We’ve kinda gotten used to the ridiculous hat big enough to hide an altar boy (too soon?)
Now somebody has dressed him up in something that looks a weird form of shoulder armor. This is obviously new territory for the Catholics, so they should learn from the experts in the field of over sized shoulder wear: Blizzard
PS: Why would he wear a gigantic hat, but just a tiny cape? it makes NO SENSE!
I finally got around to implement the new ship system for the Trekwar game.
Ships are no longer static objects with fixed attributes (weapon, shields, armor, etc..).
All ships are no based on a specific hull, which has some base armor and crap, + X number of slots you can put equiptment in. Below is the starting ship of all factions in the game:
If you noticed that this is the design of a Maquis raider, give yourself a cookie!
I got lot of Starship components to add, and so far I’ve just added ‘Warp Core’, ‘Colonization module’, ‘armor’, ‘beam emitters’ (phasers) and ‘Shield emitters’.
One new thing I implemented today was ship speeds. Unlike in Civilizzation / Birth of the Federation, where units can only move 1 or 2 tiles each turn. Ships in Trekwar can have a speed of 1.0 (which lets it always move 1 tile each turn) or 0.7 like the colonization ship in the screenshot below:
The upper most ship is a scoutship with a speed of 1.0
The lower ship is a colonization ship with a speed of 0.7, that means when it starts moving it will generate 0.7 movement points.. this is not enough to move a full tile. The next turn it generates 0.7 more and then gets 1.4 movement points.. It can the move 1 tile, and has 0.4 movement points “to spare”.. On the third turn in this example it gets 1.1 movement points and can move again..
Ships with a speed below 1.0 will occationally “miss” a movement while moving a distance. Ships with speeds greater than 1.0 will occationally move 2 (or maybe even 3) tiles in a single turn.
I recently had a good idea for my Star Trek game, this would also solve the problem with some factions having very few ships designs, and might even allow me to add more factions (Ferengi, Dominion, Kazon, borg?), seeing that finding and balancing enough ship classes for each faction was the biggest problem with adding more factions.
It might even make it possible to add some more exotic factions (Xindi, Gorn, Breen, Son’a, Tholian, Vidiian, Hirogen, Tzenkethi or maybe even the Terran Empire 
Instead of just having 4-5 static ship classes where all ships made of this class are identical, one could have a little star ship designer where you fit a hull with the components you want (warp drive, impulse drive, phasers, torpedo launchers, sensors, fusion reactors, shield emitters, armor, cloaking devices, troop transports, colonization and terraforming tools).
This means I will have to do some re-designing the next time I have time to work on the game (wont be that much, only implemented 2 ship classes so far)
According to my superior mspaint skills, the interface will look like this:
Finally I dinged lvl 70 tonight.. Also as per guild request I specced shadow (I must admit.. it feels SO GOOD to pwn people in pvp again). Unfortunatly I only have +heal gear (around 900), so now I have to go out and get new +dmg gear.. I got some so far, and I’m currently working on Arathi Basin to get new shoulder armor.. not having my old healing set, my char now looks pretty weird =)
Only 150 more Gold until Flying mount, and almost got to last boss in Shadow Labyrinth today, need to get that damn Kara key.
