Hello gamers, I know several of you have emailed our sales department with questions regarding STFC and a possible release date. Well, we have allot of announcements to give you, but can't give any release dates at this time as STFC is undergoing a massive upgrade that has seriously pushed back the release date again. However, I personally do feel the updates I have scheduled to put in to STFC beta 2 will be all worth it in the end. So let's cut to the scheduled upgrades planned for Beta 2. First, many of you have asked us repeatedly to restore the navigational deflector dish to the game. We have honored your requests and will be reintroducing the navigational deflector dish in STFC Beta 2. Second, we have also introduced some new Federation and enemy weapons. Now, when approaching the Klingon and Romulan systems you may encounter cloaked mine fields which will damage or destroy your ships. The Cardassians also possess mine fields guarding their space, but those are not cloaked. In addition the Defiant-class ships now will carry mines as apart of their tactical inventory. You'll be able to drop a mine, cloak, and escape. Third, some of you have requested a second Defiant-class ship. As per request we have began adding a second Defiant-class ship, U.S.S. Sal Paulo, to your list of vessels to command. Like U.S.S. Defiant Sal Paulo will carry mines, high powered phasers, quantum torpedoes, standard photon torpedoes, main deflector dish, and cloaking device. How is that for fire power? Forth, I have also made another slight ship change. I have decided to retire the U.S.S. Seleya and commission the U.S.S. Ark Royal for active duty. There is no real purpose for the change other than I like the idea of getting to play some of the other Sovereign-class ships besides the ones we are use to commanding in STFC. Sixth, in addition to building up and making changes to the Federation fleet the Borg, Klingons, Cardassians, and Romulans are also getting bigger and cooler fleet upgrades. The Klingon fleet has added the I.K.S. Neigh'var to its ranks of Vor'cha Attack Cruisers. The Romulans have added the IR.W. Kazinak to it's ranks of warbirds. The cardassian Union has added the C.U. Aldara to it's ranks of cruisers. Last and not least, the Borg will also get a range of support ships such as spheres, scout ships, and of course the queens personal ship the Borg cube. Oh, and do have fun trying to beat the Borg now. It is a suicide mission, but as fun as heck trying.
Seventh, all of the enemy bases have undergone name changes. The Cardassian bases are Bryma Station and Cardassia Station. The Romulan bases are Romulus Station and Remus Station. The Klingon bases are Qo'nos Station, (pronounced Kronos,) and Kairnos Station. Eighth, STFC code is being upgraded to work with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The setup and installation will be handled by Inno Setup, and audio will be handled by DirectX 9 2006. Finally, I have also been reworking all the classes etc to allow for saving and restoring games. In Beta 2 you will be able to save and restore up to 10 games at a time. This will allow for extremely long games, and you can now back it up, and resume at a point that is suitable for you. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
