So how much of the game is based on the table-top game "Starfleet Battles"?
I see a lot of similarities between the two, especially when you take into account the decisions that had to be made to make the game real-time vs turn-based.
Anyone else played Starfleet Battles?
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I have not played it in years, but I still have the "doomsday" edition published in the early 90s. I even have Federation and Empire and a few of the supplements.
Imagine the wing phaser firing arcs on a D7 in STO. Maddening.
In some respects though, it might have been better if it did.
FYI, Starfleet Command WAS based on Starfleet Battles
Firing arcs, weapon behavior, hit and run raids, and so on.
Spent many an hour in college playing SFB.
I do not really see many similarities though outside general mechanics which are dictated by previous material.
And you were generally allied to the Klingon or the Federation with the exception of the Andromedans who wanted to dominate everyone (pun intended) and the ISC who though everyone else was just plain nuts.
Some of the aspects made it into STO, but that could be from other sources. Have you noticed that you can shoot heavy plasma torpedos with phasers? They go down easier than they did in SFB though.
IMHO, STO space combat is loosly based on SFC3 which is a dumbed down version of SFC1/2 which was an adaptation of the SFB tabletop game.
Just my .02,
- SC