indeed, the captains of the early Gorn ships ? for example -- thought that they were the most advanced Gorn the galaxy had ever lived. (This view held for all races except the Vulcans. They seemed to rise and fall on a regualar basis, as they alternately had eras of scientific advancement and then centuries of quiet contemplation.) With ships of a different era?s design philosophy, captains would get to explore a new paradigm of tactical thought while still remaining true to the game?s innate SFB engine.
The question is, would anyone be interested in playing such a thing? It is definitely different from the seeming current drive to introduce x-tech. This was the first sever I ever wanted to run, but thought I might better get started with a few things closer to standard first. It mostly resides in my brain at the moment and I?d like an idea of player interest before I got started building and testing.
-Herr Burt
Topic: Ye Olde Server: Ideas from the back of my lizard brain (Read 3072 times)