Hybrids alived growing ships?

Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:36 pm by nicolas

I have good idea : Its to create a new classes of ship:the hybrids, ship who combine to classes but with lower caracteristic. Like Moya, the Freighter Leviathan in FarScape, who can have "child"; that is to say, scan the plans of a ship and thene create (by internale factory or nano factory, so, Leviathan is a very big shyip) a new one combined whith a Young Leviathan.
And the new Hybrid will grow up with ship level or time couting (like 5 hours to take a growth level with a max of 20 growth level for exemple); The idea its to create evolutives "alive" ship , with a scall growth, so increasing weapons pint, fire power, cargo space, bullet stock and .... ship supply , for an old Leviathan-BattleShip Hybrid (feighter, heavy feignter, very evy fighter and small cargo are ship who can besuplyed ). The Leviathan can use Fusion, a sort of cruise speed but very more faster, but it demand more time to load Fusion Propulsion and it need a long time to be recharged ((2 at 5 min, in the TV series, its 2hours, but to long for the game).
The problem is that i am a very bad programmer, but i make good thing in moddling; I hope that thise some idea will attract somebody, and that a programer or other moddler will help me .

Nicolas

Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:17 pm by Killzone

Ahh, reminds me of Tyranids... uhh I mean nice idea. There kinda like flyable shipyards, except their organic. But the whole ships giving "birth" thing would be nigh on impossible for even Mod Lord Wassup. Even with Freelancer Source Code I dont think it can be done. But still, nice to see some true original ideas, I can see your gonna be a credit to our Mod familly. Good to have you on board.

Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....

Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:46 pm by nicolas

There is no realy new ship child, it is a existing model lokk at this;

The Cheldaceans, these ships look like a sort of different fossils, crustaceous, squid,alien etc...inspired by Farscape and other sf .

I know that it will be hard but it will be a very fun experience for all Lancers

-The Chaldean Ships can be "growing" alived ship with growth level, with a wareness, and so, the ship do not want to do some mission
fot exemple, a loyal Leviathan Fighter do not want to attack another Leviathan if the first haven' t attaked him.If u by a Leviathan Hybrid born in a pirate base, he will be crual (and enventually sometimes attack a weak suip just for the fun, argh !!) and will gain "more growth level in attacking cargo" or civil ship than make trade with divers station, whereas a Leviathan born into a luxirious and peacfull world will be pacifist and "growing up more faster with tradding commongoods"

-The Leviathan (naturally freighter), can scan technologies of another ship and she will have an Hybrid child, But if during a combat, the Ship lost 80HP, the gestation stopp, and the Hybrid larva dead. then ,u can sell the Hybrid on condition that the Leviathan mother is agree. For the case of he refuse, we had to gameplay possibilité, one more difficult than the other:
-the first is to create a hangar ship for each whith a certain price and a certain place.
-the second is to configure a command for acces to the Leviathan, as he was a battleship base, but it will be dangerous for the pilot to quit the leviathan because he will be under fire when u get out with the Hybrid or another ship.
So ,we can merge the two solution in one:
-hide the leviathan on a big asteroîd or planet; and become a sort of base who can move when neccessary.Or, different player can be in, so the Leader ship can drive the Leviathan during other pilotes takes other ships.

hybrid Leviathan-Defender fighter type:

Hybrid' Larva Fighter (=lightfighter),
Hybrid Chrysalis Fighter (=heavyfighter),
Young Hybrid Fighter (=veryheavyfighter),
Adult Hybrid Fighter (=gunship),
Old Hybrid Fighter (=cruisieur+smal base),
Ancient Hybrid Fighter(=battleship+ base)

normal Leviathan type:

Leviathan' s Larva (=lightfreighter)
Leviathan' s Chrysalis (=heavyfreighter)
Young Leviathan (=veryheavyfreighter)
Adult Leviathan ( hugefreighter can hissed 2 Cheldacean class Larva )
Old Hybrid Fighter (=very hugefreighter+base),
Ancient Hybrid Fighter(=extra hugefreighter+large base)

note;normal Leviathan had no or just a little weapons (like 4 turred Lv10, no more) but a cargo space very impotant and can carry a lot of shops, is his like a ...starcraft-carrier!!! A new classe in a new classe.

I think tha this to exemple illustate my idea of child ship, that' s a big work (like the great wall of chine!

for the fighter:
6 growth levels (larva, crysalis etc..)
faction liberty: 3 ships or 4 with Anubis
=24 hybrid for Lyberty
so 96 models for the 4 factions !!! Impossible
so, i will reuse the same 3d ship for each class (fighter, heavy fighter etc...)
that is to say 18 models (6 normals, 6 fighters, 6 freighters) and the palette color each faction and a civil for First Leviathan (for one one board land wodld)

Important: Only normal leviathan can be buy in a planet, but with the colors of the facton.U can' t buy an ancient leviathan fighter!! (battle ship)To have a Old Hybrid Fighter U must have to find a light fighter, and learn his technologies (with credit, spy, capture of the ship) , but then, u have to increase the growth level of the ship. The gestation périod is more important hybride ship than a normal leviathen.

Nicolas

Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:51 pm by nicolas

Naturally, The Leviathans that you can buy on a planet can be at defferent growth levels ( 1 to 6)But they are not hybrids !!!

i am frensh, so exuse me for my bad english

Nicolas

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