You do realize that, with the exception of Picard, absolutely none of the individuals you mention are likely to help the Federation?

In the case of the Doctor, he's a bloody Time Lord. He'll do whatever the hell he wants. WRT Carrie Fisher, who AFAIK is supposed to be the girl from that exorcist movie, well, she's more than likely to try to kill everybody in the Federation.

The level of pure, unadulterated stupidity present in this post is indescribable. First off, the Ewoks were assraped up and down the galaxy by the Imperial forces.

The only reason the Ewoks weren't massacred wholesale was the presence of the Rebel contingent, which, you know, had blasters, and a Wookie, and even captured an AT-ST for use against the Imperial stormtroopers.

And quite frankly, "idiot" Ewok != dog with a horn. Considering that Ewoks, are, you know, intelligent. You can't say that that's false, either. The Ewoks have a spoken language (ref: C-3PO has Ewok-language in his linguistic database), they have tools for hunting, and travel. IIRC, an Ewok even operates a speeder bike! You can't be an unintelligent baboon and expect to operate something like a speeder bike without any prior experience other than "see fast thing".

Furthermore, Ewoks != Trek powers. Even if the Empire lost to an Ewok-only force (didn't happen), then that says nothing about their ability to conduct a campaign against another starfaring power.

It will be an eternity of storm troopers trying to kill red shirts.  Hell eternal.

And the Empire should know now not to underestimate the power of Ewoks.

Well now, it IS a well known fact that Stormtroopers can't shoot worth a damn. It must be those helmets.

Also, any Star Trek captain worth his salt could easily detonate Imperial ships and especially stations by creating feedback loops in the primary reactor power control via directed beams of theta particles.

In fact, they wouldn't even need a proton torpedo and a small thermal exhaust port.

there's coffee in that nebula.

also star wars is fantasy not science fiction

http://youtu.be/mk7VWcuVOf0

Sooo funny, back then.....

You have to tweak their turn speed values. The reason why some ships end up in an infinite chase out of the gravity well is because they get locked in a tail-chase loop, where one ship won't turn because it is chasing the closest target but can't get close enough to fire, and the other ship won't turn because it's not far away enough from the closest target (the chasing ship) to initiate a strafing run.

So what you do, you make it so that ship speed and turn ratio (how tightly they can turn) is such that these situations are minimized. It is not a problem in vanilla because the only ships that move are fighters and bombers. I am not sure if the problem can be completely neutralized, but it certainly can be reduced to an exception, rather than the rule.

@Manshooter, can you give me some turn ratio values and ship speeds please.

@Myfisto, where are you?

I'm doing the ship icons for the additional three races in the textures folder, as a total conversion mod i'm replacing the stock races ship icons in the following files:

Unit_Hud_CursorOver

Unit_Hud_Disabled

Unit_Hud_Normal

Unit_Hud_Pressed

I've already done the first three, which are in Zombies base mod which are:

Races_Unit_Hud_CursorOver

Races_Unit_Hud_Disabled

Races_Unit_Hud_Normal

Races_Unit_Hud_Pressed

The problem i've got, is that when i go to the research window, instead of seeing the first ones i added, Races_Unit_Normal ship icons to begin the research to make the ships avalible, i see the ship icons i've added to Unit_Hud_Normal.

Its like its overwritten the first ones. This does not affect in game, just the research tree window.

Anybody any ideas?

Theo.

Go into the appropriate research file and make sure that it's calling up the hudIcon that calls upon Unit_Hud_X versus Races_Unit_Hud_X (aka. the hudIcon in the ship's entity).

Err...I'm saying that when you take pseudo-scientific and fantastic concepts written for dramatic effect by a non-scientist in a theatrical production and then "prove" they are "actually scientific" that you're full of...rhetoric.

"Set napalm gargle blasters to 'Deep Fat Fry'!"...later, I'll explain why Spaceman Spiff's weaponry is actually plausible and that creating a futuristic ray weapon utilizing napalm and mouthwash really would require a deep fat fry temperature to function...all this while also simultaneously proving how stupid and uniformed critics of this very genuine weapon really are.

In addition, any one who tries to devise a means to defeat the gargle blaster will be absolutely countered and defeated by Stupedous Man's completely unbeatable transmogrifer and they're complete idiots if they think they won't be.

1. His point was that all your attempts to prove that a Federation military victory was in any way possible is false, hence his analogy.

2. When have I ever said that "such and such happens in Star Wars/Trek, and is fully and completely scientifically possible", when I am describing, say, the turbolasers, or phasers, or FTL system. Photon torpedo yields? That can be scientifically calc'ed, because antimatter is a known entity in modern science.

