[jonskowitz]

It's 11, I'm at work, I'm bored, and I have a few minutes to kill...

So what do I do you might ask?

Why I surf the web of course (god I love T-3 lines   )  And I bump into another 3DAP site featuring ST: Bridge Commander, plus a discussion on how MODdable it is.

This gets me thinking about (yet) another of my old wargames that I've currently got in mothballs.  It was a bridge simulator type called "Starship Command Staff Simulator".  The Idea is that teams of two or three people would divide control of a single ship helm, engineering, gunnery, and captain) between them and try to knock the stuffings out of each other.  It was a real hit when I brought it to Gamefaire'99 (the custom models I had built for it probably had a little something to do with the popularity, but it was still a fun game at it's core).

  This gets me thinking, might it be possible to make a pseudo-bridge simulator type game using the Freespace 2 engine and driving the command stuff off of SEXPs?  I'm starting to think 'maybe'.  Anyone interested in NOT flying a fighter for a change?

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[Turnsky]

Cool concept, but i don't think the FS2 engine can do that sort of thing.

[Nico]

I think the IA lacks too much so you could do such a thing...

[aldo_14]

Well, i guess you could do it a very loose sense.... if you start with 3 ships docked together at the start, and not allowed to undock.  Each has a seperate function, controlled by sexps in some way....

but it would be very hard to get to wrok and look right...

[jonskowitz]

U R Probably right about the AI being too stupid to handle the thing, but I had multiplayer in mind when I was thinking about this one.

Of course there'll be no way to have more than one person staffing a ship... but it'll definately require vastly differing strategies and tactics to be successful.  More like a slow dance of death than the mad scramble we're used to.

But in the end this is just something I'm doing to kill time while I wait for my staff to get my *.WAV files done for the Starfighter conversion  

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It will be done by November, trust me

[Red5]

 I thought about something like that too, like a Starfleet and klingon academy fs conversion, where u order beams to fire and plot courses to jump too and stuff like that!  Ill help you anyway i can, 3dap has a KA site and the way i understand it, u can put other models (fs2!) into it!

[Setekh]

You lot all have too many good ideas...  

[jonskowitz]

That's why we hang out here and not... those other sites