3. I have not in any way shape or form attempted to explain why any of the weapons used in SW or ST are plausible. What I have been doing is saying "we know these operating characteristics, and by using basic mathematics and physics, we can deduce (x) and (y) about the item", where (x) and (y) equal some aspect of operation, like say, weapon yield, or perhaps superluminal propagation velocity, or maybe power generation or real-space acceleration. The key assumption is naturally that some of the most basic and fundamental concepts of science, like say thermodynamics, still hold true in said fictional settings.

Oh, I think antimatter is a very useful substance, for a propulsion system or a compact weapon. The problem is that it would have to be heavily restricted in any actual economy, because of its enormous energy content. When a kilo-and-a-half comes out to around two and a half times more powerful than a current city-killer nuke, and in a much smaller package, then you get problems.

It's only further compounded by the enormous energy requirements of producing antimatter; because of some complicated reasons that I don't really understand except to say "people much smarter than me confirm this as correct", when you make antimatter, for a given energy you'll actually get one-half antimatter and one-half normal matter. Toss in the fact that a hypothetical antimatter-drive rocket would probably contain enough energy (in the antimatter fuel) to, say, vaporize Greenland, then you get really big problems.

There's actually a fancy name for this: Jon's Law- "Any interesting is a weapon of mass destruction. It only matters how long you want to wait for maximum damage. Interesting is equal to 'whatever keeps the readers from getting bored." Closely related is Larry Niven's "Kzinit Lesson"- "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive." An antimatter drive that will push you around at a respectably rapid rate is going to pump out enough thrust plume power to quite literally melt whatever unlucky individual gets caught in the exhaust. OTOH, it's going to be poorly collimated so that means that you'll only be able to fry something, maybe tens, or at most, hundreds, of kilometers away. Which is peanuts to the typical ranges space combat is likely to be fought at.

yes, all with RESEARCHSUBJECT_descriptionRACEstage.entity as the pattern eg RESEARCHSUBJECT_ANTIMATTERPSI1.entity

harpo

*facepalms*

None of my posts WRT SWvsST debating had anything to do with the balance of the mod. I've already offered my opinion that, mod-wise, the Empire would have somewhat fewer, but superior, ships, with poor maneuverability, but reasonable straight-line acceleration, exceptional superluminal transit, and wide fire arcs.

I personally have never argued that this mod was supposed to be "herp derp Empire crushes st00pid Feddies derp". I have always had the opinion that it would actually have balance to ensure fun, fair play between the factions in the mod. Not that the mod would resemble an actual hypothetical situation between these two fictional powers.

My posts WRT SWvsST debating had to do with the a hypothetical scenario. Now, to argue why some of your points are daft.

1. The Federation wouldn't ally with the Rebellion for the simple reason that the Rebellion is more interested in fighting the Empire, the Federation hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of doing so, and the Federation is in a whole other bloody galaxy.

2. The technological gap from a weapons, armor, shielding, and propulsion standpoint between the Empire and Federation is simply too great to overcome. As has already been suggested, technological "stagnation" in Star Wars could be for the simple reason that they've figured it (science) all out. They've got nothing left to learn.

You're talking about a power that's been around for a mere several hundred years trying to research it's way into beating down a power that has:

i) A galaxy-spanning industrial base.
ii) A galaxy-spanning economy to support said industry.
iii) A galaxy-spanning dominion, providing enormous amounts of able-bodied personnel and/or materials.

And, to top it all off, the Empire benefits from some ten thousand years of technological refinement. There are some gaps that are simply to big to cover.

3. How would Federation guerrilla tactics work, pray tell? Because Federation warships simply haven't got the sublight acceleration, superluminal mobility, or firepower to take down anything more than say a lone freighter like the Millennium Falcon. Kinda hard to kill ships who's point defense gunnery measures in the low single-digit megaton range, when your own anti-ship weapons are just barely high double-digit megaton range.

4. On a board that I read frequently, a SWvsST topic recently came up, wherein the OP asked how a Empire vs Federation conflict would go if the firepower and durability were swapped. The problem is that the sheer industrial and economic might of the Empire, coupled with the superior strategic mobility of hyperdrive over warp drive, means that the Empire still wins. The fact that the Empire's mainline warships, the Imperial-class star destroyer, is in service in higher numbers than the Federation's entire navy, is quite damning as well.

Overall, SWvsST is like pitting a lightning fast, strikes-like-a-nuclear-bomb, horde of people against a handful of creative, average-reflex, average-strength people. It doesn't matter how creative you are, because the quantitative and qualitative advantages held by the opposition is simply too much to overcome.

EDIT: I'll also note that I am in no way part of balancing this mod, and that I've posted very little about balance. I actually no nothing about the balance of the mod that Theo has set up; your guess is as good as mine. What part of the mod that I think I've been 'contracted' to do is the backstory of how all these disparate scifi franchises have been brought together.